Rajesh Sanjeevi

* Collaborate with other core services team members to define roadmaps, write clear user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria, design, and build solutions
* Applies global knowledge of IT Infrastructure to develop standard solutions that can be leveraged across multiple areas; Contributes to the development of new technical principles and concepts
* Looks at new and emerging technology and determine group applicability
* Proactively engages and/or creates cross-functional teams to solve problems or add business value
* Generates ideas and/or technical strategies and presents them to peers for feedback
* Influences others to support/implement ideas and/or technical strategies through collaboration with managers and peers in the organization
* Creating standards and policies and influencing technology decisions beyond own functional area or project; Practice DevOps supporting application from development through the operation lifecycle
* Responsible for determining and setting SLO’s, creating adequate monitoring and logging for features so that SLO can successfully be measured
* Write Infrastructure as a code (IAC) automations for infrastructure and application deployment using Terraform, Ansible, Conjur/Vault for customers in public and private cloud (Amazon Web Services/Google Cloud Provider/OpenStack)
* Integrate Observability stack and manage lifecycles using OpenSource monitoring tools - Prometheus/Grafana/Elastic Search/Kibana
* Automate the development, testing, and deployment processes through CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Action, Jenkins, Helm, ArgoCD, ArgoWorkflows)
* Software development lifecycle including design, development, testing, packaging, deployment, upgrade and support (Python)
* Build cloud based applications using micro services architecture and deploy in Kubernetes based container platform

• Developed and managed critical cloud native application on AWS cloud using Terraform ensuring efficient and reliable deployment and maintenance
• Implemented and maintained automation of configuration management using Ansible
• Developed and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for the seamless integration and continuous delivery of software applications
• Created and maintained container-based platforms using Docker/Kubernetes for efficient deployment and scaling of applications
• Managed observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch and Kibana to monitor and analyze system performance and troubleshoot issues proactively
• Oversaw Infrastructure as a Code on GitHub and Bitbucket, ensuring version control and collaboration among team members
• Deployed and managed NOSQL database (MongoDB/MongoDB Atlas) for high availability, scalability and data integrity
• Developed and managed secret management using HashiCorp Vault with HashiCorp Consul as backend, ensuring secure storage and to access sensitive information
• Demonstrated expertise with AWS services like IAM, EC2, EKS, VPC, ELB, ALB, KMS, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrial, S3, Cognito, API GW, Lambda, EBS, Autoscaling, Router53, ACM and others effectively to meet project requirements
• Continuously evaluated the environment and made recommendations to optimize performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Utilized proficiency in Bash and Python to automate tasks, improve efficiency and enhance system functionalities
• Collaborated with cross functional teams on deliverables fostering effective communication and coordination to ensure successful project outcomes
• Adhered to Agile practices by participating in sprint planning, daily stand ups, and retrospectives to facilitate efficient collaboration and project execution
• Demonstrated a strong ability to learn and apply new technologies by self-learning, staying up to date with industry trends and best practices
• Demonstrated ability to handle system administration on Linux and Unix platform

• Performed software development lifecycle including design, development, testing, packaging, deployment, upgrade and support using Python
• Applied global knowledge of IT infrastructure to develop standard solutions that can be leveraged across multiple areas
• Contributed to the development of new technical principles and concepts
• Proactively engaged with cross functional teams to solve problems and added business values
• Generated ideas and technical strategies and presented them to peers for feedback
• Collaborated with core service teams to define roadmaps, write clear user stories with defined acceptance criteria, design and build solutions
• Developed Cloud Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using Terraform, Ansible and deployed on Kubernetes in AWS Cloud
• Automated the development, testing and deployment of software product and its dependent infrastructure through GitOps model using technologies and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Flux, ArgoCD, Vault and Docker)
• Integrated the observability stack and managed the environment and its operation using Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch and Kibana
• Designed Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud architecture for the software product
• Worked on disaster recovery and continuous business process
• Client: AAIS (American Association of Insurance Services)

• Architecture & technical leadership: Perform requirements gathering, identifying scope and finalize baseline of the project
• Develop technical solution for automation, monitoring & alerting solution, and DevOps pipeline projects
• Perform viability assessment with stakeholders of the solution
• Evaluate and perform POC's for the automation and application team's requirements
• Technical leadership in automation initiatives using Ansible, Terraform, ScienceLogic, Netcool, Jenkins etc
• Ansible automation: Design, develop and implement IT automation using Ansible Tower for infrastructure events remediation and configuration management
• Work with automation engineers to develop ansible playbooks for system orchestration
• Performed process automation and reduce operational workload using ansible playbooks
• Monitoring and Event Management: Design and develop IT infra monitoring and alerting solution using ScienceLogic, IBM APM, Netcool, Prometheus, Grafana & IBM internal portal
• Design and develop integration of systems and tools for monitoring and alerting solution with tools like ServiceNow, ICD, Ansible, Netcool, Storage devices, Network devices etc
• DevOps & Cloud: Exposure and experience with IBM Cloud and AWS Cloud
• Exposed to AWS services like Compute, Network and Storage (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Route53, Autoscaling, ELB, etc.)
• Designed and developed terraform environment to manage AWS cloud environment
• Worked with a team to deliver AWS resource provisioning using terraform
• Develop and delivered DevOps pipeline using Jenkins for Java web services project using tools like GitHub, Maven, Artifactory, Selenium and Docker
• Clients: Bank of Ireland, Cooperative Bank, Legal & General, Asahi breweries, Juniper Networks, TAC Worksafe, WeSupply, Shop direct, IBM Internal

• Managed monitoring and event automation solution for banking customer using technologies and tools spanning across Tivoli Monitoring, Netcool, ScienceLogic, VMware, Citrix, Windows, Linux, Oracle, MSSQL, DB2, custom applications and it's monitoring etc
• Client: ABN Amro Netherlands

• L3 SME for monitoring and event management automation solutions for banking and insurance customers
• Clients: Manulife Financial, Bank of Ireland

• Administer and manage monitoring tools – ITM, Netcool, Alarmpoint for banking environment
• Client: Royal Bank of Scotland (internal)

• Perform a team leader to manage a data center operation right from setup, operations, audit and BCP for financial institutions
• Client: DLF Pramerica Life Insurance

• Perform BAU activities for Desktop Support and Lotus Domino Messaging environment
• Client: Cybernet software systems (internal)