Sanchita H.

DevOps Engineer

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia20 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 14+ years in Linux System Administration and DevOps.
  • Expert in CI/CD automation and cloud orchestration.
  • Strong background in Agile methodologies and team leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps expert with extensive experience in automation and system administration.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud EngineeringDevopsLamp StackLinux System AdministrationSystem Administration

Other Skills

AWSAWS Control TowerAWS OrgAgile MethodologiesAmazon DynamodbAnsibleApacheBashCI/CDCapistranoCloudFormationCloudWatchCodeBuildCodeDeployCodePipeline

About

14+ years of strong experience in Linux System Administration, DevOps and LAMP Stack for FMCG, Telecom and Educational sectors. Excellent knowledge and expertise in strategic design and architecture of Infrastructure using DevOps model. Extensively worked on Cloud environment automation and orchestration using SaltStack and Ansible. Proficient in Designing, Implementing and Supporting fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes (CI/CD) for multiple projects using Jenkins, JNLP Nodes, Capistrano, SaltStack and GitLab. Competent in managing cloud environments with large service providers including Rackspace, Verizon Terremark, HP Cloud, and Amazon. Expert in maintenance, performance tuning and package management of RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu. Working extensively with Agile frameworks, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective. Authority in managing administration and maintenance of MySQL database cluster with replication, performance tuning, backup procedures, and Active Directory integration. This includes Percona Server, MariaDB Galera Cluster with ProxySQL as well. Strong expertise in configuration and management of Apache, Nginx, Tomcat web servers, postfix mail server, DNS services, SSL certificates installation, SSH services. Demonstrated ingenuity in troubleshooting technological issues with the resources at hand in a cost-efficient and timely manner. I am an Innovative professional with proven ability to identify, analyse and solve problems which helps customer satisfaction and cost efficiency through expertise in program development, client training, cross-functional team leadership and management. I have positive mindset, can multitask, handle stressful situations and can go above and beyond in times of need.

Experience

20 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Optus

Senior DevOps Engineer

Aug 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Amazon web services (aws)

Cloud Engineer - DevOps at Amazon Web Services

Oct 2019Aug 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Working as DevOps Engineer to advice AWS's Enterprise and Business level customers for their workloads running on AWS Infrastructure.
  • Interacting with the clients to understand their requirement with respect to AWS DevOps services, helping them on-board AWS, suggesting best practices & architectures and providing expert services for technical issues.
  • Helping Infrastructure Engineers with CloudFormation for their issues and suggesting better approaches for orchestration. Also creating customize CloudFormation Template as Infrastructure as a Code in single account/region or in multiple accounts as StackSets.
  • Helping Microservices administrators with EC2 Container Service / Fargate & Docker related issues and helping them migrating their microservices based solutions to AWS. Helping them run their batch processing workloads on AWS Batch service.
  • Helping developers to run their applications on Elasticbeanstalk without having to worry about backend infrastructure.
  • Helping System Administrators to manage Configuration management of their AWS resources or On-Premise servers using OpsWorks and Chef Automate.
  • Helping developers & DevOps engineers to use AWS Deployment services like CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline for CI/CD integration.
  • Helping multi-account AWS owners setting up a governance controlled, secure, reliable multi-account architecture using Control Tower, Service Catalog, AWS Org, SSO etc. following principles of Well Architected Framework.
  • Creating Lambda Function or debugging the code level and integration level issues in API gateway using CloudWatch logs and x-ray
  • Touched various AWS Security services like IAM, ACM, KMS, SecretsManager, GuardDuty, Inspector, WAF, CloudTrail and Config.
  • Assistance to resolve and prevent production incidents in highly critical environments.
  • Design and advise CI/CD solutions for traditional, micro-services, container architectures.
AWSCloudFormationEC2DockerElastic BeanstalkCodeBuild+6

Ipscape

Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2019Sep 2019 · 8 mos · Sydney, Australia

Tech mahindra

Project Lead | LAMP DevOps Solution Specialist

Apr 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Sydney, Australia

  • Setup Linux infrastructures (RedHat 6 & 7, CentOS 6 & 7 and Ubuntu 12 & 14), Database SQL (MySQL, Percona).
  • Implemented CI/CD Tools (Jenkins, Capistrano, GitLab, SaltStack). Managing Infrastructure automation and provisioning container on OpenStack based environment using SaltStack and Python, reduced Virtual machine with container configuration delivery time from 3 days to 4 hours.
  • Handled automation using JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Bash for Build, Deployment/Rollback, maintenance, Database Backup/Restore/Rollback and Report.
  • Designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes for multiple projects using Jenkins, JNLP Nodes, Capistrano, SaltStack and GitLab.
  • Automated build and deployment process with Jenkins, JNLP Nodes, Maven and Capistrano with full auditing and user authentication/ authorization provided by the corporate Active Directory, eliminating 80% of manual work.
  • Leading DSU infrastructure support and DevOps/L3 offshore team.
  • Responsible for solving L3 / L4 Critical issues of Web server, the Application server including Virtual Network issues for Clients across the Globe into the Productions Environments within stipulated SLA.
  • Technical Change Validation apart from non-routine (patch updates).
  • Writing technical documents (Standard routines and one pager) for infrastructure and DevOps tools related solutions.
  • Ensured application availability and data integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades.
  • Train customers and offshore team members for the new solutions.
  • Followed Agile methodologies for Project management using tools as Jira and Confluence. Create User Stories based on the requirements gathered from all the stakeholders and maintain updates on Jira and Confluence portal.
LinuxCI/CDJenkinsSaltStackGitLabPython+5

