Abhilash Pimpalnerkar

2019-07 - Current

Advance DevOps & Cloud Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions, ING BANK, Pune

• Well versed with concepts like CI/CD, Build and Release management, Source Code Control, Git tags, branching and merging, pull requests.
• Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Azure DevOps
• End to end support management for Azure DevOps Pipeline with multi skilled knowledge to assist major capability teams.
• First & Second line support for more than 1000+ teams.
• Act as contributor towards ensuring that meet banking compliance quality standards.
• Extract & analyses Service Now support data & provide it to the internal stakeholders.
• Setup end to end (CI/CD) DevOps environment on Azure DevOps
• Deploy Infrastructure using Terraform templates for Azure PaaS services with deployment tools such as PowerShell and Azure DevOps, linked template deployments, and updating Resources with Terraform template.
• Provide technical oversight and guidance during client's engagement execution.
• Design and Implement Azure DevOps (CI/CD) pipelines to deploy Application to Azure Kubernetes Service
• Implement best Cloud security practices using Manage Identity, Service Principal, Azure Key Vault, etc.
• Deploy and Integrate Azure Kubernetes with Azure Container Registry to pull Custom Docker Image
• Creating Custom Docker Image and push to Azure Container Registry
• Configure SSO/ Authentication/ Authorization for Applications deployed on Kubernetes
• Managing, creating users, and providing user level (RBAC) access in Azure
• Creating Custom RBAC Roles to prevent actions for users.
• Taking complete responsibility of onboarding new Teams (Purpose Space) and giving required permissions to access Azure feature.
• OS patching on Linux servers using Ansible playbooks.
• End to end deployment of SonarQube application on Azure Kubernetes using Helm chart for code quality analysis in Prod and non prod environment.
• Experience working with Agile and distributed teams.
• Linux and Windows system administration
• Experience in managing, monitoring, and maintaining production infrastructure.
• Used Azure resources such as ACR, Azure key vaults, Function App.
• Managed user stories and tasks in Azure Boards
• Played scum master role, helped team in hurdles/blockers in their work.
• Onboarded and trained 3+ new hires, mentored them with all required tools and skills for the project.
• Collaborated on stages of the systems development lifecycle, from requirement gathering to production releases.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams during major incident response efforts, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues affecting business operations.
• Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.

• Worked on Azure DevOps for continuous integration and deployment of the application on serverless Azure infrastructure.
• Managed Azure infrastructure using Terraform.
• Creating/removing or adding existing resources to Dev, QA and Prod environment using Terraform.
• Working with Dev team to troubleshoot build issues on Dev, QA and Prod environment.
• Installed and configured Azure Self Hosted Linux VM for QA and Prod DevOps pipeline.
• Worked with Client's Azure CloudOps, SecOps and MS Support team to troubleshoot P1 issues.
• Providing access to users to application by whitelisting their IP's from App Service.
• Working on AWS services S3, Lambda, Cloudfront.
• Installed and configured Jenkins server for CI/CD process to deploy Angular and Unity builds on AWS.
• Working closely with Unity and Angular developer for creating and deploying the builds.
• Troubleshooting the Unity build issues after deployment.
• Experience in declarative pipeline script for Continuous Integration and Deployment of Angular and Unity Builds.
• Implemented best practices to protect data and assets.
• Documented project design for reference and future use cases.
• Collaborated closely with product development teams and other stakeholders.

• Working with development team to achieve build release from Jenkins.
• Deploying Jenkins build to AWS App servers and configuring the application as per the customer requirements.
• Analyzed issues to identify troubleshooting methods needed for quick remediation.
• Gathered trend data from customer calls and interactions.
• Monitoring daily health of the AWS servers.
• Creating VPC, Creating EC2 instances and configuring Subnets, Security Groups.
• Experience in creating and managing IAM users, Policies and Roles
• Creating and managing RDS instances, configuring Multi-AZ failover.
• Deploying applications to S3 buckets and maintaining the backup of the bucket using Versioning.
• Managing and creating the Cloudfront distributions as per the requirements.

• Installation and configuration of Oracle EPM tool on Oracle Linux, CentOS and Windows Sever OS (Standalone as well as on VM).
• Installation of Oracle Database on the system required for the EPM tool.
• Managing VM backups & snapshots.
• Using FDME tool uploading balance sheets and creating data structure.

• Providing support to the customers HP storage arrays.
• Performing daily monitoring and health checks of all the storage arrays.
• Diagnose, research and resolved storage issues using vendor resources and other support methods.
• Achieved 100% target of completing, and closing the incidents, requests, and tasks before the SLA deadline
• Given on-call support for production issues.
• Worked with on site team for troubleshooting storage allocation issue.