Nitesh Kumar

• Architect and implement scalable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline application deployments
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and other IaC tools
• Optimize system performance and reliability through monitoring, root cause analysis, and capacity planning
• Ensure compliance with security best practices and industry standards
• Train and mentor team members on emerging cloud and DevOps technologies

Major Achievements:

• Improved team productivity by 10% through process improvements and automation
• Reduced deployment time by 40% by implementing robust CI/CD pipelines
• Achieved 99.99% uptime for critical systems through proactive monitoring and incident management
• Spearheaded successful platform upgrades with zero downtime
• Developed and maintained strong client relationships through effective communication and issue resolution

Served as the technical lead for platform engineering initiatives, including infrastructure scalability and monitoring.

Key Contributions:

• Architected and implemented a CDC solution using Debezium connectors
• Established enterprise-wide monitoring using Zabbix
• Automated infrastructure deployment, reducing provisioning time by 60%

Managed SRE operations for a large-scale infrastructure of 4000+ servers across datacenters and AWS.

Technical Achievements:

• Automated deployment processes across 50+ applications using Jenkins and Python scripting, significantly improving efficiency by 70% and reducing manual workload.
• Designed and implemented disaster recovery solutions
• Led team training initiatives, improving incident response time by 30%
• Deployed specialized CI/CD pipelines that streamlined application deployments, ensuring consistency and high availability across data centers and AWS environments.

• Managed global infrastructure operations and led a team of 6 engineers.
• Managed 1000+ servers across AWS and VMware environments
• Implemented Terraform, reducing time by 50% for Major/Minor Deployment activities
• CI/CD setup using Jenkins and Rundeck
• Established 24/7 support model with global team
• Configuration changes using Chef/Codecommit
• Performed documentation using Confluence and Jira as Ticketing system
• Worked as a focal point for TechOps team for communication and technical operation in Bangalore
• Traveled US for attending technical training
• Wrote Python programming/scripting
• Implemented Forgerock OpenAM for SSO.
• Represented the company at AWS re:Invent (2018, 2019)

• Worked with 2 different projects: Comcast and CalIndex
• Configured advanced OpenStack instances and security measures for managing 100+ Linux servers, ensuring optimized performance and adherence to security standards.
• Customized monitoring with Icinga and Graphite to proactively track and address system performance, reducing downtime and enhancing incident response through specialized monitoring expertise.
• ServiceNow and Jira as ticketing tool
• Participated in tuning of middleware applications (Cassandra, Tomcat, Marathon, etc...)
• Written various shell scripts to schedule file backups, maintaining repositories, replication, etc..
• Involved in War Games conducted on servers to make sure things are fine
• Teamed on development of technology roadmap spanning 2 years.

• L3 LINUX, AWS & VMware infrastructure support
• Managed 100+ UNIX physical servers & VMs placed in various data centers across the globe and over the Amazon Cloud (AWS) and VMware
• Led a team of 7 members to maintain 24/7 support model
• Server builds & decommissions, patch management, application deployment
• Monitoring and analyzing logs on the Servers and Service Controllers remotely to troubleshoot and fix various issues
• Automating various jobs with help of Shell scripts
• Went to Malaysia for on-site for technical discussion and a new project implementation at our client's side, representing company
• Went to Brunei for on-site to attend client-side meeting for an upcoming project