Arunkumar Murugesan
Marietta
Summary
Accomplished SRE Engineer at The Home Depot with expertise in Google Cloud Platform and Terraform. Proven track record in optimizing cloud applications and automating CI/CD workflows. Strong problem-solving skills and a commitment to high availability and reliability in production environments. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive service improvements.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SRE engineer [GCP] and ProdOPS
The Home Depot
10.2020 - Current
- Deploy, manage, maintain, support, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud applications.
- Design and provision GCP infrastructure using Terraform, following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices for reusability, modularity, and security.
- Build and support cloud-native services including Pub/Sub, GCS, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, and GKE ensuring availability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Configure and maintain internal and external Load Balancers for resilient and performant traffic routing.
- Implement and manage IAM policies for secure access control, least privilege, and compliance across GCP environments.
- Develop and maintain logging, monitoring, and alerting systems using Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and observability tools for proactive issue detection and resolution.
- Support container orchestration on GKE including node pool management, autoscaling, upgrades, and workload deployments.
- Automate CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions to streamline infrastructure and application delivery.
- Integrate GCP Pub/Sub with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) for event-driven architecture.
- Build real-time and batch data pipelines by integrating BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and Dataflow with OIC and other GCP services.
- Write and maintain infrastructure diagrams, operational guides, and incident postmortems for team knowledge sharing and compliance.
- Provide production support for cloud applications, ensuring minimal downtime and high reliability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams for seamless cloud operations and delivery.
Devops engineer
Macys
01.2019 - 09.2020
- Installing, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Administration of WebLogic server environments.
- Build weblogic 12 with SOA all components.
- Providing leadership for major system changes and participates in planning and execution of WebLogic version and patch deployments.
- Working Release Management for all the environment.
- Analyzing the Garbage Collection & tuning various parameters on JVM & WebLogic environment.
- Provide support to Production, Pre-prod(Staging), Integration, QA, Development environments.
- Upgrading Weblogic, OSB & JAVA Versions.
- Configuring Generic/Multi/GridLink JDBC DataSources.
- Configuring and administering JMS, JNDI, Connection Factory, Queues & Topics, Work Manager, etc in WebLogic Server.
- Configuring SSL/Identity & Trust Keystores.
- Configuring User & Group policies in Weblogic.
- Installing and configuring Apache web servers.
- Deploying application formats like WAR, JAR and EAR in WebLogic 11g.
- Deploying Shared Library in Prod and Third Party Jars.
- Automating various weblogic and other manual tasks by preparing scripts using WLST, Shell Scripting, and Python.
- Configuring dashboards for various monitoring parameters of Weblogic Application servers and others using HTML, CGI-BIN, PHP.
- Work at shell script improvements at project. Creating and using the shell and python script for deployment and patch update regularly.
- Work at a strategic level with project managers and architecture team influencing, designing and delivering service improvements and business change.
- Provide performance statistics and reports.
- Manage PROD/development environments and refresh the environment properly.
- Monitoring and ensure CronJob activity properly and fix the issues if anything got failed.
- Support Application teams and assisting with script automation related issues.
- Monitor production activities/processes to ensure timely and effective reporting, tracking, follow-up and communication of problems to internal and external team.
Devops engineer
Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC
01.2012 - 12.2018
- Installing, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Administration of WebLogic server environments.
- Providing leadership for major system changes and participates in planning and execution of WebLogic version and patch deployments.
- Working Release Management for all the environment.
- Analyzing the Garbage Collection & tuning various parameters on JVM & WebLogic environment.
- Provide support to Production, Pre-prod(Staging), Integration, QA, Development environments.
- Incident Management -- Managing incidents based on Severity (1,2& 3).
- Troubleshooting server and application related issues using data generated by splunk, willy, nagios and other monitoring tools. Identifying root cause, and resolve problems.
- Troubleshooting backend issues, network and DB related issues by coordinating with respective teams.
- Deployment of new application versions, patches, codes in production & Lower Envs to keep the environment trouble free and stable.
- Upgrading Weblogic, OSB & JAVA Versions.
- Configuring Generic/Multi/GridLink JDBC DataSources.
- Configuring and administering JMS, JNDI, Connection Factory, Queues & Topics, Work Manager, etc in WebLogic Server.
- Configuring SSL/Identity & Trust Keystores.
- Configuring User & Group policies in Weblogic.
- Installing and configuring Apache web servers.
- Deploying application formats like WAR, JAR and EAR in WebLogic 11g.
- Deploying Shared Library in Prod and Third Party Jars.
