Kingkon Bachar
Edinburgh,UK
Summary
14+ years of experience in IT industry with configuration management, CI/CD, Release Management and devops with both on-premises and cloud environments.
Working experience on AWS. Hands on experience on automation tools and scripting for system and integration testing and monitoring for test and production applications.
Designing and implementing highly available, scalable, and fault tolerant solution for micro service application.
Migration to AWS cloud for both application(multi-tire with segregated network topology) and database layer.
Highly motivated and advocate for infrastructure as code, process automation, intelligent monitoring and reduce redundancy.
Strong knowledge on AWS Architecture design and various AWS services - S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Formation.
Worked on Ecommerce and Insurance domain for international client having presence in multi geographical region.
Solid experience in all phases of software development phases. Started as a junior developer and gradually moved to tech lead role before shifting towards infrastructure support domain.
Experienced in both waterfall and Agile methodology. Use of project management tools like Jira, Confluence.
Worked on different types on POC for designing solution. Ranging from version control strategy to migration solution for databases. AWS services like - Karpenter, Fault Injection Simulator etc.
Extensively experienced on IBM Websphere Aapplication Server Network Deployment and ISAM appliance.
8+ years of experience in Linux based infrastructure system.
Raising support calls with vendors for P1 issues and real time issue investigation.
I have my skilled worker visa to work in UK however I will need a sponsorship to join any new employer.
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Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior DevOps engineer
Lloyds bank plc
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
04.2023 - Current
- Create and manage pipeline for CI/CD process. Optimize development process and support and implement automation to promote continuous improvement.
- Development process improvement and streamline deployment processes for time and resource efficiency. Design and implement nodejs application stack on kubernetes cluster.
- Automate security scanning and implement security policy through automation where applicable.
- Support High Priority (sev1 and sev2) problems in co-ordination with different teams to ensure less impact to the business. Effectively communicate with service management team and business stakeholders to provide relevant updates.
- Provide technical solution to complex microservice based design for existing and new feature.
- Infrastructure provisioning in GCP using terraform.
- Monitored repetitive problems and finding out long term solutions/Root Cause analysis of multi-tier system.
- Monitoring tools set up - Dynatrace, Kibana.
DevOps Engineer and Operations team lead
Tata Consultancy Services
Edinburgh, UK
11.2020 - 04.2023
- Support Production system both on-premises and AWS in a 24x7 environment. Development environment support and new environment set up for dev and testing.
- On-premises application stack - IBM WAS, Adobe CQ5, Springboot, Nodejs. AWS application stack - EKS, docker, RDS, Nodejs, Springboot, istio. New environment set up and support existing environments.a
- Support High Priority (sev1 and sev2) problems in co-ordination with different teams to ensure less impact to the business. Effectively communicate with service management team and business stakeholders to provide relevant updates.
- Provide technical solution to complex microservice based design for existing and new feature.
- CI CD pipeline set up and define framework for application development and deployment. Technology stack - Nodejs, Spring framework, maven, gradle, kubernetes, istio, lambda.
- Data migration project implementation using serverless DMS, Glue. Lambda for large scale and live database system.
- Infrastructure provisioning in AWS using both terraform and cloud formation
- Monitored repetitive problems and finding out long term solutions/Root Cause analysis of multi-tier system.
- Monitoring tools set up - Alert site, Neptune, Cloudwatch.
DevOps Engineer and Operations support
Tata Consultancy Services
Kolkata, Edinburgh, India, UK
11.2017 - 11.2020
- Design and implement complex cloud infrastructure for web application(Nodejs, Spring Boot), implementing and supporting CI/CD for both application and infrastructure..
- Cloud migration for existing database and web applications to AWS. Migration of legacy application to container(docker) infrastructure in AWS.
- Use of infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and terraform for AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Environment support for existing production environments and development of new infrastructure for new applications in Linux platform.
- Set up monitoring alerts and dashboard using alertsite, CloudWatch and neptune.
- Manage a team of 20 personnel following agile methodology for devops project. Use of Jira and Confluence tools.
Senior Developer and Devops analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Edinburgh, UK
08.2014 - 11.2017
- Planned business operational mandates and policies, starting with defining customers and market.
- Communicated with customers, employees and other individuals to answer questions and explain information.
- Liaised with stakeholders to verify business and technology alignment, recommending solutions that consistently met agreed project specifications.
- Identified workflow bottlenecks and implemented new and improved processes and policies.
- Worked effectively with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that elevated client side experience and significantly improved overall functionality and performance.
- Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust web application solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
- Developed streamlined task system to provide more effective workflows for both peers and management staff.
Lead Software Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
Edinburgh, UK
06.2012 - 08.2014
- Trained and managed team of 10 to 12 developers and discussed issues in order to provide resolution and utilise best practices.
- Wrote clean, clear and well-tested code for various projects.
- Carefully documented technical workflows in private wiki for education of newly employed staff.
- Collaborated with other developers to identify and alleviate number of bugs in
Junior Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
Kolkata, India
01.2010 - 06.2012
- Lead team of 4/5 developers in analysis and rebuild of software from ground up through to completion.
- Collaborated with other developers to identify and alleviate number of bugs in software.
- Wrote clean, clear and well-tested code for various projects.
- Met with manager on weekly basis to provide detailed project report and milestone updates.
- Ensured that bug reports were remedied and all issues were handled in timely manner.
Education
Masters in compuer Applications - Computer Application
West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT)
Kolkata, West Bengal08.2009
Bachelors in Computer Application - Computer Application
Visva Bharati
Kolkata, West Bengal05.2006
Skills
- GCP, AWS - EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Cloudformation Helm terraform
- GIT, Bitbucket, Clearcase
- Docker and Kubernetes
- IBM WAS ND, ISAM
- Linux and Unix
- Jenkins GitHub Actions ansible
- Configuration management tools (ansible, puppet)
- Groovy, Bash, Python, Gradle, Terraform
- Sharepoint, Jira, confluence, service-now
- Alertsite, Elasticsearch-Kibana-Logstash, Appdynamic, Neptune
Certification
- AWS certified solution architect associate
- IELTS certificate for English language
- IBM certificate Websphere Application Server Administrator
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
Timeline
Senior DevOps engineer
Lloyds bank plc
04.2023 - Current
DevOps Engineer and Operations team lead
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2020 - 04.2023
DevOps Engineer and Operations support
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2017 - 11.2020
Senior Developer and Devops analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2014 - 11.2017
Lead Software Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2012 - 08.2014
Junior Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2010 - 06.2012
- AWS certified solution architect associate
- IELTS certificate for English language
- IBM certificate Websphere Application Server Administrator
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
Masters in compuer Applications - Computer Application
West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT)
Bachelors in Computer Application - Computer Application
Visva Bharati
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