Balakrishna Vemula

About Balakrishna Vemula

Dedicated IT professional with over 15 years of experience in the industry, including 10+ years specializing in engineering, planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining system applications within AWS and Azure cloud environments. Proven expertise in managing complex projects on both Windows and Linux platforms, with a strong focus on ensuring optimal performance, security, and scalability in cloud solutions.• Possess extensive experience in defining comprehensive IT roadmaps, crafting robust cloud strategies, and formulating enterprise and solution architectures.• Demonstrate a results-oriented approach coupled with exceptional leadership skills. Proven track record of driving projects to successful outcomes, fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams, and providing strategic direction to achieve organizational goals.• Hands-on experience in implementing comprehensive cloud solutions using a wide array of AWS services. Proficient in leveraging technologies such as EC2, VPC, S3, Glacier, EFS, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, DynamoDB, Redshift, ECS/ECR, and EKS. Adept at designing and deploying scalable, secure, and high-performance architectures to meet diverse business requirements.• Extensive hands-on experience in architecting and securing infrastructure on AWS, leveraging a suite of robust services. Proficient in implementing security measures using IAM, KMS, Cognito, API Gateway, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Config, Trusted Advisor, as well as configuring Security Groups and Network Access Control Lists (NACL). Adept at ensuring the highest standards of security for AWS environments.• Good knowledge on Application Migrations and Data migrations from On-premises to AWS Cloud.• Expertise in Docker containerized environment, hosting web servers on containers, building docker images using Docker file.• Good knowledge on deploying code with defined CI/CD process and implementing code versioning & scanning tools like GITLAB, Artifactory, Qualys, SonarQube etc.• Knowledge on scripting languages like Python and configuration management tools Terraform.• Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, Secured and fault tolerant systems on AWS. • Work experience with business users, Product team, Operationalizing the delivered products.• Working closely with Security for implementing compliance, close interaction with Cloud operations team for provisioning AWS services.• Integration of CI/CD Jenkins pipelines in the development projects by using Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Docker and AWS K8s.

Experience

1. Associate Director Cloud Platform Engineering

   Novartis

   Jun 2024 — Present · IN

Education

• University of Bedfordshire

  Master's degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications

  2009 — 2011

• JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2002 — 2006