RAVI KISHORE REDDY AAKUTOTA

• Identified and remediated single points of failure and security risks.
• Provided technical guidance for team members, fostering culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Designed and developed scalable cloud solutions for enhanced performance and cost optimization.
• Improved overall cloud architecture efficiency by implementing cutting-edge technologies and best practices.
• Developed Cloud Playbook for Infrastructure design and Common Services deployment in AWS Government Commercial Cloud (GCC), AWS Government Commercial Cloud Plus (GCC+) and Health Care Cloud (HCC).
• Collaborated with sales team to respond to BQ, RFP and Tender for various opportunities.
• Created multiple designs to address concerns of stakeholders and perform proof of concept (POC).
• Led architecture discussion with partners, customers and internal teams.

• Designed and implemented scalable solutions by leveraging cloud enterprise technology and services in AWS such as AWS VPC, Subnets, Routing Tables, Security Groups, Load balancer, multi-AZ deployments of EC2 instances.
• Work with Developers and Operations team to architect and configure Dev/Stage and Prod environments in AWS.
• Design and implement end-to-end Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using AWS pipeline.
• Increased Security by Implementing cloud governance, authorization, authentication across entire environment using AWS IAM services, AWS organization, AWS Single Sign-On.
• Leverage AWS Control Tower, AWS Organization for centralized secure multi-account management within our environment using company’s requirements.
• Create and manage catalogs of IT service, portfolios, and products, sharing portfolios with other accounts, providing access to IAM principal (groups, roles, and users) to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services and achieve consistent governance.
• Setup and Configure Centralized Monitoring using CloudWatch Cross Account Observability, Creating log groups, log streams, metrics, alarms, Dashboards.
• Automate centralized backup at scale across AWS Organization using AWS Backup (Delegate AWS Backup policy administration and Delegate AWS Backup jobs monitoring)
• Automate deployment and testing of resources using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation through pipelines.
• Worked with clients on data migration projects from on-premises to AWS Cloud
• Adhered to timelines to meet quality assurance targets
• Trained and managed drafters, junior engineers
• Conducted tests to determine success of product performance.

Projects:

Project 1:

Design and deployed new AWS cloud platform to collect logs from customers and send to security operations center who will perform the threat hunting with the help of cyber threat hunting team.

Objective: Provide AWS cloud platform to offer SAAS to the customers.

Cloud Infra: VPC, subnets, VPC endpoint/endpoint services,Network load balancer, Kinesis instance hybrid activation, EC2 with EFS file system.

Project 2: Automate creation, management, and deployment of customized, secure, and up-to-date server images.

Objective: Creating customized images and configure pipelines to automate updates and system patching

Cloud Infra: EC2 image builder pipeline

Project 3: Integration into GCC from agency remote sites that are non-SGNET connected.

Objective: Sending logs from agencies remote site to GCC central log repository via link landing zone (type0 VPC) and workload compartment (type2 VPC).

Cloud Infrastructure: Palo Alto, FortiGate, Site-to-Site VPN, Subnets, Security groups, Routing, Syslog server, CloudWatch log groups, log streams.

Project 4: Cloud Backup Service – GCSOC

Objective: Configure cloud backup service to backup systems hosted in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.

Cloud Infrastructure: Amazon EC2 Instances, Azure Virtual Machines, Google Compute Engine

• Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, Secured and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• Automated deployment of VPC, subnets, routing table, security groups, EC2 instances using CloudFormation.
• Configure backup service to backup systems hosted in AWS cloud, On-premises environments.
• Discuss with customers and review their requirements and developed actionable solutions to resolve problems and plan for future growth
• Proactively monitored resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch including creating alarms to monitor metrics for EC2, EBS, ELB services and application processes, Configured SNS notifications
• Configured user accounts for Development, Staging and Production environments.
• Creating S3 buckets and route additional backup copy from appliances to S3.
• Lift and shift of existing on-premises application to AWS.
• Configure Amazon RDS Multi-AZ for automatic failover and high availability at database tier.
• Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 Instance for creating instances.
• Conduct workshop with customer to understand business needs and provide solution which meets cost reduction and business goals.

