Gopi R

About Gopi R

I have 10+ years of experiences DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in software deployment, automation, and infrastructure management across various environments. With expertise in web application hosting on Tomcat and WebSphere, you have a strong command of version control systems like Git, SVN, and Perforce, efficiently managing builds and deployments. You specialize in CI/CD pipeline implementation using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, and AWS services, ensuring seamless integration and automated deployments. Your proficiency in writing Shell and ANT scripts allows you to streamline build and deployment processes, improving efficiency and reliability, excel in collaborating with cross-functional teams, working closely with developers, QA, IT operations, and project managers to ensure smooth application releases and resolve deployment issues. With hands-on experience in cloud computing (AWS – EC2, S3, VPC, Route53, IAM, CloudFormation) and container orchestration (Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes), you have successfully automated infrastructure provisioning and application scaling. Your expertise extends to configuring security protocols, log monitoring with AWS CloudWatch, managing production deployments using JIRA, and ensuring system stability through proactive troubleshooting. A strong advocate of Agile methodologies, you actively participate in stand-up meetings, sprint planning, and release management, ensuring efficient software delivery. Your ability to automate workflows, manage repositories, and implement security best practices makes you a valuable asset in modern DevOps environments, driving efficiency, reliability, and continuous improvement in software development and deployment.

Experience

1. Devops Engineer

   Charter Communications

   Sep 2022 — Present · Irving, TX, US

   You are responsible for building and deploying Java applications across multiple environments, including Dev, QA, UAT, and Production. Your role involves analyzing and resolving compilation and deployment errors related to code development, branching, merging, and building source code, along with Linux administration tasks such as installation, configuration, tuning, and upgrades.You have expertise in implementing CI/CD pipelines using AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Artifactory, Maven, and Git, ensuring seamless software integration and deployment. Your experience in Blue/Green deployments helps manage application releases efficiently. Additionally, you are well-versed in various AWS cloud services, including EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, RDS, IAM, S3, Route53, and ECR. You have knowledge of creating AWS S3 buckets, enabling versioning, and ensuring security for stored files.Your skills extend to deploying and monitoring scalable infrastructure using Ansible for configuration management. You utilize Ansible Playbooks to set up Continuous Delivery pipelines and deploy microservices while provisioning AWS environments. You efficiently build files using Ansible and create clean, reusable abstractions for automation. Additionally, you use Ansible Tower to manage multiple nodes and environment inventories.As a Docker expert, you package applications and their dependencies into isolated containers, ensuring portability across infrastructures and eliminating the \"works on my machine\" problem. You implement continuous delivery pipelines using Docker and Jenkins and integrate log insight tools for monitoring critical applications, creating dashboards to track logs.You also build, manage, and improve build infrastructures for global software development teams, implementing build scripts, continuous integration infrastructure, and deployment tools. You use shell scripting to automate deployments in Linux-based systems and structure repositories with branches, tags, and trunks.