Avik Sarkar

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of cloud security expertise.
  • Proven ability to design secure solutions on AWS and GCP.
  • Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security Architect with expertise in SaaS and Infrastructure management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityDevsecopsCloud ComputingVulnerability AssessmentAws SecurityDevopsInfrastructure Management

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)ApacheCEHCNAPPCSPMCloud ArmorCloud MigrationComputer SecurityEthical HackingFirewallsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)IT GovernanceIT SecurityIT Security Incident ManagerITIL

About

Security Architect & Trusted Advisor with over 13 years of experience in cloud security, infrastructure, and compliance. Skilled in designing and implementing secure cloud solutions on AWS and GCP. Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define security best practices and ensure compliance. My focus is on fostering trust and collaboration with clients, guiding them through secure design, implementation, and ongoing security posture and regulatory compliance. Previously at Google, I championed customer needs by proposing secure solution architectures and advocating for successful outcomes. I'm driven to build robust cloud security solutions and stay ahead of the curve in this dynamic field. Passionate about using technology to solve complex problems and create a positive impact.

Experience

6sense

Manager, Security Engineering

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Vulnerability AssessmentWizTeamworkInfrastructureCNAPPAWS Security+6

Google

Solutions Consultant

Jun 2022Nov 2022 · 5 mos

  • Propose and design solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud-based distributed virtualized or containerized infrastructure solutions according to complex customer requirements and best practices for implementation.
  • Interacting with business, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks/issues, and timelines for successful customer outcomes, becoming a trusted advisor to decision-makers throughout the engagement.
  • Creating Data Security design for secure data storage, access and processing using encryption and role management architectural best practices.
  • Advocating customer needs to overcome adoption blockers and drive feature development based on field experience.
  • Creating and delivering best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations, adapting to the levels and expertise of key business and technical stakeholders accordingly.
  • Understanding customer needs and helping shape Google’s long-term product strategy.
Cloud ComputingCloud ArmorInfrastructureProblem SolvingKubernetesLinux+5

Automation anywhere

Architect Sr. Cloud Security

Apr 2020Apr 2022 · 2 yrs

  • Collaborating with crossfunctional teams to define security standards for AWS + GCP
  • Ensure suitable tooling and functionality are available to meet security requirements in the AWS/GCP environment.
  • Responsible to secure Public Cloud deployments leveraging tools like Application firewalls, security scanners, Vulnerability assessment tools, and Security Management and assessment
  • Deploy and maintain security products like SIEM to achieve Risk Management and Incident response
  • Patch management of the Cloud Application
  • Design, implement, and execute security standards
  • Monitor environments for security vulnerabilities and take actions to remediate and/or mitigate risks
  • Monitor applications and services within the environments, on-call rotation using Sumo Logic, Qualys, Lacework, and deepfence container security tool to take actions to resolve issues and implement strategies to prevent future occurrences
  • Research and experiment with new technologies that can improve day-to-day operations
Vulnerability AssessmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud ComputingSumo LogicCloud ArmorCEH+16

Fico

Lead Engineer - Cloud Engineering (GTS)

Oct 2019Apr 2020 · 6 mos

  • Collaborating with security teams to define security standards for AWS.
  • Ensure suitable tooling and functionality is available to meet security requirements in the AWS environment.
  • Liaison with product teams to provide expert advice on migrating existing products into an AWS environment in a secure manner.
  • Engage with security teams to ensure solutions delivered in AWS are secured to FICO standards.
  • Provide AWS Best practice security guidance to all other FICO teams with secure design and architecture in a dynamic Cloud Environment.
  • Assist with the Infrastructure Engineering team to design and maintain an appropriate AWS shared Infrastructure" component, and in particular with securing the environment.
  • Providing guidance on delivering solutions that deliver cross-platform compatibility in a secure manner.
  • Writing and enforcement of security policies in a cloud environment.
Vulnerability AssessmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud ComputingCEHTeamworkSSL Certificates+9

Publicis sapient

Senior Associate Infrastructure L2

Mar 2019Oct 2019 · 7 mos

  • Architecting enterprise cloud design patterns and help optimize cloud migration strategies in order to reduce costs while ensuring quality.
  • Designing highly scalable system architecture with AWS
  • Mentoring teams on Cloud/DevOps in resolving priority issues in production environments.
  • Working hands-on with Linux operating systems like RedHat, CentOS & Ubuntu
  • Implementing cloud fundamentals like auto-scaling, elasticity, serverless, containerization, DR & failover, etc.
  • Working closely on DevSecOps model to improve the software supply chain while tightening best security practices across cloud platform, OS & code level
  • Identifying risks and issues, and help monitor them to take proactive measures.
  • Experience working Jenkins, SonarQube, Terraform, Docker, Nessus.
  • Working hands-on with Linux operating systems like RedHat, CentOS & Ubuntu
  • Help building the next generation of IT infrastructure e.g. containers infrastructure using Docker & Kubernetes
Cloud ComputingTeamworkService-Level Agreements (SLA)InfrastructureLinux ServerProblem Solving+3

Indus net technologies

Lead Cloud & Server Operations

Aug 2015Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Responsible for Hosting/DevOps/ Automation Projects, Server Infrastructure Operations at HQ and leading 10 + team.
  • Liable for managing and scaling 500 plus servers, over millions of users with a concurrency threshold pushing north of 200K in a global technology environment. Linux OS supported web services, CMS, Mobile App, CRM, E-commerce applications for various clients.
  • Designing and constructing quality solution architecture & handling complexities stemming from the cloud environment (AWS, Azure, Rackspace, etc)
  • Managing a team of L2 & L1 Engineers acting as a liaison for Enterprise Clients like Lyca Mobile. Responsible for due diligence and managing incidents with varied priorities sprouting up from a 24 X 7 support cycle.
  • Providing round the clock operational support for Production/UAT/Staging Environments respectively. The responsibilities include but are not limited to responding to production systems setup/management bottlenecks, outages, configuration of hosts and performance tuning using AWS (EC2, VPC, EBS, RDS, ELB, SQS, Autoscaling, Route53, CloudWatch, IAM, S3, SES, so on & so forth) and Rackspace cloud for most of the infrastructure.
  • Building up CI/CD environment with automation – Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Elastic Beanstalk etc
  • Responsible of end to end HelpDesk Operation, that is OSTICKET, JIRA generated incidents within stipulated SLA
  • Architecting secure BFSI environment with compliance like PCI-DSS, SOC1-3, ISO 27001 etc.
  • Creating and managing high scale eCommerce Platform (Magento) on Cloud with Caching, CDN & Failover
  • Delivered Infrastructure Upgrade & Cloud Migration for 50 + clients in a dynamic and high-pressure environment with 99.99% availability and cost savings over $10 million.
  • Protecting web servers from cyber-attacks, hacking, OWASP Most Critical Web Application Security Risks, DoS & DDoS
  • Performing vulnerability assessment and implementation of server and kernel-level patches
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud ComputingSSL CertificatesService-Level Agreements (SLA)InfrastructureNetwork Security+8

Corelynx inc

Senior Linux Engineer

Feb 2015Aug 2015 · 6 mos

Cloud ComputingTeamworkSSL CertificatesInfrastructureNetwork SecurityLinux+1

Zytrix technologies private limited

System Administrator

Jan 2012Feb 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Kolkata Area, India

InfrastructureITIL

Education

Subharti University

Bachelor's degree — Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

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