Raghurami Reddy Alavalapati

Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +91-9663143977

Objective:
To become a successful professional in a highly competitive technological world where performance is rewarded with
new challenging responsibilities and to serve a reputed growth-oriented industry. Possesses Overall 10 years of IT
experience in Azure cloud operations, Azure DevOps, VMWARE Virtualization and Windows Administration

Professional Summary:
 Having 10.1 years of IT experience and 4.5 years of experience as Azure Cloud operations & 3 years into Azure
DevOps Engineer and hands-on in Automating, Building, Deploying and Releasing of Code from one
Environment to another Environment.
 Experience in creating the company's DevOps strategy in a mixed environment of Linux (Ubuntu) servers along
with creating and implementing a cloud strategy based on Azure Services.
 Experience in working on Linux operating systems such as Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows Servers
2008/2012/2016/2019.
 Experience in Build Automation using Git, GitHub, MS-Build, Azure DevOps, Docker & Kubernetes, Azure
Services which reduces the effort of developers and operation team in performing maintenance and daily
Operations.
 Automation of build process CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, MS-Build, Azure Artifacts, GitHub,
PowerShell DSC, SonarQube and Docker, Kubernetes.
 Experience in working on source controller tool like (Global Integration Tool) GIT.
 Strong knowledge on source controls concepts like Branches, Merges and Tags.
 Experience in using NPM and MS-Build as a build tool for building deployable java artifacts (WAR & EAR) from
source code.
 Experience in writing terraform templates to deploy the azure infrastructure.
 Experience in configuring site and site to site and EXPRESSROUTE and Load Balancers.
 Experienced in configuring Cloud platform such as Virtual Networks Multi- site, Cross-site, VMs, Azure AD,
Load Balancers, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, etc.
 Good working experience in Azure App Service, Azure storage and Data migration strategies.
 Automated deployments to various environments like DEV, STG, QA and UAT.
 Experience in creating Azure DevOps Parallel job execution with Master, Slave to distribute load.
 Application Deployment and environment configuration using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC).
 Hands on experience on containerization using Docker Containerization Tool and Container Orchestration with
Kubernetes.
 Experience in using Bug Tracking tools like JIRA and Azure Boards.
 Configured the servers with the Azure monitor, App Insights and monitored the performance metrics of the
production servers.

Technical Skills:
 Operating Systems : Linux (Ubuntu), Windows Server 2008 R2/2012/2016/2019
 VMware : ESXi5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7
 Scripting Languages : Power Shell, YAML and Terraform.
 Cloud : Azure Public and Hybrid Cloud
 Ticketing Tool : Service Now, BMC Remedy
 Version Controls : Bit bucket, GitHub.
 Monitoring Tools : Azure Monitor, Datadog.
 Azure Services : Azure Networking, Load Balancers, App Services, Key Vault, AZ Copy
  SCM Tool : GitHub.
 Build Tools : MS-Build and NPM.
 Artifactory : Azure Artifactory
 Code Coverage : SonarQube
 Build and release : Azure DevOps

Education Qualification:
 MCA (Master of Computer Applications) from Anna University, Chennai in the year of 2009.

Professional Experience:
 Working as Design Professional in BT eServ India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore from July 2022 to till date.
 Worked as Technical Specialist in HCL Technologies Ltd., Bangalore from April 2019 to June 2022.
 Worked as Consultant in NTTDATA Global Delivery Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore from March 2015 to
April 2019.
 Worked as System Engineer in CYBAGE Software Pvt. Ltd., Pune from May 2012 to March 2015.

Work Experience# 1
Organization : BT eServ India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.
Client : Shared accounts
Designation : Design Professional
Period : July 2022 to till date.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Working as a Design Professional on Shared accounts like Private Cloud design (PCD) requirement with IAG
contract and involved in Multi Cloud Management Design Solution like Microsoft AZURE/AWS/GCP,
Terraform & GITLAB for Cloud implementation.

Work Experience# 2
Organization : HCL Technologies Ltd., Bangalore.
Client : PALOALTONETWORKS
Designation : Specialist.
Period : April 2019 to June 2022.

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Worked as a CloudOps engineer on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage
accounts, resource groups, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and
Cloud implementation.
 Hands on experience in Azure Development, worked on Azure web application, App services, Azure storage,
Virtual machines, Azure AD and Azure search.
 Good at Manage hosting plans for Azure Infrastructure, implementing & deploying workloads on Azure
virtual machines (VMs).
 Providing Access (IAM) to the users on Subscription and individual resources.
 Experience on Azure PAAS services, managed few PAAS services like Web Apps, Azure SQL DB, Service
bus, Traffic manager etc.
 Extensive experience in Azure Storage. Managed Blob storage & Table storage with access keys in some of
the web applications.
  Manage different Azure environment for provisioning of Windows, Linux servers and services executed by the
providers.
 Gather, review, and validate network requirements, VNETs, and network security groups.
 Involved with planning, designing, and transforming environments from on-premises to cloud-based.
 Experience in managing infrastructure resources in cloud architecture with close coordination with various
functional teams.
 Experience in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services,
Resource Groups, VPN, Load Balancing and Autoscaling.
 Experience in developing and maintaining build, deployment scripts for test, staging and production
environment using Azure automation tools.
 Good experience in Azure automation using PowerShell, Azure Terraform and Azure Desired State
Configuration (DSC).
 Experience with Atlassian workflow tools Jira, Service Now, and BMC Remedy.
 Experienced in Project Strategy, Planning and execution on time.
 Application automation software like PowerShell and Bash.
 Experience in automating day-to-day activities by using Windows PowerShell and Azure CLI 2.0.
 Deploying the Virtual Machines with the Microsoft Monitoring Agent/Operational Management Suite (OMS)
Extension using the PowerShell Scripts and integrating virtual machines into OMS by deploying OMS agent.
 Monitored OMS Log Analytics in Azure Security Centre for troubleshooting the Compute, Storage,
Networking and Applications.
 Creating Storage account and managing disk add & remove.
 Used Microsoft Azure storage accounts, Log Analytics, Logic Apps, and Azure Automation Runbook
Account.
 Created Automated Scripts for Azure Monitor to get the alerts for Activity logs.
 Troubleshoot Azure related issues engage internal teams and vendor for issue resolutions.
 Created Build definition and Release definition for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment in
Azure DevOps.
 Creating Network Security Group (NSG) in Virtual Machine at Subnet Level as well configuring Inbound
rules for the Virtual Machine.
 Experience in using Bug Tracking tools like JIRA and Azure Boards.
 Automation of build process CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, MS-Build, Azure Artifacts, GitHub,
PowerShell DSC, SonarQube and Docker, Kubernetes.

