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Pavithra R

Chennai

Summary

Highly motivated and results-driven IT professional with over 8+ years of experience, specializing in DevOps practices, automation, and infrastructure management. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage internal and external stakeholders, and resolve critical issues within defined SLA’s. Strong communicator with a focus on aligning technology initiatives with business goals and delivering measurable value. Committed to continuous learning and professional growth to drive innovation and operational excellence.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

CLOUD DESTINSTION
Chennai
10.2022 - Current

CLIENT: JOSYS

CORE PRODUCTS: AWS Cloud services - Networking services (Domain registry, Route 53, Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, Security Group, Web Application Firewall, CloudFront, Application Gateway), Athena, Aurora, DocumentDB, ECS, DMS, ECR, KMS, ElastiCache - Redis, S3, SSM, Kafka, SQS, SNS, EC2, IAM, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Cost Explorer, Lambda,

DevOps Tools: Redash (DB Query and Representation tool), Kubernetes, GitHub and GitHub Actions, DataDog, Terraform, Notion.

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KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:

Cost Optimization

• Implemented self-hosted GitHub runners on EC2, dynamically provisioning and terminating instances during runtime to significantly reduce GitHub Actions runner costs.
• Automated non-business hours environment shutdown using AWS EventBridge and Lambda, based on environment-specific tags, leading to reduced operational expenses.
• Utilized the Serverless Framework with AWS Lambda for automation tasks, minimizing infrastructure overhead.
• Conducted container rightsizing using AWS Cost Explorer insights to optimize CPU and memory allocation, improving resource efficiency.


Automation
• Automated environment lifecycle management (create, update, delete) triggered via Jira tickets, using webhooks, API Gateway, Lambda, and Terraform.
• Built GitHub Actions workflows for:
1. Automatic PR creation for infrastructure changes,

2. Environment updates through Terraform deployments.


Reusable Modules
• Developed generic Terraform modules to deploy complete microservices, promoting reusability and standardization.
• Designed and implemented 3-tier architecture modules for both AWS and Azure environments using Terraform.


Container Promotion
• Engineered a container promotion strategy:
1. Built images in lower environments and pushed them to a centralized ECR account.
2. Automated image replication and pipeline triggers across environments via EventBridge.
3. Promoted the same image to staging and production based on version tags.
• Achieved end-to-end automation for container promotions, reducing build times and enabling early vulnerability detection in lower environments.

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CLIENT: MWT

CORE PRODUCTS: AWS Services - contro0l tower, S3, Glue, Datacatalog, cloud9, crawler, workflow, Athena, Networking service.
• Implementation of control Tower for Multi account provisioning.
• Networking service deployments over terraform Modules.
• DataLake Migration using S3 buckets & Replicaiton Strategy, Glue jobs, Triggers, Workflows, Crawlers, Glue Catalog Databases, LakeFormation (Data Locations, LF-Tags, Lake Permissions, db access).

CLIENT: Oynx

CORE PRODUCTS: AWS Services - {Transfer Family, S3, Databricks, FHIR Works, API Gateway, Lambda, VPC & DynamoDB. Jenkin}, terraform, GITHUB.
• Supported for Architect and Project Breakdown
• Databricks setup in client sandbox Environment
• Developed terraform module template to deploy the AWS FHIR setup along with the AWS network services and Transfer Family, Databricks Cluster on EC2, Lambda, API Gateway and Dynamo DB/ElasticSearch
• Infra Support


CLIENT: WORKVIA

CORE PRODUCTS: AWS Services - EMR, Glue , S3, S3 Crawler, Apache Hudi.
• Created and configured AWS EMR with Apache Hudi using Cloud Formation.

• Configured IAM roles and permissions for EMR to access S3 folders and Apache Hudi to use Glue Data Catalog
• Created and managed S3 buckets
• Troubleshoot any permission issues or EMR cluster start up issues
• Work closely with data engineers until the entire pipeline is stable and make necessary updates in the CloudFormation templates.

Engineer

AVACEND
Bangalore
10.2019 - 10.2022

AVACEND Solutions - ENGINEER

CLIENT: DH

CORE PRODUCTS: ADF, ADB, Query Analyzer, VM-Availability Set, VMSS, Azure DevOps (Boards, PL, Artifacts, Repos, Test Plans), Azure cloud shell, Azure Data Studio.

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KEY ROLE:

•Created Azure Data Factory pipelines to load csv files into SQL tables. •Created Dynamic ADF pipelines to Copy Tables from On-Premise to cloud.

• Worked on creating scheduled Triggers for ADF Pipelines.

• Successfully created the Linked Services on the source and as well for the destination servers.

• Building the pipelines to copy/move the data from source to destination in Azure Data Factory (ADF V2).

• Extensively involved in developing and testing the pipelines in ADF.

• Troubleshoot any kind of data issues or validation issues.

• Connected Self hosted IR to private on-prem network includes environment setup, connectivity check, Integration runtime Installation and pipeline deployment.

• Supported various teams onboard to Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks.

Associate ENGINEER

NOKIA
06.2018 - 09.2019

CLIENT: VHA
CORE PRODUCTS: U2020, Netcool, NRS, ITSM Remedy (BMS), NASTAR, Radar, Meeka, PRS/MAOS, Google Earth & NetIQ, ICTOM,
webforce, SDM, router tool

Customer Support

SUTHERLAND
07.2017 - 02.2018

CLIENT: AMAZON

Education

BE - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

Skills

  • PROGRAMMING: Python, Shell Scripting, Serverless Framework
  • CLOUD: AWS, Azure
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows Server, Linux, RedHat, centos
  • VERSION CONTROL SYSTEM: GIT, GitHub, Azure DEVOPS, AWS CodeCommit
  • CONTAINERIZATION: Docker, Kubernetes
  • IAC: Terraform, CFT, Ansible
  • CICD: GitHub Workflow, Jenkin
  • MONITORING LOGGING: Prometheus, Grafana , Datadog, Newrelic, PagerDuty, Kibana
  • INTEGRATION: Sonarkube
  • DATABASE: Oracle , SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redshift, MySQL
  • EFFORT TRACKING: Jira, ITSM, Kamban, Confluence
  • BI: AWS QuickSight , PowerBI, Zabbix

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

CLOUD DESTINSTION
10.2022 - Current

Engineer

AVACEND
10.2019 - 10.2022

Associate ENGINEER

NOKIA
06.2018 - 09.2019

Customer Support

SUTHERLAND
07.2017 - 02.2018

BE - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION
Pavithra R