Rakesh Nayak
Staff Software Engineer
Bangalore
Summary
Over 12 years of experience in Microsoft Azure Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, AI/ML with python, Akamai, Redhat Linux, and VMware vSphere. Expertise includes planning, implementation, administration, and troubleshooting across different levels and platforms. Committed to expanding knowledge base and adapting to emerging technologies in the dynamic industry to enhance skills and stay ahead of the curve.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications
Work History
Senior Software Engineer (Cloud and Devops)
Walmart Global Tech
11.2021 - Current
- Azure Kubernetes Cluster creation and management for various applications.
- K8s namespace, pods, services, deployments, configmap, secrets creation.
- Istio service mesh creation and management for K8s clusters.
- Monitoring of managed cluster resources.
- New K8s cluster and resource group creation in Azure.
- Working various issue related to kubernetes cluster components.
- Working on Azure Devops to create various service connections, Pipelines and Releases.
- OneOps orchestrator for On-prem application management.
- Redis cluster creation in AKS cluster and management.
- AKS cluster upgrade and istio upgrade.
- Creation of releases for Prod and Non-prod environments in Azure Devops and Jenkins.
- Prometheus and Grafana implementation and administration.
- Working on Akamai and Torbit for content management of various sites.
- Managing all azure resource, also Azure PaaS services.
- End to end management of all Kubernetes components.
- Creation of terraform modules for various resources in Azure.
- Working on Github Enterprise for code push, pull, commit for release cycles and managing all Github repos and access management under organization.
System Specialist
Amdocs Development Center India Pvt. Ltd., Pune
02.2019 - 11.2021
- Working with one of the largest telecom client in US.
- Veritas Cluster server configuration in RHEL 6,7 and volume manager.
- Planning of new infrastructure which is migrated from HPUX to VMware infra.
- Redhat satellite installation and registration of new clients.
- Creation of YUM server for centos server patching.
- Redhat satellite channel creation, syncing of channels with redhat.
- Patching of linux servers with Ansible and Jenkins automation.
- Creation of various Ansible scripts for VM creation, disk addition and various vmware related tasks.
- End to End Infrastructure automation through Ansible,Jenkins CI/CD.
- Creation of bash shell scripting for sanity and hardening of servers.
- Working with VMware Powercli to create VMs,clone VMs etc.
- Installation and Configuration of new DELL servers, manage them with DELL Openmanage.
- Troubleshooting of issues related to OS,FileSystem, software installation.
- Creating Ansible yml scripts to automate system admin related works.
- Managing end-to-end VMware SRM, vROPS, vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure.
- AWS sysops tasks which includes end-to-end EC2,VPC,Route-53,RDS,CFT,SG, System Manager.
- Terraform to automate various AWS resource provisioning and deletion tasks.
- Working on Jenkins to create pipeline for CI/CD workflows.
- Working on Gitlab to push/pull code, create projects.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes cluster.
Technology Analyst
Infosys Ltd., Pune
07.2018 - 02.2019
- Working with one of the Financial Client in US.
- Migration of Physical linux servers into VMware infrastructure.
- Migration of Vcenter server and ESXi from 5.5 to 6.0.
- Syslog server configuration, rotating the logs to centralise syslog server.
- Patching of ESXi servers through VMware update manager.
- Creation of new filesystem, addition and reduction of filesystem in linux LVM.
- Working with AWS EC2 instance, VPC and S3 bucket.
- Provisioning of new servers in AWS and VMware infrastructure.
- Cloning/taking backup of Linux servers by using rear.
- Making of NFS file sharing.
- Setting up Monitoring environment for all production and development servers.
System Engineer
TATA Consultancy Services Ltd.
01.2015 - 07.2018
- Working with one of the Indian Financial client.
- Installation of Linux RHEL6.0 , RHEL 7 on VMware ESXi, Dell and HP Servers with security and hardening pre-operations.
- Handling Linux environment for internal IT shared services for corporate data centre and other locations.
- Infrastructure maintenance for commvault backup applications service.
- Setting up Monitoring environment for all production and development servers.
- Taking care of various Linux & Unix server related tickets, Closing the tickets by providing proper resolution.
- Provisioning of Linux servers as per user requirement in VMware & RHEV.
- Creating user accounts on application servers & internal application tools, providing access to files on file servers.
- Network configuration,storage configuration in ESXi.
- P2V,V2V of servers.
- Microsoft Hyper-V Installation, configuration of failover cluster.
- Password reset,Host file entry,NTP sync,Backup policy creation on Linux servers.
- Registration of new servers into redhat satellite/Spacewalk, synchronization of channels.
- EMC SAN/NAS Storage Installation, Configuration & maintenance.
- VNX,VNXe & unity Code upgrade.
- SAN,NAS & iSCSI server creation on storage box, Storage pool,LUN,Shared folder creation.
- Assignment of LUN to hosts, Shared folder to NAS server.
- Replication of storage to DR site.
Education
B.tech - undefined
Silicon Institute of Technology
Skills
Azure Kubernetes cluster
Azure Devops
Azure Cloud management
Python programming with AI/ML
Splunk,API management service
Terraform IaaC, Ansible
Github Enterprise
Jenkins CI/CD
Predictive ML algorithms and use cases
Bash shell and Powershell scripts
Prometheus, Thanos and Grafana
Akamai and Torbit CDN
RedHat Enterprise Linux-6,7,8
VMware Vsphere 55,60,65,67, vROPS,SRM and Microsoft Hyper-V
Certification
AWS Solution Architect Associate.
Disclaimer
Date: 28/04/2024 Rakesh Nayak
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer (Cloud and Devops)
Walmart Global Tech
11.2021 - Current
System Specialist
Amdocs Development Center India Pvt. Ltd., Pune
02.2019 - 11.2021
Technology Analyst
Infosys Ltd., Pune
07.2018 - 02.2019
System Engineer
TATA Consultancy Services Ltd.
01.2015 - 07.2018
B.tech - undefined
Silicon Institute of Technology