Devops Engineer Cloud Infrastructure
Resume:
Suja Gandhiraj
AWS DevOps Engineer
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Professional Summary
AWS DevOps Engineer with 5 years of experience, specializing in cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps practices.
● Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
● Expertise in microservices-based applications, cloud migration, and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
● Proven track record in migrating on-premise systems to AWS, including pipeline migration, database management, and cloud infrastructure design.
● Skilled in automating operational tasks, optimizing cloud performance, and ensuring security compliance.
● Strong technical leadership and collaboration skills, with a focus on delivering innovative solutions and driving business growth.
Technical Skills
● Cloud Services: AWS EC2, ECS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, RDS, DMS, Cost Explorer
● CI/CD Tools:Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab
● Infrastructure as Code (IaC):Terraform, CloudFormation
● Configuration Management:Ansible
● Containerization & Orchestration:Docker, Kubernetes
● Scripting Languages:Python, Bash
● Version Control:Git, SVN, AWS CodeCommit
● Monitoring & Logging:CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Splunk, Instana
● Security & Compliance:
Security Scans:Nexus IQ, ZAP scan, ECR Enhanced Scanning
AWS Security Tools:AWS Shield, AWS WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Trusted advisor, Quick sight
● Chaos Engineering & Resilience Testing : AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)
● Incident Management: Incident Manager, Synthetic Canners
● Project Management:Rally, Agile (Scrum)
Professional Experience
AWS DevOps Engineer
CGI Federal, USA May 2022 – Present
Project: Developed and maintained a fee payment portal for the financial sector, catering to both internal and external applications
● Migration Expertise:
Migrated source code repositories from on-premise infrastructure to AWS CodeCommit
Successfully migrated pipelines from on-perm Jenkins to AWS CodePipeline
Conducted Oracle RDS to Aurora PostgreSQL migration, ensuring data integrity and zero downtime.
● Automation & Optimization:
Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications using AWS ECS, reducing deployment time by 80% and increasing uptime by 20%
Automated operational tasks using Python scripts, improving efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
Utilized CloudFormation scripts for infrastructure automation.
● Security & Compliance:
Integrated Nexus IQ scan for dependency vulnerability screening, and ZAP scans for vulnerability assessments and security checks
Implemented ECR enhanced scanning for container image security scan
Collaborated with cloud teams to improve the compliance using compliance dashboard, security hub, ensuring 100% compliance
● Chaos Engineering & Resilience Testing:
Utilized AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to perform HADR (High Availability and Disaster Recovery) testing for:
■ Region failure scenarios to ensure cross-region redundancy.
■ Availability Zone (AZ) failure to validate application resilience.
■ ECS task failure to test containerized application recovery.
● Cost Optimization:
Conducted budgeting and cost estimation for cloud infrastructure, ensuring cost-effective resource allocation.
Implemented Reserved Instances and Compute Savings Plan to reduce cloud costs by 25%
Automated the shutdown of lower environments ECS Tasks(dev, test) after business hours to minimize costs, resulting in significant savings
● Monitoring & Incident Management:
Monitored applications using the Splunk, Instana, and cloudwatch by implementing dashboards and alerts
Provided 24x7 on-call support using Incident Manager to ensure quick resolution of production issues.
Implemented synthetic canneries to proactively monitor application performance and detect anomalies.
● Scalability:
Implemented high available availability and disaster recovery plan with RTO of less than one hour and RPO of less than one minute
Designed an automated scaling solution for AWS applications, enabling the company to handle a 100% increase in traffic during peak periods without downtime.
DevOps/Cloud Engineer
Syntel, India Jan 2013 – Nov 2013
Project: Physician Performance Indicator (PPI) - insurance application
● Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Maven in a Linux environment.
● Provisioned AWS servers using CloudFormation
● Created monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch
● Managed Elastic Load Balancers (ELB)and Auto Scaling Groups to handle peak traffic.
● Provided ongoing support and administration for SVN DevOps/Build & Release Engineer
Syntel, India Feb 2012 – Dec 2012
Project: Physician Finder Portal (PFP) - Physician Search Application for Insurance Sector
● Developed builds using ANT and Maven, and managed CI tools for environment transitions.
● Participated in the release cycle across development, QA, and production environments.
● Set up builds using configuration management tools.
● Documented design, peer reviews, data mapping, and unit test cases. Software Engineer – .NET Developer
Syntel, India Dec 2011 – Feb 2012
Project:IVR Flow Creation and Testing
● Utilized C#.NET, Visio, and Interaction Composer (IC) for development
● Created grammar files and performed unit testing in IC
● Developed proof of concept (POC) for .NET diagnostics
● Documented analysis, design, and unit test cases. Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering Kalasalingam University, Tamil Nadu, India 2011
Certifications
● AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
● AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Key Achievements
● Reduced deployment time by 80%through CI/CD pipeline automation.
● Improved system uptime by 25% with enhanced monitoring and alerting systems.
● Handled a 100% increase in traffic during peak periods with automated scaling solutions.
● Reduced security incidents by 30% through collaboration on security measures.
● Conducted Nexus IQ, ZAP, and ECR scans for comprehensive security compliance
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