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, RajasthanSkills
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
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