Akash Arvind Deshmukh
Summary
To work in an environment where talent is recognized, and hard work is rewarded. To be the source of dedication and strength in the entire work sphere in order to get result oriented working and to contribute to the growth of the Organization.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Specialist
HCL Tech India Pvt Ltd.
05.2023 - Current
- Working as a Devops Engineer for development, maintenance of Ecommerce Website in Production, Pre-Prod and Development environment.
- Worked on creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks in Ansible Tower (AAP).
- Hands-on experience in writing and optimizing Ansible Playbooks for automated configuration management and deployment.
- Implemented and managed Ansible Tower/AWX for centralized automation, role-based access control, and job scheduling.
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines integrating Ansible, Jenkins, and Nexus Repository for seamless application deployment.
- Standardized automation through Ansible Collections and Execution Environments, ensuring reproducible runs and dependency consistency.
- Automated inventory synchronization workflows in AWX/Tower with Git-backed projects and webhook triggers for continuous alignment with infrastructure changes.
- Automated provisioning and configuration of servers, reducing manual effort and improving deployment consistency.
- Integrated notification systems (Slack, Email, Webhooks) into templates for real-time status updates and operational visibility.
- Worked on migration of ecommerce websites from premises to Azure Kubernetes service AKS.
- Worked on various Azure services such as Virtual Machines, Application gateway, Load Balancers, azure Key Vaults, resource groups, and subscriptions.
- Worked on different Monitoring tools such as New Relic, Dynatrace.
- Worked on Pipeline Automation for different jobs in Jenkins.
- Worked on logging tools like Splunk and Loki.
- Worked on creating and managing ConfigMaps, Secrets, key vaults in Azure.
- Office Depot
Senior Software Engineer
CompuCom CSI India Pvt Ltd.
09.2022 - 05.2023
- Working as a Devops Engineer for development, maintenance of Ecommerce Website in Production, Pre-Prod and Development environment.
- Work closely with the development team and SQA team for product releases (Monthly and Weekly).
- Maintained repository in GIT /GITHUB and handled branching, tagging & merging process.
- Maintaining Linux, windows servers on-prem and Cloud (AWS/Azure)
- Experience in Bash, shell scripts.
- Integrated Ansible with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Nexus, enabling automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Hands on experience on writing Ansible Playbook.
- Created and optimized Job Templates and Workflow Templates in Ansible Tower/AWX for repeatable, parameterized deployments across staging and production environments.
- Designed Survey-driven templates to capture dynamic inputs (release versions, environment variables) for controlled and flexible deployments.
- Create and maintain continuous build and continuous integration environments using Ansible Tower, Jenkins and AWX.
- Hands on Monitoring tool: New relic, Dynatrace.
- Hands-on Real-Time Logging Tool: Splunk.
- Installed and Configured the Apache, Tomcat web, IBM application servers for Production, Dev, and Integration Test (SQ) Environments.
- Maintain and Implement AWS solutions using EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancer and Auto scaling groups and VPC.
- Experience in Terraform, TF scripts for AWS.
- Maintaining and Implementation of Microservices using Docker, Kubernetes /Rancher.
- Working on JIRA bug/issue tracker.
- Office Depot
Senior System Engineer
Infosys BPM Pvt Ltd.
08.2019 - 09.2022
- Worked as a DevOps Engineer for a team that involves three different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases.
- Worked on implementing AWS using EC 2, S3, RDS, ECS, Elastic Load Balancer, Autoscaling groups.
- Managing and Monitoring Cloud Front distribution, Dynamo DB, Elastic Load balancer, Amazon Route 53.
- Configuration Management tools– Ansible.
- Continuous integration tools-Jenkins.
- Build tools- Ant, Maven, SonarQube- Code quality check, Nexus Repository.
- Monitoring Tools- Nagios, AWS Cloud Watch.
- Orchestration tools - Kubernetes, Docker, Helm charts.
- Experience in Terraform, TF scripts for AWS environment.
- Experience in Bash, shell, Python 2/3 scripts.
Network Engineer
Proactive Data Systems Pvt Ltd.
07.2018 - 07.2019
- Created and Managed User Accounts, IAM Roles and Policies, Security Groups etc.
- Implementation, Management and Monitoring Site-to-Site VPN, direct connect, VPC, EC2, S3, subnets, availability zones, Elastic load balancer, autoscaling, NACLs etc.
- Implementation and Troubleshooting of Cisco Devices-Routers, Switches and Firewalls.
- Hands-on experience on Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and SolarWinds.
- Hands-on Experience on CRM/Dynamic365 Ticketing tool.
- Troubleshooting of On-Prem Network Devices and AWS issues.
