Ramkumar Sadhasivam
Chennai
Summary
Dynamic Cloud Quality Engineer with over 6 years of experience specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and deployments coupled with rigorous manual functional testing. Expert in leveraging AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch) to monitor system health, validate data integrity, and streamline release cycles. Proven track record of bridging the gap between infrastructure stability and end-user software quality in high-scale Agile environments.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Cognizant technology solutions
Chennai
07.2019 - Current
- Configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS using Terraform and Ansible.
- Implemented containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes for faster delivery cycles.
- Developed procedures to automate code builds and deployments.
- Managed infrastructure components including virtual machines, storage devices, networks.
- Worked closely with DevOps teams in order to design best practices for deploying applications into production environment.
- Maintained version control systems such as GitLab for all software development projects.
- Deployed microservices on Kubernetes clusters in order to increase scalability and availability of services across multiple regions.
- Provided support for web servers configuration and maintenance activities.
- Developed automated deployment processes and scripts to ensure a smooth transition from development to production.
- Coordinated with other teams for successful rollouts of new features or bug fixes.
- Participated in disaster recovery exercises to test reliability of system.
- Wrote user manuals and other documentation for roll-out in customer training sessions.
- Recommended improvements to facilitate team and project workflow.
- Leveraged Agile methodologies to move development lifecycle rapidly through initial prototyping to enterprise-quality testing and final implementation.
- Analyzed user needs and software requirements to determine design feasibility.
Education
MTech - Software engineering
Birla Institute of Science and Technology
Pilani 06.2020 - 05/2023
BE - Mechanical engineering
Velammal engineering college
Chennai 08.2012 - 05/2016
Skills
- Cloud service management
- Infrastructure automation
- Container orchestration
- CI/CD pipeline integration
- DevOps strategy implementation
- Cross-team collaboration
- Project planning
- System administration
- Release management
- Containerization technologies
- Linux operating system
- Test automation
Hobbies and Interests
- Playing Volleyball
- Badminton
Languages
- English
- Tamil
Professional Highlights
• Automated Infrastructure Provisioning: Leveraged Terraform and Terragrunt to orchestrate and manage scalable infrastructure-as-code (IaC) on AWS.
• Modular Architecture: Designed and enhanced reusable Terraform modules for core services, including VPCs, EC2, ECS, and RDS, ensuring consistent and dry (Don't Repeat Yourself) deployments.
• Security Integration: Hardened IaC security by implementing automated scanning with Bridgecrew (Prisma Cloud) integrated directly into GitHub Actions workflows.
• CI/CD & Orchestration: Streamlined application delivery using AWS CodePipeline and managed the containerization and orchestration of microservices via Amazon ECS.
• Observability & Monitoring: Configured comprehensive CloudWatch dashboards using custom metrics, alarms, and Log Insights to provide real-time visibility into infrastructure and application health.
• Serverless Automation: Developed AWS Lambda functions to automate operational tasks, such as SSL certificate renewals and real-time deployment notifications to Slack.
• Real-time Data Streaming: Engineered data streaming pipelines between databases by configuring Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Kafka) clusters, including the setup of connectors and broker nodes.
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Tamil
Proficient
C2
Timeline
MTech - Software engineering
Birla Institute of Science and Technology
06.2020 - 05/2023
DevOps Engineer
Cognizant technology solutions
07.2019 - Current
BE - Mechanical engineering
Velammal engineering college
08.2012 - 05/2016