Vijay Kumar Kandula

Senior Linux System Administrator @SABIC

Houston, TX, US

Administered and maintained Linux servers across hybrid environments, performing routine patching, performance tuning, system hardening, and security compliance checks in energy and ICS settings.• Administered and supported Linux operating systems including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Rocky Linux, CentOS, and Debian, performing OS-level patching, system hardening, log analysis, and performance tuning to maintain secure and high-performing infrastructure.• Installed, configured, and optimized PostgreSQL databases in production environments, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, backup/restore operations, failover configuration, and version upgrades.• Provisioned and managed AWS cloud infrastructure, utilizing services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, and Route 53, with infrastructure-as-code automation using AWS CLI, CloudFormation, and Terraform.• Automated system provisioning, application configuration, and environment setup using Ansible, Terraform, and Bash/Python scripts, ensuring consistent deployment practices across Dev, Test, and Production environments.• Deployed and maintained containerized applications in Kubernetes clusters, using Helm charts, kubectl, and Argo CD for GitOps-based CI/CD workflows and environment consistency.• Wrote custom scripts in Shell (Bash), Perl, and Python to automate repetitive system administration tasks, perform health checks, schedule cron jobs, and generate system reports.• Monitored infrastructure health, capacity, and performance using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, and AWS CloudWatch, proactively resolving issues to maintain SLAs.

Auburn University at Montgomery

Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management

PRASAD V POTLURI SIDDHARTHA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering