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Sopan Zende

DevOps & Infrastructure Manager
Wagholi, Pune
Sopan Zende

Summary

As a DevOps and Infrastructure Manager with over 9 years of experience, I have developed expertise in managing complex infrastructure projects and implementing DevOps methodologies to streamline operations. With a track record of success in building and leading high-performing teams, I possess strong communication and collaboration skills that enable me to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders. My areas of expertise include cloud infrastructure management, Team management, client coordination, automation, continuous (CI/CD), containerization, and security. I am committed to staying up-to-date with the latest industry developments and leveraging emerging technologies to drive innovation and operational excellence.


PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

  • Experienced DevOps and Infrastructure Manager with expertise in managing IAAS, SAAS deployment, and cloud computing solutions on AWS, Azure, GCP, and Digital Ocean.
  • Skilled in lift-to-shift migration, highly scalable architecture, disaster recovery planning, and microservices-based architecture.
  • Skilled in Software Development Life Cycle methodologies, multi-platforms such as UNIX, Ubuntu, RHEL, and Windows supporting production, test, and development environments.
  • Strong work ethic, good interpersonal skills, and organizational skills; leads by example to set high standards for teams.
  • Hands-on experience working with databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, creating users, performing dump/restore, and taking automated snapshots.
  • Proficient in creating various dashboards, metrics, alarms, and notifications for servers using AWS Cloud Watch, Grafana, and Nagios. Responsible for leading DevOps and infrastructure teams, ensuring daily operations run smoothly, and achieving organizational goals. Strategically plans and implements new technologies and infrastructure to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Ensures system availability and reliability by identifying potential issues and proactively addressing them.
  • Develops policies and procedures to streamline operations and increase productivity.
  • Manages budgets related to infrastructure and software development initiatives, providing regular reports on spending.
  • Oversees security measures and ensures compliance with regulatory frameworks and relevant standards.
  • Collaborates closely with other teams such as software development, QA, and support to ensure they have the resources they need to deliver high-quality products and services.

Overview

9
years of professional experience
4
Certifications

Work History

AIT Global India Ltd, IAB, California
Pune

DevOps & Infrastructure Manager
09.2019 - Current

Job overview

  • Led a team of 18 DevOps engineers in transitioning from on-premises to cloud.
  • Worked closely with the client to gather requirements and provide necessary solution architecture.
  • Collaborated with presales to create scope of work documentation for client calls.
  • Improved application performance speed by 5% through backend organization and redundancy reduction.
  • Provided technology leadership for infrastructure, scalability, and performance for 150+ employees.
  • Streamlined support processes with partner teams (Help Desk/NOC), improving efficiency by 10%.
  • Hired and trained 10 DevOps engineers.
  • Defined and designed solutions and features for senior management with 100% satisfaction.
  • Converted all system administrator teams into DevOps.
  • Provided disaster recovery solutions.

K2annex Software Pvt.Ltd, ACTV8ME

Sr.DevOps Engineer II
04.2018 - 09.2019

Job overview

  • Project : Transactional Media Advertising
  • Multiple Projects: Worked closely with department heads, developments teams, editorial staff, IT helpdesk and executives to produce world class electronic media and product services
  • Participation and Contribution in design and deployment of multitude of cloud services on AWS stack such as EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, IAM and Cloud Watch while focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling
  • Participation and Contribution in migration of servers from current data center to Amazon Web Services Cloud
  • Performed Infrastructure maintenance tasks such as ensuring system availability, performance, capacity, and continuity through proper response to incidents, events and problems
  • Automated the build and release management process with CI/CD across Dev, QA, Staging and Production environments including monitoring changes between releases
  • Used chef and several of its components like attributes, files, recipes, resources, templates to make configuration changes, and installed apache, nginx, php-fpm on several servers
  • Deployed and configured Elastic Search, Log stash and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring in integration with Cloud Watch and Nagios
  • Managed help-desk request tickets in fast paced environment
  • Worked in conjunction with multiple teams to make sure that the infrastructure and customer applications work harmoniously together
  • Postman Newman Jenkins integration
  • Headless execution of selenium tests in Jenkins using maven and Junit
  • Android UI automation, Jenkins and GenyMotion
  • Server performance and Load testing using locust and Jmeter
  • Provided periodic feedback of status and scheduling issues to the management
  • Environment: Amazon Web Services EC2, Akamai,CloudWatch, Grafana, Kibana, NewRelic, Agile, Jenkins, Chef, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, OpenVPN, Windows 10, Linux, and Ubuntu.

