Selvam C Samy
Principal Devops Consultant
Filderstadt,Baden-Württemberg
Summary
Overall experience of 14 years with extensive expertise in IT Infrastructure Support, predominantly into Containerized model, Devops practice including Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift Container platform, Python, Jenkins, Datadog, Bitbucket followed by Disk Storage, SAN and System Administration, Implementation, Design, Migration & Datacenter support. Experience in supporting Global clients & working in complex IT Infrastructure aligned towards ITIL processes and Agile Methodology.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Devops Principal Consultant
GE Healthcare
Bengaluru
08.2023 - 12.2024
- Working as a Principal Consultant in GE Healthcare in developing a new product which plays a crucial role in healthcare industry
- Evaluated multiple tools including Kubernetes distribution, CNI, CSI, API, LB, Encryption which suits for the edge native environment and deployed them
- Built ISO image with CANVOS for the edge environment
- Worked on pipelines to deploy edge cluster via Terraform and API through Gitlab
- Worked closely with Spectro Cloud for integrating and packaging the curated stack which helps consuming modalities to deploy their applications
- Created Gitlab CI-CD pipelines using Gitlab
- Part of a team which is developing a product under P Milestone
- Prepared the product adhered to Health care industry guidelines and its compliance standards
- Assisting stake holders in their deployment issues
- Developed and Released a Formal build for V&V team to carry out their verification and validation test
Devops Lead II SRE
Kyndryl India
04.2019 - 05.2023
- Joined in IBM India Bangalore on April 2019 as Infrastructure Architect and moved to Kyndryl India as part of the spin off happened on Sep 2021 as SRE in Devops Practice and driving vendor’s best practices, recommendations to all the Multi cloud managed services customers
- Educating customers, technical team, account team and working along with them to implement global Devops best practices for all MCMS customers
- Presenting performance data to IBM Global service line engineering Director on life cycle management metrics for all the customers
- Promoting Vendor products to the global customers and making them understand about the product and its benefits
- Alarming the customer on their older technology hardware and holding discussions/meetings to convert them to Devops practices
- Driving industry recommendations and making team aware of the newly identified vulnerabilities, working along with them till the closure
- Worked in monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and other Devops practice tools such as like Kibana, Helm, Fluentd, Inginx, Jfrog, Maven
- Lead the transition of new customers globally from Monolithic architecture to Containerized architecture and Microservices architecture
- Creating plan and implementing critical changes in the customer infrastructure environment
- Gained IBM digital accreditation in Leadership, Architectural thinking, Enterprise Design Thinking practitioner, Industry jumpstart in Banking sector, Team Solution Design, IBM Blockchain consulting, IBM Blockchain Essentials V2, IBM Quantum Conversations
- IBM Certified recruiter
- Knowledge in GCP, AWS and Amazon cloud
- Strong knowledge in Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift container platform
- Created automated deployments using Terraform
- Strong knowledge in working with version control systems such as Git, GitHub, Bitbucket
- Extensive experience in setting up CI/CD using pipelines such Jenkins, Gitops
Analyst
Royal Bank of Scotland
04.2016 - 01.2019
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, Design, implement and maintained highly available systems and infrastructure, Identified and mitigated reliability risks including capacity planning, monitoring and alerting
- Automated deployments and maintenance of systems and infrastructure, collaborated with development teams to ensure that applications and services are designed with scalability, reliability and performance in mind
- Driven continuous improvement across the entire infrastructure stack
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, Strong communication and collaboration skills
Senior Operations Professional
IBM India
12.2014 - 03.2016
Senior Specialist
IBM India
09.2012 - 11.2014
- Part of GTS Storage Competency team & working as Account Focal
- Provide L3 Support for IBM SAN devices
- Worked on RFS activities include implementation of SAN devices
- Worked closely with architects for SAN infrastructure design, planning & execution
- Activities includes Storage refresh, SAN switch refresh, SAN migration, INA Installation and configuration, TPC deployment, TPCHC Installation and performance issues/tuning
- Ensure SAN Infrastructure complies with the Global Compliance practices adhered by IBM standards
- Configuring alerts for proactive monitoring, part of the BAU L3 support team with varying operations in Incident, problem, change and vendor management for storage related service delivery BAU scope of work included Array / Raid creation, Disk space allocation/ deallocation
- Add/removal of servers to SAN, zoning, zone configuration backups, Extending Switches through ISL and Trunking, NPIV management, configuring SNMP traps, managing copy services which includes replication technology (Global mirror) and point in time copy (Flash copy)
- Troubleshooting SAN related issues in co-ordination with Vendor and platform teams, Add / remove / modify operations and synchronizations (starting, stopping) of Global Mirror
- Undertaken activities like RCA preparations & Risk analysis
Engineer – EUS
Microland
06.2011 - 03.2012
L1 Support Engineer
Wipro Infotech
07.2010 - 06.2011
- Installation / commissioning and remote implementation of new storages (DS8800/DS8700), Addition of new storages to TPC, Migration of storages through SVC / Addition of nodes in SVC cluster, Decommissioning of storages from SVC and Servers
- Configuring SVC cluster for remote replication, Involved in Storage performance tuning working closely with the vendor and storage architects
- Addition / Renewal of license in storage, Involved in complete Data Centre maintenance / shutdown activity (Accountable for storage & SAN switches), Involved successfully in the Disaster Recovery operations by meeting client agreed RPO/ RTO
- Firmware upgradation activities for IBM SVC, IBM DS5100 series, FAB OS upgradation in Brocade 48000 directors/DCX
- Expertise in IBM storages (DS4000 Series, XIV & V7000, Expertise in copy services (Flash copies / Metro Mirror / Global Mirror)
Education
B. Tech - Information Technology
P.T.R College of Engineering & Technology
Madurai, India 06.2006 - 04.2010
Skills
Openshift Container Platformundefined
Certification
ITIL V3 Certified
Awards
- Best Performer, 2013, For contribution to storage industry across Bangalore Delivery Center.
- Best Performer, 2014, For contribution to Storage Competency by IBM.
- Best Performer, 2015, In Storage Competency by DANONE.
- Recognized for demonstrating the practice 'Put the Client First', 05/01/15
- Recognized in Manager's choice award for the practice 'Show Personal Interest', 06/02/15
Languages
English
Fluent
German
Beginner
Timeline
Devops Principal Consultant
GE Healthcare
08.2023 - 12.2024
Devops Lead II SRE
Kyndryl India
04.2019 - 05.2023
Analyst
Royal Bank of Scotland
04.2016 - 01.2019
Senior Operations Professional
IBM India
12.2014 - 03.2016
Senior Specialist
IBM India
09.2012 - 11.2014
Engineer – EUS
Microland
06.2011 - 03.2012
L1 Support Engineer
Wipro Infotech
07.2010 - 06.2011
B. Tech - Information Technology
P.T.R College of Engineering & Technology
06.2006 - 04.2010
ITIL V3 Certified
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