Ranjit Paranjothy

Client & Project

EssilorLuxottica SA, France

Duration & Role

1 year 2 months - Current, Multi-Cloud Administrator

Environment

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform

Project Description

EssilorLuxottica SA is an Italian-French vertically integrated multinational corporation based in Paris. The Company designs, produces and markets ophthalmic lenses, optical equipment, prescription glasses and sunglasses. The company has a portfolio of proprietary and licensed brands including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Michael Kors, Varilux, Crizal, Transitions and LensCrafters. EssilorLuxottica is currently a global leader in the design, production and sale of ophthalmic lenses and frames.

Project Activities

• Setup HUB-Spoke Topology for on Microsoft Azure to integrate multiple project related environments.
• Secured network traffic to prevent communication between Azure Resource Groups through the HUB Firewall Policy.
• Configured multiple High Availability site-to-site BGP IPsec tunnels including Phase 1 and Phase 2 specifications between Azure, AWS and GCP for secured encrypted network traffic communication between VPC's.
• Setup Azure Spoke Resource group Virtual Machines with external IP traffic routing through HUB Firewall Resource group.
• Delegated Access Control(IAM) for individual users to specified resource groups on Azure.
• Configured NAT Masking for inbound traffic through IPsec tunnels to prevent overlapping CIDR conflicts on Azure Virtual Network Gateway.
• Configured Azure Point-to-site sessions to enable VPN Profiles to connect with the integrated Virtual Networks and associated resources.
• Manage AWS IAM Users custom policies and enabled MFA Authentication for all logged in users and 60 days password reset policy.
• Configured AWS Lambda Functions to automate the daily email notifications advising the team members about the users with MFA disabled and user’s access limited to force the users to enable MFA.
• Configured Azure automated Start-Stop schedule using Azure Logic Apps.
• Coordinated with all Organization GitHub users to update their user profile details.
• Project Infrastructure Security Report 95% - Single handedly architect the project environment to migrate resources from AWS and third-party Hosting vendor to Azure. Information Security team scan for Vulnerability and gave the environment score as A+ at 95%.
• Cloudwatch monitoring for AWS EC2. Custom Dashboards for Azure resource monitoring and Kubernetes Dashboard of AWS EKS.
• Coordinated with required Team Leads to upgrade existing Kubernetes Infrastructure to the latest versions for EKS, AKS and GKE and performed the necessary pre-deployment and post deployments validations.
• Setup Azure Load Balancer with multiple backend pools to relay network traffic back to IIS VM with multiple private IP's configured on the VM NIC.
• Setup Azure Front Door and Azure Load Balancer for Production Tableau VM on Azure.
• Migrate AWS EC2 instances to Azure through Azure Migrate Service.
• Migrate Route 53 Domains to GoDaddy.
• Manage Azure Portal User creation and role assignment for various resource groups and Subscription level permissions. Also created VM users and attached required permissions through the Azure Portal via command line.
• Setup automated EC2 snapshots on AWS using AWS Lifecycle Manager and automated VM snapshots for Azure using Recovery Services Vault.
• Setup SFTP for Azure Storage accounts to backup and restore VM files between Virtual Machines on multiple resource groups.
• Provide monthly reports to include daily outlined tasks and related ticket or change order ID's.
• Provide 24/7 support for all critical issues.

Client & Project

Healthuno Healthcare India Private Limited, India

Duration & Role

7 months, Cloud Administrator

Environment

Amazon Web Services

Project Description

HealthUno is a dedicated online healthcare platform that can help you meet patients online, expand your online reach and manage your practice.

Project Activities

• Setup AWS Custom VPC, Subnets through Terraform.
• Created ECR and ECS including Task Definitions, Autoscaling for ECS and Security Groups through Terraform.
• Setup EC2 instances for internal testing as well as Self Managed Gitlab and Self Managed Jenkins.
• Configure MongoAtlas for database management and configured VPC Peering between AWS and MongoAtlas.
• Setup CI/CD and automated deployments from Gitlab to ECS through Jenkins custom pipelines.
• Setup and configure S3 buckets for all environments for storage of sensitive and non-sensitive data.
• AWS SES upgrade to Production status.
• Manage IAM Users and Roles and custom policies for ECS.
• DNS management on GoDaddy.
• DNS Certificate import and management through AWS Certificate Manager.
• Enabled Blue Green deployments for ECS.
• Cloudwatch monitoring for ECS and EC2.
• Create and configure Dockerfiles on required repositories to facilitate the build through AWS ECS.
• Setup Sonarqube Self hosted docker container on EC2 for Code Reviews including integration with Gitlab and Jenkins.
• Provide monthly support reports to include JIRA tickets and AWS environment status.
• Provide 24/7 support for all critical issues.

Client & Project

IIE - Institute of International Education , New York, United States

Duration & Role

5 Years, AWS Cloud Administrator

Environment

Linux AWS cloud (3 tier Architecture); Nginx Web Server, Amazon EC2 Server, Amazon Aurora RDS , MongoDB , LAMP Stack, Git, Jenkins and Drupal 8.

