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Chandra Kishore

Hyderabad

Summary

Experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in AWS services and Terraform, delivering efficient infrastructure provisioning within the Indian Air Force. Demonstrated excellence in continuous integration and delivery through advanced use of Docker and Kubernetes, while fostering team agility by mentoring peers. Achieved substantial AWS cost savings, underscoring both technical proficiency and strategic insight.

Overview

1
Certificate
20
years of professional experience

Education

LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY
PUNJAB

MBA from Marketing
02-2024

Skills

  • Terraform
  • Packer
  • Terraform Enterprise
  • Docker
  • Docker Swarm
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS Kubernetes Services
  • Dockerfile
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins Pipelines
  • Jenkins Cloud Integration
  • Ansible Playbooks
  • Ansible Role
  • SonarQube
  • Maven
  • Shell scripting
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Prometheus
  • Agile
  • Build and Release
  • Artifacts
  • Grafana
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Pyhton
  • Artifactory
  • Amazon Web Services
  • EC2
  • VPC
  • IAM
  • NLB&ALB
  • Auto Scaling Groups
  • S3
  • EFS & FSx
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS RDS
  • DynamoDB NoSQL
  • RDS MySQL
  • AWS ECS
  • Guard Duty
  • IAM Users & Roles
  • IAM Policies

Certification

  • AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER
  • ORACLE 11G, PL, SQL
  • WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2

Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
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Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

Indian Air Force
07.2020 - 09.2024

Windows Server Administrator

Indian Air Force
01.2013 - 06.2020

Systems Administrator

Indian Air Force
09.2004 - 12.2012

LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY

MBA from Marketing

Work History

Indian Air Force
Bhatinda

Senior DevOps Engineer
07.2020 - 09.2024

Job overview

  • Working with developers for Continuous Integration with Jenkins and AWS DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
  • Experienced in Continuous Delivery of microservices based applications on KOPS, EKS and AKS.Supported efficient development workflows by Docker Engines and Docker Swarm clusters.
  • GitOps practices by using ArgoCD Karpenter used to dynamically scale clusters to reduce infrastructure costs.
  • Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, and leveraged Ansible for efficient configuration management, ensuring consistent and streamlined workflows.
  • Log collection and monitoring are carried out using Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Led a cost-saving initiative by identifying unused AWS resources and establishing S3 bucket expiration policies, leading to an annual cost reduction in AWS expenditures.
  • Work on IAM to configure the different users, roles and policies.
  • Utilized CloudWatch, Lambda, and SNS to set up a monitoring solution that automatically triggers alerts for performance anomalies, ensuring real-time visibility and quick response to issues.
  • Work on different AWS services like EC2 - Instances, ELB (Load Balancers), EBS (Volumes), Security Groups, CloudWatch, Route 53, VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, Certificate Manager (ACM), SNS, Cost Explorer, Auto Scaling Group (ASG), GuardDuty, CloudTrail.
  • Security Optimized EC2 Instances, Volumes, VPC, Security Groups, Public and Private subnets.
  • Train & Mentor colleagues on DevOps tools and Practises.

Indian Air Force
ANDHRA PRADESH

Windows Server Administrator
01.2013 - 06.2020

Job overview

  • Installed and configured Active Directory, DNS, DHCP services on Windows Servers.
  • Implemented Group Policies to manage user accounts, security settings and software deployment across the organization.
  • Built new file servers to maximize web hosting, terminal servers and domain control performance.
  • Integrated Windows Server infrastructure with other third-party applications and technologies.
  • Configured and deployed Windows Servers in virtualized environments.
  • Increased system security and performance with proactive changes.
  • Installed firewalls and antivirus software to improve cybersecurity.
  • Performed regular maintenance activities such as disk defragmentation and disk clean up operations on servers.
  • Kept systems operating efficiently by performing necessary upgrades and repairs.
  • Deployed patches and updates to all Windows Servers using WSUS or SCCM tools.

Indian Air Force
Delhi

Systems Administrator
09.2004 - 12.2012

Job overview

  • Installed firewalls and antivirus software to improve cybersecurity.
  • Kept systems operating efficiently by performing necessary upgrades and repairs.
  • Provided appropriate permissions to users for accessing files and databases.
  • Developed and implemented system security policies, procedures and standards for the organization.
  • Planned, tested and supported high-availability infrastructures.
  • Trained and directed users on correct use of software and hardware within systems.
  • Participated in projects related to new infrastructure implementations or migrations from legacy platforms.
  • Built new file servers to maximize web hosting, terminal servers and domain control performance.
  • Implemented inventory control measures to replenish and maintain IT equipment, supplies, tools and replacement parts.
  • Performed daily backup operations using Symantec Backup Exec 2012 R2 software.

Affiliations

Automated Application Rollout using Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline

Digitize traditional office files, transforming paper-based records into an organized digital system to improve accessibility, streamline workflows, and enhance data security.

  • CI/CD pipeline runtime reduced by 40% implementing Jenkins Master-Slave architecture for parallel execution.
  • SAST,DAST to improve application's security.
  • ELB’s and attaching to the endpoints in hosted zones in Route53 to provide the application accessibility.
  • Validating end-to-end infrastructure validation & application access.

Application Deployment on Kubernetes cluster

Mobile communication network upgrade from 3G to 4G/5G

  • Achieved a 70% reduction in costs by migrating the communication network to Kubernetes cluster.
  • Ingress Controller used to manage external traffic, SSL termination, and efficient routing to services.
  • ArgoCD implemented for GitOps operation.
  • Prometheus and Grafana used for monitoring.
  • Reduced deployment time by using Ansible from an average of 3 days to less than 2 hours.

Automated Application Rollout using AWS DevOps

Designed and deployed a high-availability online test evaluation system for conducting organizational examinations, ensuring zero downtime and seamless performance during peak usage.

  • Enhanced package management and security by managing self-hosted agent setup in AWS DevOps.
  • AWS Repositories for version control of CI/CD pipelines.
  • Release Pipeline to define stages, approve releases, deployment to productions environment.

Accomplishments

  • Best Employee for 4 times

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Deploying Cloud Infrastructure on AWS Cloud.
  • Creating & Maintaining Build and Release Pipelines for successful CI/CD.
  • Automation of manual tasks for infrastructure deployments & configuration.
  • Working & Resolving Developer Issues.
  • New Tools R&D for Product Stability & ensure consistency and stability.
  • Daily Stand-up & Project Meetings following Agile Framework.
  • Cloud Security & Compliance.
  • Training & Mentorship.

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