Saran Raghunadhan
Lead DevOps Engineer
London,ENG
Summary
DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Lead DevOps Engineer/Architect
KPMG
London, United Kingdom
01.2023 - Current
- Domain: Insurance
- Cloud adoption program primarily focuses on setting up foundational services for the client to facilitate application modernization and migration to cloud
- Automated core and application landing zones creation using approved tools
- Created Azure resources by following the security standards defined by the organization using Terraform
- Designed Azure Platforms and created Logical Architecture Components - Proof of concepts, providing suitable architecture designs of the Azure environment and resources
- Conducted workshops with architecture team to finalize the designs based on approved guidelines
- Developed reusable terraform modules and automated unit tests for resource creation
- Deployed Azure landing zones using combination of open source and custom modules
- RBAC - Design custom roles
- Established governance policies and best security practices, contributing to overall improvement in delivery quality
- Deployment of Azure Kubernetes service (AKS) and containerized applications
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
- Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as PowerShell, boosting team productivity levels.
- Improved system security by developing and enforcing strict security protocols and guidelines.
- Integrated Pipelines with OPA
- Optimized resource usage by implementing and managing infrastructure as code, leading to cost efficiencies.
Lead Azure DevOps and Security Engineer
SSE
London, England
04.2022 - 01.2023
- Domain: Utilities (Electricity)
- Data platform is a central repository of data for querying within SSE for use by other systems and analytics purpose
- Designed and created pipelines in Azure DevOps
- Created self-hosted agents using container instances
- Contributed to business continuity planning efforts by assessing potential risks to critical systems and implementing backup strategies that ensured minimal downtime during disaster recovery scenarios.
- Led a team of security analysts to monitor and analyze potential risks, ensuring timely threat mitigation and incident response.
Azure Platform Engineer
Infosys Limited
London, England
03.2016 - 04.2022
- Domain: Energy (Oil and Gas)
- The project involves designing and development and adoption Microsoft Azure Services to all end users within the organization to have a centralized cloud platform which will offer cloud services to be consumed by individual applications and projects
- Developed and Spoke Model - Architect, design, and development of region-specific Spokes with logical connection to the Hubs
- Deployed server security/emergency patches at enterprise level using tools like Update management and SCCM
- Created custom golden images using Azure image builder and shared gallery
- Configured CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
- Documented of frequent issues and resolution steps thereby reducing turnaround time
- Created high availability virtual machines for critical workloads
- Coordinated across teams to resolve and escalate tickets
SharePoint Administrator
Infosys Limited
Mysore, India
11.2011 - 02.2016
- Domain: Energy (Oil and Gas)
- The project involves maintenance of large and complex SharePoint 2010/2013 farms in Dev, test, staging and production environments
- Scope of work includes monitoring, patching of SharePoint services, servers, databases, and deployment of solutions
- Installed and configured of SharePoint 2010/2013 server farms
- Provided technical support on activities such as creating sites, Web Applications
- Integrated third-party applications with SharePoint, expanding capabilities while maintaining a cohesive user experience.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
Bharath University
Chennai 10.2006 - 04.2010
Skills
Microsoft Azure
Azure DevOps
Terraform
Terraform Cloud
ARM templates
BICEP
GitHub
SCOM
SCCM
SharePoint 2010
Certification
AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate
Timeline
Lead DevOps Engineer/Architect
KPMG
01.2023 - Current
Lead Azure DevOps and Security Engineer
SSE
04.2022 - 01.2023
Azure Platform Engineer
Infosys Limited
03.2016 - 04.2022
SharePoint Administrator
Infosys Limited
11.2011 - 02.2016
Bachelor of Technology -
Bharath University
10.2006 - 04.2010