Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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Nikhil Sondge

Nikhil Sondge

Pune

Summary

Experienced DevOps engineer with 7.8 years of total experience, including 3 years in DevOps. Skilled in containerization, CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, and automation. Proven track record in IT and services, adept at streamlining development processes and ensuring infrastructure scalability and reliability

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Cloud Engineer

Veritas Technologies
Pune
10.2021 - Current
  • Developed and implemented cost optimization techniques to reduce operational costs.
  • Deployed microservices on Kubernetes clusters in order to increase scalability and availability of services across multiple regions.
  • Collaborated with developers in order to troubleshoot application related issues quickly.
  • Implemented security measures to protect data stored in the cloud.
  • Monitored cloud environments using tools like CloudWatch and Prometheus to ensure SLAs are met.
  • Implemented various security tools for vulnerability scanning like Trivy Scan, Qualys scan, BDH scan, and Coverity scan.
  • Identify risk and ensure to keep cloud infrastructure in security compliance.
  • Security Audit of cloud environment and collaboration with GSO on new security initiatives.
  • Manage AWS infrastructure, including EC2, S3 buckets, RDS databases, EBS volumes, EKS cluster, Autoscaling, to ensure high availability and security.
  • Manage the Kubernetes cluster deployed on AWS and troubleshoot for any issues.
  • Configure Grafana and Prometheus to monitor Kubernetes resources effectively and optimize resource utilization.

System/Oracle Linux Administrator

Maxima IT Consulting India Pvt. Ltd
02.2019 - Current
  • Company Overview: Project Details : State Street Bank (USA/MA/Boston)
  • Monitoring server alerts using Nagios and OEM
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Exadata administration (Oracle Linux 6,7)
  • Exadata Servers handling (DB nodes, Storage Nodes, ILOM, IB switches, PDU)
  • Working on Oracle Exadata machines (Frames X-5, X-6, X-7, X-8)
  • Working on Oracle ZFS storage (NFS) for backup, replication setup, ZFS shares mounting
  • Node backup using Autosys
  • Working on quarterly basis for OS upgrade using patch manager, application patches
  • Taking care of Hardware replacements of physical servers collaborating with onsite vendors field engineer
  • (Hard disk, DIMM, CPUs, HBA, Motherboard, Flash Disks)
  • Working on incidents management, change management, Service request, Problem ticket resolution till RCA
  • Working with Database and Application team for weekend patching activities, upgrades
  • Working on 4 continental data centers of State street bank having 2 DR (Disaster Recovery) and 2 PR (Production) among those handling/monitoring 3000 servers to be monitored and maintained system performance goals for State Street Bank Corporation
  • Worked with system, network, security, and storage teams to prepare and configure new servers for the environment
  • Managed and resolved incident tickets opened by clients as well as those logged by event monitoring system within SLA
  • Writing scripts for cronjob entries, which included maintaining various log files
  • Scheduling process using Cron utility
  • Configuring LVM Creating, Extending & Reducing
  • Troubleshooting kernel, OS, server, and hardware related issues
  • Managing Tickets using Service Now (SNOW)
  • Participating in Daily team meetings
  • Preparing Shift handover and forwarding within the team
  • Project Details : State Street Bank (USA/MA/Boston)

OSS/Unix Administrator

VODAFONE INDIA Ltd.
12.2016 - 09.2018
  • Company Overview: Project Details : Telecom NOC operation
  • Experience on handling Production servers
  • Follow the ITIL workflow
  • Handled and taken responsibility of the whole 2G and 3G,4G network of NOKIA and Ericsson Unix Administration part
  • Handling USER management (Creation, Deletion and Modification)
  • Handling File System (File Permissions, Modification, Creation, and Deletion)
  • Handled and taken responsibility for configuration management planning and proper monitoring of all these servers, if any issue in this OSS related with monitoring, we troubleshoot them
  • Involved in handling emergency cases of fault management, performance management and configuration management
  • Responsible of daily, weekly and monthly tasks for the servers e.g
  • Taking Net backups, DMR Backups etc
  • Project Details : Telecom NOC operation

Technical Support

ACE BRAIN SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE Pvt. Ltd.
06.2016 - 12.2016
  • Company Overview: Project Details : LINUX Administration in a Data-Center
  • Linux installation and troubleshooting (Ubuntu, Redhat)
  • Worked on network and basic network troubleshooting
  • Also, setup one network at client (Rack patch panel termination, cable crimping and punching), File System (File Permissions, modification)
  • Server health check-up
  • Create Delete, Modify user and groups, File Sharing SSH, Ftp
  • Package management through RPM and YUM
  • Project Details : LINUX Administration in a Data-Center

Education

B.E. - IT

MIT Collage
Aurangabad

Diploma - Comp

MIT Collage
Aurangabad

S.S.C. -

Shree Nath High School
Paithan

Skills

  • Cloud(AWS)
  • CICD (Jenkins, GIT, BitBucket)
  • Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)
  • ITSM (ServiceNow, Jira)
  • Automation (Ansible, Terraform)
  • Security tools (Trivy, Qualys, Zscaler)
  • Linux diagnostics and troubleshooting
  • EC2, S3 bucket, EBS, EFS, IAM role, Load balancer, VPC
  • Security management
  • Multitasking Abilities
  • Adaptability

Certification

  • 140-177-296, RedHat Certified System Administrator (EX200)
  • 140-177-296, RedHat Certified Engineer (EX300)
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that all the details mentioned above are true to the best of my knowledge.

Timeline

DevOps Cloud Engineer

Veritas Technologies
10.2021 - Current

System/Oracle Linux Administrator

Maxima IT Consulting India Pvt. Ltd
02.2019 - Current

OSS/Unix Administrator

VODAFONE INDIA Ltd.
12.2016 - 09.2018

Technical Support

ACE BRAIN SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE Pvt. Ltd.
06.2016 - 12.2016

B.E. - IT

MIT Collage

Diploma - Comp

MIT Collage

S.S.C. -

Shree Nath High School

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