Nikhil Gaikwad

• DevOps Engineer for a team that involved different development teams and multiple simultaneous software release
• IAC tools(terraform) for Provisoning infra for several projects and also creation of workspaces,resources by using HCL and adhoc command
• Managing kubernetes cluster for several project's and also assginging roles
• To access resources accordingly as request is raised by stakeholder creation
• Of several namespaces,allocation resource quota's,env creation
• Managing Git as Version Control System for maintaining the discipline
• Required working with the codes on different files
• Designed and developed scripts using batch, Shell for automating the build activities
• Specialized in automating tasks and process through scripts, implementing branching models, implementing Build/Release solutions
• Worked closely with developers and managers to resolve the issues that rise during the deployments to different environments
• Used MAVEN as build tool on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code
• Automated the build and release management process including monitoring changes between releases
• Strong in building OOP using Shell Scripts on UNIX other language like HCL
• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance
• Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution

Key Achievement:

• creation of end to end (CICD)declarative Pipeline for (UOB client) using jenkin which covers stages (checkout,unit testing,sonar scan,maven build,uploading to binary to jfrog artifacts,building image and pushing that image in jfrog artifacts pulling that image deploying on env using argocd)

• Design and implement cloud-based solutions using AWS services
• Monitor and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure performance
• Develop and maintain automation scripts to manage cloud infrastructure
• Design and implement security measures to protect cloud infrastructure
• Configure and maintain AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC
• Troubleshoot and resolve AWS cloud infrastructure issues
• Develop and maintain AWS cloud-based applications
• Create and maintain AWS cloud-based infrastructure documentation
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure successful implementation of cloud-based solutions
• Research and evaluate new AWS services and technologies
• Develop and maintain cost optimization strategies for AWS cloud infrastructure

Key Achievement:

• created env from sractch using terraform for small nbfc firm with utilizing most services of aws by keeping cost optimization low also followed all security ascpect

• Manage Amazon Web Services - ELB, EC2, S3, RDS, SNS, Cloudwatch
• Expertise in architecting secure VPC solutions in AWS with the help of Network ACLs, security groups, public and private network configurations
• Create S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets
• Experience in managing and maintaining IAM policies for organizations in AWS to define groups, create users, assign roles and define rules for role based access to AWS resources
• Create snapshots and amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances
• Hands on experience in writing Ansible playbook
• Used JIRA to track issues and Change Management
• Troubleshoot Nagios Alerts
• Manage systems routine backup, scheduling jobs, enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging and network logging of servers for maintenance
• Create and maintain user's accounts, profiles, security, rights disk space and process monitoring
• Provide technical support by troubleshooting day-to-day issues with various Servers on different platforms

Key Achievement:

• Successfully deployed a highly available application stack on AWS utilizing EC2 autoscaling groups which enabled increased customer engagement by 20%.

• Provided complete end-to-end engineering and installation of route-based IP network solutions
• Provided network support services for devices such as hubs, bridges, routers, and other hardware