Sai Akunuri

A motivated and enthusiastic DevOps Admin with 5 years of hands-on experience in networking, cloud computing, continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), infrastructure automation, and monitoring. Seeking to contribute to a dynamic DevOps team and grow in an agile environment by applying skills in automation, configuration management, and collaboration. Proven ability in automating deployments, managing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring high availability and scalability of applications.

Strong problem-solving skills and a team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

DevOps Admin at Leidos (2022-01 – Present)

• Managed file and folder permissions to ensure appropriate access control for users on shared network drives. Configured and maintained user and group-based permissions via Active Directory or similar directory services. Conducted regular audits to ensure proper access rights and security compliance for shared drive users.
• Monitored network shared drives for unauthorized access or security threats, ensuring compliance with internal security policies.
• Implemented secure access solutions such as VPNs, encryption, and multi-factor authentication for shared drive access. Regularly reviewed and updated shared drive security settings to protect sensitive data.
• Automated WAS patching using Ansible.
• Good Understanding of IAM roles, Security Groups, EBS
• Wrote Bash and Python scripts for automating routine tasks such as server maintenance, monitoring, and backups.
• Provided Technical Troubleshooting and Support by Resolving user access issues and permissions errors on network shared drives. Diagnosed and troubleshot network connectivity issues related to shared drive access. Assisted users in retrieving and restoring lost or inaccessible files from network drives.
• Responsible for creating Splunk Alerts.
• Knowledge on AWS services such as EC2, Route53, S3.
• Supporting Rhel7 to Rhel8 migration.

Network Admin at HCL Technologies (2016-03 – 2018-02)

• Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4. Configured IP access filter policies. Cisco CLI, Cisco works, Network Security, Network Analysis Tools
• Experience with Checkpoint Firewall policy provisioning.
• Generating RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for critical issues of layer1/layer2/layer3 problems.
• Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk in all phases such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches, and fixes with all around technical support.
• Responsible for updating the SNOW tickets for our team and keeping a close eye on SLA's.
• Configuring of layer 2-STP, layer 3 – Dynamic routing protocol and WAN routing like OSPF, EIGRP and BGP.
• Configuring and troubleshooting MPLS over BGP (converting frame relay to PPP)
• Analyzing Network slowness at a particular location through bandwidth utilization and tracing the top consumer's device information by using Net QOS & Sev One.
• Highlighting and document all network risks of projects.
• Responsible for maintenance and utilization of VLANs, Spanning tree, HSRP, VTP of the switched multi-layer backbone with catalyst switches.
• Implemented redundant Load balancing technique with Internet applications for switches and routers.
• Worked on FTP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP servers in windows server-client environment with resource allocation to desired Virtual LANs of network.

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering – JNTU Kakinada (2015)