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SIVA MAHENDRANAGAR

Summary

Around 13 years of experience as Linux Administrator, DevOps Engineer, Build, Release and Configuration Engineer. Experience in Administration/Maintenance of Source Control Management Systems such as Git, SVN, and Bitbucket Worked on implementing merging, branching strategies, defect fixes for smooth release management into production environments. Used build tools like Maven for the building of deployable artifacts such as jar, war and ear from source code and plugin management as per requirements. Experience in managing, configuring and administering Jenkins server. Experience in creating nodes in Jenkins, which distributes the loads and runs the jobs parallel. Automated the Continuous Build process, monitored, maintained, and controlled software configurations in secured distributed environment. Expertise in change/Incident and Problem management procedures. Expertise in systems performance monitoring & tuning: CPU, disk, memory and network utilization. Good Hands-on knowledge on Atlassian suit tools like JIRA, Kanban, Bit Bucket and Confluence. Experience in writing Ansible playbooks and integrate with other tools for build and releases. Use Ansible to modernize different pieces of applications by writing playbooks for each use case and integrate them using self-service tools. Experience on Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) to create templates for playbooks. Experience on Docker automation solution for Continuous integration/Continuous Delivery model using Cloud bees and Azure DevOps. Experience on AWS services like EC2, S3, Cloud formation and cloud watch. Very good experience on Dynatrace for unified observability to monitor, manager and optimize complex environments. Worked with DEV, QA and other teams to ensure automated test efforts are tightly integrated with the build system and in fixing the errors while doing the deployment and building. Automated the build and release management process including monitoring changes between releases. Developed, maintained, and distributed release notes for each scheduled release. Provided periodic feedback on status and scheduling issues to the management. Ability to work directly with all levels of Management to gather user requirements. Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

Advanity Technologies LLC
09.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for migration of different application types like rpm, web, database from legacy tools to Jenkins.
  • Worked on Ansible Automation Platform to configure automated deployments by writing and tuning playbooks for remote script executions, Jenkins pipeline executions and open shift applications pods scaling.
  • Experience on Ansible to automate repetitive tasks to reduce manual effort and improve deployment reliability.
  • Works on modernizing the projects by providing solutions to application teams to automate previously time-intensive processes that required cross-functional coordination and manual intervention.
  • Supported deployment and management of applications on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM and VPC).
  • Experience on VPC networking with public/private subnets, NAT gateways, route tables and security groups.
  • Deployment of containerized applications using docker and pushed images to ECR.
  • Experience in deploying applications to EKS, managing pods, services and configmaps.
  • Worked on establishing monitoring applications, logging and alerting standards using CloudWatch and Dynatrace.
  • Implemented Dynatrace One Agent for full stack monitoring across windows, Linux and cloud platforms.
  • Experience on configuration of Dynatrace smart scape topology to auto discovery of applications, services, process host and the dependencies.
  • Experience on creating dashboards in Dynatrace for application overview, golden signals and custom dashboards based on customer needs.
  • Experience in creating management zones, add rules, metrics, alerting profiles and problem notifications (email, slack, service now and pager duty).
  • Configured RUM (real user monitoring) for applications in Dynatrace to gain complete visibility into every user’s digital experience across web, mobile and custom apps.
  • Experience on creating custom metrics and creating critical business function alerts for critical applications.
  • Experience in configuration of applications using custom extension in Dynatrace.
  • Troubleshooting build, deploy issues and analyze logs and metrics to reduce downtime and improve reliability.
  • Responsible for documentation of new process of deployment using service now and sharing it with the application team members.
  • Works with different teams in creating use cases in Jenkins for legacy applications.
  • Client: Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation
  • Environment: Cloud bees Jenkins, AWS, Bitbucket, Service Now, Confluence, JIRA, Shell Scripting, PowerShell, Maven, Oracle, SQL, Sona type Nexus, Ansible, Dynatrace.

