Antony S. — DevOps/SecOps/Cloud Security Engineer

DevOps Infrastructure Lead

2014 – Tilldate
Responsibilities:

• Provisioning OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes Clusters in Azure and AWS rsources, VMWare VMs and bare metal using Terraform
• Rolling Updates & Rollbacks: I write YAML definition to create a Deployment strategy
• Logging & Monitoring: I implement ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) monitoring tools to identify how our systems/applications are performing
• GCM: (Global Compliant Management)
  Automated all CIS Benchmark process using Bash Scripting
  Migration of Bash Scripting into Python

RCP (Risk based Continuous Patching):

• Setting up Kubernetes Cluster to many IBM internal Clients
• Continuous Integration (CI): Jenkins to build apps in the cloud and deploy to Kubernetes. Each time I commit code, it has automatically built and tested and bugs are detected faster.
• Continuous Deployment (CD): With continuous deployment (GitHub), I automate the entire process from code commit to production if the CI/CD tests are successful.

CC (Continuous Compliance):

• Setting up Docker Containers to deploy nginx, chef, psql, redis and kafka
• Creating Docker Compose to re-configure containers and also to stop and start the services
• Setting up Docker Logs to analyze all containers status and do the troubleshooting
• Using UCD (Urban Code Deployment) to deliver Hotfix and code release

LEAD CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Managing the team of subject matter experts and mentoring the team members to achieve the project deliverable.
• Directed the planning, design, and implementation of it infrastructure with diversity teams.
• Engaged with project stakeholders and direct the team towards the result.
• Effectively communicating project updates to the management and stakeholders at the right time.
• Responsible for project go-live and work closely with team members, project managers and stakeholders.
• Creating the project documents (charter, stakeholder register, project plan, scope, risk register and change plan, lesson learned documents, closure report).

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Responsibilities:

• Act as VOC (voice of customer) as adding value to customer.
• Experienced in the direct customer relationships to acquire a new business and maintain the existing business.
• Worked with pre-sales team to provide POC and technical discussion with customers.

DEVOPS LEAD

JAN-2012 – TILLDATE
Responsibilities:

• Provisioning OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes Clusters in GCP/Azure/AWS resources, VMWare VMs and bare metal using Terraform
• Provide technical support including technical enablement, solution development, solution porting, benchmarking, memory management, kernel tuning, resource optimizations, implementation road map design, and packaging of complex partner products and solutions
• Planning and execution of data center migration and relocation.
• Providing suggestions to improve the system security management

System Development Senior Specialist

11/2008 – 01/2012
Responsibilities:

• Automated UNIX or SUSE/RHEL OS Deployment Services by Blade Logic Tool
• Configuration changes across 5000+ servers using Shell Scripts
• Experience in memory management, performance tuning, and resource optimizations.

System and Network Associates

12/2006 – 10/2008
Responsibilities:

• Build customized LINUX OS suitable for flash drives (Embedded Linux)
• Performance & kernel tuning, securing, auditing monitoring and hardening of systems in Linux
• Install/Configure JAVA, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL
• Advanced Shell Scripting (BASH)

Customer Engineer

01/2003 – 11/2006
Responsibilities:

• Installation of RHEL AS & ES 2.1, 3, 4, Red Hat Linux 8.0, UNIX Ware 2, 5&7.0 on IBM, HP Compaq, Acer servers and Workstations
• Installation of COBOL in Red Hat Linux
• Migration of all data and user accounts to the New server TAR, Rhost, SCP & AT/CRON Utilities

System Engineer

07/2002 – 12/2002
Responsibilities:

• Installation of RHEL 2.1, Red Hat Linux 7.0 on IBM, HP Compaq, Acer servers and PCs respectively
• Configuring various services such as SAMBA, NFS, HTTP, Telnet and FTP Services

Customer Support Engineer

05/2000 – 07/2002
Responsibilities:

• Operating System installation and troubleshooting. Platform involve SUN SOLARIS 2.5.1/2.6(SPARC, ULTRA-1 & 2), UNIX, LINUX, Windows NT4.0, 95, 98 & 2000
• Undertaking Daily backups and weekly backups on DLT4000 TAPE DRIVE, 8mm Exabyte Cartridges and IBM 3590 Cartridges in both TAR and UFS formats Customer Support

Engineer

06/1997 – 04/2000
Responsibilities:

• Operating System installation and troubleshooting. Platform involve Pentium, Celeron-Windows NT4.0, Windows 95,98
• Intel platforms file transfer management between Windows NT servers
• System reinstallation & Restoration from backup and afresh
• Network expansions troubleshooting & configurations based on TCP/IP.