Venugopal Devaraj

• IT Infrastructure Automation Engineer with handful of over 15+ years of experience with a record of accomplishment in Automation in Infra/Cloud/Cyberark/Nessus tools.

• Managed and completed Yearly Audits [ASA/SWSA/Service Management Audit] for Core infra .

• Provide examples of how you've used Ansible in Cloud and on-premises to solve real-world challenges in your previous roles, demonstrating your problem-solving abilities and the business value you've delivered through automation.

• Professional experience on Ansible workflow management, Creation and Management of Ansible projects and templates for playbook/ roles workflow automation, Ansible vault administration for confidential variables, GIT, Puppet, Jenkins, and Terraform.

• Handled Data center hosting, consolidation, migration, technology refresh, Server provisioning, DR setup and recovery, Backup and storage implementation, High availability setup, Operating systems administration ( RHEL and UNIX).

• Skilled in operating system environment for on-premises and cloud infrastructure, Linux / Unix, Storage Systems, technologies, firewall, VPN, authentication, anti-virus, content filtering, patch management and system security

• Automation Project: -Monthly report automation (automated: push, pull and update confirmation from one-many various flavors.Backup report Automation for the BAU activity.Creation of customized script for the Day-to-day operational activity (menu driven script).
• Management Audit: -Completed years audit [ASA, SWSA, Service Management], with zero NC.
• Optus Project: - (NCS Pte Ltd)Lead SingTel engineer for the OPTUS project to Sydney for the project transition.
• GCloud Project: - (NCS Pte Ltd)Performed hardening for mission critical apps servers using customized shell script for both checking and applying the setting.Involved on onboarding various application in various OS flavors as Part of Onboarding team.Performed automation on BAU activity.Performed standardization of URL monitoring for GCloud agencies.Part of Task Force team for the standardization of various level of monitoring merits and controls the alerts and make sure of every process is under ITSM process.Performed Solaris cluster 4.3 in Solaris 11.2 and selected for spot award.
• RedHat /Solaris clustering, Containers (Dockers & Kubernetes), Ansible.Ansible 3 node tower cluster upgrade 3.5.7 to 3.8.2 including OS and PostgreSQL upgrade.Automation for os operations using Ansible playbooks.Using Ansible Vault for ansible confidential variables used in playbook.Developed playbook for Redhat Linux LDAP communication to isolate user authentication.REAR backup configuration for redhat servers.Working on os template creation for suse and Redhat linux servers.Migration of Solaris cluster to Redhat global cluster hosted in multiple cluster.Monthly report automation (automated: push, pull and update confirmation from one-many various flavors.Backup report Automation for the BAU activity.Creation of customized script for the day-to-day operational activity (menu driven script).Working knowledge on Complete Docker Installation on Multiple Platforms (CentOS/Red Hat/Ubuntu)Experience on Docker Image Creation, Management.Docker, Configure a Swarm and Scale Services Within Your ClusterContainers Storage and Volumes configurationDockers Networking configuration and managementKubernetes Core Concepts.Installation, Configuration & Validation a Kubernetes clusterCluster Communications and Highly AvailabilityScheduling (Labels & Selectors, DaemonSets,Resource Limits & Pod Scheduling)Monitoring Cluster Components and Applications and managing logs
• DC Migration Project: - (Hewlett Packard Pte Ltd)Migration of AIX and Linux servers from one DC to another DC.Migration of Server Data from IBM Storage to HP EVA storage.Migration of Physical Servers to Virtual Environment.Migration of oracle DB server from AIX to Redhat Linux.Migration of DNS server from Redhat 2.1 to Redhat 5.5 including the DNS.DNS Bind upgrade.
• Legato upgrade: - (Hewlett Packard Pte Ltd)Legato upgrade for ASIAPACIFIC regional servers (63) from EMC Legato Networker Version 7.2.1 to 7.6.2.