V Kiran Kumar

Email ID: nureen@cirruslabs.io

Ph# +1 770 209 3818

SUMMARY:
● Experienced Cloud and DevOps senior Engineer with over 10+ years of IT industry experience in Software
Analysis, Design, Development, Automation and Maintenance of on premise and Cloud based
Applications and Services using AWS Services like EC2, ELB, VPC, EBS, S3, AutoScaling Groups (ASG), Route
53, IAM, CloudTrail, CloudWatch and CloudFront and offerings.
● Cognitive about designing, deploying and operating highly available, scalable and fault toler systems using
Amazon Web Services (AWS). Extensively worked on AWS services and has a wide in depth understanding of
each one of them.
● Involved in all the stages of the software development cycle (SDLC) namely design, specification,
administration, environment setup, debugging, testing (test plan and test execution), integration and system
testing. Has good working awareness on E Commerce, Healthcare, Financial and Insurance domains.
● Creating and managing VPC, Subnet, Security groups and b (ELB). Highly skilled in deployment, data security
and troubleshooting of the applications using AWS services.
● Create and manage files, policies in S3 bucket (SimpleStorageService). Good knowledge in AWS migration
from On Premise to Cloud using different tools. Well versed in writing, understanding the UNIX commands and
scripts.
● Hands-on experience in Build and Deployment of CI/CD pipelines, managing projects often includes tracking
multiple deployments across multiple pipeline stages (Dev, Test/QA staging and production).
● Expertise in Jenkins for continuous integration (CI) for automating complete build and
deployments. Hands-on in Jenkins, plugin management, Jenkins security, troubleshooting performance issues
and creating Jenkins nodes for specific applications code analysis, test phases and deployment.
● Virtualized theservers using Docker for the test environments and dev-environments needs, also configuration
automation using Docker containers.
● Experience in creating Docker Containers leveraging existing Linux Containers and AMI's in addition to
creating Docker Containers from scratch.
● Experience in using configuration management tools like Ansible.

● Experienced in implementing and organization DevOps strategy in various operating environments like Linux
and windows servers along with cloud strategies of Amazon Web Services.
● Good experience in leading and managing both development and system integration test teams.

● Clear understanding of DevOps implementation scenarios in Agile Scrum environments, Waterfall and V
Model methodologies.
● Expertise in developing various types of reports using Cognos report studio and Cognos BI suite.

● Has good working experience in writing Oracle PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions and triggers.

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● Extensive experience in producing detailed status reports for management and clients. Has working knowledge
of Microsoft operating systems, Microsoft office applications (word,excel, outlook) and Windows environment.
● Possesses high working qualities with good interpersonal skills, high motivation, good team player, fast learner
and very proactive in problem solving and also providing best solutions for complex issues.
● Expertise in Infra DevOps, Release Engineering, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure Automation
using CloudFormation, Docker,Terraform and Ansible.

CERTIFICATIONS
● AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

● Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)

● Sun Microsoft Certified Java programmer (SCJP)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Cloud Computing : Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Languages : C, C++, VB Script, Java, Python, PL/SQL
DevOps Tools : Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Terraform
Build and CI/CD : Maven,Nexus, Git, GitHub, Artifactory, SonarQube,Jenkins
Containerization : Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS and EKS
Other Tools : Teradata, Mainframes, Informatica, Cognos

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client : Freddie Mac, VA Nov 2021 to Till Date

Role : Cloud DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:
● Responsible for architecture, design, implementation and support of cloud-based infrastructure and its
solutions.
● Managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and orchestration tools.

● Setup end to end CI/CD pipelines so that each commit a developer makes will go through standard process of
software lifecycle and gets tested well enough before it can make it to the production.
● Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, AutoScalingGroups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM,
CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront and CloudTrail.
● Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one
environment to other environments.
● Building and monitoring in the project has been done continuously with CI Tools like Jenkins.

● Experienced in monitoring and performing configuration changes using Ansible.

● Designed, Installed and Implemented Ansible configuration management system.

● Experienced in creating multiple VPC’s and public, private subnets as per requirements and distributed them as
groups into various availability zones of the VPC.

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● Developed Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build Dev, QA, staging and
production environments.
● Setup and build AWS infrastructure using various resources, VPC EC2, RDB, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group,
Auto Scaling, SES, SNS and RDS in Terraform templates
● Used security groups, network ACL’s, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure zone for
organization in AWS public cloud.
● Developed OpenStack infrastructure with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible,
Puppet, or custom-built cloud hosted applications and used Ansible for continuous integrations.
● Deployed and monitored scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management
using Ansible.
● Automated the cloud deployments using python and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.

● Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files, sometimes which are required to serve static
content for a web application. Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently
accessed data to storage classes based on the requirement.
● Experienced in creating and launching EC2 instances using AMI’s of Linux, Windows and wrote shell scripts to
bootstrap instances.
● Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implemented MFA to provide additional security
to AWS account and its resources. Implemented domain name service (DNS) through route 53 to have highly
available and scalable applications.
● Maintained monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using Cloud Watch service.

● Created EBS volumes for storing application files for use with EC2 instances whenever they are mounted to
them.
● Experienced in creating RDS instances to serve data through servers for responding to requests.

● Created snapshots to take backups of the volumes and also images to store launch configurations of the EC2
instances.

Client : Capital One, TX Nov 2019 to Oct

2021
Role : Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:
● Installed and configured WebLogic Application Server 10.3.6 in different environments like Development, SIT,
UAT, Pre-Production, and Production on Linux and Solaris operating systems.
● Configuring and troubleshooting of WebLogic domain resources such as servers, cluster, JMS and JDBC services.

● Configuring WebLogic domains for various functional environments.

● Hands on experience in installation, configuration and troubleshooting the issues and performance tuning of
WebLogic/Apache/IIS and Tomcat
● Hands on LDAP configuration

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● Working with application team leads and architects to configure required WebLogic resources in environments
to support application functionality.
● Involved in installation, configuration and administration of WebLogic application serves.

● Creating Users, Groups, Roles and policies. Assigning users to Groups and Roles.

● Build and deployment of WAR, EAR and JAR files to WebLogic domain.

● Installing monitoring tools to monitor health of application servers.

● Troubleshooting emerging application issues, from WebLogic Server configuration to code issues.

● Configuring Authentication and Authorization providers

● Hands on experience in creating tickets for Change Management process.

● Environment health checks as per rotation checks

● Worked in container-based technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and Openshift.

● Worked on creating config maps and Routes in Openshift.

● Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and GIT/GITHub

● Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Mount points and
Packages.
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● Build and Deployed pods in openshift using Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins.

● Deployed JBOSS and Weblogic Applications in openshift.

● Worked on multiple Kubernetes clusters in Autoscaling the containers in openshift.

● Integrated Elastic logstash Kibana dashboard for daily base logs with Openshift.

● Worked on creating storage in Openshift and integrated External NAS storage with Openshift for Deploying
Containers.
● Expertise in identifying and troubleshooting issues by analyzing logs

● Configured Clusters, Server Groups and Cloning for improved availability and failover capacity.

● Deployed Applications running on various versions of WebLogic servers, SOA, Tomcat & IIS.

● Production Support 24x7 in complex environments and troubleshoot critical application issues working closely
with developers.
● Integrated WebLogic & SOA environments with LDAP & enabled security using security filters.

● Monitored WebLogic server resources and set up alerts using IP Monitor.

● Managing Sitescope monitoring on production WebLogic instances.

● Log files analysis for troubleshooting to resolve issues.

● Prepared documentation and transferred technical Knowledge to the respective groups.

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Client: BCBSM, MI Nov 2014 to Sep 2019
Role: AWS Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:
● Developed and implemented software release management strategies for various applications as per agile
process.
● Worked extensively with AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, AutoScalingGroups, Route 53, IAM,
CloudTrail, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudFront, SNS, and RDS.
● Responsible for configuring the build and release activities of enterprise level web applications.

● Responsible for maintaining and deploying builds in UAT and Production environments.

● Configure and build a virtual data center in AWS cloud to support hosting applications, VPC, Security groups,
subnets.
● Jenkins deployment and pipeline DSL job setup and configuration

● Provisioned and maintained Amazon AWS server. This included the provisioning of the instances, ELBs, DNS.
Also contributed code to the Jenkins-AWS module on GitHub
● Implemented Continuous Integration and deployment using various CI Tools like Jenkins.

● Set up Jenkins master and added the necessary plugins and adding more slaves to support scalability and
agility.
● Automation of AWS infrastructure via Ansible, and Jenkins - software and services configuration using
Ansible Playbooks.
● Installed Jenkins on Linux machines, created master, and slave configurations to implement multiple parallel
builds.
● Automated setting up server infrastructure for the DevOps services, using puppet/Ansible, shell and python
scripts.
● Used Ansible to orchestrate software upgrades and verify functionality.

● Configuring Jenkins as a common CI engine to build and promote applications to DEV, QA and STAGING to
Linux environments.
● Responsible for pom, Unit test cases, Sonar dashboard for Selenium Test Cases for all the micro services

● Virtualized the servers using the Docker for the test environments and dev-environment needs.

● Experienced on Docker hub, creating Docker images, and handling multiple images primarily for middleware
installations.
● Created Inventory in Ansible for automating the Continuous Delivery.

● Experience in writing Ansible scripts and heavy Shell, Perl, Python, and JSON scripting.

● Used Maven as a build tools on java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.

