# ram kamatam

ram kamatam is a remote worker on Himalayas, DevOps Engineer at Cognizant, based in India.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@ramkamatam

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DevOps Engineer at Cognizant migrating 14 Nginx Ingress Controllers to Kong on AKS with zero downtime.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 140k+ INR |
| Job categories | DevOps Engineer, Azure Administrator, Windows Systems Engineer |
| Skills | Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Kubernetes, Kong API Gateway, Azure DevOps Pipelines, CI CD, Helm, Terraform, Azure Networking, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Nginx Ingress Controller, GitHub Actions, Azure Container Registry |

## About

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At Cognizant, I’m leading the migration of 14 Nginx Ingress Controllers to Kong API Gateway on AKS, resolving TLS hostname mismatches and moving CORS rules to KongPlugin CRDs with zero downtime. I also configured an internal Azure Load Balancer to prevent unintended public IP exposure.

Previously, at Accenture, I managed Azure infrastructure and AKS deployments, built container CI/CD pipelines, and implemented Prometheus and Grafana monitoring. At Cargill Business Services India Pvt. Ltd., I owned disaster recovery and backup operations, while at IBM I administered Windows Server environments and automated tasks with PowerShell.
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## Experience

### DevOps Engineer (current)

[Cognizant](https://himalayas.app/companies/cognizant). Dec 2024 - Present

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Designing, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments on Azure Cloud for enterprise clients. Leading end-to-end migration of 14 Nginx Ingress Controllers to Kong API Gateway on AKS with zero downtime.
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Skills: Azure, Kubernetes, AKS, Kong-API-Gateway, Nginx, Azure-DevOps, YAML, CORS, TLS, Load-Balancers, Kube-Prometheus-Stack, Blackbox-Exporter, AlertManager, Azure-Cache-for-Redis, NSG

### Senior DevOps Engineer

[Accenture](https://himalayas.app/companies/accenture). Aug 2021 - Dec 2024

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Operated as Azure Administrator and Senior DevOps Engineer across multiple client engagements, managing AKS clusters, Azure networking, and CI/CD pipelines. Designed and maintained Helm-based Kubernetes deployments with namespace isolation and ingress lifecycle management.
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Skills: Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Helm, Azure-DevOps, GitHub-Actions, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, VNet, NSG, Front-Door, Private-Endpoints, VMSS, RBAC

### Azure Administrator

Cargill Business Services India Pvt. Ltd.. Jul 2016 - Jul 2021

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Managed Azure infrastructure for a global enterprise, covering VM lifecycle, OS patching, VMSS configuration, and storage management. Owned disaster recovery and backup/restore operations for critical workloads using Azure Backup and Site Recovery.
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Skills: Azure, VMSS, Azure-Backup, Site-Recovery, VNet, NSG, VPN-Gateways, BASH, Docker, Kubernetes

### Windows Systems Engineer

[IBM](https://himalayas.app/companies/ibm-com). May 2013 - Jul 2016

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Administered and maintained Windows Server environments (2008/2012 R2) across development, test, and production tiers, ensuring high availability and consistent uptime for enterprise workloads. Managed Active Directory including user account provisioning, group policy configuration, and role-based access control for 1,000+ users.
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Skills: Windows-Server, Active-Directory, GPO, WSUS, SCCM, SCOM, IIS, DNS, DHCP, PowerShell

## Education

### Acharya Nagarjuna University

Master of Business Administration, Business Administration

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Pursued a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Acharya Nagarjuna University.
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## Tech stack

- Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Azure Front Door
- GitHub Actions
- Terraform
- JFrog Artifactory
- Python
- PowerShell
- MLflow
- Kubeflow
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Windows Server
- Git
- Docker
- Dynatrace
- Bash

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