Gajanan Kakade

DevOps Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India8 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift management.
Proven track record in cloud infrastructure support.
Strong background in CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps specialist with extensive experience in enterprise environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesRedhat OpenshiftRed Hat Openshift Container PlatformCloud ManagementCloud EngineeringOpenstack ManagementCloud Infrastructure ManagementDevopsCloud Support Engineering

Other Skills

AWSAWS CloudAmazon EKSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApacheAzureBMCBuilding TrustCBAMCI/CDCloud ComputingCloud DevelopmentContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Debugging

About

I am a Senior OpenShift Technical Support Engineer at Red Hat and help customers in their digital transformation journey. My key skill are Kubernetes, Redhat Openshift, Docker, CI/CD, Jenkins, Helm, Terraform, Linux, OpenStack, AWS Cloud.

Experience

Red hat

2 roles

Senior OpenShift Technical Support Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

KubernetesRedhat OpenshiftDockerCI/CDJenkinsHelm+4

OpenShift Technical Support Engineer

Oct 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs · Remote

Analyzed upstream development, resolved customer-reported defects with efficient patches.
Managed and troubleshooted Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, including various components,
deployments, and installations.
Successfully handled escalations, resolving critical remote issues and prioritizing high-importance cases.
Managed OpenShift Clusters on diverse cloud platforms, ensuring seamless performance across AWS, GCP, VMware, Azure, and OpenStack.

Red Hat OpenShift Container PlatformAWSGCPVMwareAzureOpenStack+1

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Manager - Cloud Engineering

Jul 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Managing multiple private clouds of Vi, Planing project releases and handover to the respective teams.
Verifying OpenStack environment in Docker Containers, Zabbix, BMC, CBAM, Sanity test before Upgrade.
Lead technical bridge and provides troubleshooting direction also perform critical activity such as DIMM
replacement, OSD Disk replacement, troubleshoot OpenStack issues, daubing live production outage.
Assessing and prioritizing requirements and work given demanding customers and finite workforce.
Collaborate with multiple internal teams understand the requirements and provides desired solution

OpenStackDockerZabbixBMCCBAMCloud Engineering+1

Enclouden

DevOps Engineer

Jun 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

Project Overview: EnCloudEn offers private, cloud-based information technology for organizations looking to set up an internal datacentre. It facilitates on-premise private cloud as a better alternative to the public cloud, consolidation of IT workloads with private clouds, deployment of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), delivery of IT for users in a bring your own device (BYOD), among others.
Role and Responsibilities :
1. Myroleistomanagetheentireinfrastructurerunningback-endfront-endmicroservices.
2. TraveltotheclientlocationtodeployHyperConvergedInfrastructure,PrivateCloud,VirtualDesktop Infrastructure, Louvre.
3. Migrateclientsexistingphysical,virtualserverstoEnCloudEncloudplatformusingvarioustoolslikevirt- v2v, virt-p2v, qemu, StarWind, vCenter Converter, etc.
4. SettingupthreenodesDruidclusterbuildDruidagentsmanagelogsandmonitorcloud.

HyperConverged InfrastructurePrivate CloudVirtual Desktop InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure ManagementDevOps

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Cloud Support Engineer - Deployment

Jul 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

We manage the integration, cloud native infrastructure and pipelines. Also enabling DevOps patterns by developing Infrastructure tooling and Automation, and coordinating efforts across the stack
Build, Install, Deploy, Configure and troubleshoot cloud services for customers
Experience with OpenStack Component Nova, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Glance
Create and manage Cinder volumes in OpenStack Cloud
Integrating Ceph Storage with OpenStack.
Creating fully automated CI/CD build and deployment infrastructure and processes for multiple projects.
Responsible for implementing & performing software builds, deployment by closely working with project architects.
Supported and maintained Business Technology Public/Private cloud Infrastructure.
Involved in implementing Ansible configuration management and maintaining them in several environments on AWS cloud and VMware
Setup and managed Storage arrays and Linux servers
Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on OpenStack,
AWS, vSphere, EC2, S3, and AMI, including backups, patches, and scaling • Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and
tagging
Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks
using Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Python and Bash
Understand the complete deployment lifecycle from design, build, test,
deploy
Support / Troubleshooting experience