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SUMIT SAURAV

SUMIT SAURAV

Technical Lead, Operations
Pune,MH

Summary

Professional Summary:

Accomplished Technical Lead with extensive expertise in architecting and securing scalable, multi-cloud infrastructures across AWS and Azure. Adept at driving DevOps automation using Ansible, Terraform, Git, Docker, and CloudFormation, with a proven track record in public cloud security, vulnerability management, CIS benchmark compliance, and automated patch management for both Linux and Windows environments. Recognized for leading and mentoring high-performing teams, embedding security into every layer of the stack, and delivering measurable improvements in compliance, uptime, and cost efficiency. Certified in AWS and Azure, I combine hands-on technical proficiency with strategic vision to deliver secure, resilient, and business-aligned cloud solutions.

Skills

  • AWS security management
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • DevOps Tool: Ansible , Cloud Formation, GIT, Github, Docker, Terraform ,Rundeck
  • Monitoring: Splunk,Kibana,Pingdom,Grafana,OMI
  • Cloud platforms
  • Operating Systems: Linux (Red hat & Centos & Ubuntu),Windows (basic)
  • Vulnerability reduction
  • Ticketing tools: Jira, SNOW ,BMC Remedy on Demand
  • Infrastructure as Code

Work History

Technical Lead, Operations

BFDL(Bajaj Finserv Direct Limited)
Pune
10.2023 - Current

• Implementation of AWS security best practices, including IAM policy management, encryption, network segmentation.

• Alignment with industry standards and frameworks: CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISMP, and GDPR.

• Reduction in vulnerabilities or security incidents,reduced critical vulnerabilities by 85% with zero major incidents.

• Leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation to ensure repeatability, agility, and compliance.

• Mentoring and upskilling team members, leading to promotions or increased team productivity.

Site Reliability Engineer

Virtusa
05.2022 - 09.2023
  • Primary on-call engineer for escalations and customer point of contact
  • Maintained GitHub repository for deployments, ensuring sustainable environment management.
  • Logged all changes and issues in Jira to facilitate assignment and tracking.
  • Actively using Splunk/Grafana/Pingdom/ELK to gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
  • Executed job triggers using Rundeck and Control-Next tools, streamlining operational processes.
  • Troubleshoot high load,CPU,memory,disk usage using splunk
  • Application deployment on production and non-production environment by following release and change management process
  • Setup new deployment from scratch to host customer/applications with
  • Track down defects and come up with innovative solutions to improve reliability and availability
  • Work with product engineering team to resolve trouble tickets, developing and running scripts, and troubleshooting services in hosted environment.
  • Recorded daily events and activities in site diary to evaluate process and improve productivity
  • Developed SOPs and change controls for setup, maintenance, and operation of equipment, facilities, and utilities.

Cloud Engineer L2 and Devops Engineer

Rackspace Technology
01.2021 - 04.2022
  • Write terraform scripts from scratch for building Dev, Staging, Prod and DR AWS environments
  • Provisioned servers and deployed features using Terraform and Ansible
  • Automated configuration management and deployment processes using Ansible playbooks and YAML for efficient resource declaration.
  • Installing, configuring and managing in Ansible Centralized Server and creating playbooks to support various application server
  • And creating roles and updating Playbooks to provision servers by using Ansible User and Group Management, Managing permissions
  • Utilized Docker technology to enhance application deployment processes, improving consistency and reliability.
  • Jenkins integration with Git ,docker and ansible
  • Maintained Git workflows, ensuring effective version control and source code management across multiple projects.
  • Utilized System Manager (SSM) to handle patch management and troubleshoot servers.
  • Setup VPC environment and maintain backup strategy
  • Ability to estimate usage costs and experience in monitoring and auditing systems using cloudwatch and cloudtrail
  • Creating/Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, Upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (CPU, Memory, EBS)

Cloud Administrator

HCL Technologies Ltd
01.2015 - 01.2021

Roles & Responsibilities :( Public Cloud Operations AWS )

  • Managing VPC, security groups,Private and public subnets, Route Table, Internet gateway NAT Gateway, Peering Connection
  • Build and release Ec2 instances Amazon Linux, Redhat and Windows for POC, Development and Production environment and configuring the servers as per request
  • Updated launch configurations to facilitate autoscaling during peak traffic.
  • Configuration Identity & Access Management (IAM) Users, Groups, Permission, Polices, Roles
  • Responded to alerts from Athena about various issues related to server availability, disk issues, CPU, memory, EBS, RDS, and NACL.
  • Configured and reports related to Cloud watch, Guardduty, Inspector
  • Utilize EBS to store persistent data and mitigate failure by using snapshots
  • Fetching reports from AWS config and trusted advisor
  • Created dynamic websites to enhance user experience utilizing S3.

Roles & Responsibilities :(MS Azure)

  • Resource Group Management, Implementing and managing Azure networking
  • Implementing virtual machines, Planning and implementing storage, backup, and recovery services
  • Configuring ELBs and VM scale sets, azure files in MS azure
  • Worked on CDN and traffic manager
  • Azure PowerShell: Server creation, Image creation, Copying image, Snapshot Creation.
  • Configuring Backup in Azure for taking backup of VM and application on that

Roles & Responsibilities :(Linux Administration)

  • Linux patching/upgradation activities using ansible
  • Managing Adhoc commands and tasks and configuration management
  • Worked on different types of modules including AWS cloud modules
  • Provisioned load balancer, auto-scaling group and launch configuration for micro services using Ansible
  • Controlling of ACL and Services/Daemons
  • File system management, LVM, SWAP Management
  • Installation, configuration of NFS/Samba/FTP/SFTP.
  • Maximized system availability through development and testing of contingency plans.

Certification

AWS Sysops Associate
Azure Administrator
Google Cloud Engineer
AWS Devops Associate
HCL Terraform Associate

Education

B.Tech - ECE

Yamuna Institute of Engg. And Technology (Kurukshetra University)
Haryana
07-2014
SUMIT SAURAVTechnical Lead, Operations