• Client: Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Worked on infrastructure tech refresh project.
• Project scope is to replace existing data protection infrastructure with NetBackup appliances in multiple sites/data centers and migrating data to appliances.
• Responsible for designing and implementing new Infrastructure including physical appliance, virtual servers, storage, and network.
• Worked effectively with various teams including vendors, datacenter teams, networking, OS.
• Capacity estimation based on existing data size and growth rate for new appliances.
• Setup multiple MSDP servers and MSDP disk pool configuration.
• Creating RAID groups and Volumes on HP MSA
• Migrated data from existing infra to appliances for short term and duplicated to MSDP servers for LTR.
• Creating design, SOP, and Installation documents
• Performed appliance hardware UAT.
• Knowledge transfer and handover to day2 team
• Change and Incident management.

• Client: Royal Bank of Scotland
• Responsible for Project planning, technical discussion for data protection infra
• Installation and configuration of data protection Infra Servers
• Conducting POC in solution design
• To ensure reliable backups to meet operational and data recovery requirements.
• Data growth projection and capacity planning
• Manage data protection Infrastructure, troubleshoot and Fix issues.
• Working with OS teams and Build team on pre/post checks for provisioning/decommissioning hosts.
• Providing and maintaining overall operational quality, service delivery and security compliance with enterprise backup operations
• Liaise with other geographic regions to ensure design and operational consistency.
• Coordinating software and hardware vendors to provide optimum system performance and availability.
• Knowledge transfer to internal team members
• Change and Incident management.

• Project Implementation and Deployment of backup solution using NetBackup, Data Domain and Quantum Tape Libraries
• Managed data protection migration project form EMC legato networker to Veritas NetBackup
• Responsible for installing and configuring Master, Media server and client servers in multiple sites/data centers.
• Capacity planning and reporting for backup media.
• Creating new data protection policies in NetBackup and migrate clients from Legato networker.
• Manage, monitor, troubleshoot and Fix issues in New Backup Infra
• Performing daily health checks and reporting
• End to End Management of Backup infra including Tape on-site/off-site handling.
• Storage provisioning to hosts on Arrays.
• NAS provisioning on NetApp filers

• Client: Barclays Capital
• Manage, troubleshoot and Fix issues in Backup Infra
• Perform daily checks of previous night's backups, troubleshoot any issues that arise from backups.
• Adding new clients to existing policies, create new policies/schedules.
• Schedule AutoSys jobs based on user requests through Remedy Ticket
• New Box/Job insertion, modification of JIL (Job Information Language), Deletion of JIL in Solaris/Windows Autosys server
• Providing solutions to AutoSys job related queries to user on behavior of job for its failures, over runs, missed runs etc.
• Incident Resolution and assisting customer in data recovery.
• Participated in DR drills.

• Administration and Supporting Microsoft Windows 2000 / 2003 servers.
• Daily operation includes monitoring incoming incident, change, request tickets and hotline, manage assigned tickets to resolve within defined SLA or escalate in timely manner.
• Daily operation includes monitoring incoming incident, change, request tickets and hotline, manage assigned tickets to resolve within defined SLA or escalate in timely manner.
• Co-ordinate with other technology and operations groups to ensure timely resolution of incidents
• Ensure that all changes deployed are subject to agreed change management process and have been fully tested in UAT to minimize risk of impact to production environment
• Performance monitoring and tuning for Windows servers
• Analyzing logs and taking precautionary measures
• Responsible to coordinate/execute window server’s maintenance activities during quarterly maintenance window.
• Change and Incident management.

• Client: Barclays Capital
• Administration and Supporting Microsoft Windows 2000 / 2003 servers
• Applying patches to servers and keeping servers to security standards
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of problems.
• Coordinating between Corporate and Regional countries in terms of access to corporate resources.
• Administration of Active Directory and Group policies.
• User Management and resources management.
• Analyzing event logs and taking precautionary measures
• Managing internal Applications.
• Handling Remedy Tickets and Hotline
• Suggested system updates or changes after conduct in-depth technical reviews
• Created flowcharts, diagrams and other documentation
• Documented system configuration, mapping and processes
• Checked for accuracy and functionality during implementation of new systems
• Streamlined troubleshooting processes to improve system support and enhance communication between support team and end-users