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Swapnil Kahate

Swapnil Kahate

Principal Engineer
Pune

Summary

Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.Seeking a suitable position in the field of AWS,DevOps field where excellent analytical problem-solving skill, great interest in the concerned field, relevant knowledge and a strong work ethic can advance Personal and Organization’s growth and gives me a better stability with work-life balance

Having more than 15 years of experience in the field of IT where Planning, Implementation, Design, Architecture, Administration, trouble shootings are involved. Having more than 9 years of experience in DevOps, AWS, and Cloud Computing.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

AWS Cloud Engineer/DevOps Engineer

IBM India Private Limited
06.2012 - 10.2014
  • Ensuring smooth functioning of pre-and Post-bill cycle activities and BSCS rating batch operations
  • Supporting weekly bill cycles and fixing bugs in a real time to keep bill cycles times in scheduled
  • Fine tuning the production environment by modifying existing scripts or binaries
  • Contribution towards automating daily reconciliation with the subscribers’ data of CDRs to avoid revenue loss
  • Handling rating, billing and roaming using BSCS 6.0 environment
  • Good knowledge of International Roaming, IREG, TADIG, TAP, RAP and/or TADIG Tests beneficial, GSM and 3G Networks for Voice, CAMEL, SMS, and GPRS
  • Good knowledge and experience of BSCS rejects handling of inbound and outbound CDRs
  • Managing Incidents/ Service Requests/User Access Requests End to End and associated activities within agreed SLAs
  • Handling and distributing any task/issues related to post-paid team during DISHA project execution (BSCS 6.0 to AMDOCS 7.5 migration)
  • UAT and production support for ABMG, RATER, INVOICING, AEM, EOD applications and interaction with clients, Developers and Testers to help smooth transition of UAT issues
  • Responsible for creating shell scripts, SQL, PL/SQL scripts for Unix OS and BSCS database
  • Monitoring the Rating of in-roamers and out-roamers CDR, GPRS, MMS files within SLA to avoid revenue loss.

Subject Matter Expert

Amdocs Private Limited
03.2009 - 07.2011
  • Running and maintaining the entire End of day billing system for T-Mobile US
  • Running/modifying/creating Unix scripts to monitor the entire system
  • First point of contact from Amdocs and responsible for the smooth functioning of entire billing system (Samson) for T-Mobile US
  • Monitoring backend jobs, logs in Unix & Responsible for End of Day (EOD) and End of Month (EOM) jobs and resolving any failures in it
  • This includes all jobs of AR, CSM, Usage and Billing
  • Participating/leading in Major Incidents, Failovers, Releases, Changes, Upgrades, on Client Bridges
  • Participate/leading in Release and bundle activities for new versions
  • Responsible for complete billing cycle, handling pre bill check, main billing, post billing, undo and confirmation
  • Use Maestro to start with billing and then handle main cycle billing with jobs running as daemon
  • Review of logs for job failures and provide with workarounds/resolutions
  • Participate in Release and bundle activities of new version
  • Open production environment errors and need to recreate the complete scenario and submit the complete detail report, which helps to get root cause and prepare the fix.

