Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Experimental Learning
Personal Traits
Operating Systems
Hobbies and Interests
Projects
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Akshay Maurya

Akshay Maurya

Summary

Certified Senior DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience in AWS Cloud, Linux, Kubernetes, and Open Source technologies. Proven track record of managing critical production servers, optimizing infrastructure performance, and resolving complex issues. Accomplished industry-recognized certifications while working full-time, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and staying up-to-date with industry trends.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)

Oracle
08.2023 - Current
  • Controlplane and Dataplane setup for Applications
  • Oncall responsibilities, Patching, Reprovissioning, Region Setup
  • Deployment, Shepherd
  • Automation
  • Bitbucket, Build management using Teamcity
  • Loadtest and other product related activity.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Amazon
06.2022 - 07.2023
  • Solution Architecture, Deploying, and Managing Applications and Databases
  • Managing customer cloud environments with Amazon Managed Services
  • Implementing Auto Scaling, Optimizing performance with solutions on ElastiCache-Redis clusters
  • Working on application build with automate deployment: using GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines
  • Using tools like Ansible, Terraform for automation and centralized configuration management
  • Daily work on client cases Providing support to clients on AWS services
  • Professional Solution: Architecture-Level Support
  • Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), LightSail, CloudFront
  • S3 (Simple Storage Service), Glacier, and EFS (Elastic File System)- automated backup implementation
  • Deploying databases like relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) Co-ordinating with different teams of different profiles and working with them to fix the issues
  • SNS (Simple Notification Service)
  • Working on containers: Docker, Kubernetes (ECS and EKS)
  • Monitoring with Splunk, CloudTrail, cloud watch, and Deep Log Analysis
  • EBS (Elastic Block Store), S3
  • VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), Security Groups, IAM, CloudFormation
  • EC2 Image Builder, Application Migration Services (Linux)
  • Scripting: Bash/Shell scripting, Python scripting
  • Live on call solving production issues for AWS customers
  • Design, develop, and maintain the infrastructure required for running cloud-based applications and services
  • Monitor the cloud infrastructure and ensure that it is performing optimally
  • Identify and resolve any issues that may arise, whether it is related to performance, security, or availability
  • Create and maintain documentation on cloud infrastructure and procedures
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure that applications are designed with scalability and Design deployment strategy to support High availability, Fault tolerance, scalability
  • Implemented disaster recovery procedures using Route 53, ASG, ELB and conducted regular drills
  • Skilled in using AWS Config service to assess, audit and evaluate the configuration of AWS resources for compliance and best practices, configure continuous monitoring rules, and track resource changes across AWS accounts and regions
  • Leveraged AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to automate patch management for Windows and Linux instances, creating patch baselines, scheduling patch deployments, and maintaining compliance with security and regulatory requirements
  • Verify environment/OS state through auditing (Inspector), Config rules, CloudTrail (process and action), and AWS APIs
  • Skilled in using AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts, enforce account-level policies, and simplify billing and cost allocation, along with configuring Service Control Policies (SCPs) to restrict access to specific AWS services and resources, ensuring security and compliance across the organization.

Senior Software Engineer

Mercer / Marsh McLennan
06.2021 - 06.2022
  • Work on incident tickets and change orders on Service Now
  • Worked on many Serv-1 priority cases
  • I worked with the global team and customers on production and deployment issues around the clock
  • Assist team members or customers who are on call or participating in remote sessions with a critical production issue or activity
  • Responsible for fixing ongoing customer issues within the SLA
  • Provide root cause analysis (RCA) for issues in production
  • Implemented a self-service portal for all application servers in order to upgrade applications, for example: Java upgrades, etc
  • Performance in mind
  • Cloud: AWS and Azure - DevOps
  • Managed multiple Linux-based applications, Windows-hosted applications, and databases
  • Deployment, using GIT, and troubleshooting for Linux-based
  • Middleware Administrator and application delopyment on Tomcat, Wildfly, Apache, IIS etc
  • Deployment of application on Docker using Jenkins, Bit Bucket, CI-CD Pipeline
  • Splunk, Fluentd, Datadog, and APM tools, JIRA
  • Patching application activity, server migration activity
  • Mentoring new hires and guiding them through the day-to-day processes and workflows.

Linux / DevOps Engineer

iBoss Tech Solutions (Safeguard International LLC)
07.2017 - 06.2021
  • Worked in a 24x7 production environment to ensure server availability.
  • Linux Administrator, Middleware Administrator (Linux Servers): Apache, Tomcat, WildFly.
  • Docker, monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Wazuh.
  • CI/CD, Git, Bitbucket.
  • Worked in a 24x7 production environment to ensure server availability.
  • DNS implementation, firewall rules, load balancer (F5), Nginx proxy, Blue Coat, Squid.
  • Worked on monitoring tools: SolarWinds, Zabbix, Grafana, Site24x7, Datadog, Nagios, InMon, etc.
  • AWS cloud environment.
  • Database Servers: SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
  • Ticketing and eBroadcast tools: BMC.
  • NOC: Cynet, MFA, with all mentioned infrastructure monitoring.
  • SonicWall Firewall, Active Directory, DPM, SCOM, SCSM, and SCCM.
  • Configured and monitored Linux server performance.
  • Implemented clustering (high availability) on Linux servers.
  • Resolved issues reported by the client end or internal team.
  • Ensured business continuity by designing disaster recovery systems using Zerto.
  • Troubleshooting and resolving problems related to the Linux OS.

Education

B.TECH - Computer Engineering

Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam Technical University
01.2017

H.S.C -

Patuck Technical College
01.2013

S.S.C -

Air India Modern School
01.2011

Skills

  • Linux and container platforms
  • Diagnostics and troubleshooting
  • Linux security and monitoring
  • Excellent time management abilities, as well as the ability to effectively prioritize customer issues
  • Effective communication and customer handling
  • Proficient in troubleshooting application layer issues
  • Experience handling critical production servers
  • Data Analytics using Shell Scripting
  • Email Security
  • DNS management and troubleshooting
  • Log Management

Certification

  • RHCE 7 : Red Hat Certified Engineer 7
  • RHCSA 7 : Red Hat Certified System Administrator 7
  • RHCA : Red Hat Certified Architect in Infrastructure
  • ITIL Certified
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator [Preparing]
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer. - Professional

Experimental Learning

  • Big data and Hadoop
  • Redhat Linux Server 5.5, 6, 7, 8

Personal Traits

  • Place a high value on time effectiveness and management.
  • Positive attitude
  • Plan for the unexpected
  • Sincere, honest & genuine

Operating Systems

  • Linux- SUSE
  • Ubuntu
  • RHEL
  • CentOS Server
  • Amazon Linux
  • Unix Servers - BSD
  • Oracle Solaris
  • IBM AIX
  • Windows Servers 2012R2 / 2016

Hobbies and Interests

  • Aficionado Cricket Lover
  • In my free time, I try to update my knowledge
  • Ever since I was a kid, I have dreamed about traveling overseas
  • Sports Enthusiast

Projects

MAHAGENCO (Government Project) Web server & Zimbra Mail server, Relay Mail Server. DC and DR Servers implementation for Directorate of Income Tax.

Timeline

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)

Oracle
08.2023 - Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Amazon
06.2022 - 07.2023

Senior Software Engineer

Mercer / Marsh McLennan
06.2021 - 06.2022

Linux / DevOps Engineer

iBoss Tech Solutions (Safeguard International LLC)
07.2017 - 06.2021

B.TECH - Computer Engineering

Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam Technical University

H.S.C -

Patuck Technical College

S.S.C -

Air India Modern School
Akshay Maurya