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Lavanya Ambati

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Last update: 06.01.2023

AWS DevOps Architect, AWS Solution Architect, AWS Cloud Engineer

Company: CharshaDataSolutions
Graduation: Bachelor of Technology
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: English (Full Professional)

Attachments

Ambati-DevOps-Aug-2022_060123.docx

Skills

writing, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, ETCD, MASTER, APP, INFRA, web servers, Tomcat, HTTP, JBOSS, IIS, WebSphere, WebLogic, Nginx, ANT, MAVEN and bug tracking tool JIRA, GIT, SVN, TFS, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Python, Ruby, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, various operating systems, Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows, MAC, CentOS, AWS, web application, cloud, CloudFormation, RESTful, APIs, AWS services, VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, CloudFront, NAT, ACL, static content, shell, bootstrap, Java Script, JSON, web applications, DNS, backups, configuration management, Jenkins, Shell scripts, Continuous Integration, XML, Lambda, API Gateway, SQL, Jira, AWS CLI, Unix/Linux, SAP Hybris, S4HANA, Java scripting, Chef, Ansible, DevOps, SCRUM, code review, cloud platform, load balancing, ssh, Python programming, debugging, coding, programming, S3 bucket, SAP, Salesforce, Continuous Delivery, CI/CD, SNS, software release, CI/CD tool, redshift, data analysis, AWS Elastic Bean, Java, PHP, Node.js, Apache, databases, Amazon RDS, Java API, Amazon S3, database, frontend, shell scripting, cron, API, Java Messaging API, JMS, Elastic, Shell/Bash scripting, data center, CDN, backup, Puppet, GitHub, Docker Engine, Bash Scripting, Amazon EC2, log files, Auto-Scaling, Load Balancers, SQS, Elastic Load Balancers, Scaling, Versioning, Query Optimization, CI/CD tool Jenkins, build process, version control, AWS services (EC2, Load Balancer, Apache Tomcat, Client 11, Request for Proposal, macros

Project history

10/2020 - 04/2021
AWS Solution Architect
Mozaic

Project : Step Up
Role : AWS Solution Architect

Project Description: In this project my roles was to Design, Architect, Automate and deploy a
multi-tier web application on to AWS cloud for which I need to automate the required
configurations using CloudFormation and Chef.

Responsibilities

* Handling a team of 8 AWS Engineers in achieving the Agreed design of the Products
implementation.
* Designed AWS Architecture supporting LR business requirements, also providing value streams
recommendations.
* Design, Architect, Automate, Build, manage, accelerate recruitment, enablement,
adoption/consumption 'pipeline' of partners
* Provide inputs and direction to senior developers on the team for design and implementation
* Translating the company's high-level strategy to tactical initiatives for our teams
* Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of cloud-based
infrastructure and its solutions.
* I have create RESTful APIs that enable real-time two-way communication within the
applications.
* Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM,
Cloud Formation, Route 53, Cloud Watch, CloudFront, CloudTrail.
* Experienced in creating multiple VPC's and public, private subnets as per requirement and
distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC.
* Created NAT gateways and instances to allow communication from the private instances to the
internet through bastion hosts.
* Used security groups, network ACL's, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure
zone for organization in AWS public cloud.
* Created and configured elastic load balancers and ASG to distribute the traffic and to have a
cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment.
* Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files, sometimes which are required to
serve static content for a web application.
* Possess good knowledge in creating and launching EC2 instances using AMI's of Linux, Ubuntu,
RHEL, and Windows and wrote shell scripts to bootstrap instance.
* Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implemented MFA to provide additional
security to AWS account and its resources.
* Written cloud formation templates in Java Script (JSON) to create custom VPC, subnets, NAT to
ensure successful deployment of web applications.
* Implemented domain name service (DNS) through route 53 to have highly available and scalable
applications.
* Maintained the 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.
* Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Cloudformation to build staging and
production environments.
* Acquired immense knowledge with configuration management tool Chef.
* Installed Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, wrote Recipes, and Cookbooks and uploaded them to
Chef-server and managed AWS for EC2/S3 & ELB with Chef Cookbooks.
* Written Chef Cookbooks for installing Tomcat, JBoss, Nginx, WebLogic, WebSphere and for
configuring load balancers and fail over.
* Responsible for CI/CD very process implementation using Jenkins along with Python and Shell
scripts to automate routine jobs.
* Architecting and building large-scale solutions, which integrate smoothly in cloud and hybrid
operating models for supporting Amazon Connect.
* Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and GIT from scratch.
* Responsible for performing tasks like Branching, Tagging, and Release Activities on Version
Control Tools like SVN, GIT.
* Upgrade each MuleSoft application from 3.7.4 to 3.8.2
* Replace other deprecated components like HTTP Transport and Message Properties with HTTP
Connector and Variable elements.
* Modify the server runtimes from 3.7.4 to 3.8.2 in each application. Edit POM.XML files to
reflect the new version.
* Replace MMC deployment plugin with Anypoint Runtime Manager plugin in POM.XML. MMC has been
deprecated in 3.8.2 and replaced with Anypoint Runtime Manager.

