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Gopal Sharma

Tech Lead
Bhind

Summary

Seasoned Lead DevOps Engineer with over 13 years of expertise in designing, implementing, and automating comprehensive Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Deployment pipelines. Specialized in leveraging GitLab CI for orchestrating CI/CD workflows, and proficient in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible and Terraform to streamline cloud infrastructure management. Extensive experience in Azure cloud platform, adept at optimizing cloud resources and ensuring robust, scalable deployments.

In current roles within the IFS cloud engineering team, successfully led initiatives to manage and enhance pipelines critical to cloud operations, ensuring efficient delivery and deployment of cloud-based solutions. Skilled in team leadership, fostering collaborative environments, and mentoring developers to deliver high-quality software products. Known for a proactive approach to problem-solving and a commitment to implementing best practices in DevOps methodologies.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Tech Lead

Tech Mahindra
Bangalore
08.2023 - Current
  • Implemented and maintained Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and Bitbucket.
  • Automated provisioning and configuration management using Ansible and Terraform.
  • Served as Scrum Master, facilitating Agile ceremonies and ensuring team adherence to Agile practices.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline development processes and improve efficiency.
  • Conducted regular code reviews and implemented best practices to ensure high-quality codebase.
  • Monitored and optimized system performance, ensuring high availability and scalability of applications.
  • Provided technical guidance and mentoring to team members, fostering a collaborative team environment.
  • Mentored junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill improvement
  • Collaborated with product managers to define technical requirements and develop innovative solutions for complex problems
  • Streamlined code review processes, improving overall code quality while reducing time spent on revisions
  • Developed comprehensive documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing among team members and support long-term maintenance efforts

Lead Devops Consultant

Virtusa Technologies
Bangalore
1 2022 - 07.2023
  • Develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance and related guidance for
    both CI/CD operations and for work of developers.
    To develop and support selected tools with a DevOps Team, while managing
    suppliers working on other tool development.
  • Currently using AWS cloud for service deployment in self-hosted Kubernetes and infra management.
  • Responsible for Kubernetes Cluster creation, service deployment and cluster management.
  • Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation-using Jenkins along with scripts to automate routine jobs.
  • Handling IAC role through Terraform for EKS and AKS.
  • Handing troubleshooting if any cluster is failing.
  • Monitoring Grafana dashboard and taking pro-activity action accordingly.
  • Handling and infra creation for EKS clusters and argoCD.

Senior Engineer(Team Lead)

Ericsson global India pvt ltd
Bangalore
06.2015 - 01.2022
  • Leading development and operations processes inside 10 member of team
  • Created automated build and deployment process for application, re-engineering setup for better user experience, and leading up to building continuous integration system.
  • Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation-using Jenkins along with scripts to automate routine jobs.
  • Build servers using AWS: Importing volumes, launching EC2, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in defined virtual private connection.
  • Experienced in Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates to create Custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT, EC2 instances, ELB and Security groups.
  • Installation and setting up kubernetes cluster on AWS manually from scratch.
  • Created Kubernetes deployment, statefulsets, Network policy.
  • Created metrics and monitoring reports using Prometheus dashboards.
  • Monitor, analyze, and report performance statistics for cloud hosted environments. Write clean, well-documented, and resilient code.

ZTE Telecom Pvt Ltd

Assistant Manager
Lucknow
06.2014 - 06.2015
  • Monitored company inventory to keep stock levels and databases updated.
  • Managing 50+ servers in a distributed and highly available critical infrastructure.
  • Use of Bitbucket and Git for control version and repository management.
  • Experience with Amazon CLI, EC2, S3, CloudFront. Automating infrastructure or provisioning servers with Ansible.
  • Manage and maintain CI server and artifacts by using jenkins and artifactory.
  • Python and Django using for building backend for infrastructure. Development of multiple Docker containers, each one running Python and Django applications Deployment of such containers to Kubernetes Pods
  • 4G planning and optimization by using automation tool which provides proactive analysis and accuracy based on analysis took proactive solutions to mitigate upcoming issues which provide seamless customer experience.
  • I have worked for many freelance project to support Devops and using multiple tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins and Ansible).

Senior Executive - Network Quality

Idea cellular ltd
Lucknow
07.2013 - 06.2014
  • Automating and flashing reports like network traffic, KPI trends,
    TRAI Compliance Reports, Media Utilization report & Site health
    monitoring report.
  • Interaction with the sales team for justification of the new site
    based on MOU calculation and utilization of the nearby sites.
  • Creating customized trend reports with VBA to show the Revenue,
    ARPU, Customer churn, Active VLR Addition, Site Availability &
    Competitors trend to CTO and COO level presentation.
  • Observing Customer usage behaviour based on Corporate, COCO,
    Retail, Prepaid & Postpaid users, Behaviour throughout the day,
    area specific behaviour & Holidays. Based on this suggesting to
    the marketing team for the offers based on the user behaviour.
  • Flashing network utilization report for all the nodes in the
    network and BW of media based on the usage in hub nodes.
  • Aligned organizational objectives with company mission, increasing revenue, profit and business growth by collaboratively developing integrated strategies.

Senior Radio Network Optimiser

NR Switch N Radio Pvt Ltd
Indore
09.2011 - 07.2013

2G Swap alcatel to ZTE and 3G rollout in MP circle for reliance infotech.

RF Engineer

High Beam Technology Pvt Ltd
Indore
07.2009 - 09.2011

To handle RF planning and optimization for UP East circle.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communication

RGPV
Bhopal
08.2004 - 07.2008

Skills

AWS, Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Jenkins

Ansible and Chef

Shell Scripting , Ruby

Team Leading

SDN, NFS, NAT

Gitlab CI

BitBucket

Accomplishments

  • MBNL Award for giving many parameters and features to customer for network KPIs improvements.
  • Ericsson Rockstar Award -(Q4-2016, Q3-2017, Q1-2018, Q2-2019, Q4-2019 & Q3-2020).
  • Ericsson President Award for excellent contribution in Automating Activities (H1-2018)

Timeline

Tech Lead

Tech Mahindra
08.2023 - Current

Senior Engineer(Team Lead)

Ericsson global India pvt ltd
06.2015 - 01.2022

ZTE Telecom Pvt Ltd

Assistant Manager
06.2014 - 06.2015

Senior Executive - Network Quality

Idea cellular ltd
07.2013 - 06.2014

Senior Radio Network Optimiser

NR Switch N Radio Pvt Ltd
09.2011 - 07.2013

RF Engineer

High Beam Technology Pvt Ltd
07.2009 - 09.2011

Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communication

RGPV
08.2004 - 07.2008

Lead Devops Consultant

Virtusa Technologies
1 2022 - 07.2023
Gopal SharmaTech Lead