MANOJ CHOWDARY VATTIKUTI
703-231-4344 | manoj.vattikuti@mventerprisetech.com
www.linkedin.com/in/manoj-chowdary-vattikuti
FOCUS: EXECUTIVE/DIRECTOR-LEVEL IT ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL
~ Enterprise Architecture
~ Business Impact Analysis
~ Cloud Security
Dynamic IT and technology leader with track record of success
establishing and executing enterprise-wide information technology
strategies, using precision monitoring, and troubleshooting of IT
infrastructures to drive continuous program development. Set IT
organization mission and vision to foster business-oriented culture
and mindset. Create efficiencies across enterprise, enabling cost-
effective and innovative solutions using expertise in framework
design based on security signatures using cloud services such as AWS
and GCP. Successes include development/implementation of site
reliability engineering capabilities that have saved hundreds of
thousands of dollars in avoided downtime, manual maintenance, and
regulatory fines.
Offer expertise assessing external digital opportunities and
threats, as well as remaining current on new technology developments
capable of enhancing products and reducing costs. Provide leadership
in setting architectural direction, championing architectural
standards, and strategically planning and leading sourcing, design,
development, testing, implementation, and support of technology
solutions that meet business needs and strategy goals.
CORE COMPETENCIES
* Strategic IT Plan Development
* Infrastructure/Application Monitoring
* Site Reliability Engineering
* Software Development Life Cycle
* Cyber Security Risk Management
* Client/Server Architecture
* Full Lifecycle Implementation
* Disaster Recovery Planning
* Web-based Technology
* Rapid Application Development
* Systems Migrations
* Change Management
* Application Architecture
* Cross-departmental Relationships
* Vendor Negotiations
* Vulnerability Scanning
* Electronic Resource Planning (ERP)
* Applications Development
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Senior SRE Engineer Infrastructure | Sonexus Cardinal Health
* Built roadmap technical plan for implementation of monitoring and
alerting for Sonexus applications, credited with improving business
process. Led team through task assignment and breakdown of epic
stories and projects.
DevOps Engineer | Fuse Cardinal Health
* Designed and implemented zero network secure ingress/egress
patterns that bolstered network segmentation for applications,
credited with helping organization achieve HITRUST certification
($200,000 project). Built Palo Alto firewalls from scratch in AWS.
Performed total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis for ingress
architecture, reducing costs.
Cloud Security and Governance Engineer | Cardinal Health
(Contractor/Consultant through Idol Soft, Inc.)
* Designed and Implemented event-driven security architecture
remediations in cloud environment AWS, GCP and supported management
of SOX, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance. Slashed costs and organizational
risk by reducing operational hours and human intervention
requirements.
Cloud Build Engineer | Cardinal Health (Contractor/Consultant
through Idol Soft, Inc.)
* Collaborated with several application development teams in
building out scalable, available, and secure infrastructure in cloud
environment AWS.
Cloud Engineer | Virginia Tech (Contractor/Consultant through Ziras
Technologies, Inc.)
* Developed and implemented roadmap plan to transition on-prem
infrastructure to AWS cloud environment.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CARDINALHEALTH - SONEXUS HEALTH - Dublin, OH * August 2022 to Present
Operates pharmaceutical hub services that help patients access
specialty meds and deliver brand insights.
SENIOR SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER, INFRASTRUCTURE
Engineer and maintain automation platforms supporting infrastructure
systems in data center and across cloud providers. Construct robust,
supportable, secure, and highly scalable computing and network
infrastructure. Consult solution owners and identify business needs.
Implement processes to improve business services. Debug live site
events and conduct follow-up post-mortem and root cause analysis.
Train team members in building monitoring infrastructure for
applications. Conduct TCO analysis. Close out ServiceNow tickets to
resolve application disruptions. Develop technical documents for
future guidance. Build applications/projects using technology stack
that included Azure, GCP, Dynatrace, and Kafka.
* Contribute as member of Team Possible, delegated with building
site reliability engineering capabilities for all Sonexus
applications. Ideated proactive self-healing system and designed
technical roadmap that successfully orchestrated seamless transition
of all systems and process, while facilitating effective
communication of down incidents. Saved estimated $100,000 annually.
* Worked with Security Architecture team to ensure infrastructure
compliance with HIPAA and HITRUST.
* Increased application uptime through improvement of SLAs.
