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Arun Bennur

Infrastructure Engineer | Site Reliability Engineer | Junior Software Developer | Cloud Engineer
Dublin

Summary

  • Agile, Analytical Thinking Infrastructure Engineer Over 3 years experience developing and maintaining highly reliable and scalable infrastructure solutions.
  • experience participating in 24x7 on-call support for production-critical issues, ensuring system stability and prompt resolution of any problems
  • Managed environments DEV, QA and UAT for various releases and designed instance.
  • Experience in writing Ansible Playbooks (YAML) and converting in to Roles for Scalability and Reusability in Ansible
  • Provisioned and Maintained infrastructure using IAC tools like terraform
  • Experience in Dockerizing & orchestrating using kubernetes (micro services)
  • Coordinated with developers and Help Automated the process of deployment with CICD
  • Kubernetes infrastructure Maintenance and Automation alligned with GitOps principles
  • Result driven, Exemplary team player with outstanding communication skills

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Junior Infrastructure Engineer

Telnyx
10.2021 - Current
  • Provisioned and deployed an extensive array of infrastructure services across diverse cloud environments, including AWS, GCP, and IBM. Leveraged powerful automation tools like Terraform and Ansible to achieve flawless and efficient deployments on VMs
  • Create and manage IAM roles, policies, and users to control access to AWS resources with the principle of least privilege, troubleshoot and resolve issues related to S3, Athena, IAM, and Terraform configurations, and design, implement, and manage S3 buckets, including configuring lifecycle policies, versioning, and replication for data durability and availability
  • Developed custom scripts and tools to automate the deployment of various services and security tools such as Fluent Bit, auditd exporter, firewalls, and Lacework on servers, enhancing operational efficiency and security across the infrastructure.
  • Assisted developers with the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) of microservices using Jenkins on Kubernetes clusters, ensuring smooth and efficient deployment processes.
  • Implemented Vault Secrets Operator for automated rotation and management of secrets, enhancing security and reducing manual intervention.
  • Developed comprehensive dashboards in Grafana and implemented metric exporters to provide real-time alerts for various services, ensuring proactive monitoring and swift response to issues
  • Developed and Maintained robust internal APIs, templating services, inventory management systems, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability to support critical business functions.
  • Worked on deploying and resolving highly complex DNS issues, such as configuring multi-region failover and optimizing DNS resolution for improved latency, ensuring seamless connectivity and high availability for critical services.
  • Responsible for maintaining and upgrading Kubernetes infrastructure on both GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) and EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service), including node pool upgrades and providing ongoing support to developers to ensure a stable and efficient deployment environment
  • Participated in 24x7 on-call support to resolve critical issues, conducted thorough root cause analysis to prevent recurrence, and meticulously documented processes and resolutions to enhance knowledge sharing and operational efficiency.

DevOps Engineer

Infinitum Global
10.2015 - 12.2017

Troubleshot and resolved issues on Linux servers, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime through proactive monitoring and efficient problem-solving techniques.

  • Setup Jenkins tool to integrate the JAVA project and maintained Jenkins with continuous integration and deployment
  • Created the Docker Images, containers and creating Docker files and mounting Volumes for different Containers.
  • Used Jenkins to streamline CI/CD process, automated Master-Slave configurations using temporary slaves.
  • Develop scripts to automate the daily deployment tasks using Shell.
  • Setting up EC2 instances
  • Deploying VPC and virtualizing the cloud with Subnet, Security groups, NACLs, Routing tables as per customer requirement.

Education

Master of Science - Data Analytics

National College of Ireland
Dublin
01.2018 - 11.2019

Technical Skills

Version Control Systems : Git

Build tools/Script language :  Shell scripting, Python.

CICD : Jenkins

Operating Systems : Linux, Windows.

Virtualization tools : Docker, proxmox

Container Orchestration : Kubernetes

Kubernetes-Ecosystem: Argo-cd, Keda, Kustomize, kvyerno, k9s 

Cloud platform : AWS, GCP, IBM, AZURE

IAC tools: Ansible, Terraform

Other: Microsoft office Suite, Jira, Hardware and Network Troubleshooting, DNS, Hashicorp Vault, Hashicorp Consul

Timeline

Junior Infrastructure Engineer

Telnyx
10.2021 - Current

Master of Science - Data Analytics

National College of Ireland
01.2018 - 11.2019

DevOps Engineer

Infinitum Global
10.2015 - 12.2017
Arun BennurInfrastructure Engineer | Site Reliability Engineer | Junior Software Developer | Cloud Engineer