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Santosh Returi

Wyndham Vale,VIC

Summary

IT professional with over 12 years of experience developing highly available, scalable
web applications across cutting-edge technologies. Looking to obtain a challenging
position in the Software Industry that offers opportunity for professional growth with the growth of the Organization.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr DevOps Engineer

Department Of Premier And Cabinet
MELBORNE, VIC
03.2022 - Current
  • Create and Manage Redhat OpenShift /AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)on Azure from scratch.
  • Migrated applications from AWS to Azure.
  • Implemented custom solutions for departments.
  • Created and Implemented Disaster recovery plan for Azure resources.
  • Created the AzureDevOps pipeline from scratch along with image scanning (Clair/ACS), code scanning (SonarQube), and code coverage with Munit.
  • Configured network connection between AWS and Azure.
  • Set up and managed Docker containers, running Go and PHP applications for deployment into Kubernetes Pods.
  • Saved $6000 per month for the project by implementing the best practices.
  • Created Terraform Code and PepeLines using Azure DewvOps.
  • Created Ansible tower templates to automate user authentication for Elastic Search.
  • Initiated and managed the full lifecycle of OpenShift clusters, ensuring high availability and scalability across multiple environments.
  • Successfully performed zero downtime upgrades on OpenShift clusters, maintaining seamless operations during version transitions with no impact on production.
  • Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, integrated with OpenShift for automated build, test, and deployment processes.
  • Led the containerization of numerous applications, transitioning them to OpenShift to enhance system efficiency and portability.
  • Implemented Prometheus and Grafana to monitor OpenShift cluster health, optimizing performance based on real-time metrics.
  • Developed and enforced security policies within OpenShift to meet compliance standards and enhance application and infrastructure security.
  • Conducted technical training sessions and workshops on OpenShift and Kubernetes for IT teams, enhancing departmental knowledge and operational capabilities.
  • Optimized resource consumption and costs by adjusting OpenShift configurations, improving resource allocation efficiency without compromising performance.Created a CircleCI pipeline from the starch with all stages, including SonarQube and Clair, for security purposes.
  • Enabled regular backups and implemented Azure DevOps jobs to restore the services from recent backups.
  • Implemented Azure AD authentication using custom roles.
  • Worked on AWS AIM, which included managing application in the cloud and creating EC2 instances.
  • Expertise in Azure infrastructure management Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Office365 Worked on Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates.
  • Worked on various Docker/Kubernetes components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, Compose and Docker Registry.
  • Created Private links between different subscriptions.
  • Pushed Application logs using FluentBit to Kibana.
  • Explored Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure best practices.
  • Initiated and managed the full lifecycle of OpenShift clusters, ensuring high availability and scalability across multiple environments.
  • Successfully performed zero downtime upgrades on OpenShift clusters, maintaining seamless operations during version transitions with no impact on production.
  • Led the containerization of numerous applications, transitioning them to OpenShift to enhance system efficiency and portability.
  • Implemented Prometheus and Grafana to monitor OpenShift cluster health, optimizing performance based on real-time metrics.
  • Developed and enforced security policies within OpenShift to meet compliance standards and enhance application and infrastructure security.
  • Conducted technical training sessions and workshops on OpenShift and Kubernetes for IT teams, enhancing departmental knowledge and operational capabilities.
  • Optimized resource consumption and costs by adjusting OpenShift configurations, improving resource allocation efficiency without compromising performance.

Sr DevOps Engineer

NAB
08.2019 - 03.2022
  • Deployed Java docker images to ECS cluster using Jenkins jobs and managing the ECR cluster.
  • Deployed Applications to EKS.
  • Migrated on-prem VM's and Databases to Azure using Azure Migration services.
  • Configured a cross-premises Azure virtual network to connect on-prem network.
  • Create and manage the CloudWatch log group and send the application logs to the slunk using Lambda functions.
  • Create and Manage CICD pipeline for Java projects using Jenkins job.
  • Used Docker, Maven, Checkmarx, SonarQube, and Artifactory in the Jenkins Pipeline.
  • Plan and implement the EC2 instance patch schedules to maintain compliance requirements.
  • Managed Nginx and tomcat.
  • Deployed AWS services using Terraform and AWS cloud formation templates.
  • Created RDS and managed the backups using SNAPSHOTs.
  • Created Azure services using Terraform and ARM templates.
  • Plan and implement DR environment for Production machines.
  • I have extensively used ECS and ECR for containerisation.
  • Deployed HashiCorp vault using Helm templates.
  • Implemented VPN solutions to restrict external access to the Azure subscription.
  • Automated Azure and AWS server patching.
  • Implemented Azure alerts to monitor services.
  • Configured API Health Alerts monitoring using Pingdom.
  • Created and Managed IAM roles with the least privileges.
  • Created VPC's, subnets and VPC endpoints to manage the network traffic.

Senior Analyst

Bank Of America
10.2014 - 06.2019
  • I am involved in Requirement gathering and writing code for new features and enhancements in exiting IAC.
  • We were involved in designing and deploying many applications utilising almost all of the AWS, including RDS, S3, EC2 and ECS.
  • We created CICD pipelines using jerkins.
  • Automated server paths using chef.
  • Provided support for complex deployments.
  • Used Jenkins and pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes.
  • Used min-max replica-count parameters in Kubernetes to orchestrate the scaling-out scaling-in of individual services.
  • Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon Web Services.
  • Using Jenkins AWS Code Deploy plugin to deploy to AWS Established infrastructure and service monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Worked on various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Azure Websites, Caching, SQL Azure, NoSQL, Storage, Network services, Azure Active Directory, API Management, Scheduling, Auto Scaling, and PowerShell Automation.



Platform Administrator

CA Technologies - A Broadcom
11.2012 - 10.2014
  • Installing and configuring Remote Support Component.
  • Configuring share point server for Business Objects environment.
  • Using upgrade management tool to migrate all Objects to BI 4.0 environment.
  • Using upgrade management command line tool on LINUX machines.

SAP Business Objects Support Engineer

Goldstone Technologies
03.2010 - 10.2012
  • Installing Mobiles services for Business Objects and configuring VAS, VMS and MDS servers to use Business Objects services on Blackberry mobile device.
  • Installing and configuring Mobile services for Linux environments using some best practices.
  • Worked on Production down issues as a P1 engineer.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

JNTU
Hyderbad
05.2008

Skills

  • Flexible & Adaptable
  • Collaboration
  • Conflict Resolution
  • AWS
  • AZURE
  • OpenShift
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • S3
  • RDS
  • MYSQL
  • Python
  • Shell
  • PowerShell
  • Yaml
  • Linux
  • Cloud Migration

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Microsoft Azure Administrator

Timeline

Sr DevOps Engineer

Department Of Premier And Cabinet
03.2022 - Current

Sr DevOps Engineer

NAB
08.2019 - 03.2022

Senior Analyst

Bank Of America
10.2014 - 06.2019

Platform Administrator

CA Technologies - A Broadcom
11.2012 - 10.2014

SAP Business Objects Support Engineer

Goldstone Technologies
03.2010 - 10.2012

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

JNTU

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Microsoft Azure Administrator

Santosh Returi