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Ravichandran JK

Cloud Consultant
Tirupur

Summary

Adept Senior Cloud Consultant with a proven track record at Publicis Sapient, where spearheaded GCP Organization migrations and enhanced cloud infrastructure efficiency. Leveraging expertise in Terraform, Kubernetes, and collaborative leadership, delivered scalable, secure solutions, significantly optimizing resource usage and cost. Core strategic approach and technical acumen drive robust, cost-effective cloud architectures

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
9
9
Certifications

Work History

Cloud Consultant

Publicis Sapient
Bengaluru
10.2023 - Current

Enhanced cloud infrastructure efficiency by designing and implementing scalable solutions.

  • Delivered pre/post-migration support aimed at addressing any arising concerns and ensuring smooth operations for both newly onboarded clients as well as long-term engagements.
  • Delivered successful GCP Organization migration for one of leading media company in US(Allen Media Group company)
  • Increased productivity by leveraging gcloud Import tool to migrate Organization to new Organization, which eventually reduced 90% of manual intervention and saved cost for client around 31%.
  • Converted all import as Terraform Manifest's and stored in GitHub SCM to comply with security standards and prevent from DRY.
  • Enhanced security measures by conducting vulnerability assessments and implementing best practices for cloud architecture.
  • Optimized cloud resources for cost reduction by analyzing usage patterns and adjusting configurations accordingly.
  • Developed customized automation scripts for streamlined management of cloud resources and services.
  • Improved system reliability with proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of performance issues.
  • Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
  • Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing.
  • Maintained compliance with cybersecurity regulations and measures and tracked, assessed, integrated and reported on modernization and migration processes.
  • Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions.
  • Worked on leading security solutions such as CSPR, CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP.

Senior Cloud Security Consultant

66Degrees
Mysore
12.2021 - 09.2023
  • Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
  • Implemented hybrid architecture by using Partner Interconnect(Equinix), VPN.
  • Implemented Resilient Network Architecture by following best practices Hub-Spoke model.
  • Identified and remediated single points of failure and security risks.
  • Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing.
  • Developed specifications, drawings and engineering artifacts and reports.
  • Researched and understood emerging technologies and end-user needs.
  • Recommended design changes to production systems in response to changing business process, capacity, risks and performance requirements.
  • Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
  • Designed and Implemented GCP architecture for more than 3 clients across all different platform (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS).
  • Mostly used GCP services: GCE, GCS, GLB(HTTP(S), NLB, Internal TCP and UDP, GKE, Cloud Operations Suite, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, GCR, Terraform Cloud DLP).
  • Have done more than 3 SLZ-Projects, Designed Organization, Folder Structure from scratch.
  • Automated all SLZ-Project Infra Provisioning using Terraform, Atlantis, GitHub.
  • Implemented DevSecOps Pipeline by using Atlantis, Checkov, SCC.
  • Collaborated with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules.
  • Provided solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Msys Technologies
Chennai
03.2021 - 12.2021
  • Managed AWS assets and integrated multiple AWS resources into solutions appropriate for company projects.
  • Implemented deployment strategies using container orchestration tools such as GKE.
  • Developed continuous improvements and implemented solutions to existing infrastructure, tools and processes.
  • Mentored DevOps engineer interns on proper engineering methods.
  • Integrated security into cloud architecture solutions to prevent bugging.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
  • Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend.
  • Investigated new and emerging software applications to design, select, implement and use administrative information systems effectively.
  • Strong Experience in Terraform, Had worked more than 7+ SLZ Projects where requirement was to automate Organization Structure, Resource(GCE, GLB, GCS, IAM, IAP) provisioning using IAAC.
  • Wrote more than 10+ modules from scratch to create Organization, Folders, Project structure in GCP.
  • Have good experience in Jenkins, Cloud Build, Container Registry(GCR),Cloud Storage(GCS), Artifactory, GitHub, CSR.
  • Applied automated testing solutions for unit, integration and system testing.
  • Implemented deployment strategies using container orchestration tools such as kubernetes.
  • Collaborated with developers and performance engineers to enhance supportability and identify performance bottlenecks.
  • Built, tested and deployed scalable, highly available and modular software products.
  • Maintained existing applications and designed and delivered new applications.
  • Reduced deployment times with introduction of CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects.
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.

Cloud Engineer

Wipro
Bengaluru
02.2017 - 03.2021
  • Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues using GCP Security Command Center(SCC).
  • Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging.
  • Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for applications.
  • Partnered with sales team to design solutions for customers and drive AWS, GCP adoption and revenue.
  • Worked as technical leader alongside customers and infrastructure team and contributed to business development.
  • Conducted deep-dive hands-on training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
  • Automated infra automation by using Terraform to provision GCP Resources GCE, GLB to deploy customer Application.
  • Wrote script to create instance and deploy Squid Proxy to act as forward proxy.
  • Wrote script to create compute instance , cloud SQL cluster to deploy Wipro, partner's CMS application.
  • Applied scripting methodologies to automate IT administrative related tasks.
  • Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
  • Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.

Education

Master of Science - IMS

BITS
Pilani
12.2017 - 2020.12

Skills

GCP

Certification

GCP - Professional Cloud Architect

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

Remote

Important To Me

Work from home optionStock Options / Equity / Profit SharingFlexible work hours

Timeline

GCP - Professional Cloud Architect

12-2024

GCP - Professional Cloud Network Engineer

08-2024

GCP - Profession DevOps Engineer

07-2024

GCP - Professional Cloud Security Engineer

01-2024

GCP - Associate Cloud Engineer

12-2023

Terraform Associate

11-2023

Cloud Consultant

Publicis Sapient
10.2023 - Current

CKS

12-2022

CKA

11-2022

CKAD

06-2022

Senior Cloud Security Consultant

66Degrees
12.2021 - 09.2023

Senior DevOps Engineer

Msys Technologies
03.2021 - 12.2021

Master of Science - IMS

BITS
12.2017 - 2020.12

Cloud Engineer

Wipro
02.2017 - 03.2021
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