Ranjan Rajendran
Parsippany, New Jersey, USA
******.*********@*****.*** 201-***-****
Professional Summary
Result orientated DevOps SME coming from a strong design and development background with experience in transforming legacy mainframe and 3 tier on perm applications to public and private cloud.
·Greenfield DevOps infrastructure implementation
·DevOps process enhancement to manage AWS infrastructure as a code.
·Involved in solution architecture definition and development for leading investment banks in North America and Asia pacific.
·Interact with client architecture council to present and get sign-off of technical solutions.
·Involved in technical team formation.
·Core Member of DevOps Foundational team at TCH for RTP product for 4 yrs since inception till date. Created on perm DevOps environment, established the RTP build and deployment process, operationalizing and operating the environment with team.
·8 yrs. experience in CI/CD, DevOps and AWS cloud platform.
·AWS ecosystem administration and cost optimization
·13+ years of experience in developing Java/J2EE applications and over 10 years in the BFSI (Banking Finance Securities Insurance) domain with Java/J2EE.
·Work experience at different global locations – Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Virginia and India.
·Attended SAFe 5/6 DevOps Practitioner Training
·Certified Scrum Master
·AWS certification cloud practitioner
Technical Skills
Public Cloud: AWS, Marathon, Mesos, ELK, Kafka, Docker, Microservice, Cloud formation Template, Consul, S3
Private Cloud: Open Shift
Infrastructure as Code: Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet.
Continuous integration: Hudson, Jenkins, Udeploy, Artifactory, Fortify
Testing: Cucumber, Apache Jmeter, Post Man.
Build: Maven, Ant
Version control: Git, Gitlab
Frameworks: J2EE, Spring boot, Spring Integration, Spring MVC
Languages: Java, JavaScript, Action script
Web:HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JSON, XML, Adobe Flex
IDE: Eclipse, Rational Application Developer, Adobe Flex builder
Database: Oracle 11g, DB2, MySQL
Architecture tools: Architexa, Rational Software Architect, ERWIN
Experience:
Kenvue J&J, Summit, NJ Feb 2025 – Till Date
DevOps Lead
Build Devops pipeline for Simple archival services (SDAS) using Jenkins, CDK, Docker, BuildA for a Kubernetes based CI and CD platform.
Build python based back-end REST based API.
Design role-based access control for SDAS applications.
Evlance, remote, Texas Sep 2024 – Jan 2025
DevOps Lead
Enhanced the ansible playbook for post Infra configuration.
Run Jenkins pipelines for configuring the AWS infra in a prod and non-prod environment using the ansible playbook.
The Clearing House, New York, NY June 2020 – Aug 2024
DevOps Lead
Implemented a Devops environment with GitHub Enterprise edition, cloudbees Jenkins Enterprise edition, JFrog artifactory Enterprise edition and SonarQube.
Build and deploy RTP applications.
Enhance AWS based build pipeline using Terraform.
Ownership of installation, configuration and maintenance of GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory and SonarQube
Face InfoSec audit and keep the platform compliant to enterprise security standards
Emblem Health, New York NY March 2019 – May 2020
DevOps Lead
Implemented a devops environment with Gitlab Enterprise edition, Jenkins community edition and JFrog artifactory open-source edition.
Defined DevOps onboarding process for various technology teams
Ownership of installation, configuration and maintenance of Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory
Truprovider reverse feed manual and automated testing based on continuous integration and continuous deployment using best practices of CI/CD devops process.
Setup automatic build and deployment of artifacts using Jenkins pipelines
UPS, Parsippany, NJ Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
DevOps Engineer
Setup CI/CD pipeline in Open shift, TFS -GIT with promotion gates.
Implement TDD based features implementation. Cucumber was used for ATDD
Micro services: - Spring boot-based services implementation.
DB: Database modelling to match JSON based domain objects
SP Global-Ratings, New York, NY Feb 2018 – Aug 2018
DevOps Engineer
Enhancement to CI/CD pipeline to enable AWS environment build out by QA / DEV team.
Start and stop instance.
Deploy AMIs with App versions from base.
Cost Optimization:
Right size instance type based on CPU and memory usage of Apps.
Setup process to review instance type usage across prod and non-prod environments and arrive at RI buy data points.
Analyse monthly bills for scope to reduce Waste and implement.
Governance:
Configure alerts. Notifications to the awsadmins DL for event review
IAM User - Create, Update, Delete
IAM role - Create, Update, Delete
Security Group - Create, Update, Delete
Access Keys - Create, Update, Delete
Change in MFA token for a given user.
Adding public S3 bucket
Subscription of new service
Wyndam, Parsippany, NJ Jun 2017 – Jan 2018
Remove build dependencies between Application layers (UI-SOA-SCA) to enable build modules to deploy independently in CI/CD process.
Design and implement blue green deployment process for CD.
Build Orchestration setup in Jenkins and Udeploy using python.
Capital One, Richmond, VA Jun 2015 – Jun 2016
AWS Cloud Transformation SME
Credit card recoveries media extract application is moved from an IBM based tech stack (IBM CMOD, FileNet, WebSphere) to cloud-based tech stack (Amazon web services, Marathon, Mesos, Docker, ELK, Apache Kafka, Micro services, S3)
Cloud Formation, Terraform -Customized CFT and Terraform to provision the infrastructure comprising of ELB, Mesos, Marathon, Docker, ELK, MongoDB, and Zookeeper in dev and QA environment. Involved in the creation of infrastructure diagram and getting it approved by the review council.
cloud architecture and DevOps Experience-Participated in the conceptualization and design of application architecture in accordance with the cloud-based enterprise architecture. Participated in the process modelling for DevOps activities for post-prod support model by evil genius team.
AWS - Performed POCs to formulate the steps for EC2 instance and docker creation. Conceptualized and crated the chef scripts based on the POCs to create application specific customization. Enhances a utility called Remote Drive to would be use across enterprise to interact with S3 for persisting the artifacts. Created the code based to perform individual, Group and aws instance-based authentication to interact with AWS S3.
9+ years’ experience as a Java Software Engineer in developing Java/J2EE applications in the BFSI (Banking Finance Securities Insurance) domain with Java/J2EE at the following clients:
CTS, India May 2014 – May 2015
UBS, Singapore, Hong Kong Oct 2013 – Apr 2014
Capital One, India Mar 2013 – Oct 2013
JPMC, India July 2012 – Mar 2013
Medco, New Jersey, USA Jan 2012 – Jun 2012
Citi Private Bank, New York, USA May 2009 – Nov 2011
ICAP, New Jersey, USA Oct 2007 - Apr 2009
Bank of New York Mellon - New York, USA Jan 2007 - Sep 2007
Depository Trust (DTCC), New York, NY Apr 2006 - Dec 2006
EDUCATION
1.Master’s in computer application, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India- 2001
2.Bachelor’s in physics, Madras University, India -1997