Project Description

The Institute of International Education is a 501 organization which focuses on International Student Exchange and Aid, Foreign Affairs, and International Peace and Security.

Responsibilities

• JIRA Administrator with experience customizing JIRA projects with various schemas, complex workflows, screen schemes, permission schemes, and notification schemes required.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Drupal 8, php7, php7 extensions and Nginx Web Servers.
• Create and manage Amazon EC2 instances and Load Balancers using Amazon Web Services.
• Setup Gitlab Self Manged Instance and Repositories for Development of website.
• Applying updates and security patches for Drupal 8.
• Setup Mongodb Single Tier Instance.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of server related issues.
• Backup and migration of databases based on Mysql and Mongodb.
• Amazon Chatbox for POC integration.
• Amazon RDS creation and maintenance.
• Amazon S3 bucket creation and maintenance.
• AWS Route 53 configurations.
• Provide 24/7 support for all critical issues.
• Provide monthly support reports to include JIRA tickets and AWS environment status.

Client & Project

PassionAPP, Singapore

Duration & Role

6 months, System Administrator

Environment

AWS cloud, Amazon EC2 Server, Amazon Aurora RDS

Project Description

PassionAPP is a Mobile application which provides various Singapore public facilities, courses and events through the mobile application.

Responsibilities

• Deployment management of Bamboo Pipeline for CI/CD for Amazon Elastic Container Service deployments.
• Deployments for Sitecore CMS.
• Container hardening for UAT and Production environment following CIS Docker Benchmark guidelines.
• Updating required IAM roles and Policies for required user integration with the environments.
• Overviewing deployments, troubleshooting and assisting the team as required.

Highlights / Achievements

Performed Successful Deployments on Production Servers. Overviewed multiple teams and coordinated efforts to maintain ontime delivery of sprints.

Client & Project

WithYouWithMe , New South Wales

Duration & Role

Six months, AWS Cloud Administrator

Environment

AWS cloud (three tier Architecture); AWS EC2 Instances, Drupal 7, Amazon Aurora DB, LAMP Stack, Git, Jenkins.

Project Description

Human resource consulting in the City of Sydney, New South Wales WithYouWithMe is a veteran owned tech startup that solves the problem of effectively transitioning personnel from the ADF to the Australian private sector. WithYouWithMe is partnering with Australian businesses to fill this knowledge gap and educate the Australian working force on the true value of veterans in the workplace.

Responsibilities

• Installed, configured, and maintained Dev , UAT and Production Servers with Drupal 7.
• Created Amazon EC2 instances using Amazon Web Console.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancer for multiple instances through the AWS Management console.
• Perform ongoing site administration and maintenance tasks.
• Applying hotfixes and system updates to all environments.
• Deployments using Gitlab and Jenkins Deployment tool.
• Troubleshooting various problems that come up in different stages using log files.
• Setup AWS Elasticache between instances.

Client & Project

NESA , Australia

Duration & Role

1 Year, System Administrator

Environment

Linux soft layer cloud (3 tier Architecture); Websphere Commerce Server 7.0, Websphere Application Server V7.0,IBM DB2, IBM HTTP Server

Project Description

NSEA also known as The NSW Education Standards Authority .NESA has a focus on developing evidence-based policy to improve student achievement and support teachers and risk-based monitoring of Teacher Accreditation Authorities and schools.

Responsibilities

• Installed, configured, and maintained Web Sphere Commerce server V.7.0
• Created Websphere Commerce Instance using configuration manager tool
• Worked on adding new passwords, creating the organizations and updating the information in Websphere Commerce Server.
• Generating and updating Web Server Plug-in.
• Deploying stores through the commerce server admin console.
• Perform ongoing site and store administration and maintenance tasks.
• Applying the Fix packs and Feature packs for enabling features in Websphere Commerce Server and Websphere Application Server.
• Deployments through WCBD.
• Running registry refresh to clear the object cache in Commerce Server admin console.
• Worked with WCS Admin console, Site Accelerator, Org Admin console, Management center etc…
• Troubleshooting various problems that come up at different stages by analyzing the log files.

Highlights / Achievements

Successfully configured and took backup of all the server data. Performed Successful Deployments on Production Servers. Backup of Database through shell and batch scripts.

Client & Project

Claro Colombia

Duration & Role

6 months, Administrator

Environment

Linux On-Premise (2 tier Architecture) Developer environment; Websphere Commerce Server 8.0, Websphere Application Server V8.0, OracleDB 12c, IBM HTTP Server.

Project Description

Claro Colombia is a Colombian telecommunications operator, owned by Mexican group América Móvil. Claro is the largest provider of mobile phone services in the country

Project Activities

• Installed and configured WebSphere Commerce server V.8.0, WebSphere Application Server V.8.0
• Jira Project Administration.
• Installation and configuration of OracleDB v12c