Rashmi Nair
Calgary,AB
Summary
- Total 12+ years IT experience in Banking/Insurance, Telecom, Digital Services and Retail marketing Domains with outstanding experience in the field of Cloud DevOps with CI/CD and Release management with the ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure.
- Rich experience in tools like Bitbucket, GIT, Jenkins, terraform, ansible also in build (ANT,Maven) and release management.
- Experience in AWS migration activities from on-prem to cloud or from 1 cloud platform to other.
- Worked on helm deployments for AWS EKS clusters and Jenkins-groovy deployments for rpm deployments on linux servers.
- Have worked on monitoring tools like Grafana and logging tools like ElasticSearch.
- Have good expertise in cloud platform like AWS and worked on SAAS platforms with exposure to Kubernetes clusters.
- Have worked as DevOps Consultant where post application assessment proposing best DevOps solution for continuous integration and continuous delivery by applying VSM (Value Stream Mapping).
- Creating Jenkins job for implementing continues integration and continues delivery for projects. Applying and adhering to ITIL best services in various projects to add value to business functions.
- Expertise in accurate and timely status reporting to required stakeholders.
- Excellent Leadership and communication skills and ability to work with the team effectively.
- Have been effective in identified issues, resolving the issues/roadblocks and timely escalations to management.
- Taking care of knowledge translation of new joiner in project as point of contact for them.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Devops Engineer
Neptune Retail Solutions
10.2021 - Current
- Experience in provisioning, managing and deploying AWS resources like EKS, ECS, EC2, EB, S3, RDS, DMS, SNS, Kafka, ECR, secretmanager etc.
- Primarily responsible for provisioning IaC on AWS as well as on-premise using terraform.
- Setting up application deployment jobs on cloud using Circle-CI and Jenkins.
- Developed continuous improvements and implemented solutions to existing infrastructure, tools and processes.
- Hands-on in cloud migrations from 1 cloud to other or from on-prem to cloud.
- Experience in using ansible and ansible tower for rpm deployments on linux servers through jenkins jobs.
- Have worked with Sumologic to gather application logs and NewRelic for application performance.
- Worked on cloud integrations with Slack and MS Teams.
- Have worked on cloud cost optimization to reduce billing costs and also in setting up disaster recovery and back-up options.
- Have worked on lambda functions to send reminders or notifications regarding outages/billing cycles/usages/start-stop DB's etc.
Devops Engineer
M1
03.2019 - 09.2021
- Ensuring timely and constant availability of DEV/Test environments on day to day basis to support application stakeholders
- Experience in migrating from monolithic application to SAAS platform by setting up Elastic Kubernetes cluster in AWS cloud.
- Worked on helm deployments for EKS cluster
- Experience with AWS resources like RDS, MSK, Lambda, EKS clusters, EC2, DynamoDB, IAM, S3 etc
- Experience in terraform for provisioning virtual servers on AWS or on-premise datacenter (Vsphere)
- Have worked with EFK for managing logging.
- Have rich experience in writing jenkins-groovy scripts to automate project deployment pipelines.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Have worked on prometheus and grafana to query, visualize, alert on and understand the metrics.
- Production deployments and on-call support.
Build and Environment Manager
CBSP
01.2017 - 12.2018
- Supporting Banking applications like Temenos, HID, Pitney Bowes, Global Payplus, Mulesoft and Insight
- Have exposure to Tomcat or jboss application server where most of our banking applications are deployed
- Have experience in Windows share, NFS structure implementation in coordination with network team
- Migration of environment from Microsoft Azure platform to AWS cloud
- Determining, building, monitoring and controlling each environment's software stack from bottom to top
- Ensuring the content of each environment is known in detail and effectively controlled to ensure the integrity of the build & pre-SIT testing process
- Rich experience in Unix and linux platforms with exposure to LDAP/AD roles
- Ensuring the efficient and effective promotion of developed software from DEV1 to DEV2 environments and from DEV2 to SIT1 environments
- Management of software repositories
- Ensuring the state and status of each DEV environment is reported accurately, clearly and completely
- Maintain known error database to track known environment constraints etc & mitigations.
- Conducted safety audits and inspections to identify workplace hazards and deficiencies.
- Investigated incidents, determining root causes and implementing corrective actions.
- Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
Configuration Manager
CMES (Automation Continous Build & Deploy)
05.2015 - 12.2016
- Manage Jenkins build and support it
- Creation of development and test instances, and deploying java applications to test environments
- Maintenance of code in Subversion with effective branching strategies
- Jenkins job automation activities and auto-deployments
- Automating manual build process
- Writing handy Perl scripts for customized, infrastructure dependent environment.
SCM Consultant
North Western Mutual -Application Build and Release
10.2010 - 04.2015
- Defining CM process and implementation
- Various trouble shooting activities in PVCS
- PVCS administration
- Build management implementation
- Mock restoration of PVCS databases from backup
- Training users in PVCS
- Automating manual build process
- Environment creation in Sybase, UDB
- Release management implementation
- Compilation of Java sources using ANT tool and packaging
- Writing handy Perl scripts for customized, infrastructure dependent environment
- Knowledge of Jenkins
- Handling IBM Message queue and broker.
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
BITS, PILANI
Pune04.2014
Skills
- Cloud Devops,
- CI/CD - Jenkins , CircleCI,
- IaC - terraform,
- Cloud migrations,
- SaaS, Docker, Kubernetes, Java application support,
- Ansible, Linux
- GIT, SVN, TFS, PVCS
- Nexus, ECR, Sonarqube
- Prometheus, grafana, EFK,
- Release management, Incident management, production support,
- Python, shell scripting
Accomplishments
- Taken initiatives to improve technical knowledge at project level & above by delivering knowledge transfer sessions to different teams.
- Significant contributions in tech forums - internal/external.
- Received star of the project award.
- Global Team excellence award for my entire team.
Work Location
Toronto
Declaration
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Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Senior Devops Engineer
Neptune Retail Solutions
10.2021 - Current
Devops Engineer
M1
03.2019 - 09.2021
Build and Environment Manager
CBSP
01.2017 - 12.2018
Configuration Manager
CMES (Automation Continous Build & Deploy)
05.2015 - 12.2016
SCM Consultant
North Western Mutual -Application Build and Release
10.2010 - 04.2015
Master of Science - Information Technology
BITS, PILANI
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