Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Career Path
Languages
Summary
Personal Information
Languages
Timeline
Generic

Samson GMJ

Coimbatore

Summary

To associate myself with an organization for the long term that will enhance my skills through constant learning and challenging work, and reward me with a full-time position in DevOps-based tools for implementing complete CI/CD, developing frameworks, and creating containerized environments that can take advantage of my experience.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Architect

Blueyonder India Pvt LTD
06.2023 - Current
  • Setup new customer environments.
  • Tailoring customer environments as per their requirement.
  • Setup R-stratergies for customer environments.
  • Build DR environments, backup and restore.
  • Enable B/G deployments for customers.
  • Maintaining sourcecode using github.
  • Using github actions, terraform and helm for environments for end to end automation.
  • Troubleshooting clusters and Application related issues.
  • Coordinate and work on new version releases for customer.
  • Deploy new version of software for the customer, being POC for upgrades and ensure smooth upgrade using blue green deployments.
  • Using IDP for providing access to the customer environments and enable security.
  • Setting up using elasticsearch for log monitoring.
  • Using Prometheus and Grafana for metrics analysis.
  • Using kafka and hazelcast as in memory store for higher performance and scalability.
  • Right sizing the clusters for existing customers as part of cost optimization.
  • Peak sizing for customer during important promotional events and ensuring zero downtime during peak days.
  • Planning and performing upgrades on AKS clusters using automation in terraform.

Lead Administrator

Wipro Technologies
01.2022 - 06.2023
  • Maintaining the AWS OpenSearch cluster.
  • Performing Patches and updates on the AWS OpenSearch domain.
  • Maintaining and Monitoring MSK cluster.
  • Performing patch updates and reboot of brokers.
  • Performing Operation readiness testing on MSK and OpenSearch clusters.
  • Involving in Runbook creation and maintenance.
  • Involving in troubleshooting EKS cluster.
  • Involved in troubleshooting container issues in AKS cluster.
  • Implementing Gitops using ArgoCD.
  • Maintaining argocd workflows.

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
05.2018 - 01.2022
  • Deploying Openshift cluster in AWS environment.
  • Deploy Application in Openshift cluster.
  • Maintain the dev, stage and prod environment.
  • Writing Kubernetes yaml files to deploy services.
  • Creating helm charts for new services.
  • Configuring and maintaining elasticsearch in openshift.
  • Setting up kafka using strimzi operator and maintaining the topics.
  • Configuring and Maintaining EFS filesystem.
  • Creating Jenkins pipelines for individual services and scan jobs.
  • Setup postgres DB using bitnami to run on Kubernetes.
  • Setting up jfrog artifactory for storing backups and Images.
  • Configuring Monitoring tools such and grafana, Prometheus and kibana.
  • Administering OpenShift cluster.

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
05.2018 - 01.2022
  • Write terraform script to automate Infrastructure creation in AWS.
  • Deploy Application in Kubernetes cluster.
  • Maintain the dev, stage and prod environment.
  • Writing Kubernetes yaml files to deploy the Pods.
  • Creating helm charts for new services.
  • Upgrading the applications using helm charts.
  • Configuring and maintaining elasticsearch.
  • Setting up and monitoring spark Jobs in kubernetes.
  • Configuring and Maintaining glusterFS filesystem.
  • Setting up Azkaban for spark jobs.
  • Configuring Monitoring tools such and grafana, kibana and zabbix.
  • Configuring and maintain EKS in AWS using Infra automation.
  • Automate AKS cluster Creation using Terraform.

Consultant

HCL Technologies
05.2018 - 01.2022
  • Understanding the Project practice and tools.
  • Evaluating the DevOps process based on Gartner maturity assessment model.
  • Data collection from SME’s, architects, Developers and Testers.
  • Data collection on metrics such as code quality, Organization Process, Testing and Infrastructure etc.
  • Understanding process followed and tools used in each phase of ALM.
  • Analyzing the current process and providing solution to the customer objectives.
  • Draw the devops maturity of the project based on current devops standards.
  • Advice new tools and process to enhance product quality and improve project time to market.
  • Creating documentations on analysis, current process and proposed process.
  • Suggesting implementation plan for proposed Process.
  • Presentation to stakeholders on the assessment.

