BikalKumar Jha

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

9+ years in multi-cloud infrastructure solutions
Expert in DevOps tools and practices
Strong focus on security and automation

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps Engineer specializing in multi-cloud infrastructure and security automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud-native ArchitectureSecurity ControlsInfrastructure AutomationCloud DevelopmentProblem Solving

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsAzure DevOps ServerAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)BashCloud ComputingCommunicationConfiguration ManagementContainerizationContinuous Delivery (CD)Continuous IntegrationDebuggingDocker ProductsDomain Name System (DNS)Functional RequirementsGitOps

About

I hold an Engineering degree in Electronics with 9+ years of working experience in developing, automating and maintaining multi-cloud infrastructure solutions typically on AWS, Azure & Openshift. I have worked on most of the DevOps toolsets and implemented new practices into the DevOps ecosystem. With an avid interest & passion about automating infrastructure-related operation while maintaining security on the cloud/on-premises & helping the product management team to expedite delivery cycle. I keep up with the latest DevOps/CICD trends and best practices with a focus on application performance & high availability with an eye on cost optimisation too!. I believe that any infrastructure setup on any Cloud platform should be such that in case of inevitable disaster, we should be ready with our system within a matter of time. -Working experience with DevOps tools such as Chef, Jenkins, GIT/GitHub/Bitbucket, Docker, Terraform, SonarQube, Chef, Ansible, Kubernetes, Nagios, ELK, Sumo logic, MySQL/Postgres, Redshift, Python, Bash/Shell/Powershell scripting, Linux along with troubleshooting on server logs. -Additional skills in cloud technology specific to AWS & Azure working with VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, RDS, DynamoDB, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, EKS, Kinesis, Elasticsearch, Ops work, CloudFormation, Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) & Azure Site Recovery.

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2 roles

Tech Lead - DevSecOps

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Work with cross-functional team and help them adopt security into their build & deployment lifecycle
Closely work with different pipelines build with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Bamboo, etc and integrate SAST, DAST, SCA tools
SAST tools used: SonarQube, Checkmarx
DAST tools used: OWASP Zap
SCA tools used: Prisma Cloud Compute, Snyk, Black Duck Hub
Advise on design, implementation, migration, and operation for Secure Software Service Enablement
Lead application security assessment and review/develop strategic and tactical security remediation recommendation/cyber risk roadmap to address identifies security gaps
Define security practice to Identify and analyze security tools that can embed within the deployment pipeline to perform Dynamic & Static code testing, Opensource component testing, and Deployed Infrastructure testing to identify security vulnerabilities
Detect unexpected application behavior and alerts on threats at runtime, CVE exploits, vulnerability detection, and System hardening for Kubernetes cluster as per CIS security benchmark standards

BashProblem SolvingRelease ManagementCloud-Native ArchitectureThreat ModelingFunctional Requirements+17

Senior Security Engineer - DevSecOps

May 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working as the Senior team member for implementing Security best practices using agile methodology.
Leading a team to implement security best practices using Hashicorp Sentinel for all Infrastructure deployment using IaaC on Azure/Aws.
Integrating Hashicorp Vault with Azure AD using OIDC protocol. Created AD groups and added necessary external groups & policies in Vault to define resource access across multiple teams.
Integrated Prisma Cloud Compute with PingFederate using the SAML 2.0 protocol. AD group attributes are used in the assertion to control access. Designed and implemented a process in Service now to handle all subsequent requests for managing AD groups, its members and ownership transfer.
Manage & implement end-to-end Vulnerabilities management tools like Tenable, crowd strike, and SentinelOne. Create scripts and extensions to add to the running environment using Ansible as well as IaaC. Govern and perform periodic scans and collaborate with teams for timely rectification and resolution for vulnerabilities implement required patches.
Ensure all microservices running on Containerized echo-system or using orchestration tools like Kubernetes or OpenShift, applications running on serverless functions like Azure App service or AWS Lambda are secure from Security vulnerabilities using Prisma Cloud, Blackduck, Synk, etc. Publish dashboard results, push teams for vulnerabilities fix, create governance rules, integrate/manage CICD implementation using twistcli, working on exceptions, grace period, etc.
Implement hub & spoke Firewall model as well as work on Operational issues related to central firewall i.e, Fortinet Firewall/VPN, its DR strategy, etc
Implement ad-hoc tools for operational streamlining using akv2k8s, sops (from Mozilla), Kube-hunter (in POC), etc

