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Ajayrajan KP

Namakkal

Summary

Experienced DevOps professional with a background in infrastructure automation, cloud provisioning, and system administration across public and private cloud environments. Skilled in Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, with a strong focus on reliable releases, monitoring, and operational continuity. Contributed to faster onboarding, improved service stability, and reduced manual work through automation.

Overview

2
2
Languages
8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Comcast India Engineering Center
Chennai
01.2019 - Current

Built monitoring infrastructure across cloud and on-premises using Ansible, Packer, and Terraform, implementing automated monitoring solutions with AWS Lambda, Python, and Shell scripts to enhance onboarding experience for end users. Handled aManaged infrastructure and application upgrades across major public and private clouds, as well as on-premises servers, ensuring minimal downtime and service continuity.AWX ( Ansible Tower solution) using docker for our team to replace rundeck. Leading development activities within the DevOps team ( Docker, Kubernetes): facilitating grooming and standup sessions and PR reviews Built Grafana ECS Cluster in AWS for our team and managed the dashboards.Managed the Kubernetes environment by building deployments and managing infrastructure. Continuous integration of plugins and docker build based on Git PR approval using Jenkins/concourse. Configuring and managing Nagios monitoring tool from the scratch with all type of customisation including dashboard. CoConfiguring distributed monitoring in op5 as well as ninja to set up a master/poller architecture to achieve a next-leveDelivered system support to clients, troubleshooting errors and resolving IT-related issues to maintain operational efficiency and client satisfaction.ot and fixed errors, and resolved any IT-related issues.Handled overloads on servers, discovered unused systems, and monitored and managed the live services Created standard operating procedures for project servicesfor all the services associated to the projectHave identified manual tasks and got them automated to improve the team's efficiencycy Managed communications for incident management effectively., RResolving high priority incidents adhering defined SLAs and taking measures to prevent them in future ensuring high reliability and availability. Achieved Containerisation using Docker and Amazon EKS and ECS technologyCustomized plugins to meet specific requirements. based on the requirement using bash, Perl or python scripts with the help of Nagios exit coder status.Automated the monitoring for Openstack XRE deployment using bash script and Python scripts with the standard template for host and services

Configuring the event handlers to eliminate the most number of service failures using the scripts based on Nagios service state. Creating the customised variables/object directives in Nagios to include the needed information on to the configWriting the live status query to extract the data from Nagios for the current state and send to the appropriate team to analyze the cause of the service failure to fix it. it. Created multiple Ansible Playbooks/Roles to automate day to day activities. Technology/Tools: Linux, Op5 Monitoring Application, AWS, Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Concourse, Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Redis

  • Built CI/CD pipelines for Comcast India Engineering Center application releases.
  • Managed Kubernetes and Docker environments for Comcast India Engineering Center services.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and cloud tooling.

Education

B.Tech - Information Technology

Hindustan University
Chennai
09-2018

Skills

  • Kubernetes administration
  • Terraform provisioning
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Infrastructure automation
  • Cloud monitoring
  • Monitoring and logging
  • Linux
  • System administration
  • Security best practices

Primary: DevOps; Ansible; Linux System Administration; Nagios Core; Confluence; GitHub; Kubernetes; Docker; Shell Scripting;
Comcast Cloud Platform (CCP); OpenStack

Configuration Management & IaC: Ansible, Terraform, Packer OS
Scripting: Shell/Bash, CI/CD: Jenkins, Concourse CI, Monitoring & Observability: Nagios Core, OP5, AppDynamics, GCloud Platforms: AWS, OpenStackContainers: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, basic W Scripting: Shell/Bash, Python Platforms: AWS, OpenStack, Azure, Com Source Control: Git, GitHub, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS
Databases: SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
Other Tools: Rundeck, AWX, ELK, Confluence

  • Cloud security

Languages

English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Tamil
Native
Native

Accomplishments

  • ACHIEVEMENTS
    Received Champ Award for the years 2022 and 2023.
    Won Champ Award for the year 2022 for
    work excellence throughout the
    year.

Affiliations

  • I was part of organizing the cricket tournaments in our company in 2023 and 2024.
  • I was part of organizing the carrom tournaments in our company in 2023 and 2024.

Declaration

  • I, Ajayrajan KP, hereby declare that the information contained herein is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Comcast India Engineering Center
01.2019 - Current

B.Tech - Information Technology

Hindustan University
Ajayrajan KP