Arun S Raj
Associate Architect, DevOps
Calicut
Summary
Experienced DevOps Engineer with 13 years of expertise in the IT industry, dedicated to harnessing well-established technical abilities and skills to achieve seamless software delivery and deployment.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Associate Architect, DevOps
QBurst Technologies
08.2020 - Current
- Being DevOps Consultant taking initiatives to improve architectures by suggesting suitable secure and highly available solutions with best practices,
while actively contributing to organization’s success by securing additional DevOps projects. - Played pivotal role in architecting and implementing DevOps process
across multiple projects, contributing to seamless delivery and operational
excellence. - Designed tailored disaster recovery solutions to maintain up time
- Contributed to designing gen-2 infrastructure which reduced software delivery time from 1.5 hours to 5 minutes
- Coordinated engineering assignments for multiple simultaneous projects to fulfill prescribed project requirements
Lead DevOps Engineer
QBurst Technologies
08.2019 - 07.2020
- Led diverse DevOps team for projects, implementing efficient CI/CD, automation, and monitoring, reducing task time from hours to minutes
- Orchestrated seamless migration of project to new cloud, ensuring uninterrupted operations
- Conducted infrastructure code reviews, ensuring adherence to standards and best practices
- Advised on optimal deployment and scaling approaches for applications.
- Suggested cloud cost optimization option techniques that reduced cost by 40 percentage
Lead System Engineer
QBurst Technologies
08.2017 - 07.2019
- Played key role in infrastructure management and provided leadership to engineering team
- Spearheaded configuration of cloud servers and infrastructure for multiple projects in development phase.
- Checked for accuracy and functionality during implementation of new systems
- Documented system configuration, mapping and processes
- Optimized networked software and operating systems by applying updates and patches
- Simultaneously given server support for more than 5 projects
- Created flowcharts, diagrams and other documentation
- Integrated database and backup servers into enterprise systems.
Senior System Engineer
QBurst Technologies
02.2012 - 07.2017
- Contributed to planning, implementation, and providing comprehensive server support for both organization and its clients
- Managed local network and given cloud support for projects in development.
- Assisted employees with resolving network problems at remote locations
- Identified software issues and handled troubleshooting to resolve quickly
- Implemented security measures and software to maintain network integrity
- Managed and maintained more than 10 internal applications
Engineer Operations
Omnesys Technologies
08.2010 - 01.2012
- Configured and managed back-end servers for stock trading software running on Linux platform
- Managed over 15 customer per day
- Reduced downtime and increased production capacity with strong maintenance plans
- Provided technical assistance during operational changes
Education
Bachelor of Computer Application (Lateral) - Computer Science
Annamalai University
Calicut, India 05.2011 - 05.2020
Diploma - Computer Science
NTTF NEC Bangalore
Bangalore, India 07.2007 - 07.2010
Skills
AWS: EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, SES, OU, IAM, VPC, ACM, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, EFS, CloudFormation, SQS, Lambda, Autoscaling, Secret Manager, WAF, Workmail, CloudTrail, Global Accelerator, Redshift, KMS, EKS, ECR, CloudFront
Kubernetes: Docker, EKS, GKE, ECR, Helm, Istio, Kiali, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger
GCP: Compute Engine, App Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, IAM, Memorystore, Loadbalancer, Firebase
CI/CD: Octopus CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Harness
Iac and Configuration Management: Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Shell script
Security: Threatstack, MS Defender, Azure sentinel, WAF
Scripting: Bash, Python, DSL(Jenkins)
DNS: Route53, Rackspace, Godaddy, Cloudflare
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora, Redshift, and MHA tool
Mail Servers: Mailgun, Sendgrid, Postfix, SES, Zoho
Monitoring and Logging: Nagios, Elastic search, Sumologic, AWS Cloud- Watch, PagerDuty, New relic, scout APM, Opsgenie
Directory Service: LDAP, Azure AD
Project Management and Collaboration: Jira, GitHub, Mattermost, Slack, Redmine, MS Teams, Skype, GitLab
Certification
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator - ID: LF-xtbypn6k1c
Timeline
Associate Architect, DevOps
QBurst Technologies
08.2020 - Current
Lead DevOps Engineer
QBurst Technologies
08.2019 - 07.2020
Lead System Engineer
QBurst Technologies
08.2017 - 07.2019
Senior System Engineer
QBurst Technologies
02.2012 - 07.2017
Bachelor of Computer Application (Lateral) - Computer Science
Annamalai University
05.2011 - 05.2020
Engineer Operations
Omnesys Technologies
08.2010 - 01.2012
Diploma - Computer Science
NTTF NEC Bangalore
07.2007 - 07.2010