Akshay Chaudhary
Consultant (Linux/DevOps/Automation/Cloud)
Sonipat, Haryana
Summary
Seeking a challenging Linux | Automation | Cloud Consultant role within a leading IT organization to leverage 15+ years of expertise in Linux/UNIX environments, automation, DevOps, and cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP) for driving innovation and efficiency. Proven ability to lead teams, manage complex projects, and deliver scalable solutions while ensuring optimal system performance and security. Eager to contribute to a company's growth by implementing cutting-edge technologies and best practices.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Consultant
HCL Technologies
02.2021 - Current
- Managed a team of 15+ engineers in delivering complex projects, encompassing automation, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices.
- Architected and implemented automation solutions using Ansible, SaltStack, and Bash scripting to streamline infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments.
- Developed and maintained over 70 Ansible playbooks for automating a wide array of infrastructure and application-related tasks, enhancing operational efficiency and consistency.
- Established and managed CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Azure DevOps, enabling rapid and reliable software delivery, while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters, working closely with development teams to optimize containerized application deployments, and ensure scalability and resilience.
- Troubleshooted and resolved highly escalated technical issues across diverse Linux (RHEL, OEL, CentOS), and Windows environments, minimizing system downtime, and ensuring SLA adherence.
- Automated the complete infrastructure of over 1,000 virtual machines using Ansible, GitHub, and SaltStack, significantly reducing manual effort and improving operational agility.
- Successfully migrated operating systems from CentOS to Oracle Linux, and performed seamless in-place upgrades from OL7 to OL8, minimizing disruption and ensuring system stability.
- Implemented Oracle Spacewalk and Ksplice for centralized patch management, enhancing security posture, and maintaining system compliance.
Linux System Administrator L3
Fidelis Corp Sol
07.2020 - 01.2021
- Led a team of 10 technical professionals in addressing critical customer needs related to RHEL/OEL systems, Cloud, VMware virtualization, and security vulnerability management.
- Conducted comprehensive vulnerability assessments of the Linux infrastructure, developed remediation plans, and implemented necessary security controls to mitigate risks.
- Used IaC tools such as Terraform & Ansible and CloudFormation to provision and manage infrastructure
- Setup and monitor alerts, dashboards and logs using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack and troubleshooted incidents and performance issues in collaboration with developers and sysadmins
- Write and maintain automation scripts in Bash, Python & Powershell for tasks like backups, cleanup, and reporting.
- Developed and maintained a comprehensive knowledge base of technical documentation, troubleshooting guides, and best practices, enhancing team efficiency and knowledge sharing.
- Participated in on-call rotations and attended daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
Service Lead IT-Infra
Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd
03.2018 - 07.2020
- Deployed, configured and managed cloud resources like VM's, storage, networks on AWS cloud and ensured availability, scalability, and reliability of overall environment
- Monitored cloud systems using tools like CloudWatch and identified and resolved performance bottlenecks (e.g., slow databases, high CPU usage)
- Automated cloud infrastructure using Terraform & Ansible and also wrote Bash scripts to automate Daily tasks
- Regularly patched cloud servers and services and conduct vulnerability assessments and audits
- Setup CI/CD pipelines and worked with DevOps engineers and developers to enable smooth deployments.
- Worked with cross-functional teams (developers, DevOps, security, management) and provided cloud-related technical support and resolve incident/tickets
Technology Lead
Infosys Ltd.
01.2012 - 03.2018
- Responsible for system build out (design, implementation, and management) of Linux systems, ongoing software installs, upgrades, and maintenance of Linux systems in a multi-data center environment.
- Provide system support for production web, application servers, and Databases.
Provide off hours system maintenance as needed, including incident response within agreed-to time frames - Perform day to day operations that protect the integrity, confidentiality and availability of IT assets and technology infrastructures of the organization: log analysis, and development and implementation of enterprise class security solution and policies
- Responsible for upgrades, data backup/restore and maintenance of VM’s, containers, file-systems and databases.
- Document IT infrastructure and contribute to troubleshooting documents to improve internal knowledge sharing and cross training needs.
- Responsible for Build and Decommissioning of servers.
- Responsible for Storage provisioning and cabling & Zoning.
- Identifying, tracking and evaluating system resource baseline measures in support of capacity planning and expansion.
- Defining and implementing processes to support department scalability and improvement objectives.
Integrating, administering and supporting multiple systems. - Conducting technical implementations of business software releases.
- Designing, configuring and supporting monitoring tools.
- Building, publishing and maintaining system health metrics.
- Resolving incidents and problems using root cause analysis techniques.
- Performing other projects or miscellaneous duties as requested or assigned
Technical Support Engineer
ZScalar Softech India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2011 - 01.2012
- Took care of the Web based Tickets for the Issues faced by the customers/clients
- Must resolve the Issue maintaining the committed SLA.
- Interact with International Customers over Phone to resolve the critical Issues.
- The Issues faced were related to the LDAP, SMTP, GRE, SSL
System Administrator
HFCL Infotel Ltd.
04.2007 - 09.2010
- Managed IBM X, E, I series Servers & storage devices like DAS & HP Storage Works
Worked on RAID management IBM Server Raid. IBM 7k, 8k Raid controllers - Mail server deployment (Postfix, Sendmail), Clamav, Spamassasin, Vmailadmin to give complete protection against viruses, worms, spams and UCE’s.
- Deployment of RADIUS, MRTG, DNS & FTP servers. Configuring Redundant servers in case of application failure, hardware issue, power failure.
- Developed Portal using PHP and MYSQL that make, delete and update records based on User-Input (graphsaocs.comeconnect.com). Developed Portal using PHP and MYSQL that make entries on user input and reflect them from Mysql DB on the same page (dailyill.connectzone.in). Used this for Activation/Deactivation/Upgradation/Downgradation of the Leased Line Links
Education
MCA - Post-Graduation
DAVIM
Faridabad, Haryana 04.2001 -
B.Sc Computer Science - Graduation
Hindu College
Sonipat, Haryana 04.2001 -
No Degree - Senior Secondary, CBSE
Rishikul Vidyapeeth
Sonepat, Haryana 04.2001 -
No Degree - Matriculation, CBSE
Rishikul Vidyapeeth
Sonepat, Haryana 04.2001 -
Skills
Linux
Ansible
AWS Cloud
Azure Cloud
VMWare
Saltstack
DevOps
Oracle Spacewalk
Infoblox
Windows
GitHub
ServiceNow
Terraform
Azure DevOps
Accomplishments
- Awarded as top performer for consecutively 3 years during tenure with HCL, demonstrating exceptional technical skills and dedication.
- Successfully led the project to automate the complete infrastructure of around 1000 VMs using Ansible, GitHub, and Saltstack, resulting in increased efficiency and reduced operational overhead.
Certification
RHCSA 7 Cert# 110-082-377
Timeline
Consultant
HCL Technologies
02.2021 - Current
Linux System Administrator L3
Fidelis Corp Sol
07.2020 - 01.2021
Service Lead IT-Infra
Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd
03.2018 - 07.2020
Technology Lead
Infosys Ltd.
01.2012 - 03.2018
Technical Support Engineer
ZScalar Softech India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2011 - 01.2012
System Administrator
HFCL Infotel Ltd.
04.2007 - 09.2010
MCA - Post-Graduation
DAVIM
04.2001 -
B.Sc Computer Science - Graduation
Hindu College
04.2001 -
No Degree - Senior Secondary, CBSE
Rishikul Vidyapeeth
04.2001 -
No Degree - Matriculation, CBSE
Rishikul Vidyapeeth
04.2001 -
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