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Lerin muthuraj

To become DevOps Aspirant and Cloud Solution Architect, Work on industries leading technologies and new tools in challenging environment, and work towards the growth of the organization.
  • Role

    Specialist, DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure (Enterprise Architect)

  • Years of Experience

    5.6 years

Skillsets

  • Nagios
  • SQL
  • SonarQube
  • ServiceNow
  • Rbac
  • Prometheus
  • Prisma Cloud
  • Power BI
  • OPA
  • Nexus
  • SRE
  • MongoDB
  • Microservices
  • Linux
  • Linkerd
  • Kyverno
  • Jira
  • Istio
  • IAM
  • Helm
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • zero-trust security
  • VPC
  • Service Mesh
  • private connectivity
  • Platform Engineering
  • Multi-Tenancy
  • load balancers
  • Ingress
  • High availability
  • Harness CD
  • DNS
  • Disaster Recovery
  • CDN
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Amazon ecr
  • YAML
  • Windows Server
  • Velero
  • Trivy
  • Terraform
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Ansible
  • Alibaba Cloud
  • AKS
  • AIOps
  • Splunk
  • IIS
  • Dynatrace
  • Azure
  • Aqua
  • Python
  • PowerShell
  • Jenkins
  • Grafana
  • nginx - 1 Years
  • GCP - 1 Years
  • Git - 2 Years
  • Kubernetes - 2 Years
  • AWS - 3 Years
  • FinOps
  • Groovy
  • Go
  • GKE
  • gitlab ci
  • GitHub Actions
  • Github
  • Gatekeeper
  • Fortify
  • Flux
  • Docker - 2 Years
  • ELK Stack
  • EKS
  • Confluence
  • Cloudformation
  • Chaos engineering
  • Bash
  • Azure DevOps
  • ArgoCD

Professional Summary

5.6Years
  • Apr, 2026 - Present 6 months

    Software Engineering Specialist

    Fiserv
  • Jan, 2024 - Present2 yr 9 months

    Specialist, DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure (Enterprise Architect)

    Fiserv
  • Oct, 2021 - Dec, 20232 yr 2 months

    Senior DevOps Engineer

    Cloud Destinations
  • May, 2021 - Sep, 2021 4 months

    Associate DevOps Engineer

    Cloud Destinations

Applications & Tools Known

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    MySQL

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    WordPress

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    Apache

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    Python

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    Git

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    SaaS

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    MobaXtream

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    Postman

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    Visual Studio Code

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    Zoho

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    AWS CloudWatch

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    AWS Cloud

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    AWS CloudFormation

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    Word

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    ChatGPT

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    Apache HTTP Server

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    Windows 10

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    Amazon EFS

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    Amazon EC2

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    Amazon EKS

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    Amazon Aurora

Work History

5.6Years

Software Engineering Specialist

Fiserv
Apr, 2026 - Present 6 months

Specialist, DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure (Enterprise Architect)

Fiserv
Jan, 2024 - Present2 yr 9 months
    Orchestrate end-to-end CI/CD operations for 20+ enterprise projects across GitLab, Harness, Nexus, AKS, and on-premises VM environments, ensuring consistent and reliable delivery pipelines. Author and maintain 30+ reusable Terraform modules for Azure and AWS resources, enforcing version constraints and modular IaC standards across multi-tenant environments. Lead application migration from on-premises infrastructure to Azure Cloud and modernize legacy Jenkins pipelines to enterprise-grade CI/CD tooling, reducing average deployment time to under 15 minutes. Architect an internal DevOps monitoring platform for 100+ AKS clusters, automating patching schedules, health checks, and vulnerability remediation, saving 6-8 hours of manual operations per week. Set up enterprise observability with Dynatrace and Splunk across AKS clusters and VMs, building infrastructure and application monitoring dashboards, log analytics, and proactive alerting to detect and resolve issues before customer impact. Automate certificate renewals and secret rotations across AKS clusters, eliminating manual security overhead and reducing production exposure risk. Serve as L3 escalation owner and infrastructure POC for 20+ enterprise applications, establishing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices (SLOs/SLIs and error budgets) and root cause analysis that eliminated 100% of P2 incidents and reduced P3 incidents by 70%. Architect and maintain a hybrid infrastructure spanning 400+ on-premises VMs and 100+ AKS clusters with full private connectivity and zero public access. Design custom GitLab CI pipeline templates for .NET 7/8/10 and React, integrating SonarQube, Fortify security scanning, and unit testing into standardized pipelines. Build Harness deployment pipelines for both Windows IIS and AKS workloads, enabling environment-segregated and controlled release management. Implement advanced Kubernetes scheduling (taints, tolerations, resource limits) and load-based autoscaling and right-sizing of AKS clusters and VM sizes, reducing DaemonSet CPU overhead and delivering measurable cloud cost savings (FinOps). Drive migration from a standard Kubernetes Ingress controller to Istio service mesh across AKS clusters, enabling advanced traffic management, mutual TLS (mTLS) encryption, and fine-grained service-level observability for microservices. Define Terraform IaC structure, multi-tenant Azure governance, and Azure DevOps organizational standards as part of the Enterprise Architecture team.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Cloud Destinations
Oct, 2021 - Dec, 20232 yr 2 months
    Architected and scaled AWS Lambda functions for automated image processing, handling compression and quality optimization for 1M+ images across cross-region S3 buckets, reducing end-to-end processing time from weeks to days. Designed and managed Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for both on-premises and AWS EKS deployments, standardizing release workflows across environments. Led migration of 5 applications and 10-15 microservices from on-premises VM and IIS infrastructure to AWS EKS and microservices architecture. Implemented AWS S3 cross-region and cross-account replication across 15+ buckets, ensuring high availability and multi-region data redundancy. Set up and managed Alibaba Cloud infrastructure (compute, networking, and Alibaba OSS) for China-region compliance, replacing AWS S3 as a dedicated storage layer. Coordinated a dual-cloud storage strategy across AWS S3 and Alibaba OSS, ensuring seamless replication for globally distributed client workloads. Contributed to Caresoft's first-ever China-region infrastructure setup on Alibaba Cloud, enabling compliant and isolated client environments.

