Venkatesh Kd

Experienced and detail-oriented Senior DevOps Engineer with over 6.5 years of expertise in automating infrastructure, managing deployments, and ensuring high system availability in both AWS and on premise environments. Skilled in using Git for version control, Docker for containerization, and Kubernetes for container orchestration. Proficient in defining infrastructure as code using Terraform to create scalable and secure environments.

Well-versed in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring system health and performance using AWS Cloud Watch and Nagios. Strong team player with a proven track record of collaborating effectively with development and IT teams to streamline release cycles, reduce manual efforts, and enhance deployment reliability.

SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER at CLIENT IT SOLUTION PVT LTD (2023-11 – Present)

Led the migration of Nova Pay's legacy payment processing systems to a modern AWS-based cloud infrastructure while implementing DevOps practices to enhance scalability, speed, and security.

• Implemented scalable deployment workflows using Docker containers orchestrated on Amazon EKS, enhancing the platform's fault tolerance and service reliability.
• Automated infrastructure setup using Terraform, covering a full range of AWS resources such as EC2 instances, networking layers, and database services.
• Constructed modular, efficient CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, integrating static code analysis, artifact storage, and version control with tools like SonarQube, Nexus, Git, and Maven.
• Reduced deployment complexity by automating environment configurations and app rollouts through custom Ansible automation scripts.
• Set up comprehensive observability solutions using CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana, improving incident response and performance tracking.
• Enabled log centralization and visualization using Fluentd, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, supporting operational transparency and audit requirements.
• Enforced organizational security policies using IAM roles, custom permission sets, and Linux SUDO rules, aligned with industry compliance standards.
• Engaged in Agile ceremonies and sprint cycles, coordinating work items, bugs, and deployments using JIRA as part of a cross-functional DevOps team.

DEVOPS ENGINEER at Finvault Solutions, UK (2021-10 – 2023-10)

Finvault Solutions is a UK-based financial tech services provider that delivers enterprise-grade banking applications. The project aimed to enhance deployment automation and CI/CD implementation across distributed environments.

• Implemented Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows, integrating with Git to trigger builds upon new commits and ensure continuous integration.
• Created and managed Ansible playbooks written in YAML to automate remote provisioning and configuration across multiple Linux servers.
• Maintained and improved Maven-based build automation scripts and shell scripts, enabling faster and more reliable release cycles with minimal manual input.
• Deployed builds to Apache Tomcat servers, closely coordinating with QA and development teams to ensure seamless delivery to staging and production.
• Set up Linux Jenkins slave nodes to distribute build jobs efficiently, increasing system resilience and reducing overall CI bottlenecks.
• Used Ansible for infrastructure automation and configuration management, maintaining uniformity and reducing configuration drift across environments.

BUILD AND RELEASE ENGINEER at Infinix Solutions, France (2019-09 – 2021-09)

Infinix Solutions is a Paris-based IT service firm catering to insurance and financial clients with a focus on modernizing legacy systems through automation, CI/CD practices, and Infrastructure transformation.

• Designed and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines, automating build and deployment workflows for improved release velocity.
• Migrated source code from a legacy version control system to Subversion (SVN) to standardize code versioning and streamline collaboration across development teams.
• Configured Jenkins to work seamlessly with the SVN repository, enabling automated build jobs to trigger on code check-ins.
• Automated infrastructure and application deployments using Chef, including writing and testing Cookbooks in Ruby to manage remote configurations.
• Spearheaded the installation and configuration of Jenkins CI servers, ensuring a centralized integration and deployment process for multiple projects.
• Contributed to improving the ANT-based build system, identifying inefficiencies and resolving dependency and build-time issues.
• Installed and managed multiple operating systems (e.g., RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows 7) to support varied test and production environments.
• Developed proactive troubleshooting guides to quickly resolve Jenkins build issues, reducing downtime and ensuring deployment continuity.
• Supported cross-functional teams in identifying version control issues and enforcing best practices in code management and integration.

LINUX ADMIN ENGINEER

• Provided technical support for Linux-based systems, resolving issues within a timely manner.
• Monitored system performance and generated reports to optimize resource usage.
• Collaborated with the IT team to implement security best practices and system updates.
• Administered and maintained Linux servers, ensuring 99.9% uptime across all systems.
• Automated routine system tasks using Bash scripting, reducing manual workload by 30%.
• Assisted in the migration of services to cloud infrastructure, improving scalability and performance.
• Installed and configured DNS, DHCP, and other network services.
• Implemented disaster recovery plans, backup procedures, and security measures.
• Performed system upgrades and patching of operating systems.
• Troubleshot, resolved, and documented technical problems.
• Provided technical documentation, training, and support to end users.
• Responsible for creating, modifying and deleting users, groups and assigning the permissions to users and groups.
• Configuration of remote access utilities, providing user access control on services like Telnet, FTP and SSH.
• Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling and monitoring backups and restore.
• Setting up cron jobs for the user to deploy scripts on production servers.

B.E. in Mechanical Engineering – GM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (2019)