Abhinaw Kumar
Software Enginner lll (DevOps)
Bengaluru,Karnataka
Summary
- Results-driven IT professional with 10 years of comprehensive experience, including 7 years of specialized expertise in DevOps engineering. Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring tools to streamline development workflows and enhance system reliability. Currently contributing to a high-traffic e-commerce platform, with prior experience in OTT streaming, banking, healthcare, and other enterprise domains. Adept at collaborating across cross-functional teams to accelerate delivery cycles, ensure system scalability, and support business-critical applications in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
- Excelled in harnessing Kubernetes, Nginx, and Terraform, championing the automation of cloud operations.
- Leveraged extensive experience to implement Agile methodologies, contributing to project success.
- Proficiently orchestrated complex cloud environments utilizing Kubernetes, Nginx, and Terraform, enhancing operational efficiency and scalability across projects.
- Expertise in DevOps practices and processes that are intended to speed up and automate aspects of the processes of developing,testing and releasing software, allowing for continuous delivery of software & software updates, thereby saving time & manpower.
- Successfully analyzed business requirements; led design, development, strategy planning, support, documentation,implementation and maintenance as well as configuration management.
- Demonstrated proficiency in configuring Nginx Proxy servers to route requests to React and Backend Apps, optimizing performance and reliability.
- Utilized Terraform to provision and maintain resources on AWS, including EKS, Aurora Postgres DB andensuring seamless operations.
- Proficiently managed a wide range of AWS cloud resources, from EC2 instances and S3 buckets to VPCs, ELBs, RDS, and more,ensuring optimal performance and availability.
- Managed and maintained Docker components for infrastructure setup and testing, enhancing development and testing processes.
- Collaborated closely with Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers on performance optimization and project standardization driving project success and future goals.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Software Engineer III
ThermoFisher Scientific
08.2023 - Current
- Spearheaded the management of Dev, QA, Prod, and Stage environments deployed on AWS and EKS, ensuring seamless operations and resolving issues promptly.
- Expertly provisioned and managed AWS resources and services using Terraform, optimizing efficiency and scalability.
- Executed cross-account AWS migrations and implemented cost optimization strategies, driving significant savings.
- Orchestrated Nginx reverse proxy hosts for all environments, and oversaw Akamai CDN, Route 53, and ALBs for optimal performance.
- Administered Jenkins and Kubernetes, overseeing deployments, and ensuring system reliability.
- Migrated all Jenkins pipelines to GitHub Actions as part of a cost optimization initiative and to eliminate the overhead of managing multiple Jenkins instances across product teams and environments.
- Provided on-demand troubleshooting for infrastructure and application issues, ensuring minimal downtime.
- Supported deployments from CI to CD in Dev, QA, Prod, and Stage AWS/Kubernetes environments, ensuring seamless transitions.
- Possessed exposure to React, Node.js, and Spring Boot libraries, frameworks, environments, and properties, enhancing development capabilities.
- Configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, and RDS using Terraform.
- Set up monitoring tools like Grafana and prometheus to track performance metrics for cloud resources.
- Configured alert rules in Grafana for application-level metrics as well as AWS resource monitoring to ensure proactive issue detection and system reliability.
DevOps Engineer
Tata Elxsi Limited
07.2022 - 08.2023
- Implementing Gerrit, Maven, Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes for project as a part of improving operational efficiency in project
- Help software development project with the configuration management task and deploy the micro-services with CI/CD implementation using Jenkins
- Develop and optimize CI build jobs with the help of Jenkins
- Creating Jenkins CI/CD pipeline using freestyle and pipeline project
- Troubleshoot and fix the issue for any failed Jenkins pipeline job
- Monitor EKS cluster to check success build jobs are deployed and Pods are up and running
DevOps Engineer
IBM India / Kyndryl Solution Pvt ltd
03.2022 - 07.2022
- Company Overview: MCMS OCP Team
- Worked in container-based technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift
- Experienced with OpenShift for creating new Projects, Services for load balancing and adding them to Routes to be accessible from outside, troubleshooting pods through ssh and logs, modification of Buildconfigs, templates, Imagestreams, etc
- Monitoring Cluster Environments with Grafana Dashboard
- Managing the OpenShift cluster that includes scaling up and down the app pods
- Perform change activity such as cluster upgrade for IKS & OCP clusters
- Taking care of frequent auto alerts and troubleshoot to fix it permanently, raise support case with the REDHAT team if required help to fix the issue
- Experience in configuring and administrating AWS Services EC2 instances, security groups, Elastic load balancer, Auto scaling, IAM, VPC, Subnets as per client business requirement
- Monitoring resources through Amazon CloudWatch along with alarm functionality
- Creating/Managing AMI/Snapshot/Volume, Upgrade and Downgrade AWS resources (CPU, memory, EBS)
- Configuring email and other notification service via SNS service
- Experience in managing user account in IAM and restricting access through roles & IAM policy
- Experience in Backup services like EBS Snapshots, S3 backup & S3 glacier
- Experience in virtualization technologies such as Docker & ECS
- Experience in Managed kubernetes cluster i.e – EKS and docker image registry ECR
- Building customized AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
- Manage and Configure security related issues with IAM and S3 polices for user access
- MCMS OCP Team
- Projects: Maruti Suzuki Ltd, Honda, J & J Care path Project, Hydro, Loblaw’s, CIBC, Bengaluru International Airport
IT Security Analyst
IBM India / Kyndryl Solution Pvt ltd
02.2015 - 03.2019
- Worked in IAM team as Governance focal to manage periodic compliance activity to determine behaviour and identify the deviations in the process of Identity and Access Management for an Audit Perspective
- Performing user id revalidation using internal IAM UAT tool more on compliance activity process periodically
- Proper justification on each id presents on server & maintain proper evidence for any modification, deletion & creation of users & groups for audit purpose
- Proactively analysing and measuring the quality of work which service delivery teams are doing
- Continuously reviewing and improving process & procedure to increase efficiency and reduce costs
- To identify the risk/threat in process to put control to overcome
- As an audit focal managed all IAM audits working with compliance team and auditors
- Mitigate action plan and manage RCA process for any audit findings and close it out with proper evidence and artefacts
- Establish and manage competency relationship with Compliance Team, Account team, Provisioning Team, Customer, and other competencies such as Primary Controls etc
- Establish, manage, and act as the single point of contact for the Customer, Compliance team, Account Team, Provisioning Team, and other competencies such as Primary Controls and SDM
- Providing training to Early Professional Hires
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B-tech) - Computer Science & Engineering
WBUT
West Bengal 08.2009 - 08.2013
Skills
RedHat
Ubuntu
Windows
AWS Certified Solution Architect
Azure Fundamentals
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
EKS
AKS
ServiceNow
Jenkins
GithubActions
Bash
Hobbies and Interests
- Playing Volleyball
- Weight Training
- Cooking
Disclaimer
I do hereby declare that the above information is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge.
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 08/24/92
Personal Qualifications
Bachelor of Technology (B-tech), Computer Science & Engineering, 2013
Timeline
Software Engineer III
ThermoFisher Scientific
08.2023 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Tata Elxsi Limited
07.2022 - 08.2023
DevOps Engineer
IBM India / Kyndryl Solution Pvt ltd
03.2022 - 07.2022
IT Security Analyst
IBM India / Kyndryl Solution Pvt ltd
02.2015 - 03.2019
Bachelor of Technology (B-tech) - Computer Science & Engineering
WBUT
08.2009 - 08.2013
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