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Venkata Sudha

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Adept DevOps Lead with a proven track record for enhancing different application ecosystems through innovative CI/CD policies and deep telemetry. Expert in Microsoft Azure and containerization with Docker and Kubernetes. Demonstrates strong leadership in cross-functional team collaboration, significantly improving delivery timelines and system security. Skilled in Terraform and effective project management, achieving streamlined operations and development processes.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Lead

Metcash Trading Ltd
06.2022 - Current

Develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance, and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and developers' work using Confluence and Azure Wiki page.
Collaborate with the architecture, application development, infrastructure & operations teams to contribute to developing the e-commerce eco-system roadmap.
Coordinate with Development and Quality Assurance teams to ensure timely delivery of features, bug fixes, and improvements into multiple environments.
Implements deep telemetry capabilities to provide ongoing success and performance metrics.
Implement and maintain system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards
Streamlined monitoring and logging across the application and infrastructure components by creating a standardized set of dashboards and developed processes to monitor the environments and take actions accordingly.
Schedule regular meetings, ideally weekly or bi-weekly, where representatives from each team can discuss progress, challenges, and upcoming milestones, Use these meetings to share insights, brainstorm new ideas, and resolve conflicts.
Helping teams/Squads with Change and Release related activities using tools like Plutora, ServiceNow.

Senior Build and Release Engineer

QBE Insurance
10.2018 - 06.2022

· Developing CI/CD roadmap and implementing the project.

· Configuring CI/CD pipeline for various applications.

· Working on diverse tools and technologies Viz. SVN/Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Urbancode.

· Working with Terraform code to create VMs in the VCenter cluster.

· Working with Agile teams to complete the stories within the sprint cycle.

· Expertise in Azure Scalability and Azure Availability - Build VM availability sets using the Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS-based solutions and Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to manage network traffic.

· Experience in migrating on-premises applications to Azure and configured VNETs and subnets as per the project requirement also performed PowerShell scripting to do Patching and Deployments in Azure.

· Implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps in both cloud and on-premises with GIT, and MS Build.

· Experience in writing Infrastructure as a code (IaC) in Terraform, and Azure resource management. Created reusable Terraform modules in Azure.

· Experience in Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, and manage Docker containers with multiple namespace versions using Helm charts.

· Proficiency in using Docker Hub, Docker Engine, Docker images, Docker Weave, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and Docker Registry and used containerization to make applications platform when moved into different environments.

· Proficient in creating Docker images using Docker File and implemented Docker automation solution for CI/CD model.

Senior Programmer Analyst

The Distributors
09.2016 - 10.2018

Designed, developed, and implemented all the IT processes for warehouse EDI process for Orders, POCs, ASN, and Invoices.
Acted as a bridge between the business and the technical team to understand the requirements and create documents used in the Design, Build, and Test Phases.
Provided consistent and effective Project and Team management to high company standards.
Created stored procedures in an SQL server for handling all the business rules for various EDI clients.
Created PowerShell scripts for daily EDI processes whilst accurately monitoring jobs in SQL Server and Visual Cron (Tool for Managing Daily Jobs) for daily EDI processes.
Created REST web services for EDI (Order, POC, ASN, and Invoice) document transfer between different ERP applications.
Created In-house web applications using .Net MVC for Product Maintenance (Adding new products, deleting old products, updating product prices publishing new promos, etc.).
Automated the creation of SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code) labels using C# code, which was used by the warehouse for accurate identification and labelling of the pallets.
Developed C# code for automated image download from Dropbox, conversion of all the images to .jpg format, and uploading the images to AWS S3 bucket from where the images were downloaded by different warehouses to be uploaded into their respective websites.

Tecnology Lead

Infosys Limited, Bangalore
08.2012 - 03.2016

Provided effective Project and Team management whilst assisting the team with writing User stories in SCRUM methodology.
Created Sprint Burndown Charts and Release Burn charts to gauge the project status.
Created Velocity Charts to assess teams’ performance and suggest any remedies if there were any variations.
Created stored procedures in an SQL server for handling all the business rules for various EDI clients.
Release Management System: a web-based portal used for code release and deployment; involved in all the phases of the application development including Requirements, Analysis, Development, Testing and Deployment.
Amanat (Infosys In-house ITIL Tool 08/2012 – 03/2016): a web-based portal used for Infrastructure management; involved in all the phases of the application development like Requirements, Analysis, Development, Testing and Deployment.

Education

Master of Computer Application - Computers And Software

Osmania University
Hyderabad, India
08.2004

Skills

Public & Private Cloud Technologies: Microsoft Azure

Containerization Tools: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes

Configuration Management: Terraform

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, VSTS, TFS

Build & Testing Tools: Maven, Ant, Selenium, JUnit, NUnit, xUnit

Version Control Tools: Subversion, GitHub, Bitbucket

Performing/Monitoring & Bug Tracking Tools: Azure Monitor, Dynatrace

Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, IIS

Databases: MySQL

IDE Tools: MS Visual Studio, VSCode, Atom

Web Technologies: HTML5, JSON, jQuery, JavaScript, XML

Scripting/Programming Languages: Python, Bash Shell, Groovy, PowerShell, JavaScript, YAML,NET, ASPNET

Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Windows

Timeline

DevOps Lead

Metcash Trading Ltd
06.2022 - Current

Senior Build and Release Engineer

QBE Insurance
10.2018 - 06.2022

Senior Programmer Analyst

The Distributors
09.2016 - 10.2018

Tecnology Lead

Infosys Limited, Bangalore
08.2012 - 03.2016

Master of Computer Application - Computers And Software

Osmania University
Venkata Sudha