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Venkat A - MULTI CLOUD ENGINEER | DEVOPS | AWS | AZURE | CLOUD FINOPS

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Location: Dallas, Texas, USA

Relocation: Yes

Visa: H1B

Summary: Cloud Engineer with 11.9 years of experience spanning Cloud Engineering, Cloud Migration, FinOps, DevOps, and traditional on-premises infrastructure. Proven expertise in cloud platform implementation (AWS, Azure), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, and DevOps practices. Strong background in Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps), cost optimization, and automation across enterprise environments. Adept knowledge in migrating Applications from On-premises to Public Cloud platforms. Excellent Troubleshooting skills fixing issues in production environments ensure smooth operations. Cloud FinOps Governance and ability to initiate, execute and set up FinOps culture at organization. Expert in tracking the cost of cloud services using Native tools and 3rd party (i.e. Cloud health portal) Expertise knowledge in Version Control Systems and Code migrations like Migrating SCR from SVN to Bitbucket, TFS to Bitbucket etc. Performing POC s on proposed solutions to clients and providing cost estimates on provided solutions. Experience with working security policies using azure policies, AWS Secure control Policies Strategic FinOps insights and cloud cost reporting for Executive/stakeholders consumption, driving executive alignment on budgeting, optimization, and governance initiatives. Good knowledge in DevOps methodology and experience in working along Agile process Certified storage engineer in multiple storage arrays and SAN Fabrics (EMC, IBM, HPE, CISCO, Brocade) Cloud Operations & DevOps Engineering Experience in DevOps methodology and tools: Terraform, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Chef. Designed and deployed cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure using Terraform IaC. Led a Bitbucket adoption project in one of the client places. Migration Application Source code from legacy Source control systems to Bitbucket Distributed Version control Tool. Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Git, and Bitbucket to automate application deployments Automated provisioning and cleanup tasks using Python and AWS Lambda, including stale snapshot deletion and EC2 instance scheduling Prolific Experience in Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, ECS, Cloud Front, IAM, RDS, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud trial, Snowball, EFS). Expertise in Microsoft Azure services (VM, VMSS, Storage Accounts, VNET, NSG, Recovery Service Vaults, Disks, Snapshots, Activity logs, Log Analytics Workspaces, Alerts, RI s, SQL DB, etc) Extensive Knowledge on EC2 concepts like AMI s (creation), EBS Volumes, Snapshots, Keypairs, Security Groups, Elastic load balancer, Auto scaling, tags, Elastic cache, Cloudfront, Route 53, ECS. Monitoring, Alerts & Backups Monitoring resource utilization and performance using AWS Cloudwatch, Azure monitor, Datadog, Cloudhealth and Kubecost. Enabling backups on AWS and azure resources (IAAS & PAAS) using AWS backup vaults , Azure Recovery service vault, storage accounts and commvault. Configured Alerting and Notifications on resources using Cloudwatch and Azure Alerts. Configured centralized logging solutions in Azure cloud project using Log analytics workspaces. Configured AWS and Azure Budgets with alerting mechanism to inform Stakeholders and BU s on the cloud spend for forecasting future spends. Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment sthree database Rhode Island