- Automating various weblogic and other manual tasks by preparing scripts using WLST, Shell Scripting, and Python.
- Configuring dashboards for various monitoring parameters of Weblogic Application servers and others using HTML, CGI-BIN, PHP.
- Setup, tune, scale ELKK (Elastic Logstash Kafka & Kibana) stack for transactional logging with cross data center replication.
- Setup in-memory NoSQL Redis Sentinel cluster for key value lookup.
- Setup Couchbase NoSQL for caching backend calls.
- Setup CI/CD pipeline with GO-CD servers / agents, with build release pipeline from dev till production, regression testing included in staging.
- Create deployment manifest for Pivotal Cloudfoundry apps in git with scripts to perform zero down time deployment with zdd and scale-over plugins.
- Created Ansible playbooks to scale Elastic, Couchbase and Kafka instances in lower till prod.
- Setup and Monitor alerts in Nagios, Racon and AppDynamics.
- Excellent Customer interaction skills.
Linux System Administrator
Home Depot
07.2011 - 01.2012
- Support for around 4000 servers of flavors like LINUX.
- Linux servers includes Standalone, Virtualized, Z/Linux, Xen and Grid servers.
- Applying packages, patches through YUM and NFS mounts.
- Maintaining the servers with up to date patches and release.
- Troubleshoot and fix the issues which occur during the upgrade.
- Worked with EMC Power path servers.
- TSM & OS backup and restoration.
- Sound knowledge in troubleshooting TSM, MNR.
- Managing servers using console and HMC.
- Maintaining the Jump box/ Kickstart server for password-less authentication.
- Schedule RFCs and follow-up till the implementation.
- Creating implementation and backout plan for various RFC.
- Keeping the servers in the maintenance mode during the change window.
- Initiate & Co-ordinate conference call throughout the change window.
- Coordinating with Application and DB team for Change implementation.
- Providing Status Report on RFCs that have been implemented.
- Patching metrics are tracked on a monthly basis and reported to management.
- (USA)
Linux System Administrator
CITI Bank
01.2011 - 06.2011
- Installation, Configuration, Trouble shooting, providing technical support for System Administration on Various Linux operating system.
- Creating and maintaining user and group accounts.
- Using Crontab for automating various Administrative tasks.
- Implementation of ACL and User, Group Quota for project requirements.
- Tcp wrapper level security.
- Knowledge about Logical volume management and RAID.
- Package management using RPM and Source.
- Knowledge about Boot process, run levels.
- Backup & Restore: Using scp, tar, gzip, rsync, mysqldump.
- Software installation, configuration and maintenance in Linux using RPMs and tar packages.
- Configured and manage the Mail server, NFS.
- Configured and manage the Samba server, Ftp server, DNS.
- Configured and manage the Squid proxy server, Web server (Apache).
- Implementing Samba Server as authentication and file sharing server for Windows clients.
- Patch’s update and S/W installation in Linux.
- Configured antivirus server to manage huge amount of desktops for window.
- Inventory management and documenting day to day activities.
- (USA)
Education
B.Sc. - Completer Science
St. Joseph’s college
IndiaSkills
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- AWS
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Kubernetes (GKE)
- Docker
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Go-CD
- GitHub Actions
- Oracle WebLogic
- Apache Tomcat
- Apache HTTP Server
- Linux (RHEL 5/6)
- HP ProLiant
- Dell Power Edge
- TCP/IP
- LAN
- NFS
- Oracle12 C
- REDIS
- Couch-Base
- New Relic
- Splunk
- HP BAC
- AppDynamics
- Dynatrace
- Cloud Monitoring
- Git
- SVN
- Confluence
- ServiceNow
- JIRA
- Python
- Shell
- WLST
- Remedy
Certification
- RHCE – Redhat Certified Engineer, 805010811355912
- Oracle web-logic server system administration certified, OC1208812
- GCP Associate cloud engineer
- GCP Professional architect engineer
- Gen AI leader certification google
- GitHub Copilot Certification
Accomplishments
- Awarded with Spot Awards in Sep 2025
- Implemented new methodology which reduced cost by 25% and time by 15 minutes for the client.
Timeline
SRE engineer [GCP] and ProdOPS
The Home Depot
10.2020 - Current
Devops engineer
Macys
01.2019 - 09.2020
Devops engineer
Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC
01.2012 - 12.2018
Linux System Administrator
Home Depot
07.2011 - 01.2012
Linux System Administrator
CITI Bank
01.2011 - 06.2011
B.Sc. - Completer Science
St. Joseph’s college