SatishKumar Gowriswamy
Coimbatore
Summary
Seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer with comprehensive experience in managing system infrastructures and overseeing continuous integration and deployment. Strong at leveraging automation tools, streamlining operations, and enhancing systems scalability. Proven skills in designing solutions for complex IT environments and leading cross-functional teams to enhance productivity. Have made significant contributions to previous roles by improving operational efficiency through process optimization.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Coimbatore
02.2021 - Current
- Successfully managed the Rancher environment with 50 clusters, ensuring efficient workload deployment and management.
- Orchestrated the migration of customer workloads to Kubernetes clusters, seamlessly transitioning their applications for improved scalability and efficiency.
- Deployed and configured new clusters for customer workloads, ensuring reliable and optimized performance.
- Implemented robust monitoring and logging solutions for Kubernetes clusters, enabling real-time visibility and proactive issue resolution.
- Utilized 'LongHorn Storage' to configure efficient and scalable storage solutions for customer workloads, ensuring data integrity and availability.
- Identified the automation opportunities from the day-to-day operations. Help develops by automating the routine tasks using Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell.
- Maintained high availability of workloads deployed in the clusters, effectively managing environments.
- Periodic security and vulnerability scanning using Twistlock.
- Able to renew the SSL certificate periodically for applications and the Rancher tool.
- Centralized the identity and access management for authentication and authorization for the various CI/CD tools. Set up users and groups for different teams in the enterprise directory.
- Client: Elevance Health, Abbott, Medtronic, AmeriHealth Caritas.
DevOps Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
09.2018 - 03.2021
- Current Data Center (IP2) is migrating to two new Data Centers: Collegeville (CGV) and Plano, Texas (PLZ), and 100+ applications are migrating to non-production/production environments across the two new DCs.
- Over 92% automation was achieved through Ansible and PowerShell automation scripts, which brought in 60% of effort savings.
- The Regression Test Automation script development improved test coverage from 18% to 62%.
- Application builds leveraging tools Ansible, PowerShell Scripting.
- Gather requirements and identify the scope of work and finalize applications for Automation Deployment for Applications that can be installed in automated manner.
- Develop Automation scripts through PowerShell and Ansible for deployment.
- Perform high level smoke testing, including connectivity testing with vendors and other interfaces and Coordination of sign off from stakeholder.
- Client: AmeriHealth Caritas
- Managed cloud infrastructure for scalable application hosting and performance.
- Led incident response efforts to quickly resolve operational issues impacting services.
Specialist System Development
Infosys Limited India
Chennai
12.2018 - 09.2019
- Define, develop, maintain, and improve build and deploy scripts, release notes/build notes through Automation.
- Involved in Configuring and designing the AWS cloud infrastructure environments, which will have high availability, capability, security, and costing. (Services like Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Code Commit, EC2, CloudWatch)
- Experience in troubleshooting and implementing the new enhancement related to API development lifecycle in this project.
- Setup and Configuration of Ansible Configuration Management.
- Utilized Linux Admin skills on deployment servers to make sure the servers are running as expected.
- Performing check-in, check-out, builds modules/components and applying to LABs using Source Code Management (Version Control System) tools like Git and GitHub.
- Creating the branches, Merging labels according to the release wise for different applications actionable insights into the health and performance of services.
- Implemented and monitored readiness and liveness probes for application health checks, proactively identifying and resolving potential issues to maintain high availability.
- Played a key role in cost optimization efforts, closely monitoring resource utilization and identifying opportunities to optimize infrastructure usage, resulting in significant cost savings.
- Collaborated with development teams to define and implement best practices for application deployment, scaling, and performance.
Senior Analyst - Automation Engineer
Verzion India Pvt Ind Ltd
Chennai
07.2016 - 12.2018
- Application builds leveraging tools Ansible, PowerShell Scripting.
- Gather requirements and identify the scope of work and finalize applications for Automation Deployment for Applications that can be installed in automated manner.
- Develop Automation scripts through PowerShell and Ansible for deployment.
- Experience in troubleshooting and implementing the new enhancement related to API development lifecycle in this project.
- Manage AWS resources and allocation to test & dev as well as production environment with policy layout and documentation thereof.
- Strong use of Shell scripting languages including BASH for Linux platforms.
- Assumed full responsibility for the DevOps role. Launched QA/DEV/Demo/Pre-Prod environments using AWS. Configured OS, size, firewall, VPN, IP and added third party or custom applications. Ensured services were up and running.
Analyst - System Engineer
Verzion India Pvt Ind Ltd
Chennai
04.2010 - 07.2016
- Strong DevOps experience in build, release, and deployment automation.
- Integrated automation workflows seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines for faster delivery.
- Hands-on experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and application lifecycle management.
- Expertise in lift-and-shift migrations from on-premises to cloud platforms.
- Supported infrastructure provisioning and configuration using IaC practices.
- Responsibilities Implement the Release Engineering process to support ongoing releases and creating/maintaining release documentation.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Information Technology
Bharathiar University
Tamil Nadu, IndiaBachelor's Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Hindusthan College of Engineering
Tamil Nadu, IndiaSkills
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Azure cloud services
- PowerShell scripting
- Container orchestration, Rancher
- Grafana and Prometheus
- GitLab CI/CD
- Jfrog Artifactory
- Git, Linux
- Docker
- AWS (IAM, S3, EC2, CloudWatch, RDS)
- GCP log router
- Rancher management
- Helm charts
Certification
- CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator, The Linux Foundation
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Accomplishments
- Award Winners on High Performance in CNAIP Practice, 12/01/22
- ON THE SPOT AWARD from Verizon, 01/01/10
- Client recognition for outstanding technical expertise, 01/01/17
- Spotlight Awarded as Best Team Players, 01/01/17
- Ovation award, 01/01/14
- Ovation award, 01/01/15
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 08/26/85
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2021 - Current
Specialist System Development
Infosys Limited India
12.2018 - 09.2019
DevOps Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2018 - 03.2021
Senior Analyst - Automation Engineer
Verzion India Pvt Ind Ltd
07.2016 - 12.2018
Analyst - System Engineer
Verzion India Pvt Ind Ltd
04.2010 - 07.2016
Master of Business Administration - Information Technology
Bharathiar University
Bachelor's Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Hindusthan College of Engineering