Jul 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• "Learner + Responsibile + Strategic + Futuristic + Relator"
• As cloud evolves, so too must service models. Rackspace Elastic Engineering provides on-demand engineering and support to help you unlock innovation and new capabilities across all your environments.

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr · Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

• Worked as DevOps Engineer to help implement DevOps strategies around deployment and management of AWS infrastructure and application.
• Responsibilities
• − Build, Maintain CI / CD pipelines for Infrastructure and Applications.
• − Creating Terraform templates /modules to deploy AWS infrastructure for multiple internal applications across multiple AWS accounts.
• − Creating AWS Infrastructure diagrams and documentation around the high-level application components.
• − Using CircleCI to deploy the serverless infrastructure via pipeline that is common across all the platforms, via integrated Bitbucket repositories.
• − Protecting web applications using Advanced Shield, AWS WAF: WebACLs, Rate limits, Managed rules etc.
• − Taking care of AWS Security based on Cloud Conformity checks and keeping the score as low as possible.
• − Monitoring of Security, Integrity, Availability, Backups.

Sep 2020 – May 2021 · 8 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Worked as Cloud Consultant and AWS Partner to help customers onboard to AWS
• Cloud and help them modernise and succeed in the cloud.
• Responsibilities
• − Providing managed and professional services for AWS for Cloud implementation &
• workload migration.
• − Delivering DevOps solutions to simplify provisioning infrastructure, deploying
• application code, automating software release processes
• − Creating High Level Design Documents, Statement of Work, Work Estimates for the
• projects and delivery
• − Conducting Well Architect Framework (WAF) Review for customers to help them learn
• the state of their workload and then suggesting the best way possible to make it more
• compliant.
• − Implemented services like Control Tower (Landing Zone), Single Sign On, AWS
• Organization, AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory, AWS Workspaces, Service
• Control Policies (SCP)
• − Using Sceptre tool to manage Cloudformation templates for the infrastructure to be
• deployed to multiple accounts.

Dec 2016 – Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Worked as DevOps Engineer to advice AWS's Enterprise and Business level customers for their workloads running on AWS Infrastructure that includes and not limited to:
• 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.
• − 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 etc 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.
• 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.
• − Helping Kubernetes Administrators with Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads or
• any issues while running the pod/deployment/service objects or deeper.
• OpsWorks Subject Matter Expert

Mar 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida, UP, India

• Worked as Lead DevOps Engineer and Cloud consultant to provide Cloud solutions and DevOps consultancy about migrating workload to AWS and managing them.
• − Worked as AWS Partner to help customers onboard their AWS journey.
• − Interacting with Startups and Business customers to understand their requirement with
• respect to migration to AWS, managing AWS Infra and integrating DevOps practices.
• − Responsible for delivering solutions within agreed time with the help of a team of highly
• skilled professionals.
• − Working closely with both Development and Quality Assurance teams, improving the
• systems and implementing DevOps practices on the project.
• − Securing servers using AWS Security Groups, Hardening, IPtables, VPC.
• − Using AWS services: IAM, ELB, S3 Storage, RDS, SQS etc.
• − Monitoring Servers with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Nagios, Monit & Ganglia.
• − Advanced Shell / Bash scripting for automation of daily tasks like Autoscaling, backup,
• healthcheck etc.
• − Managing logs with Log rotation, Syslog, Logentries, ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash,
• Kibana).
• − Apache/Nginx Administration & Load Balancing.
• Code Deployment using Code Deploy, Capistrano, Chef, Customized scripts with User data.
• − Tasks Automation like Build & Deployment, Backup, Monitoring using Jenkins.
• − Managing & Maintaining Mongo & Mysql (RDS) databases with setup, replication and
• backup.
• − Building Application stack from scratch using User Data, CloudInit and Chef Scripts.
• − Troubleshooting and supporting the application/infra issues in 24X7 environment.
• − Disaster Recovery planning and execution.
• − Assisted in couple of OTT applications management like #Fame, VideoReady for live streaming and video-on-demand, using Wowza Streaming engine, Limelight CDN.
• − Cloud Automation using CloudFormation, CloudInit, LaunchConfiguration, UserData.
• − Dockerization/Containerization of Microservices. Using Kubernetes for clustering and
• failover.
• − People Management for delivering customer projects and task assignment.