* Introduced concept of biweekly cross-team knowledge sharing
sessions; helped other team members and other teams in understanding
implementations and developments.
FUSE BY CARDINAL HEALTH - Dublin, OH
September 2017 to February 2018 | June 2020 to August 2022
Innovation engine and product development center at Cardinal Health
on mission to reimagine healthcare.CoreDM.
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Member of Fuse CoreDM team accountable for managing cloud
infrastructure needs for Fuse research applications. Designed and
managed infrastructure for entire Fuse business segment. Provisioned
infrastructure using Terraform scripts. Contributed to Security
Architecture team on regulatory compliance issues. Worked with
developers to build application infrastructure, adhering to stringent
schedules. Worked with technology stack that included AWS, Chef,
Terraform, Git, Palo Altos, Sophos, Python, Linux, JIRA, Confluence,
PCF, Jenkins, Concourse, and VPN. Built end-to-end orchestration for
application deployments in cloud environment.
* Created monitoring processes for hardware infrastructure, which
improved uptime of applications.
* Introduced Palo Alto firewalls for Ingress network design. Built
infrastructure as code using terraform to increase productivity and
efficiency.
* Designed highly available and scalable architecture in AWS and
migrated applications.
* Conducted periodic analysis of technology stack. Cleaned up unused
cloud resources using lambda functions, saving thousands of dollars
in monthly costs.
CARDINAL HEALTH (CONTRACTOR/CONSULTANT THROUGH IDOL SOFT, INC.) -
Dublin, OH * February 2018 to August 2019
Provides clinically proven medical products, pharmaceuticals, and
cost-effective solutions that enhance supply chain efficiency from
hospital to home; 50,000 employees in 46 countries and $137 billion
in annual revenue. Ranks in top 25 of Fortune 500.
CLOUD SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE ENGINEER (July 2018-August 2019)
Designed technical roadmap as member of 6-person Cloud Security and
Governance team which is part of Cardinal Corporate EIT business
segment formed to govern cloud security standards and secure Cardinal
workloads by designing framework for AWS and GCP environment. Built
Python scripts for security framework and deployed using AWS lambda
function and GCP cloud function. Managed cloud security controls as
per NIST cybersecurity framework. Trained team members in various
aspects of cloud services.
* Designed breakthrough event-based remediation for governance and
security controls that automated previously manual security incident
procedures and protected organizations from security gaps, with event-
based architecture pattern used as framework for all security
patterns.
* Improved productivity through proactive event based remediation;
helped build infrastructure that eliminated need for use of human
hours conducting security audits, saving millions by avoiding
security data loss fines.
* Built monitoring dashboards using Splunk. Created alerts to notify
team of event occurrence.
* Audited GDPR, SOX, HIPAA applications using Redlock and
communicated with application team solution owners on remediation
steps.
CLOUD ENGINEER (February 2018-July 2018)
Provisioned infrastructure using Cloud Formation to centralize
infrastructure changes. Worked with solution architects and product
owners to design architecture for cloud environments and implement
architecture as member of Cloud Build team (part of Cardinal
Corporate EIT business segment). Worked with several application
development teams to gain understanding of infrastructure needs for
design and building of cloud infrastructure. Performed
troubleshooting of Linux Server issues. Configured Sophos Firewall
rules for egress traffic patterns. Supported and coordinated cloud
activates during production go-live. Utilized technology stack that
included AWS, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, Linux, and Sophos.
* Designed highly available and scalable architecture in AWS as part
of Patient Recovery project.
* Integrated on-prem storage to cloud storage such as S3, using
Storage Gateway and file systems such as EFS.
ZIRAS TECHNOLOGIES - Various Locations * June 2016 to August 2017
Software development and IT consulting company devoted to providing
its clients with the best data analytics, cloud computing, SAP,
PeopleSoft, Oracle, Web, and mobile consultants.
CLOUD ENGINEER (contracted to Virginia Tech Enterprise Systems) -
Blacksburg, VA (April 2017-August 2017)
Deployed, managed, and operated scalable, highly available, and
fault tolerant systems on AWS using EC2, ELBs, AutoScaling, and
CloudFront. Built AWS environment from ground up for development, pre-
production and production environments. Redesigned current
application architectures and implemented solution in AWS
environments.
* Containerized AEM architecture for web hosting by writing docker
files.
* Orchestrated containers by using AWS ECS service.
