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ARUNA KUMAR SAMAL

Summary

Astute DevOps architecht versed in analyzing software and hardware to develop profitable and productive solutions. Monitors business performance and develops catered solutions to eliminate backlogs, performance issues and security threats. Possesses exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Forward-thinking Operations Specialist bringing 18 years of expertise in S/W and platform devlopment /deployment and maintenace for finace and retail sector businesses. Cultivates rapport with individuals to optimize project goals and output, resolve complex problems and deliver innovative improvement strategies. Proficient in DevOps technologies and business analysis

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work history

DEVOPS CONSULTANT

TCS
London
08.2021 - Current
  • WBA/Boots Pharmacy
  • Design and implement new functionality to existing infrastructure
  • Enhancing and upgrading existing AZ and AKS infrastructure
  • Enabling dev support and prod support to productionise new implementation
  • Discussing the loopholes in existing infrastructure with customers and providing solutions
  • Documentation of functional and technical details in confluence and do a knowledge transition with other teams
  • Discussing the new changes like Node / Java version upgrade in the build agent with scrum teams, so that they will estimate the Microservice library upgradation
  • Writing and guiding team to write terraform script to deploy azure resources
  • Implemented Istio Ingress and Apigee Egress in AKS cluster
  • Started looking into migrating from Apigee to Kong API gateway
  • Migration of CI/CD pipelines from one tenant(local) to other(global) tenant
  • Strategies and migration of repos from Bitbucket to AZ Repo

09.2020 - 08.2021
  • Client - LSE/Refinitiv
  • Involvement in project transition for Reliable Engineering
  • Conversation with all stakeholders for the challenges and create mitigation plan
  • Initiating and implementing new automation capabilities for large scale infra monitoring and issue fixing
  • Enabling the team with various tools for better monitoring and proactive solution
  • Initiative
  • Identify the gray areas and connect with stake holders with proposition, tool implementation and benefits
  • Train the team with the tools implemented in the project for any kind of knowledge gaps
  • Supporting team and business during any major incident
  • Enabling and motivating team with best practice of ITIL process and maintain the agreed
  • SLA

DELIVERY MANAGER

TCS
London
06.2019 - 08.2020
  • Client - Refinitiv
  • Deliver using best practices for enterprise architecture functions such as Security,
  • Performance, Development Process, and Application Governance
  • Identification and pro-active management of risk areas and commitment to seeing the issues through complete resolution
  • Drive the creation of application and technical design documents which leverage C++, Java, and Sybase 16.0
  • Migration of SEA(Service Enablement Administration) from on premises to Azure platform
  • Modernize Athena-GW, UCS, Prod man, Athena, OTS, Comms (T1 Platform applications)
  • Worked with various stake holders from dependent T1 applications (TSA, Wealth management, price server team, Beta entitlements, MXPDB team
  • Contribute to enterprise standards on application and integration development best practices, functional and technical solution architecture & design, environment management, and
  • Testing
  • Lead, advise, and mentor diverse teams in technical and functional delivery aspects at the enterprise and finance domain level, using influence and adaptive communication strategies
  • Determine non-functional characteristics of data: timeliness, access-to data/batch/online/existing service
  • Research and innovate continually recommend improvements to development techniques; approaches; data-related technologies and standards; governance resources and processes.

INFRA MIGRATION DISCOVERY LEAD

TCS
London
09.2018 - 06.2019
  • Involvement in project kick off call for a multi thousand server migration
  • Conversation with all business unit to understand criticality, feasibility, and adaptability of their applications with respect to migrating from physical infrastructure to virtual infra
  • Oversee multiple projects across all phases of Development
  • Collected and monitored workflow and make timeline adjustment as needed
  • Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to achieve project milestones
  • Develop status report and resource plan
  • Identify servers for migration, their dependency, establish network flow in new infrastructure to ensure no business downtime after migration
  • Make vital decisions and drive decision-making across projects
  • Produce the discovery report and new infra report to migration team for final application migration
  • Implement and maintain migration best practices and agreed RACI Model.

BUSINESS ANALYST

TCS
London
01.2018 - 08.2018
  • Understand the basic functionality of Seibel application and its peripheral connecting apps
  • Identify key members of all teams (up-stream, Seibel, and Down-stream)
  • Analyze and understand the workflow between applications
  • Prepare the flow diagrams and mark the data transformation points
  • Document the business logic used in each DF
  • Discuss with enterprise architect team on technical and functional aspect of each flow
  • Give feedback about the business impact and ease of complexity in business logic
  • Help the architect team to take decision on retiring Seibel and modernize the system by choosing Salesforce.

DC MIGRATION MANAGER

TCS
Bangalore
12.2016 - 12.2017
  • This project was carried on during OCP to HZL DC migration
  • Involved to migrate 12 T1 applications summed up to 100+ servers
  • Requirement Analysis and bandwidth sizing of New DC
  • Application Analysis estimation and requirement gathering
  • Team building, SOW and Workshop for project plan
  • Documentation and handshake with technical and business stake holders
  • Infra data collection and requirement push to infra team for new infra readiness
  • Coordination with Support and development team for application configuration
  • Worked with other T1 dependent applications stake holders to understand the impact
  • Technical implementation planning Document, and POND move
  • Actual Migration and Business Signoff.

