NARENDRANATH ARANI

Sr. Cloud Engineer – Data/DevOps at Optus Pty Ltd

DevOps and data/engineering role focusing on migrating on-prem applications to AWS and GCP. Designed and implemented serverless ETL projects, built a GCP reseller CRUD app with Google Functions, and deployed an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline using Benthos on AWS Fargate for Kafka logs. Enforced strict S3 bucket access policies, designed a GAM log processor with Lambda and Step Functions, and built Glue tables to monitor customer behavior with Lambda/Datalake/S3. Created a monitoring page for Yospace servers via API Gateway and Lambda with X-Ray observability. Migrated Ansible Automation Platform to AWS, secured ALB/EC2 per InfoSec standards, and encrypted on-prem to S3 data transfer. Developed a serverless SPA to fetch network device statuses, explored webhook alerts for Cradlepoint devices, and implemented cost-optimization by scheduling start/stop of instances.

Senior Consultant at Novon

Delivered GitLab CI/CD automation and orchestration across 30+ AWS accounts and 400 repos; led migration from AWS-hosted GitLab to SaaS, deployed autoscaling GitLab runners, and automated URI and gitlab-ci.yml updates for hundreds of repos.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Versent Pty Ltd

Provided automation and cloud infrastructure improvements using AWS/TF/Serverless. Implemented tagging automation with AWS Lambda across 100+ drifted stacks, created SAM templates for device push notifications, and built Prometheus/Grafana dashboards. Automated generation of CloudFormation templates for 100+ stacks and developed a complex GitHub Actions pipeline deploying CloudFormation with Load Balancers, Target Groups, and Auto Scaling across Windows IIS environments; implemented automated patching with AWS SSM.

Systems Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services

Worked on deployment platforms using CloudFormation; created SSM Automation Documents for operational tasks; contributed to internal X-Ray instrumentation demonstrations and training. Built Docker images for Ruby/Python apps, authored a CloudFormation Macro to empty an S3 bucket during stack deletion, and produced training materials.

Senior DevOps Engineer at McAfee Skyhigh Networks

Managed Hadoop nodes with SaltStack and Chef; created internal tools to automate daily activities for developers; automated build processes using Jenkins.

Systems Development Engineer at Relevance Lab Pvt Ltd

Developed Chef Cookbooks and internal CI/CD pipelines using Ruby on Rails & Sinatra; automated deployment stages and wrote Ruby scripts to streamline operations.

Subject Matter Expert, VMware at EMC Datastorage & Software Pvt. Ltd

Deployed, administered and troubleshot VMware-driven Vblock infrastructure; provided internal support for various teams; authored Perl scripts to automate report generation.

Sr. Linux Engineer at Savvis Inc, A division of Century Link India Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Configured and supported Linux/VMware servers in data centers; troubleshooting and maintenance to ensure uptime.

Technical Support Engineer at VMware Software India Ltd

Production support for vSphere ESX/ESXi, FC/FCoE and iSCSI SAN environments; network and storage troubleshooting; incident response.

Sr. Technical Support Executive at IBM India Pvt. Ltd

Remote network support for BP, using Remedy ticketing system to track and resolve issues.

Senior Consultant at Novon @client: Virgin Australia

Delivered GitLab CI/CD automation, Ansible playbooks, and Terraform tooling across 30+ AWS accounts. Built AMI cleaner Lambda in multiple accounts; migrated GitLab from AWS to SaaS and deployed autoscaling GitLab Runners. Automated updates to GitLab URIs and gitlab-ci.yml across 400 repos to streamline pipelines.

Sr. Linux Engineer at Savvis Inc, A division of Century Link India Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Configured, supported, and troubleshot Linux and VMware servers in data centers; provided ongoing operational support.

Technical Support Engineer at VMware Software India Ltd.

Production support for vSphere ESX/ESXi servers, FC/FCoE and iSCSI SAN storage and networks; provided ongoing incident resolution and troubleshooting.