Ritesh Raj Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Leading a team of DevOps engineers for a large Transformation program for VodafoneGermany.• The role includes hands-on working on various AWS services primarily onEKS, Terraform as IaaC and multiple Monitoring and Logging tools,Git/Bitbucket, GitOps (ArgoCD), and Jenkins for CI/CD etc.• Successfully implemented multiple fully automated Patching of EKS clusterson AWS accounts using AWS Systems Manager as well as Jenkinspipelines.• Successfully applied multiple cost optimization techniques to lower theOPEX cost for the accounts.• Created/Managed/Improved multiple CI/CD pipelines to deploy applicationson EKS.• Successfully configured and deployed Datadog, Fluentbit, Prometheus Stackfor logging and Monitoring.• Expertise in troubleshooting issues related to AWS services, EKS, Datadogetc.• Guiding the DevOps Engineers in the team for pipelinecreation/modifications, adding new stages/tools in the pipeline, evaluatingnew tools for security such as Burpsuite, Trivy etc. and implementing thesame in existing pipelines etc.- Leading 2 Operations team for Redhat Openshit for VF Spain and Qatar.• The role includes managing the Operations of Redhat Openshift clusterswith more than 100 worker nodes in Production as well as non-productionstages.• This includes managing the Operations team of 6 members who arecreating new clusters, updating existing clusters, managing anydefects/ticket raised on any services running on OCP clusters, costoptimization on the cluster resources, automation for regular BAU tasksetc.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Performed a role of DevOps Lead for Thought Machine Practice Area.- Created the Banking layer artifacts for Thought Machine to integrate with Customer UI.This involved working on Smart Contracts (Bank Products) and Workflows.- Developed API based microservice in Python to solve a problem of generating a randomAccount number for a given Country Code for a Customer.- Responsible for Deployment of Thought Machine Vault on Openshift Cluster.- Created PostgreSQL DB service as Pod on the Openshift Cluster with self-signedCertificates used for SSL enablement.- Created setup of OpenLDAP and Keycloak SSO for Thought Machine Vault productOn Openshift.- Created setup of Kafka cluster with Mutual TLS enabled for Thought Machine Vault productOn Openshift.- Created Terraform scripts to provision Openshift Cluster on IBM Cloud.- CI/CD pipelines created using Jenkinsfile.- Performing a role of Openshift Architect for RedHat Hackathon Plus PoC.- Designed the DevOps pipeline for User Interface Web Frontend deployed on a Nginx Server,Backend API Microservices deployed on Tomcat Apache server on Openshift Cluster.- The role also included correct resource allocation for the pods on OCP and creating theDockerfile required to create the image for deployment on OCP. Performed end to endtroubleshooting of all communication between the pods.- Performing a role of Application Architect for AURORA LBG.- Working on complex type of Applications like Internet Banking, Payments etc. to migrate thoseapplications to Cloud. The role also involved Cloud Server Sizing which eventually getsprovisioned as IaaS and PaaS.- Performing a role of Application Architect for ABN AMRO.- Have worked on diverse types of Applications and helped the client to migrate thoseapplications to Cloud. The role also involved Cloud Server Sizing which eventually getsprovisioned as IaaS and PaaS.

Bengaluru Area, India

Leading a team of 6 members for an EAI enabled project. The main responsibilities include Development using IBM Websphere Transformation Extender (WTX/Mercator), training and mentoring new joiners to the team on WTX, helping the team members to deliver their deliverables on time and with high standards of quality.

I work on Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, EASYTRIEVE) and WTX(MERCATOR).

I worked on Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, EASYTRIEVE) and WTX(MERCATOR).

M.Tech., Thermal Sciences

Master Of Technology

B.E., Mechanical

Bachelor of Engineering