Ajit Kumar Rath
Senior Software Engineer
BBSR, Odisha
Summary
A passionate Senior DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of relevant experience. I aim to leverage my expertise to optimize and automate infrastructure management, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and ensure robust monitoring and security practices. With a particular focus on Kubernetes, I seek to enhance container orchestration, deployment scalability, and cluster management within a dynamic and forward-thinking organization.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
10.2022 - Current
- Designed and maintained 30+ CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and AWS CodePipeline, reducing manual deployment effort by 40%.
- Containerized and deployed 20+ microservices using Docker on Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) and Docker Swarm clusters, improving scalability and deployment efficiency.
- Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure using Terraform, automating the deployment of VPCs, EC2 instances, EKS clusters, IAM roles, and S3 buckets.
- Managed 10+ Git repositories using Git, Bitbucket, and GitLab, implementing branching strategies and version control best practices.
- Configured and maintained AWS services, including EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, and CloudWatch, to support highly available and scalable applications.
Senior Associate
Wipro Technologies
05.2020 - 05.2022
- Built and maintained 25+ CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab, reducing application deployment time by 35%.
- Deployed and managed containerized applications using Docker, supporting 15 or more microservices across development and production environments.
- Administered AWS cloud infrastructure, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and EBS, ensuring high availability and secure access management.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform enables faster environment setup and reduces manual configuration errors.
- Implemented CI/CD integration with Git, Bitbucket, and GitLab repositories, improving code version control and collaboration across teams.
- Developed shell scripts to automate routine system administration tasks, improving operational efficiency by 30%.
- Configured build automation using Maven and NPM, ensuring reliable and consistent application builds.
Process Executive - DevOps Engineer
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
05.2019 - 05.2020
- Troubleshoot complex issues in a production environment, providing swift resolutions to minimize disruptions.
- Mentored junior team members on DevOps concepts, best practices, tools usage and helped them ramp up quickly on the projects.
- Maintained up-to-date documentation on system configurations, processes, policies, and procedures to ensure knowledge transfer within the team.
- Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
Education
Graduation B-Tech - Electrical Engineering
VITAM (B.P.U.T University)
Berhampur01-2018
Intermediate - Science Education
Chikiti Mahavidyalaya
Chikiti01-2014
School - Matriculation
R.R.B.P
Chikiti01-2012
Skills
Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Amazon EKS, Docker Swarm
CI/CD & DevOps Tools: Jenkins, GitLab
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform
Scripting & Automation: Shell Script, Python Script
Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, VPC, IAM, EBS, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, AWS Copilot, AWS Code pipeline,AWS CloudFormation AWS Systems Manager (SSM) AWS Auto Scaling AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ALB / NLB) AWS Route 53 AWS Secrets Manager AWS CloudTrail)
Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Configuration Management: Ansible
Security & DevSecOps SonarQube Trivy (container security scanning)
Container Registry / Artifact Repository Amazon ECR Nexus Repository JFrog Artifactory
Networking & Infrastructure Load Balancing DNS Management SSL/TLS Reverse Proxy (Nginx)
Agile / Collaboration Confluence ServiceNow Slack
Version Control Systems: Git, Bitbucket, GitLab
Certification
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
GitHub CoPilot
08-2024
Agile and DevOps
03-2023
Java Programming
03-2023
AWS Cloud Practitioner
11-2022
Senior Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
10.2022 - Current
Senior Associate
Wipro Technologies
05.2020 - 05.2022
Process Executive - DevOps Engineer
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
05.2019 - 05.2020
Graduation B-Tech - Electrical Engineering
VITAM (B.P.U.T University)
Intermediate - Science Education
Chikiti Mahavidyalaya
School - Matriculation
R.R.B.P
Declaration
I, hereby declare that all the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge. Ajit Kumar Rath