Skilled engineer with over 5 years of Industry experience in designing, automating, and optimizing infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD and devops processes.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Verizon Wireless
09.2020 - 05.2023
Designed, built, and configured various applications to align with business and application requirements across On-Prem and Cloud environments
Implemented a wide range of AWS Cloud services, including EC2 servers, S3, ALB, Auto-Scaling Groups, Security Groups, Cloud Formation, KMS, EFS and MSK
Implemented DevOps model practices to automate CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and config-as-code approach using Ansible, resulting in a 50% reduction in time spent on manual infrastructure configuration
Developed and Supported release and deployment pipelines for Java Springboot applications in Production and lower environments along with monthly on-call rotations
Maintained the CI/CD pipeline for Kubernetes using Helm to deploy various services onto the K8s cluster using Jenkins and built various jobs for K8s operations
Installed and configured Kafka for sending large amounts of data streaming and processing by various applications
Implemented various logging and monitoring tools like New Relic, Logstash, fluentd and exported logs to view them in Elasticsearch/Opensearch and Grafana, to create alerts and monitor Infra during outages
Implemented open-source web servers like Apache, Tomcat and possess good understanding of web-based protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, REST, and networking protocols such as IPv4/IPv6 and TCP/IP Stack
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve application issues, achieving a 50% decrease in downtime
Committed to comprehending the architecture of various applications to effectively troubleshoot any issues that may arise.
DevOps Engineer
Verizon Wireless
09.2019 - 01.2020
Built the CloudFormation scripts to provision resources like EC2, EBS, S3 buckets, Network Interfaces, VPCs and subnets as per the requirement
Configured manifest files in Kubernetes like the deployment, horizontal pod autoscaler, secrets, service, configmaps and ingress which helped deploy various services on to the K8s cluster
Utilized Helm for k8s deployments which helps maintain the versioning and package managing for Kubernetes
Automated various jobs in Jenkins and developed playbooks in Ansible to perform various tasks like installing packages, services, Apache and Tomcat deployments, monitoring scripts, Infrastructure setup
Created Dashboards in Grafana to monitor metrics like CPU and memory utilization for our servers using CloudWatch as data source
Maintained the source code in GitLab repos to have centralized access and documented tasks in Confluence.
DevOps Engineer
Sysgain, Inc
01.2019 - 08.2019
Designed and Deployed resources using various Cloud Computing providers like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Authored configurations and modules to implement Infra-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision resources in Cloud
Designed and configured secure Networks in OCI and created various subnets, security lists, routing table and internet gateways for virtual servers
Worked with OCI IAM Service to provide different levels of access to various teams and worked on defining various resource policies that were needed by various labs in our platform
Authored various Ansible playbooks for various tasks to pave a way for automation and integrated with Jenkins
Monitored the server performance, CPU Utilization and disk usage using Datadog and Grafana to raise alarm in case of any emergency
Created Load tests using JMeter scripts to test various microservice endpoints and various APIs used in building the platform, to analyze performance of the underlying infrastructure
Lead the Support Team which handled requests from various users/customers using our platform resulting in a 60% increase in efficiency of the team
Catered to a wide variety of issues/complaints by providing a solution to ensure customer satisfaction
Worked on writing Dockerfiles for our services within Docker to create containers and to report any errors within the services
Developed and automated QA tests (Functional, Smoke, Unit) leveraging Blazemeter, Rainforest QA and Full Story
Created the images and fleets for remote desktop image using Appstream 2.0 hosted in AWS
Raised the service requests with Oracle Support to ensure enough resources are running in the OCI Tenants which eliminates any hindrance caused to the Infra Team and the QA Team
Responsible for taking care of any issues faced by the customers using our Product/Application
Lead the Support Team handling requests from various users/customers using our platform and catering to a wide variety of issues/complaints and providing a solution to ensure customer satisfaction.
Cloud Engineer Intern
Sysgain, Inc
05.2017 - 12.2018
Designed and learned to build solutions in OCI using Terraform
Built JMeter Scripts to test the API endpoints building our platform
Utilized the Managed Application service in Azure to build a deployable version of an application like Chef, Docker, and Jenkins for users.
Education
M. S. Computer Engineering -
New Jersey Institute of Technology
05.2016
B.TECH. Electronics and Communication Engineering -
Carrier Support & API Analyst at Verizon Wireless (formerly TracFone Wireless)Carrier Support & API Analyst at Verizon Wireless (formerly TracFone Wireless)