Hi, I’m
Vignesh Kumar Rajendran
Chennai
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 UniversityChennai, 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