V K PRASAD CH
  • Frisco, TX 75034
  • +1 (214) 444-8000
  • prasad@gmail.com
Professional SummaryRename
  • 12+ years of comprehensive DevOps experience in the areas of designing, developing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Monitoring of Enterprise level distributed applications.
  • Designing scalable, resilient, and secure applications to be Cloud Ready with modern architecture principles.
  • Experience with DevSecOps toolchains including Bitbucket, Jenkins, Sonar, OWASP Dependency Tracker, Serena, Kubernetes.
  • Helping clients migrate workloads to Containerized platforms like Docker EE, OpenShift.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes container orchestration Docker Enterprise, OpenShift, and good understanding of AWS EKS, Azure AKS managed cloud Kubernetes orchestration services.
  • Experience in developing applications using Spring Boot and implementing Hibernate database access methodologies.
  • Experience working with RDBMS databases like MySQL, Oracle, and NoSQL / document databases MongoDB, Redis.
SkillsRename
  • GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Copado (Salesforce DevOps Platform)
  • Docker, AKS, EKS, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (Formally Docker Enterprise)
  • Linux / Unix, Windows Server 2012
  • AWS EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, CloudFront, VPC, CloudTrail, CodePipeline, Route53, WAF, IAM, ElastiCache (Redis), Lambda, EKS, AWS Aurora, CloudWatch, DynamoDB
  • JAVA 11/ Java 8, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.JS
  • Spring Boot, express, AngularJS, ReactJS, .Net Core, Sails.JS
  • Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • SonarCloud, Snyk, Anchore (Docker Image Vulnerability Scanner)
CertificationsRename
  • Certified Scrum master (PSM-1) and agile practitioner
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • Certified Kubernetes Application developer
Work HistoryRename
Lead DevOps Engineer, 05/2023 - Current
Albertsons Companies Plano, United States
  • Automate AKS platform provisioning process to enhance DevOps culture in development teams
  • Oversee CI/CD pipelines to maximize productivity
  • Design, implement, maintain, and support platform services associated with the CI/CD pipelines
  • Configure monitoring and alerting systems for applications and platform services
  • Work with leadership and be accountable for aligning the team to architectural, technical, functional, and performance guidelines related to CI/CD pipelines
  • Enhance team technical capabilities and workforce using the DevOps culture's cutting-edge technologies
  • Gauge infrastructure resources to manage spending appropriately
  • Enforce best practices for security and reliability
  • Actively participate in Engineering Scrum and design meetings to drive quality releases
  • Produce and maintain documentation on installations, procedures, and requirements for systems
  • Mentor and teach other developers - help them to create a continuous training plan
  • Monitor site stability and performance and troubleshoot platform issues
  • Manage cross-functional requirements with Engineering, Product, Services, and other departments
  • Identify and proactively solve problems to ensure a seamless experience for our clients.
Lead DevOps Engineer, 07/2022 - 02/2023
Far East Hospitality Singapore

Setup and maintain Azure DevOps Pipelines, Manage Azure Cloud infrastructure resources, Build and maintain client power automate flows, advocate client on cloud infrastructure design and cost optimizations for new proposed solutions

Lead DevOps Engineer, 05/2022 - 09/2022
MTI Singapore Singapore

Leading DevOps Implementation using the Copado DevOps platform on Salesforce for Client MTI Singapore

