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Nikhilesh Mund

Bhawanipatna

Summary

Experienced Cloud Engineer with a strong background in cloud infrastructure management, CI/CD, and automation. Proficient in AWS and Azure, aiming to optimize software development and deployment processes using DevOps best practices.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer (AWS, DevOps, Terraform)

Concentrix Catalyst
09.2022 - 04.2024

Job Role:

Designed Infrastructure & Application automation solutions

Oversees Build and Deployment Pipelines.

Infrastructure:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), CentOS, Jenkins, Apache Maven, Apache Tomcat, Docker, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Bit Bucket, Ansible, Terraform

  • Worked with Docker containerization and deployed applications over Docker containers.
  • Understood well DevOps culture and CI/CD workflow using Jenkins with Git and GitHub Version controls.
  • Experienced in Systems Administration / multi-platform environments, installed and configured software and hardware, installed, configured & maintained servers for disaster recovery management.
  • Understood configuration management with Ansible tool.
  • Experienced with Docker containers and docker hub registry.
  • Built images and shipped images to hub registry then deployed on production servers using docker technology.
  • Configured application health checks Liveness probe and Readiness probe parameters to monitor containers health.
  • Performed rolling updates when new source code version is released.
  • Managed source code version tagging and prepared release notes accordingly while handover to service delivery teams.
  • Wrote Jenkins Pipeline code and automated Build and Deployments to Kubernetes using Helm.
  • Analyzed Jenkins Shared Libraries and integrated Shared Libraries in Jenkins Pipeline for Application Deployments.
  • Wrote custom Pipeline code for project specific built and deployed name spaces for Dev, QA, and Prod environment.
  • Prepared, built and deployed to non-prod environments, released notes to service delivery team for production deployments.
  • Configured and set up database parameters while deploying into specific names spaces.
  • Troubleshooted build issues and coordinated with Dev teams to fix issues.
  • Defined automate process for deployments.
  • Deployed 3-tier architecture infrastructure on AWS cloud using Terraform – IaC.
  • Migrated IAC base from Terraform 0.11 to 0.12.x latest version.
  • Automated Instance configuration tasks using Ansible Playbooks.
  • Experienced with Cloud Computing delivery model IaaS - AWS (EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Front, VPC, RDS)
  • Developed and adopted DevOps Model and CI/CD workflow in integrating Git, Bit Bucket, Maven, Sonar, Jfrog, Tomcat, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes clusters in automated deployments.

Solution Integrator

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt. Ltd
08.2021 - 09.2022

Key Deliverables:

  • Worked with AWSLogs agent and created metric filter for cloud watch log groups.
  • Experienced in Management & Deployment of scaling solutions in AWS cloud Platform
  • Deployed AWS EC2 instances behind Elastic Load Balancer and Auto Scaling making sure of high availability by deploying instances in Multi AZ.
  • Deployed RDS instances and provided endpoint details to database teams and managed database snapshot methods.
  • Provisioned EBS volumes and attached to EC2 instances - Created File Systems on EBS, attached volumes as per business need.
  • Scheduled EBS auto snapshot backups using Cloud Watch Events.
  • Configured IAM roles and attached roles to AWS services like EC2, S3.
  • Used VPC architecture and deployed AWS services within VPC - Managed security using security groups, NAT instances, NAT gateways.
  • Experienced in writing Python script and configured lambda function to run daily basis or maintain EC2 AMI backup retention period.
  • Wrote Python script to perform cross region backup for EC2 AMI.
  • Understood organization requirements interns of infrastructure and took decisions accordingly to procure workstations and deploying EC2 instances.
  • Migrated services from one EC2 instance to another to have optimal computing resources utilization.
  • Handled production deployments and conducted performance impact analysis with Quality team.
  • Provided solution to configure Auto Scaling solutions to production extraction services and wrote python script to edit security group inbound rules automatically during Scale In and Scale Out operations.
  • Experienced in configuring Build Pipeline jobs in Jenkins and managing build and release.

Linux Systems Administrator

Megasoft.Ltd
01.2019 - 07.2021
  • Maintained server integrity by applying updates and patches per maintenance policies.
  • Configured and Managed NFS and Samba for File Sharing.
  • Configured and Managed Apache Web Service.
  • Performed package management, system updates using yum and rpm.
  • Created and resized partitions, including raid, logical volumes, and swap, formatted with ext3, ext4, and zfx.
  • Prepared Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), work instructions, and related supporting documents based on Quality Systems Unit guidelines.

