Santosh Prasad
Faridabad
Summary
Smart DevOps Engineer with career spent in IT designing and planning. Talented leader with extensive knowledge of high availability architecture and concepts. Ready to tackle new challenges in project planning and development capacity. Proudly offering over 12+ years of experience fixing bugs in coding with source control tools.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer (Manager)
Balancehero India Pvt Ltd.
Gurgaon
03.2019 - Current
- Provided support for web and Java server configuration and maintenance activities.
- Participated in disaster recovery exercises to test reliability of system.
- Developed automated deployment processes and scripts to ensure a smooth transition from development to production.
- Implemented systems automation using scripting languages like Python and Bash.
- Set up monitoring tools like Graphite and Grafana to track performance metrics.
- Worked closely with DevOps teams in order to design best practices for deploying applications into production environment.
- Created CI and CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker to automate the build process of applications.
- Configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS using Terraform and Ansible.
- Deployed microservices on Kubernetes clusters in order to increase scalability and availability of services across multiple regions.
- Deployed and supported infrastructure automation and configuration management tools.
- Updated software upon release of vendor patches to mitigate vulnerabilities.
- Provided support for web and Java server configuration and maintenance activities.
- Collaborated with developers in order to troubleshoot application related issues quickly.
- Monitored system health using Nagios and Splunk for early detection of issues.
- Maintained version control systems such as GitLab for all software development projects.
- Coordinated with other teams for successful rollouts of new features or bug fixes.
- Developed procedures to automate code builds and deployments.
- Implemented containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes for faster delivery cycles.
Linux Administrator
Acknown Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Gurgaon
09.2018 - 03.2019
- Work with the team to evaluate & select cloud services and technologies to build the Cloud platform by following the DevOps tools and practice.
- Configure and manage various Devops tools like Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitHub and Ansible.
- Working on DevOps Infra environment setup like PT, UAT, SIT, DEV, Product as per different stakeholder/Client request on demand using Cloud Formation.
- Installation and configuration LAMP stack on CentOS, Ubuntu and AWS EC2 instance.
- Creating and managing Cpanel accounts using WHM.
- Version controlling using GitGitLab, GitHub, GIT and SVN.
- SSL certificate management.
- Mysql, Apache and PHP hardening.
- Web servers tuning and benchmarking using Apache Jmeter and AB tools.
- Database server’s tuning and benchmarking using MySQLTuner and Mysqlslap.
- Centralized log management using ELK and logwatch.
- WordPress site setup, installation and migration.
- Actively monitoring all aspects of system activity with file integrity monitoring, log monitoring, rootcheck using OSSEC.
- Managing DNS servers such as Route53, CloudFlare’s DNS and Godaddy’s DNS etc.
- Actively monitoring daily, weekly and monthly remote backup of all product’s database and code backup.
- Creating and implementing bash script to automate the server’s task.
- Assist development team to maintain & troubleshot application and website issues.
- Securing all servers with iptables using CSF (ConfigServer Security & Firewall) and APF.
- Configure and setup MySQL database server for applications server.
Server Administrator
Proprofs.com (Bhatia Software Technologies)
Noida
08.2014 - 09.2018
- Installation and configuration LAMP stack on dedicated and virtual servers with RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, CentOs and Ubuntu.
- Launch and manage cloud instance along with Amazon Web Services such as EC2, Route53, RDS, S3, Auto Scaling, S3 bucket etc.
- Configuration and Performance tuning of Apache, Nginx.
- Installation and configuration of Operating System Centos and Ubuntu on dedicated and virtual servers.
- Creating and configuring virtual containers with OpenVZ on dedicated servers.
- Manage all high traffic application servers using Nginx Reverse Proxy and HAProxy.
- Configure and Monitor Production servers via Nagios and Munin.
- Disk management with RAID and LVM.
- Create & manage DNS records on different DNS service portal like Route53, CloudFlare, MediaTemple etc.
- Configuring and Troubleshooting File sharing server such as NFS, UNFS3, SFTP, FTP, FTPS.
- System resources monitoring with customizable warnings & actions using SIM (System Integrity Monitor).
- Perform daily, weekly and monthly remote backup of all production servers through rsync and AWS-S3cmd and ensure that the backup process ran smoothly.
- Configure and setup MySQL database server.
- SSL certificate setup and configuration to secure applications and web servers.
- User management, creating new user, Lock/Unlock user account. Resetting user password and sudo users.
