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Ravi Kumar

Pune

Summary

Accomplished DevOps Engineer with a proven track record at Barclays, enhancing system security and efficiency through innovative automation and robust infrastructure design. Expert in Linux, AWS, and cloud formation, with a knack for collaborative problem-solving and reducing system downtime by 20%. Skilled in transforming complex manual processes into streamlined, automated operations.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Barclays
Pune
08.2018 - Current
  • Planned, designed, and implemented security hardening for virtual, physical, and container platform services, ensuring a robust and secure underlying infrastructure.
  • Managed software asset patching to enhance user experience, and strengthen vulnerability management.
  • Designed and tested on-premise, hybrid, and cloud infrastructure resilience, implemented platform and application recovery plans, and ensured data integrity and recovery.
  • Analyzed system performance, identified bottlenecks, and implemented optimizations to enhance system throughput.
  • Ensured up-to-date IaC code for configuration management, and applied fixes to internal applications, including BLZ AWS account remediation of non-compliant resources, in alignment with CSO guidelines.
  • Identified manual processes and automated them to enhance efficiency and productivity.
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines for container-based, VM, and physical platform-based applications, incorporating vulnerability scans for container images, and SonarQube scans for code quality and bug detection.
  • Automated infrastructure deployment using Chef, Shell scripting, and CloudFormation, reducing deployment times by 50%, and increasing reliability.
  • Worked closely with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve infrastructure-related issues, ensuring high availability and uptime.
  • Implemented monitoring and logging solutions with the ELK stack, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution, and reducing system downtime by 20%.
  • Facilitated knowledge sharing and collaboration by documenting processes and best practices in Confluence, and conducting regular training sessions.

Linux Administrator

Vodafone Shared Service India
Pune
05.2017 - 06.2018
  • Resolve BMC Remedy L2, L3 tickets.
  • OS build, upgradation, patching, and installation of RPMs using Red Hat servers.
  • Shell scripting, Chef automation for deploying applications, and configuration management.
  • Monitoring via HP OVO.
  • LDAP, HPOVO client configuration.
  • File system management, LVM, RAID creation, and maintenance.
  • Network configuration that includes multiple IP configurations, NIC bonding.
  • User Management (Creation, Deletion, and Permissions).
  • Setup of VCS, VxVm, and Oracle RAC infrastructure.
  • HP ILO configuration, installation of OS through Kickstart.
  • Red Hat 7.2/6.7 Administration and Troubleshooting.
  • Infrastructure setup and configuration (Vault, MongoDB, Python, Nginx), automation with Ansible playbooks and roles.
  • Problem-solving and troubleshooting in complex environments.

Linux Administrator

HCl infosystems Ltd
10.2013 - 05.2017
  • Managed Unix-based infrastructure, including patching, and monitoring.
  • Supported cluster resource group failovers during billing cycles on HP-UX systems.
  • Managed DNS records, SMTP, messaging services, and scheduled and maintained server backups.
  • Supported data center incidents and mission-critical services, ensuring data integrity through Unix-based checks.

Education

Diploma - Computer Science And Engineering

Govt Polytechnic Collage
Kangra Himachal Pradesh
07-2020

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

AMIE India
Kolkata
01-2015

Skills

  • Linux Operating System (RHEL)
  • AWS
  • chef
  • bit bucket
  • Git
  • OpenShift Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Physical and VM
  • python
  • shell bash scripting
  • cloud formation
  • AWS
  • CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault
  • Service First
  • CertNow
  • Cutover (SRP Tool)
  • ELK
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Nginx
  • Django

Languages

Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2

Affiliations

  • BX India 2023 Code-a-thon

Certification

  • RedHat Certificate Engineer

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Barclays
08.2018 - Current

Linux Administrator

Vodafone Shared Service India
05.2017 - 06.2018

Linux Administrator

HCl infosystems Ltd
10.2013 - 05.2017

Diploma - Computer Science And Engineering

Govt Polytechnic Collage

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

AMIE India

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