BashProblem SolvingRelease ManagementCloud-Native ArchitectureThreat ModelingFunctional Requirements+18

Qube cinema

Software Engineer II DevOps

Nov 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Working on IaaC using Terraform for DR on the flagship product "QubeWire" which is an integrated solution for Movie producer & distributors
Automating daily operations task withing CI/CD as well as Network monitoring
Managing more than 10+ AWS account with multiple resource provisioning and maintenance.
Adopting opensource solutions like iperf2, Alrta.io, Elastic APM, etc
Working on migrating cloud PostgreSQL to Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL
Migrating services and Application from one cloud to others.
Documentation as well as streamlining DevOps ecosystem in a structured manner
Adopting DevOps principles for effective and efficient workplace

BashProblem SolvingRelease ManagementCloud-Native ArchitectureThreat ModelingFunctional Requirements+17

Akamai technologies

Tech-Solution Engineer

Apr 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Work on troubleshooting customer facing production issues/bugs, environment monitoring, performance of multiple networks, release/deployment, security between servers, reliability, availability, storage capacity, latency on application, and other non-functional concerns.
Infrastructure provisioning & deployment using Terraform alongside implementing a method to maintain transparency for application & system state, history, and trends.
Worked on Real-time Customer’s Traffic Monitoring which involves investigation & debugging of issues, if error/traffic seems suspicious.
Active participant of internal development team and have built & deployed an Application using Flask Framework-Python, Rest API, Jenkins, Chef, Apache Web Server, AWS EC2, Terraform etc.
Also, responsible for migration of streams, Provisioning and Un-provisioning the Entry-Points machines during maintenance.
Troubleshooting metadata related issues on UMP (Universal Metadata Pusher) to identify the root cause and notify the relevant stockholders.

BashProblem SolvingRelease ManagementCloud-Native ArchitectureFunctional RequirementsGitOps+13

Magna infotech - a division of quess corp limited

Support Specialist

Jul 2016 – Jan 2017 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked with an escalation team to handle high-temperature escalations and helped tier 1 teams to guide customers to satisfactory resolutions.
Coordinating with the Mi Cloud (cloud storage solution) team and Tier 1 teams in handling high-temperature escalations and getting them resolved on priority, within the required SLA.
Troubleshooting storage issues such as replication, downtime, migrating to enterprise storage

BashProblem SolvingCloud DevelopmentAzure DevOps ServerAnalytical SkillsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)+3

Motif, inc.

CCR

Aug 2015 – Jul 2016 · 11 mos · Ahmedabad

Dealing with Buying and general requests from eBay India members. Forwarding complaints and requests to various departments within eBay and sharing the TAT with the customers. On-call troubleshooting of various problems related to placing orders on site, helping the members in site navigation, on how to raise a claim, Contacting the seller and handling all the backend communications

BashProblem SolvingLinux System AdministrationCommunicationInfrastructure Automation

Schneider electric

Engineer Internship

Sep 2014 – Oct 2014 · 1 mo · Vadodara, Gujarat, India

It was fun to learn various automation testing methods used for Switchgears. I was a part of 12 member team working on the requirements for L&T Hyderabad metro project wherein got the opportunity to understand and help them with effective solutions on reducing human efforts. Got to learn how ergonomics can and is helpful in workplaces where a lot of physical human efforts are pushed.

Problem Solving