- Beanstalk and Project Locker SVN and Git repositories administration and configuration.
- Manage PHP based applications servers and configure multiple internal servers like production and staging.
- Securing all dedicated and virtual server with iptables using APF (Advance Firewall Policy).
- System management tasks like user management, Disk Space Utilization, File-system Management, Performance Management, to tune the system to take care of load whenever it reaches its peak.
- Managing and monitoring disk space using Raid with lvm and resize the lvm as per requirement.
- Monitoring servers and application with: Munin, log analyzers, Shell-Scripts and other online web-tools.
System Administrator
Apex Strategic Cons Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi
12.2011 - 05.2014
- Maintain & configure Linux servers such as FTP Server, Network Monitoring tool (Munin), Samba/Cifs Server, Squid Proxy Server, Nginx, Apache Web Server & DNS Server, Nagios server.
- Providing support for Linux OS RedHat, CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu Operating System and Servers.
- Experience with ESXi, vSphere systems administration and support.
- Excellent understanding of VMWare configuration.
- Installation, configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of Operating systems.
- Adding, removing, or updating user accounts information, resetting password, etc.
- Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems.
- Troubleshooting and Installation of System Hardware and peripheral devices.
- Installation of Backup devices, taking Backups and restoring.
- Observing and Monitoring the Call Responses on C-Zentrix Dialler Servers. Providing front-end & back-end support for Dialler servers & Co-ordinating with third party software & hardware vendors whenever necessary.
- Co-ordinating with hardware vendors for storage and infrastructure devices and others for S/W support.
- Key responsibilities comprise providing on-call support for Users & Team, handling technical escalation.
- Perform routine audits of systems and software; and troubleshoot any reported problems.
- Configuring & Troubleshooting application related issue like MS Outlook, Thunderbird, AdobeReader, etc.
Education
Graduation -
PGDAV College, Delhi University
01.2007
12th -
CBSE Board Delhi
01.2004
10th -
CBSE Board Delhi
01.2002
Skills
- Automated deployment
- Configuration management
- Cloud services management
- Continuous integration
- Continuous delivery
- Scripting languages
- Performance monitoring
- Infrastructure automation
- Version control
- Troubleshooting techniques
- Disaster recovery
- Test automation
- Incident management
- Monitoring and logging
- Maintenance and troubleshooting
- Performance optimization
- Microservices architecture
- Linux operating system
- Virtualization technologies
- Continuous deployment
- Security best practices
- Developer collaboration
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), LF-eyazjbfwml, CNCF - The Linux Foundation
- RHCSE, 130-211-147, Red Hat
- RHCSA, 130-211-147, Red Hat
- JCHNP, DE061007, Jetking
Certification Id
130-211-147
Languages
- Hindi
- English
Hobbies and Interests
- Listening music
- Net Surfing
DevOps Tooks
Ansible, GIT/GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, Maven, Gradle, Jira, Slack, Terraform, SpringBoot, Kubernetes, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP), ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Unix Flavors- Linux RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, AWS: EC2, Route53, RDS, Auto Scaling, S3 Bucket, VPC and Rackspace Cloud Services, Docker, OpenVZ, KVM, Cpanel, Plesk, Sendmail, Postfix, Offline Imap server, Squid, Nginx, Apache, Nginx, Lighthttpd, Tomcat, Nginx, HaProxy, AWS ELB, Mysql, MariaDb, Cloudflare, CloudFront, Munin, Nagios, Zabbix, Grafana, Pfsense, Iptables, SonicWall, OSSEC, NFS, FTP, DNS, POSTFIX, SENDMAIL, SSH, Strace, Sar, Vmstat, Iostat, Top, Iotop, Traceroute, Ping, Webmin, Shell Scripting(Bash), ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana), Logwatch, Memcache, Redis, Squid, Apache Solr, WordPress
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Ram Briksh Prasad
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
Languages
Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Timeline
DevOps Engineer (Manager)
Balancehero India Pvt Ltd.
03.2019 - Current
Linux Administrator
Acknown Technologies Pvt Ltd.
09.2018 - 03.2019
Server Administrator
Proprofs.com (Bhatia Software Technologies)
08.2014 - 09.2018
System Administrator
Apex Strategic Cons Pvt. Ltd.
12.2011 - 05.2014
Graduation -
PGDAV College, Delhi University
12th -
CBSE Board Delhi
10th -
CBSE Board Delhi