Nikhil K.

A CKA and GitLab certified professional with over 4+ years of software industry experience in DevSecOps and AWS Cloud services during which worked on various popular DevOps tools such as GIT-GITLAB, JENKINS, DOCKER, KUBERNETES, HELM, TERRAFORM, ANSIBLE and AWS Cloud Services.

Looking for an opportunity where I can enhance my skills to a good level and hence can grow more in techno-management side.

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• GitLab Technical Engineer

• Client: CCIL (The Clearing Corporation of India Ltd), Mumbai
  Role: SRE
  Responsibilities:
  
  Created and maintained rule-based, parent-child pipelines in GitLab to conditionally trigger specific jobs based on branch names and deployment environments.
  Managed artifacts on GitLab. Set up clean-up policies for the artifacts for storage efficiency.
  Packaged the Kubernetes Manifest files of multiple applications and environments using HELM charts that helped the client to restrict the generation of multiple Manifest files hence achieving better scalability, and easier roll backs to previous versions of the application.
  Implemented Horizontal POD autoscaling in Kubernetes based on incoming traffic to overcome CPU utilization limit for each POD.
  Wrote a Migration Script to migrate SVN repos to Git. The Users, branches, and Tags were mapped while migrating from SVN To GitLab. Migrated repositories along with the Commit history.

• Client: HDFC Life Insurance
  Role: DevOps Cloud Engineer
  Responsibilities:
  
  Implemented end-to-end application Security automation in 15 + applications using AWS Code Pipelines.
  SAST, SCA, Container Scanning and DAST API security scans were automated in respective tools Fortify, SonaType, Snyk, Audacix, StackHawk.
  Configured vulnerability dashboard for identified vulnerabilities in Defect Dojo.

• Client: CAMS Online, Chennai
  Role: DevOps Cloud Engineer
  Responsibilities:
  
  Implementation of GitLab 3k HA architecture in AWS Cloud, where GitLab Services were deployed on 27 Nodes to achieve High availability.
  Disaster Recovery (DR) was implemented having One primary and two secondary sites.
  Developed cron job scripts to automate the GitLab repository backups.
  Zero Trust Model was implemented with Azure AD integration, and SSO.

• Client: SafexPay, Mumbai
  Role: DevOps Cloud Engineer
  Responsibilities:
  
  Developed Jenkins pipelines with automated CI-CD for Microservices (Java) architecture.
  Streamlined Source Code Management in GitHub with advance Branching strategy, and Access
  control mechanism.
  Implemented SonarQube for Code Quality Gate. Automated the quality threshold check –
  Quality Gate in the pipelines.
  Build dependencies between the micro-services were handled in the pipeline.
  Created Docker Image through pipeline and integrated and implemented Trivy scans on it.
  Deployments were done on the AWS EKS cluster.

• Client: IIFL, Mumbai
  Role: DevOps Cloud Engineer
  Responsibilities:
  
  Developed a pipeline to automate the Script update (Lambda Functions, Step Functions, EMR)
  Worked on the AWS services like Lambda Functions, Step Functions, EMR, Athena
  Dynamic pipeline creation using Bash Script.
  Developed a bash script to take backup of GitLab and scheduled to run every day using cron jobs.
  Utilized Terraform as an IaC tool to deploy required infrastructure and services on AWS cloud.