ASHWANI KUMAR
CRISIL Limited
6
years of professional experience
2
Languages
DevOps & Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 6+ years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and optimizing cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Experienced in building scalable and secure cloud platforms using Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Helm, and implementing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitLab CI. Currently supporting S&P Global's Spark Assist, an enterprise Generative AI platform, by deploying and managing AI workloads on Azure OpenAI, administering Azure and AWS infrastructure, automating deployments, improving platform reliability, implementing cloud security best practices, and ensuring high availability of mission-critical applications.
Work History
Assistant Manager Cloud Site Reliability Engineering
3 Months- Manage and support Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and operational reliability for production and non-production environments.
- Deployed and managed AI applications leveraging Azure OpenAI Service, enabling secure access to large language models for enterprise generative AI use cases.
- Design, deploy, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for Azure resources, following enterprise standards and best practices.
- Designed and managed AWS cloud infrastructure, leveraging services such as EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and VPC to ensure secure, scalable, and cost-optimized environments.
- Participate in change management (CR), release planning, and production deployments while following enterprise governance and operational procedures.
- Deployed and managed AI applications leveraging Azure OpenAI Service, enabling secure access to large language models for enterprise generative AI use cases.
- Support Kubernetes-based workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including application deployments, troubleshooting, scaling, and cluster operations.
- Administer Azure App Services, deployment slots, Managed Identities, Azure Key Vault, and networking components to support secure application deployments.
- Configure and troubleshoot Azure networking, including Private Endpoints, VNets, NSGs, DNS, and connectivity issues between applications and platform services.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps to automate application deployments and infrastructure changes.
- Client: S&P Global - Spark Assist (Enterprise Generative AI Platform)
DevOps Tech Lead
6 Months- Managed and optimized SAP infrastructure, including system administration, performance tuning, and environment configuration.
- Designed and managed AWS cloud infrastructure, leveraging services such as EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and VPC to ensure secure, scalable, and cost-optimized environments.
- Containerized applications using Docker, improving deployment consistency, portability, and development efficiency across environments.
- Orchestrated containerized workloads using Kubernetes (K8s), implementing automated scaling, rolling updates, and cluster monitoring to enhance system resilience.
- Built and maintained Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, automating provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of cloud resources.
- Coordinated SAP upgrades, patches, and transport management to maintain system reliability and compliance with industry standards.
- Worked closely with business and technology teams to integrate SAP modules with banking applications, enabling seamless data flows and operational efficiency.
- Used the MAX tool to design, configure, and manage CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth and automated code integration and deployment workflows.
- Collaborated with application, SAP Basis, and infrastructure teams to integrate new jobs into existing Control-M schedules, improving automation and operational efficiency.
- Ensured adherence to banking regulatory requirements, data privacy standards, and audit controls within SAP landscapes.
- Implemented disaster recovery and high-availability strategies for banking and SAP platforms to minimize downtime and operational risk.
- Led cross-functional teams to develop and implement technical solutions, enhancing project delivery timelines.
- Mentored junior developers, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Designed and executed system architecture strategies, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project requirements and deliver innovative software applications.
- Client: Macquarie Group (Australian Investment Bank)
DevOps Engineer
1 Year 11 Months- Infrastructure Design & Automation: Designed and deployed production infrastructure on AWS EKS Cloud, ensuring high availability and scalability. Set up stage and pre-prod environments using Terraform for efficient software development lifecycles.
- Cost Optimization: Successfully reduced production environment costs by 50% through infrastructure optimization strategies, including efficient resource utilization and autoscaling.
- Serverless Development Environment: Hosted the development environment on a serverless ECS platform, enabling seamless scalability and cost savings.
- CI/CD Implementation: Set up CI/CD pipelines on Bitbucket, automating build and deployment processes. Integrated SonarQube for code quality checks and enforced pipeline gates.
- Application Deployment & Scaling: Deployed and managed applications on EKS Cloud using all core components, ensuring security, scalability, and resilience. Configured health checks, liveness, and readiness probes for container monitoring.
- Monitoring & Performance Optimization: Installed and configured Prometheus and Grafana on EC2 instances, set up dashboards, and implemented alerts for AWS resources and EC2 instances. Configured CloudWatch alarms to monitor system health and performance.
- Backup & Disaster Recovery: Used Velero to back up the EKS cluster and implemented snapshot strategies for EC2 and RDS instances for disaster recovery.
- Secret Management & Security: Implemented HashiCorp Vault for secret management and enforced IAM role-based access control, security group policies, and AWS WAF configurations to enhance security. Managed Nginx servers for load balancing and traffic control.
- Resource Provisioning & Management: Storage Management: Provisioned EBS volumes, attached them to EC2 instances, and configured file systems as per business needs. Database Management: Created and managed RDS instances in AWS, generating insights for performance optimization.
- Networking & Load Balancing: Configured Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Auto Scaling for optimized resource utilization. Migration: Led the migration of the existing Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux for improved performance and scalability.
- Automation & Cost Efficiency: Developed an AWS Lambda function to scale down the EKS cluster during non-working hours, optimizing cloud expenses.
- Team Leadership & Collaboration: Leading the DevOps team, collaborating with developers and operations teams to troubleshoot build issues, improve deployment efficiency, and implement DevOps best practices.
