Infrastructure Automation Life Science
Resume:
Prakash Chandrasekaran
***********@*******.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandrasekaran-prakash-76842828 Professional Summary:
I have been working in the IT industry for over 15 years, specializing in Infrastructure Automation, DevOps, and Cloud Services. With extensive experience in Design, Implementation, Build and Deployment Automation, and Source Code Management in Cloud Migration, DevOps, Configuration Management, Infrastructure Automation, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines and CI/CD pipelines for large-scale distributed systems in healthcare and life science.
As an automation lead and coach, I have managed several projects for North American (NA) healthcare and life science companies (CVS, Kaiser, Amgen, Elevancehealth, Merck, AbbVie, Medidata, Gilead, BioMarin, and BMS). APAC customers include Coca-Cola Bottlers SIMA and BHP Australia Mining Company.
Experience in leading Devops team for CI/CD implementation.
Having a strong background in IT infrastructure management and deployment. Proficient in infrastructure as code
(IaC) methodologies, leveraging tools such as Terraform and Ansible to automate and streamline infrastructure provisioning.
Experience on Implementing Terraform as Infrastructure as a Code for Azure and AWS Public Cloud solutions for various use cases.
Primary duties include Build and Deployment of applications onto different environments like Dev, QA, UAT, Load test, Staging and Production. Analyse and resolve compilation and deployment errors related to code development, branching, merging, and building of source code using Cloudbees Jenkins.
DataStage, SSIS ETL, and Database Objects were migrated to AWS cloud using the CICD pipeline.
Automated DML & DDL script execution using Jenkins, Ansible and PowerShell.
Experience in Amazon AWS Cloud Administration which includes services like EC2, EKS, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, and Lambda. Highly skilled in conceptualizing, designing, and delivering cloud-native applications on various frameworks, which are scalable, high-performing, and flexible for customers and internal project stakeholders.
Expertise in Azure, implementing new Azure Cloud platform and its services: Azure VMs, Azure VMSS, Storage accounts, Azure SQL Servers/Databases, ADF, Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Azure Logic apps, Virtual Network, Subnets, App Gateway, Auto Scaling and IAM.
Installed, Configured, Managed Monitoring Tools such as Prometheus, Nagios, Splunk, Grafana for Application Performance Monitoring and System service monitoring.
Experience with Ansible Playbook development involves writing, testing, and maintaining playbooks for automation tasks. This includes defining tasks, specifying hosts, managing variables, and utilizing Ansible modules for various operations like package installation, configuration management, and service management.
Created custom Ansible roles and modules to extend functionality and meet specific automation requirements.
Experience with Ansible Tower involves setting up, configuring, and administering Tower instances.
Provisioned and deployed the AWS resources using Terraform, Cloud formation, and Azure ARM template.
Experience in DevOps tools like GIT, JENKINS, ANSIBLE, CHEF, and DOCKER & Kubernetes
Expertise Knowledge in version control systems such as GitHub, GitLab
Configured Continuous Integration (CI) tools Jenkins from scratch and managed Jenkins Plugins, created slave nodes, created build and deployment jobs.
Successful achievements in creating High-level Architectural Design plans and executing Project Planning with understanding of Public Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure, and GCP); Jenkins; GIT/GitHub
Excellent communication, organizational, team leadership and client-facing skills to interface and collaborate with clients to devise strategies that augment business goals
Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
Experienced with vulnerability assessment using tools like OWASP ZAP, Rapidscan and fixing vulnerabilities.
Worked on Azure, and AWS cost optimization part.
Experience in Migrating the On-Premises environment to Cloud environment.
Experience in Azure PowerShell (Windows) and Azure CLI (Linux) for Azure
Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using scripting languages such as Shell scripting
(Bash), Python.
Extensively worked on Jenkins, Gitlab and Azure DevOps by installing, configuring and maintaining for continuous integration (CI) and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments.
