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Koushik Paul

DevOps Engineer| AWS
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience in CI/CD, AWS Cloud, and infrastructure automation. Expertise in scripting, system administration, and container orchestration to ensure seamless deployments and efficient operations. Skilled in optimizing performance, reducing costs, and driving iterative improvements in fast-paced environments. Strong collaborator with a focus on innovation, adaptability, and delivering reliable, scalable solutions. Passionate about digital transformation and leveraging technology to enhance productivity and business impact.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer 2

Moonfrog Labs
10.2020 - Current
  • Designed, developed, and maintained scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure to enhance gaming experiences for 16 million daily players.
  • Improved CI/CD pipeline to cutdowns unnecessary bandwidth of developers and fasten deployment cycle.
  • Successfully conducted comprehensive disaster recovery exercise for Moonfrog Labs' infrastructure, ensuring complete restoration of data and systems within 20 hours. Spearheaded simulation of an emergency scenario to test the resilience and recovery protocols of our infrastructure.
  • Responsible for optimization of K8s deployment stack and reviewing design and solution of different game teams for onboarding games onto the Kubernetes stack.
  • Led the initiative to migrate on demand machines to spot instances to scale it with demand (scale-up/scale-down on concurrent growth/dip ) in one of the major games.
  • Responsible for implementing security solutions for detecting and reporting security issues according to organizational requirements.
  • Implemented ELK stack end-to-end to improve log aggregation, monitoring, and real-time analytics for enhanced operational visibility and troubleshooting.
  • Help team members in their roadmap and also provide regular feedback and helps in solutioning of any DevOps implementations.

Senior System Administrator

Moonfrog Labs
02.2017 - 10.2020
  • Install, configure, and maintain servers, hardware, storage, peripherals, and services.
  • Manage Google G-Suite, JIRA, Slack, Windows 10, macOS, and IT procurement.
  • Administer network, security, servers, desktops, printers, firewalls, and conferencing systems.
  • Ensure stable LAN/WAN connectivity and automate system tasks.
  • Perform system monitoring, log reviews, and verify backups.

IT Administrator

Matrix India Asset Advisors Pvt. Ltd
01.2015 - 01.2017
  • Set up IT & Network infrastructure for Matrix Partners' Bangalore office, including server room design, equipment procurement, and installation. Led coordination with teams and vendors, ensuring timely project delivery as per standards.
  • Install, configure, and maintain servers, hardware, storage, and peripherals as per standards.
  • Administer servers, desktops, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, video conferencing, and EPABX.
  • Ensure stable LAN/WAN connectivity and implement automation for system tasks.
  • Monitor system health, logs, backups, and apply OS patches/upgrades.

System Administrator

VMware
07.2013 - 01.2015
  • Administer Windows Server 2003, user management, password resets, and Print Server.
  • Manage RSA console, assigning soft/hard tokens.
  • Handle Mirage administration, re-imaging, backups, and data migration.
  • Install and manage ESX servers, VMware View, and vSphere client for virtual desktops.
  • Configure and maintain Thin Clients (WYSE, Devon IT) and firmware updates.
  • Manage McAfee Encryption and antivirus solutions.

Windows\Desktop Administrator

Zynga Game Network India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2010 - 07.2013
  • Managing and Maintaining Microsoft Windows 2008 server environment
  • Installing, Configuring and Administering Windows 7 and MAC OS X
  • Managing day to day the enterprise LAN and WAN Connectivity issues of Zynga
  • User provisioning and deprovisioning of Zynga
  • Inventory management of IT devices
  • Configuring and Managing corporate mail box of BlackBerry and iPhone
  • Installing, Configuring and Administering VMWare V-Sphere server

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

Asansol Engineering College
Asansol, India

Skills

AWS Cloud (EC2,VPC,Route53,CloudWatch,Cloudtrail,Lambda)DevOps Tools (Jenkins, Git, Jira)Container and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS)Infrastucture as Code (Terraform, Packer, Ansible)Monitoring tools(Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios)Logging Tools (ELK, Kafka, Filebeat)

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Software

AWS Services

Datawarehouse tools(Redshift)

Database (Postgres, SQL)

Caching Tools (Redis, Couchbase)

Queuing tools (kafka, rabbitmq)

Timeline

DevOps Engineer 2

Moonfrog Labs
10.2020 - Current

Senior System Administrator

Moonfrog Labs
02.2017 - 10.2020

IT Administrator

Matrix India Asset Advisors Pvt. Ltd
01.2015 - 01.2017

System Administrator

VMware
07.2013 - 01.2015

Windows\Desktop Administrator

Zynga Game Network India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2010 - 07.2013

Master of Computer Applications -

Asansol Engineering College
Koushik PaulDevOps Engineer| AWS