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ANVESH J

Burnaby,BC

Summary

Release/DevOps/Software Engineer with over Ten years of experience in Analysis, Design, Development, and Deployment using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Java technologies. Led cross-functional teams in the successful completion of multiple projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. Goal Driven, self-organized Developer with a comprehensive understanding of various software development approaches such as Agile methodologies. Skilled in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker containerization, Linux administration, infrastructure as code (IaC), and advanced monitoring tools such as Dynatrace Cloud and Observability. Excellent communication skills and ability to work in-groups as well as independently with minimum supervision and initiative to learn new technologies and tools quickly. Developed and maintained detailed project plans, schedules, and resource allocation to ensure project milestones and deadlines were met. Facilitated Change management processes, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruption to ongoing operations. Extensive experience managing and orchestrating Kubernetes clusters for efficient application deployment, scaling, and management across multiple environments. Led the automation of Azure infrastructure provisioning and management, reducing deployment times by 70% through Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Terraform, and Azure DevOps pipelines. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Best Practices Implemented IaC using Terraform, reducing manual intervention in provisioning by 80% and improving infrastructure consistency and traceability. Built TERAFORM SCRIPTS for Infrastructure as Code, handled the infrastructure as an automated pipeline concept. Standardized the creation of reusable Terraform modules, enhancing the organization's ability to quickly deploy consistent infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments. Designing, implementing, and supporting fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes. Managed Kubernetes clusters, optimizing application deployment and scaling for seamless development, testing, and production operations. Increased Release of software from three months release cycle to every week deployments. Increased customer satisfaction with software by around 20%. Handled the Release of Code into Staging and Production environment, played a vital release manager role for products owned by team. Investigated and created proof of concepts on cloud components like Azure app services, Azure key vault, Azure Kubernetes service, Azure blob storage, and azure arm templates. Played a vital role in improving and implementing the deployment strategies for infrastructure on Cloud. Setting up and introducing Continuous Deployment processes and advising on best practices. Experienced in using AZURE KEYVAULT as the secret manager by storing certs and secrets in an automated fashion. Led the successful introduction and implementation of Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents) to streamline business processes and improve workflow automation across the organization. Established a governance framework for the Power Platform, including security policies, data loss prevention (DLP) rules, and environment strategies, ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory standards. Created and implemented policies around app lifecycle management, including app development standards, deployment procedures for Power Platform solutions. Automated Build and Release using Azure DevOps to reduce human error and speed up SDLC processes. Implemented DevOps practice for software’s like manual release products into automated releases which in turn increase release the products sooner. Automated the deployment of Cloud Infrastructure as a part of a pipeline by introducing the concepts of Infrastructure as Code. Hands on experience in Writing the Blueprints for Infrastructure Automation as a Nutanix Engineer. I am well experienced in automating the process and making them a single point of operation using PowerShell scripting. Engaged with Microsoft to resolve complex Azure and Power Platform-related issues, optimizing deployments and ensuring compliance with security and performance standards. Implemented incident management by using agile methodology approach which in process debugging and resolving the issues, providing root cause analysis, and making it as mandatory for items which intern reduces the number of incidents by fixing the root cause. Extensively used ServiceNow Tool to handle the service request, change request and created a new process around service now for release management tools. Introduced the Change Controlled Release Strategies. Assigned RBAC policies confidential group level and user level as per the LTA created for the services implemented new (Automation account, scheduler, notification hub, IOT Hubs, Batch and other services). Proficient in developing Continuous Integration/ Delivery pipelines. Good knowledge in version control system tools like GIT (GitHub, bitbucket), Azure Repos. Motivated team player with the ability to work under minimal supervision possessing significant analytical, problem-solving, and communicational skills. Experience in working with small and large groups and successful in meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions to meet the needs of the customer.

Professional automation analyst with extensive experience in optimizing and streamlining processes. Skilled in scripting, software testing, and implementing automated solutions to enhance efficiency. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving quantifiable results. Reliable and adaptable, excelling in dynamic environments to meet changing needs.

