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Principal/Lead Devops Engineer | CKA | CKS | AWS | GitOps Certified | Azure Certified | Docker | Kubernetes | Ansible | Terraform | Cloudformation | Jenkins | Gitlab | Python | Golang

9 Years of Experience

Pune, Maharashtra, India

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Current Salary

9

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About

• Having sound knowledge & Hands on experience in Kubernetes, Public cloud AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Docker, Helm Templating, Istio (Service-Mesh), Ansible, Gitlab CI-CD, Jenkins CI-CD, Bash, Python, Golang, Monitoring Stack with Metrics and Log, Linux Red Hat Administration, Enterprise Virtualization. • Completed certification – CKS, CKA, Azure Fundamental and RHCSA. • Have more than 8 years of Experience in implementation of IaaS, PaaS, IaC, CaaS, PaC, DevOps Methodology. • Have experience to maintaining and delivering product or shipping software to production (more than 15000 enterprise customers) with zero downtime. • Have passionate to automate and streamline software development and software deployment process with best practice of industries standards and SLA. • Possess excellent ability to grasp new concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner. • Have creative mindset, strong comprehension, Strong understanding of Agile development, detail oriented, excellent analytical, critical thinking for operations and problem-solving skills. • Team-player with a strong collaboration and open communication with team members, always try to motivate and mobilize with cross-functional teams and respond positively to feedback, believing in innovation and teamwork. • Great attention to detail and a data-driven approach to problem solving.

Principal / Lead Devops Engineer

Cerence Inc., SaaS/Cloud Product, Computer Software

Past Company 2

Innominds

Past Company 3

AIS Technolabs Pvt Ltd

Companies Worked:

Cerence Inc., Innominds, AIS Technolabs Pvt Ltd, Reliance, TOPS Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Work History:

Job Title : Principal / Lead Devops Engineer
Company name : Cerence Inc.
Period : July 2020 - Present
Summary : • Working as senior DevOps engineer for Cerence Platform Tribe. I am lead of traffic squad (Cerence Global) and Cerence India Platform tribe.
• Wrote Terraform code to build up managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure, Alicloud and AWS whose are differently located.
• Deployed monitoring stack through Fluxcd, Helm Operator and Kubernetes Kustomize.
• Worked with Architect to handle 50 million request/per second and distribute across Kubernetes cluster.
• Helped to team to configure Falco and Gatekeeper to secure Kubernetes environment.
• Implemented and maintained Istio service mesh for differently located managed Kubernetes clusters. Istio help us to route traffic for more than 100 microservices.
• Wrote more than 20 Gitlab CI-CD code. Also, wrote Golang code (Deployed as pod) to keep syncing more than 10000 repos from Gitlab community to Gitlab EE.
• Wrote Kubernetes Operator (Golang) code to keep deploying PaaS DBs from Kubernetes manifests (YAML).
• Wrote helm templates for various platform component.
• Having strong knowledge in metrics monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos) and log monitoring stack (Loki).
• Helping to SecOps team to automate their stuff.
• Managed Hadoop clusters (located at various global location) and wrote end to end Python automation code for Hadoop push data to Object based storage.
Location : Pune, Maharashtra, India

Job Title : Senior DevOps Engineer
Company name : Innominds
Period : November 2018 - July 2020
Summary : • Have been part of ICT project AM 3.0 Kubernetes (15000+ enterprise customers – Ontrack and Alltrak) held by Trimble and Hilti.
• Configured Gitlab Enterprise as CI/CD pipeline tool and used their features for 100% automation from infrastructure provisioning to microservice deployment.
• Used AWS EKS as Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Wrote terraform code (IaC) to create VPC, EKS, IAM, RDS, ActiveMQ, Elastic-Search on AWS public cloud.
• Worked actively on Logging operator with EFK stack (ElasticSearch Operator, Fluentd Operator and Fluentbit, Kibana Operator) and that is aggregating almost 30GB logs everyday, Also configured Curator to clean-up periodically.
• Created Metrics Monitoring stack through Prometheus Operator and Grafana Operator.
• Used opensource tools with Kubernetes like AWS Cluster-Autoscaler, Reloader, Cert-Manager.
• Configured Helm Operator to Declarative install, upgrade, and delete of Helm releases.
• Wrote end to end code to automate everything from provisioning Kubernetes with add-ons and AWS services to deployment of Micro-services, So single pipeline will deploy application with AWS services within hour.
• Completed project AM 2.0 through Automation toolset – Jenkins, CloudFormation, Ansible, Nexus, SonarQube, Bash, Python.
Location : Pune Area, India

