Vijay M.

About Vijay M.

As a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer at The Citco Group Limited, I configure and manage cloud resources and services on Azure and AWS platforms, using tools like Azure Key Vault, Azure App Services, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, and Azure Automation. I also implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using ARM templates, Terraform, and CloudFormation, and orchestrate containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) and Kubernetes clusters. I have over 9 years of experience in DevOps and cloud engineering, with previous roles at Cigna Healthcare and Conduent, where I utilized Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools like Azure Pipelines, Jenkins Pipelines, and other DevOps tools. I am a Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Expert, and Certified Kubernetes Administrator, with strong skills in Python scripting, Shell scripting, Docker, GIT, and Jenkins. I am passionate about optimizing software delivery pipelines, managing cloud environments, and driving innovation through automation.

Experience

1. Senior Cloud Devops Engineer

   The Citco Group Limited

   Jul 2021 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   configured Azure PaaS - Azure App Services (Web Apps, Function Apps), Azure Application Insights, Azure Application Gateway, Azure DNS, Azure Traffic Manager, Analyzing Azure Networks with Azure Network Watcher, Implementing Azure Site Recovery, Azure stack, Azure Backup and Azure Automation.• Implemented several POCs on Azure utilization and configured resources using Azure Key Vault to save high critical secrets and passwords. Also, worked on Azure storage, Azure SQL Database, Virtual Machines, Azure Key Vault, Azure AD, Azure search, and Azure Notification hub.• Created cloud modules for interacting with Azure services which provides the tools to easily create and orchestrate infrastructure on Azure and automated cloud-native applications in Azure using Azure Microservices such as Azure functions and Azure Kubernetes Services.• Implemented Azure Active Directory for single sign-on, authentication, authorization, and Azure Role-based Access Control (RBAC) and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, Security policies, and routing.• Implemented backup methodologies for Azure Services like Key Vault, Subscriptions, Storage blobs, App Services using Azure PowerShell Scripts. Created CI/CD Pipelines in Azure DevOps environments • Migrated on-premises instances to Azure Cloud using ARM subscription with Azure site Recovery and hands-on experience with building and installing servers through ARM Templates. implementing containerized based applications on Azure by using Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Kubernetes cluster, which are responsible for cluster management, Virtual Network to deploy agent node, Ingress API Gateway, MySQL Databases and Cosmo DB and setup revere proxy Nginx in the cluster.• Built CI/CD pipeline with Azure DevOps for Kubernetes containers, utilizing Kubernetes and docker for the runtime environment for the CI/CD system to build test and deploy on DEV and PROD environments.