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Kushal Kishore

Technical Lead - Devops
Greater Noida,UP

Summary

Experienced DevOps Practitioner with 9+ years of expertise in integrating security into DevOps pipelines, automating infrastructure with multi cloud line AWS GCP and Azure , also ensuring compliance within Azure environments specifically AKS. Proficient in leveraging Azure-native tools and practices to enhance security posture, streamline deployments, and optimize cloud operations and costings. Demonstrated expertise in architecting and managing large-scale data infrastructures, including the deployment of a 300TB ClickHouse cluster within a Kubernetes environment to support high-performance analytics and data processing needs.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Technical Lead - DevOps

Rakuten Symphony
Greater Noida, UP
09.2024 - Current
  • Spearheaded the integration of security practices into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, reducing security vulnerabilities by 40%.
  • Developed and enforced security policies using Azure Policy and Security Center, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
  • Worked in Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) activities to proactively identify and mitigate security risks.
  • Architected and managed a 300TB ClickHouse cluster within a Kubernetes environment, utilizing Helm and Zookeeper for orchestration and ensuring highavailability and scalability.
  • Optimized data ingestion and query performance through strategic partitioning, replication, and resource allocation, supporting real-time analytics and reporting

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Gemini
12.2023 - Current
  • Managing entire infrastructure on AWS, also worked with EKS and managing multiple EKS cluster
  • Enhanced platform performance by optimizing infrastructure and implementing automation tools.
  • Worked with Vector logging aggregation tool.
  • Taking part in oncall issues and extensively resolving those issues.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Dunnhumby
8 2021 - 12.2023
  • Helping retailers and brands perfect the science of shopping, Extensive experience in DevOps & Infrastructure Management, Build and Release responsible for control, configuration, management, Cloud Platforms and the various deployment designs, Automation, and production support
  • Managed whole infrastructure using Terragrunt and created Helm charts for deployment.
  • Acquired working knowledge of Karpenter for cluster autoscaling.
  • Architecting Cloud Platform for deploying Bigdata analytics solutions on GCP using services as Dataproc, Airflow, Cloud Scheduler, Cloud SQL, Big Query, Pub Sub, Storage, Compute, Cloud Functions
  • Architecting & Provisioning infrastructure namely IAM, Firewall, Compute Engine VMs, Storage buckets, Dataproc clusters, Kubernetes clusters, VPC using Terraform over GCP
  • Involved in research and development of new technologies and processes for showcasing organizational strength
  • Got exposure to work on Istio dark release pattern
  • Automated Kubernetes deployment using helm through Gitlab and Octopus
  • CD to minimize the manual effort
  • Working on the DataOps side as well by creating and resolving data pipeline issues during creation of dataproc clusters for spark and jupyter
  • Plays a vital role in cost optimization within GCP infrastructure.

Senior Infrastructure Associate L1

Publicis Sapient
11.2020 - 08.2021
  • Project - GoldmanSachs
  • Creating and maintaining Gitlab CI/CD pipeline for build and deployment of the microservices.
  • Basic working knowledge of Adobe AEM
  • Taking part in troubleshooting for java based microservices
  • Provision infrastructure through IaC as per requirements.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Biz2Credit Info Services
07.2018 - 11.2020
  • Deliver Credit to Small Businesses
  • SeniorDevOpsEngineer, Hands-on experience in provisioning infrastructure for multiple projects with terraform
  • Hands-on experience for the setup of AWS serverless architecture.

Software Engineer

Paytm
04.2017 - 07.2018
  • Hands-on experience on AWS services like EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, ELB,EFS,cloudfront,SNS,SQS,elasticache,api-gateway and lambda
  • Maintaining and creating infrastructure for the different projects along with various microservices APIs
  • Hands on experience in setup for the microservices using Docker and
  • Kubernetes
  • Administering the GITLAB of our organization, also performed an important role for all the build and release process for various projects
  • Experienced in the setup of monitoring tools such as Prometheus,Grafana and ELK
  • Paytm is an Indian digital payments and financial services company.

System Administrator

Innverse Technology Pvt Ltd
12.2015 - 04.2017
  • Followed SDLC methodology for making a stable lifecycle for software development
  • Troubleshoot and fix performance issues in our AWS/Linux infrastructure stack
  • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment
  • Troubleshoot and fix linux servers performance tuning,managing disk partitions,log partitions,log rotations,archiving,CPU,Memory and health checks for the servers
  • Participate in an on-call roaster for infra related issues on off hours
  • Innverse Technology provides consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions.
  • Setting up LAMP on new testing servers
  • Hands-on experience of administering SVN servers such as creating
  • Repositories,providing access etc
  • Hands-on experience of QUICK HEAL TERMINATOR (UTM) firewall device
  • Maintaining the server documentation i.e
  • Server details, machine owners details, services owners details, package installed, versions details, time zone,database versions, virtual hosts etc
  • Configured Tigase XMPP chat server.

Education

B.Tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Sobhasaria Engineering College
Sikar, Rajasthan

Skills

Technical Skills

Additional Information

  • Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Certification number: E947-3533. ACHIEVEMENTS.
  • Got multiple recognition in Dunnhumby for fast delivery and good work Got Star of the month award at Biz2credit along with multiple appreciation throughout the tenure.
  • Won 1st prize in inter college Model Creation Competition cum Exhibition.

Certification

GCP Associate Cloud Engineer

Timeline

GCP Associate Cloud Engineer

11-2024

Technical Lead - DevOps

Rakuten Symphony
09.2024 - Current

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Gemini
12.2023 - Current

Senior Infrastructure Associate L1

Publicis Sapient
11.2020 - 08.2021

Senior DevOps Engineer

Biz2Credit Info Services
07.2018 - 11.2020

Software Engineer

Paytm
04.2017 - 07.2018

System Administrator

Innverse Technology Pvt Ltd
12.2015 - 04.2017

Microsoft Certified Professional

08-2014

B.Tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Sobhasaria Engineering College

Senior DevOps Engineer

Dunnhumby
8 2021 - 12.2023
Kushal KishoreTechnical Lead - Devops