Suresh Raja S
Chennai -
Summary
Results-driven DevOps Engineer with 4 years of hands-on experience in cloud platforms, CI/CD pipeline development and container orchestration. Skilled in AWS, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Terraform with proven success in reducing deployment time and improving system reliability. Adept at implementing automation and monitoring solutions to support high-availability production environments.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
HCL Tech
Chennai
07.2022 - Current
- Provisioned and managed EC2 instances across multiple environments, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
- Managed IAM users and groups by creating and assigning roles and policies to enforce least privilege principles.
- Set up and controlled NAT gateways and instances for secure internet access from private subnets, blocking inbound connections.
- Integrated CloudWatch with AWS services like Auto Scaling, ELB and Lambda to automate scaling actions and monitor system health.
- Used Argo CD sync policies in Jenkins pipelines to automate rollbacks and blue-green deployments for zero-downtime releases.
- Integrated Docker with Jenkins for automated CI/CD pipelines and handled container troubleshooting and monitoring.
- Implemented Docker volumes for data persistence across container restarts and upgrades, ensuring application stability and security.
- Deployed and managed containerized applications using Kubernetes, Helm and Argo CD to enable continuous delivery.
- Proficient in using Git for version control, including branching, merging and rebasing to manage and integrate code changes efficiently.
- Integrated SonarQube with Jenkins to automate code quality checks in the CI/CD pipeline, triggering scans on code commits.
- Troubleshot SonarQube–Jenkins integration issues, resolving connectivity, configuration errors and build failures using log analysis.
- Utilized Terraform remote state in S3 with locking mechanisms to track infrastructure changes and maintain consistency.
System Engineer
Cognex Technologies
Chennai
11.2019 - 11.2021
- Troubleshot hardware and software issues to ensure operational continuity.
- Conducted regular system audits for compliance with industry standards.
- Resolved escalated incidents involving application failures promptly.
- Installed and configured operating systems, middleware products, and databases.
- Created backups of programs to prevent data loss.
- Analyzed system performance, identifying areas for improvement.
- Developed technical documentation outlining system configurations and procedures.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
C Abdul Hakeem College of Engineering And Tech
Vellore06-2017
Skills
- IAM
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Git
- EC2
- ELB
- VPC
- CloudWatch
- s3
- Microservices
- Linux
- Shell scripting
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Ansible
- Splunk
- Route 53
- Cloud infrastructure
- Security and compliance
- System administration
- Troubleshooting techniques
- Change management
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Tamil
Native
Native
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
HCL Tech
07.2022 - Current
System Engineer
Cognex Technologies
11.2019 - 11.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
C Abdul Hakeem College of Engineering And Tech