ASHWINI WAKHLE

• Optimized cloud resource usage by analyzing cost metrics and making recommendations for more efficient configurations.
• Reduced production downtime significantly, implementing solution to automate Redis autoscaling preventing production disruptions
• Spearheaded cost optimization activities, decommissioning unused resources resulting in saving costs for customer up to 30%
• Implemented controls in infrastructure to enhance the security posture as per AWS best practices
• Maintaining and troubleshooting build and release pipelines in ADO for global end markets
• Building of infrastructure components in AWS using Terraform
• Mentored junior team members, fostering professional growth and improving overall team performance.
• Contributed to architectural decisions, ensuring scalable and maintainable designs for future expansions of application services.
• Facilitated knowledge sharing among team members by documenting processes, best practices, and lessons learned from past experiences.

• Experience with deploying and managing resources via Terraform, performing activities such as EC2 scale up/down, modifying EBS volume, etc.
• Automated reporting of HANA database backups by leveraging CloudWatch log insight query and SES
• Customized cloudwatch notifications to include additional server details, as per customer requirement using AWS Lambda
• Implemented solution and developed automation to generate SNOW alerts upon RedHat pacemaker cluster (SCS/ERS) failure and HANA DB backup failure
• Implemented solutions by using cloudwatch event rules to generate SNOW alerts for other use cases such as:

- Upon receiving AWS Health event for ec2 retirement

- When missing audit operational mandatory tags with AWS Config rules

- When AWS backup job fails or aborts

• Managed backup process for SAP HANA DB by configuring AWS backint agent, managing backup retention in S3 using lifecycle policies
• Created Ansible scripts for BAU activities such as linux package update, updating cloudwatch configuration file, addition of log groups, update of kernel parameter; etc
• Managed patch management operation using System Manager for all RHEL workload
• Prepared patching compliance reports and weekly status report decks with compliance percentage to be shared with the customer
• Cloud resource provisioning and automation with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform/Ansible
• Writing Ansible playbooks to automate system deployments, saving admin time
  Experience with code version control and issue reporting/management tools, e.g., GitHub, GitLab, Jira
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps using CI tools like Jenkins
• Coordinating with customer for requirement gathering and finding methods for cost optimization on cloud
• Working with ISG to implement AWS cloud best practices as per customer defined security policies with experience on AWS Security Services (AWS Shield, GuardDuty, Inspector, AWS Trusted Advisor, IAM, WAF, CloudTrail)
• Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
• Mentored junior developers through regular 1-on-1 meetings, providing guidance on best practices and career growth opportunities.

• Complete infrastructure provisioning for applications hosted on or being migrated to AWS including setting up server, database, load balancing, DNS routing, capacity provisioning and fault tolerance to provide highly available Production environment
• Leveraged AWS CloudEndure to carry out migration of 50+ customer applications from on premise to AWS
• Created VPC, public/private subnet, VGW, TGW and network configuration using route tables, security groups/NACLs and Route 53
• Managed IAM administration and access regulation at organization level using SCPs
• Proficient with cross account access, roles and policies
• Proficient in implementing ASG using Launch Template and Launch Configuration
• Automated Athena query to fetch logs from Config to manage inventory data on scheduled basis
• Using Athena to query VPC, ELB and CloudTrail logs
• Created CloudFront distributions to serve content from edge locations to users so as to minimize load on the frontend servers.

• Good understanding of Windows server and MS SQL server concepts, maintenance of Windows Operating Systems(03/07/XP/Vista), MS Server (03/08)
• Exposure working on IIS/Apache/Nginx hosted web app, deploying sites, administration and troubleshooting
• Domain account management for over 30,000 users via active directory
• Creating Package for Software’s, deploying software on huge numbers of Clients and Servers using SCCM
• Experience in SOPHOS safeguard technology, Symantec, RCOS management, Win Collect tool for Windows, DNS & DHCP
• Handled incident, change and problem management across multiple environments Detailed technical skills in Windows server management, IIS administration, Patch Management and Software deployment via SCCM and WSUS.