* Assessed existing deployment practices and proposed
improvements/alternative processes designed to eliminate pain points.
* Automated web hosting solution for WordPress sites by writing bash
scripts and triggering lambda functions.
* Implemented content delivery network solution using AWS CloudFront
for web hosting services.
* Migrated JIRA application to AWS environment and implemented NFS
in AWS.
DEVOPS ENGINEER (contracted to First Screen) - Silver Spring, MD
(December 2016-April 2017)
Worked with development teams to improve systems ownership of
systems and issue troubleshooting processes. Provisioned, operated,
and maintained servers running on AWS using configuration management
tools such as Ansible. Controlled company user access of AWS
resources through authentication and IAM policies to determine
available resources. Configured nodes per developer requirements and
made available for client.
* Installed Jenkins server onto AWS and built Jenkins workflow
automation by installing respective plugins.
* Created VPCs for different environments; facilitated VPC peering
between them for communication.
* Designed and implemented continuous integration pipeline through
automation with Enterprise Git and Jenkins.
DEVOPS ENGINEER - Newark, DE (June 2016-November 2016)
Provisioned, operated, and maintained servers running on AWS using
configuration management tools such as Chef. Created new cookbooks in
Chef to provision AWS servers. Controlled AWS resources access for
clients' users via authentication and IAM policies.
GEORGE MASON UNIVERISTY - Fairfax, VA * August 2014 to May 2016
DEVOPS ENGINEER/RESEARCH ASSISTANT/TEACHING ASSISTANT
Extrapolated article data from database engines such as application
binary interface (ABI) and organized in response to intervention
(RTI) format for professor's research work and publications. Obtained
data from servers of CrunchBase data website using Python code and
application program interface (API); stored data in MySQL database
using LAMP server. Collaborated with professor in grading 10 sections
(40 students each) and updated student scores in Blackboard.
* Collected data from MedStar Health website and integrated PHP:
Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) code with SQL database to create updated
data at regular time intervals.
* Automated build process using Jenkins CI tool.
* Facilitated discussions with students regarding Microsoft Excel
2013 exams on absolute reference, PMT functions, and pivot table
utilizing SIMnet software.
* Guided students in use of Microsoft Visio and Access, as well as
concepts of database fundamentals.
EDUCATION | CERTIFICATIONS
M.S., Computer Networking and Telecommunication
George Mason University - Fairfax, VA
B.S., Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Chalapathi Institute of Engineering & Technology, A.P. - India
AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate |
Certificate in AWS Technical Professional
Certificate in Advanced Networking Protocols for Telecommunications
(CERG ANPT)
Cisco Certified Network Professional-Route (CCNP-Route) |
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Protocols/Networking: Switches, Routers, Hubs, LAN, WAN, TCP, IP,
DNS, UDP, ARP, QOS, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, NHRP, PPP, MPLS, RIP, SIP,
H.323, DHCP, VLAN, ACL
AWS: IAM, EC2, Cloud Front, ELB, Route 53, VPC, S3, EBS, Cloud
Formation, AWS Storage Gateway, Amazon Kinesis, AutoScaling, AWS
Direct Connect, Redshift, SQS, SNS, ALB, Lambda
GCP: VM, Firewall, Storage Browser, Source Code, Pub Sub, Stack
Driver, Cloud Functions, IAM
Applications: GNS3, Wireshark, OPNET Modeler, CISCO Packet Tracer,
JIRA, AEM, MobaXterm, Microsoft Visual Code, ServiceNow
Databases: Postgres SQL
Languages: Python
Source Control Tool: Git
CI/CD Tool: Jenkins
Configuration Management: Chef, Ansible
Containerization: Docker
Load Balancing: Application Load Balancer, Classic Load Balancer,
Nginx, HA Proxy
Scripting: Python, Bash
Platforms: PCF, Redlock, Splunk, Dynatrace
Servers: LAMP, SQL Server, Apache
Network Security: Palo Alto, Sophos
Monitoring: Splunk, Cloud Watch, Stack Driver
Audit: Redlock
Infrastructure as Code: Cloud Formation | Deployment Manager |
Terraform
Hardware: Cisco
Operating Systems: Windows, Cisco iOS, Junos, Linux (RHEL, UBUNTU,
Centos)
Office Productivity: MS Office Suite, Teams, Slack, Jira, Confluence
Keywords:
Director, Senior Manager, Manager
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