Closely worked with Developers and Analysts to address project requirements. Technical Skills:
Scripting languages: Shell/Bash, Perl, PHP, Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, and YAML. Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, and Windows.
Cloud Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and Azure DEVOPS Configuration Management Ansible, Redhat Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, SaltStack, Puppet and Chef Databases: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora and DynamoDB, MongoDB CICD tools Cloudbees Jenkins, Azure DEVOPS, Circle CI, Github Actions, and Bamboo Version Control Tools Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket and GIT Bug Tracking JIRA, Confluence, and Trello
Observability
and Monitoring tools
Splunk, Nagios, Datadog, Grafana, ELK, EFK, Prometheus, and Cloudwatch Build Release Tools Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, and SonarQube Tools: GitHub, Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana, Nginx, Apache, Terraform and Ansible. Containers Docker and Kubernetes
Application/ Web Servers Apache, Tomcat, Nginx
Professional Experience:
Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)
DEVOPS Lead
April 2024 – January 2025
Client: Anthem - Carelon Healthcare/MBM
Responsibilities:
Lead the DEVOPS team in the NA Region for Cloud Migration project and drove them to completion with high standards.
My primary responsibility as an Infra DEV Expert is to deploy/configure the necessary infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and continuously improve and develop automated CI/CD pipeline processes, in line with client's vision and perspective. I do this while working closely with clients, developers, business units, operations, and support colleagues.
Led Scrum calls, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives, using JIRA.
Created and managed JIRA stories, tasks, and sub-tasks, ensuring clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
Sub-tasks were created in JIRA and assigned to the client SME for reviewing the installation steps for software applications and uploading the binary files to AWS S3 bucket.
Assigned story points based on effort estimation during sprint planning for effective workload distribution.
Prioritized and moved backlog items into the active sprint based on business needs and team capacity.
Collaborated with stakeholders to refine backlog items, ensuring alignment with project goals and technical feasibility.
Monitored sprint velocity and burn-down charts in JIRA to track team performance and identify bottlenecks.
Conducted sprint retrospectives to discuss team successes and areas for improvement, implementing feedback for future sprints.
Integrated JIRA with Confluence for documentation and reporting, improving project transparency.
Automated workflows and JIRA board configurations to optimize sprint execution and enhance team productivity.
Creation of custom AMI from the golden image as per the application using Packer and Ansible.
Creation of CICD pipelines for creation of AWS services using Cloud bees Jenkins and Terraform.
Creation of CICD pipelines for creation of Custom AMI using bitbucket, Cloud bees Jenkins, Packer and Ansible
CICD Pipelines of creation of automation ETL deployments in Windows Servers using Bitbucket, Cloud bees Jenkins, Jfrog artifacts, ansible and PowerShell.
Writing PowerShell scripts for automating the tasks in Windows.
Manual installation and documentation of Installation and configuration of BI application like QlikView, Qlik Sense, and Business Objects.
Automated the Parameterization consolidation to json format specific to different environment using PowerShell.
Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using scripting languages such as Shell, PowerShell, Python.
Worked on ways to automate and improve development & release processes.
Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
Provide advisory and reactive support confined to design issues and challenges faced by customers while referring to the validated deployment documents.
Provide ramp-up activities, trainings, knowledge sharing sessions, technical coaching and mentoring for new hires.
Contribute to improve the overall support experience for support professionals and peers across globe by updating the internal knowledge base.
Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)
Automation Lead - Cloud Migration
Coca-Cola, SIMA (Singapore)
April 2023 – March 2024
Coordinates communication between teams and stakeholders.
Plans and oversees the cloud migration project.
Manages timelines, budgets, and risks.
Ensures successful delivery of migration milestones.
Selects appropriate Azure services and migration tools and ensures security, scalability, and compliance best practices.
Worked as an automation coach to evaluate the current Infrastructure and identify areas of automation streamlining and optimization in Wintel, Database and Service desk Towers.
Implemented CI/CD pipelines for continuous deployment.
