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Work History
Education
Certification
Accomplishments
Project
Hobbies
Interests
Competencies
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Balaji S

DevOps Engineer
Chennai

Summary

Result-oriented and highly skilled Cloud and DevOps Engineer with 3 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing scalable and automated cloud infrastructure. Proven expertise in optimizing deployment pipelines, enhancing system reliability, and driving efficiency through automation. Seeking an opportunity to contribute technical proficiency and innovative solutions in a dynamic team environment.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
48
48
years of post-secondary education
8
8
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Devops Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mepz
04.2023 - Current
  • Designed and implemented automated deployment processes, reducing deployment time by 40%.
  • Orchestrated containerized applications using Kubernetes, improving scalability and resource utilization.
  • Implemented infrastructure as code using Terraform, resulting in consistent and reproducible environments across development and production.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to optimize cloud costs while maintaining high system performance.
  • Led efforts to enhance system reliability through proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Cloud Support Engineer

Atos Global IT Solutions And Services
12.2021 - 04.2023

PROJECT 2:

  • Configured and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing deployment failures by 20%.
  • Implemented Ansible playbooks for automated configuration and maintenance tasks.
  • Collaborated with development teams to troubleshoot and optimize application performance.
  • Conducted training sessions for team members on best practices in cloud and DevOps methodologies.

Systems Engineer

Atos Global IT Solutions And Services
08.2021 - 12.2021

PROJECT 1 :

  • Promoted as an SME within a short span of time and led my entire team by continuously monitoring the work done by them and their actions.
  • I have also taken full control of the shift and ensured no SLA's are getting missed out or breached.
  • Worked as an OC engineer by monitoring client network devices for Retail sites, Datacenters, Headquarters and distribution sites.
  • Performing initial triage for any reactive issues
    Updating customer in a regular interval of time based on the SLA
  • Successfully handled critical situations in my work field
  • Enhancing the level of customer care by offering prompt and effective solutions to their issues.
  • Troubleshooting of network related incidents such as link outages, peer outages, router/switch hardware failures, network performance issues


Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

Jeppiaar Institute Of Technology
Chennai, India
04.2001 - 10.2020

HSC - Computer Science

Sai Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Chennai, India
04.2001 - 06.2016

SSLC -

Prince Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Chennai, India
04.2001 - 06.2014

Certification

200-301 – Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Accomplishments

  • Recognized as "Employee of the Month" for outstanding contributions to the successful migration of on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.
  • Successfully led a team in achieving a 99.9% uptime for critical production systems.

Project

  • Implemented a fully automated CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, resulting in a 30% reduction in time-to-market.
  • Utilized Terraform to provision and manage AWS resources, optimizing infrastructure costs by implementing auto-scaling.
  • Configured centralized logging and monitoring for a microservices architecture using the ELK stack.

Hobbies

  • Cooking
  • Badminton
  • Surfing

Interests

UI Path

Power Automate

Networking

Competencies

  • Communicative
  • Punctuality
  • Curiosity
  • Organized


Timeline

Devops Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mepz
04.2023 - Current

Cloud Support Engineer

Atos Global IT Solutions And Services
12.2021 - 04.2023

Systems Engineer

Atos Global IT Solutions And Services
08.2021 - 12.2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

Jeppiaar Institute Of Technology
04.2001 - 10.2020

HSC - Computer Science

Sai Matriculation Higher Secondary School
04.2001 - 06.2016

SSLC -

Prince Matriculation Higher Secondary School
04.2001 - 06.2014
Balaji SDevOps Engineer