Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Enterprise Architecture
Cloud Computing Frameworks
Ci Cd Tools
Monitoring Tools
Infrastructure As Code
Github Contribution
Timeline
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Kendanic J

Chennai

Summary

Linux Administrator and DevOps professional with 4 Years of hands-on experience in building, supporting, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments in Linux environments. Proficient in on-premises and AWS Cloud setups, utilizing configuration management, CI/CD, and DevSecOps processes. Skilled in managing and maintaining complex systems to ensure seamless operations and maximum efficiency. Committed to delivering high-quality solutions aligned with industry best practices and contributing to organizational success.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Linux Admin and Network

Radiant cash management service Ltd
07.2022 - Current
  • Company Overview: A reputable individual in the field of cash logistics with embedded technology, offering top banks, institutions, and the organised retail sector services including cash in transit, doorstep banking, ATM-related services, bullion, and cash vaulting
  • Oversaw managing the infrastructure lifecycle, which included everything from installing, configuring, and maintaining high availability ON-PREM K8 clusters to managing Linux servers for legacy financial services, including the deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of live and staging applications
  • Wrote ansible manifests and modules to deploy, configure, and manage servers
  • Installed and configured Prometheus to constantly monitor network bandwidth, memory usage, and hard drive status
  • Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging
  • Develop and maintain cooperative and collaborative relationships with networking, storage, software development, and project management teams
  • Monitor production systems, applications, and network performance using various Network Management and Application Monitoring Tools
  • Develop tools/scripts to automate integration with other IT tools in support of accurate asset management, cyber reporting capabilities and to manage licenses
  • Work with software developers and Quality Assurance to seamlessly migrate applications from development to QA and production
  • Provides support to customers running RedHat Enterprise Linux on their workstations and simulation servers
  • Identify and drive continual improvement programs in the UNIX environment and improve the service efficiency
  • Working closely with other IT departments to help determine and develop systems that will be implemented
  • Experience requiring a strong knowledge of pcs clustering
  • Demonstrates a strong ability to deliver on project commitments
  • Diligence in documenting information and ability to show ownership of follow through in customer resolutions
  • Strong knowledge of DNS, including diagnostics with UNIX tools
  • Ability to understand and write basic SQL queries
  • Create the infra as a code using ARM template and terraform
  • Built, maintained, and scaled highly secure infrastructure for production, UAT, QA, and dev environments for microservices
  • Owned production alerts and acted as the point of contact for all infrastructure incidents
  • Implemented and maintained Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems leading to an improvement in the time to ship new feature releases 10%
  • Worked on and supports automated builds, deployments, validations, and configurations in our public AWS environment
  • Develop automation processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale, and monitor their applications using tooling or scripting reducing the time to get features in production by 20%
  • Fostered a culture of robust documentation as it pertained to release processes and CI/CD
  • Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic apps into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed
  • A reputable individual in the field of cash logistics with embedded technology, offering top banks, institutions, and the organised retail sector services including cash in transit, doorstep banking, ATM-related services, bullion, and cash vaulting

Linux Administrator

Kubs Impex Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 02.2019
  • Enhanced system security through regular vulnerability assessments and timely patch management.
  • Managed backup and disaster recovery through strict data control and retention policies, personally handling recovery tasks when issues arose.
  • Implemented effective monitoring solutions, allowing for rapid identification and resolution of potential issues before they impacted endusers.
  • Established comprehensive disaster recovery plans that safeguarded valuable company data and ensured rapid system restoration in the event of a catastrophic failure.
  • Interacted directly with users to diagnose and correct major system issues and address concerns.

Education

MSc. - Information Technologies

Alagappa University
05-2023

Bsc. - Physics

Loyola College
05-2017

Enterprise Architecture

Infrastructure as a Service              Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Autoscaling.

Platform as a Service                      Elastic Beanstalk, App Service

Container Orchestration                 Docker swarm, EKS, GKE, and AKS,                                                         Kubernetes

NoSQL Storage                               Dynamo Db, MongoDB

RDS Storage                                    MySQL, AWS Aurora DB, PostgreSQL.

Serverless Framework                    AWS Lambda, Function App.

Content Delivery Networks             CloudFront.

Networking                                     Virtual Private Cloud, Load Balancer, DNS Zones.

API Gateway                                   AWS API Gateway

Service Discovery                           Zookeeper.

Distributed event streaming             Kafka.

Languages                                       Python,

scripts                                               Bash

Database                                          MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,

Infrastructure as a Code                 Terraform,

Cloud Computing Frameworks

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Autoscaling, Elastic Beanstalk, App Service, Docker swarm, EKS, GKE, AKS, Kubernetes, Dynamo Db, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS Aurora DB, PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, Function App, CloudFront, Virtual Private Cloud, Load Balancer, DNS Zones, AWS API Gateway, Zookeeper, Kafka, Azure Data Factory, Azure data bricks, Glue

Ci Cd Tools

GitHub Action, Gitrunner, Python, Ansible, Artifactory, Docker, SonarQube, Qualys, Aquasec, checkmark

Monitoring Tools

CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, log analytics workspace, Wazuh, ELK (Elastic search, Log Stash, Kibana, Opensearch), Graylog, Rsyslog, GIT

Infrastructure As Code

Terraform

Github Contribution

  • JQuarticx-org
  • Rcms-org

Timeline

Linux Admin and Network

Radiant cash management service Ltd
07.2022 - Current

Linux Administrator

Kubs Impex Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 02.2019

MSc. - Information Technologies

Alagappa University

Bsc. - Physics

Loyola College
Kendanic J