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Sr Analyst SCM at Empower India

About

DevOps Engineer with 8+ years’ experience in whole DevOps work culture. Have a better experience in Configuration management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Automation tools, Infrastructure and Application Monitoring tools and Build and Release management. Worked on different source code management tools like SVN, GIT, GitLab and GitHub. Worked on ANT and Maven build tools to build some deploy-able artifacts like jar and war. Have used tools like Hudson and Jenkins for CI/CD. Experience in configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible and Puppet. Have a better knowledge on virtualization tools like Docker and Vagrant. Worked on Databases like MySQL, Postgres and MongoDB. Knowledge of creating instances, auto scaling a server etc. on Amazon Web Services. Experience in Unix, Linux, Python and Shell scripting. Knowledge on YAML and Ruby scripting. Have monitored application and servers using Nagios tool. I am an analytical thinker, have strong social skills and passionate of technology. Focused on results I do not consider myself to be successful unless the whole team I am a part of has achieved growth.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

gemini

Work experience

Sr Analyst SCM at Empower India, Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ● Administer GitLab as platform admin, managing user provisioning, role-based access control (RBAC), group and sub-group creation, and repository setup across multiple Value Streams. ● Review and approve merge requests (MRs) in line with branching strategy and code merge standards, ensuring compliance with SDLC and version control policies. ● Manage group- and project-level permissions, access de-provisioning, and periodic access audits to maintain security and compliance standards. ● Execute and monitor Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines for Web and Core application builds, deploying to UAT and PROD environments. ● Manage monthly scheduled releases and weekly off-cycle/emergency releases to PROD, coordinating build validation, deployment windows, and rollback readiness. ● Triage build and deployment failures across environments, partnering with development teams to resolve blockers within release SLAs. ● Facilitate and coordinate Change Control Board (CCB) meetings, reviewing, validating, and preparing change tickets to ensure readiness prior to approval. ● Lead daily change request review meetings, tracking ticket status, resolving gaps, and escalating risks ahead of deployment windows. ● Create and manage monthly release Change Requests (CRs), assigning change tasks across all Value Streams in line with the monthly release schedule tracked via SharePoint. ● Maintain audit-ready documentation and traceability for all CRs, CCB approvals, and deployment records to support compliance and governance requirements. ● Own and drive release calls every second Sunday of the month, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders across Value Streams to ensure synchronized go-live execution. ● Track release readiness, dependencies, and sign-offs across teams to minimize deployment risk and downtime.

Sr Infra Developer at Cognizant, Jan 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ● Merged pull requests (PRs) raised for monthly release branches by application teams for individual services. ● Performed monthly branch cuts across all services to support the release cycle. ● Debugged build issues and XL Release (XLR) generation failures in monthly release builds. ● Scheduled and supported production rollout calls to coordinate production deployments each release. ● Executed bugfix and hotfix deployments to production. ● Logged and tracked deployment/pod issues in Staging and Production environments via Rally.

DevOps Engineer at V2Soft, Apr 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos, India, ● Managed source code and resolved merge conflicts in Git/GitLab; trained new developers on Git workflows and best practices. ● Built Jenkins jobs integrated with Capistrano to automate deployments across all environments. ● Wrote Ruby scripts to clone repositories, execute SSH-based deployments, restart services, and clear cache as part of automated deployment workflows. ● Maintained AWS servers across environments, using CloudWatch to trigger auto-scaling when CPU utilization exceeded 70%. ● Created and maintained Jenkins jobs to build Ruby on Rails applications across multiple servers, integrating Ruby scripts for automated deployment and database migrations. ● Set up and configured Tomcat servers for WAR file deployment; used Ant and Maven to build deployable WAR files for Java services. ● Configured parameterized Jenkins jobs to build and deploy WAR files to environment-specific Tomcat servers. ● Set up SonarQube integrated with Jenkins for continuous code quality inspection and early-stage bug detection. ● Used Monit for service monitoring, automatically restarting services on failure. ● Troubleshot service and server issues, led upgrades, and documented resolutions in Confluence. ● Established CI/CD workflows using Jenkins and Capistrano, including automated restart of Nginx and PHP-FPM services and Redis cache clearing.

Education

Master of Science (MS), Embedded systems, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Telecommunications Engineering, Atria Institute of technology