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Hello! I'm Kannan

 

Multifaceted Devops Lead and Cloud Specialist, certified as Google Cloud -
Professional architect, Azure solution architect - Expert & AWS solution architect -
Professional, with 12+ years of experience in IT and has hands-on in cutting-edge
tools & techniques to meet continuous model - Continuous Integration & Delivery /
Deployment, Continuous Testing and Continuous Monitoring.

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I am expert in​​

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  • Strategize Cloud adoption, transition and Cloud Migration from Legacy
    application to Cloud Providers such as Azure, AWS and GCP across Projects

  • Analyse, Design, implement and administering resources in Cloud and Setup
    seamless delivery in CI / CD pipelines using Jenkins, Gitlab, Azure Devops

  • Administer and configure Policies in Cloud & DevOps tools and configure DORA
    metrics for track the performance & release maturity to Production

  • Emphasize Cloud Best Practices / DevOps principles across teams to engage
    peers and ensure devsecops processes & culture adopted in SDLC model

  • Automate infrastructure provisioning in Azure, AWS & GCP using Terraform and
    configuration management using Ansible, and Chef

  • Integrate Security testing such as SAST, DAST, IAST and RASP and Performance
    & automation testing in pipelines to fulfill DevSecOps Model

  • Automate repetitive operational overheads using Bash, Python, and PowerShell

  • Configure logging, monitoring & alerts for System / Application using logstash,
    elastic search, kibana, Splunk, Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana

  • Support Risk and Compliance team to apply policies & governance processes
    in every entity of product & application to ensure secure operations / infra

  • Document SOP and MOP procedures to educate team with latest strategies,solutions, known error database and approaches

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Kannan Sargunan

Cloud Specialist

Devops Lead

DevSecOps Engineer

Platform Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

 

Phone:

+974-50164841

+91-9962087638

 

Email:

kannan.sargunan@gmail.com

 

Current Location:

Doha, Qatar

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Permanent Location:

Chennai, India

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Date of Birth:

March 12th, 1988

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EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
Oct, 2023 - Present
Associate Director - DevOps Engineer
Union Bank Of Switzerland, Doha, Qatar
Project : Trade & Transfer Assets -
Managing Corporate Actions

  1. Consult team across org to spread cloud strategy/ modernization

  2. Design and Implement secured Platform in Azure using Ansible and ensure readiness of Infrastructure for Onboarding the apps

  3. Built Ansible roles for procure Azure resources i.e., Vnet, NSG, Datalake, VMs, AKS, etc., that can be reusable across projects

  4. Streamline DevSecOps process and improve time to Prod by 60%

  5. Implement the Disaster recovery and ensured zero downtime

Aug, 2020 - Sep, 2023
Lead Devops Engineer
Photon Interactive, Chennai
Client : Walgreens & Boots Inc.,
Project : Photo Order Management System
& Application Common Services
& Boots Mobile

  1. Built azure resources using Terraform and containerized apps in Openshift, hosted 200+ microservices developed in java & nodejs

  2. Managed Network components for secure connection between different apps hosted in Cloud & Mobility

  3. Developed scripts in Bash & Python to mitigate recurring operational tasks by 40% and manage APIs using APIGEE

  4. Design and establish devops model for both Mobile apps and microservices. Also, Migrated from Jenkins to ADO pipelines

Aug, 2016 - Jul 2020
Lead Devops Engineer
Photon Interactive, Chennai
Client : Walgreens, Inc.,
Project : Horizon & RTH

  1. Analyze, review and finalize design on tools implementation, build and deployment automation for 40+ microservices in AWS

  2. Setup monitoring, logging, alerting mechanism for events notifications and improved resolution turnaround by 70%

  3. Deeply instilled DevOps culture across a 50+ sized engineering team and moved away from 2 months release cycle to 1-click

  4. Maintained 40+ Unix servers with 99.99% up-time using DR model

Apr, 2015 - Aug, 2016
Technical Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai
Client : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  1. Administer and Manage full application stacks hosted in Amazon AWS thru console and CLI

  2. Manage full application stacks hosted in Amazon AWS thru console

  3. Participate in planning, implementation, and billing decisions of infrastructure & resources in Amazon Web Services

  4. Configured CD in Jenkins to reduce release time by 50%

  5. Utilized Puppet and Zabbix features to boost quality of deliverable, cutting customer complaints by 60%

  6. Manage 30+ Windows servers with 99% up-time using DR model

Apr, 2014 - Apr, 2015
Technical Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai
Client : Siemens
Project : CareXcell

  1. Design and manually setup VCS, build tools and CI / CD

  2. Automated build & deployment process and make sure minimal downtime of environments

  3. Manage 10+ servers and configure application preps by Chef

  4. Work with application web servers like Tomcat for hosting apps

Nov, 2011 - Apr, 2014
Sr. System Executive
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai
Client : Walmart
Project : Global Logistics Systeml

  1. Administer Version control & Build tools and configure CI

  2. Automated deployment styles of deployment process and reduced prod down-time from 2 hrs to 2 mins during release

  3. Created RFCs for every release and tracking state of changes at regular intervals till it gets implemented flawlessly

  4. Deployment support in different non – prod environments – SIT / UAT / DIT / Performance, etc., and Prod environment

EDUCATION
EDUCATION
2009-2011

Master's Degree

Sathyabama University

Master of Business Administration in Systems & Finance

CGPA : 8.22

2005-2009

Bachelor's Degree

P.M.R Institute of Technology, Anna University

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Percentage: 73.0

2005

+2 - High School

Velankanni Matri. Hr. Sec. School

Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)

Percentage: 85.17

2003

10th - Secondary School

Thai Sathya Matriculation School

Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC)

Percentage: 69.73

CERTIFICATIONS
CLIENTS
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SKILLS
SKILLS

Cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP

Operating System - RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows

Version Control - SVN, Git, Accurev, Bitbucket

Build Tools - Maven, MSBuild, Gradle

CI / CD - Gitlab, Jenkins, ADO, Anthill Pro, Teamcity

CM - Ansible, Chef

IAAC - Terraform

Monitoring - ELK, Splunk, Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus

Scripting - Shell, Python, Powershell

Containerization - 

Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

API Management - APIGEE & API Gateway

Repository Management -

Jfrog, Nexus

Ticketing - Jira, ServiceNow

Documentation - Confluence

ACCREDITATION
EXPERTISE
  • Awarded "Associate of the Quarter (Apr 2013 - Jun 2013)" for managed critical production servers and implemented flawless changes during scheduled window period in RFCs without any impact.
  • Attained 4th place in "Top innovator Organization Level - 2014" for automating deployment process and reduced production down-time from 2 hrs to 2 mins and saved cost ~1 million per year for client.
  • Perceived "Star Performer - 2017" for successfully  analyzed, designed, implemented and reviewed devops model - CI / CD / CT / CM and process and achieved one-click deployment across the environments.
  • Received Pegasus award - 2022 for long standing commitment / assoication and contribution from / by Photon
CONTACT
CONTACT ME

Kannan Sargunan

Devops Lead & Cloud Specialist

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Phone:
+974-50164841

+91-9962087638

 

Email:

kannan.sargunan@gmail.com

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