- Support for NGFW, ASA-X, Cisco ACS, Cisco ISE and Checkpoint Firewall.
Technical Consultant
Orange Business Services India Pvt Ltd.
05.2016 - 07.2018
- Network Planning and Implementation on and Remote support.
- Installation and configuration of Apache/Web Logic on Solaris, Linux, and Windows.
- Monitoring and administering Redhat Linux servers.
- Installation, Troubleshooting and configuration of Cisco Network Devices {Switches, Routers, ASA devices}.
- Troubleshooting skills with network protocols such as BGP, OSPF, DNS, TCP/IP, SMTP & SNMP.
- Integration of various network related services like NFS, NIS, DNS, FTP.
- Hands-on experience on Service Now and BMC remedy Ticketing Tool.
- Network automation with Python.
- Installation of Patches, Hardware, software’s, and Firmware upgrades.
- Proficient in System administration, System planning, co-ordination, commissioning, setting up security hierarchy and capacity planning.
- Worked on flexible hours for production, backup, and on-call support for 24/7 environment.
Education
ME - E N T C
Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering
Pune01.2015
BE - Electronics and Telecommunication
Vidyalankar Institute of Technology
Wadala, Mumbai01.2013
HSC -
Shri. Shivaji College of Science
Akola01.2008
SSC -
Holy Cross Convent High School
Akola01.2006
Skills
- Akamai
- Ansible
- Ansible Tower/AWX
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- New Relic
- WebLogic
- WebSphere
- Apache Tomcat
- Atlassian Jira
- Dynatrace
- AWS
- Git
- GitHub
- Terraform
- Helm Charts
- RedHat Linux
- Ubuntu
- Shell
- Python
Certification
- CCNP Security, 04/01/21, CSCO 13732108
- AWS Solution Architect associate, SAA-C02
- RedHat Certified System Admin training, Seven Mentors
- Certified Kubernetes Associate training, Kodecloud
Publications
- Implementation Collection Tree Protocol in MANET and WSN environment in Network Simulator- 2, IEEE
- Integration of MANET and WSN, IJITE Conference
Projects
DevOps Project (Ecom Website -Office Depot), 2022-2023, Worked as a Devops engineer for an Ecommerce Website Office Depot, roles and responsibilities are as follows:, Major focus on Cloud, DevOps, Software Configuration and Build/Release Management., Created the naming strategy for branches and labels and implemented continuous integration system with Git version control repository., CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies using Jenkins., Managed servers on AWS platform instances using Jenkins and Ansible Tower configuration management., Managing artifacts in Sonatype NEXUS repository., Worked with different Bug tracking tools like Atlassian JIRA., Real Time Monitoring of Health of Servers and Production Environments using New Relic and Dynatrace., Managed environments DEV, QA, UAT and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies., Working with Technical Architects, Senior Developers, Testers, Senior Management, and IT Team., Hand on Experience of Splunk for viewing real time logs of Production and Non-Productions. AWS DevOps, 2021-2022, The project was to develop a website or web-based application with the help of AWS DevOps., Created Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) consisting of 2 parallel webservers and 2 parallel Databases., This was supported by CloudFront, Dynamo DB, Elastic Load Balancer, Amazon Route53, and Amazon S3. Web App Development using DevOps, 2019-2020, The project involved providing java-based web application on Tomcat server using Jenkins Pipeline and GIT source code, Maven builds tool, SonarQube Code quality check and Nexus repository for storing war file. AWS Site-to-Site VPN/On-Prem-Cisco and Checkpoint Firewall Support, 2018-2019, The project which involves Monitoring and remote support to a Client Tetra Pak for daily reports/backups on on–Prem Firewalls and AWS VPC, creating NAT policies, VPC flow logs, CloudWatch logs and Troubleshooting IPSEC Site-to-Site VPN.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Languages
- PowerShell
- Python
- Shell
- PowerShell
- Python
Operating Systems
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 10
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- RedHat Linux
- Ubuntu
Timeline
Senior Specialist
HCL Tech India Pvt Ltd.
05.2023 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
CompuCom CSI India Pvt Ltd.
09.2022 - 05.2023
Senior System Engineer
Infosys BPM Pvt Ltd.
08.2019 - 09.2022
Network Engineer
Proactive Data Systems Pvt Ltd.
07.2018 - 07.2019
Technical Consultant
Orange Business Services India Pvt Ltd.
05.2016 - 07.2018
ME - E N T C
Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering
BE - Electronics and Telecommunication
Vidyalankar Institute of Technology
HSC -
Shri. Shivaji College of Science
SSC -
Holy Cross Convent High School