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Saivachandran Thanikodi

Saivachandran Thanikodi

Chennai

Summary

Sr DevOps Engineer with 5 years of hand experience Building, supporting, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments in AWS, Google Cloud , Linode using configuration management, CI/CD processes.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Engineer Devops

Animaker
01.2024 - Current
  • Designed and managed scalable, high-availability containerized applications on Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
  • Implemented Kubernetes best practices for resource management, monitoring, and orchestration of microservices.
  • Developed and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ensuring efficient and reliable code deployment.
  • Automated testing, build, and deployment processes, reducing deployment times and increasing release frequency.
  • Managed and optimized Amazon RDS instances for MySQL/PostgreSQL databases, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Performed database migration, backup, and recovery tasks to maintain data integrity and availability
  • Implemented end-to-end automation of deployment processes, including infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and monitoring setup.
  • Utilized Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform/CloudFormation for consistent and repeatable infrastructure deployments.

DevOps Engineer

Tendercuts
02.2022 - 08.2023
  • worked with Amazon Web Services' Elastic Container Service (ECS), specifically in setting up and managing ECS clusters and deployment lifecycles
  • worked with Amazon ECS capacity providers, which are a key component of Amazon Web Services' container management service
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks by blocking too many requests on a single IP to API requests
  • Amazon Web Services' CloudTrail and CloudWatch services to monitor account activities and application logs. My responsibilities have included setting up CloudTrail to track API calls and AWS Management Console activities,
  • Amazon Athena to analyze and segregate CloudWatch and CloudTrail logs based on specific criteria. In particular, I have utilized Athena to run complex queries on log data and filter out logs based on certain patterns or attributes
  • Terraform to provision and manage various AWS resources, including VPCs, EC2 instances, ECS clusters, task services, ALBs, ASGs, and capacity providers.
  • Git for version control and managing code repositories, including working with branches, merging code, and resolving conflicts.
  • Jenkins cicd tool integrate with GitHub using multi branch pipeline we deploy into staging as well production
  • worked on sentry to get alert from production to find root cause and fix errors
  • Reduced infra cost 40% by using spot and reserved instances on AWS.



DevOps Engineer

Radiant cash management services
10.2019 - 01.2022
  • setup and configured kubernetes cluster 3 master and 6 worker nodes
  • deploy pod manifest file with deployment with multiple replicas
  • monitor pods using promethus with grafana dashboard
  • Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups.
  • Installation, configuration and maintaining services such as Apache,MySQL
  • Supported application teams for new version deployment and rollback
  • Administration of Users and Groups and Setting up special permissions
  • Troubleshooting and Configuration of SSH, FTP, NFS and APACHE ,Nginx
  • Installation, configuration and maintaining Zabbix Monitoring.
  • Automating tasks through Scripting for various System admin tasks.

Linux Administrator

sixthstar technlogy
08.2018 - 09.2019
  • zimbra mail server installation and configuration, creating email ids and domains using
  • shellscript, restrict email sent to other domains and monitor mail queue, mailbox log
  • Zimbra mail backup full backup and incremental backup always bcc backup for all email ids
  • working experience in configure spam cloud antispam mail protection
  • Whm and cpanel installation and configuration group mail id creation and handling server issues
  • Comodo ssl installation for mail server and Apache web server
  • Centos webpanel installation and configuration
  • working experience on dedicated and vps server installation and configuration based on requirements

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering

PTR COLLEGE OF ENGG & TECH
MADURAI
07.2009 - 2012.04

Skills

  • Linux Amazon

  • Web Services Kubernetes

  • Kubernetes

  • Ecs

  • fargate

  • EKS

  • Helm

  • Docker

  • Jenkins

  • Ansible

  • Git

  • Terraform

  • Python

  • MySQL

  • Redis

  • Prometheus

  • Grafana

Certifications

Certifications  AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate   Issued by Amazon Web Services (AWS), [Oct 2023]


Timeline

Sr Engineer Devops

Animaker
01.2024 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Tendercuts
02.2022 - 08.2023

DevOps Engineer

Radiant cash management services
10.2019 - 01.2022

Linux Administrator

sixthstar technlogy
08.2018 - 09.2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering

PTR COLLEGE OF ENGG & TECH
07.2009 - 2012.04
Saivachandran Thanikodi