Implemented identity and access management (IAM) using Azure AD.
Handling the infrastructure management by using DevOps tools to ensure high availability development environment.
Setting up CI/CD pipelines involving Git, Jenkins, Ansible and Docker for complete automation from commit to deployment.
Integrated Jenkins with GitHub private repositories builds automation tools (Maven) and Artifact repository for pushing successful build code.
Developed a thorough understanding of Azure DevOps solutions using Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, and Azure Library.
Managing & Monitoring Daily events for Azure Technical Service.
Performed all necessary day-to-day Subversion/GitLab support for different projects and Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/GIT Repositories, views, and the access control strategies.
Assisted in Designing high availability environment for Application servers and database servers on EC2 by using ELB and Auto-scaling.
Used Terraform to create and manage Azure infrastructure. Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)
BHP Australia
Tech Auto Lead (DEVOPS)
March 2021–April 2023
Responsible for managing Technical Automation team (30+ team members) includes Ansible development, SRE team, Splunk Engineering and Observability team.
Responsible to get the requirement properly from the requirement gathering call (kick-off) in the sprint refinement call and identify the automation feasibility and prepare the scope document and get it reviewed and sign off from the demand requestor.
Handled the Ansible Migration from On Prem environment to Cloud.
Received Appreciation from customer for the automation performed on Migration of data in AWS S3 bucket. This automation resolved the issue in a day which would take months for manual work.
Created and managed JIRA stories, tasks, and sub-tasks, ensuring clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
Conducted sprint retrospectives to discuss team successes and areas for improvement, implementing feedback for future sprints.
Integrated JIRA with Confluence for documentation and reporting, improving project transparency.
Maintained and updated JIRA boards (Scrum and Kanban) for Ansible Engineering team and SRE teams, ensuring visibility and progress tracking.
Collaborated with stakeholders and product owner to refine backlog items, ensuring alignment with project goals and technical feasibility.
Monitored sprint velocity and burn-down charts in JIRA to track team performance and identify bottlenecks.
Responsible for implementation, design and support of cloud-based solutions across multiple cloud platforms.
Generated Shell scripts for build activities in QA, Staging and production environment.
Creation of Ansible playbooks and create roles as part of CI/CD pipelines.
To ensure reliability and uptime, the SRE team typically focuses on system performance, logs, metrics, and incidents, as well as upgrading and maintaining tools such as Ansible and Redhat Automation, Datadog, and Cribl for observability and monitoring.
Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with Maven to schedule the builds and automated the deployment on the application servers.
Worked with users for the CI/CD pipelines quota in Gitlab for the shared runner by setting up the private runner.
Implemented the CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab pipelines code, GitHub Workflows.
Implemented GitHub automated self-hosted runners’ solution using Kubernetes cluster on AWS and Azure.
Create templates / Schedule in Ansible towers to complete the development. Work with ServiceNow team and integrate with Gitlab pipelines for integration testing before promoting the code to production.
Experience in set up and managing various projects over Azure cloud environments.
Developing and managing Yaml build and deploy templates in Azure to streamline Azure pipelines, CICD process in Azure.
Build terraform code to create VM on Azure platforms.
Worked in Bitbucket to store code on Azure Repo.
Provisioning subscriptions and blueprints as per BHP standard template.
Deployed the azure services using terraform through CICD Pipelines.
Troubleshoot the multiple azure services issues, GitLab runner and terraform workspace issues.
Integrated AWS security with Splunk. Have also integrated AWS cloud watch and cloud trail with Splunk. Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)
North America PS Automation Vertical Lead
Client: (PepsiCo, Nvidia, CVS, Kaiser, Amgen, Medidata, Gilead, BioMarin, and BMS) November 2016–Feb 2021
Responsible for scope and solution design for Automation implementation as part of RFP and service improvement.
Responsible for overall North America Health care automation projects and communication to Stakeholders.
