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● Azure Infrastructure Automation: Automated VM provisioning and configuration management for a large US firm using Azure Pipelines, Terraform, and Ansible, reducing manual effort from 2-3 hours to 5-6 minutes.● Monitoring and Incident Reporting: Implemented comprehensive monitoring solutions for a major insurance company using Azure Monitors, Grafana, Prometheus, Kentik, Eternity, and Quantum Metrics, ensuring early incident detection and rapid response.● AWS Migration and Microservices Transformation: Led the migration of on-premises data to AWS, transforming monolithic applications into microservices, and establishing CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket, Argo CD, Helm charts, JUnit, and SonarQube.● Automation Scripting: Developed Python-based automation scripts to enhance operational efficiency and reduce manual tasks.● Team Leadership: Managed a team of six, providing mentorship, conducting in-house training sessions, and facilitating knowledge transfer through thorough documentation.● Client Engagement and Pre-Sales: Played a key role in pre-sales activities, securing new clients, and maintaining strong relationships with existing clients.● Intern Training: Oversaw the training of interns, ensuring their integration into the team and the development of their skills.● Process Improvement: Identified and implemented process improvements across the DevOps lifecycle, enhancing efficiency, reducing errors, and ensuring best practices are followed consistentlyTechnologies Used : Azure, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Azure Monitors, Ansible Automation Platform, Grafana, Prometheus, Eternity, Quantum Metrics,, Bitbucket, ADO, Argo CD, Helm, JUnit, SonarQube, Python, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes.

● Infrastructure Automation: Designed and provisioned AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring scalable, consistent, and repeatable deployments.● Kubernetes Deployment and Management: Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters, integrating Helm charts for efficient application packaging and deployment.● CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, and AWS CodePipeline, automating build, test, and deployment processes for improved efficiency.● Configuration Management: Automated configuration management and post-deployment tasks using Ansible, streamlining system updates and ensuring consistency across environments.● Application Scaling and High Availability: Implemented auto-scaling and load balancing solutions on AWS, ensuring application performance under high traffic.● Security and Compliance: Managed secrets using AWS Secrets Manager and implemented IAM policies to secure infrastructure and applications.● Cost Optimization: Analyzed AWS resource usage and implemented strategies for cost optimization without compromising performance.● Team Collaboration and Mentorship: Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions and mentored junior engineers in best practices for cloud and DevOps workflows.Technologies Used : Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Cloudwatch, AWS Secret Manager, Docker, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

● Streamlined CI/CD Processes: Transformed traditional manual deployment workflows into streamlined CI/CD pipelines, achieving an 80% reduction in manual intervention, which significantly improved deployment speed and reliability● Successful Monolithic-to-Microservices Migration: Professionally orchestrated the migration of a monolithic application to a microservices-based architecture, leading to a 300% increase in scalability and a 40% boost in application performance.● Automation for Optimized Performance and Uptime: Automated various operational tasks, such as application restarts, log monitoring, and startup verification processes, which improved application performance, reduced downtime, and minimized the need for manual intervention..● Mentorship and Training Programs for Junior Engineers: Mentored junior team members and facilitated knowledge transfer by conducting structured training sessions. This ensured project success and fostered the professional growth of junior engineers.● Automated Kubernetes Cluster Deployment: Provisioned a Kubernetes cluster using Terraform for infrastructure setup and Ansible for configuration management, enabling consistent, scalable deployments and reducing setup time across environments.Technologies Used : Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, ECS, Ansible, Python, Bash, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus,

● Writing Terraform modules for AWS services(RDS,S3,VPC,EC2,LB etc).● Developed working environments for Dev,QA and Production.● Writing Deployment files(services,HPA,deployment, Ingress etc) for K8s deployment.● Building comprehensive VPC environments with Terraform or CloudFormation: from public/private/database subnets, NAT gateways, route tables, and security groups to internet gateways, elastic IPs for Nat gateways and Bastian Hosts.● Hands on linux environments (Linux File System and Distributions, Bash Scripting, Cron Jobs, Daemons, Package Managers, User permissions and privileges● Collaborated with product managers and designers, conducting peer code reviews and maintaining code quality.● Mentored a junior resource to ensure successful project delivery and foster growth and development.