L3 MANAGER AND DATA ANALYST

TCS
Bangalore
05.2015 - 12.2016
  • Service reporting to Business Partners and IT engagement managers, based on KPIs defined in the SLA (service level agreements)
  • Managing support teams and vendors
  • Administering change control procedure and processes
  • This includes the management of the change control board and oversight of the approved change requests delivering overall roll-out schedule of new services (release management)
  • Successfully Interpreted data to draw conclusions for managerial action and strategy
  • Used statistical techniques for hypothesis testing to validate data and interpretations
  • Presented data and conclusions to team for improving strategies and operations
  • Proposed solutions to business to improve system efficiencies and expense reduction
  • Strong interpersonal communication and relational skills, ability to interact effectively at executive level
  • Implement appropriate framework and processes (e.g., ITSM), using tools and follow Standard
  • Operating Procedures (SOPs) end-to-end
  • Ability to set and reset priorities based on knowledge of business partners technology roadmaps and key strategies
  • Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and understand business processes
  • Strong and proven ability to manage and deal with different cultures and nationalities
  • Demonstrated ability to manage large scale process change efforts.

Thomson Reuters
Bangalore
11.2005 - 04.2015
  • Joined as a C++, Unix developer and worked on multiple development projects on C++, Unix,
  • Sybase, Oracle, Java, glassfish server
  • Worked as a data analyst for application integration and data ingestion automation
  • Set up automated Reporting server which creates and distributes around 300+ monthly, daily, weekly, and bi-weekly automated reports via e-mail, FTP and SFTP
  • It was a big achievement to reduce 300+ service tickets per month
  • Used Autosys tool for Application job scheduling
  • Build a process for bi-weekly Database maintenance to retain performance of legacy applications
  • Set up automated Application monitoring
  • Build very good relationship with various technical partner from T1, Eikon, TDN and T1 infra team and gained knowledge on overall Thomson-one product
  • Transition projects inhouse from vendor and managed it by hiring new associates and ensure
  • BAU
  • Worked on ITIL process and ensure team adhere change management, Incident management and Problem management in multiple operations.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

UTKAL UNIVERSITY
INDIA
07.2000 - 05.2003

Skills


  • AZure CI/CD pipeline
  • Helm, Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Splunk, Kibana, Grafana, ELK, CosmosDB
  • AKS (K8s)
  • AZure DevOps Design and Development and Support
  • Azure Functions, ADF, ADLS implementation
  • Sybase 160
  • Enterprise Data Model
  • Oracle 10G,11, Sybase 16
  • Application Development
  • Unix-Shell Scripting
  • Application Automation
  • PL/SQL
  • Back office Automation
  • Java, C
  • ITIL ticket management
  • AWS
  • 24/7 Support management
  • SQLDBX
  • Puppet and Ansible
  • GIT Bitbucket, AZ Repo
  • Active MQ and kahaDB
  • Web-Logic, Tomcat IIS
  • AutoSys, Cron and windows Scheduler
  • Resource Planning
  • Scheduling
  • Technology Selection
  • Requirement Gathering
  • Confident Decision maker
  • Proficient Communicator
  • Collaborative Leader

Additional Information

  • Azure cloud services (PaaS and IaaS, Az Storage, Servicebus, Cosmos, AZ KeyVault, Application insights etc.. Backend automation, DevOps Consultant, Technical program manager, Project manager, Business analyst, 24/7 technical support manager, Reliable engineering IT Professional with 18+ years of experience in Application design, delivery, support, migration, and automation Before joining TCS, worked 10 years with Thomson Reuters for various applications used for Thomson-one(T1) product. Currently working with TCS(WBA->Boots) client) and during this 7 year, I have been involved in various infrastructure projects and programme (e.g., DC migration, Automation, application modernization ,SRE lead, DevOps architect). Good understanding of onsite-offshore model and possessed good knowledge on work plan, transition, distribution, delivery, team management and currently plays DevOps consultant role.

Languages

English
Fluent

Timeline

DEVOPS CONSULTANT

TCS
08.2021 - Current

09.2020 - 08.2021

DELIVERY MANAGER

TCS
06.2019 - 08.2020

INFRA MIGRATION DISCOVERY LEAD

TCS
09.2018 - 06.2019

BUSINESS ANALYST

TCS
01.2018 - 08.2018

DC MIGRATION MANAGER

TCS
12.2016 - 12.2017

L3 MANAGER AND DATA ANALYST

TCS
05.2015 - 12.2016

Thomson Reuters
11.2005 - 04.2015

Master of Science - Computer Science

UTKAL UNIVERSITY
07.2000 - 05.2003

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