Nagesh S
Dallas,TX
Summary
Results-driven IT professional with over 16 years of experience in planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining system applications across Cloud, DevOps, and Configuration Management environments. Expertise in leveraging Azure, AWS, PCF and Google Cloud platforms to optimize infrastructure and streamline operations through advanced automation techniques using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes. Successfully architected and deployed high-availability cloud infrastructures while implementing innovative CI/CD pipelines that significantly reduced costs and improved deployment efficiency. Strong communicator skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive project success and enhance operational workflows.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior DevOps/Infra Architect
Selective Insurance
01.2024 - Current
- Primary contact from the Infra and DevOps team.
- Prepared the planning and cloud infrastructure documentation for Azure Cloud.
- Developed reusable Terraform modules for VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, and gateways, reducing provisioning time by 80% and eliminating configuration drift.
- Built the Docker image and pushed it to Azure Container Registry (ACR).
- Designed and automated hub-and-spoke VNet architectures using Terraform.
- Administer the Azure DevOps suite of applications and set up the Azure Git repositories from scratch.
- Defined the branching strategy and configured the branch protection rules and pull request approval mechanisms in Azure git repositories.
- Built end-to-end Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments, enabling automated testing, security scanning and blue-green deployments.
- Deployed and managed AKS clusters with Azure CNI, network policies, ingress controllers, and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
- Configured Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy the API Micro-services on AKS clusters.
- Deployed the micro-services on Azure Kubernetes Services Cluster by using Helm charts and ArgoCD.
- Configured the cloud security rules and API end points in the Azure API management service.
- Configured the approval mechanism to promote the code from one environment to another and promoted the code from Dev environment to the higher environments.
- Built full-stack observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Network Watcher, and custom alerts to proactively detect performance and routing issues.
- Participating in Sprint and PI planning sessions.
- Participating in weekly project governance calls and providing project related updates to the leadership team.
Senior DevOps Architect
US Bank Corp
06.2022 - 12.2023
- Primary advocate for the DevOps process implementation.
- Defined the helm templates and built the Cloud-bees Jenkins failover environment from scratch.
- Wrote Jenkins shared library groovy modules to enhance the deployment process and to delete the kubeconfig token after each deployment.
- Architected and implemented branching and merging strategies in Gitlab for the enterprise CI/CD platform.
- Maintaining/modifying the Jenkins shared library groovy modules.
- Administration of IBM Urban code deploy tool and troubleshooting the UCD deployment issues.
- Analyzed the current Jenkins RBAC roles management strategy and defined the process flow to migrate the RBAC roles to Gitlab.
- Providing technical assistance to the developer community to troubleshoot the build and deployment issues.
- Integrated SonarQube, Fortify, JMeter and regression testing suites with the CI/CD pipeline.
- Implemented SAST and DAST as part of Test-Driven Development (TDD).
- Deployment of Java Spring boot Microservices applications on Kubernetes cluster.
- Troubleshooting the Kubernetes cluster issues in Rancher.
- Provisioned the cloud resources by using IaaC tool Terraform to provision the required cloud resources.
- Wrote the Terraform modules to provision the resources for multiple environments.
DevOps Consultant
Freedom Mortgage
08.2021 - 05.2022
- Assessed and enhanced the Freedom’s CI/CD platform.
- Converted the Jenkins free-style jobs into pipeline jobs.
- Architected and implemented the Jenkins shared libraries in CI/CD pipelines.
- Wrote groovy scripts to convert the free-style Jenkins jobs into shared library pipelines.
- Worked heavily on the GitHub repositories re-organization across Freedom Mortgage’s source code repositories.
- Implemented Jenkins multibranch pipelines across CI/CD platform.
- Integrated SonarQube code quality scanning tool with the CI/CD platform.
- Creation of SonarQube Keys and integration of SonarQube with GitHub by using SonarQube Keys.
- Assisting Development teams in the integration of Sonar Lint with Eclipse IDE.
- Defined and implemented SonarQube quality gates for the Java and MuleSoft micro services applications.
- Administered the Nexus artifact management tool.
- Deployment of artifacts by using XL Deploy and XL Release tools.
- Troubleshooting the build and deployment issues.
