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Ganesh Shankar

Vetted Talent

Ganesh Shankar

Vetted Talent

Expertise in Cloud engineering, helps clients in area of architecture, design, development, migration & delivery of IT Solutions on Cloud using DevOps methodologies.


Member of the Cloud Engineering Team responsible for automating the provisioning of infrastructure in the AWS cloud using open source software (DevOps toolchain), as well as, work side by side with application development teams to rapidly deploy highly available infrastructure to ensure the success of agile managed business project.


• Experience in DevOps, Build and Release Engineer and Cloud Engineer like Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a major focus on Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery / Deployment and Infra Automation.

• Managing the Team by assigning the right tasks to the team members and ensuring the right deliverables with proposed ETA with mentioned Standards from both applications and security perspective.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and EKS clustering frameworks. Scripting experience on Terraform, Ansible, Groovy (Jenkins), Helm.

• Experience in building, designing and implementing scalable cloud-based web applications for PaaS, IaaS or SaaS using AWS

• Build and design secure, well-instrumented, highly available, and strictly automated reproducible infrastructure. Optimize infrastructure deployments for speed, cost, availability and scale.

• Working on open source configuration management tools to develop the automated deployment of virtual server instances and environments in AWS by using various DevOps Tool chain such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, ServiceNow, Docker, native AWS tools, etc.

• Conduct research on emerging Cloud and DevOps technologies in support of infrastructure development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility.

• Troubleshoot systems, software, failures and make changes to improve current automated performance following established change management practices.

• Assist with defining Implementation schedule on selected products for production rollout. Deploy Governance and monitoring tools to ensure the security and proper use of Cloud resources. Enforce dormancy requirements. Enforce IAM policies.

• Oversee Usage charges and billing accuracy towards eliminating wasteful resources such as developer systems not made dormant when not in use.

• Update and maintain Cloud documentation, including strategy, DevOps engineering documents, change control, trouble tickets, procedures, and other documentation.

• Cost management and optimization in Cloud Environments.

  • Role

    Cloud System Administration

  • Years of Experience

    16 years

Skillsets

  • DevSecOps
  • Docker - 4 Years
  • Azure - 1 Years
  • Cloud Computing - 8 Years
  • Continuous delivery
  • Nexus
  • Helm charts
  • Ansible tower
  • YAML
  • Terraform - 6 Years
  • Kubernetes - 4 Years
  • Jenkins
  • Groovy
  • EKS
  • API Gateway - 4 Years
  • DevOps
  • Continuous Integration
  • CI/CD
  • AWS - 8 Years
  • Ansible
  • Cloud Automation - 6 Years
  • AWS GuardDuty - 4 Years
  • Cloud Infrastructure Design - 6 Years
  • AWS Security Hub - 4 Years
  • Ci/Cd Pipelines - 6 Years
  • AWS Inspector - 4 Years
  • AWS Lambda - 6 Years

Vetted For

12Skills
  • Roles & Skills
  • Results
  • Details
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    Sr Cloud Infrastructure EngineerAI Screening
  • 51%
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  • Skills assessed :Arm templates, Cloudformation, Databases, Google Cloud, Networking, Cloud Computing, Terraform, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Security
  • Score: 46/90

Professional Summary

16Years
  • Jan, 2017 - Present8 yr 1 month

    Assistant Consultant

    Tata Consultancy Services
  • May, 2011 - Dec, 20165 yr 7 months

    Technology Analyst

    R R Donnelley India outsourcing Pvt. ltd.
  • Jun, 2008 - Jan, 20112 yr 7 months

    Engineer - Technical Support

    Computer Science Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Jun, 2007 - Jun, 20081 yr

    FMS Engineer

    CMS Computer Ltd.

Applications & Tools Known

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    Terraform

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    AWS

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    EKS

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    Jenkins

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    Ansible

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    Ansible Tower

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    Nexus

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    DevOps

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    DevSecOps

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    CI/CD

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    YAML

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    Docker

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    Kubernetes

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    Helm Charts

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    Amazon RDS

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    Amazon S3

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    Amazon Lambda

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    Amazon VPC

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    EC2

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    ArgoCD

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    Qualys

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    VMware ESXi

Work History

16Years

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
Jan, 2017 - Present8 yr 1 month
    Leading a team of cloud engineers to design, deploy and maintain AWS Cloud resources for various internal applications. Designed and maintained Jenkins pipelines as code, utilizing Groovy scripting to ensure version-controlled and reproducible builds. Implemented and managed Terraform modules for creating reusable and standardized infrastructure components, resulting in consistent deployments. Designed, deployed, and managed AWS cloud architectures, utilizing services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, and Lambda to create scalable and resilient solutions tailored to client needs. Utilized Amazon Cloud Watch and AWS Trusted Advisor to monitor and optimize resource utilization, cost efficiency, and overall system performance in AWS environments. Developed Ansible playbooks to automate software deployments, reducing manual errors and ensuring consistency in application setups. Utilized Ansible roles and templates to create reusable configurations for various services and applications, streamlining the deployment process. Collaborated with development and operations teams to integrate Nexus repositories into continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Implemented Ansible Tower (AWX) for centralized orchestration, scheduling, and monitoring of Ansible tasks, improving visibility and control. Migrating the Applications to the EKS Clusters in the AWS Environment. Automated CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins to build Docker images, run tests, and deploy applications using ArgoCD to EKS clusters. Integrated EKS clusters with AWS services such as Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, and Amazon Cloud Watch, ensuring seamless communication and monitoring. Developed Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts to define and manage container workloads, services, deployments, and configurations. Participating in incident response and vulnerability management, collaborating with cross-functional teams to mitigate security breaches and vulnerabilities. Utilized container security tools such as Qualys and AquaSec to scan Docker images and app codes for vulnerabilities and enforce security policies.

Technology Analyst

R R Donnelley India outsourcing Pvt. ltd.
May, 2011 - Dec, 20165 yr 7 months
    As a Server Support Engineer, I am responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting High-end windows servers and VMware ESXi. Experience in providing assistance for network and server-related issues. Experience in providing support to business clients by handling technical profiles with high proficiency thereby achieving greater levels of client satisfaction.

Engineer - Technical Support

Computer Science Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
Jun, 2008 - Jan, 20112 yr 7 months
    As a Server Support Engineer, I am responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting High-end windows servers. Experience in providing assistance for network and server related issues. Experience in providing support to business clients by handling technical profiles with high proficiency thereby achieving greater levels of client satisfaction.

FMS Engineer

CMS Computer Ltd.
Jun, 2007 - Jun, 20081 yr
    Worked as IT Support Engineer, in the client place. Creating and configuring domain user accounts, group accounts and Assigning User Permissions on Windows Server 2003. Troubleshoot Domain logon problems and grant access to resources throughout the network. Create and manage shared folders, and troubleshoot share permissions. Monitoring and Updating incidents, Change Requests & Service Requests Using HP Open View Service Desk and HP Open view Operations for Windows.

Education

  • B.Tech/B.E.

    Anna University (2006)

Certifications

  • Certified kubernetes administrator (cka) program

  • Aws certified solutions architect associate

  • Microsoft certified azure administrator associate

  • Microsoft certified system administrator

  • Vmware certified professional 6 - data center virtualization (vcp6-dcv)

  • Itil 4 foundation: an introduction to itil 4

  • Hashicorp certified terraform associate