R K Rao Ananthavaram

About R K Rao Ananthavaram

Passionate IT Professional with around 6+ years of experience in IT administration and virtualization. A proven track record of success leading complex projects while managing cross-functional resources to drive efficiency in enterprise technology operations.Experience Summary: • In-depth 6+ years of experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment and good knowledge of AWS services like Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2), Elastic Load-balancers, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Filesystem, RDS, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling and IAM.• Creation and usage of S3 buckets and relative managed policies.• Using Glacier for functionalities like storage and backup on AWS.• Performing Cloud Watch Alarm for instances.• Organizing Auto-scaling launch configurations for better performance.• Involved in designing and deploying a multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, Cloud Front, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling. • Migrated current Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used ELB and Auto scaling features. • Monitoring servers thorough Amazon CloudWatch, Nagios. • Created AWS Route53 for different routing requirements such as active-passive failover and latency based routing. • Setup/Managing Databases on Amazon RDS. Monitoring servers thorough Amazon Cloud Watch. • Created users and groups using IAM and assigned individual policies to each group. • Good understanding of ELB, security groups, NACL, NAT, and VPC.• Installed and Setup Web Servers (Apache), DB Server (MySQL).• Good Knowledge on Ansible, playbooks.• Proven ability to quickly learn new technology and apply them in business solutions.• Knowledge of Linux server fundamentals.• Creation and Managing Users / Group accounts and set up a user’s work environment.• Setting up and configuring SSH generating key.

Experience

1. Cloud Operations Engineer

   Tech Mahindra

   Aug 2018 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   As a Lead Operations Engineer, I manage and optimize cloud infrastructure and DevOps operations across AWS and Azure environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and reliability of production systems. I focus on cloud automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and performance optimization for mission-critical applications.Key Responsibilities & Achievements• Monitor applications and infrastructure to ensure 24×7 uptime, responding to alerts and incidents.• Participate in on-call rotations to resolve site outages and service incidents.• Provision and manage Amazon EC2 (Reserved, Dedicated, Scheduled) and Azure Virtual Machines.• Design scalable architectures using AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Route53, IAM, VPC) and Azure (VMs, Storage, Azure SQL, VNet, Azure DNS).• Implement secure environments using IAM policies, roles, MFA, Security Groups, Network ACLs, IGW, Elastic IPs, and Azure NSG.• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and Terraform (IaC).• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment.• Troubleshoot issues during build, release, and deployment phases.• Perform Linux administration, including package installation, upgrades, and maintenance.• Develop Shell scripts and cron jobs for automation, monitoring, and backups.• Manage storage integrations such as Amazon S3, EFS, and Azure Storage.• Support MySQL administration, including backups, upgrades, and replication setup.• Configure phpMyAdmin, manage DB access, implement HA/DR solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain reliable production systems.Environment & TechnologiesCloud: AWS, Azure | DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, ShellContainers: Kubernetes | Compute/Network: EC2, Azure VMs, VPC, VNet, Route53, Azure DNSStorage/DB: S3, EFS, RDS, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, MySQLWeb: Apache, Tomcat | OS: Linux (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, UNIX)Security: IAM, MFA, OpenSSL, SSH | Tools: phpMyAdmin, MS Office

Education

• VRS & YRN College of Engineering & Technology, Vodarevu Road, Chirala(M)-523157(CC-L1)

  Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science

  2008

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada

  Master’s Degree, Information Technology

  2012

Skills

• Google Analytics
• Display Advertising
• Social Media Marketing
• Wordpress Design
• Web Analytics
• Content Management Systems (Cms)
• Adobe Photoshop
• Search Engine Marketing (Sem)
• Pay Per Click (Ppc)
• Digital Marketing
• Html
• Online Advertising
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Adsense
• Online Marketing
• Php
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Social Media Optimization (Smo)
• Link Building
• Website Promotion
• Google Adwords
• Online Video Marketing
• Google Webmaster Tools
• Wordpress
• Search Advertising
• Web Development
• SEO
• Smo
• Javascript
• E-Commerce SEO
• Cms