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Aneesh Kumar

Trivandrum,KL

Summary

  • Proficient in Administrating Azure IaaS/PaaS services like compute Azure Virtual Machines, Web and Worker roles, VNET, Network services, Azure DevOps, SQL Databases, Storages, Azure Active Directory, Monitoring, Autoscaling, PowerShell Automation, Azure Search, DNS, VPN.
  • Extensive experience in migrating on-premises applications to Azure and configured VNETs and subnets as per the project requirement and performed PowerShell scripting to do Patching, Imaging, and Deployments in Azure.
  • Hands on experience in writing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to deploy, update and delete multiple resources in Azure and migrating the on-premises resources to Azure with Azure Site recovery (ASR) and Azure backups.
  • Experience in Azure IaaS - Virtual machines, VM Scale Sets, Load Balancer, Traffic Manager, Virtual Networks, SQL, Resource Groups and Cloud Services.
  • Extensive involvement in Azure Backup, Azure Policies, Azure Key Vault, Salt Stack and Tagging.
  • Experience in Azure Platform Development, Deployment Concepts., hosted Cloud Services, platform services and close interface with Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentications.
  • Experience in CI/CD tools like Octopus, Azure devops, Bit bucket and Sonar code scan validations

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer (Neo Internal Project)

NHG
02.2022 - 05.2024
  • Work with Solution Team to Deploy Various Azure Services
  • Provision Infrastructure using ARM Templates & Yaml Pipelines
  • Worked with Key Azure Services like Function Apps, LogicApps, WebApps, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Data lake, Key vault, APIM, Monitor & Application Insights etc
  • CI/CD using Azure DevOps, Azure Tests & Sonarqube Integrations
  • Agile Based Project Delivery

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Neo Technology Solutions
03.2020 - 05.2024
  • Designing and implementing Azure Solutions across a range of cloud models like SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and integrated on-premises, on-demand workloads with the Azure public cloud
  • Worked on Microservices for Continuous Delivery environment using Azure, Docker. Involved in setting up a Microservice architecture for application development and Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
  • Extensively worked on Building and Installing servers, creating multiple resources like in Azure through Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM) or Azure Portal and provisioned them using Terraform templates. Also worked on Virtual networks, Azure Custom security, endpoint security and firewall.
  • Worked in setting up Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software-based appliance functions(firewall).
  • Constructed and Installed servers through Azure Resource Manager(ARM) Templates or Azure Portal. Migrating On- premises virtual machines to Azure Resource Manager(ARM) Subscription with Azure Site Recovery.
  • Developed and designed Azure DevOps pipeline to manage the resources across multiple subscription in Azure.
  • Worked with Version Control, Build & Release Management and Deployments of the Solutions to the DEV, QA & PROD Environments leveraging Azure DevOps/VSTS principles/process (CI/CD) and toolsets of Visual Studio, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Application Insights, Log Analytics.
  • Provisioning servers/instances using infrastructure as code such as ARM and Terraform. Code is stored in a private repository and constantly updated.
  • Worked on Terraform templates also for provisioning virtual networks, subnets, VM Scale sets, Load balancers, and NAT rules and used terraform graph to visualize execution plan using the graph command. Configured BGP routes to enable ExpressRoute connections between on-premises data centers and Azure cloud.
  • Developed build and deploy scripts using MAVEN and initiated them using Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments. Used Maven to build java-based web applications and integrated it with Nexus repository.
  • Integrated Ansible with Jenkins to provide automation, continuous integration & Continuous Deployment through Jenkins and wrote Playbooks to automate Ansible servers using YAML scripting. Implemented Jenkins Workflow and Plugins for repeatable deployments of multi-tier applications, artifacts, and services to Docker.
  • Integrated Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes by creating pods, Config Maps, and deployments. Development of automation of Kubernetes clusters with Ansible, writing playbooks.
  • Experience in JIRA for ticketing and as well as defect tracking system and configure various workflows, customizations and plug-ins for JIRA bug/issue tracker, integrated Jenkins with JIRA, GitHub, Maven.

Azure DevOps Engineer (Neo Internal Project)

Your Housing Group
03.2020 - 01.2022
  • Experience in using ARM templates (JSON) to create Azure services ,while ensuring no changes were made to the existing infrastructure.
  • Experience implementing Azure services such as Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure storage, Azure cloud services, IIS, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Blob Storage, Azure VM, SQL Database, Azure Functions, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Service Bus.
  • Working knowledge in deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps on Kubernetes container environment, and for the runtime environment of CI/CD system to build, test and Deployment we have utilized Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Designed and automated AZURE Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), SaaS capabilities which includes virtual machine, container services, virtual network and cloud services.
  • Working experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to deploy, update, and delete multiple Azure resources, as well as migrating on-premise resources to Azure with Azure site recovery (ASR), and Azure backups.
  • Used Azure DevOps services such as Azure Repos, Azure Boards, and Azure Test Plans to plan work and collaborate on code development, built and deployed application.
  • Developed, maintained and provided the team with Various Azure DevOps-related tools like deployment tools, staged virtual environments, and provisioning scripts.
  • Terraform was used along with Packer to create custom machine images
  • Experience with version control tools such as GIT and Bitbucket. Comprehensive knowledge of source controller concepts including branches, tags, and merges.
  • Worked with Azure Monitoring tools such as Azure Log Analytics, Azure Network Watcher, and Azure Service Health to diagnose and minimize service degradation.
  • Experience in using the monitoring tools like Azure monitoring, Dynatrace to setup the desired alerts to avoid disruption.
  • Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets using PowerShell.