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
05.2018 - 01.2022
  • DevOps COE tasks/roles includes the review of automation work, providing guidelines on automation, technical support, training on new tool & technology, framework design and implementation, helping with the initial stage of automation in project, conducting POC, feasibility study for automation and opting the best suitable tool for automation.
  • Competency development of new tools & technology.
  • Automation Framework development and enhancement.
  • Suggesting solutions to project team.
  • Aiding project team with design & implementation of the framework and its usage.
  • POC & feasibility study for application’s automation.
  • Tool feasibility for Projects.
  • Tool chain suggestions for CI and CD pipeline.

Technical Lead

Capgemini
03.2013 - 04.2018
  • Responsible for L3 and L4 support for Environment and Application related issues.
  • Understanding the requirements of the business, create requirement deliverables and get it signed off.
  • Interacting with the Onsite Coordinator, Client and Third Party Vendor on various forums to discuss the status of the project, clarify any queries regarding the functionality.
  • Providing support for acquiring conditioned test data for Integration testing to simulate the production environment and to ensure the correctness and quality of the code.
  • Creation of Automation scripts for Production Monitoring purpose.
  • Autosys JIL job creation and job scheduling.
  • Emergency Recovery Support by handling call and interacting with clients and providing solution to the issues either temporarily or permanently.
  • Web servers certificate Installation for the application at the time of expiry.
  • Solving the incident and change request tickets based on the severity.
  • Generating the dashboards and reports via splunk and sending to client.
  • Conducting Knowledge transfer training sessions for new team members.

Team Lead

Capgemini
03.2013 - 04.2018
  • Maintaining the code in UAT and QA in SVN Branch.
  • Handling the Building and deploying application activities in QA, UAT, Pre-Prod.
  • Manage all aspects of the end to end release process.
  • Creating the Implementation and Backout plan for each release.
  • Ensures coordination of build and test environments teams and release teams.
  • Provides management reports on release progress.
  • Service release and deployment policy and planning which deals with release package acceptance including business sign off.

Education

MCA -

Karunya University
Coimbatore
04.2012

BSc - Computer Science

Dr RV Arts and Science College
Karamadai
03.2009

12th -

SRSI Hr Sec School
Karamadai
01.2006

10th -

DEMS School
Aruvankadu, Nilgiris
01.2004

Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • Dockers
  • EKS
  • Maven
  • Nexus
  • ECR
  • Jenkins
  • CodeBuild
  • CodeDeploy
  • Code pipeline
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • Glassfish
  • Tomcat
  • Service Now
  • JIRA
  • MySQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • Redis
  • LINUX
  • Windows
  • Java
  • Shell Scripting
  • Python

Career Path

  • Capgemini Technology Services, Technical Lead, 03/01/13 to 04/30/18
  • HCL Technologies, Technical Lead, 05/01/18 to 01/31/22
  • Wipro Technologies, Lead Administrator, 01/01/22 to 06/30/23
  • Blueyonder India Pvt LTD, Technical Architect, 06/01/23 to Present

Languages

  • English
  • Tamil

Summary

Architecting Azure/AWS IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), HCI, Azure Arc, and Azure DevOps. Managing and automating AKS, EKS, and on-prem Kubernetes clusters for scalable microservices-based applications. Implemented GitOps with ArgoCD, Jenkins, and Bitbucket CI/CD pipelines for seamless application deploymen, Terraform, and Ansible Kubernetes specialist – automating cloud provisioning, networking, security, and policy enforcement, implementing end-to-end automation to facilitate infrastructure provision. Monitoring and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics. Managing large-scale Azure and AWS cloud environments with high availability, implementing RBAC, IAM, and Azure Policy for cloud governance and compliance, and disaster recovery and backup automation using Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery (ASR), and Velero

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Gunalan S
  • Date of Birth: 02/19/89
  • Marital Status: Married

Languages

English, Tamil
First Language

Timeline

Technical Architect

Blueyonder India Pvt LTD
06.2023 - Current

Lead Administrator

Wipro Technologies
01.2022 - 06.2023

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
05.2018 - 01.2022

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
05.2018 - 01.2022

Consultant

HCL Technologies
05.2018 - 01.2022

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
05.2018 - 01.2022

Technical Lead

Capgemini
03.2013 - 04.2018

Team Lead

Capgemini
03.2013 - 04.2018

MCA -

Karunya University

BSc - Computer Science

Dr RV Arts and Science College

12th -

SRSI Hr Sec School

10th -

DEMS School

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Samson GMJ