Vishal Arora

DevOps Engineer

Gurgaon, Haryana, India10 yrs 1 mo experience

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Key Highlights

9 years of experience in DevOps engineering.
Expert in Kubernetes and AWS cloud solutions.
Proven track record in automating deployment workflows.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and automation in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesAwsTerraformInfrastructure ManagementLinux Administration

Other Skills

AnsibleApacheCentOSComputer SecurityDockerEKSElastic SearchGitGitLab CI/CDGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)GrafanaHelmInfrastructureJenkinsKafka

About

Skilled DevOps Engineer with 9 years of experience. Deep experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD helping organizations instill DevOps for the modern age. Proven track record in architecting and deploying robust cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Extensive experience in Kubernetes, specializing in the management and orchestration of containers. Expertise in Amazon EKS for seamless Kubernetes deployment and operations. Drive efficiency and automation in software delivery pipelines. Expert in GitLab CI and GitHub Actions for rapid and reliable application deployment. Mastery in managing deployments using Helm Charts for streamlined Kubernetes configurations. Proficient in Kustomize for fine-tuning and customization. Hands-on experience with Istio for service mesh implementations and Kong for managing APIs. Implement GitOps methodologies to ensure declarative infrastructure management. Orchestrating infrastructure changes with Terraform for consistent and efficient workflows. Skilled in implementing Calico and Cilium CNI's to enhance network security and performance within Kubernetes clusters. Proven ability to collaborate and lead in dynamic team environments. Proficient in Shell scripting and Python for automating routine operational tasks. Blogs - https://www.thefinisher.xyz/post/kubernetes-walk-through https://www.thefinisher.xyz/post/getting-started-with-argocd https://vishal267.github.io/blog/k8s/eks_helm/ https://vishal267.github.io/blog/k8s/ingress_controller/ https://vishal267.github.io/blog/k8s/logging/

Experience

10 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

1 yr 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Automated deployment workflows using GitLab CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes, resulting in consistent
and repeatable deployments.
Collaborated with development teams to define Kubernetes best practices, including resource limits,
Liveness&Readiness Probes and persistent storage.
Managed infrastructure as code using Terraform, enabling efficient provisioning of AWS resources for
Kubernetes deployments.
Implemented GitOps practices with Argo CD for declarative configuration management and automated
application updates.

GitLab CI/CDDockerKubernetesTerraformAWS

Syfe

Senior DevOps Engineer

May 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Automating AWS Infrastructure using Terraform
Deploying Services on EKS cluster using Helm charts ensuring HA of these services.
Worked with the helm package manager in creating custom charts for various applications.
Worked on Kong API Gateway and Ingress controller.
Managing day-to-day activity of the cloud environment, supporting the development team with their requirements.

TerraformEKSHelmKong API GatewayAWSKubernetes

Elara group (housing, proptiger & makaan)

Senior DevOps Engineer

Nov 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Supported 300+ AWS cloud instances running Ubuntu, Centos OS.
Setting of Kubernetes cluster using Kops and EKS on AWS and deployed services on K8s cluster using helm charts.
Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the ECR and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes
Setting up monitoring stack (prometheus, grafana and alertmanger) on K8s Cluster.
Focused on automation, containerization, and integration monitoring and configuration management.

KubernetesHelmJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaAWS

Paytm

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Aug 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

Setting up new instances in AWS and installing and configuring servers .Worked with Aws services (EC2, S3, ELB,Auto Scaling group).
Actively manage, improve and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS,EC2,S3, including backups, patches and scaling.
Provisioned Servers and deployed features using Ansible.
Set up and Configured elastic search and Kafka cluster.
Experience with service discovery/mesh such as consul
Performed collaborative root cause analysis of Production issues.

AWSAnsibleKafkaElastic SearchInfrastructure Management

Bigfoot retail solutions pvt

DevOps Engineer

May 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Delhi, India

Setting up new instances in AWS and installing and configuring servers .Worked with Aws services (EC2, S3,RDS, ELB,Auto Scaling group)
Implemented monitoring and automation solutions using tools such as NewRelic, Zabbix.
Setting of kubernetes cluster using Kops and EKS in AWS cloud and deploying services on K8s cluster. Setting up monitoring stack (prometheus, grafana and alertmanger) and Logging stack (ELK)
Involved in development of test environment on Docker containers and configuring the Docker containers using Kubernetes.
Setting of kubernetes cluster using Kops and EKS in AWS cloud and deploying services on K8s cluster. Setting up monitoring stack (prometheus, grafana and alertmanger) and Logging stack (ELK)
Integrating Jenkins with Gitlab for CI/CD.
Setting Ansible for configuration management.
Optimized server performance, accuracy, failover and scale.

AWSDockerJenkinsAnsibleInfrastructure Management

Lenskart.com

Linux Administrator

Apr 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Faridabad, Haryana, India

Managing Amazon Web Services(AWS) infrastructure with automation and configuration management tools such as ansible and chef.
Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters. Experience with server-side technologies such as Nginx, apache and Redis.
Built infrastructure for production website that included Mongo DB replication.
Setting up zabbix server for monitoring and enabling email notification.
Worked on LVM snapshot for backup and restoring Mysql DB.
Automated build and deployment process with Jenkins and Maven.
Collaborated with development team to troubleshot and resolve issues.
Worked on Docker engine for creating and managing images and containers.
POC of Kubernetes with Rancher.