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Kushel Giriraj

Denton,TX

Summary

DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience driving CI/CD pipelines, automation, and cloud infrastructure management for mission-critical systems. Reduced deployment times by 60% and lowered costs by $300K annually through optimization strategies. Proficient in troubleshooting Linux Server issues, monitoring, and configuring 24/7 production support in mission-critical environments. Track record of overseeing system administration and application support impacting more than 10,000 servers across multiple facilities. Implementing automation, continuous integration, and infrastructure management strategies to improve the efficiency and scalability of software development and deployment processes. Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently. Bilingual DevOps Engineer with background designing, testing and implementing infrastructure and applications. Talented performer with over [Number] years of experience using source control tools to identify and fix bugs in code. Consistent team player with exemplary multitasking skills.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer II

Airbiquity Inc
06.2022 - Current
  • Managed the creation of Monthly golden AMIs from AWS Marketplace Red Hat and CentOS CIS images using EC2 Image Builder tool, adhering to maintaining CIS benchmarks using Shell Scripts and YAML
  • Implemented comprehensive CI/CD pipelines on GitLab leveraging Terraform for automated provisioning and deployment of AWS infrastructure across multiple environments (Dev, DIT, and UAT)
  • Led initiative to migrate monolithic application from EC2 instances to microservices architecture on Docker containers and Amazon EKS to improve resource utilization and reduce costs
  • Broke down monolith into microservices and optimized code for containerization
  • Project expected to reduce infrastructure costs by 25-30% upon full implementation
  • Monitored applications and AWS infrastructure using CloudWatch and Datadog, enhancing system reliability and performance
  • Managed centralized logging initially with Datadog and later transitioned to a centralized monitoring solution with CloudWatch reducing our monthly monitoring bill by 30%
  • Automated the tagging of AMIs and EC2 instances using EventBridge, SSM Parameter Store, and Lambda functions using Python, ensuring consistent and organized resource management
  • Automated creation of snapshots to effectively manage backups and restore AWS EBS storage devices using AWS Backup Service ensuring High availability
  • Implemented and managed instance scheduler solution for non-production environments, strategically stopping and starting EC2 and RDS instances to optimize usage costs by 50%
  • Implemented automated password rotation for users on EC2 instances using Lambda functions, Python, Secrets Manager, and IAM, enhancing security posture and compliance
  • Worked on AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline and AWS CodeDeploy for streamlined and automated build and deployment processes
  • Troubleshot performance problems and configured monitors for Nginx servers using Datadog
  • Good understanding of Ansible to configure infrastructure and deploy code
  • Implemented monitoring for Nginx web servers to track KPIs including request rate, latency, error rate
  • Set up alerts for critical metrics to improve incident response time
  • Configured mutual TLS (mTLS) certificate monitoring using Postman to ensure valid certs across microservices
  • Automated API tests for certificate expiry and key rotations
  • Used Jira to track vulnerabilities, requests, and incidents, and Confluence for documentation.

Operations Engineer II

Amazon Web Services
08.2017 - 06.2022
  • Troubleshot networking issues involving TCP, HTTP, DNS, SSH, AWS VPC, Loadbalancers, WAF, NACL, OS, and security issues for enterprise customers spanning thousands of EC2 instances across 100+ AWS accounts
  • Onboard on-prem customers to AWS and assist them in migration to AWS managed services environment
  • Automated and executed monthly and immediate patching for system security of AMS customer portfolios, environments spanning 500+ instances for Linux and Windows servers using AWS Systems Manager
  • Operate the Managed Services platform and collaborate with internal service teams to meet customers' individual needs for their infrastructure and application deployments
  • Troubleshot complex infrastructure deployments, recreated customer issues in proof-of-concept environments adhering to cloud best practices
  • Collaborate with developer teams, help build utilities and tools for internal and customer use that enable fellow AWS Engineers to operate safely at high speed and wide scale
  • Leverage day-to-day experiences to provide the voice of the customer to internal AWS teams
  • Proficient in employing CloudFormation for customer infrastructure management within cloud environments
  • Built S3 buckets, administered bucket policies, and employed S3 Glacier for storage and backup purposes within the AWS environment
  • Managed multiple customers' AWS environments and their EC2 system performance issues through CloudWatch, Config, GuardDuty, and Macie
  • Responsible for Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the managed infrastructures of multiple customers
  • Consult with the Security team and platform development teams to assist with Operational efficiency and new customer solutions
  • Responsible for providing Auto Scaling to automatically provision and de-provision EC2 instances based on demand solutions to customers, resulting in cost savings and improved performance during peak traffic
  • Assisted customers in establishing site-to-site VPN connection between AWS and Azure environments.

Education

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering -

New Jersey Institute of Technology
12.2016

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication -

Visvesvaraya Technological University
05.2014

Skills

  • Task Prioritization
  • Effective Communication
  • Developer Collaboration
  • Performance Management
  • Incident Management
  • Cloud Computing
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • System Administration
  • Monitoring and Logging
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Configuration Management
  • Maintenance and Troubleshooting
  • Continuous Integration Systems
  • Scripting Languages
  • Software Development Standards
  • Operational Analysis

Technical Skill Set

AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Datadog, JMeter, Kubernetes, New Relic, Postman, Terraform, Linux, Windows, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SSH, SSL, TCP, UDP, HCL, HTML, JSON, Python, Shell, YAML

Timeline

DevOps Engineer II

Airbiquity Inc
06.2022 - Current

Operations Engineer II

Amazon Web Services
08.2017 - 06.2022

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering -

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication -

Visvesvaraya Technological University

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