Vidya Sankaran
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Cambridge
Summary
Experienced IT professional with 13+ years in DevOps and cloud technologies, leading cross-functional teams, designing scalable infrastructure, automating deployments, and optimizing cloud environments. Proficient in AWS, Azure, CI/CD, configuration management, and containerization, committed to delivering high-quality solutions through innovation and automation.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
DevOps & Platform Specialist
European Bioinformatics Institute
Cambridge
03.2021 - Current
- Automation where ever possible approach.
- Designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure and applications( AWS & GCP)
- Lead infrastructure and application migration to on-prem and cloud environment, achieving improved performance and scalability while reducing operational overhead.
- Designing and provisioning infrastructure/platform (Kubernetes and VMs) for hosting web applications.
- Extensive and hands-on experience in managing Kubernetes platform on-prem.
- Set up and manage end-to-end automated configuration management using Puppet, Ansible and terraform.
- Skilled in writing scripts in Python and bash to automate (CICD)and facilitate infrastructure deployments.
- Managing Pulse secure Web traffic manager and enabling it to efficiently route traffic using robust rules.
- Managing and deploying Linux-based operating systems, RedHat and CentOS.
- Administration and patching/upgrade of JIRA, Confluence, and GitLab.
- Implementing monitoring solutions using Nagios, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana and Dynatrace etc.
- Acted as Scrum Master in Agile environment, facilitating Scrum practice including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Platform Engineer (Cloud/DevOps Consultant)
GGS Information Services
Chennai
07.2020 - 03.2021
- Provisioning and maintaining infra in cloud Platforms AWS and Azure.
- Collaborate with development and test teams to help automate complex build and deployment pipelines(CI-CD).
- Actively engaged in R&D/POC initiatives to explore emerging technologies and evaluate their potential for driving business innovation and process improvements.
- Containerization of microservice based applications using docker. •Deploying web and app layers in ECS/EKS using cloud formation template and Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Setting up network components including Route 53, DNS record, NAT and IG configurations
- Enabling Blue/Green Deployments of Applications and Infrastructure to promote changes with near zero-downtime and limited impact to end users.
- Automation and resource monitoring using Lambda and Boto3.
- Hands on experience in configuring monitoring dashboards like ELK stack and Grafana.
- Involved in Resiliency Planning and Chaos Engineering to reduce user impact of potential service issues or disruptions.
- Knowledge on agile software development methodologies (e.g. SCRUM / Agile).
Senior Consultant(Cloud/DevOPs Engineer)
Ciber Sites Pvt LtdChennai
08.2015 - 07.2020
- Provisioning and maintaining infra in cloud Platforms AWS and Azure
- Collaborate with development and test teams to help automate complex build and deployment pipelines(CI-CD)
- Actively engaged in R&D/POC initiatives to explore emerging technologies and evaluate their potential for driving business innovation and process improvements
- Containerization of microservice based applications using docker
- Deploying web and app layers in ECS/EKS using cloud formation template and Azure DevOps pipelines
- Setting up network components including Route 53, DNS record, NAT and IG configurations.
- Enabling Blue/Green Deployments of Applications and Infrastructure to promote changes with near zero-downtime and limited impact to end users
- Automation and resource monitoring using Lambda and Boto3
- Hands on experience in configuring monitoring dashboards like ELK stack and Grafana
- Involved in Resiliency Planning and Chaos Engineering to reduce user impact of potential service issues or disruptions
- Knowledge on agile software development methodologies (e.g
- SCRUM / Agile).
IT Analyst(Middleware/Linux Admin)
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
10.2010 - 07.2015
- Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server in Windows/Linux OS.
- Troubleshooting and resolving issues related to WebSphere middleware, including performance bottlenecks, application errors, and system failures.
- Implementing security measures and ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
- Managing and maintaining WebSphere infrastructure, including managing user access, SSL certificates, and system backups.
- Monitoring and optimizing performance of WebSphere middleware, identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions.
- Participating in capacity planning and scalability assessments to ensure WebSphere environment can support current and future application demands.
- Keeping up to date with latest WebSphere product releases, patches, and security updates, and evaluating their applicability to environment.
- Creating and maintaining documentation, including standard operating procedures, system configurations, and troubleshooting guides.
- Identifying problems and fix it proactively using Problem Management.
- Administration of Linux/Unix OS.
Education
Bachelor in Technology - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Cochin University Of Science And Technology
Kochi, Kerala, India 05.2005 - 05.2009
Skills
DevOps - Azure DevOPs, Jenkins, GitLab
Projects
- Successfully completed one-month hands-on workshop on Machine learning, gaining practical experience in solving real-world problems. During the workshop, I worked on various machine learning algorithms and techniques to develop effective solutions. This included data preprocessing, feature engineering, model selection, model evaluation, hyper-parameter tuning, and model deployment. This enhanced my theoretical understanding of machine learning concepts as well as equipped me with the practical skills required to analyze data, build models, and make data-driven predictions.
- Successfully completed the DR project for critical S3 bucket used in Data pipeline platforms which includes consultation with development team and identification of critical bucket, Cost calculation considering the RPO and RTO factors and enabling the back up.
- Undertaken the project of monitoring dashboard and analytics dashboard automation work which involves CI/CD pipeline creation, Infrastructure provisioning using CFT templates, Data analysis/EDA of metrics to find the correlation and anomaly detection using python pandas framework, Visualization of metrics using tableau/power BI, Create model based on the historic data using Sagemaker.
- Successfully completed Data Quality validation for Dealer data pipeline. Quality of data in snowflake is analyzed using test scripts/queries and accuracy is calculated. Creating bug if the accuracy is not above the expected threshold percent and get it examined by data engineering team
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect
References
David Ocana
Project Manager( Web-App platform Applications)
EMBL-EBI
docana@ebi.ac.uk
Ravi Kumar Mahankali
DevOps/DevSecOps specialist
EMBL-EBI
ravikm@ebi.ac.uk
Timeline
DevOps & Platform Specialist
European Bioinformatics Institute
03.2021 - Current
Platform Engineer (Cloud/DevOps Consultant)
GGS Information Services
07.2020 - 03.2021
Senior Consultant(Cloud/DevOPs Engineer)
Ciber Sites Pvt LtdChennai
08.2015 - 07.2020
IT Analyst(Middleware/Linux Admin)
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2010 - 07.2015
Bachelor in Technology - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Cochin University Of Science And Technology
05.2005 - 05.2009
AWS Certified Solution Architect
ITIL V3 Foundation
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