Ramesh Surasani
Edison,USA
Summary
Highly driven DevOps and SRE Engineer with over 10 years of expertise in constructing and overseeing CI/CD pipelines, automating cloud infrastructure, and guaranteeing high availability, scalability, and security of applications.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior consultant
Capgemini
Edison, New Jersey
11.2024 - Current
- Designed, implemented, and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, enabling automated builds, deployments, and environment consistency across projects.
- Developed and automated Ansible playbooks to deploy SQL scripts on database servers, ensuring reliable and repeatable database releases.
- Actively involved in upgrading legacy applications and infrastructure to the latest supported versions, improving system performance, security, and stability.
- Played a key role in migrating Azure servers to Virtual Machines, including planning, execution, validation, and post‑migration support.
- Supported DevOps activities using Python scripts for automation, monitoring, and operational tasks.
- Managed source control and collaboration using GitHub, ensuring proper branching strategies, pull requests, and version control best practices.
- Performed IIS application restarts and maintenance activities to support application deployments and production support requirements.
- Created and executed PowerShell scripts for Windows server automation, application management, and administrative tasks.
- Managed job scheduling, execution, and monitoring using Ansible AWX, improving visibility and control over deployment workflows.
- Worked closely with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless delivery and reliable production environments.
- Provided production support and participated in extended-hours and on-call support as required to ensure high availability and timely issue resolution.
Senior consultant
Navitas Business Consulting Inc
Herndon, Virginia
06.2024 - 11.2024
- Designed and maintained enterprise‑grade CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, supporting standardized build, test, and deployment workflows across multiple application teams.
- Implemented GitHub Actions pipelines to automate application builds, validations, and deployments, improving delivery speed and consistency.
- Established branching strategies, pull‑request controls, and code quality checks in GitHub, ensuring secure and governed source‑code management.
- Integrated Jenkins and GitHub Actions with version control and deployment processes to enable traceable, repeatable releases.
- Led application deployment and maintenance activities on WebSphere Application Server (WAS), including application rollouts, configuration changes, and environment coordination.
- Supported WAS application lifecycle management, handling deployments, restarts, and troubleshooting in lower and production environments.
- Collaborated with development and testing teams to align CI/CD pipelines with WAS deployment requirements and enterprise release standards.
- Improved release reliability by introducing pipeline‑driven deployment controls, reducing manual steps and deployment failures.
- Provided production support for CI/CD pipelines, addressing build failures, deployment issues, and configuration discrepancies.
- Participated in extended‑hours and critical release support, ensuring minimal downtime during WAS application deployments.
- Ensured compliance with change management and audit requirements through controlled pipeline execution and GitHub traceability.
Lead DevOps engineer
Allstate
01.2021 - 05.2024
- Collaborated with architects and engineering teams to design and implement robust solutions using AWS stack resources, including EC2, S3, VPC, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, ECS, Lambda, and EKS, ensuring high availability, auto-scaling, and disaster recovery through Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
- Developed and managed CI/CD pipelines utilizing tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI, integrating security tools like SonarQube, Dependency-Check, and Trivy to automate deployment processes and reduce deployment time by 40%.
- Implemented and optimized EKS for container orchestration, ensuring seamless application delivery and scalability while leveraging Cloud Native practices and monitoring solutions like Dynatrace for end-to-end application performance.
- Monitor system performance using tools like Splunk and Dynatrace and ensure proactive resolution of infrastructure problems.
- Troubleshoot and manage infrastructure issues with a focus on root cause analysis and resolution.
- Automated manual deployment processes and implemented configuration management using Argo CD and Helm for Kubernetes applications, reducing interdependencies and improving team efficiency.
- Conducted thorough code reviews and unit/integration testing to uphold coding standards and ensure system reliability.
- Created and managed AWS IAM roles, policies, and groups, facilitating secure user access management across various AWS services and ensuring compliance with security best practices.
- Developed customized dashboards for monitoring critical application metrics, KPIs, and SLA compliance using Dynatrace, enabling proactive issue resolution through automated alerting for CPU, memory, and response time thresholds.
- Design, set up, and maintain OpenShift clusters with a strong focus on security, scalability, and high availability.
- Handle OpenShift resource management, such as projects, pods, services, routes, and deployment configurations.
- Extensive experience in configuring and maintaining RedHat OpenShift Container Platform in Bare Metal and VMware environments, ensuring optimal cluster performance and high availability.
- Design, set up, and maintain OpenShift clusters with a strong focus on security, scalability, and high availability.
- Expertise in managing Kubernetes clusters using kubectl for day-to-day operations such as pod creation, scaling, and monitoring.
- Managed Kubernetes resources such as Pods, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and PersistentVolumes using kubectl to ensure proper resource allocation and application availability.
