Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Languages Known
Timeline
Open to Relocation
Hi, I’m

Vignesh Kumar Rajendran

Chennai
Vignesh Kumar Rajendran

Summary

Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 4.5 years in cloud and DevOps and 9 years in overall IT experience and 11 years of total professional experience. Proven track record in automating CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures using AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, SonarQube, and Dynatrace. Adept at mentoring teams, optimizing delivery pipelines, and driving operational excellence in fast-paced environments.

Overview

7
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Renault Nissan Technology & Business Center India

DevOps Engineer
08.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab for automated builds, testing, and deployments.
  • Managing infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and AWS services.
  • Administering and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters for microservices deployment.
  • Integrating SonarQube and generating detailed code quality reports for continuous improvement.
  • Leveraging Dynatrace for proactive monitoring and performance optimization.

Kanini Software Solutions Pvt Ltd

DevOps Engineer
10.2021 - 08.2023

Job overview

  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Azure Devops.
  • Managed AWS services including EKS, EC2, ECS, ELB, EMR, ECR, Code Pipeline, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, IAM.
  • Configured Route 53 DNS and load balancing for high availability applications.
  • Administered and optimized AWS RDS snapshot and EC2 AMI lifecycle management, ensuring reliable disaster recovery and minimal downtime.

Intellistride technologies Pvt Ltd

Senior IOT Engineer
08.2018 - 03.2021

Job overview

  • Worked on bucket policies, S3 storage like Glacier, maintained SNS and CloudWatch monitoring services.
  • Managed AWS EC2 infrastructure leveraging Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon S3 Glacier for QA, UAT, and Git infrastructure environments.
  • Build, manage, and continuously improved the build infrastructure for global software development engineering teams including implementation of build scripts, continuous integration infrastructure and deployment tools.
  • Implemented Docker with NGINX load balancing to enable Continuous Delivery in a highly scalable environment.

Education

Hindustan University
Chennai, IN

Bachelor of Technology
05.2013

Skills

  • Version Control: Git, GitLab
  • Build Tools: Maven, NPM
  • CI/CD Tools: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), AWS ECS, ECR
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, Route 53), GCP, Azure
  • Monitoring & Logging: AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace
  • Security & Code Quality: SonarQube, Dependency-Check, Dependency-Track
  • Artifact Management: JFrog Artifactory

Accomplishments

  • Mentored Team: Guided and coached three junior engineers, boosting team performance and reducing dependency on senior resources.
  • Streamlined CI/CD Process: Played a key role in ensuring a smooth application go-live by optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
  • Reduced Defects: Achieved a 25% reduction in defect leakage by implementing enhanced defect tracking and monitoring in JIRA.
  • Enhanced Security: Integrated SonarQube, Dependency-Check, and Dependency-Track to proactively identify and eliminate vulnerabilities in source code, libraries, versions, and licenses.

Certification

  • GCP Professional Cloud Devops Engineer.
  • AWS Solution Architect Associate
  • Azure AZ-900 Certificate.

Languages Known

English
Hindi
Tamil
Malayalam
Kannada

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Renault Nissan Technology & Business Center India
08.2023 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Kanini Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
10.2021 - 08.2023

Senior IOT Engineer

Intellistride technologies Pvt Ltd
08.2018 - 03.2021

Hindustan University

Bachelor of Technology

Open to Relocation

Open to Relocation
Vignesh Kumar Rajendran