Pradeep Jerry
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Summary
Industrious Dev Operations Engineer offering 6-year background setting up CI and CD pipelines and scripting deployment activities. Well-rounded and conscientious professional committed to proactively managing change and quickly deploying critical applications. Expertise in configuration management and Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS Solution Architect
ITrazo
11.2023 - 01.2024
- Communicate the business needs to the development team and guide them in crafting a solution that effectively addresses tangible business challenges
- Developing architectural diagrams, documentation, and presentations for stakeholders as well guidance on best practices for AWS architecture and services
- Reporting and managing the AWS cost expenditure through cost explorer and minimizing the cost - Have reduced 75% of Dynamo DB and CloudWatch cost many other services as well
- Implemented a Lambda function utilizing a CloudFormation template to manage API Gateway logic, with execution orchestrated through Jenkins
- The Lambda functions are written in Python
- Infrastructure is built through CloudFormation, and code are maintained in Bitbucket
- Execution is through Jenkins.
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2021 - 08.2023
- Responsible for identifying appropriate mechanisms, such as AWS Audit Manager, AWS Config, or AWS Security Hub to enforce the security and compliance reporting requirements such as NIST 80083, HIPAA, FedRamp, PCI etc
- To enable continuous compliance
- Based on the organization's security and compliance requirement, deploy appropriate security controls for public facing web applications, enforcing least privileges across AWS accounts, users, and applications, managing credentials securely
- Experience in Splunk (SPL - Search Processing Language) at checking the logs of each AWS server/component and creating of dashboard to keep track of successful / failed job runs
- Monitoring the Production environment deployments and ensuring stable health of resources by setting up automated alerting.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Infosys Technologies Ltd
09.2016 - 09.2021
- Coordinating with different project streams to get hold of requirements and implement same
- Build Platform Infrastructure on AWS for multiple capabilities across NDH using Terraform, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Python, and Groovy
- Experience in building EMR through Terraform, changing of Hive default database to PostgreSQL through shell script and enabling oozie for scheduling jobs - Everything through single click Jenkins pipeline
- Create distribution and specify settings in CloudFront for website content from s3 and assign Route 53 - cname for domain name
- Make sure correct security rules are set in AWS WAF, that control bot traffic and block common attack patterns such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting (XSS)
- Experience in Nginx using reverse proxy for App servers and improving performance of web servers
- Automated Pyspark code to read parquet file through EMR and upload same in excel through Jenkins
- Deploying and maintaining Jenkins in Production and Non-Production through CloudFormation
- Ownership for jobs being deployed in Jenkins by reviewing each pipeline through PR request in Git
- Written ANSIBLE playbooks with Python, SSH as the Wrapper to manage configurations of AWS Nodes and Test playbooks on AWS instances
- Lead Automation Committee for crowd sourcing new solutions, patterns, and tools for improving our ways of working
- Managing AWS cloud security (IAM, KMS, Network Interface, VPC, Subnets) in Production and Non-Production
- Served as a Reliability Engineer ensuring Change and Service request are raised and actioned as per NAB processes
- Built an automated workflow for configuring and containerizing Airflow using Docker and deploying onto AWS ECS
- Implemented Cross account replication in S3 using Terraform for consumption by NDH capabilities
- Automation of AWS RDS Provisioning and validation between two RDS in a single click using Jenkins Pipeline and Python
- NDH Production Auditing to identify anomalous actions conducted against production resources
- Provisioning AWS Non-Production environment for development activity using Jenkins
- Patching AWS components to overcome security vulnerabilities
- Use CICD (Jenkins), GIT and Artifactory to perform DevOps activities across all capabilities in NDH AWS platform infrastructure
- Mentoring new team members and resolving any technical queries relating to platform Infrastructure
- Coordinating with environment services for availability of test environments.
Software Engineer
TCS
07.2015 - 09.2016
- Worked as a Big Data Consultant to automate deployment of a Big Data processing framework used internally
- Evaluating the performance of different managed Hadoop Distributions by vendors against Big Data processing framework
- Setup Cloudera and Hortonworks stack in On-Prem servers
- Maintaining 20 node cluster using CDH Manager and Ambari
- Evaluating Performance of clusters according to type of file being processed (ORC, Avro, Parquet etc.) and number of employees accessing it
- Prepare Virtual training on Big Data for employees to help upskilling
- Present working Demo to potential client as part of sales activity.
Systems Engineer
Syntel
12.2011 - 06.2015
- Performed ETL of data from multiple sources into HDFS and Hive using Sqoop
- Optimized the Loading and transformation of large sets Structured and Semi Structured data to improve ingestion performance
- Created Mapping and Partitioning of complex data structure relating to customer invoice and retail
- Involved in creating Hive tables, data loading and writing hive queries which run internally in map reduce programs as parallel processes.
Education
Master of Science - Software Engineering
RVS Engineering College
04.2011
Skills
- AWS
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Airflow
- Python
- Big Data
- Nginx
- Hive
- Docker
- Splunk
- Kubernetes
- Grafana
- Git
- BitBucket
- Linux/Unix
Certification
- AWS Solution Architect Professional
- Certified in Azure Fundamentals (2021)
- Certified TOSCA - Tricentis Test Design Specialist Level 1
- Databricks Accredited Lakehouse Fundamentals
Timeline
AWS Solution Architect
ITrazo
11.2023 - 01.2024
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2021 - 08.2023
Senior DevOps Engineer
Infosys Technologies Ltd
09.2016 - 09.2021
Software Engineer
TCS
07.2015 - 09.2016
Systems Engineer
Syntel
12.2011 - 06.2015
Master of Science - Software Engineering
RVS Engineering College
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