Manimaran Sundaram
Dubai,UAE
Summary
Dynamic professional with a robust skill set in DevOps and cloud technologies, including proficiency in Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. Demonstrates expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible, alongside strong scripting capabilities in Python and Bash. Adept at implementing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins and AWS DevOps to streamline software delivery processes. Possesses a deep understanding of networking concepts and security protocols to ensure secure cloud environments. Committed to fostering collaboration across teams, leveraging Agile methodologies to enhance operational efficiency. Aims to drive continuous improvement through automated testing practices and quality assurance initiatives while embracing a DevOps mindset for shared responsibility in the software lifecycle.
Innovative problem-solver with proven ability to translate complex requirements into robust software solutions and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. Demonstrates strong proficiency in software development and leadership skills in high-pressure environments. Committed to driving technological advancements and delivering impactful results in Senior Technical DevOps Engineer role.
Experienced professional with focus on DevOps, blending software development and IT operations for seamless project delivery. Drive automation, enhance system reliability, and streamline workflows through expertise in CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, and infrastructure as code. Committed to fostering collaboration and continuous improvement within technical teams.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Sr. Software Engineer
Emirates Group IT
Dubai
06.2007 - 12.2025
- Configured, integrated, and supported third-party vendor applications and components in agile development environment. Delivered robust implementation and maintenance of third-party vendor solutions within agile frameworks.
- Created and maintained project epics, stories, tasks and schedules.
- Provided estimates, identified potential problems and recommended alternative solutions.
- Worked in close cooperation with Agile delivery Managers, Technical Product Managers, Technical Product Owners and other functional team members to form team effort in development.
- Collaborated with other members of product development team.
- Coordinated configuration of back-end components in support of 3rd party vendor application integrations.
- Emirates Group provides commercial air transportation of passengers and cargo. Company offers postal carriage, in-flight and institutional catering, and ground handling services as well as wholesales and retails consumer goods, food, and beverages. Emirates Group serves customers internationally.
- Job duties - since APRIL 2020 till date
- Job duties - since July 2007 till March 2020
- Requirement analysis, effort estimation
- Helping PM with scope management.
- Organizing and leading development teams. Team sizes were from 3 to 7 developers.
- Planning, scheduling and monitoring tasks.
- Store/retrieve information from MS SQL server.
- Reviewing code and monitoring standards compliance.
- Defect management.
- Deployment planning.
- Following “Modified Waterfall” and “Iterative” software development methodologies.
- Preparation of documents such as, URS - user requirements specification, SDS – solution definition specification, TDD – technical design document, UTP - unit test plan, STP – system test plan, TM – traceability matrix, SOW – statement of work, IDD – Infrastructure Design Document, SDP – Service design Package, AIS – Acceptance into Service, Implementation plan.
- Carrying out unit testing, coordination with performance testing team.
- Involved and worked closely with 3rd party software and hardware vendors.
- Managing SharePoint team sites.
- Supporting business users as per their requirements on all IT related issues.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Virtusa Corporation
Colombo, Sri Lanka
06.2006 - 06.2007
- Requirement’s analysis, effort estimation
- Helping PM with scope management.
- Organizing and leading QA teams. Team sizes were from 3 to 15 QA Engineers.
- Planning, scheduling and monitoring tasks.
- Reviewing code and monitoring standards compliance.
- Defect management and deployment planning and implementation planning.
- Coaching and mentoring QA Engineers.
- Preparation of documents such as, STP – system delivery specification, UTP - unit test plan, RTP – regression test plan
- Carrying out unit testing, system testing, regression testing and performance testing.
- Global information technology (IT) services company providing IT consulting, technology and outsourcing services. Using enhanced global delivery model, innovative software plat-forming approach and industry expertise, provide high-value IT services that enable clients to enhance business performance, accelerate time-to-market, increase productivity and improve customer service.
- Project Handled: Aetna
- Worked as offshore QA Engineer for Aetna, office based in Sri Lanka.
- Serve Global 2000 companies and leading software vendors in Communications & Technology, Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications, and Media, Information & Entertainment industries. Build and sustain application platforms for their clients that create competitive advantage. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Massachusetts, have offices and technology centres throughout United States, Europe and Asia.
Analyst programmer
John Keels IT (former JKCS (Pvt) Ltd.)
Colombo
08.2000 - 11.2004
- Requirement’s analysis, effort estimation
- Store/retrieve information.
- Reviewing code and monitoring standards compliance.
- Defect management.
- Deployment planning.
- Following “Modified Waterfall” and “Iterative” software development methodologies.
- Preparation of documents such as, URS - user requirements specification, SDS – solution definition specification, TDD – technical design document, UTP - unit test plan, STP – system test plan, Implementation plan.
- Carrying out unit testing, coordination with performance testing team.
- Application tuning, query tuning.
- As software services provider to global aviation industry, JKCS offers spectrum of end-to-end solutions for full-service carriers (FSCs), low-cost carriers (LCCs) and airports. Leverage on proven global delivery model in implementing avant-garde solutions and take pride in ability to align service framework with clients’ business objectives.
- Project Handled: SKYWORDS – SUPPORT CENTRE
- Involved in above projects, support centre, which involves developing and testing customer requirements as and when come up with new programs as well as modification of existing programs.
