VIGNESH MAHADEVAN
Azure DevOps Engineer
Summary
Azure DevOps Engineer with a comprehensive skillset encompassing CI/CD pipeline automation, infrastructure management, and cloud security. Proficient in Azure DevOps services including Azure Repos, Pipelines, and Artifacts, as well as tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and Git. Adept at implementing best practices for continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages
Work History
Technical Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2021 - Current
- Company Overview: Working for Voya Financial-US (Insurance company)
- Experienced on Branching, Merging, and Tagging concepts in Version Control tool like GIT.
- Managed and versioned source code in Azure Repos, enabling smooth collaboration across development teams and improved version control.
- Performed branching strategies (GitFlow, feature branching, etc.) to streamline collaboration and ensure clean code deployments.
- Creating Docker images using Dockerfile to run containers and pushing them into Azure Container Repository/Dockerhub.
- Writing K8s manifest files for creation and deployment of objects like Pods, Deployment, Services, Namespace, ConfigMap and Secrets through Kubernetes.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines to automatically build and push container images to ACR and deploy them to AKS or Azure Web App for Containers.
- Worked on creation of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for various projects, Troubleshooted and resolved issues with CI/CD pipelines to maintain smooth delivery process, Proficiency in creating automated builds and deployments using Azure Pipelines.
- Skilled in deploying IIS applications in various environments via Deployment groups.
- Implemented Azure Key Vault to securely store and access sensitive information like API keys, secrets, and certificates used in DevOps pipelines.
- Automated the creation of Azure Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, and App Services using IAC tools like Terraform .
- Configured Azure Artifacts for versioning and storing reusable packages (NuGet, NPM, Maven), supporting a private feed for internal development.
- Setting up Grafana dashboard for Proactive monitoring the performance of Kubernetes - Clusters, Pods, Containers and creating Alerting Rules in Grafana for notifying the status of the metrics.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2020 - 12.2020
- Application Onboarding on Github, Jfrog Artifactory, Xld using Jenkins Cloudbees.
- Deploying the builds of application in multiple environments like Intg, Accp and Prod through XL Deploy tool.
- File Migration from Github to Local machine and deploying packages in Salesforce.
- Performing GitHub tasks, including managing repository settings, adding/removing collaborators, creating and deleting the repository, managing the team’s settings and repositories, including adding/removing members and configuring access permissions.
Education
BE - EEE
Sri Sairam Institute of Technology
06.2014 - 05.2018
High School - 12th
Vijayanta Model Hr Sec School
06.2013 - 04.2014
Secondary School - 10th
KV AFS Avadi
06.2011 - 04.2012
Skills
Azure Pipelines
Azure Repos
Azure Artifacts
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
Prometheus
Grafana
Terraform
DevOps
Certification
AZ 900 - Microsoft Certified : Azure Fundaments
Personal Information
Languages
English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
AZ 900 - Microsoft Certified : Azure Fundaments
01-2024
Technical Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2021 - Current
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2020 - 12.2020
BE - EEE
Sri Sairam Institute of Technology
06.2014 - 05.2018
High School - 12th
Vijayanta Model Hr Sec School
06.2013 - 04.2014
Secondary School - 10th
KV AFS Avadi
06.2011 - 04.2012