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Deepa Anoop

Toronto,Canada

Summary

Dynamic DevOps Architect with extensive experience in IT Industry for 14+ years of experience, specializing in Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Cloud architecture. Proven track record in optimizing release management processes, enhancing deployment efficiency. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams and leveraging tools like Jenkins, GitHub, AWS and Azure DevOps to drive innovations. End-to-end DevOps pipeline implementation using DevOps Services and Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Splunk, GitHub, SVN, and many more. Perform current state DevOps assessment and defining a roadmap for a future state DevOps implementation and the Target Operating Model. Drive Talent Acquisition & Talent enablement to align with customers’ technological roadmaps. People Management for the services lines managed working with community managers. I am skilled at strategic planning & estimation, Agile SCRUM, Communication, Leadership, Mentoring, team building, Problem solving and decision-making skills Conducting of Program governance. Review with client stakeholders Engage with PMO/Operations partners to drive operational excellence. Working with Large offshore team of Cloud and DevOps on the delivery of various projects.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2021 - Current
  • Experience with the provisioning of various AWS services like EC2 servers, ALB, Target Group, Route53,S3, EFS, VPC,SQL clustering, NLB, VPC PrivateLink, RDS,Postgres, DynamoDB, ECS clustering in AWS.
  • Automate the manual tasks using shell scripting.
  • Automate installation, deploying, and configuring in AWS servers using Ansible playbooks.
  • Deploy infrastructure in AWS using Terraform.
  • Worked closely with software development members to design and develop optimized solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Provisioning the SQL servers and configure the Windows clustering.
  • Provision and utilize the FSX for the data management.
  • Identify the applications which need to be migrated to the client environments.
  • Provisioning the infrastructure using the terraform AWS services like EC2,S3,RDS,FSX.
  • Installation of different software’s using Ansible scripts.
  • Working with the multiple Business unit team and identify the requirements for the different Applications to be onboarded to the DevOps Area.
  • Implement the CI/CD pipeline for different applications. Set up the pipeline with different stages.
  • Managing the resources.
  • Gather requirements for implementation, define, analyze and evaluate existing business function and process and make recommendation to management on opportunities for process improvements working with other technical resources as required.
  • CI/CD Enablement for newly onboarded applications in multiple technology stack using GitHub, Jenkins Pipeline ,JFrog, PCF,Docker and AWS resources.
  • Automate the code coverage, security analysis using SonarQube and Veracode.
  • Release orchestration using GitHub Actions in Production.
  • Worked in implementation of DML pipelines.
  • Creating the Pipelines scripts for DML data patching in GITHUB.
  • Creating and Implementing the Jenkins build jobs for DML Pipelines in both the Non-Prod and Prod regions.
  • Working with XLDeploy tool to deploy the pipeline builds for various applications.
  • Creating the templates in XLRelease for various applications.
  • Involved in Production release with application teams.
  • Created Liquibase configurations for the DML deployment.
  • Handover the DML to the applications team after Production deployment by giving necessary KT and documentations.
  • Providing support to the existing pipelines.
  • Working on different POC for the applications and libraries and giving KT to the client and the team.
  • Responsible for all DML pipeline delivery for AIG DML Automations.

Devops Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2018 - 08.2020
  • Automated multiple Java, .Net, Angular and Nodejs applications using Jenkins.
  • Have setup end to end CI process for cloud ready applications using Jenkins-AWX and also being a part of the architecture Working on enabling continuous integration and continuous deployment.
  • Responsible for design and maintenance of the Git repositories and the access control strategies.
  • Developed, maintained, and distributed release notes for each scheduled release.
  • Implemented Nexus in build process to resolve dependency issues.
  • Enabling automated tests and quality gates in the continuous integration system.
  • Established processes to integrate automated testing, code coverage and code analysis tools in CI builds which helped to maintain code base integrity and code quality.
  • Coordinate with all the teams before and after the production deployments for the smooth production releases.
  • Troubleshoot the problems generated while building and deploying the applications on various environments.
  • Responsible for creating the build/deploy and release plan for all the releases.
  • Load balancing enabled for PTE and Prod environment using Ansible.
  • Work closely with technical architects and performance engineers to increase productivity, scalability & performance of application.
  • To facilitate and serve as a liaison between DevOps team in Bond line of business to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of software products or updates for all environments including production.
  • Automated 10+ portal custom action to support multiple environment.
  • As part of code review removed hard coded code and optimized the code.
  • Automation of DuckCreek Powershell script to eliminate manual intervention & quick build execution & code clean up.
  • Enablement of code coverage on the XAML builds.
  • Enabled email notification to send emails for scheduled builds Chubb NA Engagement.
  • Branching & Merging strategies enabled using SCM tools TFS.

