Suave Bajaj

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer and Cloud Architect
3 National Awards for Innovation
Led successful college project for Government Hackathon

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in DevOps and automation in SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud EngineeringDevopsAutomationTechnical SupportInfrastructure Management

Other Skills

AWSBash scriptingBreak FixCData AnalysisDockerElasticsearchGCPGKEGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)HPE Industry Standard ServersHPE ProLiant ServersHTMLIncident responseJava

About

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer and Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect with 7+ years of experience in mission-critical role of ensuring that complex, web-scale systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. Worked closely with development teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues. Passionate about the role that involves deep knowledge of both the application and the product. Comfort in a large scale and rapidly growing environment with strong verbal and written communication skills and a love of writing documentation. GCP PCA, CKAD, GCP ACE, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure AZ-900, OCI Foundations 2020 associate, 2x Fortinet NSE, CompTIA Server+ and ITIL v4 certified. https://www.youracclaim.com/users/suave-bajaj 3 National Award and Cash prize Winner at the 9th DST-i3-AICTE India Innovation Initiative 2017 Participated and won many Hackathons and Competitions. Was the lead of team for College Project (Leave Management System) for Smart India Hackathon, Government of India. Selected as one of the Top 25 innovators at the 9th India Innovation Initiative 2017 for the project “Message Authenticity System" Blogs: https://dev.to/suavebajaj https://suavebajaj.medium.com

Experience

8 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Manhattan associates

2 roles

Senior Cloud Systems Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Shift Lead for On-Call Engineers, overseeing incident response, root cause analysis, and mentoring
junior engineers; handled critical escalations during internal degradations and outages, contributing
to overall system stability and operational excellence
Spearheaded development of a Dockerized GKE observability platform with Python
CronJobs and centralized GCS-BigQuery pipelines, improving cluster health visibility by 70% and
reducing manual triage time by 60%.
Visited onsite to collaborate closely with the team and successfully deploy a new tool for root cause
analysis (RCA) during the peak sale season
Developed a program using Python and Bash scripting that reduced the standard validation time for
new projects from 30 minutes to just 5 minutes
Streamlined deployment processes with in-house automation scripts, reducing time by 30%
Created a Bash script to automate cross-project database backup and restore, cutting manual effort by
50-66% (2-3 hours to 1 hour), boosting team productivity
Part of the DevSecOps team, responsible for enhancing the security aspects of GKE clusters and
playing a vital role in installing new security applications on GKE clusters
Contributed as a Social Media Ambassador, sharing technical insights and trends.
Played a key role in Financial Operations (FinOps), aligning cloud expenses with business goals and
optimizing cost-efficiency.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)DockerPythonBash scriptingGKEIncident response+3

Reliability Engineer, Cloud DevOps

Jun 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Orchestrated cloud solutions on AWS and GCP, optimizing system performance and scalability
Improved log analysis efficiency by 20% through collaboration on Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and
Kibana projects.
Reduced incident response time by 25% utilizing Prometheus and Google Cloud Monitoring
Boosted data flow efficiency by 35% using RabbitMQ, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Apache Kafka.
Enhanced application scaling by 40% with Kubernetes and GKE implementation.

AWSGCPElasticsearchPrometheusKubernetesCloud Engineering+1

Hewlett packard enterprise

2 roles

Technical Solutions Consultant

Aug 2018 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

Expertise in service and support, managing large-scale infrastructures with mission-critical responsibilities, ensuring smooth operation of vital systems using in-depth knowledge of HPE Industry Standard Servers.
Troubleshooted and resolved hardware and connectivity issues on multi-platform environments (Windows, Linux, VMware) by providing break-fix plans and effective resolutions.
Identified opportunities for automation and continually enhanced automation workflows to optimize Service & Support operations and enhance overall performance.
Implemented automation scripts for comprehensive analysis of Servers & Blades enclosure connectivity problems (Virtual Connect, VC FC, Boot from SAN), resulting in faster troubleshooting and resolution.
Created automation workflows for assisting customers in initial setup, OS installation, RAID configuration, software upgrades, and network configuration, streamlining processes and ensuring consistency in deployments.
Authored user-friendly technical articles and troubleshooting guides, offering clear explanations and step-by-step solutions for complex issues, enabling knowledge sharing and empowering users to resolve problems effectively.

HPE Industry Standard ServersWindowsLinuxVMwareAutomationTechnical Support+1

Intern

Feb 2018 – Jun 2018 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Trained extensively on
HPE Proliant Gen 9 and Gen 10 Servers
SFDC and Internal HPE Tools
Server Content Creation Project Training:
Building and Administrating HPE Server Solutions
Proliant TS fundamentals & OS system basics
Content Creation and Defect Analysis
Cleared CompTIA Server+ Certification as part of the final assessment of the Internship

Miet acm student chapter

Chair

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos · Jammu

As the Chair, planned and successfully executed the following :
Guest Lecture by Mr. Navin Kabra (co-founder and CTO at Reliscore.com)
Andriod Workshop
T-shirt Designing Competition

Analytics resource

Data Analyst Intern

Jul 2017 – Aug 2017 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

Worked for Music Group Project and used different tools such as IBM SPSS Modeler, Orange Data
Mining, RapidMiner and MS Excel.
Created various visualizations on the raw data using IBM Watson Analytics and QlikView
Built predictive models using the historical data for forecasting of sales and revenue

Intern theory career solutions llp

Brand Manager

Apr 2017 – May 2017 · 1 mo

Creating strategies to promote the brand name of Intern Theory Career Solutions and bringing students on their platform for Internships
Managed and hand led a team of 5 people for promoting internship & Intern Theory
Preparing a snapshot of the achievements and presenting to the management of the company