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Anurag Pulla

Atlanta

Summary

Accomplished DevOps/Kubernetes Engineer with extensive experience at Workday, specializing in cloud infrastructure automation and security. Proficient in Kubernetes orchestration and AWS services, with a proven track record of reducing operational costs by 20%. Strong leadership and problem-solving skills, adept at guiding teams and enhancing system performance through innovative solutions.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Devops / Kubernetes Engineer

Workday
Atlanta
09.2022 - Current
  • Designing and implementing automation for K8s infrastructure setup using tools like terraform, Go and Ansible.
  • Automating single click setup of third party applications and installations and writing templates to generate k8s manifests based on environments and clusters.
  • Architecting a Kubernetes security project for securing control over k8s objects using role-based access control and enhancing the admission controller with Opa policies.
  • Working on AWS infrastructure hosting Multiple AWS instances, setting up the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs, auto- scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
  • Working on Cluster capacity planning, implemented auto-scaling mechanisms and reduced costs by utlilizing tools like kubecost, thereby reducing overall costs of running applications on k8s.
  • Implementing backup and recovery strategies using tools like eco, gemini and pvc snapshotter.
  • Conducting workshops and guiding customers to adopt container orchestration on their workloads.
  • Automating repeating tasks including cluster creation, software updates etc and integrating it with slack for notifications.
  • Leading and Providing On call support for escalations and conducting knowledge sessions and runbooks to handle day to day issues.
  • Responsible for on boarding Application teams to build and deploy their code using GitHub, Jenkins and Ansible.

SR. Devops

Bitmex
San Francisco
10.2020 - 09.2022
  • Managed creation and administration of multiple Kubernetes clusters across AWS, GCP, and on-premise for Apple Private Cloud, hosting critical applications like iCloud and Siri.
  • Enhanced Kubernetes infrastructure with over 50 clusters and 20k+ CPU and GPU nodes, supporting 2M+ pods.
  • Facilitated onboarding of customers from legacy systems to Apple Private Cloud’s Kubernetes infrastructure.
  • Developed Ansible playbooks for provisioning, upgrading, and maintaining extensive Kubernetes clusters.
  • Configured Rio pipelines with custom Python checks to validate pull requests.
  • Reviewed code repositories for Docker, Jsonnet, Ansible, Puppet, Python, and Kubernetes manifests daily.
  • Implemented tools like Valero for backup, Opa for security, and Splunk for logging to enhance Kubernetes functionality.
  • Assisted customers in application management using Rio, Spinnaker, Helm charts, and webhooks.

Sr. Devops Engineer

Deutsche Bank Group
Jacksonville
08.2018 - 10.2020
  • Analyzed applications for migration to cloud, enhancing efficiency and performance.
  • Migrated stateful legacy applications to stateless versions on AWS EC2, EKS, Google Compute Engine, and Kubernetes.
  • Transitioned applications from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes for improved orchestration.
  • Orchestrated containerized instances using tools like Kubernetes and Docker Swarm.
  • Defined Kubernetes YAML configurations for various applications, integrating with Jenkins for automated deployments.
  • Configured Jenkins CI/CD jobs to build Docker images from source code, deploying upon passing quality checks.
  • Implemented Blue-Green deployments in Kubernetes by performing label switches.
  • Planned persistence for stateful applications using PVCs with Disks, NFS, and Google Cloud Storage.

DevOps/Linux

State of Maryland
Baltimore
09.2017 - 07.2018
  • Managed Linux, VMware, and AWS/GCE/Azure servers during datacenter migration.
  • Established Puppet infrastructure for over 4,000 nodes to enhance configuration management.
  • Configured OpsCode Chef for efficient management of AWS EC2 instances.
  • Automated server installations using Kickstart and deployed applications on new servers.
  • Conducted production support and provided on-call assistance for system issues.
  • Administered RHEL 4, 5 and Solaris 9, 10 through installation, tuning, and patch management.
  • Launched and configured Amazon EC2 Cloud Servers with specific application requirements.
  • Troubleshot storage, network, and system-related issues while logging root cause analysis.

Unix/Linux Administrator

Efftronica Systems
Hyderabad
12.2014 - 08.2015
  • Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.
  • Maintained availability, increased capacity & performance of production machines by upgrading their hardware (disks, CPU, memory, IO board, power cooling unit, motherboard etc) & firmware.
  • Rack mounted HP DL systems installed and configured Redhat Linux and applied maintenance levels.
  • Troubleshooting of all kind of OS related and hardware related issues on the Linux servers.
  • Performed process automation, scheduling of processes using CRON jobs.
  • Installed recommended patches on Linux and Solaris servers.
  • Designed & Implemented System Security administration policies. Systems security administration policies include: User ID/Group ID management, Password policies, password aging for Redhat Linux Users.
  • Capacity planning of P Series machines with IBM Balanced Spread Sheets.
  • Managed file permissions & ownership for important directories & files.
  • Implemented DNS, NFS, NIS, Auto mount networking services.
  • Installed Redhat Linux 4/5 on HP, Dell & IBM x86 standard image CDs and Kickstart installation method.

Education

Master’s - Information And Computer Systems

Silicon Valley University
California City, CA
12-2016

Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer Science

JNTU
Hyderabad, India
05-2013

Skills

  • Perl
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Korn shell
  • Bash shell
  • C programming
  • C programming
  • Java
  • Shell scripting
  • SQL and PL/SQL
  • HTML and XML
  • Linux distributions
  • Sun Solaris versions
  • Windows operating systems
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • AWS cloud services
  • Azure cloud services
  • Configuration management tools
  • Oracle databases
  • IBM DB2 database
  • MySQL database
  • Cloudant database
  • Version control systems
  • Build automation tools
  • Continuous integration tools
  • Containerization technologies
  • Kubernetes orchestration
  • Service mesh technologies
  • Web servers and proxies
  • Monitoring and logging tools
  • Project management tools

Certification

  • Kubernetes administrator

Timeline

Devops / Kubernetes Engineer

Workday
09.2022 - Current

SR. Devops

Bitmex
10.2020 - 09.2022

Sr. Devops Engineer

Deutsche Bank Group
08.2018 - 10.2020

DevOps/Linux

State of Maryland
09.2017 - 07.2018

Unix/Linux Administrator

Efftronica Systems
12.2014 - 08.2015

Master’s - Information And Computer Systems

Silicon Valley University

Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer Science

JNTU

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