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ABINAYA BALAJI

ABINAYA BALAJI

Chennai

Summary

Possessing over 9 years of IT experience, including more than 4 years as a DevOps engineer, with a strong focus on architecting and automating integral deployments over big infrastructure. Passionate about new knowledge and innovation, with an ability to grasp technical concepts quickly and apply them to DevOps efforts. Strong work ethic and initiative, results-driven and motivated, adaptable collaborator with good communication and interpersonal skills.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Lead (DevOps/DevSecOps)

Fiserv (India) Pvt Ltd
Chennai
01.2024 - Current
  • Created and managed Azure resources, such as virtual machines, managed PostgreSQL databases, Azure storage, application service plans, application services, container repositories, and Azure Kubernetes.
  • Terraform is the IAC tool used for environment setup.
  • Designed and set up Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnet, Azure network settings, DNS settings, and security policies. Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines for several microservices using Azure DevOps. A parameterized task for microservice deployment that takes branch and environment into account.
  • Created new images using a Dockerfile and uploaded them to the Azure Container Registry. Built a Kubernetes cluster, Namespaces, and Auto-Scaling in AKS.
  • Dynatrace and Splunk are the monitoring tools used for infrastructure and log monitoring.

Lead Software Engineer (DevOps/DevSecOps)

Virtusa Consulting Services
Chennai
12.2021 - 12.2023
  • Created development, staging, and production environment using Terraform for resources like EC2, MWAA, EMR, EBS, IAM, SecurityGroup, Cloudwatch, and other key AWS services. Nagios was the monitoring tool used for infrastructure and service monitoring.
  • Jenkins-powered automated build and deployment through Rundeck to reduce human error and accelerate production procedures. Set up the platform's installation and configuration by implementing Ansible's playbooks, modules, tasks, and roles. Perform vulnerabilities check for the application using Wiz.app vulnerability tool.
  • Used JIRA to track issues and Change Management.

Consultant (DevOps)

HCL Technologies
Chennai
08.2020 - 11.2021
  • Worked in spinning up EC2 instances, ALB, CF, configured IAM Policies and Roles to the users as per requirement. Implemented Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and configured network services. Supported different environments like Prod, Dev, and Staging. Have experience in allocating NAT Gateway along with Elastic IPs and also configuring VPC Peering and VPC Security using a CloudFormation template.
  • Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups. Venafi was used for Certificate renewal. Used the AppDynamics monitoring tool to keep track of all server performance.
  • Participated actively in change, DB patching, and production deployment tasks. Provided the case ticket resolution within the SLA after the ITIL convention. Participated in creating the Cron job in accordance with corporate needs.
  • Jenkins was used to implement CI/CD. Managed Source Code, including Branching and Merging, in Repositories.

Associate Software Engineer (Cloud Engineer)

Thirdware Technologies
Chennai
09.2015 - 08.2020
  • Managed Amazon Web Services - ELB, EC2, S3, RDS, SNS, and CloudWatch. Expertise in architecting secure VPC solutions in AWS with the help of Network ACLs, security groups, public, and private network configurations.
  • Created snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances.
  • Hands-on experience in writing Ansible scripts.
  • Managed systems routine backup, scheduling jobs, enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging, and network logging of servers for maintenance.
  • Created and maintain users' accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space, and process monitoring.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering

Shree Sastha institute of Engineering and Technology
01.2015

Skills

Cloud Technologies: AWS, Azure

Version Control Tools: Git, Bitbucket

IAC: Terraform and Cloud formation

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins,GitLab

Containerization Tools: Docker, Kubernetes

CM Tool: Ansible

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, Python

Monitoring Tools: Dynatrace, Splunk, Nagios

OS: Linux,windows

Websites

Certification

  • Certified AWS Solution Architect Associate

Languages

  • English, Full Professional Proficiency
  • Tamil, Full Professional Proficiency

Timeline

Technical Lead (DevOps/DevSecOps)

Fiserv (India) Pvt Ltd
01.2024 - Current

Lead Software Engineer (DevOps/DevSecOps)

Virtusa Consulting Services
12.2021 - 12.2023

Consultant (DevOps)

HCL Technologies
08.2020 - 11.2021

Associate Software Engineer (Cloud Engineer)

Thirdware Technologies
09.2015 - 08.2020

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering

Shree Sastha institute of Engineering and Technology

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