Ramprasanth Ramanathan

DevOps Engineer:

• Over the past year, I have led upgrades of Google Distributed Cloud on VMware from outdated to the latest versions, architected cluster setups, and overseen infrastructure maintenance and automation. Additionally, I have deployed and maintained customer applications in a hybrid Kubernetes environment, ensuring seamless operation and automation.
• Kubernetes (K8s) orchestration and management, particularly within both vanilla Kubernetes and Google distributed cloud on VMware.
• Leveraged Seldon for model serving in Kubernetes environments, integrating with Airflow for orchestrating machine learning workflows, and automating deployment pipelines.
• I have extensive experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, including Pub/Sub, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Monitoring, and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
• Familiar with GCP Vertex AI and its integration with BigQuery and Cloud Storage for building scalable machine learning pipelines, data processing, and model storage workflows.
• Continuous Integration and Delivery for Customer Releases Using Jenkins and Bash Scripting.
• Deployed and maintained Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana using containers in Kubernetes and troubleshooting ELK-related issues.
• Deployed and maintained client applications in Kubernetes clusters using Helm and Flux.
• Maintained application configuration management extensively with Puppet for configuration management, supplemented by moderate use of Ansible.
• Experience in deploying and configuring Splunk on Kubernetes, including the setup of Splunk Enterprise and the Splunk Connect for Kubernetes, along with integration for logging and monitoring within a containerized environment.
• Setting up and configuring monitoring stack (Prometheus and Grafana stack).
• Leveraged GitLab pipelines to establish Vault policies, with HashiCorp Vault provisioned using Terraform.
• Utilized Terraform to provision Cloud Run services for hosting Anthos standalone application testing in POCs.

AWS Cloud Administration:

• I also have extensive experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including EC2, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Security Groups, ECS (Fargate), S3, and DynamoDB.
• Provisioned EC2 instances using Terraform for development and production.
• Managed EBS volumes, including snapshots and attachment/detachment.
• Customized security groups and VPC configurations based on customer needs.
• Designed scalable infrastructure using ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) and auto-scaling services.
• Implemented VPC subnets, route tables, and Route 53 services.
• Deployed Ansible playbooks via AWS Systems Manager on EC2 instances.
• Used Docker for containerization and managed Docker Swarm for orchestration.
• Automated project builds using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, and Bash scripting.
• Familiar with AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS).
  

Backup Administration (Commvault):

• Managed tape and disk libraries, storage policies, and performed client additions/decommissioning.
  Configured GRC setup, patch installations, and database maintenance.
• Conducted DR failover activities during disasters and configured VSA and cluster backups.
  Implemented global secondary copies in Commvault V11 for data redundancy.