Roots Innovation Labs Pvt Ltd

Lead DevOps Engineer
06.2017 - 03.2018

Job overview

  • Multiple Projects: Worked closely with department heads, developments teams, editorial staff, IT helpdesk and executives to produce world class electronic media and product services
  • Adhigam :- GST software where 10 Lakh invoice handling in the cloud system based on nodejs,angular and mongodb platform
  • Hendricsons :– Task Management and Inventory software handling.

Ulink AgriTech Pvt Ltd

DevOps Engineer
03.2016 - 01.2017

Job overview

  • Project: CRM and AgroEx
  • Experience in creating the company's DevOps strategy in a mix environment of Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu) servers along with creating and implementing a cloud strategy based on Amazon Web Services
  • Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving Bitbucket, Jenkins, and python to complete the automation from commit to Deployment
  • Responsible for design and maintenance of the GIT Repositories and performed all necessary day-to- day GIT support for different projects
  • Created and Implemented branching & merging strategy with multiple branches
  • Participation and Contribution in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery
  • Manage, maintain and enhance operation of a continuous-integration environment including scheduled builds and deployments, multiple projects/builds in one environment, physical/virtual servers, supporting CI applications/tools
  • Coordinates with other technology work teams such as ITS, Architecture etc
  • To ensure project success
  • Assist Operations Maintenance team with problem triage, categorization, root cause analysis and ability to duplicate a problem
  • Worked and handled whole cloud infrastructure of largest ecommerce agriculture platform for agent CRM,Last mile delivery project based on python,mongodb and agularjs platform in agrostar (ET startup award 2017)
  • Design, document and help optimize the CI/CD strategies in order to reduce costs while ensuring quality
  • 24/7 enterprise environment support.

OneVish Solutions Pvt.Ltd
Pune

System Administrator
03.2014 - 02.2016

Job overview

  • Project: Digitalization in state bank of india
  • Installed and administered various tools like Jenkins, Github, Chef and executed maintenance tasks such as creating users and groups
  • Experience in creating the company's DevOps strategy in a mix environment of Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu) servers along with creating and implementing a cloud strategy based on Amazon Web Services
  • Provided periodic feedback of status and scheduling issues to the management
  • Calling servers: Aspect 7.1, Vicidial,Goautodial
  • Asterisk, Apache server ,PBX in flash
  • Mail server:sendmail,Postfix,Qmail,Exchange
  • Networking : cisco,D-Link,Linksys and FortiGate 200A firewall
  • Provide continuous 24/7/365 primary on call support for all server applications and system
  • Environment: Amazon Web Services EC2, Cloud Watch, Agile, Gitlab, Windows 10, Linux, Ubuntu, and RHEL.
  • Established network specifications and analyzed workflow, access, information and security requirements.
  • Installed important security and functionality patches to maintain optimal protections against intrusion and system reliability.

Education

IGNOU

B.Tech from Computer Science and Engineering

University Overview

GPA: 81

TMV

Diploma from computer Engineering

University Overview

GPA: 72.53

Skills

    DevOps Tools and Practices

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Certification

RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer)

Timeline

DevOps & Infrastructure Manager
AIT Global India Ltd, IAB, California
09.2019 - Current
Sr.DevOps Engineer II
K2annex Software Pvt.Ltd, ACTV8ME
04.2018 - 09.2019
Lead DevOps Engineer
Roots Innovation Labs Pvt Ltd
06.2017 - 03.2018
DevOps Engineer
Ulink AgriTech Pvt Ltd
03.2016 - 01.2017
System Administrator
OneVish Solutions Pvt.Ltd
03.2014 - 02.2016
IGNOU
B.Tech from Computer Science and Engineering
04.2013
TMV
Diploma from computer Engineering
04.2010
Sopan ZendeDevOps & Infrastructure Manager