Praveen Kumar

Tech Arch Associate Manager

Intro

What I am all about.

Highly skilled Solutions Architect with 12+ years of Experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud infrastructure, supporting, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments in AWS Cloud, leveraging configuration management and DevOps processes in a Linux-based environment. Exceptional skills in collaborating with cross-functional teams, developing and maintaining architecture standards, and providing technical guidance and support to drive project success

Expertise

01

AWS - Cloud

Almost worked on all the core services in AWS cloud such as EC2,EKS, Elastic BeanStalk, CloudFront, S3, EBS, Load Balancer, Autoscaling, Route53, VPC, ECS, RDS, lambda, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, IAM, ACM and Transit Gateway

02

Terraform

I Am familiar in writing Terraform script using Hashicorp language to Develop self-service infrastructure provisioning, delivery pipelines, log and monitoring services.

03

Ansible

Ansible helped me in launching new services in both AWS as well as Linux machines and managing the operating system security patching with a minimal amount of code complexity and fewer logic implementations.

04

Kubernetes

One of the best orchestration tool I've ever come across. I have a good experience in integrating Kubernetes with AWS and have a good knowledge in Managing, Implementing and Deploying applications on Kubernetes environment.

05

Docker

I have a good knowledge of container services and familiar in shipping the application inside containers to the production environment.

06

Gitlab

I have a good knowledge of Gitlab features like planning for Epics and groups, Creating approval Rules, Branching Strategy, CICD Setup, Error Tracking, Incident management and User management

07

Jenkins

I Am familiar in writing Jenkins declarative pipeline using groovy DSL and able to integrate the pipelines with various services such as docker, Sonarqube, Jacoco, Lambda, etc.

08

Linux Adminstration

Worked in Redhat,CentOS,Debian and Windows based operating systems. My day to day work is to maintain and keep these machines in a healthy state. I have good troubleshooting skills to identify and fix if any issues occur with the help of inbuilt Linux tools.

09

Log Monitoring

Well, this is a mind-blowing log visualization tool I've come across. I have implemented many security alerts using ELK and Elast alert tool to keep the environment safe. I have good experience and knowledge in writing GROK patterns on Logstash service.

10

Observability

I've been using Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos tools to Monitor morethan 250+ AWS instances for Hardware level and application level.

Skills

85%

AWS

75%

Docker

70%

Jenkins

70%

Terraform

75%

Kubernetes

75%

Ansible

75%

Monitoring

60%

Database

70%

GitLab

85%

Linux

Experience

Yes. I've been around.
2021 Nov – Present

Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd.

Tech Arch Associate Manager

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

  • Directed a team of 10+ DevOps engineers and operations teams to drive initiatives and continuous improvement
  • Continually research the current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed
  • Developing and maintaining architectural standards and best practices for Accenture Security Standard
  • Working closely with Internal/External Stakeholders, Development Architects/Managers & developers, across locations, to ensure timely delivery
  • Enhancing or upgrading existing technology solutions using a fully automated approach
  • Collaborating with and providing assistance to engineering teams as we work together to create new and enhance existing solutions
  • Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault-finding
  • Work with Release Manager and development teams to deploy software releases
  • Identifying and mitigating potential risks and issues related to the solution
  • Handling Daily standup calls, getting updates from the team, and allocating tasks to the team on a Sprint Basis
  • Evaluate new tools and technology to improve product speed, efficiency, and scalability
  • Deploy infrastructure and applications with an End-to-End automated approach

Experience

Yes. I've been around.
2020 May – 2021 Oct

Xybion India Pvt Ltd.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

  • Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic applications into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed
  • Expand and evolve Production R&D Infrastructure in a scalable, highly available, and distributed fashion
  • Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS such as EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling
  • Reduced costs by each month by eliminating unnecessary servers and consolidating databases as part of the AWS cost optimization
  • Setup the LDAP server for Linux servers using RedHat IDM
  • Setup the book stack application to maintain the Documents and Network Architecture
  • Good product knowledge and strong knowledge of software architecture in one or multiple focus areas and/or Software Lifecycle Tools

Experience

Yes. I've been around.
2019 Apr – 2021 May

Williams Lea Tag India Pvt Ltd.

