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IRUSAPPAN P

Chennai

Summary

  • A Highly motivated IT professional with strong hands-on experience in Cloud & DevOPS. Skilled in automating application building & deployment process using Azure DevOPS,Jenkins improving release frequency and better quality.
  • Experienced in developing Kubernetes manifests,Dockerization and micro-service architecture.
  • Possess strong problem solving skills and proven ability to develop and implement CI/CD pipeline using various tools and infrastructure development and monitoring.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr DevOPS Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2021 - Current

Sr.DevOPS Engineer with Lloyds banking Group

Responsibilities:

  • Setting up the large kubernetes Cluster at On-Prem using Rancher Kubernetes Management tool.
  • Create the CI/CD pipelines for the different technology stack using Azure DevOPS and Jenkins.
  • Develop and maintain Azure Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Host and maintain the DevOPS tools centrally (Jenkins,Nexus,NexusIQ,SonarQube,Postgres,AquaSec)
  • Lead the development of shared libraries.
  • Lead the application architectural design in Azure using Cloud native resources.
  • Develop Continuous Deployment Process using IBM Urban Code Deploy(uDeploy)
  • Regular version upgrade of the tools/services and security patching and cert updates
  • Implementation of Monitoring Solutions using Dynatrace,Prometheous,Grafana
  • Align with Customers and strategize tools and technologies to be used.
  • Migration of services from On-prem environment to the Azure AKS and OCP Environment
  • Lead the agile ceremonies(Sprint Planning,DSM,Review and Sprint Retrospective)

Highlights:

  • Successfully running the critical Kubernetes Cluster without any major incident
  • Successfully migrated multiple application from On-prem to Azure AKS
  • Reduced deployment times with the introduction of CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects.
  • Developed many critically acclaimed solutions in DevOPS area.

Cloud Solution Architect

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2017 - 12.2020

Solution architect for Leading SaaS based Product in TCS called “Jile”.

Jile is an Enterprise level Agile planning and Delivery platform built on top of Azure Platform. It helps organizations of all sizes Continuously build and deliver valuable Software faster. Individual User/Team/Organization can register to the product and use the 30 days free-trial period to explore the product.

Responsibilities

  • Design & architect highly available and scalable solutions using cloud native technologies to meet the Product Architecture Requirement.
  • Review & Support TCS Products & platforms on moving their Production workloads on Microsoft Azure.
  • Ensure that product is in-compliant to the ISO standards (27001,27017,27018) and TCS Security Bench Marks and other standards as recommended by the Corporate.
  • Ownership of taking the product to the periodic audit process (Internal & External audits) for Compliance & Bench mark against the Cloud standards.
  • Ownership of Implementation of MicroSoft Defender policy in Azure platform and maintain the 100 % Security Score by meeting the Azure Security Compliance requirements.
  • Automation of Production Deployment and maintenance across regions using CI/CD Pipeline
  • Design and implement DevSecOPS practices for Product development.
  • Participate in daily scrum meetings & monthly Program planning meeting with all the stake holders of the product and communicate regarding the update on architecture part.
  • Design and configure the application Monitoring & Backup strategy.

Highlights :

25% faster deployment.

0 security incidents in last 3 years.

Achieved product availability SLA of 99.9 % .

Supported 6 Products & Solutions for migrating to the Azure Platforms.

DevOPS Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2015 - 04.2017

DevOPS Consultant for TCS Product "MasterCraft DevPlus".

TCS MasterCraft DevPlus is a single integrated platform which takes care of the continuous delivery, deployment and Quality assurance activities of the applications at an enterprise scale. And it supports both Waterfall model and agile mythology in a single platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Engage with customer directly and understand the Products & tooling Eco- system.
  • Recommend/Suggest the tools to achieve the Continuous Build & Deployment.
  • Develop & Validate with customer on Build procedure and Environment Management,Deployment Pipeline.
  • Development of the scripts and integration with required set of tool chain for CI/CD
  • Agile practice coaching.

Highlights :

  • Have Supported 15+ Customers on moving Agile & DevOPS transformation process.
  • Travelled to Customer locations for DevOPS PoC's and implementation of the same.

Product Deployment & Support Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2012 - 04.2015

Product Deployment & Support Lead for TCS Product "MasterCraft ALM".

TCS MasterCraft ALM is a Collaborative QA platform which has a structured approach to managing Requirements, Test and Defect Management processes and Test Automation.

- End-to-End Traceability & Governance

- Easy to Use & Intuitive Functionalities

Responsibilities:

  • Held the responsibility of the Setting up the hosted environment for ALM SaaS application in TCS Cloud Environment.
  • Ensuring the application availability of 99.5 %.
  • Design and configured the DR setup for the application.
  • Held the responsibility of setting up Domain clustered Jboss application servers and High available PostgreSQL DB server with Red Hat cluster suite ( RHCS).
  • Demonstration of the product to the Customers.
  • Responsible for all Non- functional aspects of the product ( Security, Performance, Packaging, Platform certification)

PL/SQL Developer and Support Executive

Tata Consultancy Service
01.2010 - 02.2012

Product Support Executive and PL/SQL developer for TCS Product "SmartTest Manager".

Responsibilities:

  • Held responsible for developing stored procedure and SQL queries.
  • Interacting with customers and making customization on the product configurations.
  • Creating Customized reports.
  • Installation of the product at the customer location and providing support and hand hold them.
  • Query resolution and providing training on the product capabilities.

Education

M.S( Software Eng) - Computer Science

VIT University
Vellore, Tamil Nadu
05.2009

Skills

  • Certified Azure Administrator & Security Expert
  • Certified Azure DevOPS Engineer
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator(CKA),AKS,GKE
  • Python/SHEL Scripting,PostgreSQL
  • Docker,Jenkins,IBM Urban Code Deploy,ServiceNow
  • Nexus,NexusIQ,SonarQube
  • Aquasec,Ansible,Terraform
  • Agile,Jira,Confluence

Certification

  • Certified SAFe Agilist, 95535450-8312
  • PostgreSQL Enterprise DB trained DBA, EDB76336 / 3685BGFC27
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate, H711-8575
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate, DB6DA1-PA0444
  • Microsoft Certified Devops Engineer Expert, A4145J-D32AAC

Timeline

Sr DevOPS Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2021 - Current

Cloud Solution Architect

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2017 - 12.2020

DevOPS Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2015 - 04.2017

Product Deployment & Support Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2012 - 04.2015

PL/SQL Developer and Support Executive

Tata Consultancy Service
01.2010 - 02.2012

M.S( Software Eng) - Computer Science

VIT University
IRUSAPPAN P