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● Interfacing with partners and clients in sales and helping them in understanding the key benefits of Cloud
Migration for their Workloads
● Enabled Continuous Delivery through Deployment into several environments of Test, QA, Stress and Production
using Jenkins. Involved in scrum meetings, product backlog and other scrum activities and artifacts in
collaboration with the team.

Client : Money Gram, MN May 2012 to Nov

2014
Role : AWS Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:
● Developed Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build staging and production
environments.
● Created EC2 instances using RHEL, CENTOS as used by the corporation.

● Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one
environment to other environments.
● Building and monitoring in the project has been done continuously with CI Tools like Jenkins.

● Worked on Continuous integration and automated deployment and management using Jenkins, Maven,
Docker, or comparable tools.
● Integrated Jenkins with various DevOps tools such as Nexus, Puppet and used CI/CD system of Jenkins on
Kubernetes container environment.
● As AWS DevOps Engineer, I am responsible for taking care of day to day build and release activities. These
activities include build issues, deployment issues for multiple releases like maintenance release, enhancement
release, bug fixes, emergency releases.
● Worked on AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB,
security groups.
● Worked on tagging standards for proper identification and ownership of EC2 instances and other AWS
Services like Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, OpsWorks, RDS, ELB, EBS, Route53, SNS, SQS, KMS, Cloud Trail,
and IAM.
● Project also involves migrating an On-Premises infrastructure set up to AWS that involves creation of
automation scripts and integrating with continuous integration channels using Rundeck.
● Worked with SSO team to automate SSO related products as a process of migration to AWS from on-premises
infrastructure.
● Used Agile Methodologies, Scrum stories and Sprints experience a fast paced environment.

● Experienced in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like
GitHub on Linux and windows platforms.

Client : GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), NC Dec 2009 to Aprill

2012
Role : ETL Developer

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Responsibilities:
● Interact with business stakeholders and other technical teams on requirement analysis and design discussions.

● Communicates with the BA’s, Dev and QA team on a daily basis and participates in project scrum calls, sprint
planning sessions, grooming sessions and story point sessions.
● Used Framework Manager tool to develop packages and build relationships using the model objects

● Developed Dashboard reports to display all the information related to Insurance Policies and Annuities using
Summary reports. Created Master Detail reports, drill through and custom prompting reports, and Scheduled
reports for efficient resource utilization. Created Dashboards with the selection criteria defaults by user role to
help pre-select a subset of data that is most critical and most relevant for the users.
● Used Cognos Report Studio to develop different types of reports like list, crosstab, chart to validate the data.
Used Query Studio to prepare Ad-hoc reports to meet the needs of business users. Used Cognos Connection to
publish packages, reports and administer, schedule and distribute reports to different users. Embedded
different options like prompt conditions, filters, calculations and other conditions in the reports.
● Developed query using Informatica to load data from source database to destination database and also
performed ETL validations.
● Involved in Design & Development, coding and various PL SQL validations. Development of Reusable objects
like Functions, Packages and Triggers by using Pl/SQL.
● Create the objects like sequences and views. Written Stored Procedure for effective insertion, updating and
deletion of data into the table. Developed PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions and triggers.
● Querying SQL databases to verify the values in various tables depending on the project needs and requirements.

● Validating Source, target files and reports using the mapping documents and by querying database tables using
SQL queries. Use RTC for story review, task creation and defect maintenance as needed.
● Status reporting to the clients on a daily and weekly basis. Manage offshore team and co-ordinate project
related work with the offshore/near shore on a daily basis. Monitor day to day workloads and technical growth
of offshore teams.
● Prepare project closure documentation and participate in Retrospective meetings & closing sessions for agile
projects.
● Perform validations for Production Install and Post-Production Implementation.

Client : Selective Insurance, NJ Jun 2007 to Nov 2009

Role : Oracle Developer

Responsibilities:
● Interacting with the onshore team on requirement analysis, solving issues and design discussions.

● Taking part in Impact Analysis. Understanding the requirements and creating design documents and release
notes.
● Involved in modifying various existing procedures, functions and packages according to the new business needs.

● Writing complex SQL queries using joins, sub queries and correlated sub queries to fetch the data from the
database.

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● Creating database objects like tables, views, procedures, functions and packages as per the requirement.

● Interacting onshore team on status calls daily/weekly. Involved in enhancement/change request, development
and implementation based on the business requirement (Release Management). Implemented proper indexing
by identifying the proper table columns to be indexed.
● Implemented advanced partitioning concepts like interval partitioning.

● Performing code review and unit testing by writing test cases for PL/SQL subprograms.

● Building the code and deploying the code from DEV to UAT/PROD through HERMES. Involved in fixing critical
issues.

Education Details
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Sciences Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Hyderabad, India - 2007.