INDHIRAN R
Chennai
Summary
OpenShift Administrator and Infrastructure Consultant with over 11 years of experience specializing in enterprise IT infrastructure, data center transformation, OpenShift container platforms and enterprise workloads. I am skilled in OpenShift cluster deployment and hands-on expertise in Windows/Linux administration, patch management, change & incident handling, infrastructure migration, VM/container provisioning, patch & release management, and CI/CD integration. Proven expertise in managing hybrid environments, implementing DevOps workflows, and ensuring enterprise-grade infrastructure security and compliance. Currently supporting Barclays via Capgemini.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Consultant
Capgemini
10.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Client: Barclays Bank
- Execute release management including coordination, approval, and rollout of production changes.
- Manage CI/CD workflows integrated with TeamCity and Bitbucket for automated deployments.
- Support incident, change, troubleshooting and patch management using Jira and standard ITIL practices.
- Led infrastructure migrations and performed capacity planning across hybrid environments (Linux, Windows, OpenShift).
- Handle VAPT fix implementation, OS hardening, and enterprise security mandates.
- Collaborate across teams for production, RCA reviews, change management and deployment activities.
- Client: Barclays Bank
Manager - Server Administrator
Tamilnad Mercantile Bank
01.2017 - 01.2024
- Deployed and administered Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform across bare-metal, Nutanix AHV and VMware vSphere infrastructure, handling end-to-end installation, cluster configuration.
- Implemented infrastructure-level integrations including load balancers, persistent storage (via CSI), and advanced networking configurations for high availability and performance in multi-node OpenShift clusters.
- Participate in migration design and execution from legacy infrastructure to container-based platforms.
- Led and contributed to migration projects, assessing legacy infrastructure, preparing migration strategies, and executing seamless transitions to Red Hat OpenShift.
- Designed and documented end-to-end architecture solutions, including high-level and low-level design (HLD/LLD), deployment runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
- Implemented continuous monitoring and performance optimization strategies for container platforms using native and third-party tools, ensuring high availability, scalability, and resource efficiency.
- Hands-on experience in patching, upgrading, and managing OpenShift clusters, and ensuring compliance with security baselines and enterprise governance standards.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support deployments and share best practices.
HP-UX Administrator
Genex Corporate-HP
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Company Overview: Client: UCO Bank
- Maintain more than HA cluster servers for Data Center (DC) unit and Disaster Recovery (DR) unit of client.
- Administration of User Accounts, adding/removing users and groups, allocating resources to users and customizing user's environment as per requirement.
- Data center Point of contact for DC daily operations.
- Processes administration and management.
- Preparing checklists, utilization reports & graphs through HP performance Manager Tool.
- Monitoring critical system alerts through HP OVSM (Open View Service Manager).
- Co-ordinate with the Database & Application team as per their requirements.
- Handling Incident management, Problem management, and Change management as per customer defined SLA. Preparing Incident, Problem, change reports. Preparing project related SOP.
- Coordinating with third party vendors to replace hardware components.
- Continuous monitoring servers for critical issues like CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization and Threshold.
- Analysis of syslog, event logs, clusters logs.
- Scheduling jobs using CRON.
- Identifying utilization of File systems.
- Patch Upgradation & Kernel parameters tuning & installing third party Application on project workstations.
- Client: UCO Bank
Operations Supervisor
Nitriotech Singapore Pte Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Company Overview: Client: GlobalFoundries, Singapore
- Configuring LAN infrastructure.
- Server Management through remote access based on tickets.
- Analysis of syslog, event logs, clusters logs.
- Following ITIL practices for better and timely resolution.
- Coordinating with third party vendors to replace hardware components.
- Managing user administration, password policies and security permissions.
- Managing File system permissions & ACL.
- OS backup, recovery & installation.
- Performing daily, weekly and monthly backup using HP Data Protector Tool.
- Client: GlobalFoundries, Singapore
On Job Trainee
ZTCS
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Provided technical support to end users, troubleshooting hardware and software issues.
- Assisted in maintenance and configuration of servers and network devices.
- Collaborated with the IT team to implement server and network security measures.
- Assisted in performing routine server backups and updates.
- Participated in server inventory management and documentation tasks.
Education
B.E. - Computer Science & Engineering
Oxford Engineering College
Trichy, Tamilnadu, India01.2010
Class XII -
State Board of Tamil Nadu
Tamilnadu, India01.2006
Class X -
State Board of Tamil Nadu
Tamilnadu, India01.2004
Skills
- Red Hat OpenShift Administration (OCP 4x)
- Infrastructure Migration & VM Provisioning
- CI/CD Integration (TeamCity, BitBucket)
- Release Automation (Nolio)
- HCI (VMWare, Nutanix)
- Virtualization (VMWare ESXi, Hyper-V, Proxmox)
- Cloud technologies (Nutanix, OpenStack)
- Software Defined Storage (VSAN, Minio)
- Storage (Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem)
- OS (Red Hat, CentOS, Windows, Solaris, AIX, Ubuntu)
- Middleware (IBM WAS, Apache Tomcat, Red Hat Jboss)
- Others (SSL Certificate, vCenter, vSphere Replication, Red hat Pacemaker Cluster)
- Problem solving, Teamwork & Leadership Skills
- Project Management, Incident & Change Management
- Capacity Planning & Technical Documentation
Certification
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Redhat
- AWS Partner: Generative AI Essentials
- Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure 5, Nutanix
- Certified Ethical Hacker, EC Council
- ITIL Foundation v4, Axelos
Official Trainings
- Red hat OpenShift Administration, 11/01/23
- Data Center Management and Virtualization, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), 01/01/23
- VMWare vSAN Troubleshooting, VMWare, 03/01/21
Awards
- Received appreciation letter from MD&CEO of the Bank at Tamilnad Mercantile Bank for successful execution of a complex Data Center migration project
- Received appreciation letter from MD&CEO of the Bank at Tamilnad Mercantile Bank for my contribution in CBS Solution major upgradation project.
- Received appreciation letter from IT General Manager of the Bank at Tamilnad Mercantile Bank for my support in effective execution of BCP during Covid Pandemic.
Tools Used
- Installation and configuration of monitoring for servers and network devices using Zabbix
- Ticketing (OTRS, Redmine)
- Inventory Management (openDCIM, OCS)
- Patch Management (IBM BigFix, WSUS)
- Backup & Recovery (VEEAM, Commvault, HP Data Protector)
- Network Troubleshooting (Wireshark, Tcpdump)
Timeline
Senior Consultant
Capgemini
10.2024 - Current
Manager - Server Administrator
Tamilnad Mercantile Bank
01.2017 - 01.2024
HP-UX Administrator
Genex Corporate-HP
01.2015 - 01.2016
Operations Supervisor
Nitriotech Singapore Pte Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2015
On Job Trainee
ZTCS
01.2011 - 01.2012
B.E. - Computer Science & Engineering
Oxford Engineering College
Class XII -
State Board of Tamil Nadu
Class X -
State Board of Tamil Nadu
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