Prashanth Kanukula

Experience

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  INFOEXPRESS TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED

  Aug 2010 - Sept 2012

  Junior System Administrator

  ➢ User and Group management➢ Trouble shooting User's login & home directory related issues.➢ Security implementation by using ACLs & Special permissions.➢ Job Scheduling and automating process using cron & AT.➢ Providing sudo permissions.➢ Creating and managing LVMs.➢ Security implementations as setuid, setgid, sticky bit.➢ Managing Disk File Systems, Server Performance, Users Creation and Granting file access Permissions.➢ Ticket assessment on daily basis.➢ Monitoring & troubleshooting with performance related issues➢ Taking backups using tar, bzip2, gzip, zip.➢ Housekeeping on file systems. Show less

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  Magna Infotech - A Quess Company

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2015

  Senior System Administrator

  ➢ Works with the network security manager/information assurance personnel to set up network security policies and procedures➢ Performs performance monitoring and provides documentation of issues and recommendations to upper management➢ Provide Linux application support. Work closely with Engineering on continual application, process and workflow improvement➢ Perform configurations and adjustments to enhance system performance➢ Provide operational support and performance tuning of all Linux servers and applications; including performance of daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance tasks➢ Create change request packages, schedule and manage deployments, and work with Tier services➢ Worked as a System administration, maintenance and monitoring various day-to-day operations.➢ Monitoring system performance of virtual memory, Managing swap space, utilization and CPU utilization.➢ Scheduled various regular and periodic tasks by using crontab.➢ Installing and up gradation of Packages and patches according to the requirement.➢ Installation, configuring, modifying & Managing BIND DNS Servers.➢ Exporting a file system for particular systems, NFS Server/Client.➢ Configuring YUM Server and installing packages by using rpm and YUM.➢ Configuration, troubleshooting SSH, and providing user level and system level trusting.➢ Handling user account management by creating, deleting, managing user accounts and passwords.➢ Changing file permissions as per the client request.➢ Handling hardware related issues like fault detection and disk replacement.➢ File system managing and trouble shooting.➢ Security implementation through ACL and SUDO.➢ Resolving booting problems.➢ Virtual Machine administration on hypervisor KVM.➢ Managing upgrade of Linux servers.➢ Process administration and management like monitoring, start/stop/kill various processes.➢ Ticket assessment on daily basis.➢ Performing Health checks on Client server’s quarterly basis. Show less

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jul 2015 - Mar 2022

  Technical Lead

  Designing and supporting automation tasks with scripting, Nolio and Odyssey.➢ Managing all cloud V2V migration activities, which requires entire application knowledge➢ Work with vendors and partner infrastructure teams, application teams on troubleshooting and resolving high priority issues➢ Understanding Business requirements for new projects, providing them infrastructure and support for application setup➢ Leading a pool of resources which supports multiple applications in Swiss and India➢ Worked on Platform Lifecycle Management and delivering End of Life Projects➢ Provide operational support of the infrastructure environments and PaaS Platforms➢ Design and implement infrastructure solutions to support SDLC(Systems development life cycle) based on requirements➢ Release cycle management and Production deployments➢ expertise in Data security policy to have Swiss data secure and audits successful➢ Performance and Tuning of infrastructure components➢ Create and maintain technical documentation including operations run books, user guides, and standard operating procedures➢ Develop Informatica Projects/ mapping / sessions / workflows➢ Perform administration of the Informatica Platform; including incident management , upgrades and hotfixes➢ Performs Informatica capacity planning and management➢ Plan and coordinate project work stream development and deployment➢ Maintained SVN repositories for DevOps environment: automation code and configuration➢ Inherit new products into projects according to Bank polices and delivering Proof-of-Concept➢ Managing JAP (Java Application Platform) /DAP (.Net Application Platform) setup, Migration and deployments➢ Worked on single sign on setup for vendor Product Informatica using LDAP and AD➢ Responsible for Continuous Integration infrastructure TeamCity and for the maintenance Setting up complete infrastructure for new applications requirements, which includes ordering of Servers, DBs, ControlM, Firewalls and FTPS etc. Show less

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  Credit Suisse

  Jul 2022 - Jun 2024

  Assistant Vice President

  Design and Deliver IT for Business➢ Ensure application / product is maintainable and supportable with documentation and technology asset inventories up-to-date and complete.➢ Preparing & implementing plans for application and infrastructure➢ Setup AURA/ARES/UAA3 for user access➢ Understand the pipeline - capable to enhance and fix in needed.➢ Proof of concepts for new Products & Implementing new Vendor Products into Bank with Bank policies➢ Perform the role of IT Application in collaboration with the delivery team and Business Application Owner➢ Ensure application / product lifecycle is managed in alignment with approved strategy, target architecture, TCO, risk management and security.➢ Support IT organization stakeholders in planning, requirement engineering, backlog management, prioritization, authoring user stories, Scrum meetings, estimations, reviews, assessments, etc.➢ Release management & Prod Release support➢ Infrastructure setup: Ordering Infra / storage / DB/ Firewall / FTPS & Profiles Show less

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  UBS

  Jun 2024 - now

  Associate Director