Karan Jain

• Built and Manage the team for scratch
• Skill the team
• Team development plan
• Mature DevOps practice
• Prep customised DevOps proposition for customer
• Run bootcamp sessions for TC and demo for customers
• Participate in leadership meeting to update the DevOps status
• Maintain customer relations
• Do Pre-sales meetings
• Help sales team to understand the proposition
• Keep a tab on profit margins
• Review SoW from the DevOp side
• POSH
• Effort estimations on the project for the team
• Audit the projects worked upon by the team
• CI/CD strategy on the project
• Consulting with the customer to choose tooling or any other ISV product.
• Responsible for keeping a tab on new tools and technologies and integrating with the tooling
• Introduced POD system for resilience
• Maintained 0% attrition rate

• Developing CI/CD road map and implementing to the products.
• Extensive use of XL-Deploy(Xebialabs) and Ansible for application deployment.
• Achieving automation & orchestration of tools.
• Releasing new features & ensuring post-release product stability.
• Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, ESB, Security group, Auto scaling, RDS in cloud formation yml template.
• Responsible for deployment at various casinos in Macau(MGM), Malaysia(Genting), Las Vegas(MGM) and Vietnam (Hoiana)
• Participate in project planning meetings to share the knowledge of system options, risk, impact and cost vs benefit.
• Develop maintenance requirements and procedure.
• POCs for Casinos to move on AWS.
• Team management of 5 people.
• Improving SDLC processes by identifying gaps in them and proposing technical and nontechnical solutions.
• Implementing new tools and techniques in the project internally for supporting SDLC phases.
• Code quality improvement through the use of SONAR quality profiles and code review process enhancement.

• Provide support to Agile project teams in configuring and base-lining project items.
• Review and recommend improvements to existing CM processes.
• Work with configuration teams in development and enhancement of CM tools.
• Assist in management, maintenance and automating of CM tools.
• Maintain proper version controls of software deliverables.
• Oversee the delivery of software applications in test and deployment environments.
• Analyze configuration issues and propose appropriate resolutions.

• Effective implementation of branching and merging strategies.
• Continuous integration with Jenkins
• Prepare release calendar with detailed release windows and cycles
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities
• Validate the contents of the Release with Release notes.
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews
• Automate the deployment of full build, patches, hot fixes etc., into test and production environments
• Co-ordinate the smoke testing before handover of environments to testing team post deployment
• Maintain the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
• Configuration management of code as per existing process.
• Retek (RMS9/RMS10, RDM) code deployment
• Lead engagement with App support for assessing/raising Remedy RFC’s.
• Engage and manage release relationships with implementation and service operations.
• Produce deployment and Implementation plans through discussions with key stakeholders
• Oversee and coordinate updates to RFC’s during deployment
• Participate in CAB & STARCAB meetings with PM to discuss release scope and/or Road blocks
• Manage issues during Go live and handover captured issues to Service Transition team for tracking during warranty period.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Code promotion, SVN branching, configuration management
• Spring batch programming
• J2EE development of various automated tools and core architectural components of project
• Deployment and environment troubleshooting
• 24X7 Production deployment and troubleshooting support
• Environment management
• Status reporting
• Coordinating between testing team, Field operations team, Project leads, Developers and production architecture team for production delivery.
• Improving SDLC processes by identifying gaps in them and proposing technical and nontechnical solutions.
• Implementing new tools and techniques in the project internally for supporting SDLC phases.
• Code quality improvement through the use of SONAR quality profiles and code review process enhancement.
• Team management, appraisal of team members and setting future team direction
• Providing external project support on demand