NIKHIL KUMAR
Summary
Dedicated DevOps Kubernetes engineer with a passion for building
robust and scalable cloud infrastructure. With over 4.5 years of
hands-on experience, I have a strong foundation in orchestrating
containerized applications with Kubernetes, implementing CI/CD
pipelines, and optimizing system performance for high availability
and reliability. With a background in cloud architecture and
automation, I excel at streamlining deployment processes and
enhancing development workflows. My goal is to leverage innovative
technologies to drive efficiency, agility, and scalability in modern
software development environments.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Tekion - DevOps Engineer
GITLAB CI
05.2024 - Current
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using
- GitLab CI/CD, streamlining the software development and deployment processes Configured and managed a self-hosted Kubernetes runner to efficiently execute CI/CD jobs, ensuring scalability and reliability EKS Migration: Successfully migrated applications from Amazon
- ECS to Amazon EKS, Achieved significant cost savings by leveraging EKS's flexible scaling capabilities and efficient resource management.
DevOps Engineer
Wolters Kluwer
01.2020 - 05.2024
- Led the implementation and maintenance of Kubernetes infrastructure for multiple applications, ensuring high availability, scalability, and reliability
- Collaborated with development and operations teams to design and implement CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and Azure
- DevOps
- Conducted security assessments of Kubernetes clusters, identified vulnerabilities, and implemented necessary security measures
- Conducted performance tuning and optimization of applications deployed on Kubernetes to improve efficiency and reduce costs
- Led the implementation of helmizing the application, creation of helm charts, and subsequent deployments Implemented elasticsearch-logstash-kabana in the Kubernetes environment
- Worked closely with security teams to implement best practices for securing containerized environments Implemented AWS load balancer creation, maintaining rules, and creation of target groups for different applications: writing
- Docker files, creating images, and maintaining registries (ACR and
- ECR)
- Management of Cloudflare (used as an external load balancer)
- Management of code-scanning tools such as Blackduck and
- Coverity (Synopsis) S3 bucket policy management/IP whitelisting
- Worked on setting up an alternate cloud platform for disaster recovery in Azure
- Worked on deploying applications on AKS (azure Kubernetes service), application gateway, Azure container registries
- Conducted post-incident reviews, identified areas for improvement, and implemented preventive measures to enhance system stability
- Participated in capacity planning and scalability initiatives, ensuring infrastructure can handle increasing demands
- Actively contributed to the improvement of DevOps and SRE practices, driving the adoption of new tools and technologies Implemented Infrastructure as Code (laC) using Terraform to automate the provisioning and management of AWS resources Troubleshooting the production issue as it comes.
Education
B. Tech - Information Technology
VIT University
01.2020
HSC -
01.2016
01.2014
Skills
- AWS Services (EKS
- ECS, EC2, Loadbalancer, route 53
- Etc)
- Azure
- Services(AKS,ACR, VM,Application
- Gateway etc)
- Docker
- Kubernetes, Helm
- Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
- Linux, Bash
- SVN, GIT
- Apache Tomcat
- Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
- Terraform
- Elasticsearch, Logstash
- Kafka
- Synopsys: Blackduck, Coverity
- JIRA
- Python
- Incident response
- Cloudflare
- SSC
- Percentage: 944%
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
- AWS solution architect .
- AZ-900 (Microsoft Azure)
Timeline
Tekion - DevOps Engineer
GITLAB CI
05.2024 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Wolters Kluwer
01.2020 - 05.2024
B. Tech - Information Technology
VIT University
HSC -
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