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Niranjan K

Chennai

Summary

DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience automating and optimizing deployments in AWS and GCP. Skilled in CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure management. Seeking challenging opportunities to apply my expertise and grow professionally.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

HSBC
11.2024 - Current
  • Reduced application deployment time by 60% through implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Developed and maintained Jenkins shared libraries with reusable Groovy functions to standardize and simplify pipeline creation across teams.
  • Leveraged Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, Anthos, IAM, Pubsub and Stackdriver for scalable and secure infrastructure management.
  • Executed canary deployments using Istio service mesh, ensuring safe and progressive rollouts with minimal downtime.
  • Automated deployment workflows to GKE using Ansible, improving deployment speed and reducing manual intervention.
  • Implemented cost-optimization strategies by automating start/stop schedules for Cloud SQL and GKE nodes via Jenkins pipelines.
  • Ensured compliance and security by integrating SAST tools (SonarQube, Checkmarx, Nexus IQ) into the CI/CD process.
  • Participated in Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings to review and approve change requests, ensuring compliance with organizational change management processes.
  • Experience with deploying, managing, and automating containerized applications on Kubernetes using Helm, CI/CD, and advanced deployment strategies.

Senior Software Engineer

LTIMindtree
11.2022 - 09.2024
  • Configured and maintained Datadog alerts and monitors to proactively identify and resolve infrastructure and application issues.
  • Built an end-to-end CI/CD framework, enabling developers to build, test, and deploy APIs with a single-click interface.
  • Led and managed production deployments, promptly addressing issues and ensuring minimal disruption to services.
  • Decreased cloud infrastructure costs by 30% through automated GKE node scaling and Cloud SQL instance scheduling.
  • Experience providing on-call production support, incident response, and troubleshooting in cloud and containerized environments.

Associate Business Analyst

Infosys Ltd.
07.2021 - 11.2022
  • Developed Boto3 scripts to identify and clean up unused EBS snapshots and unattached volumes, optimizing resource usage and lowering operational costs.
  • Utilized AWS services such as EC2, ELB, EKS, WAF, IAM, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, and CloudWatch to support hybrid cloud deployments and infrastructure needs.
  • Designed and deployed AWS resources using Terraform modules, ensuring scalable, consistent, and auditable infrastructure across environments.
  • Developed automation scripts using Shell and Python to streamline DevOps tasks, system operations, and cloud resource management.

Trainee

CSS Corp Private
09.2019 - 04.2021
  • Participated in configuring AWS resources (EC2, S3, VPC) using Terraform under supervision.
  • Collaborated with the development team to troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues, improving release efficiency.
  • Monitored application health using Datadog and created alerts for proactive incident management.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Rajalakshmi Engineering College
Chennai
05-2019

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Datadog
  • Shell
  • Groovy
  • Python
  • Linux

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

HSBC
11.2024 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

LTIMindtree
11.2022 - 09.2024

Associate Business Analyst

Infosys Ltd.
07.2021 - 11.2022

Trainee

CSS Corp Private
09.2019 - 04.2021

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Rajalakshmi Engineering College
Niranjan K