Santhosh Kumar K | Portfolio

About Me

Passionate Cloud & DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS.
Experienced in infrastructure automation (Python, Shell), CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and containerization (Docker Swarm).
Skilled in Linux system administration (including Zimbra mail servers).
Proficient in managing robust server infrastructures using tools like Zabbix and PRTG.
Always eager to learn and apply new technologies within the cloud ecosystem to solve challenging problems.

Skills Experience Education

Cloud Platforms

AWS | Azure

Web Server

Apache, Nginx

Mail Server

Zimbra

Monitoring Tools

Zabbix | PRTG

Programming

Python

Database

MySQL

Scripting

Shell

AWS Services

EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, VPC, IAM, Route 53, etc.

CI/CD & Containers

GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker Swarm

Operating Systems

Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Windows Server

Version Control

Git, GitHub

NOC Engineer

Postiefs Technologies | Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

Oct 3rd 2024 - Present

The primary responsibility is to carry out day-to-day tasks of System Administration and Monitoring and updating Tickets (issues) through Incident management system.
Using Zabbix and PRTG Monitoring Linux servers such as Disk space utilization, CPU utilization, Memory utilization.
Configured AWS EC2 instances, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and IAM roles/policies.
Established CloudWatch alarms to monitor CPU utilization and trigger scale-in/scale-out actions at a threshold.
Managed M365 user accounts, permissions, and group assignments.
Administered cPanel/WHM for web hosting management, server configurations, backups, and client support.
Installed SSL certificates on Apache/Nginx web servers for clients.
Administered Zimbra Mail Servers, ensuring optimal performance, security, and uptime.

Associate System Engineer Intern

Bridge Global Software Solution | Kochi, Kerala.

Mar 1st 2024 - Aug 30th 2024

Provisioned EC2 instances with an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) and configured an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for automated scaling and efficient traffic distribution.
Deployed Apache servers and MySQL databases on Linux , and utilized AWS CodeDeploy for CI/CD with GitHub.
Automated WordPress deployment with Dockerfile and Docker Compose, including MySQL, bind mounts, and a single network.
Networking Issues: LAN/WAN, Hardware and Software Support, Asset Management, Antivirus Management, Remote support.

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Computer Science

Annamalai University

2018 - 2022

Higher Secondary (12th) & SSLC (10th)

Mount Park Higher Secondary School

12th - 2018 | 10th - 2016

Projects

SonarQube Contribution

Automated AWS RDS instance management using AWS SSM (State Manager).

GCS Setup (Gift Card Swap)

Developed an AWS Lambda Function with EventBridge and Python to manage server startup/shutdown.

Automatic EC2 Start/Stop Scheduler

Developed AWS Lambda functions using Python (Boto3) to automatically start/stop EC2 instances based on tags, optimizing cloud costs.

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Hi, I'm Santhosh Kumar