VIVEK VINOD DARJI
DevOps Lead
Mumbai,MH
Summary
Results-driven DevOps Lead at Merkle, a Dentsu Company, with expertise in AWS cloud computing and Terraform. Successfully designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines while establishing security best practices for Kubernetes, significantly improving operational efficiency. Demonstrates strong communication skills and a proven ability in proactive system monitoring and automation to ensure robust infrastructure. Committed to enhancing project delivery through innovative solutions and streamlined processes.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Engineer, Biz Ops
Mastercard Worldwide
Pune
05.2015 - 10.2019
- Provisioned and managed AWS cloud resources by implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Implemented and managed the use of Datadog for proactive system monitoring and issue resolution, ensuring efficient operations.
- Managed the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines, incorporating Bitbucket as a tool to automate software delivery and deployment processes.
- Ensured compliance and protection against vulnerabilities by implementing security best practices for Kubernetes clusters, which included network policies, role-based access control (RBAC), and secrets management.
- Designed Kubernetes clusters for real-world applications, prioritizing multi-tenancy, geo-redundancy, and service discovery.
- Managed containerized applications on Amazon ECS and EKS, implementing Docker image vulnerability assessment processes to proactively address security risks in AWS deployments.
- Proficiently leveraged a comprehensive toolset for streamlined project management and collaboration, including GIT, BitBucket, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Confluence, and JIRA.
- Managing Production and Sandbox Environments.
- Installation, configuration, and management of a wide array of servers: CentOS, Ubuntu.
- Install components like Postgres, MySQL, Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, and Nginx.
- Deploying, patching, and upgrading JBOSS application servers and Apache instances.
- Knowledge of continuous integration tool: Jenkins (Creating automated build and deployment jobs, automating regular tasks using Jenkins)
- Troubleshooting issues, root cause analysis, and working on a permanent solution.
- Identifying areas of automation and implementing innovative solutions using Jenkins, Bamboo, and Shell scripts.
- AWS cloud computing: Worked on services like EC2, ECS containers, S3, IAM, VPC, SG
- DevOps tools: Docker, Gitlab CICD, Jenkins, AWS, Shell scripting and Bitbucket Git
- Create repositories and apply branching and merging strategy as per requirement
- Creating an implementation plan for the changes in all environments.
- Analyzing JBOSS and application logs & escalating to L3 team (Development) to resolve incident
- Setup Dashboard/scripts for log monitoring on Splunk & Dynatrace
- Following SAFe Methodology to achieve goals and work closely with different teams
Infrastructure Analyst
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Mumbai
11.2013 - 05.2015
- Actively participating in meetings with offshore teams to discuss various issues and suggesting solutions for the same.
- Managing L1 team to help troubleshoot issues
- Monitoring and Managing Presales Production and Demo Environments.
- Deploying new environments based on Linux and the software based on Java.
- Identifying and automating daily tasks using shell scripts.
- Troubleshoot technical issues related to the OS, network, and software.
- Deploying patches and keeping them always up to date and available for demos.
- Attending client calls and meetings with third-party vendors, data center personnel.
- Performed Apache upgrade on the production environment from 2.2.26 to 2.4.15.
- Hardening JBOSS EAP, Tomcat, and Apache in all environments.
- Handled server hang, deadlocks, application, and database-level locks by checking thread dumps and analyzing them to find the root cause of the issue.
- Performance tuning of a Java-based application (Tomcat, Boss).
- Application server monitoring using Twiddle and JMX.
- POC for new technology and tools E.g., JBOSS 6 EAP, Apache 2.4.
DevOps Lead
Merkle, Denstu Company
Mumbai
11.2013 - 05.2015
- Provisioned and managed AWS cloud resources by implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform.
- Implemented and managed the use of Datadog for proactive system monitoring and issue resolution, ensuring efficient operations.
- Managed the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines, incorporating Bitbucket as a tool to automate software delivery and deployment processes.
- Ensured compliance and protection against vulnerabilities by implementing security best practices for Kubernetes clusters, which included network policies, role-based access control (RBAC), and secrets management.
- Designed Kubernetes clusters for real-world applications, prioritizing multi-tenancy, geo-redundancy, and service discovery.
- Managed containerized applications on Amazon ECS and EKS, implementing Docker image vulnerability assessment processes to proactively address security risks in AWS deployments.
- Proficiently leveraged a comprehensive toolset for streamlined project management and collaboration, including GIT, BitBucket, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Confluence, and JIRA.
Infrastructure Analyst
ARRK Solution Pvt Limited
Navi Mumbai
06.2012 - 11.2013
- Monitoring and managing cloud servers, such as web servers, data servers, FTP servers, and application servers. Deploying patches. Level 3 Support.
- Troubleshoot technical issues related to OS, network, and software.
- Design and implementation of public-facing websites.
- Installation, Configuration, IP-Based Virtual Hosting, Generating CSR, and Applying CRT, Analyzing logs.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Tele-communication Engineering
Parshavanath College of Engineering
Mumbai01.2006
Diploma of Higher Education - Digital Electronics
MMJ Shah Polytechnic
Thane, Mumbai01.2002
Some College (No Degree) - SSC
Children's Academy
MumbaiSkills
- CI/CD Tools: GIT, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Bitbucket
- AWS Cloud Computing
- Container and orchestration: Docker, AWS EKS, AWS ECS
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
- IAC tool: Terraform
- Middleware: JBoss EAP, WildFly, Apache Tomcat
- Monitoring and Logging: Datadog, Nagios
- Operating Systems: Linux (Red Hat), CentOS, Ubuntu, etc
- Scripting: Shell Scripting (Bash)
Accomplishments
- Https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-darji-85643525/
- HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
- Reading books and articles
- Travelling and making connections
- Sports (Cricket,VolleyBall)
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator - CKA
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Languages
Languages
English
First Language
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Marathi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Gujarati
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteRemoteHybridImportant To Me
Career advancementWork-life balancePersonal development programsTeam Building / Company RetreatsTimeline
Senior Engineer, Biz Ops
Mastercard Worldwide
05.2015 - 10.2019
Infrastructure Analyst
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
11.2013 - 05.2015
DevOps Lead
Merkle, Denstu Company
11.2013 - 05.2015
Infrastructure Analyst
ARRK Solution Pvt Limited
06.2012 - 11.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Tele-communication Engineering
Parshavanath College of Engineering
Diploma of Higher Education - Digital Electronics
MMJ Shah Polytechnic
Some College (No Degree) - SSC
Children's Academy
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