Avinash Gaikwad

• 11+ years of experience in real time server administration, network, infrastructure, cloud (On premises and Openstack) and application support on various platforms and environments.
• Orchestrated Docker container cluster using Kubernetes.
• Installation and configuration of Master and worker nodes with High Availability.
• Maintaining Node roles in Kubernetes cluster
• Creating and maintaining deployments, PODs
• Orchestrating Docker container cluster using Kubernetes
• Knowledge about ITIL.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work well with others, in both supervisory and support staff roles.
• Possess good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with SRE Principles and methodologies.
• Working as Lead SRE for various customers and striving to provide reliable and robust Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
• Experienced in leadership role managing engineering teams
• Experience in building and deployment, supporting the end-to-end application.
• Expertise in Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS Linux, windows server administrations
• Understanding of SRE principles, including SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and error budgets.
• Experience in managing incidents and retrospectives
• Experience in Handling Sprint meetings as well
• Involved in stakeholder communication, requirements gathering, and documentation.
• Worked on installation of various services inside OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge, troubleshooting skill in Kubernetes - Cluster setup, maintenance, Namespace, etcd, Pod, Deployment, Services, Ingress, Taints and Tolerations, Secrets and Config maps, Node Affinity, Node Selector, Daemon set, Logging and Monitoring, PV, PVC
• Experience in cluster health checkouts - pre checks, post checks during infra level
• activities Experience is troubleshooting node level issues – reboot, cordon, drain,
• Kubelet level issues, node level resource issues and node scale up tasks.
• Work experience in Troubleshooting pod level issues – RCA, restart reason, exit code, image pull issues, OOM restart, crashloopbackoff issues, Quota, resource level issues based on the pod state.
• Expertise in deploying, maintain and troubleshoot VMware, and Kubernetes.
• LDAP integration with OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Logging and Monitoring Facilities like Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager and Gray log.
• Experience with keepalive and HA Proxy configurations and performance engineering.
• Experience in mentoring and training.
• Good Knowledge in terraform modules.
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes related issues
• Interacting with Different Application groups for the user problems and maintaining the problem Track sheet, for better meeting our SLA/SLO
• Experience networking concept
• Ability to understand, perform logical trouble-shooting steps to isolate and resolve network problems.
• Network Delivery and Design Experience with Cisco Products.
• Good exposure of seven layers of OSI model.

• Maintaining more than 60000 Linux, solaris, HP-UX servers running in production and development environment. (both BAU and Build)
• Providing RCA for issues and ways to fix them from Happening.
• Installing Kubernetes cluster on premises VM’s in VMware.
• Created a project on the Kubernetes environment.
• Worked with Quota related issues.
• Worked on Auto provisioning in k8.
• Worked with docker, docker images, linked containers
• Applying certificates for k8 clusters.
• Linux OS patching.
• Solaris Volume Manager Administration.
• Package and Patch Administration in Solaris
• Creating and configuring samba shares as per the client request
• Configuring NFS and FTP server and trouble shooting.
• Setting up proxy servers.
• Responsible for Support system infrastructure for committed high uptimes.
• Scheduling planned activities as per the Change Request. BMC Remedy Change Request.
• Extending File system using VXVM, LVM
• Base OS Installing and Configuring of Standalone Servers. (Linux, windows, Ubuntu)

Designed and planned network infrastructure to enhance performance and reliability.

Configured and maintained various managed and unmanaged switches for optimal connectivity.

Conducted regular backups for critical devices to ensure data integrity.

Configured, maintained, and troubleshot LAN and WAN environments effectively.

Implemented, configured, and maintained FTP, print, and web servers to support operations.

Installed and troubleshot Windows Server 2003/XP and Linux 6.0 operating systems.

Managed DNS server configuration and maintenance for seamless domain resolution.

Oversaw implementation of Active Directory domains, workgroups, and remote desktop solutions.

Created, modified, and deleted user accounts, groups, and permissions to ensure access control.

Established security policies for users, computer systems, and networks to enhance protection.

Configured NFS and FTP servers while troubleshooting issues to maintain operational efficiency.

Monitored network communication to detect anomalies and ensure optimal performance.

Implemented firewalls and intrusion detection systems to safeguard computer security.

Developed backup and recovery policies to secure data integrity and availability.

Updated systems with new operating system and application software versions as needed.

Analyzed hardware faults and resolved issues to maintain system reliability.