Kaushalya Rajak
Durgapur
Summary
With over 12 years of experience in IT, I specialize in cloud infrastructure, automation, and monitoring. I have extensive expertise in AWS, including cost optimization and major services like EC2 and RDS. My skills include developing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and automating infrastructure with Ansible. I am also proficient in monitoring with Splunk and New Relic and in creating data visualizations with Power BI. My focus is on delivering scalable and secure solutions across diverse projects.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Computer Scientist/ DevOps-SRE
Adobe
Bangalore
08.2022 - Current
- Utilized Terraform templates to automate the provisioning and management of AWS infrastructure, significantly reducing manual configuration efforts and deployment times
- Developed reusable and modular Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure setup across multiple environments
- AWS Major Services Usage: Proficiently utilized a wide range of AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and Route 53 to design, deploy, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure.
- Built and managed highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions by leveraging AWS services and best practices
- Implemented security best practices using AWS IAM roles, policies, and multi-factor authentication to ensure compliance with organizational security standards.
- Optimized storage solutions using S3 lifecycle policies, Glacier for archiving, and EBS snapshots for backup management.
- Conducted a thorough analysis of AWS account usage and billing to identify cost-saving opportunities
- Implemented cost optimization strategies, including rightsizing of resources, identifying and terminating unused resources, and leveraging Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
- Collaborated with various teams to enforce tagging policies and establish cost allocation practices, leading to improved visibility and accountability for cloud expenditures
- Achieved substantial cost savings for the organization, resulting in a significant reduction in monthly AWS expenses.
- Ansible Automation for Infrastructure: Developed and maintained multiple Ansible playbooks to automate various infrastructure management tasks, streamlining operations and reducing manual intervention
- Automated the deployment, configuration, and management of servers, applications, and network devices using Ansible, leading to consistent and reliable infrastructure setups.
- Integrated Ansible playbooks into CI/CD pipelines, enhancing the efficiency and speed of deployment processes
- Implemented Ansible roles and reusable playbooks, promoting standardization and reusability across different environments
- Rundeck Installation, Configuration, and Automation: Installed, configured, and maintained Rundeck for task automation and orchestration within the organization
- Created and managed multiple Rundeck jobs to automate operational tasks such as system monitoring, patch management, and cloud resource provisioning
- Designed and developed a Power BI dashboard to visualize key data metrics, pulling data from a MySQL database.
- Engineered an automated data pipeline using Python code to pull data from an external API into the MySQL database, providing real-time data updates to the dashboard
- Developed and optimized the backend MySQL database for efficient data storage and retrieval, ensuring smooth performance for large datasets
- Developed and maintained a robust CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins, integrating Git for version control, JFrog Artifactory for artifact management, and SonarQube for static code analysis
- Automated the entire build, test, and deployment process, reducing deployment times and minimizing errors
- Integrated security and code quality checks using SonarQube, ensuring high code quality and adherence to best practices
- Managed the lifecycle of applications, enabling seamless continuous integration and continuous delivery of updates to production environments
- Worked on multiple security tickets, identifying and implementing fixes on servers to address vulnerabilities and compliance issues
- Automated security fixes using Ansible and shell scripts to prevent recurring issues, reducing the time required for manual intervention
- Monitoring with Splunk and New Relic: Utilized Splunk and New Relic for monitoring and analyzing system performance, application logs, and key metrics
- Set up and configured custom dashboards and alerts in Splunk to monitor system health, resource utilization, and application performance
- Employed New Relic to monitor application-level performance, identifying performance bottlenecks and improving system uptime and reliability.
