Appa Makireddy

About Appa Makireddy

As a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer at YETI, I have over 10+ years of experience in…

Experience

1. Senior Azure Devops Devsecops Engineer

   YETI

   Jul 2020 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Created Build and Release pipelines in Azure DevOps Pipelines for.NetCore.Net Framework and Desktop Applications and done deployments using SPN for implementing CI/CD.• Implemented automation for deployments by using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines for massive builds and releases and worked with task groups, variable groups, Agent pools, Deployment Groups, Pipeline templates.• Experienced in working with On-Prem to Azure Cloud Migration using Terraform and Ansible.• Created various Terraform Modules for VNETs, VMs, Storage Accounts Service Bus, App Services, Functions, Key vaults, Frontdoor and Application gateways.• Managed Azure Infrastructure Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, VM Role, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Virtual Machine Backup and Recover from a Recovery Services Vault using Azure PowerShell and Azure Portal.• Hands on experience on Backup and restore Azure services and in Design and configure Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, Network Security Group (NSG) policies for Inbound, Outbound and routing. Azure cloud services, Blob storage, Active directory, Azure Service Bus, Cosmos DB.• Expertise in Azure Scalability and Azure Availability - Build VMs availability sets using the Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and Virtual Machine Scale Sets using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to manage network traffic.• Deploying windows Kubernetes (K8s) cluster with Azure Container Service (ACS) from Azure CLI and Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and Octopus Deploy.• Using Ansible created multiple playbooks for Nginx LB, ELK, Influx DB, Grafana, Postgres and Redis.• Used Ansible to Setup ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Log stash, Kibana) and troubleshoot the Application Connectivity issues with logs in Kibana.

Education

• San Francisco Bay University

  Master's degree

  2015 — 2016

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor's degree

  2007 — 2011