Senior DevOps Engineer

HungerRush LLC
11.2021 - 08.2022
  • Created automated builds, deployments and unit tests across multiple environments (DEV, QA, Production) each constituting different types of servers (DB, Web) using Azure DevOps.
  • Experience in implementing azure service offering such as Azure cloud services, azure storage, IIS, Azure active directory, Azure storage, Azure resource manager, Azure functions, service bus and Azure Shared pools.
  • Experience in migration of on-premises applications to azure and configure Vents and subnets as per the project requirement using PowerShell and azure cli commands.
  • Created Autoscaling for azure SQL share pools using azure runbooks.
  • Create Azure automation tasks, graphical and PowerShell runbooks that will automate specific tasks in azure environment.
  • Worked on Serverless services, created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions.
  • Experience in installing and configuring Jenkins ci tool and using Jenkins pipelines to deploy the applications to docker registries.
  • Experience in the integration of Microsoft teams with Azure DevOps.
  • Integrated code quality tools like SonarQube in CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience on creating Docker files, Docker Images & Containers.
  • Worked on Docker Container snapshots, attaching to a running container, removing images, managing directory structures, and managing containers.
  • Integrated Azure Devops Pipelines with Azure Kubernetes Service and used helm for versioned, repeatable Kubernetes.
  • Managed AKS clusters, node pools and upgrades.
  • Integrated AKS with load balancer and ingress controllers.
  • Worked on configuration of RBAC, namespaces and policies.
  • Worked on proof of concept using terraform to provision and manager cloud infrastructure in a repeatable and automated manner.
  • Coordinated with development and testing teams to plan release and post-release validation activities.
  • Created and maintained build and deployment release manifest document.
  • Trained developers to get familiar on using the latest tools available in the organization.
  • Environment: Azure Devops, GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube, Shell Scripting, PowerShell, Maven, Oracle, Terraform, Azure services, Docker.

Build and Release Engineer

Apex 2000 INC
01.2019 - 11.2021
  • Responsible for onboarding applications into serena deployment automation tool and set up continuous integration of source code using cloudbees Jenkins both for on-premise and cloud environments.
  • Uses bitbucket for storing the configuration files and source code required for building applications using cloudbees Jenkins.
  • Responsible for Jenkins pipeline configuration for different types of applications and also for creation of component process for deployment of applications into Serena deployment automation tool.
  • Experience on building, package and deployment of web/rpm/database applications into different environments all the way to production.
  • Uses JIRA as a bug tracking tool and service now as incident and change management.
  • Manages and administers serena deployment automation, Serena business manager.
  • Creation of workflows in serena business manager for integration with Deployment automation tool.
  • Troubleshooting build and deployment issues on both cloudbees Jenkins and serena deployment automation.
  • Used chef as a configuration management tool for installation of Serena Deployment agents on the Linux servers.
  • Development of Chef recipes using Ruby Script through Knife command-line tool to create Chef cookbooks to manage systems configuration.
  • Works with development, testing, systems/infrastructure and Database teams to ensure continuous operation of build and test systems.
  • Environment: Cloud bees Jenkins, Serena Deployment Automation, Serena Business Manager, Dimensions CM, Bitbucket, Service Now, Confluence, JIRA, Shell Scripting, PowerShell, Maven, Oracle, Sybase, SQL, Sona type Nexus.

Systems Engineer (DevOps Engineer)

