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Bhavana Balachandran

Devops Engineer

Summary

Having 8 and a half years of expertise in supporting business critical applications including designing, configuring and managing cloud infrastructure, implementing and managing CI-CD pipelines, automations, containerization and hosting microservices, designing and configuring observability to the entire platform.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Engineer

Falabella
Bangalore
10.2018 - Current
  • Good experience in setting up CI/CD pipeline in Gitlab for application deployment into Cloud infrastructure, using Helm.
  • Experience in debugging issues related to deployment, also automated the error log output to be printed against failed deployment
  • Experience in migrating on-prem application to Cloud infrastructure
  • Responsible for administrating and managing GCP end to end.
  • Experience in setting up the entire cluster in GKE, from development to production
  • Experience in configuring and debugging containerization tools like Docker, Kubernetes
  • Experience in fixing security bugs like enabling Workload identity, Shielded nodes, Master authorized network for GKE Nodes
  • Good hands on experience in writing the entire cluster creation in Terraform. Also implemented Terralint and Terrascan for optimized code
  • Configured a DB Analytics tool called Metabase, which was hosted on Read Replica and deployed using Helm.
  • Worked on creating Compute Engine with IAP tunnelling using terraform with restricted access.
  • Experience in configuring service mesh and side car proxy using Istio
  • Have designed and implemented entire architecture of VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus for Metrics Observability. Used Grafana charts for monitoring.
  • Experience in installing other observability tools like New Relic, Datadog in the platform as well as in applications.
  • Experience in configuring authentication for endpoints for all the environments in Auth0
  • Worked on Cloudflare CDN– created page rules, A records, Authentications, firewall rules etc.
  • Started the implementation of Spot.io on lower environments as part of cost optimisation.

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Bangalore
12.2017 - 10.2018
  • Developed Chef Recipe for infrastructure as well as application deployment automation and also the house keeping scripts to start/stop/clean applications.
  • Worked on Jenkins job for CI/CD integration pipeline
  • Created VMs(Linux) in Azure by using templates and Chef based on the requirement
  • Monitored the VMs in Azure Management portal.
  • Created Azure service bus, Queues, Topics, Subscription to support various development requirements
  • Created JBoss instances to support ATG applications
  • Owner of Splunk tool, licence management and creating critical dashboards
  • Hosted Splunk forwarders in the app/web server for log analysis

Senior Systems Executive

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
12.2014 - 12.2017
  • Apache web server instance creation and support.
  • Good experience in Shell scripting to maintain the daily operations.
  • Created entire environment set up required for Micro services on nodeJS, Springboot, PM2
  • Have experience in system admin tasks like running a process as a service
  • Upgraded OpenSSL to 1.0.2u version. Compiled it from source code and have done the upgrade from Development to Production Environment
  • Owner of license, certs and jks applied in all the application, and maintained the same
  • Supported Agile model of code release and deployment

Engineer Trainee

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
10.2013 - 12.2014
  • Handled Incident/Request which included Login and other issues of the application
  • Monitored Database using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.
  • Monitored Disk/ Space Utilization on Production server
  • Daily application health check which includes checks for high Apache/thread count and Garbage collection.

Education

B.E - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Sree Sastha College of Engineering
09.2009 - 08.2013

Skills

    Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

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Timeline

Senior Engineer

Falabella
10.2018 - Current

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2017 - 10.2018

Senior Systems Executive

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2014 - 12.2017

Engineer Trainee

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2013 - 12.2014

B.E - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Sree Sastha College of Engineering
09.2009 - 08.2013

Awards

  • Values in Action Award for automation (Falabella)
  • Featured as Change Maker for the contributions in DevOps (Falabella)
  • Best New Comer Award - (Cognizant)

Awards

  • Values in Action Award for automation (Falabella)
  • Featured as Change Maker for the contributions in DevOps (Falabella)
  • Best New Comer Award - (Cognizant)

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