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Jithin Xavier

Pleasanton

Summary

An accomplished with 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Management of success in planning, directing activities leading to the deployment of innovative technology solutions and the sharing of knowledge and experience. I’m hoping to apply my knowledge of industry best practice to an organization with an amazing mission.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer

Cisco Systems
San Francisco
03.2019 - Current
  • Designing and implementing deployment automation and configuration management
  • Build a SaaS cloud provisioning tool for rapid and scalable deployments of the Appdynmaics(Application Performance Monitoring) software
  • Enhancing application code and making recommendations to the dev team to ease application operationalization
  • Maintain system health by measuring availability and latency of live services
  • Designing and enforcing best practices and standards for new application services
  • Working with the dev team to ensure application availability targets are met
  • Designing application monitoring to detect and help resolve problems
  • Responding to and resolving technical emergencies
  • Developed an API Gateway solution from scratch, tested, deployed to production, and integrated the API Gateway solution with other microservices
  • The availability, scalability, and reliability of the product are extremely critical, so I have to monitor and patch the security features promptly
  • Developing and contributing to the new development of the Levitate project
  • The Levitate project's main focus is the observability of cloud-native applications built on top of Kubernetes
  • Collaborate with development teams to enhance services by implementing thorough testing and release procedures
  • Build a Fast Disaster Recovery tool for Appdynamics
  • Participate in consulting for system design, managing the platform, and planning capacity
  • Tools and skills used here are AWS Cloud, Python programming language, Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, TeamCity, Prometheus and Grafana

Engineer

Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited
Bengaluru
02.2016 - 03.2019
  • Responsible for taking on new initiatives to automate, enhance, and scale services (our big data platform, Micro-services) in a rapidly scaling SaaS environment. The team provides deep expertise to help steer scalability and stability improvements early in the life cycle of development. Work with the rest of the team to automate existing processes that deploy, test, and lead our production environments.
  • Responsible for building highly scalable applications in Cloud and Datacenter
  • Designing and implementing deployment automation and configuration management
  • Enhancing application code and making recommendations to the dev team to ease application operationalization
  • Designing and enforcing best practices and standards for new application services
  • Working with the dev team to ensure application availability targets are met
  • Designing application monitoring to detect and help resolve problems
  • Responding to and resolving technical emergencies.

Sr. Cloud Engineer

smartShift Technologies
Bengaluru
10.2014 - 01.2016
  • AWS Infrastructure Design, Architecture, Implementation and Orchestration
  • Deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot, multi-tier, distributed, cloud-based application components
  • Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud solutions
  • Create custom scripts for reporting, troubleshooting, security audits, and automation of miscellaneous maintenance tasks
  • Create custom logging, reporting, and graphing tools to analyze application component bottlenecks, enable problem notifications, enhance hardware, VM, database, and JVM tuning and prevent potential failures
  • Working on large enterprise Java application design and implementations
  • Advise software development teams on architecting and designing web interfaces and infrastructures that safely and efficiently power the cloud environment
  • Automating AWS cloud infrastructure using Cloudformation and other tools for varies clients
  • Setting up Identity Access Management System
  • Containerized applications using Docker.

System Administrator

NextSphere Technologies
07.2012 - 10.2014
  • NextSphere provides cloud application deployment and support services for various clients
  • A continues support from the design and implementation till the end of the project is the primary area focused by us here
  • Deploying, Managing and configuring multiple web and application clusters in the cloud (AWS EC2) with most of the applications having High Availability
  • Migrate service from a managed hosting environment to AWS including: service design, network layout, data migration, automation, monitoring, deployments, documentation, overall plan, cost analysis, and timeline
  • Redesigned existing Amazon AWS infrastructure to improve security and availability, eliminate single points of failure, and enhance maintainability via simplification
  • Central Log Management solutions with Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK Stack) web interface to filter logs from all servers in a meaningful manner using grok filters and storing it inside elastic-search text storage
  • Cloud Infrastructure Design and solution
  • High availability and scalable Storage for all instances in the cloud using GlusterFS file system with multiple nodes
  • Configuration management and bootstrapping instances with Puppet/Chef configuration management tool
  • Load balancing web application requests using Amazon Elastic Load Balencer and Mod Proxy in Apache
  • Deploying Jboss Cluster for web application with scalability without using multicasting in the cloud
  • DNS management and migration to AWS R53
  • Backup and Disaster recovery planning and implementation
  • Java based application performance tuning and troubleshooting
  • Worked on some of the Media Asset management tools like Vidispine,Cantemo and Aspera
  • Nagios Server and Client configuration
  • Necessary to provide value add and proactive maintenance to the client.

System Engineer

Freshersworld.com
06.2010 - 06.2012
  • Freshersworld is The No.1 Job Site for Fresher's in India and a database of over 4 million+ resumes, 1 Lakhs+ resumes added every month,2.50,000 unique visitors every day and with 40 million page views a month
  • Responsible for maintaining multiple Web clusters, Cache cluster and DB tier which handle's millions of requests per day
  • Engineer and maintain network and small Linux, Unix server cluster
  • Optimization of Drupal based application
  • Freshersworld.com migration to AWS Cloud
  • Designed and implemented continuous deployment pipeline to demonstrate design-to-deployment lifecycle resource reduction for dramatic time and cost savings, and deployment to AWS
  • Using technologies like MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, MySQL (Percona) for high performance architecture
  • Implemented advanced logging analytics with ELK stack
  • Build a bulk email system using AWS SES, AWS SQS, Gearman, Redis, MySQL and Yii Framework
  • Infrastructure build using AWS EC2, ELB, Autoscaling, R53, SNS, SES and S3
  • Automation scripting for Backup and Recovery
  • Providing Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Base after every client training
  • Build highly availability server configuration in AWS Elastic load balancer using Auto scale under Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Postfix mail Server installation and configuration
  • Working with GlusterFS file system in EC2, GlusterFS EBS replication in AWS different AZ, and GlusterFS Geo Replication
  • MySQL Replication like master-master and master slave configuration
  • Recording and tracking incidents and complaints
  • Responsible to ensure 99 % uptime for servers under SLA
  • Work with team members to ensure 24x7 supports for mission critical system
  • Provide documentation for all server changes, installations, and upgrades to ensure accuracy according to the company standards.

Education

BCA -

Bangalore University
01.2010

Websites

Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer

Cisco Systems
03.2019 - Current

Engineer

Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited
02.2016 - 03.2019

Sr. Cloud Engineer

smartShift Technologies
10.2014 - 01.2016

System Administrator

NextSphere Technologies
07.2012 - 10.2014

System Engineer

Freshersworld.com
06.2010 - 06.2012

BCA -

Bangalore University

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