AWS Solution Architect

Altimetrik India Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - Current
  • Planned, designed, and architected network, compute, database (gateways), and storage solutions for multiple clients across diverse environments
  • Conducted comprehensive cloud assessments for new clients to determine their specific requirements and challenges
  • Led the assessment phase for potential new clients, providing detailed plans, designs, and estimated costs for proposed cloud solutions
  • Played a pivotal role in responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs), actively participating in Proof of Concepts (POCs) and demonstrating the feasibility and advantages of proposed cloud architectures
  • Actively participated in Proof of Concepts (POCs), demonstrating the feasibility and advantages of proposed cloud architectures to potential clients
  • Conducted client-related demos, showcasing the proposed cloud solutions and addressing client queries and concerns
  • Collaborated with clients to understand their specific needs, tailoring AWS architectures to meet unique requirements outlined in RFPs and assessment findings
  • Designed and executed AWS architectures tailored to client needs, ensuring alignment with industry best practices
  • Implemented multi-tenant architectures on AWS, addressing the unique needs of each client
  • Established AWS Control Tower, configuring necessary Service Control Policies (SCPs) at the Organizational Unit (OU) level
  • Utilized Terraform to write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for application migration, developed and tested Terraform modules, and managed workspaces using Terraform Enterprise (TFE)
  • Provisioned AWS Landing Zones to create customized baselines for AWS accounts, networks, and security policies
  • Configured multi-account architecture, identity and access management, governance, data security, network design, and logging within provisioned AWS Landing Zones
  • Built scalable, resilient, and highly available infrastructure, networks, and systems through infrastructure-as-code
  • Contributed to the development of self-service and automated tooling to facilitate rapid application deployment while ensuring adherence to quality and security standards
  • Provided oversight on security aspects, including next-generation firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, DDoS solutions, SSL-terminating load balancers, WAF, security groups, and NACL
  • Recommended and managed transmission protection requirements for all environments (systems, applications, containers, etc.) such as VPC peering best practices, SSL certificate management, key pairs, etc
  • Performed security monitoring, security event triage, and incident response, coordinating with other team members and management to document and report incidents
  • Participated in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software, and services on AWS platform
  • Led root cause analysis, debugging, support, and postmortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions
  • Enabled Cloud Trail across all geographic regions and AWS services to prevent activity monitoring gaps
  • Enabled Cloud Trail log file validation to track changes made to log files after delivery to the S3 bucket for log file integrity
  • Proactively monitored resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch, including creating alarms for real-time alerting based on defined events.
  • Streamlined application deployment processes with CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeStar services such as CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
  • Collaborated with software development teams to build scalable solutions on AWS, providing technical guidance in design and deployment strategies.
  • Streamlined AWS infrastructure by implementing best practices in architecture, resulting in improved performance and cost optimization.
  • Delivered cloud-native applications by leveraging AWS services like API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB.
  • Increased high availability and fault tolerance by configuring Multi-AZ deployments in RDS instances.
  • Improved scalability by utilizing AWS Elastic Beanstalk for seamless application deployment and management.
  • Implemented efficient cost tracking with AWS Cost Explorer, enabling better budgeting decisions across multiple projects.
  • Maximized network performance by leveraging Direct Connect for dedicated connectivity between on-premises networks and AWS environments.
  • Migrated legacy applications to AWS, modernizing the technology stack and increasing overall efficiency.
  • Implemented monitoring solutions using Amazon CloudWatch to provide real-time alerts on system health and performance metrics.
  • Designed custom IAM policies to maintain strict access control for various user roles within the organization.
  • Reduced deployment time for applications through the use of AWS CloudFormation templates.
  • Automated backup strategies using Amazon RDS snapshots, ensuring data integrity during disaster recovery scenarios.
  • Worked with customers and engineering team to determine equipment needs and system requirements.
  • Contributed additional revenue to sales plans through resale opportunities.
  • Organized product demonstrations and trial installations of equipment to promote products.
  • Helped customers improve results by recommending changes focused on lowering costs, increasing production, or adding new functionality.
  • Responded to specific customer requests, including RFP responses and industry-specific solutions.
  • Developed and documented system security authorization boundaries for cloud-based solutions and client applications within cloud service.
  • Maintained compliance with cybersecurity regulations and measures and tracked, assessed, integrated and reported on modernization and migration processes.
  • Collaborated with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules.
  • Provided solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements.

Cloud Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2015 - 03.2020
  • Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting of cloud-based infrastructure and its solutions
  • Experienced in creating multiple VPC’s and public, private subnets as per requirement and distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC
  • Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Cloud Watch, CloudFront, and CloudTrail
  • Created and configured elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment
  • Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes based on requirement
  • Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implemented MFA to provide additional security to AWS account and its resources
  • Implemented Amazon RDS multi-AZ for automatic failover and high availability at the database tier
  • Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build staging and production environments
  • Setup always on for achieving maximum availability for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Windows Cluster
  • Created Automated pipeline in AWS Code Pipeline to deploy Docker containers in AWS ECS using services like Terraform, Code Build, CodeDeploy,S3 and Ansible
  • Used AWS ECS Faregate to deploy micro services solution to AWS
  • Implemented DevOps CI and CD pipeline using open source tools
  • Have worked on provision, managements, cost optimization and Administration of AWS and Azure Cloud based resources
  • Have worked on Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, GitHub, Nagios, Splunk and Jira
  • Delivery of services such as Technical Guidance, presentations, skills transfer, code samples, architecture planning/guidance, code reviews, DevOps and ALM aspects to partners and customers using AWS, cloud technologies
  • Jenkins as a primary tool for implementing the continuous integration and continuous delivery of their code releases
  • Docker container creation and management, Docker file management, deploying micro services to Docker container
  • Server configuration management via Ansible and Maintained environments deployed
  • Configured Auto scaling policies and configuration for the Production Environment
  • Working with development team on enforcing source control strategies, building, packaging and deployment of products
  • Create GitHub projects for developers to store the code and managed the user access.
  • Reduced server downtime by proactively monitoring cloud resources and addressing potential issues before they escalated.
  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams during major incident response efforts, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues affecting business operations.

