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SASIDHARAN DHIRAVIDAMANI

Chennai

Summary

Skilled DevOps Engineer with overall 5+ years of experience in the fields of DevOps & Cloud Engineering, hands on experience in automating and optimizing mission critical deployments, leveraging CI /CD, DevOps Processes along with the configuration management for enterprise applications.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

cognizant
Chennai
01.2023 - Current

Digital infrastructure Project

Client:- Verizon

cloud engineer

Advans IT Services Pvt.Ltd
10.2021 - 01.2023

IT system administration

NITTANY CREATIVE SERVICES LLP
03.2018 - 05.2021

Education

S.S.L.C. -

Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Pudupet
12.2011

H.S.C. -

Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Pudupet

B.Sc. (Computer Science) -

St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Science, Cuddalore

Skills

  • Cloud – AWS,Azure
  • Cloud Services – AWS IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, Load Balancer, Elastic Beanstalk, SNS, Cloud Watch, S3, EFS,Azure App services, Azure Storage O365 and other basic services
  • DevOps Tools – Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker
  • Operating System – Windows , 2012,20162019 & Ubuntu ,Amazon Linux,RHEL
  • Backup – Symantec& AWS Backup
  • Other Services – DNS, DHCP, Mail, Storage, Network, File services, Active Directory
  • Ticketing Tool - Jira, Confluence

Certification

  • AWS Solution Architect Associate completed for Maho Jase Institute of Technology, Chennai.
  • Microsoft certified: Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate # Az-104

Technical Skills Handled

  • Working on container-based deployments using the Docker images and Docker registries, pulledthe required images from jfrog. Used Docker to avoid the environment difficulties between Developers and Production.
  • Creating the Branch according to the AMR or ER in the Git Lab to all the services.Enabling the Auto merge so that all branches will merge.
  • Creating the required dependencies of global config -properties (config yml files) for all the services. Creating the required dependencies of a secrets file which has all the database related username and password. Creating the Jenkins pipelines for those properties in a blue or green environment.
  • Creating the Jenkins service pipeline with the properties of the feature branch according to the release branch and decided by the management in the particular Environment.
  • Deploying Application in Amazon Kubernetes cluster(EKS).After deployment, check if the servicepods are running or if pods are in a crash loop will check the logs and do the troubleshooting for those pods and make them up.
  • Creating and developing deployments, namespaces, Pods, Services, Health checks, and persistent volumes etc., for Kubernetes in YAML Language.
  • Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) processimplementation-using Jenkins Pipelines along with Shell scripts to automate routine jobs.
  • Worked with the team on configuring & monitoring different attributes and handling scale up and scale down scenarios for the application in AWS.
  • If all service pods are running fine, will create the ingress for all services. ip is allocated successfully to all the target groups.If Health check is not good we will check the Ip of the service, remove the existing and create the new IP in the target in load balancer.
  • Comparing the commits in the blue and green environments and moving the code to remove the vulnerabilities.
  • We will create the DNS for that Environment as per the requirement. We will map the DNS to the ingress and do the proper health check for the application.
  • After Health Check we will validate the URL in insomnia whether the url is working fine or not
  • Based on the status codes of the URL we will do the troubleshoot on kubernetes pods and load balancers.
  • Experience in defect tracking tools in JIRA. Once a ticket is assigned on our team/mine we will analyze the issue if need any deployment we will do and move to retest/close that ticket.
  • Participated in daily scrum meetings to touch base with the whole team and update the work on a regular basis.
  • Participated in the release calls with the release management and dev team for the production plans and execution of activities and schedules.
  • Responsible for Creating Builds, Staging and deploying Software Content across multiple environments (DEV, QA,UAT, Staging, Canary and Production).
  • Involved in Regression Testing, Backend testing, Functionality and Security testing.
  • Experience with Azure Pipelines, Repos, Boards, and Test Plans
  • Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices
  • Create and maintain Azure DevOps dashboards
  • Manage Azure DevOps source control repositories
  • Maintaing the Azure DevOps release processes
  • maintaing the Azure DevOps deployment automation
  • Implement and maintain Azure DevOps monitoring and alerting
  • Launch and Mange AWS EC2 instances for Windows and Linux Operating Systems
  • Configuring & Managing services in Domain Name System on Windows and AWS Route 53.
  • Symantec antivirus installing, monitoring, and maintaining.
  • Quota allocation, maintaining and report generating in file Server Resource Manager.
  • Handle and Manage AWS EBS and Snapshots.
  • Solving day to day user related problem within the Predefined SLA Norms and Closing incidents with the user confirmation as per ITIL process(Advennet).
  • Call logging to vendor related to hardware issues in server and Service tickets with AWS Support.
  • File server folder Sharing and Read/Write access wise restriction over On-Premises and AWS EFS & S3.
  • Implementing Group policy & Planning and Implementation of Active Directory and roles and policies of AWS IAM, Azure Active Directory.
  • Knowledge about content filtering and key word blocking and default restriction Policy.
  • Handle multiple other AWS services like Cloud Watch for monitoring, SNS for notification, VPN for remote connectivity, Backup service for EC2 backups, Load balancer and Auto Scaling Group for High availability.
  • Knowledge about Azure environments, invoked in Azure AD connect configuring virtual machines, storage account and resource groups
  • Experience with Microsoft o365 and including teams and share point and one drive.
  • Working experience with GIT and BITBUCKET
  • Migrated the on-premises workloads to Azure cloud based on the requirement
  • Responsible for managing network storage in Azure.
  • Management of Azure subscriptions and resources
  • Managing cloud infrastructure service instances and multiple cloud servers
  • Implementing cost-effective cloud-based systems according to technical specifications of the organization
  • Deploy the webapp services for azure using CICD
  • Deploy the Azure File sync to on-prems.
  • Create and mange the user mail id O365 and allocating the license.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 08/19/97
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Indian

Languages

  • Tamil
  • English

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

cognizant
01.2023 - Current

cloud engineer

Advans IT Services Pvt.Ltd
10.2021 - 01.2023

IT system administration

NITTANY CREATIVE SERVICES LLP
03.2018 - 05.2021

S.S.L.C. -

Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Pudupet

H.S.C. -

Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Pudupet

B.Sc. (Computer Science) -

St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Science, Cuddalore
SASIDHARAN DHIRAVIDAMANI