Jan 2012 – Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Worked as Sr DevOps Engineer initially to Manage & Maintain client’s Application stack and Linux Infrastructure on AWS and in-house Data Center. It includes and not limited to:
• − Responsible for managing multiple projects with different customers across the globe and different timezones.
• − Working closely with both development and quality testing teams, improving the systems and processes that define the software development life cycle and operational support processes.
• − Managing a team of highly skilled professionals.
• − Managing/Provisioning EC2 compute as per traffic trends in Amazon AWS.
• − Securing servers using Security Groups, Hardening, IPtables, TCPwrappers.
• − Using Elastic Load Balancers, S3 Storage, GIT, SQS.
• − Monitoring Servers with Nagios, Monit & Ganglia, SAR, Smokeping.
• − Advanced Shell / Bash scripting for automation of daily tasks like Autoscaling, backup,
• healthcheck etc.
• − Managing logs with Log rotation, Syslog, Rsyslog & Graylog2 servers.
• − Apache/Nginx Administration & Load Balancing.
• − Code Deployment: Code developed by Development team on application servers using
• Capistrano, Chef, Bootballs.
• − Managing & Maintaining Mongo & Mysql databases with setup, replication and backup.
• − KVM & ESXi Virtualization
• − Using Gluster FS file system to have shared resources across platform.
• − Building Application stack from scratch using PXE/Kickstart and Chef Scripts.
• − Troubleshooting and supporting the application/infra issues in 24X7 environment.
• − Disaster Recovery planning and execution.
• − Cloud Automation using Rackspace, Chef & Gitlab.
• − People Management for delivering customer projects and task assignment.

May 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Okhla Industrial Area, Phase II

• Managing & Maintaining Mail sever which includes User/Quota/Password management, Mail delivery issues, Whitelisting/Blacklisting domains/email IDs, SPAM controlling.
• Managing & Maintaining FTPes sever (vsftpd) which includes User/Quota/Password management, FTP connection/upload issues, SSL Certificate
• Managing & Maintaining Firewall sever (shorewall) which includes Access Control, NATting (SNAT/DNAT), Masquerading, Policy, Rules
• Managing & Maintaining Proxy sever (squid) which includes Access Control, User/Password management, Rules.
• Configuration & Implementation of Nagios which deals with monitoring of IT Devices like Linux/Windows Servers, Switches, Printers, Routers
• Automation of daily tasks using Shell Scripting.
• Backup /Restoration /Disaster Recovery of Linux servers
• Hardening of Linux/Windows Servers
• Log Analysis of Linux/Windows servers & Network devices through Log Analyzer.
• Troubleshooting Network & Linux related issues.
• Configuration & Management of SVN Servers
• Involved in ITIL procedures like SLA, Capacity Management, Change Management.

Oct 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Network administration of more than 1000 nodes which includes:
• a) Providing and maintaining 95-100 % uptime with our prod servers and network.
• b) Day to day network issue resolution from user’s end.
• c) Day to day system application issues like Microsoft Office, Operating system(s) etc.
• d) Configuring and maintaining e-mail clients with protocols IMAP/POP/SMTP.
• e) Automation of current daily procedures.
• f) Disaster Recovery Management for both Linux & Windows Servers.
• g) Squid Internet Support.
• h) Installation & Configuration of Samba Server including PDC
• i) Installation, Replication & Monitoring of MySQL Servers
• j) Data Backup and Server Space Management [Rsync, Tar etc.]
• k) Windows Software Update Services [SUS].
• l) Managing Antivirus Installation & Support both Client and Server
• m) Internet & MAN bandwidth synchronization.
• n) CUPS printing support for windows clients.
• o) FTP Server Configuration and support
• p) Virtualization – XEN [Citrix Xen Server].

Jan 2003 – Oct 2008 · 5 yrs 9 mos

• Computerized Analysis & Research of Real Estate legal documents to obtain relevant information required for preparing Electronic Databases for North America and Europe based Clients.
• Involves extensive research and quality analysis prior to providing information to customers/clients.
• Process requires manual review using research and supplementary tools to ensure logical consistency or record completeness when compared with the main database in addition, back end processing of data received in various formats are received and processed through mainframe systems. Various auto-generated reports are analyzed and feedback sent to ensure successful processing of data.