Module Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2014 - 05.2015
  • Project Estimation.
  • Requirement gathering and analysis.
  • Preparation of design documents.
  • Design and Development.
  • Code review.
  • Unit testing.
  • Mentoring Team.
  • Module Lead.
  • Development and implementation of new Claims system on .NET platform to handle death claims for the life insurance and annuity businesses of SFG's insurance company subsidiaries.
  • This new system is intended to replace the current system, which is a combination of multiple MS Access interfaces with some integration to the policy administration systems.
  • A new department is being created to handle all of the Unclaimed Property claims – Policy Owner Benefits Audit Support (PBAS).
  • PBAS will handle both Life and Annuity claims, and work out of multiple locations.
  • In order to support PBAS, CSI needs to recognize the new department PBAS.

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2010 - 05.2015
  • Net Framework 4.0, CAB framework and Windows Forms, WCF Service, SQL Server2008, Visual Studio 2012 Module lead.
  • The scope of the assignment is to upgrade Trade Rebalance application from VB6 to a .NET smart client application.
  • Trade Rebalance application deals with the rebalance process which will be accessed by the Trading Team of Kaspick.
  • Trading Team can perform a full rebalance process of portfolios to ensure the portfolios are in alignment with the investment allocation jointly established by the client institution and Kaspick.
  • The Rebalance process is a rule-based process that analyzes the current portfolio positions against pre-established target positions for each portfolio.
  • The result of this process is a set of trade transactions, subject to minimum trade constraints, that will bring the portfolio into balance with their investment allocations.
  • Existing VB6 application uses VC++ APIs to perform the trade rebalance process.
  • This VC++ API calls retained the new dot net application.
  • Trade rebalance application also interacts with other vendor applications like AXYS to get the latest market price of the trades.
  • Module Lead.
  • Requirement Analysis.
  • Design and Development.
  • Followed scrum model for development.
  • LLD Preparation.
  • Unit Testing.
  • Mentoring Team.

Programmer

Siemens
02.2009 - 08.2010
  • The external notification module is intended to provide a mechanism to perform certain pre-defined actions based on occurrence of a cause across sub-systems or externally.
  • The external notification module can also be used as an additional channel to report incidents over email or SMS.
  • Customers can define a set of rules based on which to be notified.
  • Rules define causes that occur and satisfy defined conditions.
  • Rules also define the actions (send email/SMS or set an output).
  • Cause and effects within the sub system are built into the field devices.
  • External Notification is to be used when a cause in one sub system requires an effect in another sub system.
  • In some cases it may also be used across devices in the same sub system.
  • Requirement Analysis.
  • Design and implementation.
  • Unit Testing.

Software Developer

Sify Software Solutions
08.2007 - 12.2008
  • Requirement Analysis.
  • Design and implementation.
  • Unit Testing.

Education

MCA -

Dr. G. R. Damodaran College of Science
01.2007

Bcom -

Calicut University
01.2004

Skills

  • Continuous Integration
  • Terraform deployment
  • Infrastructure automation
  • AWS provisioning
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Environment Management
  • Release Management
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Version Control System
  • GIT
  • Tortoise SVN
  • TFS
  • Jenkins
  • VSTS
  • Azure Devops
  • AWS
  • Automated Testing
  • Nunit
  • MSTest
  • Code Coverage
  • Opencover
  • SQL Server 2008
  • Visual Studio2010
  • Jacoco
  • Repository Managers
  • Nexus
  • JFrog
  • Change /Service Management
  • Jira
  • XL Release
  • GitHub Actions
  • Continuous Delivery/Deployment
  • AWX
  • XLDeploy
  • Code Analysis/review
  • SonarQube
  • Resharper
  • Scripting
  • Ansible
  • Javascript
  • PowerShell
  • Groovy
  • Project management
  • Cost estimation
  • Net Framework 40
  • ASPNET MVC 30 and ASPNET WebForms
  • C#
  • JQuery
  • JavaScript
  • WCF Rest Service

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate (SAA), 2022
  • AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions, 2021
  • AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator, 2020

Timeline

DevOps Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2021 - Current

Devops Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2018 - 08.2020

Module Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2014 - 05.2015

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2010 - 05.2015

Programmer

Siemens
02.2009 - 08.2010

Software Developer

Sify Software Solutions
08.2007 - 12.2008

MCA -

Dr. G. R. Damodaran College of Science

Bcom -

Calicut University
Deepa Anoop