DevOps Engineer
1 Year- Cloud Infrastructure & Application Deployment: Designed and deployed multiple applications on AWS using EC2, RDS, Load Balancing, AutoScaling, S3, IAM, Security Groups, EBS, VPC, and CloudWatch. Managed the deployment of fan-versus.io, an NFT marketplace, on EKS, integrating RabbitMQ, Redis, RDS, AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD, AWS WAF, and AWS CloudMap for service discovery.
- Deployed bitqik.com, a hybrid exchange, on ECS Fargate with RabbitMQ, Redis, RDS, AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD, and AWS Lambda for automated tasks.
- Monitoring & Performance Optimization: Installed and configured Prometheus and Grafana on EC2 instances, set up dashboards, and implemented alerts for AWS resources and EC2 instances. Configured CloudWatch alarms to monitor system health, application performance, and resource utilization.
- Security & Compliance: Configured IAM role-based access control, security group policies, and AWS WAF to enhance security.
- Storage & Database Management: Provisioned EBS volumes, attached them to EC2 instances, and configured file systems as per business needs. Created and managed AWS RDS instances, optimizing database performance and generating insights.
- Application Health & Scalability: Configured liveness and readiness probes to monitor container health and ensure high availability. Implemented load balancing (ALB) and auto-scaling strategies for optimized resource utilization.
- Backup, Disaster Recovery & Security: Performed snapshots for EC2 and RDS instances to ensure data protection and disaster recovery. Managed security rules and enforced best practices across AWS infrastructure.
- Blockchain Deployment & Automation: Deployed Blockchain Nodes (Ethereum, Bitcoin) for secure transactions and network reliability. Developed and automated workflows using AWS Lambda for task automation.
- Migration & Infrastructure Optimization: Led the migration of existing Linux environments to AWS/RHEL Linux, improving performance and scalability.
Linux System Admin
6 Months- Worked closely with system, network, security, and storage teams to set up and configure new servers.
- Installed and configured essential services such as DNS, DHCP, NFS, Apache Web Server, Samba, and SSH.
- Managed Logical Volume Management (LVM) & Swap partitions and handled LVM and VXVM file systems for optimized storage management.
- Designed and deployed multiple applications utilizing AWS services, including EC2, RDS, Load Balancing, AutoScaling, S3, IAM, Security Groups, EBS, VPC, and CloudWatch.
- Created and managed AWS EC2 instances and RDS databases to support business applications.
- Configured Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Auto Scaling for optimized resource utilization and high availability.
- Implemented security policies by managing IAM roles, security groups, and access controls.
- Performed snapshots and backups for EC2 and RDS instances to ensure data protection and disaster recovery.
- Led the migration of Linux environments to AWS/RHEL Linux, improving scalability and operational efficiency.
Linux System Admin
9 Months- Linux Server Administration & Configuration: Installed, configured, and managed Linux servers (RHEL 5/6/7) to ensure system stability and security.
- Created and managed AWS RDS instances to support database operations.
- Managed Logical Volume Management (LVM) & Swap partitions for efficient storage allocation.
- Configured Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Auto Scaling to improve system availability and performance. Created and managed AWS RDS instances to support database operations.
- Provisioned EBS storage for EC2 instances, ensuring optimal resource utilization.
- Automation & CI/CD: Automated system tasks and job scheduling using Cron, reducing manual intervention.
- Worked with Continuous Integration (CI) tools like Jenkins to streamline build and deployment processes.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
GPA: 60%
High School Diploma
GPA: 62%
High School Diploma
GPA: 64%
Skills
Cloud platform expertise
AWS Services: EC2
ECS
EKS
Lambda
RDS
S3
VPC
CloudFront
Route 53
IAM
WAF
GuardDuty
Amplify
CloudWatch
SQS
CloudMap
Inspector
Load Balancer
ECS
SecretsManager
ECR
Azure Services: Virtual Machines
Kubernetes Service (AKS)
App Service
Azure DevOps
Blob Storage
SQL Database
Container Registry
Virtual Network
Functions
Azure OpenAI
Azure Key Vault
GCP Services: Compute Engine (VM)
Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Cloud Storage
Cloud Function / Container Registry (GCR)
Cloud SQL
Vertex AI
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Helm
Containers & Orchestration: Docker
Kubernetes (EKS
AKS
GKE)
CI/CD Tools: Jenkins
GitLab CI
GitHub Actions
Bitbucket Pipelines
Azure DevOps Pipelines
Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus
Grafana
CloudWatch
Loki
Dynatrace
SumoLogic
Source Code Management: GitHub
GitLab
AWS CodeCommit
Bitbucket
Operating Systems: Red Hat
CentOS
Ubuntu
Debian
Amazon Linux
Scripting Languages: Bash
Python
Security & Compliance: IAM
Security Groups
WAF
GuardDuty
Inspector
Trivy
KMS
WIZ
Databases: PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
MariaDB
CloudSQL
Caching & Messaging: Redis
Memcached
RabbitMQ
Amazon SQS
Service Mesh: Istio
Linkerd
SRE Tools & Practices: SLIs
SLOs
Error Budgets
Incident Management
Languages
English
Hindi
Team Management
Mentored and guided team members to enhance efficiency, process quality, and timely delivery of individual and group objectives. Proactively monitored performance, identified skill gaps, and facilitated knowledge sharing. Acted as the primary point of contact between management and the team, ensuring smooth communication, alignment on priorities, and successful achievement of organizational goals.
Operations Management
- Streamlined day-to-day operations by automating infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and deployments.
- Ensured service reliability and availability by aligning client requirements with DevOps best practices.
- Acted as the bridge between business, development, and operations teams to deliver scalable solutions.
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