Kiran Bokka

About Kiran Bokka

Over 14 years of IT experience with expertise spanning Administration, DevOps Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).• Proficient in AWS cloud migration, configuration, and installation of services such as EC2, S3 & VPC.• Skilled in AWS IAM for enhanced login authentication, S3 bucket management, and deploying applications in clustered environments.• Experienced in log aggregation with ELK for monitoring AWS EC2 instances and configuring secure communication protocols with SSL and Digital Certificates.• Strong background in continuous integration tools like Apache Subversion and Jenkins, coupled with UNIX Shell Scripting expertise.• Thorough understanding of infrastructure and networking concepts, including firewalls, IP addressing, DNS, and protocols.• Extensive experience administering web servers like Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP, Microsoft IIS, and Red Hat Linux.• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Packer, Ansible, and Terraform for building, testing, releasing, monitoring, and alarming.• Provided 24/7 on-call support for production environments.• Proactive in seeking and performing monitoring tasks, ensuring quality gates are met, and influencing teams to prioritize reliability.• Actively participates in Agile ceremonies including Backlog Grooming, Iteration Planning, Release Planning, and Iteration Demo.• Demonstrates value through presentations in Demo ceremonies, highlighting monitoring updates, dashboard enhancements, performance impacts, pipeline modifications, and reliability improvements.• Conducts After Action Reviews (AARs) to capture lessons learned from incidents and improve future performance, facilitating process and execution analysis to identify areas for improvement.

Experience

1. Site Reliability Engineer

   AT&T

   Mar 2021 — Present · El Segundo, CA, US

Education

• CVR College of Engineering

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2004 — 2008

• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  Master's degree, Computer Engineering

  2008 — 2010

Skills

• Ant
• Sql
• Performance Tuning
• Oracle 8i/9i/10g, Db2, Sybase, Point Base, Mysql, Sql Server and Ms Access.
• Apache
• Java
• Wily Introscope, Siteminder, Load Runner, Jrockit, Jprobe, Jmeter, Ms Excel, Pow
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Oracle
• Shell Scripting
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Weblogic
• Oracle Weblogic Server 7.x/8.x/9.x/10.x/11g/12c, Jboss 4.x/5.x, Apache 2.0.x/2.2
• Solaris
• Unix, Windows Nt/2000/2003/Xp/Vista, Linux, Hp_UX, Ibm Aix and Solaris
• Websphere Application Server
• Websphere
• Jms
• Xml