Raj Kalgur

DevOps Engineer

Houston, Texas, United States17 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years of IT experience across multiple domains.
Expert in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management.
Strong proficiency in middleware administration and performance tuning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD processes.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ci/cd ManagementCloud Infrastructure Management

Other Skills

AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleCA API GatewayCA Layer 7DockerGCPGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)GrafanaHP Performance CenterJenkinsKubernetesLoadRunnerOpenShiftOpenshift

About

Overall 15+ years of experience in IT Industry and certified CKAD, CKA & terraform associate. Experience in the Hospitality/Telecom/Banking and Retail/Ecommerce domain, with strong understanding of technical & business needs and customer handling. Expertise in Middleware Administration, Build Deployment, Release Management, Software Configuration Management, Performance Tuning and Testing and Infrastructure Management (OnPrem and Cloud). Proficiency in Shell, Groovy, Jenkins, OpenShift Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere IIB, CA API Gateway, Tomcat, Weblogic, JBOSS. Experienced in the version control GIT, SVN. Strong in-depth knowledge on monitoring tools AppDynamics, Wily, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus Experience in ticket management tools like JIRA & Service Now. Ability to work closely with multiple teams, to ensure high quality and timely deliverables

Experience

Tailored brands, inc.

2 roles

Staff Devops Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to deploy into OpenShift GCP and AWS
Wrote scripts to automate Build and Release process
Eliminating 80% of manual CI/CD work and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins for:
o Spring-boot Code Deployment
o Batch job deployment.
o Tibco BW6 integration Deployment.
Configure and maintain application instances deployed into OpenShift, kubernetes clusters using industry best practices.
Experience in creating images using Docker multi stage and Docker Compose.
Experience in creating CA API gateway polices on Gateway Layer 7.
Look at GCP and OpenShift, Big Query, Audit, and Composer logs to understand performance issues, whether they are related to scalability, infra issues, GC, CPU, memory, VM, etc. isolate whether it is functional or capacity constraint.
Work with Red hat, GCP and AWS cloud support for any solutions on bug fixes or releases.
Exposure to Grafana & Prometheus Dashboard.
Spend 20% of time to support applications which are running on different technology stacks and responds to the end user with solutions on timely manner
Hands on Experience on deploying the Maven files into servers and stored the artifact files in Nexus repository and Artifactory.
Experience on capacity planning at infrastructure level, scaling of applications and OS level.
Analyzing/diagnosing performance issues in the applications.