Tata consultancy services limited

Linux System Administrator

Oct 2015Apr 2016 · 6 mos · Kolkata Area, India

  • Worked with client company Tata Consultancy Services Ltd Design from parent company Future Focus Infotech Pvt. Ltd. and implement CI/CD Tools for build, deployment, and configuration management using various DevOps tools like Jenkins, Vagrant, Ansible and GIT.
  • Involved in planning, designing, developing and maintenance of various Linux Server and Network environments.
  • Automating deployment of Linux applications, system configurations and security settings using Jenkins, Maven, and Bash script on CloudStack and AWS environment.
  • Writing pipeline jobs in Jenkins portal.
  • Worked with AWS services like EC2, S3, Route53, SQS, IAM, CloudWatch and CloudFormation.
  • Developing scripts for Build, Deployment/Rollback, maintenance, Database Backup/Restore/Rollback and Report related tasks using Jenkins and Bash.
  • Collaborating with developers to make sure new environments meet requirements and conform to best practices.
  • Responsible for solving L3 / L4 Critical issues of the Web server, Application server including Virtual Network issues for Clients across the Globe into the Productions Environments.
  • Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of Linux server (Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu) for staging and production environment for JBoss and Tomcat Java Application server, Apache web server and MySQL database server.
  • Setting up monitoring with the help of network-based and Linux based monitoring tools to monitor servers/ application/network.
  • Database Administrator activities - Backup/refresh/Restore, gate-keeping regarding the running of SQL and other correction/modification scripts on the live system using Jenkins, JNLP connector and the Bash script.
  • Write and manage script to automate different tasks at Linux server using Bash Script and Cron Job Write the Technical Specification documents for infrastructure and DevOps tools based on the agreed-upon requirements
  • Train customers and team members for the new solutions.
LinuxJenkinsAnsibleAWSBashLinux System Administration+1

Web spiders

System Engineer

Oct 2011Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Kolkata Area, India

  • Designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes for multiple projects using Jenkins, Puppet and GitLab.
  • Worked with AWS services like EC2, S3, Route53, SQS, IAM, CloudWatch and CloudFormation.
  • Build automatic deployment using Jenkins, Maven, GitLab plugin and the Bash script.
  • Configuration and troubleshooting of Linux server(Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu) for staging and production environment for JBoss and Tomcat Java Application server, Apache web server and MySQL database server
  • Collect data in order to evaluate the network’s or system’s performance and help make the system work better and faster
  • Add users to a network and assign and update security permissions on the network
  • Setting up monitoring with the help of network-based monitoring tools like Nagios to monitor servers/ application/network
  • Designing and implementing Cloud basic and advanced network using CloudStack internal SND NFV (Virtual Router) and integrated with Citrix NetScaler load balancer.
  • Responsible for network evaluations, troubleshooting a variety of network problems, and implementing various software and hardware upgrades. Handle the tasks of configuring and deploying wireless solutions.
  • Working on designing isolated (VLAN) network for different type of traffic for cloud networks i.e. Management network, Storage network, and Public network and tenant network
  • Database Administrator activities - Backup/refresh/Restore, gate-keeping regarding the running of SQL and other correction/modification scripts on the live system
  • Write and manage script to automate different tasks at Linux server using Bash Script and Cron Job
  • Prepare project documents that are needed for various audit purpose
LinuxJenkinsAWSNagiosBashLinux System Administration+1

Cisconet infotech (p) ltd.

Senior System Administrator

Oct 2005Oct 2013 · 8 yrs · Kolkata Area, India

  • Pragyaan Infotech Private Ltd., the new name of this company.
  • Involved in planning, designing, developing and maintenance of various Linux Server and Network environments.
  • Setting up LAN and wireless network for the consumers using the wireless ADSL routers manufactured by all leading networking companies like Cisco, Linksys, D-link, securing the wireless network based on wireless inscription supported by the respected routers.
  • Troubleshooting TCP\IP based issues on Windows and Linux based machines which prevented users from getting connected to the network, making sure any other software that instigates itself with networking services is not blocking the access to the network.
  • Setting up monitoring with the help of network-based monitoring tools like Nagios to monitor servers/ application/network.
  • Configuring Data VLAN, setting up IP addresses, gateway servers, troubleshooting the Ethernet ports and connectivity failures.
  • Monitoring and maintaining Network (LAN, WAN, server, switches, and router) infrastructure in a datacentre.
  • Upgrading Wireless LAN controller using CLI through console port by ensuring the upgrade file resides in the root directory of TFTP server. Also, SSH or Telnet can be used to complete the procedure when available in the controller.
  • Installation, Configuration, and troubleshooting of Linux Servers (Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu).
  • Creating file system (ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs), disk partitioning and troubleshooting.
  • Managing LVMs and storage associated with Linux filesystem (mounting, scanning and troubleshooting).
  • Configure DNS, NIS, NFS, Samba, DHCP and troubleshooting issues associated with it.
  • Write and manage script to automate different tasks at Linux server using Bash Script and Cron Job.
  • Maintaining end user documentation for hardware/software applications, support logs and other related information; researches and recommends project related network and server hardware and software.
LinuxNetworkingBashSystem Administration

Education

West Bengal University of Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Electronics & Communication Engineering

Jan 2001Jan 2005

West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

Higher Secondary Education — Science

Jan 1999Jan 2001

West Bengal Board of Secondary Education

Secondary Education — Science

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