Jan 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid

• Provide expert Level 3 support for enterprise clients, managing highly critical and complex incidents within production environments, ensuring minimal downtime and preventing data loss.
• Lead and facilitate bridge calls between external vendors and End clients to troubleshoot and resolve high-severity issues swiftly, ensuring effective communication and rapid resolution.
• Design, deploy, and operate resilient multiple Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters on Baremetal and cloud platforms (AWS) and BareMetal, achieving high availability, security, and performance for seismic data processing workloads.
• Develop and implement security hardening measures across microservices and platform infrastructure, utilizing ACS and industry best practices to ensure compliance and protection of sensitive data.
• Architect and develop comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions using Velero, Golang based kubernetes operator, and Ansible, enhancing platform resilience and operational continuity.
• Maintain a proactive support stance by identifying potential issues early, providing strategic recommendations, and continuously improving platform stability.
• Showcase a professional, client-focused attitude with a strong desire to learn new technologies, enhance support processes, and deliver innovative solutions for complex enterprise challenges.
• Achievements
• Developed and implemented multiple Terraform automation scripts to optimize and manage production-ready infrastructure efficiently.
• Engineered a Kubernetes operator using Golang and Ansible to enable comprehensive infrastructure backups as Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) within Kubernetes.
• Collaborated with multiple development teams to migrate applications from vendor-locked AWS environments to a cloud-agnostic architecture, promoting flexibility and cost efficiency.

Mar 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Research and Implemented features like Private CA for the whole platform using StepCA, Cert-Manager, certificate management (PKI), Security Monitoring & Alerting infrastructure.
• Conducted thorough performance analysis and optimization of microservices using Linkerd's traffic splitting and load balancing capabilities, resulting in a X% improvement in overall platform performance.
• Implemented Production-ready multi-node Ceph Storage Cluster and MinIO clusters to be used as Storage-CSI and Object Storage Solution inside Reynencourt Platform.
• Designed and Architected backup solution based on Velero and MinIO to take Cluster-wide backup of the platform, introduced it as a feature by creating new API Resources in Kubernetes using CRD.
• Member of the core platform team where we build and maintain Reynen Court's managed Kubernetes platform for the largest law firms in the world
• Experience in implementation of observability, reliability, and security features using Linkerd Service Mesh
• Provided and implemented multiple solutions on the customer side in-order to improve platform performance which includes, site-to-site VPN setup between azure and on-prem data center and many more solutions related to SRE work
• Actively takes part in incident response and architecture decisions to improve the security posture of the organization
• Implemented underlying cloud infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure as a code (Terraform & Go) by leveraging ArgoCD for GitOps style CI/CD
• Designed and developed Kubernetes controllers from RFCs and CRD to final implementation.
• Wrote technical design documents and developed a strategy for a rewrite of the core Kubernetes platform.
• Researched, prototyped, architected, planned, and led the development of the cloud infrastructure IaC which helped a 30% reduction in cloud costs while has also improved security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Mentored and coached other engineers in the team.

Aug 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Linkoping, Sweden

• Writing Automation using Ansible, Python, and Bash to continues to support the existing CI/CD process.
• Designed a production level monitoring system for OpenStack using Prometheus and Grafana and migrated it to Kubernetes in production.
• Experienced with the migration of an application from VMware to Private Cloud Solution (OpenStack).
• Responsible to deliver and maintain CI/CD for the internal development team in Kubernetes based application over Kubernetes using helm.
• Expert in Converted monolithic application into microservices and orchestrate full deployment process using helm over Kubernetes.
• Managing ONAP infra for internal development over Kubernetes.
• Created an automation framework to manage and maintain existing infra or to create new infra for clients.
• Written automation for deploying full CEE OpenStack (Ericsson Customized OpenStack) on Private DataCenter.
• Deploying Various OpenStack Cloud (Mirantis, CEE, Redhat, TripleO) on Private DC.
• Providing support to internal Ericsson clients over various platforms like ONAP, vGTE, VMM, zVMM.
• Getting involved in planning disaster recovery and HA Production level Kubernetes for Production Environment and high available OpenStack Designing as well.
• Developed Full monitoring solution for OpenStack Production Environment based on Prometheus and Grafana via OpenStack exporter and for Kubernetes cluster.