Infosys Limited
08.2016 - 12.2018
  • Supports and Administers TFS for the users in which grant/revoke access to the requested project after preliminary checks.
  • Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation using Jenkins.
  • Experience in managing, configuring and administering Jenkins master and slave servers.
  • Configured Jenkins as a common build engine to build and deploy applications to DEV, QA, and Pre-PROD environments.
  • Experience in provisioning of infrastructure and application using N1 service provisioning tool and used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
  • Created the automated build and deployment process for application, re-engineering set up for better user experience, and leading up to building a continuous integration system for all our products.
  • Assist with maintaining current build systems, developed build scripts, and maintained the source control system.
  • Implemented and maintained the branching and merging structure for build/release strategies utilizing Subversion and GIT in Linux and Windows.
  • Injecting our Project Implementation and Testing (PIT) environments into Splunk for log management purpose.
  • Extensively working on bug tracking and ticketing tool JIRA and updated the resolution for new issues during build/deployment/Infrastructure provisioning in the confluence pages.
  • Used Chef to automate the deployment workflow of applications on WebSphere and Oracle Web logic servers.
  • Worked with hosted Chef, workstations installation with knife utility, bootstrapped nodes, wrote recipes and cookbooks uploaded them to Chef-Server, installed services, packages using Chef.
  • Created Roles for deployment of Infrastructure using Opscode Chef.
  • Experience in using Nexus, Artifactory Repository Managers for Maven builds.
  • Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous integration and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments.
  • Designed and created multiple deployment strategies using CI/CD Pipeline and configuration management tools with remote execution to ensure zero downtime and shortened automated deployments.
  • Experienced with Docker container service. Creating Docker files, Docker Images & Containers.
  • Involved in writing shell scripts for automation of tasks in non-production environments.
  • Involved in doing metrics reporting to clients and coordination from the onsite-offshore team.
  • Environment: Linux, Solaris, JIRA, Tortoise SVN, GIT, Jenkins, Anthill Pro, N1 service Provisioning Tool, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, Chef, JIRA, Splunk, Docker, WinSCP, Win merge, WebSphere.

Systems Analyst

HCL Technologies Ltd
, India
06.2011 - 05.2014
  • Implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies utilizing Subversion.
  • Performed all necessary day-to-day Subversion support for different projects.
  • Responsible for the design and maintenance of the Subversion Repositories, views, and access control strategies.
  • Worked on the GIT branching for applications by creating Release branches, Development branches thus ensuring the integrity of applications.
  • Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins Continuous Integration tool on Linux machines.
  • Deploy applications using Jenkins and Troubleshoot build and release job failures, resolve, work with engineers on resolution.
  • Design solutions to technical problems and implementation of new systems or infrastructure changes.
  • Responsible for Designing, Building, installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of RedHat Linux.
  • System administration including user, system & group management, system updates, performance monitoring, backup/recovery, disk & storage management.
  • Troubleshooting Network, memory, CPU, swap and File system issues for Linux servers.
  • Environment: Linux (RHEL 5.0/6.0, CentOS), SVN, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Nagios, BMC Remedy, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic.

Education

Master of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL, USA
12.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India
03.2011

Skills

  • GIT
  • SVN
  • Team Foundation Server (TFS)
  • Bitbucket
  • MicroFocus Dimensions CM
  • Clear Case
  • Team City
  • Apache
  • Apache Proxy
  • JBOSS
  • Web sphere
  • Web logic
  • MAVEN
  • ANT
  • MS Build
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins
  • Bamboo
  • Anthillpro
  • TFS Visual Studio
  • Chef
  • Ansible
  • MicroFocus Deployment Automation
  • Dynatrace
  • AppDynamics
  • Shell scripting
  • Powershell
  • Python
  • Windows98/XP/2000/2003/2008
  • Linux OS (RedHat, CentOS and Ubuntu)
  • Solaris
  • VMWare
  • VSphere
  • Remedy
  • BladeLogic
  • ServiceNow
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Azure DevOps
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Solutions Business Manager

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

Advanity Technologies LLC
09.2022 - Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

HungerRush LLC
11.2021 - 08.2022

Build and Release Engineer

Apex 2000 INC
01.2019 - 11.2021

Systems Engineer (DevOps Engineer)

Infosys Limited
08.2016 - 12.2018

Systems Analyst

HCL Technologies Ltd
06.2011 - 05.2014

Master of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of South Alabama

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
SIVA MAHENDRANAGAR