Overview
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Malarvizhi Govindhan

Malarvizhi Govindhan

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work history

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

CBTS
Remote
03.2024 - 10.2029
  • Understanding the present environment, process, and client requirements.
  • Experience in migration Iam users to SSO.
  • Developing and maintaining custom Kubernetes controllers and operators to automate common tasks and workflows.
  • Experience in creating, configuring, and maintaining infrastructure on AWS Cloud services, including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), EC2, RDS, S3, Route 53, SNS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and IAM.
  • Set up and maintained highly available Kafka clusters, ensuring optimal performance and fault tolerance by configuring brokers, topics, partitions, and replication factors.
  • Developed and maintained Helm charts for deploying and managing Kubernetes applications, streamlining the deployment process.
  • Experience in migrating servers and databases from data centers to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure.
  • Proficient in creating various dashboards, metrics, alarms, and notifications for servers using AWS CloudWatch.
  • Experienced in creating complex IAM policies, roles, and user management for delegated access within AWS.
  • Hands-on experience in setting up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 buckets, and configuring instance backups to S3 buckets to ensure fault tolerance and high availability.
  • Utilized various services in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), such as Cloud Run, Cloud Build, and Artifact Registry, to deploy microservices.
  • Configured New Relic APM for Cloud Run services to monitor application performance and optimize latency.
  • Integrated New Relic Logs by forwarding Cloud Run logs using Fluentd/FireLens for centralized log management.
  • Set up custom alerts and dashboards in New Relic to track application health and key performance metrics in real time.
  • Deployed Datadog agents for collecting metrics and logs from Cloud Run instances via Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver).
  • Configured custom metrics and tags in Datadog for detailed monitoring of Cloud Run services.
  • Established real-time dashboards and alerting in Datadog for error rates, latencies, and CPU/memory utilization of Cloud Run containers.
  • Deployed .NET APIs to Cloud Run using Cloud Build, with triggers set up to automate the building and pushing of Docker images.
  • Deployed containers to a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster using Helm charts.
  • Configured and optimized resource requests and limits for containers to ensure efficient utilization of cluster resources.
  • Experienced in managing Kubernetes clusters on cloud platforms (AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE), including scaling, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
  • Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving Git, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Docker, SonarQube, and JFrog Artifactory for complete automation.
  • Integrated Prometheus and Grafana with the Kubernetes cluster to monitor metrics and created multiple Grafana dashboards for visualization.
  • Experienced in creating pipelines and multibranch pipelines for our services in development, staging, and pre-production environments using integrated tools like Jenkins.
  • Developed a CI/CD pipeline for the deployment of all microservices.
  • Configured virtual machines using Ansible and created numerous playbooks and roles.
  • Used Python, particularly the Boto3 module, for Lambda automation.
  • Managed cloud environments and deployed applications across various cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, and GCP.
  • Created Docker files for both Java and .NET applications.
  • Developed multiple Terraform modules to create AWS resources.
  • Deployed and configured Azure resources such as Virtual Machines (VMs), Virtual Networks (VNets), Storage Accounts, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
  • Implemented Azure security best practices, including role-based access control (RBAC), network security groups (NSGs), and encryption.
  • Configured and managed Azure networking components like Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Load Balancers, and ExpressRoute.
  • Provided technical support for Azure-related issues, including infrastructure failures, network issues, and service disruptions.

DevOps Engineer

Innova Solutions
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
05.2022 - 12.2023

Project1: FOXCONN

Project 2 : Change Health Care


Roles :

  • Managed and orchestrated containerized applications using Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and scalability across multiple environments.
  • Have configured the web application firewall with application load balancer.
  • Experience in working with Jenkins pipeline with terraform integration.
  • Experience in migration IAM users to SSO.
  • Experience in creating CloudFront origin distribution for s3 buckets hosting static website.
  • Setting up CICD pipelines for newly created repos in Gitlab as per the client requirement.
  • Provided technical guidance and support to internal stakeholders on AWS WAF-related issues.
  • Involved in production on-call support and production deployments.
  • Automate provisioning and repetitive tasks using Terraform and Python, Docker container, Service Orchestration.
  • .Experience in implementing AWS lambda to run servers without managing them and to trigger run code by S3 and SNS.
  • Created shell scripts to automate manual tasks in production, including user account management, log analysis, password generation, software installation, and CPU usage tracking.
  • Monitored application performance and infrastructure health, implementing automated alerts for potential issues.




