United States

Customer Experience (CX)

Architectural Engineering

Site Reliability

Master of Science - MS

Bachelor's degree

Harshavardhan Nerella

Sr.Cloud Engineer

Public Speaking

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Cloud computing

Youtube

ChatGPT

Docker

GitHub

Glassdoor

Jira

Lucidchart

Confluence

Jenkins

Designing enterprise-wide cloud and technology architecture. Leading teams and assuring the technology supports the business needs. Design and implement the end-to-end solution for a mission-critical Kubernetes orchestration platform at the enterprise level using Rafay.

• Obtained business and technology requirements from key stakeholders.
• Selling the architecture vision to key executives and other key stakeholders.
• Delivered technical presentations to management.
• Vendor negotiation and management.
• Mentored technology professionals, including interns and junior engineers.
• Documenting the design of mission-critical systems in written, diagram, and presentation formats.
• Leading teams of engineers and other key technology players.
• Received multiple internal spotlight awards for commitment, accountability, and leadership.
• Delivered technical training sessions for Cloud Engineers and CloudOps Engineers.
• Functioned as a Subject Matter Expert for the Rafay SaaS platform.
• Led project to design and implement an end-to-end Kubernetes environment.
• Created a reference architecture for Kubernetes deployment, including (ALB, Secrets Driver, New Relic,
Wiz, DNS, Vault, and Autoscaler).
• Leading proof of concepts and brainstorming sessions for Cloud engineering solutions.
• Deployed Terraform infrastructure as a code solution, optimizing Kubernetes deployment from 2 days to 2
hours.
• Designed and developed reusable, clean, and well-tested Terraform modules to deploy infrastructure on the
AWS cloud.
• Implemented standardization measures for the EKS fleet, which involved adopting a new blueprint, incorporating
add-ons, enabling control plane logs, setting up OIDC, and adopting the latest AMIs.
• Collaborated closely with the streaming application team to implement AWS private link functionality.
• Managing IP address planning for all development, non-production, and production AWS landing zones.

Responsible for managing the different Cloud environments and providing technical support to internal and external clients.

• Set up and managed environments like development, test, non-production, and production.
• Planned the migration of Windows servers from 2012 to 2019.
• Implemented a cost-saving Lambda function to automatically stop/start servers post business hours.
• Wrote complex queries in the log parser to extract data from application logs for leadership analysis.
• Troubleshoot the network issues and backend failures, identifying root causes through close analysis of
system, application, and database logs.
• Utilized Jenkins to perform the CI/CD for agile software development teams.
• Designed mission-critical application dashboards in Dynatrace for efficient monitoring.
• Collaborated on a POC to create Docker builds using Jenkins pipelines and deploy them as workloads on
Kubernetes clusters.
• Collaborated in creating MOVEit jobs for seamless data transfer to various stakeholders.
• Documented troubleshooting steps for future reference.

Responsible for managing various environments, deploying new builds, and troubleshooting issues across different environments.

• Perform frequent Build & Release activities in different environments.
• Responsible for creating and managing Git branches, executing merge activities & administering user
permissions.
• Performed the system and application monitoring using Dynatrace.
• Created the IAM roles, users, groups, and policies based on customer requirements.
• Deployment and configuration of company websites on the IIS webserver.
• Performance tuning of the systems based on the systems, application, and database logs.
• Document the activities performed, and troubleshooting steps for future references.

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