Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Projectssummary
Personal Information
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Visalakshi L

Chennai

Summary

To secure a challenging and responsible position in a corporate environment in which initiative skills, ambition and commitment to excellence will be utilized to their full potential.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Tech Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2021 - Current
  • Driving improvements to automated deployment solutions and proactive monitoring across environments
  • Working to instill a DevOps mentality and best practices throughout the development cycle.
  • Working with developers to build out CI/CD pipelines, enable self-service build tools and reusable deployment jobs
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams in the design, development, and implementation of automated solutions.
  • Very strong scripting and automation skills including languages such as Python, PERL, PowerShell
  • Experience with monitoring/reporting technologies
  • Experience with system administration of Windows and/or Linux servers including shell scripting.
  • Automate the Linux admin activities in Ansible and Python.
    Automated the patching and backup activities in Ansible and Python.
  • Created a Jenkins job to generate a report to capture the Server metrics like CPU usage, Disk utilization, memory utilization.
  • Generated a report with Python utility to perform the Monthly audits by capturing the Sudo log reviews.


Senior System Engineer

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
06.2021 - 07.2023
  • Responsible for monitoring and maintaining both Test and Production Servers in different data centers hosted in APAC, EMEA and NA.
  • Performed patch, update, security scanning and configuration to meet OS performance mandates.
  • Should take ownership for servers UP and DOWN scenarios.
  • Experience in monitoring inventory and decommissioning servers.
  • Performed technical changes on managing, installing and upgrading software packages using YUM.
  • Created and maintained user accounts, remove users and limit user account privileges by configuring
    sudoers.
  • Will do a periodic health check for all LINUX Servers on regular basis.
  • Consistently troubleshoots and resolve P1/P2 tickets individually and in case of critical issue. Maintaining backup servers in APAC, North America and EMEA region.
  • As a backup Engineer will be doing Installation and configuration of backup server, Veeam version
    upgrade, managing a scheduled jobs, repository scans, service account password rest.
  • Performed normal, expedite, emergency changes on managing servers, installing and upgrading software
    packages.
  • Have worked in Veeam backup troubleshoots.
  • Worked in Veeam server upgrade.
  • Co-ordinating and working with Network, Windows, Storage, VMware, Active Directory and Linux teams
    for the productivity.
  • Creating a job, replication, scheduling of backups, repository configurations, monitoring the schedules
    and as well as VM creations.
  • Technical experience in server restores and newly building backup server configurations.
  • Perform incident analysis like CPU utilization, disk usage, memory utilization, Backup services
    down issues within SLA.
  • Developed comprehensive security protocols, safeguarding sensitive company data from potential threats.
  • Improved system stability by performing regular audits, updating software patches, and addressing vulnerabilities promptly.
  • Reduced downtime for critical systems by proactively identifying potential issues and conducting preventative maintenance.
  • Introduced automation tools into various workflows to increase efficiency levels significantly while reducing human error occurrences.
  • Conducted training sessions to educate staff members on new technologies, boosting productivity across departments.
  • Mentored junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the team.
  • Optimized server performance by conducting thorough assessments and implementing hardware upgrades when necessary.
  • Developed and maintained comprehensive documentation for all systems, ensuring easy reference for future maintenance and troubleshooting tasks.

Education

BE - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jeppiaar Maamallan Engineering College, Chennai
Chennai
05.2019

HSC -

SSAM Higher Secondary School,
Karaikudi
05.2015

SSC -

SSAM Higher Secondary School, Karaikudi
01.2013

Skills

  • Veeam Backup Application
  • Putty
  • ESP Scheduler
  • IBM Control Center
  • Ticketing tool-Service now
  • IBM Z/OS
  • Linux
  • JCL
  • Backup
  • DB2
  • IBM Mainframe
  • Veeam backup & Replication
  • Programming Languages: Python
  • DevOps principles

Languages

Tamil
English

Projectssummary

  • CABOT C-Dispatch, Smart Hands – Test/Prod Environment & Application Management, Cognizant Technology Solutions, 09/2022, Present, Cabot Corporation is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is serving key industries including transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer
  • Truist – Mainframe Test Environment Support(TEAM), Cognizant Technology Solutions, 01/2022, 08/2022, Truist Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company was formed in December 2019 as the result of the merger of BB&T(Branch Banking and Trust Company) and SunTrust Banks.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 08/28/97
  • Gender: Female
  • Nationality: Indian

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that all the information provided here is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Timeline

Senior System Engineer

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
06.2021 - 07.2023

Tech Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2021 - Current

BE - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jeppiaar Maamallan Engineering College, Chennai

HSC -

SSAM Higher Secondary School,

SSC -

SSAM Higher Secondary School, Karaikudi
Visalakshi L