AJESH N
Irving,TX
Summary
DevOps Engineer with strong background in designing, testing and implementing infrastructure and applications. Talented performer with over Three years of experience using source control tools to identify and fix bugs in code. Consistent team player with exemplary multitasking skills. extensively focusing on Docker, Kubernetes, CI (Jenkins, GitLab), CD (Ansible, XLR), Amazon Web Services, IAAC (Terraform), Helm and Monitoring (Dynatrace and Splunk & Logging (ELK Stack).
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Discount Tire
08.2022 - 04.2023
- Installing, Configuring, and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines
- Installed and configured Artifactory tool and created local, virtual repositories
- Validates CD content to ensure labels and objects are accurate and complete
- Continuously monitor system performance, reliability, and daily data processing to proactively identify and resolve any issues or bottlenecks
- Maintaining the Automated scripts for the future usage
- Configure ELK stack from scratch for multiple java and python microservices
- Developed Ansible playbooks for Application deployment on multiple servers
- Coordinates release activities with the appropriate teams so that the final release is correct and of high quality and packaged in a timely fashion
- Experience in designing and deploying AWS solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, and Elastic Load Balancers
- Involved in the important design decisions to kickstart the deployment or upgrade engagements
- Worked closely with developers and hardware teams to update infrastructure and operating systems for applications
- Provided KT to clients for handover along with configuration and validation documents for every engagement.
Graduate Assistantship
Central Michigan University
01.2022 - 05.2022
- Collaborated with the professor on research projects, assisting in the design and development of data visualizations to communicate complex data insights effectively
- Utilized data visualization tools and libraries such as Tableau and Power BI to create interactive and informative charts, graphs, and dashboards
- Worked closely with the professor to identify key data points and trends, ensuring that visualizations align with research objectives
- Collaborated with the professor to interpret and communicate findings from data analysis
- Assisted colleagues and students in selecting appropriate data visualization tools and techniques for their projects
- Troubleshooted and provided technical assistance to resolve issues related to data visualization software and tools.
Devops Engineer
Mitchell International
01.2019 - 10.2021
- Successfully created and maintained CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins while automating deployment process, resulting in elimination of 70% of manual work and escalation of work efficiency
- Setup and perform complete CICD in GitLab to push images to AWS ECR and deploy to ECS Services
- Managed Atlassian tools Confluence, JIRA and Jenkins
- Created Docker images as per requirement and Containerized NodeJS and python services using Docker
- Installed and configured Artifactory tool and created local, virtual repositories
- Created helm charts for AKS deployments
- Experience in setting up logging and monitoring tools for infra and applications like Splunk and Dynatrace
- Ability to understand develop, test, and deploy Python-based applications in variety of cloud platforms
- Tracking and keeping all automation scripts with source code management tool ‘Git'
- Played crucial role in identifying and resolving infrastructure-related issues, including performance bottlenecks, scalability concerns, and security vulnerabilities using Sonar Qube and White source Box
- Performing regular tasks that include cloning, pulling, and pulling repositories, branching, and merging
- Setting up ec2 instances and prerequisites on instances for deploying the applications
- Automated the process of Infrastructure as a code (IAC) using Terraform
- Managing Physical Data centers including Servers, networks, storages.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution
- Wrote code and developed tools and integrations to meet cross-platform user needs.
- Managed testing cycles and coordination of user acceptance testing for software and applications
- Supervised software life cycle from preliminary needs analysis to enterprise-wide deployment and support
DevOps Engineer
Bank of America
11.2017 - 12.2018
- Been part of many projects design, implementations, automation, delivery
- Designed and implementing fully automated applications build management, monitoring and deployment by Using DevOps Technologies like Jenkins and Corologix
- Developed automation and deployment utilities using Bash
- Wrote the scripts for cleaning the Artifactory based on repository and size
- Created multiple Jenkins jobs for the application deployment to MuleSoft
- Performed prebuild actions and post-build actions on the Salesforce lightning platform
- Created a deployment pipeline for deploying the salesforce applications into the UAT, QA and Production environments
- Strong experience in writing the Automation scripts like Python, groovy, Ruby, Perl
- Experienced in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch
- Involved in all releases with API applications
- Automated build and deployment process with ANT, GROOVY, Jenkins and MuleSoft
- Involved in all the releases for more than 70+ applications
- Supported the Production deployments.
Education
Master of Science - information technology
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, MI05.2023
Bachelor of Science - Technology
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
India 05.2016
Skills
- Cloud Environments : AWS, Terraform, GCP, Azure, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS
- Version Control Tools : GitHub, Bitbucket
- CI/CD : Jenkins Pipeline, GitHub Actions
- Container Technologies : Docker, Rancher/Kubernetes, AKS, EKS
- Automation Tools : Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform
- Build Tool : Maven
- Scripting : Python, Shell
- Monitoring tools : Data Dog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus
- Unix Tools : WinSCP, MT Putty, SSH
Accomplishments
- Managed a complex migration initiative transitioning a portfolio of more than 450 mission-critical repositories from bitbucket to GitHub
- This endeavor was marked by its inherent complexity, chiefly attributed to the underlying risks of data loss and potential disruptions to application deployment workflows
- Played a pivotal role during the project's planning phase, actively engaging in the assessment of project requirements, and offering strategic insights to facilitate a smooth and risk-mitigated migration process
- Devised and implemented an automated solution within the Jenkins framework to streamline the creation of new repositories on GitHub and harmonize data synchronization from bitbucket
- This innovation significantly bolstered operational efficiency while concurrently minimizing the potential for human error, thus contributing to the overall success of the migration project.
Migration from Bitbucket to GitHub
Certification
- Certified in Amazon Web Services Solution Architect Associate, Amazon Web Services - June 2023.
- Amazon Web Services Solutions Architecture Job Simulation, Amazon Web Services - sep 2023.
- Six sigma green belt Certification, Central Michigan University -May 2023.
- Oracle Cloud infrastructure Certified foundation associate, Oracle Cloud University -Jul 2023.
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Quote
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Discount Tire
08.2022 - 04.2023
Graduate Assistantship
Central Michigan University
01.2022 - 05.2022
Devops Engineer
Mitchell International
01.2019 - 10.2021
DevOps Engineer
Bank of America
11.2017 - 12.2018
Master of Science - information technology
Central Michigan University
Bachelor of Science - Technology
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University