- Integrated GitLab CI with Docker and Kubernetes to automate the containerization and orchestration of microservices, including building Docker images and deploying them to Kubernetes clusters.
- Configured and maintained GitLab CI runners for executing jobs, ensuring optimal resource utilization, parallel job execution, and minimizing pipeline execution time.
Senior DevOps engineer
Allstate
10.2017 - 12.2020
- Implemented custom Git hooks and automation scripts to enforce coding standards, execute pre-commit checks, and streamline repetitive tasks in the development workflow.
- Applied security best practices across AWS services, ensuring proper governance, compliance, and security posture across the cloud infrastructure.
- Designed, implemented, and optimized GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated building, testing, and deployment of microservices and applications across multiple environments.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using GitLab CI and tools like Terraform and CloudFormation to deploy and manage infrastructure as code in cloud environments.
- Integrated Splunk Enterprise with AWS for centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting, optimizing server infrastructure and capacity planning.
- Created servers, Golden AMIs, and storage blocks in S3, along with configuring VPCs, Subnets, Load Balancers, and Auto-Scaling in AWS CloudFormation for efficient resource management.
- Managed deployment of containerized applications on ECS and EKS, ensuring automated builds, tests, and secure deployments across development and production environments.
- Implemented monitoring solutions like Prometheus and Grafana to gain insights into application performance, ensuring compliance with SLI, SLO, and SLA frameworks for optimizing system performance and customer satisfaction.
- Designed, developed, and maintained Ansible playbooks for automating complex workflows, server configurations, software installations, and application deployments.
- Orchestrated Kubernetes clusters to ensure optimal workload distribution and implemented serverless architectures with AWS Lambda and API Gateway to enhance operational flexibility.
IT Consultant
Allstate
05.2015 - 09.2017
- Established CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Maven, Sonar, and Nexus to streamline development processes.
- Successfully implemented disaster recovery plans, ensuring business continuity.
- Migrated applications from RHEL6 to RHEL7, enhancing system performance and security.
- Configured application-level settings in WebSphere Application Server, managing EAR and WAR file deployments.
- Led environment migrations from WAS/WPS 8.0 to 8.5 with minimal disruption.
- Managed Git configuration, branching, and merging for code integrity.
- Oversaw production changes using Jira, ensuring effective project management.
- Coordinated project rollouts and release communications to engage stakeholders.
- Set up clustered environments with WebSphere to enhance application availability.
- Installed and configured Confluence for documentation management.
- Utilized IBM Build Forge for initial continuous integration, achieving streamlined functionality through comprehensive system audits.
- Conducted robust risk assessments to safeguard digital assets and ensure compliance.
Education
Master of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
JNTUK
Andhra Pradesh, India 11.2011 - 11.2013
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Acharya Nagarjuna University
Andhra Pradesh, India 08.2007 - 05.2011
Skills
- Cloud : AWS, AZURE
- Operating Systems : Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, MacOS, Windows
- Containerization tools : Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, EKS, OpenShift
- Automation/Configuration Tools: Ansible, Puppet, Chef
- Infrastructure as Code Tools : Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation
- DevOps/CICD Tools : Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Bamboo
- Artifactory repository : JFrog Artifactory, Nexus
- Code Scan/Testing tools : SonarQube, Trivy, Snyk, Selenium, Dependency Check
- Scripting Languages : PowerShell scripts, Bash, Python, Groovy, Shell
- Database Systems : MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, RDS
- Build Tools : RPM, Gradle, Maven
- Version Control : Git/GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab
- Package Manager : Helm Charts
- Monitoring and Logging : Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, EFK ,CloudWatch, Data Dog
- Testing methodology : Iterative Waterfall model, Agile methodology
- Defect Management tools : HP ALM, JIRA, ServiceNow, VersionOne, and Confluence
- API Platform: Postman
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administration (CKA)
- Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Accomplishments
- Best Employee of the year - 2017 & 2020.
- Got a Standing Ovation award in 2016, 2017 ,2021 and 2023
- Got Star of the month thrice in 2018 and twice in 2019.
- Got a spotted light award in 2015,2023.
- Got Bhutan Trip Award for extensive support in the team and visited Bhutan.
Timeline
Senior consultant
Capgemini
11.2024 - Current
Senior consultant
Navitas Business Consulting Inc
06.2024 - 11.2024
Lead DevOps engineer
Allstate
01.2021 - 05.2024
Senior DevOps engineer
Allstate
10.2017 - 12.2020
IT Consultant
Allstate
05.2015 - 09.2017
Master of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
JNTUK
11.2011 - 11.2013
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Acharya Nagarjuna University
08.2007 - 05.2011