DevOps Cloud Architect
FedEx Services – API Factory
05.2018 - 07.2021
- Used Terraform to provision AWS and Azure infrastructure.
- Managed Route53 hosted zones, configuring aliases for Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) applications and responsible for maintaining ACLs, Security Groups and firewall configurations.
- Worked with AWS identity access management (IAM) to create roles, users, groups and attached user policies to group to provide secure logins.
- Worked with Terraform Templates to automate the Azure Iaas virtual machines using terraform modules and deployed virtual machine scale sets in production environment.
- Managed Azure Infrastructure Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, VM Role, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Virtual Machine Backup and Recover from a Recovery Services Vault using Azure PowerShell and Azure Portal.
- Written Templates for Azure Infrastructure as code using Terraform to build staging and production environments.
- Integrated Azure Log Analytics with Azure VMs for monitoring the log files, store them and track metrics and used Terraform as a tool.
- Good experience in setting up the CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Gitlab, Terraform and AWS and Azure.
- Worked with Terraform for routine AWS tasks such as encrypting EBS volumes and backing AMIs.
- Implementing CI/CD infrastructure leveraging Jenkins Pipelines, Gitlab Repositories, uDeploy, PCF, HP Fortify, Nexus and Sonarqube.
- Architected and successfully implemented shared libraries in Jenkins for CI/CD.
- Integral part of major agile transformation program, assisting supported applications to implement agile methodologies, providing supporting Automation for stages Build, Code Analysis, Automated Testing, Code Coverage, Artifact Dependency management & Deployment automation.
- Migration of on premises micro services applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
- Mentor for global team, troubleshooting major issues to avoid release delay of cloud applications.
- Expanded Knowledge in numerous Tools & Scripting Languages such as Jenkins, PCF, Gitlab, Nexus, uDeploy and Groovy scripting and WebLogic to name a few.
GCP Cloud Security / DevOps Architect
Kohl’s Departmental Stores
07.2017 - 04.2018
- Designed and deployed GCP Cloud Solutions using google services like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage Buckets, Persistent Disks, Cloud Load Balancer, Auto Scaling groups, Cloud Deployment Manager, Cloud IAM and Cloud DNS.
- Designed and implemented AquaSec container security platform in GCP for static image scanning as the images are build out of CI/CD pipeline and runtime container protection.
- Designed and implemented Hashicorp Vault in GCP for centralized secrets management across all the applications/databases in the enterprise.
- Developed in-house spring boot web applications using MAVEN and provided guidance for the application/database teams to integrate with Hashicorp Vault for storing and retrieving secrets.
- Developed and maintained a repository of microservices through Openshift pods and support integration of Openshift and Cloudforms.
- Worked on the IDP development environment setup using Spring Tool Suite using Docker and Kubernetes technologies for creating the Docker containers and deployed into Kubernetes clusters.
- Worked on the setup of Jenkins master/slave to distribute builds on salve nodes and used several Jenkins plugins like Artifactory Plug-in, ANT, Open Make, Maven Plug-in, GIT Plug-in and Hashicorp Vault Plug-in etc.
- Automated the IAM secrets policy management for Hashicorp Vault by integrating it with Jenkins, deployment of PostgreSQL databases, load balancers for AquaSec container security tool inside GCP using CloudSDK and Python.
DevOps Architect
FedEx Services - Smartpad
11.2016 - 06.2017
- Primary advocate for DevOps initiatives and implementation.
- Define and drive end-to-end agile DevOps based software development life cycle with automation in mind with right tools and techniques.
- Set up and working on Build and Release, Continuous Integration tools and frameworks such as Visual Studio, MS Build and TFS.
- Defining branching strategies and creating the release and hotfix branches.
- Merging of code from Dev branch to Integration, Release branches and deploying the builds into Team forge.
- Responsible for automation of repeatable processes/scripts to enable solutions that deploy, manage, configure, scale and monitor applications.
- Work with development scrum teams to drive automation, establish software standards, service modularity, code reuse, testing, and deployment of applications.
- Preparation of DevOps roadmap and participating in Program Increment planning events.
- Worked with AWS identity access management (IAM) to create roles, users, groups and attached user policies to group to provide secure logins.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Oracle Retail Global Business Unit (RGBU)
09.2014 - 10.2016
- Major responsibilities include design, ownership, and drive the DevOps process strategy and implementation and develop DevOps methodology and culture by setting up an environment with CI/CD and continuous monitoring.
