Paavan T.

Devops Engineer @Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

Jacksonville, FL, US

Hands on Experience working on migrating on-perm applications to Azure Private Cloud from gathering requirements, Deployment Design document, Planning, designing architecture, CICD using packer, Terraform and Azure DevOps.Working on Azure AKS Kubernetes Clusters deployments using terraform and managing the deployments through helm charts.Extensively worked on developing Terraform modules from scratch upgrading provider versions, Restructuring Jumpstart Kits which are utilized across AT & T to provision Infrastructure in Azure.Following the security best practices to deploy side car containers for monitoring, pods, Istio and Linkerd Service Meshes, Ingress, Kured, AKV2k8s and pod identity on Kubernetes Clusters.Migrated Splunk and Nagios applications to cloud and installed agents on application servers to monitor services and metrics.Setting up CICD Azure DevOps Pipelines for multiple applications.Good experience working on creating Pipelines with various stages and jobs in Azure DevOps on integrating with Repos, Artifacts, Creating Service Connections, Agent Pools etc.Hands on Experience working on Dynatrace setting up alerts, configuring dashboards and debugging issues through pure paths for application API logs.Experience configuring App Insights, Azure Monitor, and log analytics with application servers for monitoring.Played major role in key architecting decisions and design patterns to migrate applications in more secure, reliable, universally available and DR approaches.Installed and Configured SCCM and SCOM to manage deployments and monitoring for all windows VM’s across AT & T.Developed CD Pipelines for various web and app server deployments using Azure DevOps.Good Experience developing CICD Pipelines integrating with application repos, Artifacts, Maven, MS Build, Jira and with multiple environments