Lakshmi Srikanth Simhadri
Professional Summary
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience specializing in Cloud Engineering (OCI/AWS/GCP), DevOps automation, middleware administration, Identity & Access Management, and enterprise database platforms. Proven track record leading cloud migrations, building CI/CD and container platforms, designing HA/DR architectures, and driving Agile transformations for enterprise SaaS and e-commerce environments.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
- Architected and automated SaaS and cloud-native OCI environments using Chef, Kubernetes and Docker to standardize provisioning and enable repeatable, immutable deployments.
- Administered and tuned middleware stack (WebLogic, SOA Suite, OAM/OIM, IDCS) and designed HA/DR strategies to improve platform availability for mission-critical SaaS services.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, Python and WLST to automate build, test and deployment workflows across dev, test and production.
- Led customer cloud migration and DR engagements, executed REST API integrations, and coordinated certification and release via CSRP to ensure production readiness.
- Implemented monitoring and alerting using OCI Logs / Log Explorer and Grafana; created dashboards and SLIs to proactively detect platform issues and reduce incident time-to-detection.
- Delivered POC projects to production, introduced AI-assisted development tools (VS Code + ChatGPT/OCA) to automate scripting and testing, shortening development cycles.
- Led WebLogic JMS infrastructure design and DR planning on Exalogic to support high-throughput e-commerce order and inventory processing.
- Administered middleware stack (WebLogic, OHS, SOA) and performed Oracle DB administration and performance tuning to improve application response times under peak traffic.
- Planned and executed migrations of legacy applications to AWS, GCP and Azure, developing migration strategy, cutover plans and automation scripts.
- Introduced containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes orchestration, and automated provisioning with Puppet to accelerate deployments and standardize environments.
- Implemented Kafka-based event streaming for real-time processing and integrated enterprise SSO/identity (OID, AD, SAML) across customer-facing services.
- Built and operationalized CI/CD pipelines and automation to standardize release processes and reduce manual rollback incidents.
- Upgraded WebLogic platform (9.2 → 10.3) and validated application compatibility to maintain secure and supported middleware versions.
- Integrated iPlanet web server and IBM MQ for enterprise messaging flows supporting transaction and batch processing systems.
- Configured SSL/TLS, F5 load balancer and virtual host rules to secure external connectivity and optimize traffic routing.
- Implemented SAML-based SSO integrations and federated authentication to centralize user access for internal and customer portals.
- Automated deployment and configuration tasks to reduce manual change steps and minimize outage windows during upgrades.
- Monitored middleware and application health using SiteScope and Introscope to identify bottlenecks and support incident resolution.
- Performed WebLogic upgrades (9.2 → 10.1), tuning and deployment activities to ensure stable application runtime environments.
- Configured Apache HTTP Server, SSL/TLS and load balancer integration to support secure, scalable web traffic for enterprise apps.
- Automated deployment processes to reduce manual intervention and standardize environment configurations across clusters.
- Conducted performance monitoring and tuning using SiteScope and Introscope to improve JVM and application throughput.
- Collaborated with development teams on deployment pipelines and rollback strategies to minimize production risk.
- Documented operational runbooks and supported on-call incident response for middleware-related outages.
- Designed and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test and deployment workflows for client applications.
- Automated AWS environment provisioning and deployments to improve release cadence and environment consistency.
- Created automation scripts and tooling using Python and shell to streamline developer workflows and reduce manual tasks.
- Integrated source control and artifact management with CI pipelines to enforce versioning and traceability across releases.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define deployment validation checks and rollback procedures to improve release safety.
- Provided operational handover documentation and runbooks to enable client teams to manage pipelines and environments.
- Developed and maintained Java / J2EE application modules following design specifications and coding standards.
- Participated in end-to-end development lifecycle including unit testing, debugging and deployment activities.
- Collaborated with QA and operations teams to reproduce issues and implement production fixes in a timely manner.
- Implemented backend service integrations and assisted with database schema updates and SQL tuning.
- Wrote automation scripts to simplify build and deployment tasks for the development team.
- Documented feature implementations and contributed to knowledge transfer sessions for peers and new hires.
- Provided tier-1 and tier-2 technical support, troubleshooting application and infrastructure incidents to meet SLAs.
- Escalated complex issues to engineering teams and followed through to resolution while communicating status to stakeholders.
- Maintained incident records and prepared post-incident summaries to support continuous improvement.
- Assisted with user provisioning, password resets and basic identity management tasks for internal systems.
- Supported monitoring and alert triage to identify recurring issues and recommend corrective actions.
- Contributed to knowledge base updates and standard operating procedures to improve team efficiency.
Education
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