Manik Angural

Hach is a global leader in water quality analysis, offering reliable instruments and solutions that simplify testing and monitoring. Hach empowers industries and communities to make confident decisions for clean and safe water.

Claros is Hach's Water Intelligence System, designed to enhance water and wastewater treatment operations through integrated instrument, data, and process management solutions.

• Created automated build and deployment pipelines using code for different microservices, making the CI/CD process faster and easier to manage.
• Deployed microservices to an Azure Service Fabric cluster, ensuring high availability, scalability, and efficient resource management.
• Used Terraform to set up and manage cloud infrastructure like VMs, networks, and storage on Azure, making deployments consistent, scalable, and easy to automate across different environments.
• Leveraged Terraform state management and workspaces to handle environment segregation and ensure safe infrastructure updates
• Automated virtual machine provisioning and monitoring tool installations (CrowdStrike, Telegraf, and NCPA) through efficient scripting, reducing manual overhead and increasing consistency
• Designed and maintained Grafana dashboards to monitor the performance and availability of Azure resources, ensuring real-time visibility and proactive incident response. Optimized existing Grafana dashboards for better clarity, performance, and usability, aligning with operational and business needs
• Took ownership of Nagios Core setup to monitor Azure resources, ensuring high availability and performance visibility across the infrastructure. Developed and maintained custom Nagios scripts for proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Automated NCPA agent installation and configuration on target VMs using custom scripts, streamlining the monitoring setup process.
• Managed certificate rotation in production and non-production environments to ensure secure and up-to-date deployments while minimizing downtime during renewals.
• Created and optimized Bash scripts for existing infrastructure tasks, reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency through automation.
• Developed and maintained Docker files to automate Jenkins agent provisioning with preconfigured tools and dependencies, reducing setup time and manual errors. Streamlined Jenkins agent deployment using Docker, enhancing build scalability and maintainability in a containerized environment
• Leveraged AKS to dynamically provision pods in Jenkins pipelines, enabling scalable and efficient CI/CD execution for microservices.