Tania Ray
The Hague
Summary
Over 12 years of experience as an ambitious professional with cloud proficiency and extensive Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer experience for customers across BFSI sector, with expertise in developing, solution, and Delivery & Operations.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
Work History
Sr. Cloud of & DevOps Engineer
Rabobank
07.2023 - Current
- Designed, created, and managed AWS EKS clusters leveraging Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to facilitate automated build, test, and deployment processes.
- Monitored and optimized the performance of EKS clusters, ensuring high availability and system reliability.
- Developed and maintained comprehensive documentation on cloud architecture, processes, and procedures.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance application scalability and infrastructure resilience.
- Provided mentorship and guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
- Analyzed cloud costs data, identified trends and variances, and provided and implemented accurate suggestions/reports for cost improvements to senior management directly contributing towards reduction of carbon footprint and sustainability for organization.
- Prepared and presented financial reports to senior management and external stakeholders.
Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer
HCL Technologies BV - Project Aegon
01.2019 - Current
- Project: Aegon NL Finance Domain: Insurance and Mortgage
- Solution designed and developed several end-to-end business solutions in AWS Cloud.
- Analyzed impact of new requirements and provided estimated time required for delivery of end business solution.
Directed software design and development to meet client needs for functionality and performance. - Created and developed end-to-end automated solutions in AWS using AWS python CDK for creating CloudFormation templates, hereby developing completely as IaaC.
- Main contributor in implementation of best practices for Security and Networking in AWS Cloud.
- Have worked intensively and have experience with almost all major services from AWS Cloud, Python and AWS Python CDK framework.
- Wrote code and supported architecture in high-throughput systems.
- Created Backup Strategy for Databases using AWS Backup Service and S3.
- Developed robust and serverless data platform to automate SII and IFRS17 reporting process.
- Automated key reporting processes to improve data quality of financial models.
- Main contributor of building Aegon's core data engine that integrates data from over 150 different source systems using AWS Python CDK framework.
- Creation of export hubs from data lake using lambdas, S3, tags and cross-account AWS permissions.
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
- Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
Cloud and DevOps Engineer
HCL Technologies BV - Project Knab Bank
11.2017 - 12.2018
- Project: Knab Bank Domain: Insurance and Mortgage Designed, Created and Deployed successor of original insurance platform in Knab's own new AWS accounts
- Responsible for end-to-end automation of CI/CD deployment of pipelines using Jenkins and Bitbucket
- Phased out original stack while retaining data according to security and compliancy regulations
- Created reusable infrastructure CloudFormation templates using Ansible and Terraform
- One of design principles for new stack was to go serverless.
- Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of cloud-based infrastructure solutions.
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
- Decreased overall AWS Cloud costs by 60%.
- Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
- Managed testing cycles and coordination of user acceptance testing for software and applications.
- Tuned systems to boost performance.
- Collaborated with team to analyze system solutions based on client requirements.
- Wrote code and developed tools and integrations to meet cross-platform user needs.
- Collaborated with team to determine application requirement specifications.
Senior Software Engineer
Xoriant Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Project: ZEE
11.2015 - 11.2017
- Project: Zee Entertainment Enterprises
- Spearheaded cloud adoption strategies at ZEE.
- Architected data lake initiative at ZEE to store and analyze data across traditional and non-traditional data sources.
- Managed small team of 8 vendor developers for implementation.
- Designed and implemented serverless ETL and reporting framework for social media listening.
- Adjusted design parameters to incorporate new features.
- Practiced and encouraged respectful and transparent communication in interactions.
Senior Software Engineer
Xoriant Solutions Pvt. Ltd- US Mortgage Insurance
11.2013 - 11.2015
- Project: Cloud Web Application Development and dashboard reporting for US Mortgage Insurance Company
- Designed the full technological stack for a highly reliable, scalable & fault tolerant cloud processing application with a distributed architecture
- Implemented a cutting-edge technology stack including S3, EC2, Cloud Formation, SWF, elasticsearch, Kibana, Kinesis
- Developed a near real time kinesis data stream from S3 for image processing of documents into computer readable formats
- Performed exploratory analysis on the data and created summary and drill down report in Kibana
- Enriched the user experience by implementing Artificial Intelligence, Distributed workflows and Bot framework
Software Engineer
Xoriant Solutions Pvt. Ltd
11.2010 - 11.2013
- TIBCO Used Puppet to install TIBCO products (TIBCO RV/TRA/FA/EMS) on 85 servers in much lesser time
- It saved time for installations and increased efficiency to achieve quicker deployments
- Created customized modules in Puppet like tibco-rv, tibco-tra, tibco-fa, tibco-ems
- Also used Puppet for configuration management of Tibco Products and management of Tibco Services
- Carried out cloud provisioning in AWS using Puppet
- Also have good hands-on experience for different scenarios using Puppet for automating several system administration tasks/deployment tasks/installation tasks/monitoring tasks and package deployments.
- Directed software design and development to meet client needs for functionality and performance.
Education
Bachelors - Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering
SIES School of Technology
03.2006 - 03.2010
Skills
Data Governance & Security: Collibra
Project Delivery Strategy: Agile, Kanban, SAFe
Cloud Computing Platform: AWS (Professional Level Certified)
Big Data Technologies: Spark, ELK
Programming/Scripting: Python, C, Shell
DevOps Technologies: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bamboo, Docker, Kubernetes
Database Technologies: MySQL, SQL Server
Data Integration Tools: SSIS
Certification
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Professional Credential ID- CNS8T3WBDEBE1S9
Timeline
Sr. Cloud of & DevOps Engineer
Rabobank
07.2023 - Current
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Professional Credential ID- CNS8T3WBDEBE1S9
12-2020
Amazon Web Services DevOps Engineer - Professional Credential ID- LKR3K721F2B41HSG
08-2020
Amazon Web Services Security Specialty Credential ID- 0CDXYBL1DEE1QXSQ
06-2019
Amazon Web Services SysOps Administrator - Associate Credential ID- M0K7CTL1BERQ16GP
04-2019
Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer
HCL Technologies BV - Project Aegon
01.2019 - Current
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Credential ID- PGKLKD6C2NBQ1GWE
01-2019
Cloud and DevOps Engineer
HCL Technologies BV - Project Knab Bank
11.2017 - 12.2018
AWS Certified Developer – Associate Credential ID- M6QPF5GCCNF1QN3S
05-2017
Puppet Professional 2016 Certification
03-2016
Senior Software Engineer
Xoriant Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Project: ZEE
11.2015 - 11.2017
Senior Software Engineer
Xoriant Solutions Pvt. Ltd- US Mortgage Insurance
11.2013 - 11.2015
Software Engineer
Xoriant Solutions Pvt. Ltd
11.2010 - 11.2013
Bachelors - Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering
SIES School of Technology
03.2006 - 03.2010
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