Pankaj

Experience Summary and Future Objectives

B.Tech having 11 years of strong technical experience currently Working as one of the Primary Devops Engineer atSearchMetrics GMBH Berlinhelping Engineering teams in following Devops best practices and responsible for smooth transitioning and onboarding of  applications in Microservice environment..

Lot of Involvement and Working with External vendors/partners like All Cloud, SPOT IO, COBALT, AWS in Implementing different solutions and making sure best practices are followed in SDLC Lifecyle.

Previously worked Extensively on Virtualization Technology and carries a strong technical Expertise on Entire Datacenter Stack be it Servers, Storage, Security, Virtualization, Networking.

PROFILE SNAPSHOT – AWS/Devops Consultant/Engineer                      2016 - Present

·       Involved designing and deploying servers and application by utilizing almost all of the AWSstack (including EC2, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, IAM) focusing on high availability, fault tolerance and auto scaling

·       Experience of building AWS Environment from scratch which Involves Account Automation,with IAC tools like CFN,Terraform, Implementing SCPs and SSO Solutions

·       Implemented AWS Centralized logging and alerting using Services like Guarduty, AWS Config, AWS Security Hub, AWS Inspector, Macie etc.

·       Experience of managing large containerization platforms hosted on Amazon ECS and Kubernetes Cluster.

·       Installing upgrading and troubleshooting Kubernetes native Control Plane updates/upgrades

·       Setting up K8s Control Plane HA, deploying pods, Deploying services and other K8s objects

·       Managing Manifests and templating using K8s Helm.

·       Configuring monitoring tools like Datadog,setting up Datadog and AWS Integration

·       Building AWS Account Automation, Deploying AWS Control Tower and creating AWS Landing Zone for faster deployments

·       Architect AWS Solution following AWS Well Architecture Pillars and architect solutions followingSecurity best practices

·       Lot of Vendor Management, working with Cobalt Core for Application Pentesting , working with SPOT IO for AWS Cost Optimization

·       Performing Annualy API and Webapp Pentesting , AWS Audits

·       CI/CD deployments, guiding and consulting developers for best practices, implemented solutions using CI tools such as Travis, GitHub Actions, well versed with all the security management features of all famous source code repository like Bitbucket and GitHub

·       Deep understanding of AWS Security and features configured VPC with Security features such as Security Groups and NACLs.

·       Implemented three tier architecture solutions on Cloud Platforms using services like ELB, CloudFront, Autoscaling, Route 53 etc

·       Worked on Migration services like DMS, AWS Snowball and Import/export for different projects and use cases. Implemented AWS VPN Site to Site tunneling, Transit Gateway solutions etc

·       Worked with Database Architects during my tenure in Cvent and helped them choosing the best RDS Solution, designing scaling policies, sizing and helping themin DB migration

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