Cloud engineer

HTC Global Service
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
02.2020 - 06.2021

Project Name: State Farm Insurance

Roles:

  • Understanding current environment, processes, and client requirements.
  • Helped developers with version control system tasks such as branching, merging, and cherry-pick changes. Worked on SCM tools like Git, Git Hub.
  • Hands on experience on JIRA for creating bug tickets, workflows, pulling reports from dashboard
  • Implemented the setup for master slave architecture to improve the performance of Jenkins
  • Configured Lifecycle Management for the files in the EFS
  • Coordinated with clients to set up new servers according to their specifications.
  • Deployed microservices in Kubernetes clusters using Jenkins.
  • Configured EKS clusters using Terraform scripts.
  • Created deployment files for microservices.
  • Created and configured Jenkins jobs.
  • Experienced in creating Jenkins declarative pipelines.
  • Troubleshot issues with Kubernetes clusters and applications running on them.
  • Developed and maintained custom Kubernetes controllers and operators to automate common tasks and workflows.
  • Possess strong communication and collaboration skills, enabling effective teamwork.
  • Experienced with incident management tools like ServiceNow.
  • Monitored migration progress, identified risks, and implemented mitigation strategies to resolve issues and minimize project delays.
  • Led successful migration of on-premises project management systems to Jira Cloud, ensuring seamless transition and minimal disruption to business operations.
  • Served as primary point of contact for technical support, troubleshooting, and ongoing maintenance of Jira Cloud environments post-migration.
  • Designed, built, and maintained Kubernetes clusters and related infrastructure.

AWS Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
01.2017 - 02.2020

Project Name: British Telecom(OpenReach)
Roles:

  • Managed network security using Load balancer, Auto-scaling, security groups and NACL’s.
  • Used Terraform Cloud to create AWS resources across various environments and leveraged Terraform workspaces for multi-environment deployments.
  • Experienced in creating complex caching and routing policies with content delivery network (CDN) CloudFront to improve the page speed and TTFB values.
  • Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for the instances based on the requirements for backup and clone instances.
  • Created Buckets in AWS and stored files. Enabled Versioning and security for files stored.
  • Troubleshooting the access related issues and Network related issues using the service now ticketing tool within the client SLA
  • Developed multiple Terraform modules for reusable infrastructure components.
  • Created and configured Git branching policies and gained experience in setting up branch protection rules in GitHub.
  • Worked with GitHub Actions for automating workflows and CI/CD processes.
  • Created SSL certificates using the OpenSSL tool, integrated them with load balancers, and created Route 53 record sets with routing policies.

Education

B.Tech - Information Technology

Anna University
Chennai
01.2016

Skills

  • Continuous Integration/Deployment: Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps , Cloud Build
  • Artifact Management : Jfrog , Nexus
  • Cloud: AWS, GCP, AZURE
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Cloudformation
  • Configuration Management & Automation: Ansible
  • Serverless: Lambda Function , Fargate , Azure Function, CloudRun
  • Containerization Tool: Docker
  • Orchestration Tool: Kubernetes , EKS , AKS , ECS , CloudRun
  • Scripting: Bash , Python , PowerShell, Java
  • Source Code Management (SCM): Git, Bitbucket , GitHub
  • Build Tools: Maven, MS Build , Ant
  • Security Tools: Checkmarx , SonarQube
  • Web Servers: Nginx, Apache
  • Application Servers: Tomcat , IIS
  • Load Balancers: ALB , NLB
  • Databases: RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • Logging: CloudTrail, ELK
  • Ticketing Tool: Atlassian JIRA , Service Now
  • Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows
  • Monitoring Tools: Prometheus, Newrelic, Datadog
  • ETL: AWS GLUE
  • Streaming Service: Apache Kafka

Accomplishments

  • Amazon Web Services Solution Architect Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Terraform Associate Certification (003)


Languages

English
Fluent

Timeline

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

CBTS
03.2024 - 10.2029

DevOps Engineer

Innova Solutions
05.2022 - 12.2023

Cloud engineer

HTC Global Service
02.2020 - 06.2021

AWS Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2017 - 02.2020

B.Tech - Information Technology

Anna University
Malarvizhi Govindhan