Gokul Elangovan *****.***@*****.***
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Professional Summary
Network infra Architect and Cloud Engineer with over 12 plus years of professional IT experience in building complex and cost-effective Industry Solutions with respect to cloud and data networking.
Total experience in Application Development and Cloud Infrastructure Services (Iaas, PaaS) with strong knowledge on Infrastructure deployment/migration approaches on cloud.
Good exposure in cloud and data center migration, transforming large-scale legacy and monolithic enterprise applications to Digital platforms, which fueled network effects.
Hands on experience on serverless architecture.
Worked on migrating PeopleSoft application from OCI to AWS.
Worked as the single point of contact for driving the project towards completion.
Migrated on premise wireless infrastructure from Motorola to Cisco for 1160 retail stores in US.
Performed packet level analysis in the F5 load balancer for troubleshooting enterprise application issues.
In-depth expertise in the implementation, analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN network systems.
Good knowledge in team management, building, motivating, innovation, project risk and revenue management.
Relevant Skills
Cloud - AWS Solution & Services
VPC, EC2, ECS, Fargate,S3, Cloudformation, Route 53, Cloud watch, IAM, RDS, Elastic Cache, Workspaces, VPN connections, Certificate manager, Lambda, EMR, Redshift.
API Gateway Platforms
AWS API Gateway,
Cloud Provisioning & Orchestration Tools
Terraform
Devops Tools(CI, CD)
Splunk
Network Devices
Cisco Routers and Switches, Nexus Platform, Cisco WLC, Cisco ASA
Load Balancer
F5 LTM, GTM
Network Tools
HPNA, EMC Ionix, Solarwinds
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
CCNA – Routing and Switching
CCNP - ROUTE Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE)
CCNP- SWITCH Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks (SWITCH)
DESIGNATION
COMPANY
DURATION
Infra Architect
Cognizant Technology Solutions
May – 2019 – till date
Infra Technology Specialists
Cognizant Technology Solutions
April 2015 – May 2019
Tech Lead
Verizon Data Services
Nov 2014 – March 2015
IT – Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 2007 – oct 2014
Employment History
AWS - Cloud and Network Experience
Roles & Responsibilities:
Setup and Managing Windows servers on Amazon Using EC2,EBS,ELB, SSL, Security Groups, RDS and IAM.
Managing VPC, subnets, make connection between different zones, ACL.
Managing CDN on amazon cloud front to improve the performance.
Built S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
Deployed ECS fargate for server less compute engine requirement.
Worked with database team to migrate on premise database to AWS.
Configuring EBS backed EC2 instances and designing backup scenario in case of EC2 failure.
Integrating A-record and C-name with public domain names using Route 53.
Provisioned resources on AWS during lockdown to continue development activity from cloud
Provided solution to Covanta for migrating PeopleSoft application from OCI To AWS cloud.
Hosting static website on S3 bucket.
Assigning certificate to the public hosted website for secure communication using AWS certificate manager.
Providing redundancy for application servers using ELB in AWS.
Responsible for keeping all technical activities in line with ITIL process agreed by the client for Incident management, problem management and change management using Service Now tool.
Responsible for maintaining security compliance standards agreed by the client and technically SPOC for all audit related meetings.
Co-ordinate all technical project related activities with project management team, designs team and present the weekly and monthly progress to the onsite team.
Maintaining Technical documents in centralized SharePoint repository.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Holds end-to-end responsibility for Network support in LAN, WAN, Wireless and security environment.
Coordinating with various technology groups during global outages and troubleshooting in conference call.
Coordinating with internal and external service providers and vendors to resolve problems using the facilities provided by them as per contract.
Plan and simulate disaster recovery process for network infrastructure/ project and document the procedures to be followed to recover from the failure condition.
Coordinating with clients for new network device connectivity and troubleshooting. This includes remodel team and third party contractors.
Knowledge gained on L3 Switching, Cisco Wireless, Tandberg Video infrastructures.
Implementation of New target facilities as per the Client requirements, which includes configuring switches, and allocating IP Addresses.
Troubleshooting issues pertaining to target project and giving solution for the customers. Participating conference call with clients to resolve network related issues.
All the tasks accounted by Incidents, Work orders, Change Requests and Infrastructure Work Requests.
Always ensured the Internal and External process is being followed without any violation for all the implementation. All the details like Incident and Change Request number, Implementation date and the configuration details are documented for future reference/audit purposes.