Lakshmi Srikanth Simhadri

About Lakshmi Srikanth Simhadri

Over 20+ years of Total Professional IT experience and Over 16+ years of Professional US IT experience as DevOps Engineer. Experienced in Chef, CI/CD, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes for cloud native applications, Apache Kafka and other Web/Application Servers like Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, Exalogic (X4-2, X5-2) engineered system, Oracle E-Business suite, Oracle SOA suite, OSB, BPEL, BAM, Oracle Fusion Middleware, OBIEE, Webcenter, Oracle DB, Golden Gate, Data Guard, Oracle Identity & Access Management with distributed applications, client/server development and e-commerce projects.

Experience

1. Principal System Engineer

   Oracle

   Oct 2018 — Present · Orlando, FL, US

   Build new environments for the cloud SaaS solution using chef automation tool and document the same. Troubleshoot prod and pre-prod issues for high availability and business continuity.Worked on gitlab, CI/CD, Kubernetes and docker for cloud native applications and micro services architecture. Used Prometheus for alerting and monitoring along with OCI log explorer for going through logs, Grafana for stats and Oracle IDCS as identity provider for SaaS application. Upgrade, patch, tune and maintain the cloud SaaS application certified with different hardware and software configurations.Automate release deployments including infrastructure changes using Python, Jython and Shell scriptingIncorporate repetitive day to day tasks in to automation and document the same.Support provisioning maintenance activities and develop SIQ’s for handover to upstream environment deployments.Test tuning recommendations to fix application issues.Support customer migration activities in to cloud SaaS solution.Perform DR exercise after environment buildout and provisioning activity before customer goes LIVE!Incorporate monitoring and alerting through enterprise manager and Nagios.Work on POC projects and roll them out to production.Work on CSRP process to certify and release fixes for tuning and high availability of cloud SaaS solution.Worked on integrating cloud SaaS solution with rest API’s and CNE based cloud applications running on Kubernetes and DockerWorked on integrating customer data center servers in to Oracle cloud through fast connect using public and private peeringWorked on implementation of maximum availability architecture for datasources using Grid Link in WebLogicMentor junior team members.

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2000 — 2004

• N S K K High school

  High School Diploma, Maths, Science, Social Studies, English, Hindi & Telugu

  1992 — 1997

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor of Technology, Electrical & Electeomics Engineering

  2000 — 2004

• Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Hydernagar

  Higher Secondary Diploma (Intermediate Education), Maths, Physics & Chemistry

  1997 — 1999

• Louisiana Tech University

  Master of science, Microsystems Engineering

  2006 — 2008

Skills

• Unix
• Shell Scripting
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Jboss Application Server
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Web Services
• Subversion
• Jdbc
• Pl/Sql
• Apache
• Soa
• Oracle
• Linux
• Hibernate
• Weblogic Administration
• Xml
• Rest
• Integration
• Agile Methodologies
• Tomcat
• Weblogic
• Solaris
• Java
• Maven