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MEENA PANDIAN

MEENA PANDIAN

Chennai

Summary

I am a determined and diligent professional with over 8 years of experience in AWS services, Incident Management, and DevOps. I have a strong background in configuring AWS resources, developing CI/CD pipelines, and managing cloud infrastructure. I am proficient with tools and technologies like Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker and am keen on applying my expertise to deliver robust and efficient solutions.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Infra Dev Expert

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
01.2024 - Current
  • Implemented and administered Kubernetes clusters in production, focusing on high availability and security measures like RBAC, network policies, and image scanning.
  • Configured Jenkins on EC2 and Kubernetes nodes for continuous integration.
  • Coordinated container deployment, scaling, and management while addressing networking and storage problems.
  • Built and maintained Docker images, and deployed config maps, secrets, and volumes within Kubernetes.
  • Documented the Kubernetes architecture and directed the setup and upgrades of AWS EKS clusters using Terraform scripts.
  • Administered Terraform state via DynamoDB and S3, mitigating configuration drift.
  • Developed modular infrastructure code with Terraform, including modifications to EC2 configurations for fetching the latest private AMI using Terraform data sources.
  • Managed applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters and configured Jenkins master in EC2 with slaves in Kubernetes nodes.
  • Created Jenkins pipeline jobs with safety and vulnerability scanning scripts for packages uploaded to Nexus.
  • Used AWS Event Bridge to trigger Lambda functions, upload results (JSON) to Amazon S3, and integrate with other services.
  • Created users in ADFS and integrated AWS IAM SAML federation for application access via Identity Provider.
  • Implemented tfsec in Jenkins pipeline to scan and fix Terraform code deployed to various environments.
  • Configured network firewall rules to allow internet access only to specific URLs from private subnets.
  • Designed and configured Jenkins pipelines to automate CI/CD processes, integrating tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform to streamline deployment and infrastructure management.
  • POCs on AI infused DevOps usecases by automating the Infra and App deployment using Agentic AI.

Senior Infra Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
03.2022 - 01.2024
  • Configured Aurora PostgreSQL RDS using the Terraform Enterprise module, including proxy setup, parameter groups, IAM users, and service accounts.
  • Orchestrated workflows with Step Functions and Lambda, leveraging EventBridge to trigger functions on S3 uploads and send SNS notifications.
  • Used Boto3 for AWS API interactions and Psycopg2 to link Lambda with PostgreSQL RDS.
  • Implemented Delphix for PII data masking in lower environments and deployed Lambda as container images to resolve dependency issues.
  • Utilized Python libraries such as Pandas, Excel_rd, and Logger to enhance data processing workflows.
  • Created automated backup for Quick sight resources of datasets, analyses, dashboards, templates using boto3 APIs.
  • Streamlined deployment automation through GitLab YAML configuration and detailed documentation in Confluence.
  • Automated the cleanup of inactive Quicksight users for cost optimization with Python Lambda and set up automated backups for Quicksight resources and Redshift snapshots using AWS Backup.
  • Configured AWS QuickSight Enterprise, establishing namespaces, user groups, roles (admin, author, reader), and securing access with restricted IAM and resource-based policies (S3 bucket and VPC endpoint policies).
  • Established Redshift Serverless workgroups, namespaces, and VPC endpoints, and applied IAM policies for enhanced security.
  • Set up S3 Gateway and CloudTrail VPC endpoints for secure Lambda access to QuickSight and Redshift APIs.
  • Installed and configured DBeaver and PyCharm within Amazon Workspaces to facilitate Redshift database querying.
  • Deployed Redshift Serverless, integrated it with QuickSight for data visualization, and created dashboards.

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
07.2019 - 02.2022
  • Experienced in using Ansible playbooks, inventory, dynamic inventory, and automating cloud environments.
  • Automated microservice deployments by pulling images from a private Docker registry and deploying them to Azure Kubernetes clusters with Ansible.
  • Developed Ansible playbooks to provision VMs and install required components.
  • Configured and deployed Ansible for configuration management across existing infrastructure.
  • Proficient in creating and managing complex IAM policies, roles, and user access in AWS.
  • Managed and optimized AWS cloud infrastructure, including EC2 instances, backups, patches, and scaling operations.
  • Set up and managed VPCs, subnets, and secured connections across zones while blocking suspicious IPs/subnets via ACLs.
  • Created and attached EBS volumes to EC2 instances.
  • Implemented MFA and used IAM for secure management of roles, users, and resources in AWS.

Senior Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
11.2016 - 07.2019
  • Experienced with Docker, including creating Dockerfiles and managing volumes.
  • Set up a code repository in GitHub and managed permissions for creating pull requests to specified branches, following a branching strategy.
  • Managed GitHub repositories, including permissions, branching, and tagging.
  • Proficient in using SCM tools like Git and GitHub Enterprise.
  • Used CloudWatch to monitor resources such as EC2 instances, CPU, memory, and EBS volumes, setting alarms for notifications and analyzing logs to optimize system operations.
  • Utilized JIRA, Remedy, and ServiceNow for issue tracking and monitoring.
  • Configured and managed VPC Flow logs, CloudWatch logs, and CloudTrail logs for enhanced monitoring and security.

Education

Engineering Degree -

Pondicherry Engineering College
Pondicherry, Puducherry
01.2016

Skills

  • Operating System: Linux, Windows, Ubuntu, Mac, CentOS
  • Source Code Management: GIT, Gitlab, Bitbucket
  • Configuration Management Tool: Ansible
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, Gitlab, Github-actions
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Artifactory server: Docker, Nexus, Jfrog
  • Deployment Servers: Apache, tomcat, Nginx
  • Cloud Environments: Amazon Web Services, Azure
  • Atlassian/ Ticketing Tools: Service-now, JIRA
  • Repository Tools: Docker Hub, Github, Nexus
  • Scripting: Shell, python, yaml
  • Security Tools: IAM, Security Hub, AWS Inspector, AWS WAF, SAST, DAST, SBOM
  • Monitoring/Logging Tools: Cloud watch, Cloud Trial, AppD, splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Code coverage Tool: SonarQube, Safety DB as Python code scanner
  • Documentation Tools: Confluence, AzureDevOps
  • Orchestration Tools: Kubernetes, Helm
  • Automation: API integration, Boto3
  • IDE: PyCharm, VisualStudiocode, IntelliJ, Jupyter Notebook
  • Database: MySQL, Dbeaver
  • GitOps: ArgoCD
  • Container registry: ECR, Docker registry
  • Image scanner: Trivy
  • Build Tool: Maven
  • AWS Services: AWS Shield, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, Firewall, EC2, Fargate, AWS Batch, EBS, Boto3, Quicksight, ACM, SecretsManager, StepFunction, ECS, EKS, CodeCommit, Codepipeline, VPC, Route53, CloudFront, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, ELB, Redshift, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, Security-Hub, AWS Inspector, WAF, Step-Funtions
  • AI: Gen-AI, Agentic AI-Autogen

Certification

  • Hashicorp-Certified-Terraform-Associate
  • AWS-Certified-Solutions-Architect-Associate

Timeline

Infra Dev Expert

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2024 - Current

Senior Infra Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2022 - 01.2024

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2019 - 02.2022

Senior Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2016 - 07.2019

Engineering Degree -

Pondicherry Engineering College

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