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Ankur Gupta

Bengaluru

Summary

A passionate DevOps engineer with experience of 11 years. Proficient in CI/CD, monitoring, automation, troubleshooting, open source technologies and tools, bash scripting, automation tools. Hands on experience with tools and technology like Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, Python High-energy, innovative, confident, professional with an enthusiasm for technology.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior SRE Professional

IBM
Bengaluru
07.2021 - Current
  • Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks to automate manual runbacks, significantly reducing human error and improving operational efficiency.
  • Created custom Ansible modules tailored to specific system requirements, allowing for seamless integration of new services.
  • Enhanced existing Ansible modules to optimize performance and increase reusability across different environments.
  • Led the setup and configuration of multiple clusters for the data science team, providing a reliable and scalable environment for their analytics and modeling work.
  • Implemented best practices for cluster management, including resource allocation, monitoring, and backup strategies to support the team's data-intensive workflows.
  • Collaborated with teams to establish IaC pipelines, enabling automated provisioning and configuration of infrastructure resources.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
04.2019 - 07.2021
  • Extensively involved in infrastructure as code, execution plans, resource graph, and change automation using Terraform.
  • Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
  • Worked on Docker, Kubernetes platform to containerize applications.
  • Involved in migration of on-premises resources to the cloud. Worked on the branching and deployment strategy for different applications.
  • Designed, written, and delivered software/automation to improve the recoverability, availability, scalability, and efficiency of products.
  • Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
  • Prevent problem recurrence with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional failures and tasks.
  • Troubleshooting and quick resolution of ServiceNow events and incidents to ensure infrastructure and application stability.

Sr. Devops Engineer

OpsTree Solutions
Noida
01.2017 - 04.2019

Client: Sapient.

Track-1.

  • Infrastructure Management of 350+ servers including all Environments.
  • Using Chef for software configuration and deployment, along with Jenkins.
  • Implementing SSL Certificates with security and server hardening on Linux instances.
  • Using AEM for hosting purposes in all the environments.
  • Round-the-clock monitoring using Site24x7 and Splunk.
  • Using Okta as a single sign-on service.

Track - 2

  • Building Infrastructure on Google Cloud for all Environments from scratch.
  • Using Kafka as a queue service built on a multi-broker cluster.
  • Implementing SSL Certificates with Security on different APIs.
  • Using Terraform to set up different Google Cloud services.

Client: Industrybuying.

  • Used Terraform to set up automated AWS Cloud Environment.
  • Migrated Prod environment between regions.
  • Complete Continuous Integration and Delivery using Jenkins and JFrog Artifactory.
  • Creation of various bash scripts for Jenkins jobs - Round-the-clock monitoring using New Relic and CloudWatch.
  • Implementing SSL Certificates with security and server hardening on Linux instances.
  • Configured Database replication like (Master-Master/ Master-Slave)
  • Handling several projects on Python, Java, and Node language.
  • Configuring web servers using Nginx and Apache for site reliability, with HAProxy.
  • Created Python script for generating various business data reports.

Linux Administrator

GenX Info Technologies Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon
04.2015 - 01.2017
  • Responsible for problem management and root cause analysis.
  • Perform a health check of all production servers.
  • Preparing and updating various support documents.
  • Responsible for investigation of the incidents with high priority.
  • Responsible for performing Impact Assessment, Root cause analysis, and providing recommended solutions.
  • Responsible to perform regular activity on production and development servers.
  • Quickly accept responsibility and ownership of the issue/problem.
  • Drive solution development and problem resolution.

Linux Administrator

Shahi Exports Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 03.2015
  • Provided technical support for Linux-based systems including troubleshooting of server applications and hardware issues.
  • Monitored logs generated by various services running on the Linux servers and identified anomalies or suspicious activities in them if any.
  • Managed user accounts on the Linux environment by creating new users and modifying existing ones as per their needs.
  • Installed, configured, maintained and upgraded Linux operating systems and services.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Electronics and Communications Engineering

01.2013

Skills

  • Container Orchestration - Kubernetes
  • Containerization - Docker
  • IAC - Terraform
  • Cloud - AWS Cloud, IBM Cloud, Azure
  • CI/CD - Jenkins, Gitlab
  • Version Control - GIT
  • Monitoring - Splunk, LogDNA
  • Programming Automation - Python

Certification

  • Redhat Certified Engineer, Red Hat, 160-167-193
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), LF-va0ixim57n

Timeline

Senior SRE Professional

IBM
07.2021 - Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Goldman Sachs
04.2019 - 07.2021

Sr. Devops Engineer

OpsTree Solutions
01.2017 - 04.2019

Linux Administrator

GenX Info Technologies Pvt Ltd
04.2015 - 01.2017

Linux Administrator

Shahi Exports Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 03.2015

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Electronics and Communications Engineering

Ankur Gupta