Associate DevOps Engineer

Cloud Destinations
May, 2021 - Sep, 2021 4 months
    Managed Jenkins release cycles and deployment activities across GCP-hosted environments. Provisioned and managed GCP resources including Compute Engine VMs and GKE clusters to support evolving infrastructure requirements. Configured continuous monitoring and alerting with Nagios, ensuring real-time visibility into application and infrastructure health. Led serverless migration from standard VM and Apache hosting to GCP Cloud Run, improving scalability and reducing infrastructure overhead. Diagnosed and resolved a critical recurring production outage caused by misconfigured Nginx worker processes and thread counts, using custom Nagios alerting to eliminate crashes with zero recurrence. Awarded Best Employee of the Year for independently diagnosing and resolving a high-impact production issue that restored business stability and supported revenue growth.

Achievements

  • Best Freshers of the Year of 2021 Awarded by Clouddestinations, Received appreciation for fixing a long lasting issue in the architechture ( Sun Nuclear) Received appreciation on High flexibility and dedication in completing the project on deadline ( Caresoft)

Testimonial

Clouddestinations

Soundra Pandian

I have got a testimonial from my manager during my appraisal cycle that i own up to the tasks that have been assigned to me and that i am an Kaizen and put the team together and bring the best out of the people i work with

Major Projects

3Projects

Caresoft

Cloud Destinations
May, 2022 - Present4 yr 5 months

    Worked on Windows IIS hosting and EKS Environment

    1.Maintaining CI/CD pieplines

    2.AWS s3

    3.Cloud Front, Lambda, MYSQL , Postgres SQL

    4.Netowrking concepts like loadbalancing and SSL issues and site downtime trouble shooting

    5.Production application support

    6.Database troubleshooting

    7.Worked on alibaba cloud

    8.Large data migrations on S3

    9.Phython adn powershell scriptings

Raziel Health

Cloud Destinations
Oct, 2021 - May, 2022 7 months

    Worked on CI/CD pipeline building for Kubernetes environment where the application is hosted and working on networking concepts on AWS like cloud front and Route 53 and web hosting like nginx

Sun Nuclear

Cloud Destinations
May, 2021 - Aug, 2021 3 months

    Worked on maintaining an GCP environment and CI/CD pipeline

    the architecture was a monolithic one worked on MYsql Databases and Apache tomcat and monitoring tools like Nagios and Datadog

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

    Velammal Engineering College (2020)
  • Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)

    Rose Mary Matric. Hr. Sec. School (2016)

Certifications

  • Terraform ( Ongoing certification

A Few Screening Questions Before You Begin

Do you help me understand more about your background by giving brief introduction of yourself? okay. So, my name is Lauren. I am a DevOps engineer and a cloud solution architect, who a solution provider for any cloud solution needed for many on premise to cloud migration stuff. So that area is of my core specialty and, involving into CACD progress of any infrastructure and architecture, and maintaining databases and providing application support to troubleshooting, and maintaining, like, a highly available and a highly scalable environments, for the client, it's my sole, like, my main duty here, as my as a engineer. Yeah. That's it.

