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Sudhandran Selvaraj

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Overall 12.4 years of Experience with Tata Consultancy Services (Chennai), Toprankers (Bangalore) & Mindtree (Chennai), HCL Technologies (Chennai) Senior Technical Lead- Devops(Current from Dec 2021) Cloud and Devops Engineer(2 Years) Mindtree, Chennai Cloud Infra and Devops Engineer (7 Months) at Toprankers (Ankalan Web Solutions). Cloud Admin (2.6 years) of experience in AWS cloud /Data Center. ITSM Analyst (1 Year) Maintain and Administer the components and software environment. Mainframe Operations (3.5 Years) Delivered UPC code information of the sales data through mainframe batches using JCL. Setup a database and troubleshooting if any failures while transferring.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Technical Lead- Devops

HCL America INC
12.2021 - Current
  • Company Overview: Project: Kaiser Permanente(USA)
  • Creating pipeline jobs/scripts using groovy and declarative on Jenkins
  • Informatica Automation: Planned and deployed informatica files(shell/perl/text) on landing zone, Informatica workflow automation (Powercenter 10.5) using Jenkins and UCD
  • Jar/war/ear Deployment: Planned and deployed java packages into different target servers depends on the environment using Jenkins and UCD
  • WAS Restart Automation: Planned and implemented ripple restart, cluster restart, multi cluster restart using IBM UD and Jenkins
  • RTC to Github migration: Planned and implemented version control migration through script and Jenkins
  • IBM UCD Plan and Design: Created multiple applications, components, component templates, Resources/agents for multiple environments, configuring agent automatically, debugging issues on deployment, etc
  • Migrated artifacts from Archiva Artifactory to Jfrog Artifactory
  • Managing the build process using Maven and deploy into targets without any error
  • Deploying through IBM Urban code Deploy
  • Managing Version control using IBM RTC
  • Integrate Jenkins with RTC, Jfrog, UCD
  • Working on agile based sprints to complete the assigned tasks(Jira)
  • Worked on Hetzner server provisioning and configuring load balancer, SSL, etc
  • Created collection of reusable Groovy scripts for multiple Jenkins jobs using Shared Library
  • Worked on Database deployment from Jenking using Liquibase
  • Worked on Openshift deployment from Jenkins
  • Worked on Jenkins to Github Actions migration
  • Tools used: Jenkins, IBM UCD, IBM RTC, IBM Websphere, Github, Jfrog, Maven, Sonarqube, Oracle, AWS ECS

Cloud and Devops Engineers

Mindtree LIMITED
11.2019 - 12.2021
  • Company Overview: Projects: Gamestop USA, Toyota, AAMC USA
  • Octopus Deployment Tool for AMI Patching and Infrastructure changes through CloudFormation template
  • Jenkins for Continuous integration
  • Managing more than 2000 AWS Windows/Linux servers on multiple environments
  • Executing commands through SSM Manger
  • Ticketing tool – Cherwell, Jira
  • New Relic for Application and Server monitoring
  • Converted as Ticket from RDS subscription though SQS, Lambda, Webhook
  • Cloudwatch Alarms/Dashboards created in all the environment from Bitbucket pipeline using Lambda and convert it as ticket depends on priority
  • Datadog for Infrastructure monitoring
  • Writing Lambda function, Trigger Lambda through CloudWatch event
  • Cloudwatch Metric setup and monitor through Alarms with multi-level threshold
  • Cloud Ranger for Backup and Restore of AMI/files
  • Automating infra using Cloudformation through CI/CD using Gitlab CI/Jenkins and deployed through Octopus Deploy
  • Created pipelines on using Bitbucket CI and deployed into multiple environments
  • Created scaffolding for automating Bitbucket UI works like create the repository, permission, add users, scripts, parameters, etc
  • Projects: Gamestop USA, Toyota, AAMC USA
  • Tools/Technologies Used: Octopus Deploy, Datadog, Newrelic-APM, Jenkins, AWS(CFT,Lambda), Python, Linux

Cloud Infra and Devops Engineer

Ankalan Web Solutions
05.2019 - 11.2019
  • Company Overview: Project: Toprankers
  • Managing more than 30 EC2 servers on daily basis, 150 S3 buckets, 15 cloudfront distributions, 2 Akamai distributions, more than 100 users, more than 40 groups
  • Taking AMI on regular basis and cleaning on frequently
  • Creating S3 buckets for every client and assign specific policies
  • Creating IAM user, group and group policy to access the specific bucket alone
  • Worked on cost optimization and reduced cost for the organization gradually
  • Worked on automating day-to-day work with scripting BASH and Python
  • Worked on cloudfront and Akamai for content delivery
  • Invalidating contents, created signedURL’s for users
  • Monitoring servers with Cloudwath
  • Creating distributions, setting alarm, custom metrics creation
  • Created Cloudwatch logs for Linux system logs
  • Set the notification using Cloudwatch Agent
  • Production pushes and all using centralized version control system with Perforce, Gitlab
  • Purchasing reserved instances plan and make use of it
  • Raising queries with support for Soft Limit increase, billing, RI utilization, etc
  • Protecting servers by Security groups, SSH protection
  • Blocking users using ip address on NACL
  • Worked on Application load balancer for production servers
  • Created Target groups and routing the traffic, setting the rules
  • Detaching an instance from Autoscaling and take consistent AMI
  • Create new AMI, creating Launch configuration from that and attaching to Autoscaling group
  • Autoscaling group scaling policies, Termination protection, etc
  • S3: creating bucket, setting bucket policy, Cross region replication, enabling versioning, ACL, Lifecycle Policy, etc
  • Cloudfront: creating web based distributions, invalidations, Geo restriction, creating OAI, etc
  • Godaddy: purchasing domains for clients whenever request comes
  • Create hosted zone in AWS and update NS Record in Godaddy site for the purchased domain
  • Route53: creating Hosted Zone for godaddy domains, creating A records for Private and Public faced, cname records, updating Akamai cname records
  • ACM: Register new SSL for HTTPs access, update the cname record on clients domain purchased site and add it with Load balancer listener for HTTPS once SSL issued
  • Worked on snapshot, volume management
  • Increasing the disk size, Instance type/family change, RI plan while changing instance type, etc
  • Worked on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 & 18.04, budgie
  • Configured and maintaining WowzaStreamingEngine for video streaming
  • Mysql: Master-Slave Replication Setup, Routing traffic to Master on route53 whenever sec behind master increasing, too many connection issue, etc
  • Project: Toprankers
  • Tools/Technologies Used: Jenkins, Gitlab, perforce, apache2, nginx, AWS, Python scripting, Linux

