Rajesh Maruthayi Keloth
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience at Target Corporation, specializing in Linux infrastructure administration and Container orchestration. Proven track record in automating CI/CD pipelines and enhancing system observability, leading to operational efficiency improvements. Skilled in automation/scripting tools like Ansible and effective in cross-team collaboration to drive optimized system engineering experience.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Site Reliability Engineer
Target Corporation
Bangalore
08.2016 - Current
- Company Overview: US based retailer
- # Linux infrastructure administration
- # Troubleshoot Linux infrastructure issues which needs deep expertise
- # Linux server builds and configuration
- # Design and automate security remediation
- # Kubernetes cluster administration
- # Configure Linux Server monitoring and alerting
- # Automate CI/CD deployment pipeline
- # Assist App team for containerizing their applications for microservice deployments
- # Design and operationalize observability dashboard to quickly detect the issues and identify the gaps
- # Work with various teams and propose solutions to make systems more observable and fill the gaps
- # Design and deploy custom monitoring tailored to application needs
- # Propose automation to reduce the toil and to get more focus on Engineering work
- # Ensure operational efficiency through MTTD & MTTR reduction, by improving the observability of systems through logs, metrics, traces, and alerting.
- # Participate in major incident triaging and contribute for speedy resolution, as a part of on-call cadence.
- # Participate in blameless postmortems and ensure action has been taken by respective teams to prevent the reoccurrence.
- US based retailer
Unix Specialist
HP Globalsoft
Bangalore
06.2010 - 07.2016
- Company Overview: http://www.hp.com/
- # Installing, upgrading, and configuring SUN Solaris 8, 9 and 10 on Sun Servers Using Jumpstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
- # Installation of Redhat Linux, (kick start and media).
- # Administration of Redhat Linux based servers (RHEL 4/5/6)
- # Configure networking concepts DNS, NIS, NFS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems such as TCP/IP, providing support for users in solving their problems.
- # Configuring and administering Solaris Zones and Containers on Sun Solaris 10 operating system.
- # Ensure server has been backed up with enterprise backup solutions; work with backup team to fix backup client issues. Ensure successful flar backups.
- # Ensure server has been configured with monitoring solutions and resolve the issues related to monitoring clients by working with monitoring support team.
- # Resolving system errors and crashes, Work with vendor support team to resolve hardware issues.
- # Adhere to SLA response and resolution times and ensure cases are regularly updated.
- # Perform root cause analysis
- # Coordinate and implement change records because of incidents/service requests
- # Configure/troubleshoot storage solutions (SVM/Veritas’s volume Manager/LVM) and file system management.
- # Troubleshoot Veritas cluster issues and configure cluster resource groups as per the request
- # Perform performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and scripting.
- Http://www.hp.com/
UNIX Administrator
IBM India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
08.2008 - 06.2010
- Company Overview: http://www.ibm.co.in
- # Monitoring dedicated assigned business critical HP hosts and check the health status.
- # Work on incidents received in ITAM tool (BMC Remedy) with stringent SLA targets.
- # Root Cause Analysis on Problem tickets
- # Raising change requests and work orders for change approval and implementation.
- # Participating in Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings.
- # Monitor the backups and raise docket for incidents.
- # Initiating/Attending Bridge call for sev1 & sev2 issues & working till issue gets resolved.
- # Co-ordinate with vendor for hardware issues
- Http://www.ibm.co.in
Customer Support Engineer
HCL Infosystems Ltd
Cochin
06.2004 - 08.2008
- Company Overview: http://www.hclinfosystems.in/
- The role was to install, configure and troubleshoot Desktop PCs, Workstations and Servers for various customers of HCL Infosystems Ltd.
- Technical ownership of Unix (HP-UX,SCO), LINUX(RedHat 9–EL) and network administration for some of the following customers of HCL.
- Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Escotel Mobile Communications Ltd, Kochi Refineries Ltd (KRL), Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), various public sector banks.
- Http://www.hclinfosystems.in/
Education
Polytechnic Diploma - Medical Electronics
State Board of Technical Education
Kerala, India01.2004
+2 - Science
Board of Secondary Education
Kerala, India01.2000
SSLC -
Board of Public Examinations
Kerala, India01.1998
Skills
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- HP-UX
- Sun Solaris
- KVM/QEMU
- VMware
- Solaris Zones
- Containers
- Ansible
- Chef
- Python
- Shell scripting
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Kibana
- Alerting
- OpenTracing
- On-premises
- Microsoft Azure
- Kafka
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- Cassandra
- Elasticsearch
- Druid
- Superset
- LVM
- RAID
- Solaris Volume Manager
- Veritas Volume Manager
- OmniBackup
- IgniteBackup
- Veritas Cluster
- MC Service Guard
- Git
- Jenkins
- TCP/IP
- FTP
- HTTP
- NFS
- DNS
- NIS
Certification
- HP-UX Certified System Administrator
- ITIL training from IBM
- Redhat Certified System Engineer (RHCE)
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Malayalam
Personal Information
- Passport Number: R3950589
- Father's Name: AK Haridasan (Late)
- Date of Birth: 05/05/83
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Site Reliability Engineer
Target Corporation
08.2016 - Current
Unix Specialist
HP Globalsoft
06.2010 - 07.2016
UNIX Administrator
IBM India Pvt Ltd
08.2008 - 06.2010
Customer Support Engineer
HCL Infosystems Ltd
06.2004 - 08.2008
Polytechnic Diploma - Medical Electronics
State Board of Technical Education
+2 - Science
Board of Secondary Education
SSLC -
Board of Public Examinations