AWS Architect/Devops Engineer

IBM
03.2020 - 10.2021
  • Worked on end-to-end process to migrate on-premise applications to AWS cloud
  • Worked on writing Infrastructure as a code using Terraform to infrastructure for application migration to cloud and also developed terraform modules and tested it whenever necessary
  • Managed terraform workspaces using TFE and store the state files for terraform on it
  • Involved in discovery, design, and migration of on-premise applications to AWS cloud
  • Created ansible roles to automate the server configuration and application deployment
  • Worked on Jenkins pipeline to enable CI/CD
  • Used tools like Terraform enterprise (TFE), Ansible tower (AWX), Jfrog Artifactory, Sonarqube, Jenkins, Azure Application portal
  • Migrated around 10 applications per quarter with strict deadline, make sure to achieve all the migration related activities for the application in particular quarter
  • Worked with various stakeholders during migration process and had calls with them whenever necessary
  • Responsible for Docker container creation and management, Docker file management, deployment of micro services to container
  • Cloud infrastructure provision and management, securing cloud environment by implementing best practices in security and network domain
  • Responsible for server configuration management via Ansible and environments management
  • End to end Elastic Kubernetes Service pipeline creation by integrating ECR, Helm and Gitlab
  • Have written Docker file for backend services
  • Troubleshooting in build environment specially fixing development issues, setup git branch strategy, merge feature branches with master and push changes to Gitlab based source code repository
  • Managing build and release definition as per project requirement, trigger build job
  • Trigger deployment pipeline and deploy latest packages to development, Test and QA environment
  • Responsible for Creation and management of AWS cloud-based resources such as EC2, Subnets, VPC, S3, etc using Terraform
  • Working on container management tool Kubernetes
  • Created Kubernetes clusters for microservices deployment, managing pods, replica sets, Kubernetes networking, ingress, and load balancers
  • Responsible for high availability of running applications on cloud instances and containers
  • Working with Developers, Release management and tool decision team to enhance CI/CD pipeline
  • Implemented best practices for Docker, Ansible, Gitlab, Jenkins, AWS, Azure, pipeline etc
  • Created and configured Nagios server for infrastructure monitoring, cloud monitoring.
  • Implemented cost optimization strategies, leading to significant savings on cloud expenses.
  • Identified opportunities for improving security posture by conducting regular vulnerability assessments within the AWS environment.
  • Designed and deployed secure AWS environments, adhering to industry standards and compliance requirements.
  • Trained junior team members on best practices for working with AWS services, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
  • Secured critical data through regular backups, encryption, and disaster recovery planning in AWS environment.
  • Enhanced application performance with the implementation of auto-scaling groups and load balancing.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop scalable and reliable solutions for clients'' needs.
  • Automated routine tasks using scripting languages such as Python or Bash, increasing overall productivity within the team.
  • Ensured high availability across distributed systems by implementing multi-AZ deployments in various regions.
  • Optimized storage solutions by leveraging Amazon S3 lifecycle policies and versioning control features.
  • Provided guidance during migration processes from on-premise servers to the cloud-based AWS environment, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transitions.
  • Contributed to the continuous improvement of team processes, tools, and documentation for AWS architecture best practices.
  • Developed monitoring solutions utilizing Amazon CloudWatch, ensuring optimal performance and timely issue resolution.
  • Improved overall system efficiency by optimizing AWS architecture and implementing best practices.
  • Conducted comprehensive audits of existing AWS infrastructures to identify areas for improvement or potential risks.
  • Streamlined application deployment process using containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Evaluated new AWS services and features for potential integration into existing architectures, staying ahead of industry trends.
  • Simplified data processing workflows by integrating AWS Lambda functions into the architecture.
  • Maintained compliance with cybersecurity regulations and measures and tracked, assessed, integrated and reported on modernization and migration processes.
  • Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Optimized build processes using tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo for fast feedback loops in development cycles.
  • Established strong interdepartmental communication channels, fostering collaboration between development, operations, and QA teams.

Assistant Manager

Vodafone Shared Services India
11.2013 - 06.2015
  • Production Support for Amdocs Billing, CRM and Middleware Applications
  • Implementing Process improvements for Order Processing in Vodafone billing and Middleware systems
  • Release Management and Configuration of Amdocs Billing and Clarify CRM for Production and Test environments
  • Communication with key managers and framing Business and technical requirements in accordance with SLAs
  • Proficient in Writing Complex SQL Queries for Fetch the data/Creating the logic for different Scenarios
  • Having Good knowledge of Entire Ensemble Product i.e
  • Modules like Billing, AR, Rater, Revenue, Collection etc
  • Providing Automation guidelines to team for quicker and easy extraction of data /Solutions
  • Documentation and updating support manual/Support plan for new issues with solution and approach
  • Handling Billing rejects Cycles for Vodafone-Germany
  • Also fixing rejects and raising defects and fixing the defects to send bills to customer in within SLA
  • Handling various production issues related tickets within the SLA
  • Writing technical documentations and user manuals for applications
  • Handling AR related issues where handled the various tickets related to collection, payment, refund and adjustment
  • Documented the user guide for the system
  • Performance tuned DB queries
  • Involved in fixing issues on UAT and production servers.

Education

BE in E&Tc -

Government College of Engineering Amravati
Amravati, MH

12th - undefined

Amravati board
Amravati, MH

10th - undefined

Nagpur Board

Skills

AWSundefined

Websites

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 03/07/1985
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Indian

Timeline

AWS Solution Architect

Altimetrik India Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - Current

AWS Architect/Devops Engineer

IBM
03.2020 - 10.2021

Cloud Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2015 - 03.2020

Assistant Manager

Vodafone Shared Services India
11.2013 - 06.2015

AWS Cloud Engineer/DevOps Engineer

IBM India Private Limited
06.2012 - 10.2014

Subject Matter Expert

Amdocs Private Limited
03.2009 - 07.2011

BE in E&Tc -

Government College of Engineering Amravati

12th - undefined

Amravati board

10th - undefined

Nagpur Board

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