Niraj Kumar
Bangalore
Summary
Seeking a growth-oriented career in world of information and Cloud Technologies, where i have more scope to learn, teach & nurture my knowledge by working on diversified protocols of applications.
Skilled DevOps Engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience supporting, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes. Having good experience on Azure Cloud Services, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, Ansible, GCP, AWS.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Technical Architect
HCL Technologies
1 2020 - Current
- Currently working for ING Netherland client to setup and manage Quantexa application for TradeAML and Artificial Intelligence use cases
- Responsible for building, deploying, maintain and automating software development pipeline from source control through production
- Collaborated with clients to determine project specifications and scope.
- Responsible for developing and delivering scripts and automation tools used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms
- Resolved complex technical issues by troubleshooting systems, analyzing root causes, and implementing effective fixes.
- Developed network and system architecture according to business needs.
- Mentored junior team members on best practices and technical skills, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Delivered high-quality solutions within tight deadlines while adhering to budget constraints.
- Configure continuous integration from source control, setting up build definition within Azure Devops
- Responsible to setup Azure services like Azure Key Vault, Azure container Registries, Azure Artifacts, Azure Repo etc
- Engineered architecture and infrastructure for multiple squads
- Setup repos on Azure Devops GIT, merging code from develop branch to master branch and make it ready for deployment
- Created comprehensive documentation for system designs, ensuring clarity of purpose and facilitating seamless maintenance activities.
- Created dashboards in Azure Devops for CI/CD pipelines, Work items and bugs
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement effective software solutions, resulting in increased customer satisfaction.
- Responsible to manage Boards, work Items, sprints, delivery plans, queries
- Developed secure coding practices to minimize vulnerabilities in application development efforts.
- Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.
- Managing Repos, branches, pull requests etc in Azure devops for the project
- Contributed innovative ideas during brainstorming sessions that led to the successful execution of key initiatives.
- Responsible for configuring and managing Azure Resources as per client guidelines through IRG
- Engineered architecture and infrastructure for multiple squads
- Used Azure DevOps to view project description, add members and to check the latest activity
- Working on Service now to create and manage sprint, tasks, backlogs, incidents, Change etc
- Working on containerizing services & applications
- Working on Dockerfiles to build the Docker images
- Docker for successful setup of DEV & TEST environment for Developers and Testers by using Docker Build
- Setup and manage Kubernetes cluster using tools like Kubectl
- Write Kubernetes definitions files for pod, services, deployment, Replication controls, & replication Set
- Managing application on OpenShift
- Good experience on writing azure pipelines, deploying application, secret, routes on OpenShift
- Designing, configuring, and deploying solutions on Microsoft Azure
- Investigating the diagnostic logs to find unidentified issues and diagnose the root cause of the issue
- Implementing various resources in Azure using Azure Portal, PowerShell on Azure Resource Manager deployment models
- Deploying infrastructure as code (IoC) applications using Terraform
- Managed Azure infrastructure automation using Terraform
- Strong Knowledge in Azure Compute services, web Apps, Data Factory & Storage, Azure Networking, Hybrid Integration and Azure IAM
- Good knowledge on ITIL Process.
- Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
- Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for applications.
- Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.
- Managed and monitored installed systems for highest level of availability.
DevOps Engineer
Dimension Data & Global NTT
03.2016 - 01.2020
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
- Maintained version control systems like Git for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles.
- Setting up maintaining CI &CD pipeline using tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, GitHub, Nexus artifact repositories
- Using configuration management tool such as Ansible
- Writing playbooks in setting up complete application stack which Includes services like Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Mysql
- Working with roles in Ansible for reusability and scalability for other projects,
- Automated process of downloading artifacts from Nexus to CD pipeline using Playbook in Ansible with Jenkins
- Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins
- Configured Jenkins jobs, install plugins for generating project artifacts
- Creating Jenkins Parallel job execution with Master, Slave to distribute load
- Configuring and managing build tool like maven
- Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and management.
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
- Contributed to the creation of a DevOps culture within the organization, leading to increased agility and cross-functional collaboration.
- Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
- Optimized build processes using tools such as Jenkins or Azure Devops for fast feedback loops in development cycles.
- Documented project design for reference and future use cases.
Administrator – Messaging
Wipro Technologies
11.2011 - 01.2016
- Trouble shooting of Exchange Issues
- Trouble shooting of Mail flow issues
- Diagnosed and Trouble shoot Exchange Mail-flow & Client Connectivity Issues
- Creating Accepted Domain, GAL segregation for Tenants, Address List Management
- FIM/MIM based synchronization between on-prem and Cloud Environments
- Patching of Exchange servers with Windows updates and RU/CU
- Creating PowerShell script for automated task, as per customer requirement on cloud Platform & Managed Services Environment
- Good Understanding on Gateway Products like IronPort, Proof-point, Mimecast
- Performing DR-DC drill activity as per the client request
- Maintaining DNS records such as SPF, MX, DMARC, DKIM and CNAME records
- Creation & modification of Technical and Process Oriented SOP
- Participated in on-call rotation for after-hours support of systems.
Education
MS (Information Technology) -
VIT
M.sc - undefined
Bangalore University
MA Psychology - undefined
B.sc - undefined
Bangalore University
12th - undefined
Navyug Vidyalaya
Skills
RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows
Certification
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Sri Manmohan Pd. Choubey
- Notice Period: 90 Days
- Date of Birth: 01/10/86
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Permanentaddress
#69, Tulsinagar Bank Colony, Tilkamanjhi, Bhagalpur, Bihar - 812001
Languages
English, Hindi & Regional
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Dimension Data & Global NTT
03.2016 - 01.2020
Administrator – Messaging
Wipro Technologies
11.2011 - 01.2016
Technical Architect
HCL Technologies
1 2020 - Current
MS (Information Technology) -
VIT
M.sc - undefined
Bangalore University
MA Psychology - undefined
B.sc - undefined
Bangalore University
12th - undefined
Navyug Vidyalaya
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