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Shibu Jacob

Shibu Jacob

Hemel Hempstead,Hertfordshire

Summary

A talented, delivery-focused technical authority with 18+ years of experience in I.T. projects. Worked on different roles in development projects, production support, infrastructure/operations and devops projects inclusive of analysis, design and implementation. Excellent understanding and extensive experience in various cloud/devops tools and techniques. I'm a proven leader capable of design conceptualization, proficient in communicating technical and non-technical information across the business.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work history

Lead Cloud/Devops Engineer at Lloyds Bank

Tata Consultancy Services
London
04.2021 - Current
  • Migrated Bank's large number of APIs from ICP (IBM Cloud Platform) to GCP
  • Extensively worked on GCP managed services (eg: Cloudsql)and integrated with external components like servish-mesh (Istio)

Project contributions to the team

  • I have become part of Istio Implementation team (setup Istio Control plane & data plane for different workstream
  • Managed Docker, Kubernetes clusters, created deployments pipelines by Jenkins and Spinnaker
  • Managed GCP workload via Kubernetes /Istio/IAM
  • Managed team of 8 members by holding technical lead position.
  • Organised and managed workload through task management system, ensuring > 95% on-time delivery of projects.
  • Executed projects using Scrum /Agile /Kanban methodologies.

SRE at Apple
08.2019 - 04.2021
  • Doing production deployment rollouts on hybrid platforms for the POS team for the last 2 years
  • Extensively worked on A.W.S services and on-premised platforms
  • Project contributions to the team
  • I have started production deployment rollouts for the P.O.S
  • U.K
  • Team 2 years ago
  • Individual contribution to implement a new feature in Java/Worden project
  • Written Ansible playbooks, terraform modules
  • Extensively troubleshooting the production issues
  • Managed team of four members.

Senior devops engineer/lead

ChromeRiver Technologies
05.2017 - 07.2019


  • Worked on GCP
  • Project contributions:
  • Kubernetes
  • Become part of a design workshop for the Kubernetes miles to go CI/CD projects
  • I have implemented the helm chart
  • I have implemented Prometheus monitoring for the Kubernetes cluster
  • Ansible
  • Written playbooks for different services
  • Terraform
  • Written Terraform modules to build up Infrastructure (IaaC)
  • Written Terraform modules to implement E.L.K
  • Stack
  • Managed team of four members in Kubernetes projects.

Technical Architect

H.C.L. Technologies
09.2014 - 12.2016


  • Designed and implemented various custom made MyCloud services
  • (HCL reselling product)
  • Tailored service orchestration using VRealize Orchestrator for different customers
  • Assisted the pre-sales team for building the customer relationship in DevOps projects
  • Managed a team of six members in offshore and onsite to deliver the projects on time.

Individual Contributor / Consultant

Infosys
03.2014 - 08.2014
  • Done release automation for a customer using the C.A
  • Release automation tool
  • Done CI setup using Jenkins master/slave to achieve CI in deployment process.

Senior Build engineer

British Telecom
11.2010 - 01.2014
  • Managed B.T
  • Communicated status updates to affected parties when issues arose.
  • Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
  • Tradespace application
  • Automated deployments across B.T
  • Tradespace application using Java, Ant, Maven, Hudson technologies

Java J2EE Technical Specialist

New Age Consultants
05.2009 - 10.2010
  • I was part of development team for managing a module for on-line chauffeur services.

Module Lead

MindTree Ltd
11.2005 - 02.2009
  • Involved in java programming projects with various projects.
  • Defined and updated internal policies for secure, cohesive software.
  • Refined testing policies, procedures and scripts.
  • Outlined quality assurance objectives and priorities to guide department activities.

Java Developer

Live Helper Ltd
06.2003 - 10.2005
  • Worked as a part of development team to manage a live helper product called a NMA web-based interface.
  • Kept accurate documentation for implemented designs and produced code.
  • Wrote and deployed clean, quality Java code in fast-paced startup environment.

Education

A Master's Degree - Computer Applications

M.C.A - undefined

Madurai Kamaraj University

Skills

  • GCP,AWS and Vmware
  • Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Istio, Terraform, Packer, and Vagrant
  • Unix/Linux distributions and Windows
  • Bash, Python, Java
  • Oracle, Mysql
  • Hubble,Newrelic,Sensu,Grafana, Dynatrace & Prometheus
  • Splunk and ELK (Elastic Search, Logtash, Kibana)
  • Ant, Maven, Hudson, Bamboo, Jenkins,spinnaker
  • Git, GitHub, SVN
  • Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Database management and maintenance
  • Software development
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Software migration

Additional Information

  • Personal Statement , I am holding U.K. resident permit and working in the U.K. for 15+ years.

Languages

English
Native

Timeline

Lead Cloud/Devops Engineer at Lloyds Bank

Tata Consultancy Services
04.2021 - Current

SRE at Apple
08.2019 - 04.2021

Senior devops engineer/lead

ChromeRiver Technologies
05.2017 - 07.2019

Technical Architect

H.C.L. Technologies
09.2014 - 12.2016

Individual Contributor / Consultant

Infosys
03.2014 - 08.2014

Senior Build engineer

British Telecom
11.2010 - 01.2014

Java J2EE Technical Specialist

New Age Consultants
05.2009 - 10.2010

Module Lead

MindTree Ltd
11.2005 - 02.2009

Java Developer

Live Helper Ltd
06.2003 - 10.2005

A Master's Degree - Computer Applications

M.C.A - undefined

Madurai Kamaraj University
Shibu Jacob