Automation professional with robust track record in enhancing operational efficiency through innovative automation solutions. Known for effective team collaboration and delivering consistent results. Expertise in scripting, process optimization, and adapting to evolving project needs.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Automation Analyst III

SERVUS CREDIT UNION
04.2020 - Current
  • Enabled on-demand business value delivery while maintaining product quality and ensuring a secure, stable production environment
  • Planned and synchronized technical environment availability for product sustainment and project efforts
  • Leveraged product roadmap knowledge, technical expertise, and Agile/DevOps methodologies to maximize delivery productivity
  • Collaborated with internal development and operational teams to support and facilitate the delivery of a highly available production environment
  • Spearheaded cloud migration efforts from on-premises to Azure Cloud, including infrastructure-as-code management with Terraform to ensure streamlined and consistent environment setups
  • Implemented procedures ensuring predictability, transparency, and repeatability of product implementations and deployments throughout the entire lifecycle, from development to production
  • Led the orchestration and management of Kubernetes clusters for application deployment, scaling, and rolling updates, optimizing resources across various environments
  • Created and managed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and ARM templates, enabling consistent and repeatable deployments across various environments
  • Managed and automated DevOps processes across hybrid environments, integrating on-premises infrastructure with Azure cloud, ensuring seamless operations and deployment pipelines
  • Integrated Kubernetes with CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery, ensuring seamless and consistent application updates
  • Converted manual release process into automated for legacy systems and made the releases easy, reduced the release cycle from 3 months to biweekly and the release time from long nights to minimal hours
  • Experienced in handling multiple strategic projects parallelly, playing an important role in delivering the project to production as early as possible by meeting the deadlines estimated
  • Identified and resolved technical impediments blocking product delivery progress
  • Demonstrated self-starter abilities and strong interpersonal skills, requiring minimal supervision
  • Confidently worked with individuals at all organizational levels to achieve goals
  • Worked closely with the risk and compliance teams to develop security strategies, ensure regular compliance, and provide technical guidance on mitigating identified risks
  • Hands-on experience implementing security best practices, including configuring Azure Key Vault for secret management and setting up Microsoft Defender for cloud for secrets scanning in code and resource protection
  • Certificate Management on Azure cloud for the internally generated certificates by root CA
  • Automated the storage, retrieval, and rotation of secrets and certificates using Azure Key Vault, enhancing security for applications
  • Built Power Pipelines for handling the deployments of the power apps, flows on power automate
  • Worked with Azure Boards, creating Epics, Features & User Stories with best practices
  • Enabled continuous delivery through deployments across multiple environments: Development, Test, Staging, and Production
  • Developed and maintained scripts using PowerShell and Azure CLI for automating routine tasks, such as resource provisioning and updates improving operational efficiency and reducing manual effort
  • Proof of Concept on ELK Stack stood up the entire infrastructure for standing up the application and configure the Kibana in creating the Dashboards
  • Worked closely with all Product Development groups to continuously improve release processes, communications, and product delivery
  • Played a key role in creating change requests and ensuring releases were done as per the plan with all required approvals
  • Worked on bug fixing and enhancements for change requests
  • Effectively prioritized and managed incident tickets, balancing ongoing project work and day-to-day operations to ensure both incident resolution and scheduled work progress remained on track
  • Proven team player, handling additional requests along with committed teamwork
  • Performed Change Management, Problem Management
  • Acted as Scrum Master, organizing daily scrum meetings, and collaborating with the team and across the organization

DEVOPS ENGINEER

EQUIFAX
01.2018 - 03.2020
  • Played a pivotal role in investigating and implementing new tools related to DevOps
  • Worked with Microsoft Azure and created resources in Azure portal aligning to standard best practices which are followed by Microsoft
  • Worked with Kubernetes clusters, including Helm charts creation and management, optimizing application deployment and resource utilization
  • Hands-on experience on Azure app services and azure arm templates by using Azure DevOps
  • Automating the build, deployment (CI/CD) of Front-End applications, Middleware and Database components using Azure DevOps & Azure Portal
  • Used Nagios for monitoring applications deployed on Azure AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and set up alerts for infrastructure components
  • I have enabled Continuous Delivery through Deployment into several environments: Development, Test, Staging and Production
  • Develop and implement an automated infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code using PowerShell
  • Introduced Nagios Tool for monitoring applications on Azure AKS Clusters
  • Experienced in Setting-up Alerts for Application monitoring using Nagios like infrastructure component failure and load balance on the servers
  • Strong experience in database installation, capacity planning, implementing backup and recovery strategies for applications and databases
  • Hands on experience in Writing the Blueprints for Infrastructure Automation as a Nutanix Engineer
  • Hands-on experience working with Jenkins's file and maintaining in the code repository
  • Implemented release promotion process per environment (DEV, UAT, SIT) basis
  • Experienced with Docker container service, Creating Docker files, Docker Images & Containers
  • I have worked along with UNIX team for writing UNIX shells scripts to customize the server scheduling jobs
  • Experience in installation, configuration, up-gradation, patching, monitoring, troubleshooting, deploying and management of web and enterprise applications on Linux Servers
  • Work closely with all Product Development groups to continuously improve our release processes, communications, and delivery of products
  • I am involved in documentation, reviews, analysis, and fixed post-production issues
  • Integrated service now with Azure DevOps to initiate an automated change request
  • Worked on bug fixing and enhancements on change requests
  • Good team player in taking care of additional requests that come in along with the committed teamwork
  • Performed Change Management, Problem Management, Cloning, Operating system and data backups and recovery strategies
  • Taken care of duties of a scrum master in organizing the sprint plannings, daily scrum meetings and collaborating with the team and across the organization

