Iswarya Balamurugan

DevSecOps Engineer

Summary

I'm a passionate dreamer and creator obsessed with finding ways to do things better, faster, and more efficiently. I'm flexible, versatile, and quick learner.

Experience

Fidelity

03/2022 - Present

DevSecOps Engineer

While working as a DevSecOps Engineer for Fidelity

  • Hands on experience in Groovy for Jenkins Core and QE Core projects.
  • Created pipelines for user migration from Jenkins Enterprise to Jenkins Core
  • Active member of WI DevSecOps Platform – enablement team to help in migration to Jenkins Core, QE Core, GitHub, GHAS Mend, Launch Darkly
  • Assisted and resolved all ALM related toll issues for many users accross WI
  • Initiated and owned one of Mike's Top KPI -Jenkins Core Single Cluster to Multicluster migration and completed it successfully
  • Onboarded 100+ applications to Enterprise Maturity Dashbaord and helped teams resolve SSPD maturity level conflicts
  • Lead the DevSecOps Office Hours and handled multiple user issues in various ALM tools
  • Hands on experience in Power Apps and Power BI
  • Worked on more than 10+ dashboard created using Power BI
  • Created two power apps for internal team use within short span of time
  • Created dashboards which are used wide in WI
  • Good knowledge in JIRA, Artifactory, Git, Bitbucket, VS Code
  • Attended POWER BI ADVANCED workshop
  • Completed AWS CLOUD PRACTIONER training conducted by WITSG Cloud TogtHER
  • Completed SCRUM MASTER Certification

Cognizant Technology Solutions

06/2015 - 04/2017

Cloud DevOps Engineer (Associate)

Worked for Genia -US Client through cognizant

  • Worked in a Cloud Team, being an AWS cloud architect to support migration plans from on-premises to
  • AWS Cloud also subject matter of expert in AWS.
  • Architecting AWS solutions using EC2, VPC, SG, Route53, S3, IAM, EBS, and Elastic Load Balancer
  • Scaling groups, Optimized volumes and EC2 instances, Cloud Watch.
  • Worked extensively on API Gateways, Route53, EC2, ELB on day-to-day basis.
  • Performed an investigation and implementing the Solution to do secure backups of the Prod Database, to the lower environments masking all the PCI data.
  • Maintained and coordinated environment configuration, controls, code integrity, and code conflict resolution and used GIT for branching, tagging, and merging.
  • Monitoring the daily and nightly build jobs improved and fixed them when needed.
  • Experience in designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), autoscaling groups, Workspace
  • Worked at optimizing volumes and EC2 instances and created multiple VPC instances.
  • Experience working with IAM to create new accounts, roles, and groups.
  • Experience in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
  • Experience involving configuring S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in glacier.
  • Utilize EBS to store persistent data and mitigate failure by using snapshots.
  • Use Amazon Cloud Watch metrics to monitor the health and utilization of AWS resources.
  • Experience working on User admin groups, maintaining account and monitoring system performance using Nagios.
  • Participated in configuring and monitoring distributed and multiple platform servers using Puppet.
  • Used Puppet server and workstation to manage and configure nodes.
  • Maintained and Administered GIT Source Code Tool.
  • Responsible for design and maintenance of the GIT repositories.
  • Experienced in branching, tagging, and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tool like GIT.
  • Experience in designing and implementing continuous integration system using Jenkins by creating Python and Shell scripts.
  • Managed and configured VMware virtual machine for RHEL.
  • Responsible for installation and upgrade of patches and packages on RHEL 5/6 using RPM&YUM.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

11/2010 - 06/2015

Cloud DevOps Engineer (Associate)

While working as a DevOps Engineer for Cognizant

  • Nginx Load Balancer setup and fine-tuning Nginx webserver for NodeJS application performance. By changing ulimit parameters. Amazon Cloud instance setup and maintenance Created VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), S3 in AWS.
  • Using Nagios tool setup for monitoring all server parameters on different remote Linux machines.
  • Creating new branches in Git for development purpose.
  • Administering and managing all Git related activities for whole team Using Jenkins tool automated Disk.
  • usage automation and Server Monitoring reports by writing a shell script. Being a part in deploying trumobi applications in android and iOS environment using Jenkins.
  • Using python script completed deploying a sharding type production environment (mongo DB).
  • Involved in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing Databases services. Involved in creating, managing, and securing the endpoints before exposing it to the developer.
  • Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.
  • Developed shell scripts for automation of the build and release process, developed Custom Scripts to monitor repositories, Server storage.

Education

KodekCloud

05/2019 - 12/2019

Self-directed study Relevant education and coursework

  • Kubernetes

Awards

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS

(Expired Feb 15, 2019)