Years of experience in Cloud Services and Automation.
Gaurav Kumar
London,United Kingdom
Summary
17+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Services and Automation. Detail-oriented analytical thinker with superior consultative skills. Applies critical thinking to achieve complex business objectives, transforming data into meaningful insights. Possesses strengths in research, negotiation and cost-benefit analysis. Talented individual applies problem-solving and troubleshooting skills to find quick, impactful resolutions. Refines and updates existing practices for optimal performance, achieving seamless user experience.
Overview
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Work History
Senior SRE - Platform Engineering & Cloud Services
HCL Consultant to BBC Studios
London
2017.02 - Current
- Working as a Senior SRE - Platform Engineering & Cloud Services and Technical Lead, assisting client to manage and automate AWS Stack. Providing Consultation to the business and engaging client in POCs for new technologies/ Solution approaches like Directory Services, Integration of DS with IAM etc, Kubernetes and ECS.
- Responsible for writing IAC source code for automation and configuring Akamai (CDN) cache workflow, to increase site offload, optimizing performance.
- Enabling CI/CD, by continuously maintaining infrastructure stack and integration with Code Versioning Systems like Git-lab, Bitbucket etc along with Teamcity/ Jenkinks as CI and Octopus/ Jenkins as CD.
- Development of custom apps in JAVA, bash etc for fulfilling client requirements like cost optimization, vulnerability analysis etc.
Senior Solutions Manager
HCL Consultant to Reeds Exibition UK
, UK
2016.02 - 2017.02
- Worked as an HCL Consultant to Reeds Exhibition UK for On-Prem to AWS Migration.
- CI/CD pipeline design in Github runners, primarily using Chef and Ansible for Config management.
- Automation of tasks using Python, Bash and Powershell
- Conducted audits and risk assessments to achieve regulatory compliance.
Senior Solutions Manager
HCL Consultant to News UK
London , UK
2010.12 - 2016.02
- Worked as a Technical lead to Cloud Infra, design and Automation team.
Responsible for On-Prem to AWS Cloud Migration, and strategising HA plans for the same. - Design new DCs in AWS Cloud, with network connectivity from On-prem DataCenters via direct connect/ Zscaler Proxy.
- Infrastructure and Designing of network tiers based on client requirements and good practices, in terms of security and usage.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
University of Allahabad
IndiaSkills
- Kubernetes/ EKS
- Elastic Container Services (ECS)
- AWS Architect
- Python - Core, AWS-SDK and PANDAS.
- Platform - Linux (Primary) and Windows
- Scripting - Bash and Powershell
- Chef, Ansible, Terraform with Jenkins, Teamcity and Octopus
- [AWS Certified Solutions Architect]
- Site Hosting and CDN (Cloudfront and Akamai).
Timeline
Senior SRE - Platform Engineering & Cloud Services
HCL Consultant to BBC Studios
2017.02 - Current
Senior Solutions Manager
HCL Consultant to Reeds Exibition UK
2016.02 - 2017.02
Senior Solutions Manager
HCL Consultant to News UK
2010.12 - 2016.02
Bachelor of Science -
University of Allahabad
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