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PRIYA SIVARAJ

Allen,TX

Summary

Dynamic Lead DevOps Engineer at Statefarm Insurance with expertise in Terraform and Kubernetes, achieving a 50% cost reduction through optimized resource allocation. Proven ability to drive automation strategies and foster collaboration across teams, enhancing deployment efficiency and scalability while ensuring robust disaster recovery solutions.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Devops Engineer

Statefarm Insurance
Richardson, USA
12.2021 - Current
  • Architected multi-lane ECS-based infrastructure to enhance and streamline Metaverse app deployment.
  • Engineered API with robust security measures to enable fetching of dynamic server host names in Metaverse app.
  • Established scalable EKS environments within lab accounts for extensive simulation needs.
  • Adopted strategies to enhance platform scalability through cloud solutions.
  • Directed team in pre-adoption phase of OpenTofu.
  • Cut overall costs by 50% through optimized resource allocation in EKS.
  • Designed patterns to facilitate Dynatrace/Datadog adoption for AWS services including EKS.
  • Implemented efficient deployment patterns leveraging AWS services and GitOps methodologies.
  • Designed disaster recovery strategies for AWS infrastructure to ensure business continuity.
  • Coordinated with stakeholders to address and solve technical challenges.
  • Aided staff with limited experience in overcoming intricate technical problems.
  • Designed reusable templates for broad adoption across teams.
  • Work alongside diverse groups to recognize challenges and provide automated solutions.
  • Prepared team for upcoming developments in product offerings and customer support.

DevOps Engineer

Statefarm Insurance
Richardson, USA
01.2017 - 11.2021
  • Enabled GitLab runners using kubernetes executor for continuous delivery and integration for fast and efficient delivery process
  • Highly proactive to issues and support multiple teams for their requirements towards enabling automation tools/templates for CI/CD
  • Enabled monitoring tool for EKS cluster's using open-source projects like Cortex, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Designed and developed automation script for CD/CI pipeline using Jenkins, which will help integrate code from developers, check for any ripple effect, and deploy it rapidly thereby saving huge time and cost for the company
  • Created and managed more than 25 pipeline jobs for various test environments and utilized urban code to deploy all the way to production for several Web Services and for a huge UI application
  • Managed more than 100 Jenkins jobs and created reusable automated acceptance test framework for Web Services to have CD/CI using Karate and Cucumber
  • Fostered DevOps mindset among developers in the organization by conducting workshops and delivering easy to use automated jobs for CD/CI
  • Developed test automation scripts in Spring MVC for web application using BDD approach to increase the testing efficiency

Software Automation Tools Development Intern

Samsung Electronics America
Richardson, USA
06.2016 - 08.2016
  • Developed automation scripts in Tera Term for SSH Authentication & Remote Access to Customer (Sprint) servers and created an Operation Management (OM) tool using XAMPP to collect customer side logs
  • Designed and developed an Automation script in Python & Unix shell scripts to parse the logs into an excel workbook to monitor the real-time 3G/4G wireless network traffic on a daily, hourly & weekly basis
  • Analyzed 3G/4G network real-time traffic using Wireshark
  • Optimized the performance of an Intranet website used for tool and document management using C#, ASPX, SQL and Microsoft Access database

Education

Master of Science - Computer Engineering

The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX
12.2016

Skills

  • Infrastructure as Code(Terraform/OpenTofu)
  • VPC/Subnets/ENI
  • Python
  • JFrog
  • Agile/Kanban
  • Datadog/Dynatrace
  • S3/Lambda/SNS/SQS/API
  • CloudWatch/Prometheus/Grafana
  • Container orchestration/EKS/ECS/Docker
  • Disaster recovery
  • Cost optimization
  • Automation strategies

Certification

  • Hashicorp Terraform associate, 2023
  • AWS Developer associate, 2018

Timeline

Lead Devops Engineer

Statefarm Insurance
12.2021 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Statefarm Insurance
01.2017 - 11.2021

Software Automation Tools Development Intern

Samsung Electronics America
06.2016 - 08.2016

Master of Science - Computer Engineering

The University of Texas at Dallas
PRIYA SIVARAJ