Associate/AVP- DevOps Engineer
JPMorgan Chase
Bangalore
11.2020 - 07.2022
- Responsible for gathering business and functional requirements and providing estimates for project deliverables
- Involved in development and maintenance of automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins
- Manage Releases which include release documentations, Change Requests creation and deploy the applications on release day
- Implemented Blue-Green deployment pattern to avoid application downtime
- Provisioned AWS resources through IaC tool Terraform
- Working on a project where we are migrating our application to AWS as part of which I have used few services such as VPC, subnets, Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, Routing tables, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Load Balancer
- Working on a project where we are migrating our application to Kubernetes platform using Kubernetes and Docker where I have created multiple YAML files
- Worked on application migration from one datacenter to another datacenter
- Involved in development and maintenance of Middleware components such as Tomcat, Httpd
- Worked on Certificate management
- Experienced in building (using maven tool) java source codes through IntelliJ
- Worked on Database data migration from MariaDB and MySQL
- Also worked on DB deployments by executing sql queries
- Experienced in server monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Apica, Netcool.
Middleware Administrator
IBM
Bangalore
08.2020 - 11.2020
- Middleware System Administrator activities Apache Httpd, JBoss, Tomcat, Websphere Application Server
- Performed deployments of java applications on application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat, Websphere Application Server
- Written shell scripts to automate apache httpd version upgrade, stop/start/restart apache http/Jboss instances
- Worked on several incidents for both Prod and Non-Prod Environments.
Middleware Admin & Devops Engineer
Barclays
Pune
04.2017 - 08.2020
- Installed Jboss, Apache Tomcat, IIS Servers and Apache Httpd webserver in Prod and Non-Prod Environment and done all the configurations related to certificates, database, clustering, load-balancing, JMX, mod-cluster etc
- Integrated tomcat with AppDynamics and used AppDynamics to monitor server status
- Implemented SSL connection at apache http, JBoss, Tomcat, Webpshere Application Server
- Also performed certificate renewals
- Looked into multiple severity issues
- Installed Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka on Linux box and done all the configurations for zookeeper, Kafka broker, schema registry, control center, KSQL and created multiple Kafka topics with multiple partitions
- Developed and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for Java code deployment using Jenkins
- Used GIT as SCM tool for various projects
- Created Jenkins jobs to scan artifacts (stored in GIT and Nexus) by integrating with Sonarqube, Checkmarx and Veracode
- Used CHEF configuration management tool for installation of multiple packages such as tomcat, Jboss, Java, Oracle client, apache Kafka
- Built and Deployed Docker containers for multiple projects
- Orchestrated docker container clusters using OpenShift/Kubernetes
- Created multiple CI/CD Jenkins jobs for application deployments by integrating with GIT, Docker, Openshift/Kubernetes
- Written multiple shell scripts with respect to automation.
Middleware Administrator
Tata Consultancy Services
Pune
01.2012 - 01.2017
- Middleware System Administrator activities Apache Httpd/iPlanet/IIS/Apache Tomcat User/responsibility/reports management
- Performed deployments of java applications on application servers such as Jboss, Tomcat
- Implemented security hardening on Jboss and tomcat servers
- Implemented multiple service improvement tasks to reduce manual work depending upon the issue faced
- Configured and monitored Jboss/Apache Httpd/Apache Tomcat in Prod and Non-Prod Environments
- Lead the team of 7-8 members.
Education
Bachelor of Pharmacy -
Jadavpur University
Skills
- AWS
- Jenkins
- Ansible
- Splunk
- New Relic
- Power BI
- Terraform
- Infrastructure management
- Rundeck
- MySQL database
- Python
- Git
- JFrog Artifactory
- SonarQube
- Security ticket resolution
Accomplishments
Received multiple Hi-Fi awards and Excellence Operational award for exceptional performance and contributions to company projects.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge.
Affiliations
- Actively participate in various sports such as badminton, cricket, and table tennis.
- Won the "Women of the Series" award in the company's all-women cricket tournament, showcasing exceptional performance and leadership.
Languages
English
First Language
Certification
- Recieved multiple Hi-Fi awards and Excellence Operational award certificates.
Timeline
Computer Scientist/ DevOps-SRE
Adobe
08.2022 - Current
Associate/AVP- DevOps Engineer
JPMorgan Chase
11.2020 - 07.2022
Middleware Administrator
IBM
08.2020 - 11.2020
Middleware Admin & Devops Engineer
Barclays
04.2017 - 08.2020
Middleware Administrator
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2012 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Pharmacy -
Jadavpur University
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