Meiyappan (Mei) Chidambaram
Mambourin
Summary
Inquisitive and quick-learning DevOps Engineer with 5 year’s practical experience seeking new challenges and opportunities to leverage my skill set. Proficient with architecting/automating, optimizing mission critical deployments, configuration management tools, and in developing CI/CD pipelines.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Thryv Australia
2020.08 - Current
- Developed and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines that contained Bash shell scripts, version control, plugin management and build automation tools to automate infrastructure provisioning right from developer code check-in to Dev/Production deployment
- Migrated Legacy monolithic applications from on-premises to AWS cloud by setting up CI/CD pipelines on AWS code pipeline using AWS code build & deploy
- Implemented in setting up Jenkins Master/Slaves architecture using containers as a CI/CD tool and troubleshoot any CI/CD pipeline issues in Jenkins
- Automated Infrastructure provisioning and application deployment on AWS cloud using AWS Cloudformation and AWS CDK (Typescript)
- Built the Docker images using a Dockerfiles which can be used to automate all developer tasks and orchestrated the docker containers using AWS ECS Fargate
- Worked on AWS Systems Manager to automate daily operational tasks and patching the servers
- Implemented AWS Organization to centrally manage all AWS accounts including
- Implemented security best practices in AWS including MFA, Access key rotation, KMS encryption, AWS WAF, AWS Shield, AWS inspector, AWS image scanning and S3 polices
- Worked on AWS config to create rules to monitor AWS services and remediate them accordingly
- Perform Shell/Bash/Python scripting to automate tasks, system post builds and repetitive tasks
- Reduced costs by $12000 each month from upgrading the volume type and $2000 each month by decommissioning the unused servers & volumes
- Reduced cost by $2700 each week by implementing AWS instance scheduler in nonproduction accounts for the organization
- Implemented AWS Backup as a centralized backup for all AWS services in 40+ accounts
- Created Centralized AMI through AWS EC2 Image Builder and used in all accounts
- Configured NewRelic, SumoLogic and AWS CloudWatch for monitoring and logging for all the applications and AWS resources
- The notifications are sent to Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Cloud Engineer
Hertz Australia
2018.07 - 2020.08
- Experience in working with the development team in deploying applications on AWS Services
- Proficient in writing CloudFormation and Terraform Templates to build various AWS services
- Developed Python scripts using boto3 library and implemented functionalities in AWS Lambda to trigger various AWS resources such as S3, SNS, SQS, API Gateway and others
- Experienced in creating and maintain REST API using both AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda
- Experienced in Setting up databases in AWS RDS for data team
- Created Kubernetes Clusters and worked on creating many pods, replication controllers, replica sets, services, deployments, labels, health checks and ingress by writing Yaml files
- Worked on Configuration Management Tool Ansible and Created Ansible playbooks to automatically install packages, to change the configuration of remotely configured machines.
System Engineer/administrator
Neptune Managed Services
2016.10 - 2018.06
- Experienced on configuring and installing Linux/windows server on AWS cloud
- Experienced on Creating roles, groups, and policies on AWS IAM
- Day to day operational support and maintenance for RedHat, ubuntu and windows servers
- PROJECTS:
- Hertz Car Rental Website: This is a java based microservice application which is deployed on AWS cloud
- I was responsible for Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, creating docker images and orchestrating the docker containers using Kubernetes
- URL: https://www.hertz.com.au/
- Whereis.com Website: This is java-based application
- I have configured CI/CD pipeline through Jenkins
- Orchestrated the docker containers in AWS ECS Fargate
- I have configured SumoLogic and NewRelic for monitoring and logging
- URL: https://www.whereis.com/
Education
Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Solution Architect Professional Certification. Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Database Speciality Certification. Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Security Speciality Certification. Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Solution Architect Associate Certification. Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) – SysOps Associate Certification. Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) – DevOps Professional Certification. Completed Cisco Certified Network Associate - Routing & Switching. Completed Certified Kubernetes Administrator Certification. Completed Terraform Certified Associate Certification. Completed Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator. Completed SumoLogic Certification. -
Master of Telecommunication and Networking - undefined
La Trobe University
Bachelor of Electronics and Communications - undefined
Anna University
Skills
- TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Programming/Scripting Language - Python, TypeScript, Shell/ Bash Scripting.
- Databases - Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB.
- SDLC / Project Management- Agile Methodologies, Waterfall, JIRA.
- CI/CD Tools- Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Maven, Gradle.
- Version Control- GitHub, AWS Code Commit, BitBucket, Azure DevOps
- Logging & Monitoring Tools: AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, SumoLogic, NewRelic.
- Operating System/IDE - Linux, Unix, Windows, Intellij, Visual Studio Code.
Certification
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Solution Architect Professional.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Database Speciality.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Security Speciality.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Solution Architect Associate.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – SysOps Associate Certification.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – DevOps Professional.
Cisco Certified Network Associate - Routing & Switching.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
Terraform Certified Associate.
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator.
SumoLogic Fundamentals.
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Thryv Australia
2020.08 - Current
Cloud Engineer
Hertz Australia
2018.07 - 2020.08
System Engineer/administrator
Neptune Managed Services
2016.10 - 2018.06
Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Solution Architect Professional Certification. Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Database Speciality Certification. Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Security Speciality Certification. Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Solution Architect Associate Certification. Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) – SysOps Associate Certification. Completed Amazon Web Services (AWS) – DevOps Professional Certification. Completed Cisco Certified Network Associate - Routing & Switching. Completed Certified Kubernetes Administrator Certification. Completed Terraform Certified Associate Certification. Completed Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator. Completed SumoLogic Certification. -
Master of Telecommunication and Networking - undefined
La Trobe University
Bachelor of Electronics and Communications - undefined
Anna University
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Solution Architect Professional.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Database Speciality.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Security Speciality.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Solution Architect Associate.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – SysOps Associate Certification.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – DevOps Professional.
Cisco Certified Network Associate - Routing & Switching.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
Terraform Certified Associate.
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator.
SumoLogic Fundamentals.
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