- Responsible for Design and architecture of different Release Environments for new projects.
- Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Hudson, Chef, and Maven.
- Worked on building and configuration management, SCM strategies like branching, merging, and provided training to develop teams in GIT, SVN and Branching strategies.
- Automated Weekly releases with ANT/Maven scripting for Compiling Java Code, Debugging and Placing Builds into Maven Repository.
- Defined and implemented build and deployment strategies for all applications.
- Administered Source Code Management (repository, branching strategies) GIT, SVN tools.
- Managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and configuration management tool Chef.
- Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3 bucket, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto-Scaling, AMI, IAM through AWS Console and API Integration with Puppet Code.
- Involved in SVN to GIT code migration.
Sr DevOps/AWS Engineer
Monster
06.2013 - 08.2014
- Configured and managed various AWS services such as EC2, ELB, VPC, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route53, CodePipeline, Elastic Beanstalk and SQS.
- Responsible for designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes using Puppet.
- Created and configured several S3 buckets for static website hosting and enabled versioning to protect against accidental data deletion and life cycle policies to move data to cost-efficient backup services like AWS Glacier.
- Migrated media (images and videos) to S3 and used CloudFront to distribute content with low latency and at high data transfer rates. Also migrated Microsoft SQL Server databases to AWS RDS and setup Multi-AZ deployments.
- Utilized AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS and create nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups.
- Utilized various python libraries like boto3, NumPy to deploy several AWS resources like EC2 instances, RDS Databases, Subnets, Security Groups and IAM.
- Performed Onboarding migration for new clients into the Blackboard hosting using IBM Aspera Sync, automated process of clone creation for DB testing.
Build/Release Engineer
Calpine Energy
09.2009 - 06.2013
- Installed, configured and administered Jenkins Continuous Integration tool on Linux machines along with managing/updating plugins such as SVN, GIT, Maven and ANT.
- Integrated tools Subversion, Java, Ant for release management, including multi-platform support Developed and maintained the build and release system Created Promotion Models, Archives, Branches and tags, also merged source code.
- Monitored software, hardware, and/or middleware updates and utilizing technologies like Jenkins/Hudson, Ant, MSBuild, TFS Team Explorer and Subversion.
- Configured Apache tomcat server.
- Involved in deploying JARs/WARs/EARs (backend) through Apache tomcat Application Server console.
- Managed all the bugs and changes in a production environment using the Jira tracking tool.
- Used Ant and Maven build tools to automate the build and deployment process.
- Wrote shell scripts for deployment process.
- Managed user accounts, partitioning, mounting and maintaining file systems, system security, change management, documents, performance tuning of Red Hat Linux servers.
Education
Masters of science - Computer Application
JNT University
India01-2009
Bachelors of science - undefined
Kakatiya university
India01-2006
Skills
- Management of Azure cloud solutions
- Experience with AWS cloud solutions
- Experience with Google Cloud infrastructure
- Cloud security management
- DevOps tool proficiency
- Proficient in scripting languages including Python, Shell, and Ruby
- Experience with diverse operating systems: Unix, VMware ESXi, and HP-UX
- Proficient in multiple web server technologies
- Network protocols expertise
Certification
- AWS Certified Consultant
- Azure Fundamentals
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Senior DevOps/Infra Architect
Selective Insurance
01.2024 - Current
Senior DevOps Architect
US Bank Corp
06.2022 - 12.2023
DevOps Consultant
Freedom Mortgage
08.2021 - 05.2022
DevOps Cloud Architect
FedEx Services – API Factory
05.2018 - 07.2021
GCP Cloud Security / DevOps Architect
Kohl’s Departmental Stores
07.2017 - 04.2018
DevOps Architect
FedEx Services - Smartpad
11.2016 - 06.2017
Lead DevOps Engineer
Oracle Retail Global Business Unit (RGBU)
09.2014 - 10.2016
Sr DevOps/AWS Engineer
Monster
06.2013 - 08.2014
Build/Release Engineer
Calpine Energy
09.2009 - 06.2013
Bachelors of science - undefined
Kakatiya university
Masters of science - Computer Application
JNT University