ABEL JOSE
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Excellent performer with an inquisitive mind and great passion to learn new things, possessing a unique combination of technical knowledge and analytical abilities as showcased consistently in various projects
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Grab Holdings Inc.
7 2021 - Current
- Designed, implemented, and maintained a secure and reliable infrastructure platform via Terraform for delivering Grab Services.
- Secured Grab’s EKS clusters by implementing IAM roles and policies, configuring network security, and ensuring compliance with industry best practices.
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines integrated with security tools, including SAST, DAST, and secret scanning, to enhance the security and reliability of software delivery.
- Developed internal automation scripts using Python to streamline workflows and enhance operational efficiency.
- Worked on Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) to ensure compliance and security standards for Grab.
- Interface with production engineering management to champion and ensure adoption of security standards and remediate security gaps using Ansible.
- Contributed to building, operating, and maintaining the cloud security infrastructure to improve threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities with tools like CrowdStrike and Tenable.
- Provided maintenance and support for internal tools, and improved system health and reliability.
DevOps Engineer
ANI Technologies (OLA)
10.2017 - 07.2021
- Designed and deployed elastic, scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems capable of handling unexpected workloads using various services of AWS.
- Designed next-generation test automation solutions with Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery.
- Collaborated with teams to understand their DevOps needs and identified best practices & tools relevant to the products and technologies involved.
- Designed & implemented platforms for monitoring, log processing, metrics collection & data visualization.
Systems Engineer
Media.Net (Directi)
08.2016 - 05.2017
- Monitor the stability of web applications with various internal tools like Nagios
- Handle incident response, troubleshooting and fix issues that occur daily
- Provisioning servers at remote Data Centers by operating system using kickstart server
- Provisioning applications like apache, MySQL, php, etc using puppet
- Get different internal/external groups together to resolve production site issues effectively
- Contribute to Operations handbook.
Hosting Product Specialist
Endurance International Group (Directi)
06.2015 - 07.2016
- Follow-up and fix recurrent issues in a timely manner by coordinating with product development teams
- L2 Support ownership of all hosting products (cpanel/plesk/vps/cloud/dedicated)
- Handle all tickets/live chats with good efficiency and participate in 24
- 7 rotating shifts
- Recommend/implement automated tools to support customer efficiently
- Documentation of troubleshooting steps to resolve various issues.
Linux System Administrator
VIPoint Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
02.2013 - 05.2015
- Server Setup: Setting up Linux servers, Installing and configuring cPanel/WHM, Plesk in servers
- Web Server: Apache web server configuration and setup
- Compiling web server with PHP using automated and manual methods
- Setup web server security including mod_security, user authentication etc
- Mail Server: Setup and configure sendmail, exim mail servers
- Setup and administer EXIM mail server
- DNS server: Setup and configured DNS server
- Administer DNS server and setup DNS clustering
- Installing service packs, antivirus and apply patches on necessary software/modules (Third party)
- PHP/MySQL upgrade and installing necessary PHP modules
- Backup and Restore of system state, user's data using various backup types.
Education
Graduated in Mathematical Economics -
St. Thomas College
Thrissur, Kerala89.9% marks in HSC under Board of Higher Secondary Examination - undefined
First Class distinction in Secondary Education - undefined
Skills
Ubuntu(OS), Red-Hat Enterprise Linux Version 6(OS), CentOS
Certification
AWS Security Speciality Certified
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
ANI Technologies (OLA)
10.2017 - 07.2021
Systems Engineer
Media.Net (Directi)
08.2016 - 05.2017
Hosting Product Specialist
Endurance International Group (Directi)
06.2015 - 07.2016
Linux System Administrator
VIPoint Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
02.2013 - 05.2015
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Grab Holdings Inc.
7 2021 - Current
Graduated in Mathematical Economics -
St. Thomas College
89.9% marks in HSC under Board of Higher Secondary Examination - undefined
First Class distinction in Secondary Education - undefined
AWS Security Speciality Certified
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
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