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Vivek J

Chennai,India

Summary

Seasoned professional with focus on DevOps and continuous integration/continuous deployment environments. Deliver optimized infrastructure and automation processes, leveraging expertise in cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration tools. Enhance operational efficiency through robust scripting and proactive monitoring solutions.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Lead analyst

BNY
Chennai, India
07.2022 - Current
  • Automated routine tasks using Ansible, reducing manual errors significantly.
  • Automated Ansible deployments for WebSphere and Apache project configurations
  • Orchestrated complex App and Web log purge automation Ansible workflows, scheduling them on weekly runs with Ansible Scheduler.
  • Lead the Ansible Legacy migration to AAP (Ansible Automation Platform) individually for a project phase of 18 months consistently. Found potential potholes and future audit impact , collaborated in planning for seamless delivery to clients without any audit vulnerabilities.
  • Automated RME labelling for complex label tagging for AAP tower access to transversal Application team for Ansible templates self-service operations.
  • Smart inventory setup for WebSphere servers and Apache servers instance running reports fetching.
  • Integrated Ansible with ServiceNow(SNOW) for Production Ansible template INC/RFC validation pre-check via API call before Prod deployments.
  • Integrated Ansible with Secrets Management Service tool for housekeeping Secrets that can be consumed dynamically during Ansible Plays.
  • Updated Artifactory access for Ansible deployments via Authenticated way with Kerberos Artifactory Authentication in Ansible Tower, which will pull secrets dynamically for Kerberos username, authenticate it and pull artifacts necessary for ansible deployments
  • Integrated Ansible with our Internal Deployment automation tooling , Intelligent Process Automation(IPA) which can trigger Ansible deployments and perform FOS activities during DR.
  • Housekeep secrets with Ansible Vault , encrypt it with AES vault encryption and store key password as vault in Ansible Credentials.
  • Consumed Ansible Teams and its full potential for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) activities.
  • Automated LDAP password rotation complex requirement from DEV to PROD in order to push the rollout rotated password in WebSphere DMGR and App Servers configurations. This usually takes 10 plus hours or manual efforts by team of 7 people, now automated with 1 hours of automated run and monitoring of 2 people efforts.
  • Ansible roles for Operation for installing Apache RPM, web deployments, Artifact downloads, Application deployments and so on.


Senior Software Engineer (Ansible)

BNP Paribas
Chennai, India
12.2019 - 06.2022
  • GIT Project Management with a web based UI - Bitbucket and GitLab
  • Writing Ansible playbooks for Automation of task, deployments and application use cases.
  • Creating Ansible Templates, Jobs , Scheduling, Orchestrating Ansible Workflow
  • Integrating Ansible with CyberArk, using Machine credentials.
  • Ansible - Managing user with Ansible Teams, Ansible molecule testing
  • Creating Jenkins pipeline for application task, integrating with Ansible for Installation, Configurations and deployments in pipeline.
  • Worked on Kubernetes deployments , with vendors applications handling vendor images, vulnerability scan for images, housekeep images in docker registry, final application deployment with replicasets.
  • Docker Registry - IBM cloud registry , Mirantis docker registry.
  • Deployments -Serena deployment integrated with Ansible, Ansible deployments, IBM K8S deployment
  • Hasicorp Vault for Password management, CyberArk for server access management, S3 for Managing AWS S3.

Senior Infrastructure Operations Analyst

BNYM Technology(A Bank of New York Mellon Company)
Chennai, India
07.2014 - 12.2019
  • GIT Project Management with a web based UI - GitLab
  • Creating Jenkins jobs for projects, configuring with Veracode for code compliance check.
  • Configuring Jenkins jobs to use maven to build code and uploading it to nexus repository.
  • Image build and push to Hubble repository and deploy applications on onto BXP platform - A private cloud of 'Bank of New-York Mellon' environment
  • Monitoring the health check of the deployed containers, analyzing the Kibana and Grafana logs for the issue cause.
  • Escalate with support in case of issues with the help of JIRA.
  • Plan and support weekend release for Application deployment. Creating service change records for activity

Infrastructure Operations Analyst

BNYM Technology(A Bank of New York Mellon Company)
Chennai, India
07.2014 - 12.2019
  • Headed the Cloud Infrastructure server refresh compliance project and successfully completed by using Windows powershell ISE and PowerCLI tool
  • Individually maintained the BNYM and Pershing Infrastructure's server refresh activity which involves in maintenance of the server which are long running and risk oriented. Scheduling the server reboot in Weekly/Bi-Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly and half yearly basis depending on the applications requirement and availability.
  • Handled the maintenance of a Critical Business Tier Application (INFORM client Web application) Maintenance activity individually.
  • Troubleshooting Solaris server availability issues using ALOM/SC console &AIX servers using HMC console etc.
  • Monitoring server's related scheduled missed backup alerts and initiating on demand backup if needed through EMC Avamar backup software. Alerts related to TSM Backup by performing TSM incremental backup and troubleshooting TSM scheduler issues. Handling requests for TSM Restore.
  • Troubleshooting and identifying issues related to VCS (VERITAS Cluster Server) alerts
  • Worked with CICSO Load balancer for Data Center traffic switching actions

Education

B.E - Computer Science & Engineering

K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering
Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu

HSC - Computer Science

Vairams Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu

SSCL -

Vairams Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu

Skills

  • Redhat Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Redhat OpenShift
  • Jenkins CI
  • GIT
  • Version Source Code Control : GitLab , BitBucket , GitHub (Not Enterprise for self-hands on)
  • Cloud - AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • AppDynamics
  • S3 Manage Buckets as Object Storage
  • JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow



Certification

  • RedHat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation, Credential ID: 190-233-692
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator(CKA), Credential ID: LF-bwvliwkshj
  • Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, Credential ID: 190-233-692

Accomplishments

  • Received Spotlight Award for LDAP password rotation configuration management automation via Ansible
  • Received Spotlight Award for Apache version upgrade automation

Languages

English
Fluent
Tamil
Native

Affiliations

  • I play Badminton regularly to engage myself.

Timeline

Lead analyst

BNY
07.2022 - Current

Senior Software Engineer (Ansible)

BNP Paribas
12.2019 - 06.2022

Senior Infrastructure Operations Analyst

BNYM Technology(A Bank of New York Mellon Company)
07.2014 - 12.2019

Infrastructure Operations Analyst

BNYM Technology(A Bank of New York Mellon Company)
07.2014 - 12.2019

B.E - Computer Science & Engineering

K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering

HSC - Computer Science

Vairams Matriculation Higher Secondary School

SSCL -

Vairams Matriculation Higher Secondary School

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