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Adil Ali

Chennai

Summary

DevOps Engineer with 8.3 years of diverse IT experience, including 5 years of dedicated DevOps expertise, and 3.3 years as a seasoned PL/SQL Developer. Proven track record of architecting, implementing, and optimizing cloud-based solutions, automating CI/CD pipelines, and delivering impactful results within a single company setting. Adept at troubleshooting real-time issues, streamlining processes, and driving efficiency. Strong foundation in AWS services, Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform, Ansible, shell scripting, and PL/SQL, with a commitment to achieving excellence in cloud and DevOps practices.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Cognizant
Chennai
03.2024 - Current
  • Created CICD pipelines with Jenkins and Ansible to automate the build and deployment process of applications.
  • Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks to automate the application deployments.
  • Developed and implemented Gitleaks in the CI/CD pipelines to scan the code for hardcoded sensitive data.
  • Maintained the version control system, GitHub, for all software development projects.
  • Automated creation and updating of branch protection rules for GitHub repositories using Python.
  • Troubleshot Jenkins pipeline and Ansible failures daily—diagnosing logs, isolating root causes, and applying fixes to maintain uninterrupted CI/CD workflows.
  • Identified opportunities for process improvements to decrease in support calls.
  • Maintained configurations on Linux servers for Nginx-based applications.

DevOps Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
02.2020 - 03.2024
  • Orchestrated AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability of services.
  • Automated deployment processes using Jenkins, reducing deployment time by 40% and enhancing system reliability.
  • Implemented and managed infrastructure as code (IAC) with Terraform to create and maintain AWS services- VPC, S3 and EC2 instances.
  • Experience in writing Ansible playbooks, wrote playbooks for installation and configuration of Jenkins.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated testing and seamless continuous integration.
  • Created CI/CD using Declarative pipelines in Jenkins.
  • Experience with AWS Stack; worked on the services offered like S3, EC2, Route53, IAM, VPC.
  • Responsible for project planning and execution, including testing and deployment.
  • Developed and maintained documentation for infrastructure, deployment processes, and troubleshooting procedures.
  • Demonstrated agility in resolving critical production incidents, minimizing downtime and optimizing system performance.
  • Experience in Creating Docker file, build images, run containers, Docker volume and maintaining Kubernetes pods.
  • Experience as Release Manager- managing, planning, scheduling and controlling all the software builds through different stages and environments, including testing and deploying software releases using GITHUB & Jenkins.

PL/SQL Developer

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
03.2017 - 02.2020
  • Designed and developed PL/SQL scripts, stored procedures, and triggers, optimizing database performance.
  • Collaborated with data analysts and stakeholders to gather requirements and transform them into efficient database solutions.
  • Responsible for writing the Stored Procedures (PLSQL) for ETL jobs and for front-end applications.
  • Performed data modelling and normalization to enhance data organization and retrieval.
  • Conducted code reviews and mentored junior developers, fostering a culture of code quality and best practices.
  • Responsible for designing and creating new database schema in Sybase and PostgreSQL.
  • Hands on experience on create Branching, Merge and manage access in Version Control tool like GIT/GitHub.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical

Easwari Engineering College
Chennai, TN
2016

Skills

  • Cloud computing: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Jenkins
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible Tower
  • Version control: Git, GitHub
  • Scripting: shell scripting (Bash), Groovy, Python
  • Database: PL/SQL, SQL, PostgreSQL
  • Monitoring and logging: AWS CloudWatch
  • Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
  • Networking: VPC, Route 53
  • Security: AWS IAM, security groups
  • Troubleshooting: real-time issue resolution, log analysis
  • Artifact management: Nexus
  • Collaboration: team leadership, cross-functional communication

Languages

3,B1,4,B2

Education

other

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Cognizant
03.2024 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2020 - 03.2024

PL/SQL Developer

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2017 - 02.2020

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical

Easwari Engineering College
Adil Ali