Mahendra R.

Professional Summary: • Designed, setup and maintained end-to-end CI/CD solution for multiple telecom products with various DevOps tools. • Extensive knowledge and experience in Configuration Control, Build Management and Release Engineering. • Expertise in Linux, Docker, Kubernetes environments system administration • Expertise in working with docker containers and docker build. • Application deployment and support over baremetal, cloud (VNF), and container (CNF) platforms. • Experience in OpenStack, VMware, AWS cloud platforms, and VMware/OpenStack cloud deployment. • Expertise in IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible for building and maintaining infrastructure. • Extensive experience with Jenkins, Git/Gerrit, Helm, ArgoCD for continuous integration and deployment. • Expertise in Deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters, ensuring consistency and reliability. • Experience in Build and Release automation, Release management. • Expertise in automating and running Jenkins pipelines using Groovy, Shell, ansible and python scripts. • Experience in collaborating with multiple product development teams for designing and streamlining DevOps solutions. • Proficient in leveraging automation tools and DevOps practices to optimize system performance, enhance reliability, and minimize downtime. • Demonstrated expertise in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis. • Worked closely with product management to establish SLAs and SLOs, aligning technical objectives with business goals. • Skilled in motivating and guiding diverse teams towards success through effective communication, strategic planning, and decisive decision-making. • Expertise in driving Root cause analysis (RCA) review to identify system/application issues. To prevent issue re-occurrence, collaborating with R&D teams on preventive/corrective actions to enhance system reliability. • Expertise in using AWS Cloud services including EC2, EBS, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, and more • Well versed in stakeholder management, tracking deliverables and managing resource allocation in multiple critical & challenging projects. • Proficient with ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, creating dashboards for application and infrastructure monitoring and logging • Expertise in telecom core network service product (IMS, CSCF, HSS, HLR, SDL and CSD) configuring, deployment, troubleshooting and integration. • Proficient in designing Network Topology and working with Subnets, routing, IPv4,IPv6, VLAN and VxLAN • Deployed and managed Esxi/KVM based virtual infrastructure in large scale enterprise level environment. • Expertise in deploying, administering, upgrading Kubernetes clusters, extensively worked on control plane components like etcd, kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler, kube-controlmanager and good working experience with PVCs and CNIs in k8s • 14+ years administering Linux servers experience with multi-DC environments. • Leading cross-functional projects, POCs, and tech selection processes from idea to implementation. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, good at process/design documentation. • Experience in Agile software delivery as a scrum master