Environment: AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS, Route53, ELB, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, AWS Auto
Scaling, Lambda, API Gateway, GIT, SQL, Jira, AWS CLI, Unix/Linux, SAP Hybris, S4HANA,Python, Java
scripting, Jenkins, Chef, Cloudformation, Ansible, Nginx, Tomcat, J Boss, Linux, Windows

04/2019 - 09/2020
AWS DevOps Architect
FICO UK

Project : FICO Tonbeller
Role : AWS DevOps Architect

Project Description: In this project my roles was to Architect and Automate the Migration /
Client onboarding of Multiple accounts with FICO products like KYC, AML, AMC, RCC, Embargo.
Managed a team of 6 Professionals, conducted daily SCRUM meeting identifying the blockers and
risks. Performing peer code review and thus supporting the successful Migration / Client
onboarding process

Responsibilities

* Development of Infrastructure Architecture and automation processes and integrated modules for
the provision and operation of FICO cloud platform
* Point team player on OpenShift for creating new Projects, Services for load balancing and
adding them to Routes to be accessible for outside, troubleshooting pods through ssh and logs,
modification of buildconfigs, templates, image streams etc.
* Managing the OpenShift cluster that includes scaling up and down the AWS app nodes.
* Responsibility for refining, designing and implementing functional requirements
* Configured Step Function using Python programming which will trigger a specific task of
processing details submitted by Customer
* Testing, debugging, maintenance and support
* Participation in all aspects of an iterative software development process including design,
coding and reviews
* Provided Architecture governance and design deliverables. Supported the Engineering teams in
achieving them.
* Developed Lambda functions using python programming which will be triggered when customer
uploads data onto S3 bucket.
* Handled stakeholder relationship and expectations including vendors like SAP, Salesforce.
* Responsible for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process implementation
using Jenkins along with Python and Shell scripts to automate routine jobs.
* Set up and built AWS infrastructure with various services available by writing cloud formation
templates in Json.
* With the help of IAM created roles, users and groups and attached policies to provide minimum
access to the resources.
* Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant Kubernetes
infrastructure.
* Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm. Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes
applications, manager Kubernetes manifest files and Managed releases of Helm packages.

Environment: AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS, Route53, ELB, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, AWS Auto
Scaling, Lambda, Step Function, API Gateway, GIT, SQL, Jira, AWS CLI, Unix/Linux, Python, Java
scripting, Jenkins, Chef, CloudFormation, OpenShift, Kubernetes ,Nginx, Tomcat, J Boss, Linux,
Windows

05/2016 - 04/2019
AWS Solution Architect
Lloyd's Register UK

Project : Step Up
Role : AWS Solution Architect

Project Description: In this project my roles was to Design, Architect, Automate and deploy a
multi-tier web application on to AWS cloud for which I need to automate the required
configurations using CloudFormation and Chef.