RELEASE/BUILD ENGINEER

COLLABORATE IT SOLUTIONS
07.2016 - 01.2018
  • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins
  • Providing a better workflow for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
  • Configured Jenkins to automate the build deployments based on the changes captured in Version Control
  • Hands-on experience in creating Jenkins freestyle projects, configure security in Jenkins by using LDAP
  • Integrated JIRA with subversion and configured with Jenkins to automate the entire build and release process
  • Implemented GIT branching model which facilitated structured release management for the number of projects
  • Used ANT automated build scripts to compile and package the application
  • Provide technical support to the production system and perform various tests on all applications
  • Hands-on experience with Analysis, Deployment, Code Management, Maintenance, Enhancements and Quality Control of Web Technologies and Client-Server Architecture
  • Well versed in managing source code repositories, configuring, and administering Git tools (GitHub, bitbucket)
  • Working for DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to Chef for Cloud Automation
  • I have worked with different Bug Tracking Tools like Jira and Bugzilla
  • Developed pom.xml files for Maven build scripts

Software Developer

Ilogix IT Services Pvt Ltd.
06.2015 - 06.2016
  • Responsible for development, modification and maintenance of Invoice Management System (IMS) which is used to streamline invoice processing, tracking and reporting
  • Developed the GUI for the main pages of the module using HTML/DHTML, CSS integrated with Java Server Pages
  • Designed screens using Swings/AWT with core java programming
  • Achievements include faster vendor payments, efficient tracking of invoices, various management reporting functionalities, transparency in processing and establishment of a platform to enable further automation
  • Development & enhancement of Business Components for order processing application
  • Developed Servlets and Java classes to communicate with the database using JDBC
  • HTML/DHTML, CSS, JavaScript was used for designing the screens and validation of front-end
  • I have worked with the users to gather requirements and worked in Analysis and designing part
  • Trained and assisted other members of the team in supporting the Invoice management system
  • I have participated in project planning, documentation, testing and validation procedures
  • I have developed a database based on the ER-Model to Server as a backend for the software application

Education

Master's - Cybersecurity

Bachelor's degree - computer science engineering

Master of Science -

New York Institute of Technology

Skills

  • Java
  • Python
  • YAML
  • Powershell
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins
  • Kubernetes
  • Bamboo
  • Ant
  • Maven
  • Nagios
  • ELK Stack
  • JSP
  • Servlets
  • JDBC
  • Swing
  • JNDI
  • Java Beans
  • JMS
  • Web Services
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • AngularJS
  • XML
  • JSON
  • AJAX
  • JQuery
  • Spring MVC
  • AOP
  • Struts
  • Docker
  • SOAP
  • REST
  • AWS
  • UDDI
  • WSDL
  • JAX-WS
  • Agile Scrum
  • MySQL
  • MS SQL Server
  • JBOSS
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Apache HTTP Server
  • IIS Server
  • Eclipse
  • IntelliJ
  • Visual Studio
  • JIRA
  • GIT
  • Application support
  • Incident management
  • Requirements gathering
  • Robotic process automation
  • Software development
  • Scripting languages
  • DevOps practices
  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous integration tools
  • Version control systems
  • Business process analysis
  • Security protocols
  • Excellent communication
  • Organizational skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Continuous improvement
  • Information systems
  • Project documentation
  • Code debugging

Timeline

DevOps Automation Analyst III

SERVUS CREDIT UNION
04.2020 - Current

DEVOPS ENGINEER

EQUIFAX
01.2018 - 03.2020

RELEASE/BUILD ENGINEER

COLLABORATE IT SOLUTIONS
07.2016 - 01.2018

Software Developer

Ilogix IT Services Pvt Ltd.
06.2015 - 06.2016

Bachelor's degree - computer science engineering

Master's - Cybersecurity

Master of Science -

New York Institute of Technology
ANVESH J