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CHANDRA RUNKANI

Dublin

Summary

Highly motivated and efficient Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer with a strong focus on embedding security throughout the software development lifecycle and cloud infrastructure. I partner with development teams to integrate security considerations from initial design through implementation, and have led third-party vulnerability management, 3PP left shift, threat modeling and secure design reviews to proactively identify and mitigate risks. Ensuring product compliance and fulfilling all regulatory requirements. My experience includes hands-on configuration, building, and administration of AWS cloud distributed systems, as well as Spinnaker deployments for continuous integration and deployments. I have worked with large-scale cloud infrastructure.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer

Salesforce
03.2013 - Current
  • Established and oversaw comprehensive vulnerability management across diverse infrastructure substrates.
  • Pioneered systematic processes for vulnerability identification, prioritization, and remediation.
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams (security, development, build, release, operations) to achieve consistent vulnerability resolution within SLAs through proactive program management.
  • Led post-deployment validation and anomaly reporting to ensure security integrity.
  • Implemented comprehensive image lifecycle management, optimizing security scans by excluding unused images.
  • Collaborated with release managers to update outdated production images and established continuous patching processes.
  • Reduced operational overhead through improved tool integration and automation.
  • Led the "3PP left-shift" initiative, delivering vulnerability-free images and significantly reducing deployment-related security overhead.
  • Maintained consistent security compliance through systematic bug resolution.
  • Conducted extensive threat modeling reviews and provided actionable security recommendations to development teams.
  • Established formal risk assessment and registration processes, enforcing least privilege principles across the organization.
  • Experience in building, deploying, and managing large-scale distributed systems across various platforms.
  • Managed and maintained the company's data systems, including EKS clusters, storage systems, databases and software applications.
  • Well versed with end to end system build processes that include provisioning clusters, configuring the servers, deploying the software and maintaining latest software.
  • Experience in data and database management including data pipeline responsibilities.
  • Deploy and provision new resources and services using Infrastructure as Code.
  • Managed Spinnaker instances and developed spinnaker pipelines for database deployments from end to end.
  • Managed build and release for applications by using tools like Jenkins
  • CI/CD of software by using release tools like Spinnaker.
  • Maintained security protocols by configuring and managing security groups, Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and policies.
  • Implement security best practices and measures to protect the cloud infrastructure and data.
  • Write scripts and automation code to manage and configure resources using Bash and Python.
  • Implemented cost optimization measures to reduce overall expenditure on cloud resources.
  • Automated system configuration by using puppet.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to distributed systems’ reliability, consistency, and fault tolerance.
  • Experience with distributed data storage systems Hadoop.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams.
  • Scrum lead for the team. Ensuring effective collaboration and communication. Removing impediments by running Daily Syncups, Sprint planning and retrospectives. Guiding the team in adopting Scrum practices, coaching and mentoring the team.

Senior Systems Engineer

EBay Inc
10.2009 - 02.2013
  • Working as Sr Unix/Linux admin for ebay search backend operations Unix team.
  • Working on different projects and implementing new technologies in projects and providing production support to the environment and key team member of production support team.
  • Supporting Sun Solaris X4540, X4500, X4100, Sparc M5000, M4000 and Linux boxes, which are 7000 servers in total.
  • Providing production support for ebay search backend operations.
  • Provided day-to-day production support, troubleshooting and monitoring hadoop cluster.
  • Building, configuring and Administering Solaris and Redhat Linux servers.
  • Administering Ldap server for user administration and configuring ldap clients.
  • Troubleshooting all kinds of user, application and server related issues and doing root cause analysis and taking necessary action to avoid the issue in future.
  • Administering Solaris 10 zones by creating whole root zones, deleting zones, installing several software needed by the application team on zones.
  • Administering Hitachi storage by allocating luns, mapping luns, zoning at switch level. Increasing the volume size by adding luns to existing system.
  • Administering zpools by creating zpools adding disk to the zpools, adding spare disks to the zpools and involved in replacing the disk failures in zpools.
  • Administration of zfs like creating, setting quotas and enabling gzip on file systems.
  • Writing shell and perl scripts to automate the process and daily tasks.
  • Administration of ESX servers and building VM's and administering VM's.
  • Administering DNS by adding DNS entries both forward and reverse and troubleshooting several DNS issues.
  • Well versed with Change, Incident management and Remedy ticketing system.
  • Administration of VERITAS clusters by configuring and adding the new resources to VCS, bringing the nodes offline and online, switching the resources in the cluster.
  • Administering VERITAS Volume Manager by creating disk groups, creating volumes, creating file systems on the volumes. Adding and removing disk to disk groups, increasing the volumes.
  • Administering Netapps by creating volumes, qtrees and administering user quotas.
  • Well versed with Monitoring tools Tivoli and administering Nagios server and clients.
  • Administering Load balancers F5 and Netscaler by adding nodes in load balancer.
  • Worked on different applications that involve Teradata, Abinitio, ETL, R, Micro strategy, UC4 environment, Oracle, Green plumb.
  • Building Linux servers using kickstart.
  • Coordinating with third party vendors and scheduling hardware maintenance like Hard Disks, Dims and CPUS.
  • Ensuring the health of all the servers and taking necessary actions to resolve the issue in time and to avoid down time. Providing 24/7 on call support.

Systems Engineer

Credit Suisse Bank
08.2006 - 07.2009
  • Worked as a UNIX administrator for Credit Suisse Bank asset management division in Singapore, team member of UNIX production support team.
  • Primary tasks involved in the project are Monitoring and ensuring health of the Unix/Linux servers, troubleshooting various users, server related issues.
  • Scheduling hardware maintenance and configuring and administering Unix/Linux servers, which have Solaris 8, 10 and Red hat Linux OS.
  • Migration of Solaris 8 to 10.
  • Configuring administering VERITAS volume manager, VERITAS cluster.
  • Configuring Solaris containers.
  • Administration of Autosys server which is a job-scheduling tool.
  • Ensuring successful completion of production batch in time which will give feeds to the Tokyo stock market.

Education

MBA - Management Information Systems

International Technological University
San Jose, CA
08.2012

Skills

  • AWS Cloud Computing
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Threat modeling
  • Vulnerability management
  • Security assessment
  • Incident Response
  • Troubleshooting
  • Technology Support
  • Capacity Planning
  • System User Support
  • Active Learning
  • Database Maintenance
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Infrastructure Planning and Design
  • Team Building
  • Automation Tools and Scripting
  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Adaptability and Flexibility

Timeline

Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer

Salesforce
03.2013 - Current

Senior Systems Engineer

EBay Inc
10.2009 - 02.2013

Systems Engineer

Credit Suisse Bank
08.2006 - 07.2009

MBA - Management Information Systems

International Technological University

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