Responsible for Automation solution implementation such as Ansible CLI, Ansible Tower, AWX, and Salt stack
Expertise in Cognizant Automation Center (CAC), Ansible, Ayehu, UiPath, and other ITPA/RPA tools.
Profound grasp of Public Cloud Services including AWS, Azure, and GCP; also well-versed with Jenkins and GIT/GitHub
Design, develop and support of deployment of automation using Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation Platform
(AAP) and Automation Orchestrator tools like Ayehu and Cognizant Automation Center (CAC).
Monitoring and troubleshooting automated systems to ensure their smooth operations.
Worked on Complex integrations based on REST API providing backend Automation.
Developed use cases based on workflow in Python, PowerShell and Salt stack and deliver the solution in agreed timeline leveraging industry standard automation tools.
Automated SAP tasks for Amgen using UiPath FOR and BOR bots.
Reduced service desk tasks using self-service portal using UiPath and Power Automate Desktop (PAD) workflows.
Developed Power Automate PAD workflows to reduce service desk activities.
Designed end-to-end automation for claim processing, integrating UiPath with APIs and databases to accelerate approvals and minimize errors.
Responsible for creating Proof-of-concepts (POC) on new tools and integrate it to Automation Platforms.
Managed resources by grading them on their skill set, task allocation and monitoring, quarterly and yearly resource assessment, and suggesting areas of refinement.
Provided Patching solutions for automating patching for more than 5000+ Linux servers involving different Flavors of RHEL.
Created Ansible roles for taking snapshots on all cloud servers (AWS/Azure)
Created Ansible role to perform rollback of snapshots on all the cloud providers (AWS/Azure)
Created Ansible roles to integrate with Red hat satellite to pull details of servers and update values to the server.
Worked as an automation coach to evaluate the current Infrastructure and identify areas of automation streamlining and optimization.
Guided younger team members, conducted evaluations to pinpoint skill deficiencies, recommended training sessions, and laid out exhaustive project trajectories, plans, and detailed structures
Create and maintain highly scalable and fault tolerant multi-tier Azure environments spanning across multiple availability zones.
Incident resolution through advanced reasoning and critical thinking.
Manually deployed resources on Azure and AWS as requested by the stakeholders.
Worked with PowerShell script to automate activities that are performed manually by the team.
Extensively worked on deployments with ARM templates, host variables, group variables etc.
Worked on Resource Groups, Storage Accounts, SQL Servers, SQL Databases, Virtual Machines, Disks, Virtual Networks, Subnets, App service plans, App services, Function apps and Auto Scaling in Azure.
Performed code review for my team, as an additional responsibility as per the standard design and coding standards.
Troubleshooting and fixing environmental errors, pipeline errors etc. IPsoft Global Services
Client: (Comcast, Morgan Stanley, NTT, and Dimension Data) Senior Automation Engineer - CSI
May 2013 – Nov 2016
Automate various Server administration processes in Unix, Windows, Storage, Network and Networking using Workflow automations, scripts and internal tools.
Leading a team of 3 members and managing the workload.
Developed more than 75 workflow automations in IPAutomata Orchestrator.
Provision and implement custom scripts using JavaScript, PowerShell, Perl and PHP
Have regular customer meetings to gather requirements, report the project status daily.
Design and implement new automata and problem remediation using proprietary tool – IPAutomata.
Peer-Review the automations created by others.
Set standards for new automation and processes and apply best practices.
Interact with internal Server administration teams to understand the processes and identify the areas of automation.
Requirements gathering from clients and overall project planning.
Suggested our partners on the best automation approach to take.
Address queries of internal teams related to programming and automation.
Provide training on our internal tools to new clients, partners and new joiners.
Being part of the technical interview panel.
Third ware Technology solutions
Client: (Ford Technology Services)
Senior Technical Specialist – PERL CGI/Oracle
Mar 2012 – April 2013
Migrated the CONFORD, PULSE, VEEWEB, SHC, MATS and DETOOLS applications from current Dev / QA / Prod environment to new DEV / QA / Prod environment and complete the unit testing.
