Summary
Work History
Overview
Education
Skills
Timeline
Accomplishments
Core qualifications
Joshua Praveen Kumar K

Joshua Praveen Kumar K

DevOps Engineer
Chennai

Summary

Versatile DevOps Engineer with a strong Unix background and 9+ Years of Experience in Infrastructure and DevOps, seeking to grow experience and develop skills in cloud architecture. Flexible professional with exemplary expertise in automating routine application maintenance tasks, happily accepting challenging projects and working hard to exceed company goals. Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Dedicated to achieving demanding objectives according to tight schedules while producing impeccable output.

Work History

Technical Lead

LTI Mindtree
Chennai
09.2021 - Current
  • Created automated Build, Test and Deploy pipeline for 50+ applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
  • Ensured all infrastructure is created by code (IAAC) through terraform for 8 environments which includes UAT and PROD multi region.
  • Developed custom scripts using Bash languages to automate repetitive tasks and integrate disparate systems effectively streamlining workflows across departments.
  • Optimized cloud resource usage by analyzing cost metrics and making recommendations for more efficient configurations.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Rapidqube Digital Solutions
Chennai
10.2020 - 09.2021
  • Worked closely with Clients at Client Location (Bahrain) for initial setup of design, implementation, and maintenance of continuous build and deployment delivery mechanisms
  • Worked as Atlassian SME for team of 50+ users.
  • Single handedly implemented CI CD pipeline using JIRA and Jenkins, with auto triggering of Jenkins jobs.
  • Maintained Single Sign On, throughout all tools used for application development and implementation from Azure AD.
  • Maintained auto provisioning of access to JIRA to more than 50 users, using Azure AD.
  • Maintained security in Bitbucket and JIRA using IP restrictions, domain verification and SSO.

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
Pune
06.2019 - 10.2020

Release Management / DevOps Engineer :

  • Designed "Zero touch automated Deployment" using Jenkins DSL and groovy, which enabled scheduling parallel/sequence deployments thereby reducing almost 50% of time taken for overall deployments
  • Furthermore integrated Slack with Grafana and PostgreSQL to create "Deployment Portal" to give updates to users about deployment status
  • Used Jenkins API to create metrics dashboard to get start and end time of all Jenkins job thereby creating statistical analysis of module's functional performance
  • Experienced in creating and maintaining Docker images to host Hubot to integrate with Slack to collect data to populate into Postgress DB
  • Experienced in managing and monitoring Docker containers using Kubernetes for microservices applications
  • Worked on JIRA to track and maintain worklogs and flow of tickets
  • Created single seed job to implement self created automated deployment jobs for multiple modules
  • Created generalized job for 50+ modules to create self driven "build+deploy" Jenkins job by changing one single file
  • Created automated Jenkins job to create modify and update EMS queue creations in different environments
  • Handled around 50+ modules,around 300+ applications in 5 Non Prod and 5 Prod environment

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra Pvt Ltd
Pune
11.2014 - 06.2019

Infrastructure Engineer :

  • Lead offshore team for maintaining infrastructure of MyAtt sales application servers.
  • Maintained 800+ RHEL server environment with 99.5% uptime.
  • Developed scripts for automating manual works like daily health checks, OS patching and tools installation etc.
  • Installed and managed Nagios on more than 800+ servers (app+web) for monitoring performance of server as well as application
  • Used Ansible to maintain configuration management across all servers thereby helping in maintaining infrastructure as code
  • Experienced in automating manual browse using Selenium
  • Created self-healing scripts to automate recovery for Nagios alerts

Overview

4
4
years of post-secondary education
10
10
years of professional experience

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Vel Tech Multi Tech Engineering College, Chennai
08.2010 - 05.2014
  • Pursued Electronics and communication engineering and passed out with 7.3 CGP
  • Elected as the Class representative
  • Key member of an initiative called Sahayatha in which we organize and help underprivileged children for their education

Skills

Version Control (BitBucket,Github)

Timeline

Technical Lead - LTI Mindtree
09.2021 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer - Rapidqube Digital Solutions
10.2020 - 09.2021
IT Analyst - Tata Consultancy Services
06.2019 - 10.2020
Software Engineer - Tech Mahindra Pvt Ltd
11.2014 - 06.2019
Vel Tech Multi Tech Engineering College - Bachelor of Science, Electronics And Communication Engineering
08.2010 - 05.2014

Accomplishments

  • Awarded the top performer 3 times in a row.
  • Awarded the Employee of the month for the month of January 2021.
  • Got numerous awards and appreciations for my presentation on " Flyway " and " Zero touch Automated deployment "

Core qualifications

A strong aptitude for automation,optimizing workflow efficiency.

Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure. Open to learn new technologies and tools.

Passionate about embracing emerging technologies and committed to staying informed about industry advancements.

Joshua Praveen Kumar KDevOps Engineer