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Naveen Sharma

FREMONT,CA

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Staff Software Engineer, DevOps

Paloalto Networks
Santa Clara, USA
04.2020 - Current
  • Designed and implemented end-to-end CI/CD using Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, GitOps/ArgoCD under GCP/AWS cluster, reducing deployment times, increasing release frequency, and improving system performance.
  • Managed large-scale distributed systems across multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP), ensuring 99.99% uptime and optimal performance.
  • Designed and implemented SRE best practices, including SLOs, error budgets, and monitoring strategies.
  • Led the containerization of legacy applications using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization, and simplifying deployment processes.
  • Generate reports/Dashboard using client APIs and automate stuff using Python, Shell.
  • implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, enabling consistent and repeatable infrastructure deployments.
  • Conducted security audits and implemented best practices for IAM, network security, and data encryption, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
  • Implemented app monitoring, network monitoring, and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Wireshark, and ELK Stack, resulting in a reduction in incident response time.
  • Optimized load balancing configurations using tools like HAProxy, NGINX, and AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), ensuring high availability and efficient traffic distribution across servers.
  • Established a continuous vulnerability management framework, integrating tools into the CI/CD pipeline to automatically detect and remediate security issues in code and container images.
  • Led security initiatives to ensure all cloud infrastructure and applications adhered to FedRAMP guidelines, resulting in a successful certification with zero critical findings.
  • Support 24*7 and on call rotation.

Sr DevOps Engineer

Intertrust Technologies
Sunnyvale, USA
05.2017 - 04.2020
  • Automated the deployment and scaling of microservices using Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm, reducing manual intervention and improving resource utilization.
  • Led the implementation of disaster recovery and backup strategies, ensuring data integrity and high availability across critical services.
  • Collaborated with development teams to integrate SRE principles into the SDLC, resulting in improved system resilience and faster incident response times.
  • Implemented security best practices, including IAM, network security, and vulnerability management, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
  • Conducted root cause analysis (RCA) for critical incidents, implementing long-term fixes and improving system reliability.

Systems Analyst II

Exilant
Cupertino, USA
05.2015 - 05.2017
  • Automated routine tasks and system configurations using Bash and PowerShell scripts, reducing manual intervention.
  • Developed and maintained automated scripts for continuous integration and deployment using Jenkins, Git, and Ansible, improving build and deployment.
  • Monitored and optimized application performance using Nagios, New Relic, and custom monitoring solutions, resulting in improved response times.
  • Created highly available AWS RDS instances for SQL Server and MySQL databases.
  • Implemented rollback strategy(blue green/ canary) in case of application deployment failure.
  • Written Ansible playbooks and states to automate the environment.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -

ICFAI
Dehradun, India
06.2007

Skills

  • Cloud: GCP/AWS (EC2/S3/VPC/IAM/Route 53/Cloud Formation)
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, GitOps, ArgoCD, AirFlow, Kubernetes, Docker
  • Language: Python/Bash
  • Networking: TCP/IP, http/https, DNS
  • Proxy: Nginx, Envoy, ISTIO
  • IaC: Terraform, Ansible, Hashicorp Vault
  • Monitoring/Logging: Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Fluntd, Kibana
  • Database: Mysql, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Postgres

Summary

DevOps/SRE Engineer with 12+ years of extensive experience in automating, scaling, and managing complex infrastructures. Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring systems. Proven track record of improving system performance, ensuring high availability, reducing downtime, and driving operational excellence through robust DevOps practices.

Timeline

Sr Staff Software Engineer, DevOps

Paloalto Networks
04.2020 - Current

Sr DevOps Engineer

Intertrust Technologies
05.2017 - 04.2020

Systems Analyst II

Exilant
05.2015 - 05.2017

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -

ICFAI
Naveen Sharma