Global Senior Cloud Engineer

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

  • Managing AWS infra including EC2, VPC, ECS ,EBS ,EFS ,S3 ,ELB, ROUTE53,Systems Manager, Transit Gateway etc
  • Patch and vulnerability management using ansible
  • Automating the day-to-day tasks using BASH/Shell scripting
  • Dockers Container implementation and management
  • CI/CD Setup with Jenkins and EC2 Container Service for Python Application
  • Creating and managing the Infra using Terraform and CloudFormation
  • Release and Change Management
  • Configuring Apache/Nginx/Squid/NFS/ etc
  • Log Analysis using ELK Stack
  • Collaborated with various teams & management to understand the requirement & design the complete system
  • Experience in guiding the classification, plan, implementation, growth, adoption, and compliance with enterprise architecture strategies, processes, and standards
  • Designed and developed highly scalable and available systems

Experience

Yes. I've been around.
2015 Sep – 2019 Apr

ADF Data Science Pvt. Ltd.

Systems Engineer

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

  • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins and Shell Script
  • Managed Entire AWS Infrastructure and On-Premise Setups like Firewall and Switches
  • Served as the primary contact for the overall health, performance, and uptime of one or more applications set up in the environment
  • Automated Deployment Procedure by setting up Docker and Kubernetes for Testing Environments
  • Using Ansible Tool for application deployment and cloud provisioning
  • Worked extensively on Installing and configuring AWS services like EC2, RDS, VPC, ELB, S3, and DMS
  • Creating RDS with Multi-AZ and read replica for high availability
  • Configured Elastic Redis Cache for our Website
  • Configuring and Managing AWS Aurora, MySQL RDS
  • Configure AWS VPC and tunnel configurations
  • Managing DNS Entries in Route53 and various DNS Providers
  • Hands-on Experience on VPC, Subnets, and route tables, etc
  • Performed Network Segmentation in our office firewall (Sonic WALL)
  • Worked on multi-region, disaster recovery set up for our entire AWS Infrastructure across the region
  • Deploy and configure various applications on EC2
  • Maintaining the monitor profiles for AWS Services- EC2 parameters (CPU, Memory, Disk, Response time, etc.) by using Cloud Watch
  • Created custom AMIs based on existing EC2 Instances by using create image functionality, hence using this snapshot for disaster recovery
  • Setting UP Monitoring Alerts Using Shell Scripting
  • Configure Site2Site VPN in Sonic WALL
  • Configured Site2Site VPN service in Sonic WALL Firewall NSA 4600
  • Worked on Source control repository like GIT
  • Configured Zabbix monitoring tool to monitor all the EC2 instances
  • Installing and Managing Cachet Monitor tool to monitor our websites
  • Installing and Managing Snipe-IT tool to manage Assets

Experience

Yes. I've been around.
2012 Sep – 2015 June

Kings InfoTech.

System Administrator

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

  • Installing and Managing OCS for Managing System Inventory
  • Enable Core dump for all Linux servers to analyze the root cause due to system issues
  • Scheduling Cron Jobs based on User request
  • Generating self-signed SSL Certificate
  • Configure SFTP services for our office requirement
  • Worked on MySQL user administration
  • Configuring and Managing File Transfer Protocol (FTP Server)
  • Installing and configuring Samba Server
  • Installing configuring and Managing Apache Web Server
  • Installing and Managing Squid Proxy Server
  • Installing and configuring squirrel mail Server
  • OS Patching and upgrading
  • Installing and Configuration of GOAUTODIAL V3.3
  • troubleshooting applications issues

Education

Coolest time.
2009 – 2012

James College of Engineering and Technology

Master Of Computer Application specialized in

MCA Department

Navalcadu, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, TN

Certifications

Happy times!

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (01/2024)

C.N: MQ2RLGQL5JE11MKQ


AWS Certified Devops Engineer Professional (03/2021)

C.N: HX75RJ7JL24QQGSJ


AWS Certified SAA (09/2019)

C.N: XZRVDEVK3ERQ1NGE


Terraform Certified Associate (06/2022)

https://www.credly.com/badges/9c472d8f-faab-4356-9266-ab6f7d932388


Microsoft Certified DevOps Engneer (06/2022)

C.N: l514-3613


Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate

C.N: l114-3999


Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer

C.N: JPLHG6


Redhat Certified Engineer -RHCE (07/2016)

C.N: 160-138-566


Redhat Certified SA(06/2016)

C.N: 160-138-566