Work Experience# 3
Organization : NTTDATA Global Delivery Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.
Client : National Life Group
Designation : Consultant.
Period : March 2015 to April 2019.

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Deploy infrastructure using Terraform.
 Expertise on Various VM related issues like Resize, unable to Start, Networking, Storage, etc.
 Hands-on experience on migrations of resources between subscriptions.
 Knowledge Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery (ASR).
 Worked on Azure Files share and mounting it on the VMs.
 Knowledge on AD services, RBAC roles and migrations and Azure File Sync Services.
 Knowledge on Azure PowerShell scripts for various Azure VM, Storage operations.
 Moving data between storages using AZ-copy.
 Strong knowledge on VM sizes, Storage and performance related issues.
 Configuring backups on VMs, extending drives, conversion of storage account from standard to premium and
vice versa, troubleshooting deployment failures and Disk encryption issues.
  Managing & monitoring the VMware ESXi6.7 Servers & vCenter Server 6.7 through web Client and html
client 6.7, managing Virtual & Physical Server environment with 1300+ Windows Server
2003,2008,2012,2016,2019
 Installation, Configuration, Administration and troubleshooting on VMware ESXi and VM issues.
 Creating & Managing the Virtual Machines & Migrating VMs between ESXi Servers.
 Creating and managing VMware cluster and enabling HA and DRS features in Cluster.
 Creating Virtual Machine Templates, Snapshots, Cloning Virtual Machines, Patching on servers.
 Creating Resource Pools and Setting limits and priorities on CPU and RAM and Delegating permissions on
Resource Pools to users using Access Controls.
 Live migration of VMs and their storage files with VMware vMotion and Storage vMotion.
 Creating & managing the Standard vSwitch, Port groups, & Distributed vSwitch(dvSwitch) for virtual
networks.
 Installing and configuring ESXi servers through ILO.
 Upgrading ESXi5.5 to ESXi6.x and using VMware Update Manager.
 Using ServiceNow ticketing tool to follow up with issues and resolve the issues within the SLA’s.
 ITIL Foundation V3 certified and following ITIL Processes for daily work like Incident management, change
management and Problem management, Service Catalog, Configuration Management Database using
ServiceNow tool.

Work Experience# 4
Organization : CYBAGE Software Pvt. Ltd., Pune.
Client : Epsilon
Designation : System Engineer.
Period : May 2012 to March 2015.

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Managing Virtual & Physical Server environment with 800+ Windows Server 2003,2008
 Configuring, Managing and supporting for VMware ESXi5.0.
 Handling the system administration tasks of moderate complexity on Windows/VMware environment.
 Creating and managing Virtual Machines and installing VM Tools into VMs.
 Creating and managing Resource Pools and adding the VMs into Resource Pools.
 Performing snapshots, cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations.
 Configuring DRS in a Cluster and the DRS Automation Level Using DRS Affinity Rules.
 Configuring and managing HA Settings and Customizing HA for Virtual Machines.
 Migrating Physical Servers to Virtual Server using P2V Converter.
 Provisioning the new servers and performing the post provisioning process.
 Decommissioning the old servers.
 Monitoring the alerts in Zenoss tool and fixing the issues with disk space, windows event log errors. Used the
monitoring tool Logic monitor in earlier.
 Analysing system event logs using Splunk tool and finding the RCA for issues.
 Troubleshooting the IIS applications like recycling the application pools if any issues with the applications.
 Managing and administrating the Symantec NetBackup, Rubrik tool and troubleshooting on backup failures.
 Server Administration, Active Directory Management, Application rollout and configuration.
 Performs a variety of maintenance tasks associated with the support, modification, and updating of the system
software to include system software installations, upgrades.
 Configuring and managing AD, DNS, and DHCP.
 Creating users and groups in Active Directory.
 Assigning rights and privileges to users to access files and folders.
 Remote management and troubleshooting of servers using HP ILO.
 Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting.
Personal details:

Date of Birth : 18/08/1984

Marital Status : Married
Language Knows : English, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi
Hometown : Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.
Current Location : Bangalore

Personal Skills:

Hardworking, Willing to learn new things, Comprehensive problem-solving ability, Good

Interpersonal and communication skills.

Declaration:

I here declare that all the above information is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.