Devops Consultant Operational Excellence

MANMOHAN BATRA

Tel: 403-***-****

Email: ********.*****@*****.***

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

Highly accomplished DevOps Consultant with over 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure across Azure and hybrid environments. Adept at leveraging automation, governance, and security best practices to optimize performance and reliability. Proven expertise in Azure IaaS/PaaS, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence. Seeking to contribute advanced technical knowledge to deliver innovative, resilient cloud solutions in a challenging and collaborative environment.

CORE SKILLS:

Fast Prototyping, Migration, Design and Deployment of large-scale applications on premise and in the Cloud.

Cloud – Azure, AWS, HPC Cloud, OCI

Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes/Openshift (Code Ready Containers)

IAC – Terraform CLI, ARM Templates, Biceps, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Ansible

CI/CD – Azure Devops, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy, ArgoCD, Helm

SRE – Splunk, AppDynamics, DataDog, NewRelic, ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor

Configuration Management – Puppet, Chef, Ansible

Application Security tools – SCA, SAST & DAST

IAM – SSO, SAML, OIDC & OAuth2

Encryption – SSL, TLS – SHA AES etc.

Scripting – Bash, Powershell, Python, Groovy

Load Balancer – F5 BigIP, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Front Door

CERTIFICATIONS & CLEARANCE:

Have valid "Level II (secret) Status" Clearance from PWGSC (Public Works Government Services Canada)

Certified Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate 2020

HashiCorp Terraform CHIP Certified 2021

HashiCorp Vault CHIP Certified 2021

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Information Technology from Annamalai University, India, 2017

Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Annamalai University, India, 2023

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Appstek Consulting Ltd April 2012 – To Date

Senior DevOps Consultant

Westfraser (www.westfraser.com) - Remote 12/2023 – August, 2024 – Lead Platform/Oracle consultant

As Lead Oracle Apps DBA supported multiple EBS R12.1 and R12.2 environments with 12c ASM databases running on EXADATA appliances. The environments are SSO enabled with SSOGEN, load balanced with F5 BigIP load balancer and have RAC and Non-RAC ASM databases. The architecture is three tier architecture with WEB/FORMS on one tier, CONCURRENT tier on second and database on third tier. Daily activities involve giving support to users, troubleshooting java and concurrent processing, weblogic administration, SSL/TLS cert management, patching, cloning etc.

Simplist (www.simplist.com) NY 06/2022 – 04/2023 – Lead DevOps Architect

Architected, automated and implemented new infrastructure using Terraform across multiple regions. Automated the build and deploy lifecycle of the Simplist financial .NET microservices (containerized) application using Github Actions on Azure Kubernetes clusters. Worked on automation of the ETL process of ingesting data from Azure to Snowflake using Azure Data factory for reporting and analysis. Implemented Datadog as SRE tool for monitoring, metrics and logging.

One Trust (www.onetrust.com) Bellevue, WA 09/2021 – 06/2022 – Lead DevOps Engineer

Architected, automated, and implemented new infrastructure using Terraform. Automated the build and deployment of Convercent’s Monolith .NET Application with MS SQL server as backend using Jenkins/Azure DevOps to support EU customers to the Germany region in Azure cloud.

Provided mentorship to junior devops engineers with IAC and CI/CD concepts and implementation.

DigitalOnUs (www.digitalonus.com) Ottawa 12/2020 –09/2021 – Lead DevOps Engineer

Worked on a Greenfields project involving architecting and implementing Hashicorp’s Vault (secrets management), Consul using Terraform cloud as part of the build and deploy lifecycle for First Citizens Bank in USA. Used Datadog as monitoring and reporting tool for various environments like DEV, TEST, PROD etc.

Fostered a collaborative environment with the client to ensure efficient project management, smooth communication, and delivery of deliverables on time and in budget.

Delgate (www.delgate.com), Vancouver 04/2020 – 09/2020 – Lead Azure Architect

Automated the build and deploy lifecycle using Jenkins as CI/CD tool for the ReactJS, React Native and MongoDB as backend e-commerce containerized application running in Docker Swarm in Azure Cloud. Used GlusterFS to provide resiliency and redundancy for the filesystem to store images and files.

Enhanced collaboration and communication between developers, business and operations by standardization of devops tools and processes.

Hitachi Vantara (www.hitachivantara.com), Ottawa (client: Statistics Canada) - 02/2020 – 03/2020 – Lead Azure Architect/DevOps consultant

Worked as part of a team of Cloud engineers on the Phase 1 of the project to research, assess and document the roadmap to migration, deploy and create new infrastructure in the Azure Gov Cloud for Statistics Canada.

Shaw Communications (www.shaw.ca), Calgary – 05/2018 – 05/2019 – Senior DevOps consultant

Implemented the build and deploy CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for deployment of the inhouse developed Java, python and .NET Applications for providing Internet, Phone, Cable TV solution to the end customers. This effectively halved the time taken to stand up the solution.

Automated the deployment of Rest API services to Oracle Enterprise System Bus (OSB) using Axway Policy Studio.

Used Ansible as the preferred method for automation and configuration management of the servers and applications.

Worked with the internal team to create policies around effective system environment triaging & troubleshooting. Used Splunk for monitoring and log aggregation.

Alberta Blue Cross (www.ab.bluecross.ca), Edmonton – 07/2016 – 05/2017 – Senior Automation/DevOps Consultant

Architected, Automated and Deployed applications and infrastructure services for various Java, python and .NET Insurance applications deployed to on premise datacenter.

Automated the creation of managed servers, forms, reports setup, user provisioning, cert creation service configurations required for supported Java, python and .NET business applications.

ERP Connexions (www.erpconnexions.com), Calgary – 02/2016 – 07/2016 – Infrastructure/DevOps Consultant

Planned, architected, configured, and implemented a 4 NODE Cloudera/Hadoop cluster as a Datawarehouse solution.

Planned, architected, configured, and implemented Oracle CCB 2.5 application for demo to clients and to train consultants.

IBM Canada (www.ibm.com), Calgary – Aug 2012 – Oct 2014 – Infrastructure/DevOps consultant

Designed, installed, configured, and supported a highly available infrastructure for a Portal application using Oracle 11g FMW, Oracle SOA 11g, Oracle OSB 11g.

Responsible for the build and deployment CI/CD pipeline of the java applications using Jenkins as the automation server.

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