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Sunil Jacob

Sunil Jacob

Principal Architect - Dev(Sec)Ops

Summary

Software specialist with an overall of 15 years of experience in leadership, management and technology, with main area of expertise & specialized skills in DevOps Engineering that includes CI/CD, Containerization, Observability


  • Implemented micro-service deployment patterns like service mesh and side car proxy using Istio

  • Responsible for building and maintaining the secure infrastructure through automation, by implementing necessary security controls
  • Strong work experience in DevOps and Gitlab/Github
  • Experience in the GCP cloud environment, DNS, TLS, Load Balancing, Storage and CDN
  • Led multi million dollar project as part of developing multi-channel inventory management system
  • Solid experience and proven success in managing complex operations, cross - functional teams and multi million-dollar projects
  • Demonstrated ability for new initiatives for implementing Chaos tools
  • Extensive knowledge of software development and automation tools and methodologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Git)
  • Experience leading technology teams: delegation, definition and leadership of broad goals, mentorship, and team development
  • Interested in technology, innovation, and how digital platforms can solve business challenges

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

<p>Principal Architect - DevOps</p> <p></p>

EBO Mart
08.2021
  • Participate in development and engineering of software delivery platform and pipeline tools and technologies
  • Ensure designs and solutions are highly available, secure, and continue to drive automation 
  • Responsible green field to fully automated cloud platform which includes scaling and costing
  • Works in close collaboration with the technology teams and vendors to ensure the adoption of the DevOps tools and practices

<p>DevOps Architect</p> <p></p>

Falabella India
09.2019 - 08.2021

Responsibilities:

  • OnPrem to cloud migration for e-commerce platform
  • Experience in the GCP cloud environment, Cloudflare CDN
  • Experienced in Virtualisation Technologies ( Docker, Kubernetes ) and in Helm package manager
  • Service mesh, side car proxy deployments
  • Hardening GKE clusters for security improvements


<p>Competency Leader - CI/CD</p> <p></p>

Philips
07.2018 - 09.2019

Responsibilities:

  • Leading development and operations processes inside team
  • Guided team in microservices design using Circuit breaker reliable communication pattern
  • Experience on Observability patterns
  • Knowledge of Service mesh, side car proxy deployment patterns

<p>Lead Engineer</p> <p></p>

Target Corporation
11.2007 - 07.2018

Responsibilities:

  • Automate CI/CD pipeline for upgrading of Vertex 8.0 and building REST API's for Enterprise Tax API
  • Implement log monitoring and telemetry solutions using Elastic Search ( ELK ) stack and Grafana
  • Introduce new tools and technologies for infrastructure management and API performance testing
  • Strong working knowledge of cloud environment, Docker/Kubernetes
  • Developed staff through coaching, providing performance feedback, performance assessments and establishing performance and development plans
  • Experience in Service discovery, Service registry and client side discovery

<p>Associate IT Consultant</p>

ITC Infotech
03.2006 - 11.2007

<p>Software Engineer</p>

Srishti Software
06.2005 - 03.2006

Education

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Great Lakes - PG in Big Data and Machine Learning
04.2018 - 03.2019

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Alliance Business Academy - Post Graduate Diploma in IT and Management
06.2002 - 03.2004

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Tamilnadu College of Engineering - B.E ( Computer Science )
06.1997 - 03.2001

Skills

    Unix/Linux

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Certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator 

Publications

Timeline

Principal Architect - DevOps

EBO Mart
08.2021

Certified Kubernetes Administrator 

07-2021

GCP - Professional Cloud Architect

02-2021

DevOps Architect

Falabella India
09.2019 - 08.2021

Competency Leader - CI/CD

Philips
07.2018 - 09.2019

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Great Lakes - PG in Big Data and Machine Learning
04.2018 - 03.2019

Tech Gig - Code Gladiator Runner Up 2017 for DevOps theme

04-2017

Lead Engineer

Target Corporation
11.2007 - 07.2018

Associate IT Consultant

ITC Infotech
03.2006 - 11.2007

Software Engineer

Srishti Software
06.2005 - 03.2006

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Alliance Business Academy - Post Graduate Diploma in IT and Management
06.2002 - 03.2004

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Tamilnadu College of Engineering - B.E ( Computer Science )
06.1997 - 03.2001
Sunil JacobPrincipal Architect - Dev(Sec)Ops