Sumanth Ponnuru

Experience

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  Magna Infotech

  Sept 2004 - Dec 2005

  Technical Analyst

  Gained valuable knowledge in Insurance domains and programming experience in various mainframe skills such as JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, ICETOOL, and CICS.

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jan 2006 - Sept 2023

  Working as DevOps Engineer/Cloud Engineer and responsibilities include:Created and maintained various CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins jobs and AWS CodePipelines.Deployed various AWS resources such as EKS, VPC, EC2, IAM roles, Api Gateway, Lambda, security Groups. ALB, Route53, ACM etc., using Terraform as IaC and creating reusable modules to create infrastructure in different environments.Installing and Configuring Jenkins, installing plug-ins, configuring security, creating a master and build agents for implementation of multiple parallel builds.Designing and documenting the CI/CD tools configuration.Managing the working environments by creating Ansible Playbooks to bring the required configuration changes.Setup a Monitoring and Analytics and log management tools such as cloudwatch container insights, Prometheus and Grafana and EFK stacksUsing Maven as build tool on Java spring boot projects for the development of build artefacts on the source code.Responsible for installation & configuration of Jenkins to support various maven, nodeJS and python builds and Jenkins plugins to automate continuous builds and publishing Docker images to the image repository.Created various python and shell scripts for automation tasks.Created various Docker images by using Docker files, tagging and pushing to Docker Hub.Creating and orchestrating multiple containers using Kubernetes. And creating deployments using Helm charts.Performing the regular tasks that include cloning, pulling the repositories, branching and merging.Responsible for creating Artifacts using Maven and deploying those artifacts into Tomcat Server.Setting up EC2 instances and other prerequisites on the instances for deploying the applications.Designing and deploying AWS solutions using EC2, S3, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto scaling groups.Creating various bash and python lambda boto3 scritpts for cloud automation tasks Show less Worked as Senior mainframe Developer/solution designer in RFS application development programmes in Redbacks squad (cross functional team) in Mainframes and ESB (Mulesoft) technologies.PCoding and maintenance of various systems in RFS payment systems are to incorporate various key business changes like Connect Bundle Remediation/rectification, Direct debit cancellations, Bcop, Global rate changes, Dishonour management system, Auto balance Transfer programme etc., Changes were made in Cobol modules along with Python modules in RFS interface systems.Deploy the changes to Production in various RFS systems.Responsible for the End to End delivery of the projects that deliver significant functional changes to multiple applications for single/multiple business products/services.Support projects till Post-Warranty. Show less HIGHLIGHTS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Worked closely with CBA business stakeholders over a period of 6 years and earned a reputation of functional expert in “highly critical” payment domain in Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). Exhibited flexibility in taking up a myriad of roles ranging across Technical Business Analyst, SME, and functional expert with a single-minded dedication to contribute to the projects I worked in.• Played a major role in developing and streamlining the payment flows for Bankwest Australia (BWA), upon its acquisition under the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) flagship. This included phase-specific programs viz. CS1 and CS2 where I was the Technical Business Analyst and functional expert, in addition to being a mentor, actively involved in the “seamless integration” of Bankwest with CBA.• Played a major role in the transition of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) from a conventional banking institution to the Core Banking Modernization (CBM) platform. Was involved in critical decision-making around the design, functional and architectural aspects of the revamped Payments System.• Worked as a Technical Business Analyst in Remote Image Capture project, a critical industry mandated change for CBA, aimed at mitigating the use of paper cheques while promoting the electronic images.• Worked as Technical Business Analyst in various industry changes such as ‘APCA Tier 1 and Tier 2’ integration changes for clearing streams.• Gained valuable knowledge in Banking domain, and programming experience in various mainframe skills such as JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, ICETOOL, and CICS. Show less

  • DevOps Engineer

    May 2019 - Sept 2023

  • Senior Mainframes Developer, Technical Lead

    Mar 2017 - May 2019

  • Senior Mainframe Developer, solution designer & Technical Lead

    Jun 2010 - Dec 2017

  • Mainframes Technical Analyst

    Jan 2006 - Jun 2010
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  Cognizant

  Sept 2023 - now

  AWS Sr. Cloud/Devops Engineer

  Working as AWS Cloud Engineer in AWS Platform team and responsibilities include:✓ AWS accounts creation and management (environments creation), user and access management (identity management using both SSO & IAM), and centralized shared VPC with managed DNS and proxy service (standard account offering). ✓ Manages core stacks such as VPC DNS and proxy services.✓ Creating various Python lambda boto3 scritpts for cloud automation tasks✓ Patching services for ec2 instances of both cattle and pets types using SSM change windows✓ Setting up various Guardrails (SCPs, Tagging policies etc.)✓ Creating various CloudWatch Dashboards and monitoring reports etc.✓ Chatops support (slack app integrations for various automations using python boto3 and slack modules).✓ Cost management insights & reporting policies & standards using Billing Service and CloudHealth Tool etc.✓ Prepare Ansible playbooks, ADO pipelines and CloudFormation templates for various AWS automations and deployments Show less