MuthuKumaraswamy M T
Coimbatore
Summary
Dynamic DevSecOps Engineer with over 11 years of experience in automating and securing hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. Expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Jenkins, and GitLab CI/CD, with a focus on creating scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure. Proficient in leveraging cloud technologies and Linux for seamless integration across diverse deployments, utilizing Python scripting and API development to implement comprehensive application monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions. Strong advocate for embedding security best practices into the DevOps pipeline, ensuring the delivery of highly available systems that comply with security standards across hybrid environments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
IBM
01.2024 - Current
- Designed and implemented scalable software solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project requirements and align development efforts with business goals.
- Developed scalable applications using agile methodologies for timely project delivery.
- Developed SASS applications using python, postgres, nosql elasticsearch
- Developed Automation framework to create the infrastructure like EKS, IKS, EC2, IAM Aurora RDS to deploy the SASS application on AWS, GCP using Go lang
- Developed CI/CD pipeline to build and deploy the applications using ArgoCD, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible and Linux shell script.
- Automated compliance scans and runtime protection for kubernetes workloads across AWS/GCP using Jenkins,Trivy, Aqua, Hashicorp Vaullt and custom python and shell scripts.
- Implemented best practices for image security, vulnerability scanning and policy as code.
- Implemented gatekeeper and kyvenro policies within kubernetes clusters.
- Streamlined development workflows to increase team efficiency and reduce time spent on repetitive tasks.
- Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures.
- Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
- Led cross-functional teams in developing innovative applications, improving user experience and functionality.
- Mentored junior engineers, fostering technical growth and ensuring adherence to best practices.
- Analyzed system performance metrics, driving optimizations that reduced downtime and increased reliability.
Technology Lead
WiproTechnologies
02.2021 - 01.2025
- Worked as a DevSecOps Lead - HSBC Bank Payment Gateway Project
- Implemented automated workflows, security policies, and developer guidelines for AWS, GCP cloud environments using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
- Designed and developed Ansible automation roles for monthly patching and upgrading of Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux servers across prod, dev, and QA environments, managing over 6000 servers and reducing manual intervention by 90%, significantly improving operational efficiency.
- Developing Docker containers and Kubernetes-based applications and deploying applications in EKS.
- Deployed and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, including the implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) practices with Terraform and Ansible.
- Developed Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision and manage infrastructure across GCP and AWS, including compute engine, VPC, NAT, Kubernetes, IAM, SQL databases, message queues, containers, and Artifactory, ensuring consistent, scalable, and secure deployments.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines from scratch for multiple applications using Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, optimizing the development workflow and ensuring efficient, automated deployments across diverse environments.
- Designed and developed Python applications integrated with both relational databases and NoSQL solutions for data visualization, as well as automating Linux system administration and network operations, improving efficiency in infrastructure management and data insights.
- Expertise in AWS cloud Administration which includes services like EC2, EKS, ECR, VPC, S3, IAM, AMI, ELB, Autoscaling.
- Ability to assess, analyse, develop, document, and implement changes based on requests for change.
Consultant
Infosys
07.2019 - 01.2021
- Served as Nosql Consultant in Data analytics environment.
- Worked on Linux administration and architecture.
- Automated Engineer infrastructure solutions for configuring, delivering, and supporting Linux environments and services.
- Managed elastic search and solr environment-based applications.
- Automating the big data environment using bash shell scripting, and Python.
- Developed REST APIs to connect applications to Solr, Elasticsearch, Clusters.
- Hardening, upgrading, Installing, and vulnerability batching of the Linux and Unix OS environments.
- Developed a grok filter query for logstash and created a kibana dashboard for different kind of application's logs.
- Developed a python application to compare the performance of different NoSQL databases benchmarking results.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and Docker to automate software builds and deployments.
- Developed the Alert system using python to check the schema changes in the index’s configuration.
Researcher
Amrita Cyber Security and Networks
11.2014 - 06.2019
- Managed Hadoop clusters and fine-tuned performance by optimizing configurations and improving resource utilization for 30 different projects
- Worked in installation, configuration, supporting, and managing Hadoop Clusters using Apache, Cloudera (CDH4, CDH5), Yarn distributions. ELK stack and Apache solr. Kafka, RabbitMQ.
- Managed network components and services (Load balancers, Routers, Proxies, Firewalls).
- Automated infrastructure deployment and management using Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes, resulting in a more reliable and scalable platform.
- Developed monitoring and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack to ensure high availability and reliability of the data platform.
Deployment and Support Engineer
Amrita E-Learning Research Lab
02.2013 - 11.2013
- The major areas of research and development are online collaboration, video technology.
- Managed and maintained highly available and reliable infrastructure on Unix and Linux systems.
- Worked with development teams to design and implement automated testing and deployment strategies, resulting in faster and more reliable software releases.
- Monitored system performance and responded to incidents and alerts using Nagios, ELK and Splunk.
- Developed Splunk Queries, and developed the Dashboard.
- Conducted root cause analysis and implemented corrective actions to prevent future incidents.
- Worked on the backup modules and disaster recovery.
Education
B.E. - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Sri Ramanathan Engineering College, Anna University
Tirupur, Tamilnadu05.2012
Skills
- Kubernetes orchestration expertise
- Experience with cloud service platforms
- Security tools: Trivy, Snyk, Network Security, Ntop, Application Security, SBOM
- Languages: Python, Shell Script, golang
- DevOps Tools: Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Gitlab, Terraform, Helm, Packer, trivy, checkermax, Sonarqube, ArgoCD
- Monitoring tools: ELK, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry
- DataWarehouse: Snowflake, Redshift
- AWS: EC2, IAM, S3, Glue, Redshift, EKS, Lambda and Serverless, DynamodB, ElasticCache, Cloudwatch, Secret Manager, SQS
Certification
- AWS Associate Solution Architect | 2021-01
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator | 2021-11
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer | 2021-12
- Hashicorp Terraform Associate | 2024-08
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
IBM
01.2024 - Current
Technology Lead
WiproTechnologies
02.2021 - 01.2025
Consultant
Infosys
07.2019 - 01.2021
Researcher
Amrita Cyber Security and Networks
11.2014 - 06.2019
Deployment and Support Engineer
Amrita E-Learning Research Lab
02.2013 - 11.2013
B.E. - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Sri Ramanathan Engineering College, Anna University