Education

Master of Arts -

Oral Roberts University
Tulsa, OK
06.2013

Bachelor of Science -

University
Buea
06.2001

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Services

SYNOPSIS

  • Managed production application deployments in Kubernetes cluster using Kubectl
  • Effective communicator with strong team management, analytical and problem-solving
  • Integrated Ansible Playbooks with the Terraform templates to provision the Infrastructure in AWS
  • Built Packer Templates and created AMIs in AWS cloud
  • Integrated Jenkins Pipeline with Apache Maven, Node, and Sonar to automate Continuous Integrations for Build
  • Integrated Jenkins Pipelines for Docker
  • Followed best practices on Software Development Life Cycle - For Automation tools used Ansible and for integration Docker, Jenkins, Tomcat, and Maven
  • Wrote Kubernetes Deployment manifest files to include application deployment configurations
  • Monitored the application health status and fixed run time issues
  • Analyzed container application logs, identified the issues and coordinated with the concern team to fix issues
  • Wrote Jenkins Pipeline code using Groovy to integrate and automate the build & deployment tools for application deployments
  • Wrote Helm Umbrella Charts and environment specific charts for Dev, QA, and Prod environments
  • Designed base line for Helm Charts to deploy application into different environment with specific custom configuration parameters
  • Wrote manifest file definitions for configmaps, secrets and mounting these resources as volume mount and environment variables for application deployments
  • Configured Docker Registries for new applications to store container images and integrated with Jenkins pipelines for automation
  • Configured Jfrog artifactory management repositories to keep version-controlled maven artifacts for deployments
  • Automated integration tasks like GitHub to Bit Bucket code sync on schedule basis to sync source code from GitHub to Bit Bucket

Core Competencies

DevOps

  • Experienced working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins integrated with Pipeline, Maven, and Deploy plugins
  • Configured Jenkins with Tomcat server and set up port details
  • Configured Management using Ansible tools
  • Understood Software Development Life Cycle and for use cases of Automation tools, Ansible and integration with Docker, Jenkins, Tomcat, Maven
  • Worked on various Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, Compose and Docker Registry
  • Integrated Kubernetes Cluster and Ansible Playbooks in Jenkins CI/CD flow
  • Used for Application deployment, Helm into Kubernetes platform
  • Amazon Web Services – AWS EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, IAM, Security Groups
  • Understood Cloud Computing Stack: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
  • Implemented AWS Infrastructure services like EC2, EBS, and S3, VPC, ELB, Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, EFS, VPC
  • Knew working in Amazon Web Services EC2
  • Implemented and Setup EC2 instances, S3 Configuration, Load Balancer and Auto scaling for Production Web Servers
  • Created, Copied, moved images from one EC2 region to another EC2 region - created snapshot in RDS servers and Created AMI images for EC2 Instances
  • Used for SSH Backup management PEM key associated with device
  • Implemented and Setup AWS VPC for Client to deploy applications on AWS Cloud for different environment like Dev, QA and Production systems/Servers

Certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

AWS Certified Developer Associate

Additional Information

SKILL/KNOWLEDGE

· Operating System: RHEL 5,6,7, CentOS, Ubuntu

· Cloud Technology: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

· CI/CD Tools: Jenkins

· Configuration Management: Ansible

· Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

· Log Management: Sumo Logic, New Relic, Sensu

· API Gateways: Kong

· Message Streaming tools: Apache Kafka

· Build Tools: Apache Maven

· Artifactory: Jfrog

· Code Analysis: SonarQube

· Version Control: Git, Bit Bucket, GitHub

· Service Discovery: Consul

· Other Tools: Packer

· Application Server: Apache Tomcat

· Proxy Server: Nginx

· Container Orchestration: Kubernetes

· Container Technology: Docker

· Cloud Orchestration / Automation: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, AWS SSM Parameter Store, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, ECS, EKS, Terraform

· AWS Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Inspector

· Monitoring and Event Management: AWS CloudWatch (Events and Logs), AWS SNS, AWS S3

· Identity and Access Management: AWS Organization, AWS IAM, AWS AD Connector, Active Directory, AWS Workspaces, AWS Secrets Manager, etc.

· Governance and Compliance: AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Well Architected Tool, AWS Budgets, AWS License Manager

· Programming Languages: Bash, JSON, YML, Python

· Application Delivery: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Bitbucket, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Commit, AWS Code Build, AWS Code Deploy

· Data Protection: AWS Certificate Manager, AWS KMS, Snapshot Lifecycle Manager, AWS Cloud HSM

· Self Service: Service Catalog

· Network: VPC, VGW, TGW, CGW, IGW, NGW

· AWS Platform: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, S3, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, CloudFront, Service Catalog, AWS Auto Scaling, Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch

Accomplishments

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Timeline

DevOps Engineer (AWS, DevOps, Terraform)

Concentrix Catalyst
09.2022 - 04.2024

Solution Integrator

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt. Ltd
08.2021 - 09.2022

Linux Systems Administrator

Megasoft.Ltd
01.2019 - 07.2021

Master of Arts -

Oral Roberts University

Bachelor of Science -

University

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

AWS Certified Developer Associate

Nikhilesh Mund