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Kaliraja R

Bangalore

Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer

Talented and enthusiastic engineer with over 9 years of experience in DevOps and cloud infrastructure, specializing in managing cloud environments and integrating DevOps tools to streamline CI/CD pipelines.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead DevOps Engineer

Tech Mahindra
08.2021 - Current
  • Built a GitHub action pipeline to deploy confluent Kafka and other data pipeline components on Kubernetes.
  • Built and managed Helm charts.
  • Implemented automation to create and manage domains in Route 53 by leveraging external-dns operator.
  • Implemented automation to create and manage S3 buckets from Kubernetes.
  • Managed custom Confluent Kafka deployment using Helm charts and Docker images.
  • Provisioned and managed EKS clusters using Terraform.
  • Created dynamic Datadog monitors using the Datadog Monitor Operator custom resource for all Confluent components.
  • Managed a significant number of Kafka clusters and other related components.
  • Built the complex deployment pipeline and managing the same.
  • POC for new requirements and preparing documents for implementation with end to end steps.
  • Have experience working with federated Kubernetes clusters.
  • Experience in managing a significant number of Kubernetes clusters.
  • Managing Terraform code to install add-ons in the Kubernetes cluster.
  • Work on L2-level monitoring alerts to ensure the infrastructure remains stable.
  • Writing the RCA for priority issues.
  • Create multiple GitHub actions by using Bash script.
  • Create an automation to check the application health and bounce the pods by using Bash script.
  • Worked on Bash script to create the automation to get the data from Schema registry with the help of Curl.
  • Created the Bash scripts to ease the day to day activities.
  • Worked with GitOps to deploy applications to Kubernetes.
  • Deploy the Add-ons applications/Kubernetes operators by using Terraform.
  • Experience in Infrastructure development and operations involving AWS cloud platforms, EC2, S3, EKS, Route53, Loadbalancer, Autoscaling, IAM and VPC.
  • Integrated a SecOps in CI/CD pipelone, enhancing the security posture of applications by implementing automated security checks and monitoring throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Defined and set up processes for development, testing, release, updates, and support in DevOps operations.

Senior Devops Engineer

Tarento Technologies Pvt Limited
02.2018 - 08.2021
  • Wrote Ansible scripts for the deployment and provisioning of databases and other services.
  • Automated the build and deployment of microservices.
  • Migrated the orchestration tool from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes.
  • Enabled automated deployments to development and staging environments.
  • Involved in the setup of Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana in Kubernetes.
  • Created alert rules for infrastructure alerts.
  • Enabled automated alert rule creation for application-related alerts.
  • Experienced in Kubernetes and Helm.
  • Managed development and staging infrastructure and participated in infrastructure audits.
  • Enabled automation to start and stop lab infrastructure, managing the Azure cloud account.
  • Contributed to the setup of the logging stack using the ELK stack.
  • Configured Kafka in cluster mode.
  • Experienced in building Docker container images and creating Helm charts for microservices deployment.

Automation Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprises, DXC Technologies
08.2015 - 02.2018
  • Wrote Ansible scripts to install an Autosys agent on Linux servers.
  • Wrote Ansible scripts to patch Autosys servers.
  • Created Jenkins pipeline jobs to apply patches to the servers.
  • Wrote a shell script to generate batch job reports.
  • Developed a shell script to send email alerts for batch job failures to the respective application teams.
  • Created a shell script to restart failed batch jobs using Autosys commands.
  • Configured role-based access for the Jenkins GUI.

Education

Bachelor of engineering - Aeronautical Engineering

Park College of Engineering And Technology
12.2013

Skills

  • Github
  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
  • Kubernetes
  • ELK
  • Azure
  • Bash Script
  • Kafka
  • Jira
  • Helm
  • Nginx
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Github Action
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Datadog
  • Cert-Manager
  • Confluent Kafka
  • GitOps

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Lead DevOps Engineer

Tech Mahindra
08.2021 - Current

Senior Devops Engineer

Tarento Technologies Pvt Limited
02.2018 - 08.2021

Automation Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprises, DXC Technologies
08.2015 - 02.2018

Bachelor of engineering - Aeronautical Engineering

Park College of Engineering And Technology
Kaliraja R