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ABIRAJ ASOKAN

Chennai

Summary

Over all 6 years of experience and 4+ years in DevOps, Automation, Public Cloud (AWS), Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. Curious and analytical with the proven to learn quickly.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Cognizant

Infra dev specialist (Project -LordAbbett))
Chennai
11.2023 - Current
  • Utilized advanced technical skills and expertise to troubleshoot complex problems and implement solutions.
  • Involved in upgrading VMware applications from one version to another version (Github,Jira,Confluence, Sonar & Nexus repo manager)
  • Provided support and guidance to colleagues to maintain a collaborative work environment.
  • Promoted high customer satisfaction by resolving problems with knowledgeable and friendly service.
  • Conducted testing of software and systems to ensure quality and reliability.
  • Identified needs of customers promptly and efficiently.

Infinite Computer Solutions

Senior Software Engineer (Project-VodafoneUK)
Chennai
07.2021 - 08.2023
  • Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security
    Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Terraform.
  • Performed Integrated delivery (CI and CD process) Using Jenkins.
  • Created & maintained Terraform with AWS, play books in Ansible for continuous deployment of resources in Dev/Stage and PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT.
  • Designed and implemented fully automated server build management, monitoring and
    deployment by using Technologies terraform and Ansible.
  • Used Ansible to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Database, Commands, Users mount Points and Packages.
  • Migrated standalone applications from local to AWS cloud.
  • Deploy artifacts on AWS with Jenkins AWS Code Deploy plugin.
  • Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to backup files, and archive files in Glacier.
  • Configured Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Auto scaling groups.
  • Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
  • Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application
    Server/WebSphere/Jboss.
  • Built and Implemented collaborative development environment using GIT, GitHub and integrated it with Jenkins.
  • Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on machines.
  • Managed GIT repositories for branching, merging, and tagging.
  • Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching,
    labelling/naming conventions using GIT source control.
  • Maintained and coordinated environment configuration, controls, code integrity for all
    repositories.
  • Skilled in monitoring servers using CloudWatch.
  • Worked on Docker container snapshots, attaching to a running container, removing images, managing director structures and managing container.
  • Provide drill down reporting for application teams to use in monitoring their application
    resource usage/Performance.
  • Used JIRA tool to track all the defects and changes related to build and Release Team.
  • Deployed various enterprise applications on managed servers and cluster environment and
    maintained Load Balancing, High Availability and Failover.
  • Participated in after hour on-call rotation to support Ops performs deployments on PROD
    environment.

HCL Technologies

Analyst (Project-ExxonMobil US)
Chennai
08.2017 - 07.2021
  • Conducted research into new methods of improving the performance of applications.
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry standards, trends and technologies.
  • Generated reports summarizing key findings from tests performed.
  • Performed functional, load, stress and endurance testing on applications.
  • Evaluated existing systems for potential improvement opportunities.
  • Analyzed system performance data against established baselines.
  • Assisted with capacity planning efforts by forecasting future resource needs.
  • Developed test plans, strategies and objectives for performance testing activities.
  • Implemented processes for collecting, analyzing, and reporting test results.
  • Worked in AWS environment, instrumental in utilizing Compute Services (EC2, ELB), Storage Services (S3, Glacier, Block Storage, Lifecycle Management policies), Lambda, VPC, RDS and Cloud Watch.
  • Experience in Server infrastructure development on AWS Cloud, extensive usage of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, RDS, S3, Route53, SNS,SQS,and CloudTrail.
  • Experience in configuration and administration of Load Balancers, Network and Auto scaling for sub domains in AWS VPC.
  • Managed Ansible Playbooks with Ansible modules, implemented CD automation using Ansible, managing existing servers and automation of build/configuration of new servers.
  • Responsible to Author JSON files to create stacks on AWS Cloud Formation, provide access to different user base using AWS IAM.
  • Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes manifest files.
  • Responsible for installation & configuration of Jenkins to support various Java builds and Jenkins plugins to automate continuous builds and publishing Docker images to the Nexus repository.

Education

Bachelor of Enggineering - Computer Science

Bharath University
Chennai
05.2013

High School Diploma -

Govt. Boys Higher Secondary School
Pattukottai
05.2009

Accomplishments

Operating System

  • Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, Redhat, Amazon Linux

Cloud-AWS

  • EC2, S3, IAM, Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, VPC, Route 53, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, RDS, SQS, SNS, ELB, Code Deploy & Code Pipeline, Lambda, VPC Peering

Containerization

  • Docker, Dockerfile, Docker Swarm, ECR, ECS

Kubernetes

  • Kubernetes

Database

  • Database, MySQL, Amazon Aurora

Cloud Databases

  • Amazon RDS service (MySQL and Aurora), Amazon DynamoDB

Versioning Tools

  • GIT

APM/Logging Monitoring Tools

  • Splunk, Prometheus

Monitoring Tools

  • Proptima -Desktop client, Import control manager, Grafana, Kibana.

Defect Tracking Tools

  • JIRA, Bug Zilla, Redmine, Bonita

Other Software Tools

  • Power BI, Tableau, BMC Remedy, ServiceNow

Telnet Tools

  • Puttygen, OSS-Phoneix Putty, WinSCP

Languages

Tamil, English
First Language
Tamil
Proficient
C2
English
Proficient
C2

Timeline

Cognizant

Infra dev specialist (Project -LordAbbett))
11.2023 - Current

Infinite Computer Solutions

Senior Software Engineer (Project-VodafoneUK)
07.2021 - 08.2023

HCL Technologies

Analyst (Project-ExxonMobil US)
08.2017 - 07.2021

Bachelor of Enggineering - Computer Science

Bharath University

High School Diploma -

Govt. Boys Higher Secondary School
ABIRAJ ASOKAN