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Kamalakkannan Murugan

Kamalakkannan Murugan

Senior Technology Consultant
Chennai

Summary

Highly skilled Senior Technical Consultant with over a decade of experience in AIOps, Cloud, and DevOps for banking and enterprise clients. Expertise in designing and deploying robust cloud infrastructure, implementing advanced Monitoring & Observability solutions, and automating environments using modern DevOps practices. Adept at ensuring system reliability, cost optimization, and scalability, while mentoring teams and driving business outcomes.

Innovative Solution Architect with in-depth understanding of software deployment and system design illustrated over 10 years of experience in similar roles.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Technology Sr. Consultant

NTTData
07.2021 - Current
  • Created Industry standard framework architecture for Monitoring & Observability using AppDynamics & Splunk
  • Implemented full-fledged feathers of Monitoring across platforms like Virtualization, Cloud & IKP platforms
  • Created Dashboards on Infra and Business transactions overview based on flow which helps to reduce MTTI
  • Created Service Catalogue based on Critical Payment flows and Business journeys
  • Setup Alert Dashboard on Splunk based on Payment flow helps to reduce huge amount MTTR & MTTI for application teams
  • Supported in defining Service Catalogue and SLI, SLO KPI metrics and ITSI Dashboard creation for KPI metrics tracking
  • Supported on Implementing Open-telemetry framework over GKE and IKP platform

Solution Architect

Vocalink-Mastercard
- Current
  • Managing International business environments with cloud-native tools for Vocalink-MasterCard
  • Provisioning and managing Cloud instances including Security vulnerabilities, Application performances
  • As Solution architect providing engineering solutions to the team for adopting and utilizing the latest tools with the utmost utilization
  • Manage the Kubernetes environment to handle CI/CD pipelines and their runners
  • Managing the Core banking applications like Swift, BO, Oracle Golden-gate installation, automation, troubleshooting
  • Scaling resources based on client requirements to achieve TPS limits
  • Expertise in Cloud Cost optimization and resource utilization
  • Scheduling and Managing servers and Kubernetes patching
  • Design and deploy environment based on client requirements with terraform
  • Part of all application releases from planning to the implementation process and post-support

Celanese
- Current
  • Led a large-scale M&A project for a German client, involving cross-domain architectures such as SAP, SaaS, databases, and Azure Cloud servers
  • Managed end-to-end project lifestyle, including proposal development, RFPs, cost estimation, timeline planning, and testing strategies
  • Successfully migrated two business units entirely to Azure public cloud, ensuring seamless operations
  • Delivered UAT and production cut over within scheduled timelines, with zero escalations
  • Provided mentor-ship and technical guidance to team members, fostering skill development and operational efficiency

R&D IS Engineer

Valeo
04.2019 - 07.2021
  • Ensuring R&D Application availability hosted either on AWS, Azure
  • Designed and implemented DevOps practices for Build, Test, Deploy & Monitor the production environment, resulting in a 30-40% reduction in deployment time
  • Established a cost-effective at the same plenty of time for each engineer to perform simulations of camera feeds which saves around 600K Euro per annum
  • Implemented automation and orchestration using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes resulting
  • Created a dashboard for Splunk monitoring to handle AWS usage and security
  • Containerizing the embedded applications based on project requirements using Kubernetes
  • Configuring and Managing CI/CD Pipelines for software release across all projects in the Embedded division
  • Creating Ansible Packages for R&D Applications as part of Software Management
  • Involved in yearly budget preparation (infra and S/W application) and responsible for cost management for the business entity
  • Implementing Security standards based on MISRA , ISO-9001, IATF requirements
  • Streamlining and defining process with Group Standards

DevOps Engineer

Wipro
08.2018 - 04.2019
  • Handling Data Center Automation for entire Citibank servers including WINDOWS and UNIX using DevOps tools
  • Providing a wide variety of automation solutions like Security Vulnerability, Software Management, Software Deployment, Server Provisioning, Patching, Automation Tasks and Task Tracking, using IBM BigFix for Windows Servers, Ansible for RHEL, AIX platforms
  • Automated Windows Patch compliance check
  • Enabling servers to be managed as code in functional groups via template
  • Using MongoDB for Server Inventory and authentication level purposes
  • Monitoring and handling Tickets raised by System as well as users

Senior Project Engineer

Wipro
09.2014 - 02.2018
  • As SysOps admin managed Windows server both On-Prem and VM end to end for almost 3500+ Servers
  • Handle Server Hardware Issues and Software upgrades based on App requirement
  • Acquired knowledge of Installation, Configuring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting & Administration of Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server
  • Performing Server and application upgrades by deploying Release on Various applications
  • Handling Microsoft Gem and Monthly Patch updates
  • Handling Major Incident Tickets and solves the issue with immediate resolution
  • Engaged in providing Incident Resolution and implementing Change management/ Problem management, Release and deployments

Education

B.C.A -

Bharathidasan University
06.2011 - 04.2014

Skills

Terraform

Certification

Turbonomic 8 Cloud ARM Master

Timeline

Technology Sr. Consultant

NTTData
07.2021 - Current

R&D IS Engineer

Valeo
04.2019 - 07.2021

DevOps Engineer

Wipro
08.2018 - 04.2019

Senior Project Engineer

Wipro
09.2014 - 02.2018

B.C.A -

Bharathidasan University
06.2011 - 04.2014

Solution Architect

Vocalink-Mastercard
- Current

Celanese
- Current
Kamalakkannan MuruganSenior Technology Consultant