DevOps Engineer

TUI Group
01.2019 - 02.2020
  • Provision various AWS services using Terraform
  • Deploy Applications using AWS CI/CD
  • Monitor production resources and identify performance bottlenecks
  • Improve security of architecture, log analysis
  • DR Validation, DR Audits
  • Coordinate with Development team for release planning.
  • Review Sonarqube Code vulnerabilities and work with development team.


  • Manage Azure Environment for App Services
  • Manage & Maintain different azure services like SQL, Datalake, Keyvault, App Services etc
  • Work with Azure CI/CD & Test Cases

DevOps Engineer

WB21 Pte Ltd
09.2017 - 11.2018
  • Manage, Monitor and Maintain Wb21 Digital Banking Infrastructure powered by AWS Cloud & Microsoft Azure.
  • Monitor the infrastructure, performance management & Security.
  • Performance Tuning, Cloud Security & Application Deployment based on the requirements.
  • Automation & Management using Chef, Jenkins & Bitbucket
  • Ensure 100% Uptime on Infrastructure.
  • Manage Windows 2012 Server Environment for Third-party Application Support.
  • Co-ordinate & Manage a Team of 6 System Administrators who span over different Offices.
  • Work with development team to ensure proper project delivery, Code Management, Testing & Deployment.

Cloud Engineer

Veristics Networks Pvt Ltd
02.2012 - 07.2017
  • Implemented security best practices across all cloud infrastructure elements, safeguarding sensitive data from unauthorized access.
  • Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.
  • Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
  • Collaborated with development teams to design, implement, and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
  • Manage AWS Cloud Environments for End Clients.
  • Deployment of LAMP/LEMP, IIS Tech stacks by using different AWS Services like EC2, RDS, S3, Secrets, CI/CD, CloudWatch etc.
  • Day to Day Management of AWS Services.

Linux Administrator

TNGiCube Technology Resources India Pvt Ltd
03.2008 - 01.2012
  • Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of Ubuntu, CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86 architecture
  • Setting up, configuring and troubleshooting TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, CIFS, NTP and Samba servers on different multi-platforms (Windows, Linux)
  • Administered RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x/4.x & Ubuntu, CentOSservers by testing, tuning, upgrading, patching and troubleshooting both Physical & Virtual server problems
  • Installed and configured Disk and file system management using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for Linux systems
  • Local and remote administering of servers, routers and networks using Telnet and SSH login using SSH keygen tools for password-less setup and agent forwarding on Linux
  • Responsible for setting up Cronjobs scripts on production server
  • Configured LDAP on RedHat for authorization and authentication by configuring LDAP server which is used for authentication using its database
  • Managing services, maintaining and managing log files, monitoring events, logs and troubleshooting system problems using Nagios tool and resolve for any reported issues

AWS DevOps Engineer

Freelance Project

Project Name : Eveara

Duration : 8 Months

Domain : SAAS Platform

Services : AWS Environment Administration

Client Requirements: Architect, Build, Deploy & Manage Multi-tier AWS architecture

Skills Required: Frontend Backend Technologies like NodeJs, React, Angular, Python, AWS ECS, Fargate, Lambda, GlueJobs, WAF, GuardDuty, Quicksight, SES, AWS ElasticCache, S3, ALB, VPC Concepts, CI/CD Automation, Bitbucket, Terraform

DevOps Engineer

Freelance Project

Project Name: GS1 Canada

Duration: 10 Months

Domain: SAAS Platform

Services: Azure Environment Administration

Client Requirement: Build, Deploy and Maintain Azure Environment

Skills Required: Azure APP Services, Azure VM’s Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Vnet, Custom Vision

DevOps Engineer AWS

Freelance Project

Project Name :MagnumPhotos

Duration: 12 Months

Domain : E-commerce Platform

Services : AWS Environment Administration (Multi Environment)

Client Requirements: Day to Day Management of AWS Environment

Skills Required :Magento Administration, WordPress Administration, AWS Code Deployment, ECS, Fargate, SES, SQS, API Gateway, WAF, EC2, EFS, RDS, MYSQL, SQL Administration, Security & Performance Tuning, Backup & DR, PCI Compliance, etc

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms
  • Azure, AWS
  • Infrastructure Provisioning Tools
  • Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, Cloud Formation
  • Configuration Management Tools
  • Chef
  • CI /CD Tools
  • AWS Pipelines, Azure Pipelines, Gitlab Pipelines, Bitbucket, Octopus
  • Containerization Tools
  • Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
  • Source Code Management
  • GIT, GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, AWS CodeCommit
  • Logging & Monitoring Tools
  • Nagios, CloudWatch, ELK, Azure Service Health, Azure Network Monitor
  • Scripting & Programming Languages
  • Python, PowerShell, Bash/Shell,
  • Databases
  • MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, MSSQL
  • Application/Web Servers
  • Apache Tomcat, NGINX, IIS
  • Operating Systems
  • UNIX, Linux, Windows
  • Virtualization Platforms
  • VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere ESXi 5x/4X, ESX /3x, Hyper-V
  • Bug Tracking Tools
  • JIRA, Bugzilla

Timeline

DevOps Engineer (Neo Internal Project)

NHG
02.2022 - 05.2024

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Neo Technology Solutions
03.2020 - 05.2024

Azure DevOps Engineer (Neo Internal Project)

Your Housing Group
03.2020 - 01.2022

DevOps Engineer

TUI Group
01.2019 - 02.2020

DevOps Engineer

WB21 Pte Ltd
09.2017 - 11.2018

Cloud Engineer

Veristics Networks Pvt Ltd
02.2012 - 07.2017

Linux Administrator

TNGiCube Technology Resources India Pvt Ltd
03.2008 - 01.2012

AWS DevOps Engineer

Freelance Project

DevOps Engineer

Freelance Project

DevOps Engineer AWS

Freelance Project
Aneesh Kumar