Kowsalya Kumar
Chennai
Summary
Accomplished DevOps Lead with 11 Years of Experience in Banking Industry Leading teams to implement the DevOps practices in CI/CD process. Expertise in monitoring and maintaining enterprise systems, resolving incidents, and optimizing IT workflows. Skilled in building CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes) while ensuring compliance. Passionate about fostering collaboration between development and operations teams to accelerate delivery and improve system reliability.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DEVOPS LEAD ENGINEER (CLIENT: CITIBANK)
LTI MINDTREE
11.2020 - Current
- Responsible for Building and Managing Cloud Infrastructure on OpenShift Platform for Release automation tool - Harness.
- Set the Monitoring tools - Splunk, ELK and created Dashboards in Grafana to proactively address performance issues and thus reducing the Infra Incidents by 30%.
- Migrated legacy application to containerized environments using Kubernetes, enhancing scalability and reducing costs by 20%.
- Led a team of 13+ DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance and mentoring junior team members.
- Defined and implemented SRE principles to improve system reliability and maintained 99% Environment availability.
- Managed Incidents and Change implementation using ServiceNow. Conducted post-incident reviews to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
- Managed Project Delivery using Jira to track user stories, and monitor sprint progress, resulting in timely delivery.
RELEASE MANAGER
EQUITAS SMALL FINANCE BANK
03.2019 - 11.2020
- Managed Release Management which includes Scheduling, co-ordinating and management of release across banking applications.
- Streamlined release processes by implementing automated tools and standardizing procedures, reducing delays and errors.
- Deploy releases into production on various platforms (Linux, Windows) and Databases ( Mysql, MSSQL, Oracle, Mongo)
- Developed scripts to turn manual deployment to automate.
- Conduct Weekly CAB meeting to discuss release scope / roadblocks and Release Performance reviews
- Continually works towards making improvements in the release process with right questions and policies.
- Manages Internal audit and RBI audit for release management process.
DEVOPS CONSULTANT
SANDHATA TECHNOLOGIES
09.2018 - 01.2019
- Responsible as DevOps Consultant, Working closely with the Clients to automate CI/CD process.
- Improved and Proposed ideas for improvement on Continuous Deployment process.
- Training employees on Urban Code Deploy tool ,administrative tasks, troubleshooting methods.
DEPLOYMENT TOOL ADMIN (CLIENT: CITIBANK)
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
12.2013 - 09.2018
- Responsible as L3 Admin for Release Automation Deployment Tool - UDeploy, Maintaining infrastructure for running more than 1000 Banking applications.
- Certified on IBM certification for Urban code Deploy.
- On Onsite visit, identified areas of automation and improved UCD customer experience working along with client
- Proactive Monitoring setup with AppDynamics and Splunk to avoid production outage.
- Contributed to Integrate GIT, WebSphere, CyberArk, Databases with UCD tool for automation deployments.
- Improved process delivery to customer by 70% by automating application onboarding to tool.
- Backed production issues with on call and weekend support.
- Took over new project and trained 10+ members and formed team.
- Performing updates and bug fixes for UCD application on Linux OS
- Daily monitoring logs and errors using appdynamics on space and CPU usage.
Education
B.E - Computer Science
Anna University
Chennai06.2013
Skills
- CI/CD tools : Jenkins, GitHub, Harness, BMC Release Lifecycle Management, IBM Urban code Deploy
- Languages : Shell scripting, Python
- Observability and Monitoring Tools : Appdynamics, Splunk, Grafana, ELK
- OS : Linux, Windows
- Cloud : AWS, GCP
- ITIL tools : Service now
- Project Management: JIRA, Confluence
- Team Leading
Languages
English, Tamil and Hindi (Reading)
Certification
IBM certification on Urban code Deploy
Timeline
DEVOPS LEAD ENGINEER (CLIENT: CITIBANK)
LTI MINDTREE
11.2020 - Current
RELEASE MANAGER
EQUITAS SMALL FINANCE BANK
03.2019 - 11.2020
DEVOPS CONSULTANT
SANDHATA TECHNOLOGIES
09.2018 - 01.2019
DEPLOYMENT TOOL ADMIN (CLIENT: CITIBANK)
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
12.2013 - 09.2018
IBM certification on Urban code Deploy
B.E - Computer Science
Anna University
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