DevSecOps Engineer, 02/2021 - 04/2022
Autumn Life Pte. Ltd Singapore
  • Work with Application teams to review and provide guidance on the DevOps pipeline
  • Provide guidance to Application developers on design, implementing applications in container and cloud-ready and help them with troubleshooting issues when needed
  • Write AWS CloudFormation scripts to manage AWS ECS, S3, IAM policies for applications to run smoothly
  • Build and optimize GitHub Action pipeline scripts with cache, Dotnet core command optimizations to improve speed of build pipeline execution
  • Integrate GitHub actions with SonarCloud for code quality and coverage check and add quality gate rules into GitHub pull request conditions to ensure automated code quality controls in place
  • Integrated Sysdig Falco for ECS runtime threat detection
  • Integrating SAST Scan tools into DEVOPS Pipeline to detect and report open source libraries for reported CVEs on standard MITRE and NIST NVD
  • Peer review critical parts of IaC and application code for DevOps teams
  • Responsible for documenting all controls and evidence based on policies defined by Internal Risk controls teams and get application ISO Certified
  • Responsible for defining network security topologies based on various application sensitivity levels like Zero trust based Multi-AZ Cloud based application deployment architecture
  • Responsible for Proposing and implementing adequate IT Security and Risk Control Measures based on policies defined in various areas like Roles and responsibilities, Change management, Incident management, segregation of duties with 4-Eye check principle, Break-glass access controls with adequate security and audit controls in place
  • Involved in an Agile Software Development environment using Agile SCRUM and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
  • Actively participated in the daily SCRUM meetings to produce quality deliverables within time
  • Responsible for documenting all procedures, getting them reviewed by stakeholders and publishing all procedures for internal teams use.
DevOps Engineer, 03/2017 - 01/2021
BNP Paribas Singapore
  • Define and maintain Internal Kubernetes definition templates for Containerization of legacy applications
  • Define and maintain containerization checklist for, onboarding new applications to Kubernetes platform
  • Define containerization best practices and Guidelines
  • Responsible for working with internal security and Risk compliance teams to come up with standards for Containerized application deployments
  • Optimizing various official images for optimal performance and internal security compliance
  • Hardening base images to comply with Bank security guidelines
  • Build sample applications to demonstrate how to make legacy applications containers ready
  • Responsible for building, maintaining and supporting the Docker Enterprise platform with Kubernetes orchestrator using Ansible scripts
  • Integrating Docker/Kubernetes platform with CI/CD Pipeline
  • Integrating Docker/Kubernetes platform with other internal tools like ELK for centralized aggregation of Application and SIEM logs
  • Develop and maintain internal tools for continuous monitoring of containers running on Docker/Kubernetes platform for vulnerabilities and report to stakeholders (development teams, Security champions and IT Security Officers, Production security teams)
  • Develop internal platform for application monitoring, dashboarding, alerting platform (Prometheus with Thanos, Grafana, Alert manager) for observability
  • Advocate and promote Containerization and best practices internally
  • Involved in various phases of Digital Transformation from DevOps Perspective of legacy applications
  • Followed Agile Scrum methodology by breaking down the project to several sprints and rolling out changes incrementally
  • Used GIT as version control tool for effectively managing the code changes
  • Support for Agile methodology for these services and using JIRA for tracking tools
  • Build Jenkins pipeline templates for different types of internal applications and support development teams customize their Jenkinsfile templates to meet their specific needs
  • Integrate Jenkins with SonarQube for Code Quality and Nexus as internal artifact repository
  • Configure Bitbucket Pull Requests with Sonar quality gate
  • Integrate with Serena/Relman for release automation and deploy applications to Kubernetes platform
  • Work with the internal infrastructure team to configure F5 as front load balancer
  • Participated in DR Drills to test Jenkins, Bitbucket, Sonar, Kubernetes platforms
  • Actively participated in the daily SCRUM meetings to produce quality deliverables within time
  • Integrate with CyberArk Via Conjure for secrets management for applications running on Kubernetes platform.
Full Stack JavaScript Consultant, 04/2016 - 02/2017
AXA Hong Kong Hong Kong

Working as part of an agile team from Client location (AXA Hong Kong) as a Full stack Java Script developer. Extensively use some of the niche technologies including Node.JS, Sails.JS, Loopback, React.JS with Redux, MongoDB, Open-Shift, AWS, Third party system integrations. Build modular and scalable Micro services for common systems like Payment / SMS / Email Gateway systems.

Work closely with Business and help improve Business Solutions in better and long sustainable path.

DevOps Engineer, 04/2014 - 03/2016
Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Bangalore, India
  • Responsible for the Proposal of design for the Application back-end system, present it, and have it approved by the architecture team
  • Responsible for AWS Cloud infrastructure estimate, plan, deploy and integrate different Services in our application like AWS SNS (for Android and iOS Push notifications), AWS EC2, ELB, EBS
  • Configure Jenkins to build and deploy to servers using shell scripts
  • Ensure data backups are configured correctly and disaster recovery procedures are defined and regularly tested to make sure systems can be brought back online with minimal data log and quickly to minimize disruptions
  • Configure SonarQube for code quality checks as part of Jenkins builds
  • Regularly review infrastructure resources, and security group rules and correct them if any gaps were found
  • Report monthly on some key metrics like project builds, build failure rate, sonar quality gate failure rates, sonar coverage trend, etc to stakeholders
  • Requirement gathering and Design walk-throughs with Clients for clarifications on the concerns and assumptions from different counterparts of the project
  • Independently handling the deliverables
  • Ensuring compliance with quality standards and delivery timelines
  • Interacting with team members to ensure the smooth progress of project work
  • Used Jira for task and Issue tracking for the Project
  • Used GIT as a version control tool for effectively managing the code changes
  • Actively participated in the daily SCRUM meetings to produce quality deliverables within time.
DevOps Engineer, 10/2011 - 03/2014
Indavest Technology Ventures Bangalore, India
  • Build and manage AWS and on-premises infrastructure for production and non-production environments
  • Maintain SVN repository server and always up
  • Ensure data backups are configured correctly and disaster recovery procedures are defined and regularly tested to make sure systems can be brought back online with minimal data log and quickly to minimize disruptions
  • Manage Jenkins build server to ensure scheduled and on-demand builds of java and net applications run smoothly
  • Committed Code to SVN following trunk-based development practices established internally
  • Independently handling the deliverables
  • Ensuring compliance with quality standards and delivery timelines
  • Interacting with team members to ensure the smooth progress of project work.
EducationRename
Bachelor of Technology: Information Technology Expected in St. Mary's College of Engineering And Technology - Andhra Pradesh, India
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