ANAND KANDASAMY

8+ years of professional experience in Cloud, Network, DevOps, and IT Security. Hands on experience building cloud infrastructure using cloud native and custom scripting, implementing managed services, and transition to operation team. Self-driven DevOps engineer skilled at providing cloud solutions for enterprise clients, developing IAAC, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and automation.

• Led DevOps practices, focusing on enhancing DevOps processes and tools, encompassing cloud-native DevOps services.
• Enabled project delivery teams by embedding DevOps accelerators for CI, CD, CT, and progressive delivery.
• Constructed managed services offers by harnessing cloud best practices, while planning and crafting accelerators utilizing cloud-native services, terraform, terragrunt, python, and ansible.
• Constructed event-driven data transformations using AWS Lambda functions in Python.
• Ingested data from various sources into AWS S3, performed ETL using AWS Glue, and loaded data into RDS or Redshift.
• Demonstrated proficiency in AWS services including S3, RDS, Redshift, Lambda, Kinesis, Glue, OpenSearch, and Sage Maker.
• Successfully deployed a Logstash data-processing pipeline on AWS to analyze logs from various sources and visualize them via Kibana.
• Created effective data models to extract information from diverse sources and store it in a usable format.
• Designed and implemented data pipelines using Python, including libraries such as pandas, NumPy, and AWS SDK for Python.
• Engaged in solutions development, effort estimation, and customer demos during preliminary sales interactions on cloud enablement, cloud migration, devops, and site reliability engineering.
• Mentored and trained the cloud and DevOps service team to cultivate a dynamic unit.
• Conducted DevOps evaluations and provided guidance to numerous clients on refining DevOps processes.
• Participated in extensive migration projects spanning re-hosting, refactoring, and re-platforming.
• Developed microservices in Java utilizing Linux docker image and Kubernetes Pods, integrating with RDS and NoSQL through REST APIs.
• Orchestrated consistent DevOps processes and practices supporting the entire software development life cycle.
• Ingrained a DevOps culture emphasizing CI & CD pipelines using tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS Code Deploy, Jenkins, and more.
• Spearheaded cost optimization efforts in AWS infrastructure and ensured IT security compliance.
• Engaged in pre-sales tasks, such as requirement collection, RFP preparation, and requirements-to-solution conversion.
• Demonstrated technical viability through POCs for prospective projects, balancing the roles of a Technical Architect with concurrent project deliveries.
• Actively guided team members through intricate challenges.
• Overseen cloud platforms for enterprise clients, focusing on task automation via scripts.
• Handled DNS migrations and management using Route 53 and other DNS providers.
• Demonstrated proficiency in managing VPC, NAT Gateway, IP Sec VPN tunnels, and more on AWS.
• Mastered the use of terraform and CloudFormation scripts for AWS services.
• Played an integral role in the design and maintenance of CI/CD systems employing tools like Jenkins, Gitlab, and Code Pipeline.
• Showcased hands-on experience with repository managers such as Nexus and Artifactory for Maven builds.
• Specialized in build tools like MAVEN, with comprehensive skills in SCM tools like Git, and Bitbucket across various platforms.
• Commanded expertise in Docker and container environments, alongside writing Docker files, Kubernetes Manifest files and Helm Charts.
• Deftly utilized Kubernetes for application container deployment, scaling, and management across host clusters.
• Crafted automation scripts using Python, displaying versatility in automating various processes.

· Got Team Award and client appreciation for University of Sydney Project

· Got Champ Award in DXC for Q4 FY20, Q2 and Q3 for FY 21

· AWS black-belt program on Application modernization.

Cisco Certified Network associate CCNA

Ally Bank

· This project encompasses a strategic transition of applications from EmberJS to ReactJS, along with a shift of the CI/CD pipeline from Jenkins to GitLab CI.

Responsibilities:

· Developed a Docker file incorporating the Cypress tool layer and its dependencies, orchestrated a GitLab pipeline to execute Cypress tests, and successfully showcased the project capabilities to a client.

· spearheading the definition of application architecture and implementing code

modifications to adhere to stringent security compliance standards.

· Leading the migration of an on-premises Amber application to the AWS platform, ensuring seamless transition and minimal downtime.

· Experienced in the creation and management of AWS ECS clusters, with a focus on deploying NGINX and routing traffic efficiently across multiple containers.

· Possess a broad range of experience with AWS services including S3, CloudFront, Route53, Load Balancer, complemented by proficiency in Apigee and Akamai

Acqueon

· Established a Landing Zone in a Greenfield environment on Google Cloud Platform for a customer and deployed the Acqueon application on GCP Compute Services using Jenkins CI/CD.

Responsibilities:

· · Actively participate in architectural design discussions and establish a landing zone in the US-Central region.

· Collaborate with the development team to create a Jenkins pipeline for efficient application deployment in VM instances.

• Develop Terraform scripts to automate the deployment of services such as VPC, VM Instance, HTTP(S) Load Balancing, SQL Database, and more.

AIMIA

In a Greenfield environment, I established Landing Zones across three distinct regions and implemented an IPsec tunnel between AWS and on-premises offices globally using SD-WAN technology.

Responsibilities:

· Actively participated in architectural design discussions, leading the setup of Landing Zones in multiple regions for this account.

· Collaborated with the Network team to implement SD-WAN VPN from AWS to multiple on-premises data centers globally, ensuring secure and reliable connectivity.

University of Sydney

The project involves a Brownfield environment with an established landing zone by the customer, requiring the migration of over 1000 servers from the on-premises data centre to the cloud, inclusive of thorough security checks and implementations.

Responsibilities:

• I spearheaded a team of 15 members, delegating tasks and providing necessary assistance to ensure smooth operations.
• Successfully migrated over 1000 servers from an on-premises data centre to the AWS cloud.
• Addressed and resolved various booting issues encountered with RHEL Linux instances post-migration to AWS.

Nissan North America

The project involves migrating applications from the Nissan Datacentre to AWS, which includes re-architecting the application and transitioning to AWS serverless services.

Responsibilities:

• Assume leadership of the team by assigning responsibilities and providing support to fellow team members.
• Implemented a Logstash data-processing pipeline to scrutinize logs from multiple data sources and present the results through Kibana visualization.
• Participated in architectural deliberations with the application team and collected infrastructure development requirements.
• Developed infrastructure code using the service catalog product and employed Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for deployment. Integrated Bitbucket as the source code management tool within the Jenkins ecosystem.
• Established and uphold completely automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins.

Freecharge Payments Technology

I was responsible for configuring and managing the firewall and networking devices in on-premises data centers. Additionally, I created and managed servers in the AWS cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Developed a software-based VPN in AWS using EC2 instances and established site-to-site tunnels connecting multiple offices.
• Constructed both public and private Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in AWS, configured NAT Gateways and Internet Gateways, established IPsec VPN tunnels, and managed route tables, network peering, Network Access Control Lists (NACLs), and Virtual Private Gateways.
• Implemented a Single Sign-On (SSO) solution in the AWS console by deploying ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) within the Active Directory environment.
• Created a Zabbix monitoring solution to oversee all networking devices in the on-premises office and implemented an alerting mechanism for timely notifications.