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RAMESH V

Product Owner Infra Automation
Eindhoven,NB

Summary

Seasoned Infrastructure Consultant with 12 years of proficiency at streamlining all scales of system architecture, from single terminals to networked servers.

Professional Summary:

  • Excellent platform knowledge with VMWare Virtualization, Linux, Automation and Open source software tools with around 10 years of experience includes roles as IaC Engineer Consultant, DevOps Engineer, and Linux Administrator.
  • Experience includes Solution architecture, design, implementation, integrations and operations.
  • Provisioning infrastructure (IaaS) using infrastructure as code (Terraform).
  • Consulting with engineering teams to help them leverage existing platform and tools on which to run their applications.
  • Creating pipelines and automation to deploy Dockerized applications onto Kubernetes clusters.
  • Developing, deploying, and maintaining tools built from the ground up in support of self-service, quality, security, and compliance initiatives. Strong ability to troubleshoot any issues generated while building, deploying and in production support.
  • Good Interpersonal Skills, team-working attitude, takes initiatives and very proactive in solving problems and providing best solutions.
  • Escalation Management: identify, manage, and lead escalations.
  • Willingness to work on flexible hours for production, backup and on-call support.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

IaC Engineer Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
02.2016 - 04.2021
  • Project team is responsible for providing administration for business critical Markets Business on daily basis
  • Admin team provides technical expertise and system architecture recommendations suitable for all Unix/Linux projects
  • The team offers advanced SA subject matter expertise to the Markets Business & support groups that include troubleshooting, performance analysis and sizing recommendations and problem resolution
  • Responsibilities:
  • Automated Installation & Configurations of Red Hat Virtual Machines
  • Experienced in Infrastructure as Code and using most of the CICD tooling Git, Jenkins, JFrog, Ansible, Packer, Terraform etc
  • Created multiple terraform modules to manage configurations, services and automate installation of webservers
  • Installed Docker, created Dockerfile to create containers and integrated Docker with Jenkins to do build on Docker containers and to achieve Continuous Delivery goal on high scalable environment
  • Experience with analysis of logs and performing RCA for various major/critical issues
  • Implemented and Enhanced Scripts which are developed in Shell, PowerShell, Perl and Python
  • Experience with JIRA for change management and Agile/SCRUM tool
  • Having good Experience in Configuration Management tools like Ansible to maintain desired state of a system
  • Implemented and maintained services running on Linux and server platforms deployed in AWS EC2
  • Worked with TCP/IP network configuration
  • Responsible for maintaining security (SOX and server hardening) on all UNIX system for regulatory compliance.

Sr. Linux/Unix Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
04.2013 - 01.2016
  • Deployment and maintenance of Linux systems and app software in multiple clusters and standalone across four data centers
  • Install and de-install servers
  • Datacenter smart maintenance
  • Handled SW & HW upgrades on servers
  • Kickstart and Jumpstart installations
  • Designed and implemented Red Hat cluster for production
  • Run-of-business activities included mail, License management, OS upgrades, and security fix deployment
  • Manage security access, user logins, and permissions
  • Handled NIS and RHDS migrations
  • Involved in Life cycle management of all the infrastructure
  • Effective Incident, change and problem management
  • Rotated 24/7 on-call support

Linux/Unix Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
07.2011 - 03.2013
  • Hired as full-time Systems Admin
  • Provide Solaris/Linux administration, and performing Security related controls and checks
  • Managing highly available (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions for employer and clients
  • Responsibilities:
  • Categorize all incidents and alerts and preparing knowledge articles following ITIL best procedure
  • Responsibilities Supported Linux servers in production/QA/ Development Environment
  • Installation of databases like Oracle 10g and MySQL
  • Security implementation by using ACL's & special file permissions
  • Creating File system and configure to available network through NFS
  • Monitoring system logs and root's email for important messages such as errors and warnings or hardware failure errors
  • Managing Disk File Systems, Server Performance, Users Creation and Granting file access Permissions
  • Creation of groups, adding User ID to a group as a primary or secondary group, removing User ID from a group
  • Mirroring of root disk in Solaris and Linux
  • Trouble shooting User's login & home directory related issues
  • Managing (adding/removing) disks and partitions (LVM)
  • Monitoring of All UNIX/Linux flavor like Solaris and Linux
  • Samba Server configuration with Samba Clients
  • Worked on diverse set of storage concepts
  • Automated report generation using Perl
  • Worked on Fusion IO cards, which are installed on Database hosts
  • Volume manager administration using SVM and VxVM
  • Scheduled various regular, periodic, future and queue tasks by using crontab
  • Worked on VMware and vSphere 4.0
  • Shell and Perl scripts to automate daily repetitive activities.

Linux/Unix Administrator

Sellcraft Softech Pvt Ltd
11.2010 - 06.2011
  • Hired as contract UNIX Systems Admin to administer Solaris/Linux systems, and performing Security related controls and checks
  • Monitoring high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions for our customer
  • Responsibilities:
  • Installation of systems using Jumpstart for Sun Servers and Kickstart for RHEL on HP HW
  • Configure, support and perform routine maintenance of hardware and software for Linux servers
  • Involved in Hardware and software evaluation, recommendation and vendor management
  • Regularly applying patches for RedHat Linux, Sun Solaris systems
  • Plan, document, review and maintain system administration guidelines and policies
  • 24x7 support for the UNIX servers
  • Rotating on call pager responsibilities for Production environment
  • Processes administration and management like monitoring, start/stop/kill various processes/sub processes.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Andhra University
India
05.2003 - 03.2006

Master of Science - Computer Science

Osmania University
India
06.2006 - 07.2009

Skills

Operating Systems: RHEL, Solaris and Windows

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Timeline

IaC Engineer Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
02.2016 - 04.2021

Sr. Linux/Unix Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
04.2013 - 01.2016

Linux/Unix Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
07.2011 - 03.2013

Linux/Unix Administrator

Sellcraft Softech Pvt Ltd
11.2010 - 06.2011

Master of Science - Computer Science

Osmania University
06.2006 - 07.2009

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Andhra University
05.2003 - 03.2006
RAMESH VProduct Owner Infra Automation