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Akshay Parmar

Bengaluru

Summary

With over 10 plus years of IT experience and 8 plus years of hands-on expertise as a DevOps Engineer combining technical and business solutions to support overall corporate strategic goals. My ability to leverage operations and technology to exceed business objectives has led to my career growth and progression. I am looking to utilize my background in an IT leadership role with an organization that rewards hard work, results, and success.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Devops Engineer

Mcafee/Skyhigh Pvt. Ltd.
08.2021 - Current
  • IEnvironment: Elasticsearch/Opensearch, Logstash, Kafka, AWS, OCI, ArgoCD, Helm Charts, Terraform.
  • 1 Million+ dollars savings on migration of Elasticsearch to Opensearch on AWS EKS clusters with almost all capabilities of Elasticsearch.
  • Degined and deployed multiple Strimzi-based Kafka clusters on kubernetes, enabling scaling, secure and fault tolerant messaging pipelines with automated topic management and cert based TLS authentication.
  • Redesigned and optimized logging architecture utilizing Elasticsearch, Kafka, Logstash and fluentbit on AWS OCI kubernetes clusters using Helm charts and Operators.
  • Automated deployment and upgrade of Elasticsearch/Opensearch clusters using ArgoCD pipelines.
  • Automated multiple Logstash pipelines deployments on single or different pods with Gith Action and ArgoCD.
  • Installed and maintained a logging cluster using Logstash, ElasticSearch, and Kibana as a centralized solution to parse logs from 50+ applications.
  • Managing and creating multiple resources in AWS and OCI using terraform.

DevOps Engineer

Optum Health United Health Care
11.2020 - 08.2021
  • Environments: Azure, Terraform and Jenkins
  • Supporting Development team on infrastructure side.
  • Creating Terraform scripts for resources creation in Azure.
  • Creating Jenkins pipelines to automate jobs and deployments.

DevOps Engineer

McAfee
10.2017 - 11.2020
  • Environments: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Ansible, Grafana, ELK Stack, TICK stack.
  • Saving 300K/month USD on finding and reporting bug on Elasticsearch which reduced S3 storage usage and cost.
  • Migrated Kafka and Elasticsearch stack from Docker to kubernetes clusters.
  • Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic apps into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.
  • Deploying Kafka cluster on Kubernetes clusters using kubernetes manifests and kustomize.
  • Designed and Implemented Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana.

Systems Engineer

Cerner Corporation
04.2017 - 10.2017
  • Environment: - Windows, Docker, Vagrant.
  • Worked on Vagrant to setup Dev Environment in workstations.
  • Performed server patching and upgrade the servers periodically
  • Managing 100% uptime for Windows servers.
  • Deploying and updating services on webservers.

Systems Engineer

CGI
03.2015 - 04.2017
  • Environment: - Redhat, Bash, VMware and Docker.
  • Maintain Unix/Linux Servers and VMware esxi servers
  • Troubleshooting server related issues and boot related problems.
  • Monitor Linux Servers for CPU utilization, Memory Utilization and Disk Utilization for performance monitoring.
  • POC done to automate password reset for all user’s password with help of Ansible.
  • Worked closely with development team for containerizing open services and backend application.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering (CSE)

Rajiv Gandhi Technological University
Bhopal
06.2013

Skills

  • Elasticsearch/Opensearch, AWS, OCI, Kubernetes, Kafka, Helm Charts, Terraform, Logstash, Promethus and ArgoCD

Awards

Bravo – Migrating Elasticsearch and Kafka from Docker to K8s, Bravo – Migrating Elasticsearch helped saved approx 1M USD, PatOnBack - 100% response time for new alerts

Competencies

  • Clouds: AWS, Azure, OCI
  • Containerization Services: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm Charts
  • Configuration management: Terraform, Ansible
  • SCM: GIT, Github
  • Monitoring Tools: Promethus, Elastalert
  • TicketingTools: Jira, Rally
  • Registries/Repositories: ECR, Docker registry
  • Visualization Services: Kibana, Grafana, Rancher
  • Pipeline: Jenkins, ArgoCD
  • OS flavors: AWS Linux, Centos, Ubuntu, Windows Family

Timeline

Senior Devops Engineer

Mcafee/Skyhigh Pvt. Ltd.
08.2021 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Optum Health United Health Care
11.2020 - 08.2021

DevOps Engineer

McAfee
10.2017 - 11.2020

Systems Engineer

Cerner Corporation
04.2017 - 10.2017

Systems Engineer

CGI
03.2015 - 04.2017

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering (CSE)

Rajiv Gandhi Technological University

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