Job Title : DevOps Engineer
Company name : AIS Technolabs Pvt Ltd
Period : July 2017 - November 2018
Summary : • I have hands on experience in designing, developing and implementing infrastructure on AWS using different services like EC2, Elastic beanstalk, API- Gateway, IAM, ECS, Code-Commit, Route53, VPC, S3, EFS, RDS, elastic cache, Cloudfront, SNS, CloudWatch, Server and Database migration to AWS, Load Balancer, Auto Scalling used to design production infra with highly available, scalable, durable.
• Application and Database Migration Physical to AWS Cloud without downtime.
• Docker Orchestration using – Docker Swarm, Kubernetes cluster.
• Migrate existing Monolithic application to Microservice.
• Container monitoring using – Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Portainer.
• Application Process Monitoring – Cisco Appdynamics.
• Hands on experience in Configuration management tool – Ansible.
• Scripting – Bash, Python.
• Deep hands on experience in Linux.
• I have experience to minimize delivery deadline by implement DevOPS methodology.
• Hands on experience in Continues integration tool – Jenkins, Create Pipeline through Jenkinsfile, Monitor through OpenBlueOcean.
• Load Balancer – Nginx, AWS ELB.
• Web Server – Apache, Tomcat.
• I have experience manage and monitor Oracle database, MYSql database, MS-SQL server using SOLARWIND, AWS insights monitoring and DATADOG analysing tool.
• Knowledge in monitoring tools like Zabbix, CloudWatch, Datadog and Create Alarm to trigger another task.
• ALM Tools Configuration like Jira, confluence and BAU support.
• I have configured many of database as highly available like MySQL, MongoDB, Aurora, Dynamodb on AWS .
• Solving skill in Source-Code versioning tool like Gitlab, AWS Codecommit.
• Security protection for web servers – Coudflare, Cloudfront, protection from DDOS attacks using open-source tool,Clam AV Web- Proxy.
• I have worked on various open- source web-Panel and maintain web-application on them.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in various technology.

Job Title : DevOps Engineer
Company name : Reliance
Period : July 2015 - June 2017
Summary : Virtual Server installation and configuration on VMware ESXi 5,5.5,6 and KVM. Installation and configuration Linux server and Linux application as per SLA and experience in HP servers and storage. Experience in Apache 2 with virtual host and tls\ssl. Experience in AWS IAM, EC2, S3, Route 53, VPC, Databases in AWS, Monitoring & Analysis, High Availability. Troubleshoot Linux OS.
Hardware monitoring using HP SIM and troubleshooting Co-ordinate and give exhaustive support for faulty hardware part Replacement with Vendors. Installation and configuration SAN/NAS Storage and setting it up different kinds of RAID & Iscsi. Monitoring Servers and Service through WhatsupGold, Zabbix, OPManager, Pandora FMS. Data Backup and Data Restore in TAP Drive on Linux server through Bakula Open source backup solution also Bacula Installation and Veritas NetBackup. Log Analyzing Through GrayLog2. LDAP server maintain using phpldapadmin. DNS and DHCP server maintain.
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Certifications:

Title : Intermediate for Istio
Period : July 2023 - Present
Summary : solo.io, https://academy.solo.io/share/gamification/badges/external/5f299443-80d5-4365-a8d1-0aaae0694d85?lang=en
Issuing Authority : solo.io

Title : Fundamentals for Istio
Period : April 2023 - Present
Summary : credly.com, https://www.credly.com/go/Mj6S8w49
Issuing Authority : solo.io

Title : Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamental
Period : May 2022 - Present
Summary : I256-9626, credly.com, https://www.credly.com/users/rajesh-praad/badges
Issuing Authority : Microsoft

Title : Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
Period : April 2022 - Present
Summary : LF-qnkk2ppqzp, linuxfoundation.org, https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/verify/
Issuing Authority : Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

Title : Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Summary : LF-odau2akqon, linuxfoundation.org, https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/verify/
Issuing Authority : CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Title : GitOps Fundamentals
Summary : 636a82483b135f5c97063d00, codefresh.io, https://learning.codefresh.io/certificate/6197cb3b2fbcec4da328aab2/user/62e0d33d9a9d7b3ee00cf339
Issuing Authority : Codefresh

Title : Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
Summary : 160-247-524, redhat.com, https://www.redhat.com/rhtapps/certification/verify/?certId=160-247-524&isSearch=False&verify=Verify
Issuing Authority : Red Hat

Languages:

English (Native Or Bilingual), Gujarati , Hindi

Honors and awards:

Award : Formula One Club Award
Issuer : Cerence
Date : 11 2021

Skills

Istio

Service Mesh

Kubernetes

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Go (Programming Language)

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration

Programming

Cloud Computing

Platform as a Service (PAAS)

Leadership

docker

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Operating Systems

Unix

Infrastructure

Team Leadership

Open-Source Software

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