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Syed Mohamed Kashif GM

Syed Mohamed Kashif GM

Chennai

Summary

  • 3 years of relevant experience in the field of DevOps Engineering in application configurations, code compilation, packaging, building, automating, managing and releasing code from one environment to other and deploying to servers.
  • 13+ years of overall experience working in DevOps, SAAS Enterprise Support and ETL Data warehousing Technologies.
  • Experienced in Jenkins by installing, configuring and maintaining for purpose of continuous integration (CI) and for end to end automation for all build and deployments and creating Jenkins CI pipelines.
  • Hands on experience with AWS EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, Auto scaling, Code pipeline, Code deployment, Route 53.
  • Experienced in branching, merging and maintaining the versions using SCM tools like Git and GitHub on windows and Linux.
  • Experienced in Project Management and issue tracking tool like JIRA, Salesforce Lighting and Zendesk.
  • Experienced in the creation of Kubernetes pods, services, deployment for managing the container life cycle using yaml deployment script.
  • Creating custom DockerImages using Docker file for easier replication of DEV and QA Environments in local machines.
  • Performed provisioning infrastructure for various Environments like QA, Integration, UAT and Productions Environments by using Ansible based on their yaml playbooks.
  • Experienced in creating AWS cloud resources such as EC2 instance, Subnets, Routing Tables, Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways, Load balancer, Auto scaling using Terraform hcl code.
  • Configured and monitored distributed and multi-platform servers using Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and can work either independently with little or no supervision or as a member of team.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills, excellent presentation skills and a hard-working team player, well-practiced in attending client calls and answering technical queries.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Rocket Software
06.2022 - 08.2023
  • Installing and configuring Jenkins master and slave nodes
  • Built CI/CD pipeline
  • Managing the infrastructure as code using Terraform to create AWS EC2 instance with EBS, VPC, Subnets, Routing Tables, Internet and NAT Gateways, Security Groups, Load balancers and enabling auto scaling groups
  • Implementing git, github, maven and docker for 3 projects as part of improving operational efficiency by 40%
  • Led the development and implementation of blue-green and canary deployment methodologies, improving deployment efficiency by 70%
  • Used Shell scripts to day to day activities and tasks for automating
  • Implemented CI / CD pipeline using AWS DevOps tools like code pipeline and code deploy
  • Have experience in creating resources in AWS cloud through web console, AWS CLI, Cloud Formation and Terraform
  • Engineered Infrastructure automation that eliminated time consuming manual process deployment and configurations using Ansible
  • Worked in GIT to manage source code
  • Deployed the applications to Tomcat Application Server and static content to Apache web servers
  • Installed, Configured, and Managed Monitoring Tools such as Prometheus/ Grafana for Resource Monitoring/Network Monitoring
  • Worked on Docker container to create Docker images for different environments
  • Responsible for taking the source code and compiling using Maven and package it in its distributable format, such as a WAR file
  • Implemented process for release management, automated code deployment, configuration management, and monitoring.

DevOps Engineer

SBM
06.2020 - 06.2022
  • Build Jenkins CI/CD process from scratch to simplify the development process
  • Supervising the process of containerizing the DevOps integration by Jenkins CI within docker to reduce complexity by 60%
  • Experienced with through hands-on experience in SQL and Python
  • Managed to automate deployment strategies, achieving 99.9% uptime for high-availability Kubernetes clusters
  • Wrote several Ansible playbooks for the automation that was defined through tasks using YAML format and run Ansible scripts to provision dev servers Responsible for developing Dockerfiles, designing container cluster architecture, and installing, configuring, scheduling, and troubleshooting container workloads
  • Responsible for installing, deploying, configuring, recommending improvements, and maintaining Kubernetes cluster
  • Maintain version control systems such as Git, Resolve conflicts between branches and versions, Write and maintain documentation for version control processes
  • Train and mentor team members on Git and version control systems
  • Created AWS resources like EC2, VPC, ELB, ASG, EBS, through Terraform hcl code.

SAAS Technical Support Lead

SBM
10.2014 - 06.2020
  • Supported SAAS Marketing automation cloud platforms such as Campaign Master (.Net based), Traction (Java based), Tractionnext (.Net based), Adobe Campaign through various support channels such as Email, Phone and Chat
  • Handled Zendesk tickets posted by platform end users, senior digital producer, digital producers, marketing architects, marketing coordinators, digital agencies, technical account manager, Account directors, account executives, developers
  • Ensured ticketing process of Comprehending, Probing, Replicating Issue, Resolution delivery with detailed steps (including documents, images, and video wherever applicable) is followed
  • Maintaining Support Process, Platform FAQs, and Technical Process on Confluence Wiki
  • Other duties include preparing shift roster, KPI reports, verifying public response made on tickets randomly, conducting Knowledge sessions for support team members, conducting appraisal meetings.

SQL Developer

SBM
05.2011 - 10.2014
  • Handled RAW STAGE part of ETL by using Sybase bcp utility and format files to move data from RAW tables to Stage tables
  • Responsible for building controlling tables meant for each stage of ETL
  • Wrote stored procedures in Data Stage where business logic was applied on raw data stored in stage tables
  • DBLOAD stage implemented using bcp utility and format files, which were called from shell scripts to move data from Stage tables to Factory tables
  • Wrote stored procedures for fetching data from factory tables for each report rendered by BI tool
  • The BI tool was built using open source technologies relying on procedures created in Sybase.

Education

GNIIT Six Semester Software Engineering Program -

NIIT
Chennai, TamilNadu

B.Sc. in Computer Science -

University of Madras
Chennai, TamilNadu
01.2001

Skills

  • Versioning Tools - Git, GitHub
  • CI / CD - Jenkins Pipeline, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Deploy
  • Build Tools - Maven
  • Ticket Tracking Tool – JIRA, Salesforce Lighting, Zendesk
  • Containerization Tool - Docker, Kubernetes
  • Operating System - Windows , Linux
  • AWS - Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EFS, Auto scaling, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, CloudFormation, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, Code deploy, Code pipeline, DynamoDB
  • Languages – T-SQL
  • Scripting Language - Shell, Python
  • Web server - Apache HTTPD
  • Database – Sybase Adaptive Server 150
  • Configuration Mgmt - Ansible
  • Monitoring Tool – Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk
  • IAC tool - Terraform

Certification

  • CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator, 2020
  • AWS: Certified Solution Architect Associate, 2020

Languages

English, Hindi, Urdu and Tamil

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 07/05/1981
  • Gender: MALE
  • Marital Status: Single

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Rocket Software
06.2022 - 08.2023

DevOps Engineer

SBM
06.2020 - 06.2022

SAAS Technical Support Lead

SBM
10.2014 - 06.2020

SQL Developer

SBM
05.2011 - 10.2014

GNIIT Six Semester Software Engineering Program -

NIIT

B.Sc. in Computer Science -

University of Madras

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