Santosh Kumar V

MTS II - System Engineer

SUMMARY

 Skilled DevOps Engineer around 4 years of hands-on experience in build and deployment, support and
maintenance, software configurations in Docker- Kubernetes, AWS and On-Premises Linux platforms.
 Experience in automating build and deployment using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines written in groovy.
 Worked on microservices based applications deployment to Kubernetes clusters and automated the
deployments using Jenkins and Kubernetes helm charts.
 Migrating legacy applications deployment to AWS, Cloud native environments like Kubernetes.
 Proficient with container systems like Docker and container orchestration Docker Swarm, Kubernetes.
 Automated infrastructure, application configuration in AWS using CloudFormation and Ansible.
 Configured multi provider infrastructure from scratch using Terraform.
 Worked on implementing Cloud Solutions using various AWS Services including VPC, EC2, EBS, ELB, ASG,
Route 53, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Lambda, Elastic Bean stalk, IAM etc.
 Good exposure on SCM tools Git, GitLab and GitLab runner for docker containers deployment.
 Experience in using Build Automation tools like Ant, Maven.
 Experienced in integrating code quality tools SonarQuebe, Fortify and Image scanning tool TwistLock.
 Worked on artifacts management tools Jfrog, Nexus.
 Application monitoring through NewRelic, Prometheus and Grafana. ELK is used to log events.
 Experience in deploying, maintaining applications in Apache Tomcat, WebLogic.
 Experienced in using bug tracking systems like JIRA.
 Configuration experience with databases Postgre SQL, MongoDB, experienced in using SQL.
 Hands-on experience with Linux CLI, Shell Scripting and basics of python.
 Good interaction with developers, managers, and team members to coordinate tasks and strong
commitment to work.

SKILLS

● DevOps: Git, GitLab, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Nexus, Jfrog Artifactory, SonarQube, Fortify, TwistLock, JIRA,
Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
● Cloud: Amazon Web Services (VPC, EC2, EBS, ELB, ASG, Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, IAM, CloudWatch,
CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Lambda, CLI, ElasticBeanStalk).
● Monitoring & Alerting: NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

● Database: Oracle, AWS RDS.

● Languages: Linux CLI, Shell Scripting, Groovy, SQL, and Python.

● OS: Linux, Windows.

 M.Tech, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela. July’2014-June’2016

CERTIFICATIONS

 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Nov’2020-Nov’2023

WORK EXPERIENCE

DevOps and Automation Engineer, Verizon Data Services India, Hyderabad Feb’2020-Current

 Designed and implemented Jenkins CI/CD with multiple components to support weekly releases and
out-of-cycle releases based on business needs
 Automated microservices based applications deployment to kubernetes clusters using docker and
kubernetes helm charts.
 Worked on Kubernetes configamaps to store the configuration data of all the applications at one
place and automated its deployment to cluster using Jenkins jobs.
 Implemented Kubernetes Secretes to save sensitive data of applications and configured Kubernetes
basic-auth for ingresses used.
 Enabled Kubernetes Crontab for schedule pod running.
 Creating and building Docker images, containers and writing docker files.
 Resolved multiple issues in kubernetes cluster environment.
 Migrating legacy applications deployment to AWS.
 Performed AWS servers Re-hydration on monthly basis to meet to meet the security standards of the
organization.
 Supported 100+ AWS EC2 instances over multiple environments.
 Automated AWS infrastructure configurations in AWS using CloudFormation.
 Multi provider infrastructure creation and maintenance using Tearraform.
 Wrote AWS Lambda functions using Python for internal automations in AWS environment.
 Involved in development of test environment for various applications in AWS.
 Extensively used Ansible for application configuration.
 Writing Ansible playbooks for application deployment to different environments.
 Responsible for design of different release environments for new projects.
 Configured and maintained monitoring, alerting, event logging with NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana
and ELK.
 Maintained GitLab as SCM for various deployments.
 Configured Maven and Ant as build automation tools and integrated with Jenkins.
 Maintained Jfrog as Docker private repository as well as repository manager for dependency, build
artifacts management.
 Integrated SonarQube, Fortify to analyze code quality and resolved related issues.
 Deployed applications into Tomcat and WebLogic and given maintainance support.
 Extended support to various applications to ensure stable and reliable environments.
 Resolved 15+ JIRA tickets related Jenkins, Jfrog artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Sonar etc.
 Used SQL to query relational databases like Oracle, AWS RDS.
  Managing day-to-day software configuration management activities for multiple product lines.
 Responsible for product deployments into QA, STAGE and PROD environments.
 Wrote multiple shell scripts to automate day to day manual tasks.
 Documenting all the implementations, enhancements, monitoring, and maintenance, troubleshooting
in all the environments using one confluence.
DevOps and Cloud Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad Mar’2017-Jan’2020

 Create and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for build and deployment automation.
 Managing and Monitoring Jenkins (Auditing, Project based Security, Authorization and access
management).
 Configured and maintained GitLab as SCM, Maven as build automation tool.
 Writing Ansible playbooks for application configuration and deployment automation.
 Deploy and maintain web applications on to Apache Tomcat servers and configured it to host the
client's websites.
 Configured and managed Nexus as Docker private repository as well as repository manager for
dependency, build artifacts management.
 Procuring and configuring the server as per the needs of the release and the application.
 Identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues related to build and deploy process.
 Creating and building Docker images, containers and writing docker files.
 Deployed microservices based applications into kubernetes clusters using Jenkins pipelines.
 Resolved multiple issues with kubernetes cluster environment.
 Worked with various kubernetes configmaps, secterts and Crontab.
 Given support to multiple Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and resolved issues.
 Maintained SonarQube as code quality check tool to analyze the application code.
 Used Maven as build automation tool and integrated with Jenkins.
 Created public, private subnets and EC2 instances as per requirement and distributed them as groups
into various availability zones of the VPC.
 Managed EBS volumes and creating snapshots, expanding EBS volumes as per the application
requirement.
 Configured firewalls using security groups (SG) and Network Access Control Lists (NACLs) in AWS.
 Created and configured elastic load balancer and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to
have a cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment.
 Configured Elastic IPs as per the application requirement.
 Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files, sometimes which are required to serve
static content for a web application.
 Experienced in creating RDS instances to serve data through servers for responding to requests.
 Extensively used CloudFormation to configure and track AWS infrastructure.
 Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implemented MFA to provide additional security
to AWS account and its resources.
 Worked with Route 53 as DNS.
 Wrote AWS Lambda functions using Python for internal automations in AWS environment.
 Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using CloudWatch
service.
 Monitoring infrastructure and application health using Prometheus and Grafana.
 Managed all the bugs and changes into different environments using the Jira tracking tool.
 Used SQL to query relational databases like Oracle, AWS RDS.
 Automated day to day manual tasks using Shell Scripts.
 Support Lead developers with Configuration Management issues.
 Documented all the issues, troubleshooting and configurations.