Nikhit Reddy

About Nikhit Reddy

Over 12+ Years of professional work experience as Build & Release/DevOps Engineer with AWS and Azure Cloud platform experience with mentoring skills and a good understanding of the principles. Experienced in Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment/Delivery integration pipelines. Experienced with Interpreted languages including Perl and Python. reds Strong use of Shell scripting languages including BASH for Linux and Mac platforms and PowerShell for Windows systems. Facility with development methodologies including Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, Agile/SAFe, and hybrid. Excellent configuration management utilizing Puppet, Chef, and Ansible. Experience working with Apache Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, and Log stash. Managed Amazon Redshift clusters such as launching the cluster and specifying the node type as well. Extensive experience in Azure Development and Azure Compute Services worked on Azure Web Applications, Azure SQL Database, Content Delivery Network, Virtual machines, Azure Active Directory, Key Vault, Azure VPN Gateway, Azure Fabric, Azure search, App Services, and Notification hub. Implemented a \'server less\' architecture using API Gateway, pyt, and Dynamo DB, Glue, and deployed AWS Lambda code from Amazon S3 buckets. Created a API Deployment function and configured it to receive events from your S3 bucket. • Expertise in Amazon AWS Cloud Administration which includes services like EC2, S3, EBS, EKS Fargate, VPC, ELB, AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Autoscaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, OPS Work, Security Groups, etc. Experience in creating communication of business stories using data tools such as Power BI, Analysis Services, and Azure Machine Learning Studio Designed highly available, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant systems using multiple EC2 instances, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balance and AMIs, and Glacier for QA and UAT environments as well as infrastructure servers for GIT and Chef. Strong expertise in designing Micro Services bases solutions utilizing Cloud-Native Architecture. Experienced in architecting and managing AWS cloud infrastructure. Developed Python modules to automate processes in AWS (AWS Cloud Formation) Efficient in Build and configuration of infrastructure in cloud development through the usage of Terraform tool as IaC, and ability of modifying the Terraform modules based on the requirement of development project.

Experience

1. Devops Team Lead Data Management Platform Lead

   Mars

   Nov 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Designing, implementing, and managing Azure cloud infrastructure for data engineering projects. Deploying and configuring Azure services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, etc, to support data pipelines and analytics workflows. Automating infrastructure provisioning and management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, ARM templates, or Azure CLI. Building scalable and performant data pipelines to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources into Azure data platforms. Implementing data integration and transformation logic using tools like Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Functions, or custom scripts. Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for building, testing, and deploying applications and infrastructure code. Integrating automated testing, code quality checks, and security scans into the CI/CD pipelines. Defining and managing release strategies, environment configurations, and deployment workflows to support continuous delivery of software and infrastructure changes. Utilizing infrastructure automation tools like Terraform to define, version, and provision infrastructure resources in a consistent and repeatable manner. Managing configuration and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or PowerShell DSC to automate server provisioning, configuration, and management. Implementing infrastructure monitoring and logging solutions to ensure high availability, performance, and security of the infrastructure. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, and business stakeholders, to understand requirements and implement effective DevOps practices. Documenting infrastructure architecture, deployment processes, and operational procedures to ensure knowledge sharing and support team members.

Education

• Osmania University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science

  2007 — 2011