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RAMIJ TAKILDAR
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RAMIJ TAKILDAR

Pune

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Desired Job Title

Senior DevOps EngineerDevOps Engineer

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Full Time

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Location: Pune, Maharashtra
Open to relocation: Yes

Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer experienced in designing and automating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Achieved reduced operational overhead and improved system resilience through expertise in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD systems, while focusing on intelligent automation and AI-driven solutions. Committed to enhancing developer productivity and optimizing costs through innovative AIOps strategies.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

Persistent System Ltd.
03.2021 - Current
  • Architected and operated production-grade Kubernetes platforms (EKS & OpenShift) supporting 20+ microservices across dev, staging, and production environments, ensuring 99.9% uptime and high availability
  • Designed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins + GitHub Actions), integrating build, test, security scans, and deployment stages, reducing release cycle time from hours to minutes and enabling multiple daily deployments
  • Built and maintained Infrastructure as Code (Terraform + Ansible) with reusable modules and environment-based configurations, reducing infrastructure provisioning time by 70% and eliminating manual inconsistencies
  • Implemented a centralized observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) with custom dashboards, alert tuning, and SLO tracking, improving incident detection and reducing response time by 30%
  • Integrated DevSecOps practices by embedding SAST/DAST security checks and IAM least-privilege enforcement into CI/CD pipelines, significantly improving compliance posture
  • Led cloud cost optimization initiatives by implementing auto-scaling, resource rightsizing, and usage analysis, achieving 20%+ reduction in cloud spend
  • Served as primary responder for critical production incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes, ensuring SLA commitments for business-critical systems were met
  • Successfully led large-scale production upgrade (NZ-OPS), including planning, risk mitigation, and zero-downtime rollout with rollback strategies
  • Designed and implemented AI-driven auto-remediation workflows, enabling automated resolution of recurring infrastructure issues and reducing manual operational effort by 40%

DevOps Engineer

Index infotech
10.2017 - 01.2021
  • Migrated monolithic architecture to Docker-based microservices, enabling horizontal scaling and achieving 30% increase in deployment success rate
  • Designed and implemented multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) to support disaster recovery and vendor redundancy
  • Standardized Helm charts and deployment templates, reducing configuration drift and achieving 50% improvement in deployment consistency across environments
  • Automated database patching and upgrades with Ansible playbooks, minimizing downtime and eliminating manual intervention
  • Collaborated with development and QA teams to implement shift-left testing using containerized environments, reducing production defects by 25%
  • Created detailed runbooks, playbooks, and postmortem reports, improving team knowledge sharing and accelerating incident resolution

Education

Master of Computer Application -

Savitribai Phule Pune University
Pune, India
01-2018

B.sc - Computer Science

Shivaji University Kolhapur
Kolhapur, India
01-2015

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms:
    AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch), Azure, GCP
  • Containerization & Orchestration:
    Kubernetes (EKS, OpenShift), Docker, Helm, K8s lifecycle management
  • Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
    Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation (modular infra design, reusable components)
  • CI/CD & GitOps:
    Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD (pipeline design, release automation, GitOps workflows)
  • Monitoring, Logging & Observability:
    Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Alertmanager (SLOs, alert tuning, dashboards)
  • Programming & Scripting:
    Python (automation, API integrations), Bash, YAML
  • Agentic AI & AIOps:
    Ollama, LangChain, MCP, Autonomous Agents, RAG pipelines, AI-based anomaly detection, self-healing infrastructure

Websites

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Netezza IBM Certified Administrator - Netezza Performance Server V11.x

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

Persistent System Ltd.
03.2021 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Index infotech
10.2017 - 01.2021

Master of Computer Application -

Savitribai Phule Pune University

B.sc - Computer Science

Shivaji University Kolhapur
RAMIJ TAKILDAR