Responsibilities

* Handling a team of 8 AWS Engineers in achieving the Agreed design of the Products
implementation.
* Designed AWS Architecture supporting LR business requirements, also providing value streams
recommendations.
* Design, Architect, Automate, Build, manage, accelerate recruitment, enablement,
adoption/consumption 'pipeline' of partners
* Provide inputs and direction to senior developers on the team for design and implementation
* Translating the company's high-level strategy to tactical initiatives for our teams
* Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of cloud-based
infrastructure and its solutions.
* I have create RESTful APIs that enable real-time two-way communication within the
applications.
* Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM,
Cloud Formation, Route 53, Cloud Watch, CloudFront, CloudTrail.
* Experienced in creating multiple VPC's and public, private subnets as per requirement and
distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC.
* Created NAT gateways and instances to allow communication from the private instances to the
internet through bastion hosts.
* Used security groups, network ACL's, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure
zone for organization in AWS public cloud.
* Created and configured elastic load balancers and ASG to distribute the traffic and to have a
cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment.
* Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files, sometimes which are required to
serve static content for a web application.
* Possess good knowledge in creating and launching EC2 instances using AMI's of Linux, Ubuntu,
RHEL, and Windows and wrote shell scripts to bootstrap instance.
* Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implemented MFA to provide additional
security to AWS account and its resources.
* Written cloud formation templates in Java Script (JSON) to create custom VPC, subnets, NAT to
ensure successful deployment of web applications.
* Implemented domain name service (DNS) through route 53 to have highly available and scalable
applications.
* Maintained the 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.
* Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Cloudformation to build staging and
production environments.
* Acquired immense knowledge with configuration management tool Chef.
* Installed Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, wrote Recipes, and Cookbooks and uploaded them to
Chef-server and managed AWS for EC2/S3 & ELB with Chef Cookbooks.
* Written Chef Cookbooks for installing Tomcat, JBoss, Nginx, WebLogic, WebSphere and for
configuring load balancers and fail over.
* Responsible for CI/CD very process implementation using Jenkins along with Python and Shell
scripts to automate routine jobs.
* Architecting and building large-scale solutions, which integrate smoothly in cloud and hybrid
operating models for supporting Amazon Connect.
* Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and GIT from scratch.
* Responsible for performing tasks like Branching, Tagging, and Release Activities on Version
Control Tools like SVN, GIT.
* Upgrade each MuleSoft application from 3.7.4 to 3.8.2
* Replace other deprecated components like HTTP Transport and Message Properties with HTTP
Connector and Variable elements.
* Modify the server runtimes from 3.7.4 to 3.8.2 in each application. Edit POM.XML files to
reflect the new version.
* Replace MMC deployment plugin with Anypoint Runtime Manager plugin in POM.XML. MMC has been
deprecated in 3.8.2 and replaced with Anypoint Runtime Manager.

Environment: AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS, Route53, ELB, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, AWS Auto
Scaling, Lambda, API Gateway, GIT, SQL, Jira, AWS CLI, Unix/Linux, SAP Hybris, S4HANA,Python, Java
scripting, Jenkins, Chef, Cloudformation, Ansible, Nginx, Tomcat, J Boss, Linux, Windows

06/2015 - 05/2016
AWS Cloud Engineer
SERCO UK

Project : Financial Data Services
Industry : Financial Services
Role : AWS Cloud Engineer

1. Project Operations BI Embedding June 2015 - May 2016

Project Description: I was actively involved in a project where company migrated a client's
website to AWS cloud for hosting. My role was to design auto scaling group to spin up/down the
servers and was responsible to send notifications through SNS for every activity occurred in the
cloud environment and automated all configurations using ansible.

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, Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53,
IAM, CloudTrail, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, CloudFront, SNS, and RDS.
* Gained good experience by working with configuration management tool Ansible and CI/CD tool
Jenkins.
* Managed Amazon redshift clusters such as launching the cluster by specifying the nodes and
performing the data analysis queries.
* Worked on AWS Elastic Bean Stalk for fast deploying of various applications developed with
Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache and IIS.
* Set up and built AWS infrastructure with various services available by writing cloud formation
templates in Json.
* With the help of IAM created roles, users and groups and attached policies to provide minimum
access to the resources.
* Created topics in SNS to send notifications to subscribers as per the requirement.
* Worked on the databases of the Amazon RDS and carried out functionalities for creating
instances as per the requirements.
* Designed Java API to connect the Amazon S3 service to store and retrieve the media files.
* Implemented Amazon RDS multi-AZ for automatic failover and high availability at the database
tier.
* Created CloudFront distributions to serve content from edge locations to users so as to
minimize the load on the frontend servers.
* Configured AWS CLI and performed necessary actions on the AWS services using shell scripting.
* Written cron jobs to perform operations at a scheduled time.
* Developed Shell scripts to run various Automated jobs within the Infrastructure.
* Implemented CloudTrail in order to capture the events related to API calls made to AWS
infrastructure.
* Implemented Ansible to manage all existing servers and automate the build/configuration of new
servers.
* Implemented message notification service using Java Messaging API (JMS).
* Defined all server types in Ansible, so that a newly built server could be up and ready for
production within 30 minutes OS installation.
* Wrote Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of AWS nodes
and Tested Playbooks on AWS instances using Python.
* Involved in setting up JIRA as defect tracking system and configured various workflows,
customizations and plug-ins for the JIRA bug/issue tracker.
* 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.

Environment: AWS (S3, Redshift, EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups, CloudTrail, Cloud Formation, Cloud
Watch, CloudFront, IAM, SNS, RDS, Route 53, Elastic Bean Stalk), Jenkins, Ansible, Shell/Bash
scripting, Python, JIRA, GIT), Windows, Linux

01/2011 - 06/2015
AWS Data Engineer
Deloitte

Business Unit : Financial Planning & Analysis
Project : Client Portfolio Services
Industry : Financial Services
Role : AWS Data Engineer

Client 1 Mar 2014 - June 2015

Project Description: In this project my role was to establish cloud environment to perform
application processing and was responsible for all data migrations from local data center to the
cloud.