Secure AWS. To outline a secure AWS architecture for a new application. There are multiple ways to create a secure architecture. The first one is to go with a public and private subnet. We should have both public and private subnets. In the private subnet, we should have the servers and any Kubernetes clusters. Whatever we are hosting, the application should be in a private subnet, and the public subnet should have a bastion instance or a load balancer, and all other stuff should be in the public subnet. It should have an application load balancer as well as a network load balancer to use WAF rules. We can also use CloudFront to provide additional support from DDoS attacks and other threats. So, this is the main architecture I can use, the main thing is to use public and private subnet concepts, so that the private subnet will be accessible only to specific people who have access to it, and it will be exposed to the world only through the load balancer.

In what scenarios would you suggest using Terraform instead of AWS CloudFormation? Okay, Terraform is a tool. CloudFormation is primarily used for AWS related resources. So, in any case, we are using some other resources like RabbitMQ or other things, apart from AWS that we need for our projects. Right? So that may be some dependencies that we need to do an infrastructure that may not be inside the AWS provider services. For that, I would go along with the Terraform. Terraform has more than 100 service providers. So, we can use that. It has providers for Kubernetes as well as OpenSearch, Grafana, and everything else.

Application monitoring for Kubernetes can be done two ways. We can use the Kubernetes dashboard to look at the metrics, and I can also install a CloudWatch agent in my Kubernetes cluster. So, that will give a detailed analysis of the metrics of the parts and what CPU utilization other parts are taking, and I can direct the logs to CloudWatch. And, the logs, I can take them to CloudWatch, and I can check if there are any part failures. By checking the logs, I can get to know how the part failed. So, why is the part getting restarted again and again?

Do you ensure the back-end compatibility of a Java application in the CACD process? And a new version is getting okay. How did you ensure back-end compatibility of a Java location? I'm not sure how to do a patent compatibility check, but what I would do is, So when a new version of Java that we are using is being released, it needs to be supported while starting the application. And it needs to be started without any errors. The API calls that we send to the back end should provide a proper response that we can use. Once the CACD process is completed, we can start the site and then use Postman to check the API calls. If the API calls are properly working, we can ensure that the front end is properly connecting to the back end. We can also integrate SonarQube and other tools to check if the proper versioning is there within the front end and the back end.

My experience implementing high-level system design with an emphasis on lean agile principles has led to fewer production errors. In agile methods, we're neglecting production errors by eradicating them in the staging environment itself. So, when moving into the production environment, we can minimize errors and reduce downtimes. To maintain less downtime, we should have a highly available and highly elastic environment, which has multiple servers in multiple regions under load balances, with automatic failovers. Once one server fails, we can reroute traffic to another server. This is the best solution for maintaining fewer production errors.

Public class Test { private static String isPublic static void main(String[] args) { String public static wide String asArgument = System.out.println("Hello"); } } But they have not passed any variables or they have not set the starting point for the string that may cause an error. Corrected Transcript: Public class Test { private static void main(String[] args) { String asArgument = System.out.println("Hello"); } }

Replica smudge labels, app, engineering's template. Okay, that is a labeler. You have mentioned an NGINX and an NGINX one label. The label should be similar. We cannot mention two different labels in an application. Corrected label should be: - app: engineering This will prevent the confusion and inconsistency in the labels.

Version control and deployments in multi cloud environments. For version control, we'll be using Git. Any branching strategies will be using proper branching strategies across multi cloud environments. We'll have one GitLab repository that we can use to store the code. For multi cloud deployments, we'll use a CICD architecture, and we'll maintain centralized repositories for the images. From the code repository, we'll get the code, and we should have the Dockerfile or something that shows how to build the code, in case of Kubernetes. There might be monolithic builds for Kubernetes while building the image. We should have the Dockerfile inside the version control. Jenkins will build the image and push it to a centralized repository, which should be used by the multi cloud architecture. By this, one image will be shared across the entire multi cloud, regardless of the cloud - Azure, AWS, EKS, AKS, GKE, or any other. They will fetch the image from the same container repository. So, the version will be handled the same across all the environments in all the multi clouds. This also applies to lower environments, such as staging, testing, or development servers.

What steps do you take to perform root cause analysis when your application experiences issues? How will we prevent it from happening in the future? Okay, the basic thing for us to do to troubleshoot the root cause is to check the logs for any errors or exceptions that have been passed to the log side. We can check it from any monitoring tool, or take it from the application logs or the pod logs, or the container logs. This will help us understand the kind of error that occurred. Is it an application-level error? Is there any functional error? Or is there any application downtime error or network error? We can separate the errors in this way, and then proceed with the troubleshooting. If there is a network error, we can check the network. If the part is not exposed correctly, or if there's anything wrong with the load balance, or if there's an issue with certificate renewal, we can check that too. From the application side, if the API call is not getting properly, or if any put request is not being posted properly, we can check that too. And in case of any deployment failures, if there's any file missing, or if the image pool might be missing, the part may fail to pull the image from the container. So this is what we can check from the logs and other monitoring tools.