Playing Musical Instruments
Praveen Kumar M
DevOps Technical Lead
The Nilgiris
Summary
DevOps and Linux System Administration specialist with 9+ years of experience. Skilled in RedHat Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, and SUSE. Expertise in Devops tools, pipelines, networking, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and package management. Passionate about learning and sharing knowledge in the Engineering field. Committed to enhancing technical abilities to support organizations and maintaining honesty in the workplace.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Technical Lead
Tech Mahindra
Coimbatore
04.2024 - Current
- Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
- Implemented continuous integration and deployment strategies for faster release cycles and improved application reliability.
- Maintained close communication with clients throughout project life cycles for accurate progress reporting and prompt issue resolution.
- Involved in Technical troubleshooting, vendor coordination, technical escalations,tuning & performance management of existing infrastructure.
- Involved in infrastructure automation, thereby minimizing workload and to involve resources in constructive & progressive work.
- Created scripts and automation in the development process to maximize build efficiency and secure solid code.
Develop and manage consistent and coherent DevOps processes and practices to support software development, testing, builds and deployment. - Implemented performance and monitoring tools to ensure the infrastructure is well monitored, ensured to trigger alerts on timely manner.
Senior Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
Coimbatore
10.2022 - 04.2024
- Involve in Technical troubleshooting, vendor coordination, technical escalations, tuning & performance management of existing infrastructure.
- Involve in infrastructure automation, so that minimize workload and to involve resources in constructive & progressive work, patch update, management and coordination with developers.
- Implemented Ansible playbooks for smoother Linux OS patching and for fixing the Security vulnerabilities related Linux environment. This reduced the manual intervention and errors by automation scripts, also saved the time for implementing these changes on server environments.
- Configuring network settings and services such as DNS, DHCP, and VPNs. Implementing policies for password strength and expiration.
- Monitor and analyze logs to detect and address any issues proactively, preventing potential system failures and ensuring seamless operations. Developed disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.
Senior Administrator - Cloud and Infrastructure Services (CIS)
Wipro Technologies
Coimbatore
12.2018 - 09.2022
- As a level 3 support need to do system administration, incident/problem determination and resolution.
- Problem, Change and Configuration management, Service incidents and queries within the agreed service levels. Perform Service Requests based on Standard Operating Procedures.
- Work on schedule tasks as part of Change Management. Should be able to handle issues Independently and suggest/ implement services improvement plans.
- Streamlined administrative processes by implementing efficient systems and procedures, resulting in increased productivity.
- Kept office operations running smoothly by providing effective leadership and administrative skills.
Linux System Administrator
DCIS India Pvt Ltd
Ooty
03.2016 - 11.2018
- Networking: Supported LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, Wifi access and intranet systems. Configuring connections between remote offices and VPN/VPC, Monitoring and troubleshooting VPN connectivity issues.
- Servers and Systems: Server provisioning, providing servers based on the requirements by other teams with different OS such as Centos, Ubuntu, Windows. Providing access on Gsuite and LDAP for server access for the users based on their role. Mcaffee administration. Troubleshoot problems reported by users and analyze and isolate issues
- Applications Management: Installing mandatory applications on servers based on their role to the latest versions. Installation and configuration of Web servers such as Apache, Nginx, Resin and Tomcat, LAMP Administration. WordPress upgrades and management. DNS management
AWS Administration, Infra Automation on AWS Environment using CICD methodology. - Data Backups and Recovery:
Enabling backups for servers and storing using Amanda, Mysql-zrm, S3 Backup. Monitoring and Puppet administration.
Enabling monitoring for 750+ servers and devices. Monitoring server health check and performance, Server uptime, application status
Education
Master of Engineering - Embedded System Technologies
SNS College of Engineering
Coimbatore 09.2013 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering
CSI College of Engineering
Ketti, The Nilgiris, India 09.2009 - 05.2013
Skills
Good Coordinating capability
Confident in making decision in tough situations
Managing time and multitasking
Willingness to learn
AWS EC2
VPC
Microsoft Azure Basics
Grafana setup
Automation tools - Jenkins and Git
Ansible
Shell scripting
Python basics
Systems development lifecycle management
Technical analysis
Technical mentoring
Software development life cycle
Certification
Microsoft Azure AZ - 100, Infrastructure and Deployment Certification (Internal Certification at Collabera)
Areas Of Interest
- Exploring new Linux based tools and applications.
- Interested in learning Cloud and Cloud based services.
- Writing automation scripts using Ansible and testing them.
- Very much interested in gardening.
- Photo and Video editing works.
- Playing musical instruments (Keyboard, Guitar & Mouth Organ).
Mobile Numbers
- +919566319772
- +917598114802
https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveen-kumar-02725764/
Personal Information
- Age: 33
- Passport Number: C8310050
- Date of Birth: 14th October 1991
- Nationality: Indian
- Driving License: LMV Indian Driving License
- Marital Status: Married
Interests
Gardening
Cooking
Timeline
DevOps Certification - Cloud Train
08-2024
Technical Lead
Tech Mahindra
04.2024 - Current
Microsoft Azure AZ - 100, Infrastructure and Deployment Certification (Internal Certification at Collabera)
04-2023
Senior Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
10.2022 - 04.2024
Senior Administrator - Cloud and Infrastructure Services (CIS)
Wipro Technologies
12.2018 - 09.2022
Linux System Administrator
DCIS India Pvt Ltd
03.2016 - 11.2018
Master of Engineering - Embedded System Technologies
SNS College of Engineering
09.2013 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering
CSI College of Engineering
09.2009 - 05.2013
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