Feb 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Magarpatta, pune

• DevOps Engineer in NSCO, ONAP & ECOMP (D2)AT & T – NFV/SDN projects by Amdocs & AT&T.
• Creating automated continues integration and system deployment tools using Python, Ansible, Bash scripts with Jenkins & Ansible playbook.
• Developing CI/CD and integration tools with using opensource systems to fit the developers & production needs.
• Deploying and creating on-premise Datacenter on OpenStack (RH, Ubuntu, Vanilla etc.) in architecture prospective & hands-on automated installations.
• Fine tuning of OpenStack cloud layers: Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Keystone, Heat, Glance and more.
• Adopting cutting edge OpenStack components on low-level maturity in order to test its ability in a production line to fit the agile world of cloud service’s needs.
• Managing, installing and configuring OpenStack cloud systems by RedHat, Ubuntu, Mirantis & Vanilla. The installation is done by Ansible & other unique DevOps internal scripts.
• Managing, Installing & upgrading the project’s data center – bare metal upgrades and installations (Intel & HP servers).
• Working closely with Docker & Kubernetes- Deployment & management for production-grade clusters on Google cloud and AWS.
• Handling the DevOps requirement for three teams. I handle the CI / CD environments as well including sonar(Code Coverage), Jenkins. I act as a release engineer as well. Automation playbooks for streamlined deployment.
• Private Git infra and other tools and micro-services etc are also managed by me.
• Handling micro-services (kubernetes) infrastructure in an organization.
• Streamline build and deployment across various environments using Jenkins to create an efficient continuous integration model.
• Set up clusters and load balancers for web servers and databases, configure replica-sets for databases in HA mode, to provide high availability and fault tolerance.
• Automate various manual activities using Bash and Python scripts resulting in an elimination of manual inefficiencies.

Apr 2016 – Feb 2017 · 10 mos · Pune Area, India

• Configured Instance in HA manner over Google Cloud Platform.
• Automated 1000+ server deployments using Puppet.
• Provides training on Openstack.
• Created, deployed, managed, and migrated Linux virtual machines in AWS(Amazon web services) to OpenStack and vise-versa.
• Launched instances and Stacks in an OpenStack Cloud using the OpenStack Orchestration process.
• Working and managing instance and resources over AWS EC2(Elastic Cloud Compute) and S3(Simpler Storage Solution).
• Thoubleshooted each of the core services in OpenStack for proper optimization

Dec 2015 – Mar 2016 · 3 mos · baner,pune ,India

• Deploying different products of Veritas like volume manager(vxvm), VERITAS cluster’s
• VCS, VERITAS volume replicator(VVR), Cluster file system(CFS) ..etc on different Linux/Unix platforms.
• Working on VCS with respect to different scenario based testing.
• Finding different types of vulnerability on VERITAS products with different operating systems.
• Automation of manual task of product testing in perl language.

Mar 2015 – Nov 2015 · 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and performed administrative tasks.
• Performed and designed Network for Production-ready Openstack.
• Provisioned environment on AWS and Troubleshot each of the core services in AWS.
• Implementing a scale-up/scale-out storage solution using Red Hat Storage Server.
• Configured and deployed Swift Object Storage Service.
• Automate installation and configuration of RHEV Manager.

Jan 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Managing local infrastructure server which includes, DNS, FTP, APACHE.
• Provides training on RHCSA and RHCE 6,7.
• Storage management which includes NFS, SAMBA, LVM.
• Automation of day today activities like upload/download of database of every branch data.
• Atomization of manual task of product testing in perl language.
• Deploying different products of Veritas like volume manager(vxvm), VERITAS cluster’s VCS, VERITAS volume replicator(VVR), Cluster file system(CFS) ..etc on different Linux/Unix platforms.
• Providing Training of RHEL6 and 7, CEHv8, Shell Scripting and boot camp of exam.
• Taking seminars on the behalf of IIT-Bombay ,IIT-Kanpur in a event of NNSC(National network security championship).