Surya Rao

Sr. AWS/DevOps Cloud Engineer

Hanover, Maryland, United States

About

🚀 I am a results-oriented Linux/AWS/DevOps Engineer with over 10 years of experience in designing, automating, and managing cloud and on-premises infrastructure. I have successfully implemented scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems across multiple industries, delivering efficiency, reliability, and innovation. ☁️ My expertise in AWS Cloud technologies allows me to architect robust solutions using a broad range of services, including IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, and more. I have experience in setting up and administering Kubernetes clusters (EKS/ECS), Docker containerization, and automating deployments through CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, and Bitbucket. 🛠️ Skilled in Linux system administration, I specialize in server installation, configuration, patching, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. I leverage Bash and Python scripting for automation, process optimization, and infrastructure management. 🔧 Hands-on experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef), monitoring and observability solutions (Splunk, New Relic, ELK, TIG stack), and VMware-to-AWS migrations enables me to streamline complex operations while ensuring compliance and security. 🏆 My passion for automation, cloud architecture, and scalable solutions drives me to consistently deliver high-quality infrastructure and reliable application environments, aligning business needs with technical excellence. 🌀 Experienced in Agile and DevOps practices, I collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to implement GitOps workflows, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), Helm charts, and automated monitoring, ensuring smooth delivery of mission-critical services. Actively seeking/looking for new opportunities

Experience

  • Senior AWS Cloud Engineer at Maryland Department of Human Services
    Apr 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

    I'm working as an AWS/DevOps Cloud Engineer for the Maryland Department of Human Services for the MD-Think project. We supported various sectors of statewide applications and migrated them from On-prem to our AWS cloud platform. We provide 24x7 support by developing and supporting the end client application with zero downtime, with the help of automating the entire environment by modern technical tools, along with various AWS services  Experience in implementing microservices on Kubernetes Cluster and creating PODs based on requirements and managing the PODS using deployment and services. Setup Kubernetes Kubelets that talks to the API server in Kube Master  Created dynamic routing/load balancing capability enabling large application scaling, used ingress rules and Ingress Controllers and Nginx  Worked/Supported with Security team while implementing the OpenAM, OpenDJ, ForgeRock, and SailPoint with in the environments  Experience in migrating the on-prem application to AWS cloud platform and migrated the various application from AWS ECS to AWS EKS Administrated 3000+ Linux server before EKS migration worked with various team to onboard and set up various application from scratch and also patched various servers on scheduled window

  • DevOps Engineer at GE Digital
    Dec 2016 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

     Experience in supporting AWS Cloud with VPC running around 350+ Instances running Linux OE and also involved in creating AWS Security Groups and supported load balancers on AWS Cloud  Supported and Migrated around 80+ applications (Internal & External) from VM’s to Docker Swarm cluster, well maintained the HA PROXY, upgraded and Administered the entire Docker Swarm on critical Docker releases  Experience on visualization tools like Grafana and integrating with telegraph and InfluxDB to monitoring and alerting for all of your Docker swarm clusters to monitor the microservices services platform  Administrated NewRelic monitoring platform and experience on integrating with Docker Swarm cluster on various environments also worked on setting up various alerting polices with help to monitor entire AWS Cloud platform which supports around 120+ applications  Administered various DevOps life cycle tools GitLab, Jenkins(CI/CD), Apache Solr, NewRelic, Jira, TIG stack, etc.,  Worked closely with the development team to nail down the bottlenecks. Good understanding of PHP based application’s like NodeJS, Apache, JBoss, Drupal 7, 8 & WordPress websites

  • Linux System Engineer at IBM
    Jan 2013 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs

     Installation Red hat Linux Enterprise Server 5/6.  Installation of WebLogic, upgraded to service pack updates, installed BEA patches, configuring and creation new domain & services starting & stopping.  Monitoring day-to-day administration and maintenance operations of the company network and systems working on Linux and Solaris Systems.  NIS, NFS, AUTOFS, NTP Configuration and Administration.  Installation, configuration, support and security implementation on DNS, DHCP, NFS, HTTPD