Ajay Kumar B
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
Results-driven IT professional with extensive hands-on experience in Red Hat OpenShift administration and production cluster configuration. Strong passion for automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native technologies, complemented by a solid understanding of the development lifecycle, production support, and system optimization. Expertise in enterprise systems and modern DevOps practices is poised for application in a Senior DevOps role, focusing on building scalable, efficient, and reliable pipelines and infrastructure. Proven ability to install, configure, and deploy code using both manual methods and Urban Code Deployment (UCD), as well as administer IBM WAS and WebSphere Liberty components.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Operations Professional
Kyndryl
Bangalore
09.2021 - Current
- Company Overview: Client: Kaiser Permanente Health care (KPHC - US)
- Administering OpenShift clusters and ArgoCD to guarantee efficient and reliable containerization.
- Developing and sustaining CI/CD pipelines for core applications on OpenShift, optimizing development and deployment operations.
- Orchestrating deployment of software stacks and administration of web stacks with Ansible & UCD.
- Implemented configuration of identity providers for OpenShift user accounts with secure key management.
- Implemented and organized cluster, project, and group permissions for efficient OpenShift administration.
- Configured resource allocation for project based on specified needs.
- Engineered scaling and autoscaling of applications aligned with workload demands and requirements.
- Implement application and its dependencies utilizing Helm chart.
- Develop and enforce network policy for projects.
- Generate and secure Persistent Volume (PV) / Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) nfs-storageclass aligned with project requirements.
- Configure and launch cronjob for OpenShift applications.
- Designed RAPS script optimizing automation for application services uptime.
- Assemble Mustgather resources for support cases that involve coordination with IBM/Redhat support team.
- Client: Kaiser Permanente Health care (KPHC - US)
Sr. Operations Professional
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
08.2016 - 08.2021
- Company Overview: Client: Kaiser Permanente Health care (KPHC - US)
- Managed installation, configuration, and troubleshooting tasks for IBM Websphere Application Server V8.5.x & V9.0.x.
- Deployed HTTP servers 9.0 including IHS and integrated with WAS for load-balancing and failover utilizing generated plug-in.
- Engineered NDM profiles, coordinating profiles and federation of various nodes to deployment manager for WAS.
- Expertise in deploying Upgrade Fix Packs and ifixes, ensuring migration to latest versions aligns with established Change Management processes on WebSphere Product.
- Installed and renewed SSL certificates in WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server.
- Communicated product issues through Problem Management Records with IBM for timely resolution.
- Specialized in deploying J2EE applications (WAR & EAR) and executing static file transfers across diverse environments such as Development, QA, UAT, BCP, and Production using Websphere on various OS platforms through administrative console and Linux hosts.
- Experience in managing WebSphere Liberty Service start/stop operations, property file updates, and Liberty .ear deployments for projects.
- Client: Kaiser Permanente Health care (KPHC - US)
Sr. Administrator (Off-shore Module Lead)
Wipro Technologies
Bangalore
12.2013 - 08.2021
- Company Overview: Client: Lloyds Banking Group (LBG - UK)
- Led project planning and tracking initiatives to fulfill deadlines.
- Formulated effort estimates for comprehensive resource management.
- Uphold software quality process compliance consistently across projects.
- Conducted weekly status updates via calls to maintain project visibility.
- Compiled monthly summary reports to provide comprehensive project insights.
- Project execution across offshore and onsite locations, reviews with executive management.
- Monthly revenue recognition tasks alongside Finance team.
- Conducted periodic team reviews to assess performance and identify improvement areas.
- Prepared weekly and monthly status reports for higher management, ensuring transparency and informed decision-making.
- Effort estimation and reviews per necessity for new initiatives.
- Client: Lloyds Banking Group (LBG - UK)
Sr. Systems Engineer
Network Solutions / Net connect Pvt Ltd.
Bangalore
05.2008 - 04.2013
- Company Overview: An IBM Company
- Perform daily AD Health Checklist through AD replication processes, Network Diagnostics, DC diagnostics, and Repadmin.
- Diagnosed and rectified applications-related concerns in compliance with committed SLA standards.
- Evaluate VM server performance daily, confirming successful backup operations and system health.
- Conduct L2 troubleshooting for AD issues and perform daily health checks on all critical servers.
- Regularly monitoring FSMO roles and assessing impact on roles to transfer operation master roles to other DC.
- Executed system state backups for ADS, ensuring application servers are secured on daily, weekly, and monthly schedules based on business requirements.
- Weekly and monthly onsite and offsite data archiving activities.
- An IBM Company
IT Engineer
Intertek Testing Services
Bangalore
03.2003 - 09.2006
- Planning, Installing, and Administrating Windows XP, 2000, Windows Server 2003.
- Planning, Implementing, Designing and maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure.
- Creating, Configuring and Managing Group Policy object (GPOs) Implementing Domain Controller Security Policies.
- Software deployment through group policy.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Technology
K.S.R. College of Technology
01.2002
Skills
- Openshift
- Ansible
- AWS
- Cloud
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Middleware
- WebSphere Liberty
- IBM HTTPD servers
- Bigfix
- Windows
- Linux
- VMware
Certification
- Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, 2025-09-01
- Google Cloud Certified – Cloud Engineer, 2025-09-01
Career Overview
Results-driven IT professional with extensive hands-on experience in Red Hat OpenShift administration and production cluster configuration. Strong passion for automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native technologies, complemented by a solid understanding of the development lifecycle, production support, and system optimization. Expertise in enterprise systems and modern DevOps practices is poised for application in a Senior DevOps role, focusing on building scalable, efficient, and reliable pipelines and infrastructure. Proven ability to install, configure, and deploy code using both manual methods and Urban Code Deployment (UCD), as well as administer IBM WAS and WebSphere Liberty components.
Personal Information
- Title: Sr.Operations Professional
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Senior Operations Professional
Kyndryl
09.2021 - Current
Sr. Operations Professional
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
08.2016 - 08.2021
Sr. Administrator (Off-shore Module Lead)
Wipro Technologies
12.2013 - 08.2021
Sr. Systems Engineer
Network Solutions / Net connect Pvt Ltd.
05.2008 - 04.2013
IT Engineer
Intertek Testing Services
03.2003 - 09.2006
Bachelor of Science - Computer Technology
K.S.R. College of Technology
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