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Vasil Shaikh

Mumbai

Summary

Experienced DevOps Engineer with a proven track record of implementing and managing robust, scalable, and efficient DevOps pipelines. Proficient in a wide range of technologies and tools including Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Terraform, Splunk Cloud, and Ansible. Adept at automating processes, optimizing infrastructure, and ensuring the continuous delivery of high-quality software.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer II

Mastercard
09.2023 - Current
  • In addition to L1 tasks:
  • Conducted training sessions for L1 engineers.
  • Helped identify gaps in current incident management processes and proposed solution.
  • Helped with migration of few legacy applications to AWS.
  • Identified and proposed solutions to reduce AWS costs.

DevOps Engineer I

Mastercard
05.2022 - 09.2023
  • Utilized Docker and Kubernetes (K8s) to containerize applications and manage container orchestration for scalable and resilient deployments.
  • Designed, implemented, and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI to automate software builds, tests, and deployments.
  • Implemented and configured SonarQube and Checkmarx to conduct static code analysis and security scans, ensuring code quality and compliance with best practices.
  • Developed and managed infrastructure configurations using Terraform, ensuring infrastructure changes are version-controlled and repeatable.
  • Experience working with Splunk Cloud for troubleshooting issues
  • Set up monitoring and alerting using Splunk Observability (formerly SignalFx) & Nagios to proactively identify and address system and application issues, enhancing system reliability and availability.
  • Experience working with Incident Management tool like Opsgenie to create/maintain on-call schedules, escalation matrix, integrations with Slack, AWS, etc.
  • Collaborated with the security team to implement security best practices, compliance standards, fix vulnerabilities via patching and fix security findings as per CIS Standards.
  • Documented processes and procedures for knowledge sharing and onboarding.

Senior Hosting Product Specialist

Newfold Digital
10.2021 - 05.2022
  • Managing Shared Linux/Windows and Cloud Servers.
  • L2 Support ownership of all hosting products (cPanel/Plesk/Cloud)
  • Handle all tickets with good efficiency to provide support within the SLA and participate in 24*7 rotating shifts.
  • Proactively monitor uptime, availability and analyze logs/metrics and recommend/contribute to fixes.
  • Restoration/Migration of data across servers with minimal downtime.
  • Analyzing Inbound/Outbound logs, bounce-back messages to resolve issues around email deliverability.
  • Help with Wordpress Installation, fixing issues with websites, SSL installation, etc.
  • Fixing Domain, DNS resolution issues, help Wholesale clients customize Storefronts, help with generating CSR, Domain verification, etc

Hosting Product Specialist

Newfold Digital
06.2020 - 10.2021
  • Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting of OS.
    User Administration, Symlinks & Hardlinks, Archiving & Compression. Disk and Quota Management

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - IT

Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
Mumbai
05.2020

Skills

Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
Version Control: Git, GitLab
CI/CD Tools: GitLab CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Configuration Management: Ansible
Monitoring and Alerting: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Observability, Nagios
Scripting: Bash, Python (Basic)
Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows

Certification

  • Red Hat® Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®) - Red Hat
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
  • Hashicorp Certified - Terraform Associate (003)

Timeline

DevOps Engineer II

Mastercard
09.2023 - Current

DevOps Engineer I

Mastercard
05.2022 - 09.2023

Senior Hosting Product Specialist

Newfold Digital
10.2021 - 05.2022

Hosting Product Specialist

Newfold Digital
06.2020 - 10.2021

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - IT

Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
Vasil Shaikh