- MICROSOFT .NET RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
- Part of team that has been researching technical details relating to .NET platform and understanding its complete scope, in order to better evaluate its relevance to organization and customers. This project involves training other development teams within company on Dot .NET technologies as well.
- DEMASS – DESTINATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES SYSTEM
- Involved in development of above project which involves designing and developing web based operational system for tour operations & hotel reservations for John keels Leisure sector comprising of 12 hotels & tour operators. Provided solution was based on reservations and billing solution recommended by JKCS.
- ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
- This project, which is intranet application, was developed to enable JKCS System Engineering Division to record asset information and handle client requests on their various needs from Engineering division.
- SCHEDULING SUPPORT TOOL – NTT COMWARE CORPORATION, JAPAN.
- This tool is for operators of Information Management System. This tool’s functions help operator to make schedule file (.CSV file) of Information Management System easily and collectedly. It makes possible to use this tool for other systems, which use same format schedule file, by storing data in external files.
- JKCS INTRANET
- Web-based project to handle Mails, Meeting, Workflow, Leave Management and calendar to run on company’s intranet.
- RESOURCE TRACKING SYSTEM
- This project is developed to Provide Management Information of Human Resources available in JKCS
- WEB BASED RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
- This system was developed to use as demonstration package to show Integration of many technologies by Emerging Technologies Department of John Keels Computer Services. Involved in development of web based, Handheld PC and Desktop modules of this system
System Administrator
IDM COMPUTER STUDIES (PVT) LTD.
Colombo, Sri Lanka
07.1996 - 11.1998
- Administrating Novell 3.12, Novell 4.0 and Windows NT 4.0.
- Maintaining all computer systems at computer lab and managed IT lab staff shift allocations.
- Personal instruction classes for group and individual students.
- Part time lecturing.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computing and Information Systems
IDM Computer Studies (Pvt) Ltd
Colombo09.2002
High School Diploma - Computer Studies
IDM Computer Studies (Pvt) Ltd
Colombo06.1996
Skills
- Version Control Systems: Proficiency with Git and platforms like GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket
- CI/CD Tools: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub, and AWS DevOps
- Containerization and Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container management
- Cloud Platforms: Knowledge of major cloud providers (AWS and Azure) and their services (compute, storage, networking)
- Infrastructure as Code: Skills in tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible for automating infrastructure setup
- Scripting and Programming: Proficiency in languages like Python, Bash, or Go for automation tasks
- Monitoring and Logging: Familiarity with tools such as App-Dynamics and Splunk for system monitoring and logging
- Networking and Security: Understanding of networking concepts, security protocols, and best practices for securing cloud environments
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively across teams, breaking down silos between development and operations
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Problem-Solving: Analytical skills to troubleshoot complex issues and drive root cause analysis
- Adaptability: Willingness to learn new tools, technologies, and practices as field evolves
- Leadership: Capability to mentor and guide junior engineers, and lead initiatives in collaborative manner
- Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile practices and frameworks (eg, Scrum, Kanban) to support iterative development
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Principles: Understanding SRE concepts, including service level agreements (SLAs), service level objectives (SLOs), and incident management
- DevOps Mindset: Embracing culture of collaboration, continuous feedback, and shared responsibility for software delivery lifecycle
Certification
- Keep learning new things to advance in my work.
- Executive Post Graduate Certification in Cloud Computing and DevOps Engineering.
- Knowledge and hands on experience gained in professional training.
- Linux basics
- Python basics
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Amazon Web Services
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Ansible
- GitHub
- Bash
- GitLab
- VMWare
- Terraform
- Recent achievements: Successful completed below listed azure certifications
- AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (2022-02-20)
- AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator (2022-12-22)
References
- Binay, Kumar, Agile Delivery Manager, +971559773892, Emirates Group IT
- Aruchunarajan, Arumugam, Agile Delivery Manager, vinoa@yahoo.com, +971509508313, Emirates Group IT
- Melvin, Kingsley, Change & Release Manager, melvinkingsley1977@gmail.com, +971507686312, Emirates Group IT
Projects/Applications handled
Point of Sales (Microsoft Dynamics RMS), Having a solid experience in implementing MRMS and supporting the applications., Integrated with ERP for Item Mater Upload, Purchase Order, Direct Deductions and HR updates for global customers., Having experience in installing MRMS in BM Sure POS 500 and HP RP7 Retail System Model 7800., Merchandising Support, Guest management System, Corporate Broadcast System, Stakeholder Relationship Management System, Media Release System
Technologies / Tools / Methodologies
VB, VB.Net, ASP, ASP.Net C#, XML, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Query Tuning, Application Tuning, Web Services, Soap, WSDL, MS SQL Server 2005 and 2012 R2, Windows 2003,2008 and 2012R2 Server, SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013, Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, 12C and 19c
Timeline
Sr. Software Engineer
Emirates Group IT
06.2007 - 12.2025
Quality Assurance Engineer
Virtusa Corporation
06.2006 - 06.2007
Analyst programmer
John Keels IT (former JKCS (Pvt) Ltd.)
08.2000 - 11.2004
System Administrator
IDM COMPUTER STUDIES (PVT) LTD.
07.1996 - 11.1998
Bachelor of Science - Computing and Information Systems
IDM Computer Studies (Pvt) Ltd
High School Diploma - Computer Studies
IDM Computer Studies (Pvt) Ltd