Abhay Sharma
Lead DevOps Engineer
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic Lead DevOps professional with over 9 years of comprehensive experience in DevOps engineering, Team Building, cloud computing, containerization, middleware, security and Linux systems. Expertise in translating client needs into effective technical solutions that align seamlessly with the position's requirements. Proven track record in designing and implementing scalable infrastructure while leading teams to achieve high-quality results. Recognized for reliability, motivation, and a collaborative spirit that drives project success and innovation.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages
Work History
Lead DevOps Engineer
Fidelity Investments
12.2023 - Current
- Led cross-functional teams in adopting cloud-based solutions, resulting in cost savings, and enhanced scalability.
- Resolved complex technical challenges through strategic troubleshooting and problem-solving, minimizing downtime, and ensuring seamless operations.
- Maintain the SLA, SLO of the applications by implementing a fault tolerance strategy and system design.
- Plan the migration from Udeploy and Enterprise Jenkins to EKS-based Jenkins core.
- Actively planning the quarterly tasks for the team and getting them delivered on time.
- Set the roadmap for the Incident, Change, and Release Management process.
- Contribution to the shared libraries across the organization.
- Help in reducing the infrastructure cost by implementing smart design.
- Implementations of the AWS recommendations to all the resources at regular intervals to reduce the infra cost and enhance performance.
- Design and configure all the deployment and automation processes on AWS, using a set of DevOps tools.
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Tata CLiQ
02.2022 - 12.2023
- Owning the complete Dev and QA environment end to end and ensuring there are no issues in all 14 environments.
- Configure the zero-downtime deployment (CI/CD) for the commerce, and other microservices.
- Experience in Kubernetes to deploy, scale, load balance, and manage Docker containers with multiple namespaced versions.
- Trace complex CI/CD scenarios, release issues, and environment issues in a multi-component environment.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance key parts of the release procedures and processes. Coordinate release activities with Release Management, Project Management, QA, and Development teams to ensure a smooth rollout of releases.
- Configure end-to-end traffic for an application from Akamai/Cloudflare to the internal load balancer in AWS.
- Make a detailed plan for the tools upgrade, and get it implemented with the least (or zero) downtime.
- Automated the process of AWS resource provisioning using Terraform with best practices.
- Manage and own the complete product journey, from searching for a product to placing an order.
- Implementation of logging and monitoring tools (such as ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, Kafka, etc.). To easily identify and alert the respective teams to quickly fix the issue, if any.
- Make a cost-effective plan to set up any new microservice or application.
- Manage and configure the AWS resources (EC2, EKS, LB, R53, SG, Code Deploy, Code Pipelines, AMIs, Snapshots, EBS, RDS, VPC, Subnet, VPC Peering, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.). In a cost-effective manner, automate the utilization monitoring of these resources to reduce infrastructure costs.
DevOps Engineer
SLK Software
10.2020 - 02.2022
- Participated in the Project Development Life cycle.
- Design and Setup the complete CI-CD pipeline
- Written the Deployment automation scripts as per the Business requirement
- Lead the DevOps team.
- Project Name: OHP
- Client Name: Aflac
- Working Location: Tokyo, JAPAN
- Technology & Skills: Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Shell Script, GitHub, Git, Veracode, Maven, PHPUnit.
DevOps Engineer
NTT LTD
12.2019 - 10.2020
- Providing PAAS and IAAS support over IBM Cloud (Earlier known as IBM Bluemix).
- Creating Kubernetes Cluster for Prod, Pre-Prod and Dev Environment and maintaining High Availability of Clusters.
- Troubleshooting MobileFirst Platform issues by analyzing logs, checking connectivity to client SOR.
- Coordinating with IBM Cloud team to resolve platform related issues ASAP.
- Continuous checking Certificates and other dependencies on periodic basis to avoid unplanned outage.
- Setup of Mobile First Platform on IBM Kubernetes Service over IBM Cloud as well as on Client on prim data center.
- Creating and managing docker images over IBM Cloud.
- Coordinating with NetScaler team to maintain the High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Dual Geo Applications running on IBM Kubernetes Service (Kubernetes).
- Collaboration of code over version controlling using GitLab.
- Written shell script to copy logs, capturing all must gather information during downtime and to check the connections attached to client SOR for a specific time.
- Managed middleware services (WebSphere Administration Server Liberty) on-premises and over cloud.
- Database synchronization in Dual Geo for Mobile First Platform Applications.
- Project Name: Mobile CoE
- Client: Apple + IBM BLACKBOX (JAL, Singapore Airlines, Finnair Airlines, Lufthansa Airlines, SAS, AT&T, AMICA, COA etc.)
DevOps Engineer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
04.2016 - 12.2019
- Deployment of NodeJS application over IBM Kubernetes Services to expose an application through API Connect.
- API Deployment and integration using API Connect over IBM Cloud.
- Modifying APIs on the instruction of architects as per the client requirement in APIC.
- Integrated APIs with product and pushed it to production.
- Handling update of Kubernetes Cluster and continuous monitoring of cluster.
- Created a shell script to perform rolling restart after copying the logs based on the alert of Heap Memory from New Relic APM agent.
- Providing platform support for APIC, Kubernetes, Grafana, Kibana, and Redis over IBM Cloud.
- Working on replication of Redis in Dual Geo to avoid the latency issues.
- Client: Etihad Airways (Aviation Industry)
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Babu BanarasiDas National Institute of Technology Management
Lucknow 04.2001 -
Skills
- Proficient in AWS Cloud Computing
- Containerization: Docker
- Orchestration tool: Kubernetes, Helm
- SCM tool: Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket
- Build Server: Jenkins, Harness, Bamboo
- APM: AppDynamics, DataDog
- Monitoring & Logging: ELK, Grafana, prometheus
Project planning
Security best practices
- Scripting languages: shell (Linux), python
- Infrastructure Automation: Terraform, Ansible
Certification
CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
Timeline
Lead DevOps Engineer
Fidelity Investments
12.2023 - Current
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Tata CLiQ
02.2022 - 12.2023
DevOps Engineer
SLK Software
10.2020 - 02.2022
DevOps Engineer
NTT LTD
12.2019 - 10.2020
DevOps Engineer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
04.2016 - 12.2019
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Babu BanarasiDas National Institute of Technology Management
04.2001 -
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