All the B2B and Ford Inhouse applications are migrated from the current Dev / QA / Prod environment to the new Dev / QA / Prod environment.
An application has various stages until migration. Each stage is maintained in the SharePoint site.
Analyzed existing Perl scripts, identified dependencies, and planned migration strategy.
Developed and tested optimized solutions to ensure a seamless transition with minimal downtime after consulting with application owners.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance system performance and maintainability.
The major activity for the migration specialist is to do the application unit testing and fixing the code. Once all the process is complete, finally, we request the application team to do the application decommission from the current server.
Reed Elsevier India
Development Engineer
January 2009 – February 2012
Agile Scrum is used as a software development methodology. It values people and communication rather than tools and processes. Development occurs in short development windows called sprints, which occur on time.
Maintaining Scrum Stories – Agile methodology.
The most important items are delivered first. Agile is adaptable and has low risk and high value to the business.
The HiFi and STS Database is a content and defect tracking system that allows the EPD book team to consistently and accurately track specific defects about books, where the books are in the system, and it assigns tasks to users who have to handle those books.
Voice of the Customer (VOC) - This project is to agree a design for the KPI dashboard to appear on the home page of the web-based VOC report. As the KPIs reported in the VOC report are intrinsically linked with the Operational Scorecard it would seem sensible to use the definitions currently used for the Operational Scorecard in VOC.
Ebookgen tool- Created an in-house tool using Perl and Python for converting XML and HTML books to Epub. The
.epub output can be loaded into devices such as Kindle, iPad and Android devices. Newgen Systems, India
Programmer – R&D Department
June 2006 – December 2009
Design, coding and Maintenance for IT helpdesk Ticketing system and Auto Email system.
Request Tracker is written in Perl and runs on the Apache and lighttpd web servers using mod_perl or FastCGI with data stored in either MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle or SQLite.
The Request Tracker (IT helpdesk Ticketing system) is a production email tracking system where all the emails from different clients end up in one centralized place and the users’ needs a web browser to access it. Database server runs on server 1– which is a primary database server. Request tracker uses MySQL 5.0,30 my.cnf
(configuration for MySQL) is tuned for large file transfers. Secondary database server runs on server 2, which has same configuration as primary server. This application was developed in MOD-PERL and FASTCGI
The replication is an exact snapshot of the master to slave db. If the MySQL replication fails, a script sends an alert to email ids. Also, the server 1 starts beeping continuously till the replication is fixed.
Involved in designing, development, maintenance and unit testing.
Automated test scripts development and maintenance.
Visited the USA CCH office to understand client tools and business processes, ensuring seamless knowledge transition to the offshore team.
Facilitated knowledge transfer by training the offshore team on newly acquired insights and best practices.
Improved offshore team efficiency by streamlining workflows based on on-site learnings.
Prepared weekly project status report and present to the client.
Act as the point of contact to address the tool related queries from R&D team.
Developed the Auto email tracking system. The auto email tracking system is used to upload the files to ftp via an operating system and send auto email to client with the help of database to download purpose.
Closely interact with client and users (testers).
Identify new areas of automation and come up with new proposals. Education:
Master of Computer Application (MCA) from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India. Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com) from DB JAIN College, Chennai Madras University, India Certifications:
HCTA0-003 Certified Terraform Associate
AZ-400 - Microsoft Azure DevOps Expert
AZ-104 - Microsoft Azure Administrator
Awards:
In 2007, “Best Dependable” awarded by Newgen.
“FTSI Excellence award winner” from a Ford Motor company client in 2012.
Received Top Trainer Award in 2014 for internal and external partner training in IPsoft 2014.
Received Best Team Award in 2019 at Cognizant Infrastructure Services COE Townhall for completing Nvidia Network Salt Stack project.
Received 2 Times Above and Beyond Award in Cognizant.
Contact this candidate