Charan Vasam

About Charan Vasam

With over 10+ years of experience in DevOps engineering and Linux administration, I am passionate about automating and optimizing cloud infrastructure, deploying and managing applications, and ensuring high availability and performance. I have extensive knowledge and skills in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Jenkins CI/CD, Oracle databases, and various monitoring tools. Currently, I am a Sr DevOps Engineer at PayPal, where I work with a diverse and collaborative team to deliver innovative and secure solutions for millions of customers worldwide. At PayPal, I am responsible for setting up and maintaining automated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for multiple apps, integrating build dependencies and deployment strategies, and creating and configuring jobs, script builders, custom command builders, and agents. I also manage Oracle databases running on different platforms, such as MS-Windows, NT Server, UNIX/Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX & AIX and RHEL. Additionally, I leverage my expertise in GKE and IaC to design, build, and maintain infrastructure on AWS environment, using tools such as Docker, Ansible, and AWS EC2. I have successfully implemented continuous deployment, consolidated multiple monitoring platforms, and enhanced user retention rate by 25%.

Experience

1. Sr Devops Engineer Linux Administrator

   PayPal

   Mar 2019 — Present · Scottsdale, AZ, US

   Responsible for setting up from scratch and maintaining automated Jenkins CI/CD Pipelines for multiple apps. • Created CI/CD pipelines and setup auto trigger, auto build and auto deployment with the help of the CI/CD tool like Jenkins. • Experience in managing Oracle databases running on MS-Windows, NT Server, UNIX/Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX & AIX and RHEL. • Created and configured jobs, script builder, custom command builder, agents in Jenkins and Integrated Build dependencies and dependency blocking strategy in Jenkins. • Worked on implementing continuous Deployment (CD) by adding the MSDeploy Plugin to Jenkins to deploy the build artifacts into Artifactory or Nexus. • Work with Project Managers, Release Management, Operations Engineering, and Development leads to help and support Agile development for Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline automation • Responsible for maintaining the.net build process by integrating Jenkins with plug-in’s like MSbuild and Nuget to configure the continuous integration (CI) process. • Creating highly available and scalable infrastructure in AWS by using various AWS services like EC2, VPC, ELB, RDS, Route53, Security Groups, Network Access Controls, AWS Elastic Load Balance, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation Templates and Auto scaling. • Launching EC2 instances for Configuring Auto scaling groups and elastic load balancers using cloud formation template, configured Ansible to manage AWS environments and automate the build process for core AMI’s used by all application deployments. • Handling Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and configuration management tools like Ansible, chef and puppet. • Implemented Oracle database backup & recovery solutions using RMAN and manual methods and Configured and implemented Oracle Streams.

Education

• Rivier University

  Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.8

  2015 — 2016