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Shodan Nayak

Senior SRE/DevOPS Engineer
Mangaluru

Summary

Experienced IT professional with proven technical, management, and communication skills. Certified with AWS, Microsoft Azure and LPI, seeking the career path related to Cloud platform.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
25
25
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer

CAE
05.2023 - Current
  • Maintained version control systems like Git or SVN for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles.
  • Evaluated emerging technologies for potential adoption into existing workflows, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Enhanced application performance by optimizing infrastructure configurations based on usage patterns.
  • Conducted regular post-mortems after incidents to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
  • Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as Shell and PowerShell, boosting team productivity levels.
  • Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution.
  • Collaborated with team to determine application requirement specifications.
  • Reduced system downtime for critical applications by implementing robust monitoring and alerting tools.

Team Manager - Client (WhiteCup)

GlowTouch Technologies Pvt Ltd
10.2022 - 05.2023
  • BI application migration On-Prem to AWS Cloud.
  • Apache Airflow and ETL error troubleshooting,
  • Quality Check and Hypercube balance.
  • Custom Drilldown and Column creation in Bi Application.

Technical Team Lead/Manager - Client (NewFold)

Diya Systems Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 09.2022

Technical Team Lead/Manager at Diya Systems Pvt Ltd - Client (NewFold) - (Formerly Endurance International Group)

  • Endurance international Group (EIG) acquired HostGator.com.
  • Promoted as Team Manager for HostGator.com
  • For Training purpose had travel to HostGator office, Houston - USA

NOC System Engineer - Client (EIG)

Diya Systems Pvt Ltd
01.2008 - 07.2015

EIG (Endurance International Group) acquired iPowerWeb/iPower. Started handling all brand owned by Endurance International Group.

  • The hosting company under EIG - iPower, Dot5Hosing, iPage, FatCow, Powweb, Bizland, VPSLink, Spry and many more. The duties involved were similar to the one in iPowerWeb NOC.

Remote NOC Engineer - Client (iPowerWeb)

Diya Systems Pvt Ltd
07.2007 - 01.2008

Moved from Technical Support Engineer Position to iPower Remote NOC Engineer Position.

  • Primary role were monitoring alerts in Nagios, package installation, Malware cleanup and troubleshooting server level issues.
  • Performing customer account migration and QA on migrated accounts.
  • Assisting any server side issues escalated to us by Support Team.

Technical Support Engineer - Client (Bizland)

Diya Systems Pvt Ltd
11.2006 - 07.2007

Started career as Technical Support Engineer handling Tech issues for brands (Bizland, readyhosting, dot5hosting, powweb)

Education

X -

Nalanda English High School
Mangalore
01.1999 - 06.2024

XII -

Govt College, Kavoor
Mangalore
04.2001 -

Honors Diploma in Hardware & Networking -

BDPS
Mangalore
04.2001 -

BA - General - English

Amity University
UP
04.2001 -

Certification

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - AZ 900 (I219-6645)

Responsibility:

Monitoring and Incident Management:

  • Continuously monitor system performance and health metrics.
  • Respond to and resolve system alerts and incidents promptly.
  • Conduct root cause analysis of incidents and implement corrective actions.


Infrastructure Management:

  • Design, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable infrastructure using IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
  • Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS) to ensure optimal performance.


System Maintenance and Optimization:

  • Perform regular maintenance tasks such as software updates, patches, and configuration changes.
  • Optimize system performance and reliability by identifying and eliminating bottlenecks.


Collaboration and Communication:

  • Work closely with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of new features.
  • Communicate effectively with stakeholders regarding system status, incidents, and planned maintenance.


Automation and Tooling:

  • Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools for system management and deployment.
  • Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines to streamline application delivery.


Automation and Scripting:

  • Develop and maintain scripts to automate routine tasks and processes.
  • Use scripting languages such as Bash or PowerShell to create automation solutions.


Configuration Management:

  • Manage and maintain configuration management tools such as Ansible.
  • Ensure consistency and reproducibility of environments across development, staging, and production.


Documentation and Training:

  • Maintain detailed documentation of systems, processes, and incident responses.
  • Share knowledge and best practices with team members through documentation and training sessions.

Manager Skills:

  • Managerial capabilities in handling technical work, administrative work, customer support and service team.
  • Daily meetings with counterparts to understand the present work challenges and area of improvement.
  • Capable of create/ present Weekly / Monthly team productivity data for stakeholders.
  • Prepare and Present various reports to stakeholders and Management.
  • Daily basis meeting calls with team members and discussion on technical issues and challenges.
  • Coach low performers and support them to achieve targets.
  • Identify top performance and make sure they are appreciated for their target achievement.

Web Application:

JIRA, ServiceNow, Site24x7, SalesForce, BigPanda, Periscope, Zabbix, Grafana, Confluence, MS Excel, MicroSoft365 Suite, Google WorkSpace, OpenSearch, ServiceNow, Red Hat Ansible Tower 

Operating System:

MacOS, CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu and Windows 11

Visa:

US B1/B2 Visa - Expired on Oct 2023

Languages:

Konkani, Kannada, Hindi, Tulu, English

Declaration:

I, Shodan Nayak, hereby declare that the above information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and nothing has been concealed or distorted.


Timeline

Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer

CAE
05.2023 - Current

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals - DP-900 (I632-8413)

02-2023

Team Manager - Client (WhiteCup)

GlowTouch Technologies Pvt Ltd
10.2022 - 05.2023

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (ID: 2TN689R1QM4Q1EC8)

07-2022

LE-1: Linux Essentials (ID: LPI000524958)

05-2022

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - AZ 900 (I219-6645)

04-2022

Technical Team Lead/Manager - Client (NewFold)

Diya Systems Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 09.2022

NOC System Engineer - Client (EIG)

Diya Systems Pvt Ltd
01.2008 - 07.2015

Remote NOC Engineer - Client (iPowerWeb)

Diya Systems Pvt Ltd
07.2007 - 01.2008

Technical Support Engineer - Client (Bizland)

Diya Systems Pvt Ltd
11.2006 - 07.2007

XII -

Govt College, Kavoor
04.2001 -

Honors Diploma in Hardware & Networking -

BDPS
04.2001 -

BA - General - English

Amity University
04.2001 -

X -

Nalanda English High School
01.1999 - 06.2024
Shodan NayakSenior SRE/DevOPS Engineer