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Santosh Sankannavar

Lead Devops Engineer
Bengaluru,Karnataka

Summary

DevOps Lead/Manager with 16 years of experience orchestrating multi-regional AWS EKS clusters, streamlining CI/CD pipelines, and automating infrastructure provisioning. Skilled in mentoring teams, reducing costs, and implementing cutting-edge technologies, such as HashiCorp Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes and GitHub Actions. Adept at troubleshooting, optimizing service utilization, and driving consolidation for enhanced efficiency. Certified in AWS and Kubernetes administration, I bring a proven track record of success in DevOps and infrastructure management, complemented by strong communication and leadership abilities. My expertise in Mulesoft, Jenkins, and Kubernetes aligns seamlessly with the requirements for the desired position, ensuring seamless integration and delivery of complex projects.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
1
1
Language

Work History

Lead Devops Engineer

Yara International Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
06.2021 - 10.2024
  • Spearheaded a dynamic team of five DevOps engineers while mentoring interns to evolve into adept DevOps professionals.
  • Architected and managed multi-regional AWS EKS clusters using sophisticated Terraform modules, automating the provisioning of diverse AWS infrastructures.
  • Conducted regular upgrades of EKS clusters through advanced module usage, ensuring cutting-edge functionality.
  • Engineered and deployed robust CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and Jenkins, markedly improving development process efficiency.
  • Strategically migrated CI/CD operations from CircleCI and Jenkins to GitHub Actions, driving consolidation and efficiency.
  • Executed project migrations and consolidations, yielding significant cost reductions.
  • Administered MuleSoft environments on AWS EKS and on-premises agents, encompassing Runtime Fabric, API Manager, and Anypoint Exchange.
  • Orchestrated infrastructure provisioning using HashiCorp Terraform, guaranteeing consistent and repeatable infrastructure setups.
  • Supervised the deployment and maintenance of self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on EKS clusters.
  • Implemented robust secret management protocols using HashiCorp Vault.
  • Established an advanced observability platform integrating Instana for monitoring and EFK for comprehensive logging solutions.
  • Optimized service utilization and consolidated platforms, achieving cost-efficiency.
  • Directed the release process, including change management, adhering to ITSM standards via ServiceNow.
  • Deployed EKS services utilizing Helm charts with Helmfile for streamlined orchestration.
  • Implemented AWS SAM models through sophisticated pipelines for event-driven architectures.
  • Configured OIDC trust relationships between GitHub and AWS Identity Provider, enabling a secure password less setup.
  • Leveraged AWS IRSA with EKS clusters to facilitate tokenless access to various AWS services.

Senior Devops Engineer

Encora
Bengaluru
08.2020 - 05.2021
  • Migrated more than 50+ micro services(go, java, nodejs) on kubernetes
  • Upgraded eks cluster and worker node for all 3 environments (Stage , Preprod and Prod) without Downtime
  • Automated one click deployment for androids, iOS and java- based application
  • Implementation of Spot instances for 100 percent utilisation on stage and preprod environment to reduce cost
  • (helped in achieving 15percent of cost reduction) CI/CD(Jenkins) for deploying Java, Web and NodeJS applications on Kubernetes (using ansible and helm)
  • Automation of creating Servers, VPC, Security Groups using terraform and ansible
  • Automating deployment of applications on autoscaling using ansible
  • Creating EKS clusters using terraform
  • Importing existing aws infradtructure into IAC using terraform, Migrating jenkins and running as pod in EKS

Devops Engineer

Volvo Group Connected Solutions
Bengaluru
08.2015 - 02.2020
  • Automating AWS infrastructure using tools such as terraform, ansible, cloudformation and Jenkins Containerized java and gradle application using docker and deployed kubernetes Deploying and Managing java applications on cloud AWS Managing release activities for the new changes
  • Troubleshooting issues related to deployment as well as issues on production environment
  • Working experience on ITSM based ticket applications like remedy and service now
  • Planning the deployment Monitoring the applications health using cloudwatch, Grafana, prometheus Managing alarms via OP5
  • Worked in the environment of CI/CD in AWS cloud technology Experience in docker, git, ansible, AWS, Jenkins, terraform, Kubernetes Automating AWS AMI creation using packer Lead a team of developers as scrum master Working experience on bash and python scripts using boto3 libraries
  • Previous company Interfaced with cross-functional team of business analysts, developers and technical support professionals to determine comprehensive list of requirement specifications for new applications
  • Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance

Service Delivery Consultant

HP
Pune
08.2010 - 04.2015
  • Managed voip servers activities from monitoring perspective at L1 and L2 Level
  • Diagnosed end user issue with avaya ip phones over the phone
  • Manage SLA via ticket system called remedy
  • Several online diagnostics to find the cause and fix it via SOP
  • Introduced new SOP's for increasing efficiency

Senior Service Specialist

Infosys
Pune
04.2007 - 07.2010
  • Keeping the incidents limited to the Service agreement levels and driving the incidents to closure
  • It's a business to business Interaction Broadband Provisioning and Repair Troubleshooting of the issues in the network between the exchange (DSLAM, ATM)
  • Creation of trouble tickets follows up with resolver groups and driving the tickets to resolution

Education

Bachelor of Science -

RLS Science Institute
Belgaum
06.2003 - 07.2006

Skills

Mulesoft

Containerization technologies

Infrastructure automation

System administration

Scripting languages

Linux operating system

Monitoring and logging

Release management

Continuous deployment

Amazon web services

Continuous improvement

Problem-solving

Python

Excellent communication

Certification

AWS Solution Architect Associate

Timeline

Lead Devops Engineer

Yara International Pvt. Ltd.
06.2021 - 10.2024

Senior Devops Engineer

Encora
08.2020 - 05.2021

Devops Engineer

Volvo Group Connected Solutions
08.2015 - 02.2020

Service Delivery Consultant

HP
08.2010 - 04.2015

Senior Service Specialist

Infosys
04.2007 - 07.2010

Bachelor of Science -

RLS Science Institute
06.2003 - 07.2006

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