Nikhil M

Summary: A seasoned IT professional with 7 + years of hands-on exposure to cloud technology solutions like Microsoft Azure and AWS in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle with expertise skills on CI/CD and release management build/release management tools Maven, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Gitlab, Ansible and Terraform. Have adopted DevOps practices with Azure DevOps, PowerShell scripting, Git and Jenkins. Depth of my skills include source code management, build automation including Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery implementation. Overall Troubleshooting and resolution of build and deployment issues in all environments. Worked on technologies like Middleware (WebLogic Server, JBOSS, Apache Tomcat, Webservers), Database (Oracle) and Multi-threading & Automated cookbook testing using Jenkins Creating IAM roles, users and groups with required policy management to provide required access to the resources. Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform and Ansible. To map more complex dependencies and identify network issues and for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently used Terraform. Expertise in Implementing a production ready, highly available, Kubernetes infrastructure.

• Experience on Scheduling, deploying and managing container replicas on a node cluster using Kubernetes. Worked for DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to Chef for Cloud Automation Requirements analysis, participates in design discussions, develop, test and maintain Java/J2EE applications. Deploy, manage and operate highly available, scalable and self-heating systems on AWS. Familiarity with Kubernetes cluster management and administration, creating pods and managing them by updating resources depending on the requirement. Extensive experience in designing and implementation of continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment (CI/CD) through Jenkins. Experienced in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the Environments using SCM tools like Git, GitLab, GitHub and Subversion (SVN) on Linux and windows platforms. Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes, Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, Utilized Kubernetes, and Docker for the runtime. Expertise on Version management with tools like Subversion, Perforce, Git, Team Foundation Server. Hands-on exp with Build and Continuous Integration with like Ant/Ivy, Maven, Jenkins/Hudson and Bamboo. Deployed Enterprise Applications and Web Applications to Dev, UAT, QA, Staging and Production. Involved in Automation of the test cases using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Maven. Working knowledge on Python /Bash/Shell /YAML scripts used to automate day to day administrative tasks. Implemented SCM process, Build Management, Release Management, Branching, Merging. Implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies using SCM tools GIT, Subversion, Bitbucket and experienced in migrating GIT repositories to AWS Involved in Jira as defect tracking system and configure various workflows, customizations, and plug-ins for Jira bug/issue tracker. Supported parallel Development for Dev, QA, Pre-Production and Production environments. Worked on Installing Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems.