Saket Kumar
London
Summary
Responsible DevOps Engineer, passionate about delivering outstanding quality and service. Offering 14.5 years of experience in industry with history of recognition for performance. Looking for a challenging position which mutually benefits the organization and adds to my career growth, to continuously enhance skills to excel in cutting edge technologies.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
NASSTAR
05.2022 - Current
- Designed and maintained AWS-based infrastructure to support complex production workloads.
- Implemented and managed CI/CD workflows using AWS CICD, Jenkins and GitHub Actions to streamline production deployments.
- Built effective pipelines and enhanced production infrastructure through targeted database and cluster management.
- Used Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes (EKS) to manage, scale and update containers for improved automation possibilities.
- Owned Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform, Cloudformation and AWS CDK to promote repeatable, auditable environments.
- Utilized Prometheus and Grafana for cloud monitoring, ensuring the reliability and performance of production environments.
- Used ASH, Pre-Commit tools for the security testing of the infrastructure code.
- Created, configured, and managed robust, high-performing Amazon Web Services platforms, maintained familiarity with Azure multi-cloud concepts.
- Created and executed automation processes, enhancing application scalability and functionality.
- Quickly responded to and resolved debugging issues within production systems, minimizing errors, and risk.
- Reviewed new services and products to root out potential problems before customer onboarding.
- Resolved technical issues highlighted by customers, alerting IT Team Leader and updating clients on progress.
- Liaised with clients to accurately determine system requirements and scope of work.
- Participated in design workshops to increase knowledge base and experience with developing technologies.
- Documented and supported standards and procedures per organizational and client requirements.
- Maintained availability and responsiveness of systems, guaranteeing security and integrity.
- Monitored and reported IT error logs for reporting to clients and management.
AWS Cloud Engineer
Infosys Ltd
03.2017 - 11.2021
- Worked on Hybrid cloud environment with AWS as a Public cloud and Private Cloud.
- Management and Administration of AWS Services CLI, EC2, VPC, S3, Glacier, ELB, CloudTrail, KMS, EFS, IAM, CloudWatch and Trusted Advisor services, SNS, AWS Organization.
- Applied contemporary deployment practices and containerization strategies to enhance scalability.
- Used Amazon IAM services to grant permissions and resources to users.
- Managed roles and permissions of users with the help of AWS IAM.
- Knowledge of both RBAC and ABAC process to manage permission on cloud infrastructure.
- Responsible for launching Amazon EC2 cloud instance for Windows and Linux OS Platform.
- Launched servers using AWS, importing volumes, Autoscaling and load balancer in a defined virtual private connection.
- Experience in architecting and configuring secure VPC, Security Group, Route table and NACL in AWS.
- Facilitated back up and storage on AWS by building S3 buckets, managing policies for S3 buckets, and using S3 buckets and Glacier.
- Initiating alarms in CloudWatch service to monitor the server's performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage etc. to take recommended actions for better performance.
- Involved in maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.
- Monitoring AWS Config Non-Compliant resources and working on their remediation.
- Working on Capacity Management and cost optimization with the help of Trusted Advisor.
- Deployed lambda function for EC2 start and stop on schedule basis for cost optimization and downgrade of IOPS of EBS with the help of Trusted Advisor.
- Design AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom NACL to ensure successful deployment of Web & Applications.
- Setup AWS Organization to manage multiple accounts and provide boundary permission to accounts as per their workload domains.
- Created AMI images of the critical ec2 instance as backup using AWS CLI and GUI.
- Created support case with AWS for any critical issues and follow-up.
- Configured and managed security groups and VPC.
- Working on JIRA for defect/issues logging & tracking and documented all my work.
- Experience of implementing change requests in Production environment with defined change management process.
Technology Analyst and Team Lead
Infosys Ltd
06.2012 - 12.2018
- Worked with large Retail Clients for legacy AS400 native application management and enhancement.
- Training in AS400.
- Developed the back end of an order processing system from scratch.
- Worked with various IBM version control tools for AS400 applications.
- Enhanced intersystem communication by developing middleware queues (MQs) between applications.
- Experience of using GIT as a version control tool for web applications built on the native AS400 applications.
- Designed front end web GUI using Lega Suite, based on the native AS400 display files as the backend.
- Worked across several geographic client locations, Mexico and London.
- Organized multiple client meetings to gather requirements.
- Worked with several teams for proper knowledge transfer and brainstorming sessions.
- Helped in achieving application refactoring by implementing Continuous Improvement Ideas and Zero Distance Ideas.
- Acquired great domain knowledge of Retail, Logistics, CPG, Manufacturing.
- Worked on instrumenting the applications to implement the technicalities of GDPR rules.
- Worked with teams as Tech Lead and have experience of maintaining a sustained and positive environment.
- Experience of Incident Management and Support.
- Experience of using Remedy and ServiceNow Ticket Management Tools.
- Awarded multiple times with internal recognition awards for the work done over the years.
Mainframes Developer
Infosys Ltd
06.2011 - 05.2012
- Worked for a large CPG client for Mainframe application management and enhancement.
- Developed programs to be used for Forecasting and Planning.
- Training in Mainframes.
- Used Teradata as the Relational Database Management System.
- Analyzed and refactored multiple paged SQL queries.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bangalore01.2011
Skills
- Amazon Web Services
- Azure
- Cloud Formation
- Terraform
- Python
- NodeJS
- Shell Scripts
- Ansible
- Lambda
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- Docker
- AWS CLI
- Windows
- Linux
- SQL
- DB2
- RDS
- Dynamo DB
- Teradata
- Jenkins
- Bamboo
- AWS CICD
- GitHub Actions
- CloudWatch
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Git
- Bit Bucket
- Jira
- Service Now
- Remedy
- AS400
- Mainframes
- Infrastructure automation
- Linux operating system
- Monitoring and logging
- Containerization technologies
- Scripting languages
- Test automation
- Microservices architecture
- Windows operating system
- Maintenance and troubleshooting
- Performance optimization
- API development
- IT operations
- System administration
- Network fundamentals
- IT solution development
- Virtualization technologies
- Security best practices
- Effective communication
- Project planning
- Configuration management
- Task prioritization
- Incident management
- Continuous integration
- Continuous deployment
Certification
AWS Certified DevOps Associate
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
NASSTAR
05.2022 - Current
AWS Cloud Engineer
Infosys Ltd
03.2017 - 11.2021
Technology Analyst and Team Lead
Infosys Ltd
06.2012 - 12.2018
Mainframes Developer
Infosys Ltd
06.2011 - 05.2012
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Visvesvaraya Technological University