Akshay K.

Security Engineer

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India12 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AWS cloud migration and management.
  • Proficient in DevOps practices and CI/CD automation.
  • Strong background in release management and support.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and DevOps specialist with a focus on infrastructure management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)DevopsRelease Management

Other Skills

AWS CloudAWS LambdaAWS Load BalancingAWS StackAccess ControlAdobe Experience Manager (AEM)Agile MethodologiesAmazon CloudFrontAmazon DynamodbAmazon RDSAnsibleApacheApache SubversionAuto-scalingBusiness Continuity

About

• Experienced DevOps, Release, Configuration, Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineer along with Release Management and Product Management experience. • Working on AWS Stack as admin (Including EC2, S3, R53, SNS, ELB, VPC, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front SQS and IAM), focussing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling • Working as Cloud Architect to setup AWS environment and migrate the On- Prem applications to AWS cloud for better performance and security by saving cost upto 15% • Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, SCM practices along with Software Build and Release Management and Agile methodologies. • Good understanding of build and deployment of JAVA/J2EE applications in JBOSS, Tomcat and IIS servers. • Software automation experience using various scripting languages such as Shell, Powershell, Python. • Good understanding of enterprise, distributed computing and WEB-based computing methods • Experience in Installation, configuration of Jenkins, Git, JBOSS on Windows and Unix Platforms. • Expertise in Build Automation using several tools such as Jenkins, Orchestrator, CCNet and Anthill Pro. • Experience in Handling Monitoring and alerts of the various Lab machines using Nagios and Cloud Watch. • Managing HA-Proxy and AWS Load Balancers configurations to handle Load balancing. • Highly experienced in deploying and debugging applications in Lab environments and providing the Tier-1 support to maintain Environment uptime. • Created, Configured and Administered Profiles, Clusters, Nodes and Node Groups for JBOSS Application Server. • Handling source control using SVN, Git and GITHUB. • Issue Tracking using JIRA. • Possess sound knowledge in System analysis, Documentation, Development, testing and reporting. • A team player with strong communication, analytical, organizational and relationship management skills. Successful track record in accomplishing assigned projects within agreed cost & timelines.

Experience

Adobe

Security Engineer @ Adobe | CISSP, CompTIA Sec+, CC | Cybersecurity Management | Cloud Specialist

Nov 2018Present · 7 yrs 4 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Expedia group

Infrastructure, Cloud and DevOps Engineer at Expedia, Inc.

Oct 2017Nov 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Working on AWS Stack as admin (Including EC2, S3, R53, SNS, ELB, VPC, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front SQS and IAM), focussing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling
  • Working as Cloud Architect to setup AWS environment and migrate the On- Prem applications to AWS cloud for better performance and security by saving cost upto 15%
  • Day to Day Production and Application support using SNOW tickets.
  • AWS infrastructure automation using Cloud formation templates Cloud Formation
  • Working on Jenkins for releases and CI/CD pipeline automation.
  • Amazon SSM Patching used to deploy patches to On-Prem environment as well as verify the status of On-Prem servers.
  • AWS Load Balancing and HA-Proxy Load Balancer
  • Implemented Dynatrace as APM to check the performance of Application and its response. Integrated it with AWS to monitor Cloud infra.
  • Working as NAGIOS administrator to completely monitor the On-Prem Infrastructure as well automated to run specific scripts at the time of issues.
  • JBOSS & Tomcat used for application deployment and providing complete end to end support to Java based application
  • End to End knowledge about the behavior of JAVA Application with JVM performance as well as tuning.
  • Lead the team on weekly releases and deployments to have a smooth release on Production system
  • Using Confluence to update daily Documentation over process and improvement steps.
  • Quarterly SOX Audits to check the Infrastructure for any unauthorized activities and to make the system more secure.
  • Installed Qualys agent to check the regular reports for Vulnerabilities on system.
  • Automated server tasks using Ansible for smooth operations to save time by 20%
  • OnCall Production Support.
AWS StackCloud ArchitectHigh-availabilityFault toleranceAuto-scalingJenkins+11

Peoplestrong

Senior Linux Implementation Engineer

Jul 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Handling AWS Cloud environments as well as On-Prem Environment.
  • Worked and Implemented open source tools like NAGIOS, JENKINS, Ansible,HA-Proxy, PlaySMS, GAMMU and SVN replication to increase the efficiency of production system.
  • Worked on AWS Stack as admin (Including EC2, S3, R53, SNS, ELB, VPC, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front SQS and IAM), focussing on high-availability, fault tolerance and auto-scaling.
  • Worked as Full time JBOSS administrator and provided support to JAVA application on Linux environment to maintain the 99.9% up-time
  • Worked on Ansible to automate the operational tasks to save time
  • SVN setup from scratch with replication which has increased the reliability of code to 100%
  • Migration of application/Tools to Cloud from Data Centers
  • Creating monitoring and Alerts for applications and infrastructure
  • POC on new tools which needs to be incorporate
  • Follow up with business and tech teams to triage issues
  • Owning team meetings and team output
  • Creating and sharing Performance metrics
  • Responsible for Release Management operations
  • Performing Release Project Management tasks
  • Planing, Scheduling the releases, the teams involved, estimating, ensuring
  • timely sign offs from QA teams
  • Coordination of multiple application release simultaneously
  • Managing Production releases
  • Engaging all stake holders for a success plan and execution of a release
  • Performing Production releases, live site support and related production
  • tasks
AWS CloudNAGIOSJENKINSAnsibleHA-ProxySVN+4

Niit limited

Support and Release Engineer

May 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Manage all aspects of the end to end release process
  • Update service knowledge management system
  • Signing off the release package for implementation
  • Handled service roll out planning including method of deployment
  • Building the final release delivery
  • Managing successful deployment to weekly release to Lab, UAT, Prod servers
  • Representing Release team in meetings
  • Provide feedback and corrective actions after every release
  • Record metrics for deployment to ensure within agreed SLAs
  • User documentation
  • Support documentation, including service desk scripts
  • Data management, including archiving
  • Build, deliver and maintain required testing environments
Release ManagementDocumentationData management

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2022Dec 2024

Beant College of Engineering And Technology

B.Tech — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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