Cloudops Engineer

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
09.2016 - 04.2019
  • Company Overview: Project: SONY
  • 3 years working on Cloud Computing (AWS)
  • Proficient in AWS services like EC2, S3, ELB, Autoscaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront
  • Worked on automation through CloudFormation and Terraform
  • Possess good knowledge in creating and launching EC2 instances using AMI’s of Linux, Ubuntu, and Windows
  • Automating AWS using Python
  • Linux system related automaton using Bash
  • Experienced in creating multiple VPC’s and public, private subnets as per requirement
  • Made VPC peering between two or more VPC’s inside the Region & outside the Region
  • Created VPC end point to connect to with AWS Services in Private
  • Created EBS volumes for storing application files for use with EC2 instances whenever they are mounted to them
  • Created NAT gateways and instances to allow communication from the private instances to the internet through bastion hosts
  • Used security groups, network ACL’s, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure zone for organization in AWS public cloud
  • Created and configured elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment
  • Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files, sometimes which are required to serve static content for a web application
  • Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes based on requirement
  • Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implemented MFA to provide additional security to AWS account and its resources
  • Implemented domain name service (DNS) through route53 to have highly available and scalable applications
  • Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using Cloud Watch service
  • Experienced in creating RDS instances to serve data through servers for responding to requests
  • Created custom AMI’s from an application installed instance and made use it for creating instance with same setup
  • Setup SNS on Auto scaling group to get Alarm notification to Email to watch the instance
  • Used CloudTrail and created Trail for S3 Service event
  • Created IAM role and assigned role on EC2, made accessing S3 bucket via EC2 instance
  • S3 Browser, SFTP for clients created for access S3 Buckets
  • Project: SONY
  • Tools/Technologies Used: AWS(CFT), Shell scripting, Linux

ITSM Analyst

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
08.2015 - 09.2016
  • Company Overview: Project: TCS Infrastructure Management
  • Diagnose hardware and software problems, and replace defective components
  • Troubleshooting issues raised by users
  • Involved with L1 / L2 support for Windows servers
  • Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations
  • Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments, including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations
  • Created cheat sheet for the work I did on the project to help the new comers understand
  • Project: TCS Infrastructure Management

Delivery Specialist

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
06.2012 - 08.2015
  • Company Overview: Project: The Nielsen Company, USA
  • 3+ years of experience on Mainframe operations
  • Incident management using ServiceNow tool
  • Worked on Mainframe CICS, TSOA, TSOB
  • Creating & Monitoring the Data Base for the customer as per their requirement using JCL
  • Adding, Modifying, Deleting, and Completing the Jobs and application in the Current Plan
  • Copy, Delete, Move and rename the datasets
  • Finding the FATL’s & WARN’s on the failed jobs and working towards the solution
  • Prioritizing the jobs into system
  • Joined on the Sev-1 check point calls to fix the problems and met the SLA (Service Level Agreement)
  • Merging and splitting the JCL batches
  • Handled tools like Roundtrip, Holy, Control M
  • Resolved space issue, B37, E37, Wrong batch issues on the job
  • Project: The Nielsen Company, USA

Education

MCA -

Bharathidasan University

BCA -

PGP College of Arts and Science

Skills

  • Windows
  • Debian based Linux
  • Liquibase
  • Redhat7
  • Shell Scripting
  • Python
  • Groovy
  • Mysql
  • MongoDB
  • MSSQL
  • Perforce
  • GitHub
  • Github Actions
  • Openshift
  • Gitlab
  • Bitbucket
  • IBM RTC
  • Nagios
  • New Relic APM
  • Ansible
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Good team & time management skills
  • Ability to work in fast-paced environment, both independently and in a team environment

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate, HK9RF071L1EQQW5Z
  • IBM Certified Solution Advisor – Devops V1
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Leadership Qualities

  • Managed 40+ member’s team without any issues.
  • Creating Quality documents every month.

Awards

  • Rising Start Award
  • Pat on the Back Award
  • Star Performer Award
  • Nielsen Gold Award
  • On the Spot Award

Profile Summary

Senior Technical Lead- Devops, HCL Technologies, North Carolina, USA

Having good experience on multiple Devops Tools


Timeline

Senior Technical Lead- Devops

HCL America INC
12.2021 - Current

Cloud and Devops Engineers

Mindtree LIMITED
11.2019 - 12.2021

Cloud Infra and Devops Engineer

Ankalan Web Solutions
05.2019 - 11.2019

Cloudops Engineer

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
09.2016 - 04.2019

ITSM Analyst

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
08.2015 - 09.2016

Delivery Specialist

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
06.2012 - 08.2015

BCA -

PGP College of Arts and Science

MCA -

Bharathidasan University

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