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GOKUL SHANMUGASUNDARAM

Bengaluru

Summary

Experienced IT professional with 7 years of expertise in DevOps, SRE, and AWS DevOps. Proficient in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, and Bash. Skilled in optimizing deployments for high availability and scalability of applications in Linux environments.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Globant
12.2024 - Current
  • Designed and implemented reusable Terraform modules for AWS IAM policy and role creation, supporting automation of access management and ensuring compliance with organization-wide security standards.
  • Deployed and managed applications on Kubernetes (EKS) using GitOps with ArgoCD.
  • Implemented monitoring and observability solutions using Prometheus and Grafana to track system performance and set up alerts.

Software Development Analyst

Accenture
08.2021 - 08.2024
  • Experienced in deploy, manage, troubleshoot, and automate applications using Kubernetes(EKS) and GitOps with ArgoCD.
  • Experienced in design and provision cloud infrastructure using Terraform, implementing modular and reusable configurations.
  • Creating, managing and troubleshooting pipelines in Jenkins for multiple tech stacks (Java, Node JS, Python).
  • Experienced in Istio Service Mesh for traffic management, security, and service-to-service communication within Kubernetes.
  • Worked in AWS services like EC2, IAM, S3 buckets, Code commit, Lambda, Cloud watch.
  • Worked on Monitoring & Observability using Prometheus and Grafana to track system performance and set up alerts.
  • Upgrading CICD tools (Nexus, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence) to the latest version to keep the application updated with latest features and fixes.
  • Leading a team(Team Lead) of 5 colleagues for the upgrade project.
  • Guiding multiple teams on troubleshooting Git related issues as a SME.

Devops Engineer

Solverminds Solutions And Technologies
04.2020 - 07.2021
  • The project is to develop a Web Application for supporting Ship maintenance for different Clients.
  • Taking ownership of Source code management, handling requests on GITLAB
  • Automated some basic tasks without automation tools (Auto clearing logs, Daily backup using Powershell, Restart using Powershell and consolidation of releases and etc)
  • Configured Jenkins jobs from scratch with the MAVEN framework for unstructured WAR.
  • As part of release management team, Deploying and trouble shooting in the Testing, Staging and Preprod Environments (Jboss)
  • Guiding and Troubleshooting issues faced by developers on GIT and GITLAB
  • Configured Jenkins Job for restarting Jboss instances and some other basic tasks in both Linux and Windows environments using the target machines as slave.

Middleware Administrator

Wipro Technologies
10.2017 - 03.2020
  • The Project was to support the development life cycle of Citi Desktop Web applications and Mobile thick and thin applications.
  • Part of Primary support for Mobile applications ( Thick and Thin )
  • Part of Secondary support for Desktop and other applications.
  • Managing SSL certificates like importing and exporting and monitoring expiration of the certificates using Keytool commands
  • Automate routine tasks using Shell Script ( Mail Alerts for High CPU utilization, Validation for Static file deployment using checksum values, duplicate properties).
  • Writing scripts for bulk activities in PCF Platform ( Restart and Restage in Bulk, Space role assignment)
  • Deployment and Troubleshooting in Websphere Application Server and IHS.
  • Validating the Production Deployment.
  • As part of Primary support for Mobile Applications getting sign off mails from Testing team to move the Thin Application to Playstore.
  • Training and assisting L1 level support analyst.
  • Monitoring and providing solutions to client request via Service Now Ticketing tool.


Education

B.E - EEE

R.M.K College of Engineering and Technology
01.2017

Skills

  • Version control systems - Git(Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Code commit)
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes (EKS)
  • ArgoCD
  • Istio
  • Helm
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Linux & Bash Shell
  • Python ( Basics)
  • Prometheus & Grafana
  • Azure & Azure Devops
  • MySQL (Basics)

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Globant
12.2024 - Current

Software Development Analyst

Accenture
08.2021 - 08.2024

Devops Engineer

Solverminds Solutions And Technologies
04.2020 - 07.2021

Middleware Administrator

Wipro Technologies
10.2017 - 03.2020

B.E - EEE

R.M.K College of Engineering and Technology
GOKUL SHANMUGASUNDARAM