Responsibilities

* Developed Cloud Formation scripts to build on demand EC2 instance formation.
* Utilized AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets and EBS.
* Created nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups.
* Configured and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate
servers/storage using Cloud Watch.
* Migrated applications from internal data center to AWS.
* Encrypted data on server and client side.
* Maintained edge location to cache data with CDN using Cloud Front to deliver data with less
latency.
* Scaled distributed in-memory cache environment in the cloud using Elastic cache.
* Co-ordinated the execution of multiple computing devices with Amazon SWF.
* Managed automated backups and created own backup snapshots when needed.
* Provided installation & maintenance of Puppet infrastructure and developed Puppet manifests &
modules for configuration management.
* Installed JIRA, and customized JIRA for workflow, user & group management.
* Supported and helped to create Dynamic Views and Snapshot Views for end users
* Developed Shell Scripts for automation purpose.
* Deployed and configured Git repositories with branching, tagging, and notifications.
Experienced and proficient in deploying and administering GitHub.
* Deployed builds to production and work with the teams to identify and troubleshoot any issues.
* Automated Merging of branches as requested by developers.
* Configured Linux environments in both public and private domains.
* Implemented Shell scripts to run various Automated jobs within the Infrastructure.
* Configured and scheduled the scripts to automate the module installation in the environment.
* Applied redirection rules in Apache based on redirection conditions provided by developers.
* Experienced working on several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, machine, compose and
Docker registry.
* Experience deploying and maintaining multi-container applications through Docker.

Environment: EC2, S3, EBS, CloudFront, Cloud Watch, Elastic Cache, SWF, Puppet, JIRA, SQL, RDS,
Shell/Bash Scripting, Git, APACHE, Docker, Windows, Linux.


Client 2 Jan 2011 - Mar 2014

Responsibilities

* Integrated Amazon Cloud Watch with Amazon EC2 instances for monitoring the log files and track
metrics.
* Created AWS S3 buckets, performed folder management in each bucket, managed cloud trail logs
and objects within each bucket.
* Created Highly Available Environments using Auto-Scaling, Load Balancers, and SQS.
* Defined branching, labeling, and merge strategies for all applications in Git.
* Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto Scaling groups
* Configured S3 to host Static Web content.
* Experienced in S3 Versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in
Glacier
* Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch
* Experienced in Performance Tuning and Query Optimization in AWS Redshift.
* Ability to design application on AWS taking advantage of Disaster recovery.
* Configured AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) Group and users for improved login
authentication.
* Worked on CI/CD tool Jenkins to automate the build process from version control tool into
testing and production environment.
* Managed build results in Jenkins and deployed using workflows.

Environment: AWS services (EC2, S3, Auto Scaling Groups, Elastic Load Balancer, SQS, Cloud
Formation Templates, RDS, Cloud Watch, IAM, Redshift), Ruby, Git, Apache Tomcat, Jenkins, Shell
Scripting, Windows, Linux.

08/2005 - 01/2011
Senior Data Analyst
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab

Company : Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
Industry : Aerospace
Role : Senior Data Analyst

Clients 5 to Client 11 Aug 2005 - Jan 2011

Project Description: In this role I handled Supply chain management process which involves tracking
the Aircraft consumable parts. Been an end user of SAP system which tracks the part from placing an
order till it reaches the client.
In this role, I developed an excel based Macro which captures the workload executed by 300 FTE on a
daily basis and churn out a report to the leadership on the performance tracking across the
business.

Responsibilities

* I handled all Requests for Inquiries, Request for Proposal, Order Entry, Order Follow-up, E
Receivables.
* Been a Technical lead in handling all excel based issues for the business.
* Developed Advanced macros which will track Individual Performance, Scorecard, Process
Improvements.
* Conceptualized a web application which automated out-off-on-in reports to clients on their
aircraft position which improved efficiency of the process by 20%.
* Completed a green belt project on improving flight planning efficiency by reducing 95% of time
spent on calculating ozone compliance check using advanced excel formulas/excel macros.
* Successfully transitioned the international trip services process along with training peers on
process knowledge.
* Developed an individual tracking system which can provide metrics on quotation, order entry,
order follow-up process which helped in leadership visibility of team utilization.

Award: Received a business partner Award, team excellence award, team achievement award and a spot
award for superior performance

10/2003 - 07/2005
SQL Developer
Convergys India Services Pvt. Ltd


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