Venugopal Devaraj

IT Infrastructure Automation Engineer with 16+ years of comprehensive experience in automating infrastructure operations across on-premises and cloud environments, with a strong track record in Infra/Cloud/CyberArk/Security tool integration.

• Automation Projects: Designed and implemented automation for Hardening monthly reporting processes include finding and remediating without production impact —automating data transfers and update confirmations across heterogeneous systems—using Python, Bash, and Ansible. Streamlined infrastructure BAU operations, including backup reporting, achieving a 70% reduction in manual effort and 40% faster turnaround times. Developed interactive, menu-driven scripts that improved task execution consistency and reduced operational errors by over 60%.
• Management Audits: Successfully managed and completed annual audits—including ASA, SWSA, and Service Management—from an infrastructure standpoint, consistently achieving zero non-compliance (NC) findings.

• Operating Systems & Platforms
• Red Hat: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• AIX: 5.3, 6.1, 7.0
• Ubuntu: 22
• Solaris: 10, 11
• Automation & Configuration Management
• Ansible: Tower 3.5 & 3.8, Ansible 2.9
• Puppet: 7.8, 8.x
• Terraform: Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Ansible Integration with Cloud Instances
• Scripting & Programming Languages
• Shell Scripting
• Python
• YAML
• Containerization & Orchestration
• Docker: Containerization and Management
• Kubernetes: Container Orchestration
• Security & Compliance Tools
• Tenable Nessus: Vulnerability Scanning
• Micro Focus Arcsight: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
• CyberArk: Privileged Access Management
• Hardware & Storage
• IBM pSeries
• Oracle SPARC
• Sun Enterprise
• HP ProLiant
• HP EVA
• HP Alletra 5000
• Backup & Storage Management
• NetBackup
• Legato Networker
• Tivoli Storage Manager
• Applications & Middleware
• Web Servers: Apache, Oracle HTTP Server (OHS)
• Application Servers: WebLogic, GlassFish, iPlanet
• Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g/12g
• Workload Management: Tivoli Workload Scheduler
• IBM Systems: NIM and HMC (Hardware Management Console), IBM Tivoli
• Monitoring Tools: PRTG Monitoring