Keerthi Ramalingam

Basildon, Essex, UK · caree-remove-rs @ keerthi.io

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A seasoned seasoned DevOps/Cloud Architect with over 15 years of diverse experience xperience leveraging devOps, agile and CI/CD to manage large scale distributed platforms both on prem and in public cloud.

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Schedule

Refreshed overnight

Skills

Cloud & PaaS
  • Azure
  • Openshift
  • AWS
  • heroku
Scripting & IaaC
  • Python
  • Shell
  • Saltstack
  • Pulumi
  • Terraform
  • Cloudify
  • Maven
  • Ant
  • Azure Arm
ALM
  • Jira
  • Azure Boards
  • Confluence
  • Bugzilla
CI/CD
  • Jenkins
  • Azure Pipelines
  • TeamCity

Experience

Cloud and DevOps solution Architect

FiServ Inc

  • Mentored a team of 12 successfully onboarding 6 projects taking them through architecture review and automation due diligence phases.
  • SPOC for L4 non-functional support across application, network, infrastructure and Deployment disciplines.
  • Rolled out templatized application configuration management with property abstraction reducing deployment issues by 65 percent.
  • Increased resiliency by implementing end-to-end functional health check with synthetic testing enabled.
  • Implemented requirements traceability matrix with azure boards/Teams bringing down change propagation workflow timeline by 20 percent.
  • Designed and implemented database delta propagation workflows with Redgate.
  • Mentored Openstack deployment and containerizing IBM datapower saving 1.2M per annum.
  • Designed Azure environments for payments as a service. Onboarding in progress

Jun 2018 – Present

DevOps Manager (British Gas)

Cognizant Technology Solutions, UK

  • Built and mentored a team of 8 associates working across 15 devops tools.
  • Migration of deployments from Thoughtworks GO to Jenkins.
  • L4 level support for escalations and performance.
  • Redesigned change propagation process and merged redundant tools bringing down administration effort by a third.

Jun 2016 – Jun 2018

Transition Manager (Dun & Bradstreet)

Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

  • Built and mentored a team of 6 across three teams for Due diligence.
  • Designed reusable artifact templates by abstracting generic use cases across 3 teams.

Jan 2016 – Jun 2016

DevOps Manager (Trafigura)

Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

  • Built and mentored a team for 7 different project streams and successfully completed transition.
  • Designed and implemented node classification schematics in puppet for enterprise data center
  • Implemented client-based automation for accelerating efficiency and value generation.

Sep 2015 – Jan 2016

PreSales Solution Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

  • Designed and implemented Unit based pricing model for Build and deployment Management solutions.
  • Optimized delivery model with reusable knowledge banks
  • Average proposal success ratio of 35% for across small and medium proposals.
  • Created and published whitepaper on docker enablement in enterprises
  • Pioneered CD principles and best practices knowledge bank for 400+ resources.

Jan 2013 – Aug 2015

DevOps Engineer (Intuit Inc)

Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

  • Mined and migrated an enterprise application from WAS/Ant to Jboss/Maven.
  • Administered and managed SCM tool ecosystem.
  • Implemented Requirements traceability matrix with custom built hook scripts

May 2011 – Dec 2013

SCM & Process Consultant

Trane Design Center (IngersollRand), India

  • Implemented CI workflow for embedded systems with Jtag burn support
  • Proposed and propagated end to end change management process with touchpoints to Bugzilla.
  • Implemented metrics engine on Defect metrics.

Feb 2009 – Apr 2011

SCM Engineer

Merrill Lynch, India

  • Performance tuned the world’s largest instance of Jira bringing down license cost by 50%
  • Implemented Perl scripts to migrate from ClearQuest to Jira.
  • Designed and implemented Defect tracking/Change Management workflows for over 200 projects.

Mar 2007 – Jan 2009

SCM Engineer

Caritor India Pvt Ltd (Keane), India

  • Build and deployment management across a polyglot stack.
  • Version control administration, backup and recovery implementation.

May 2005 – Jan 2009

Education

PSG College of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering
Electrical & Electronics

1999 - 2005
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