Associate Consultant - DevOps and Platform Engineering at Tata Consultancy Services (2022-12 – Present)
- Orchestrated and automated GKE cluster provisioning on GCP using StackBuilder, Terraform, and Jenkins pipelines, reducing manual deployment effort and improving infrastructure consistency across environments.
- Designed and implemented highly scalable, upgradeable AWS EKS clusters and surrounding infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, supporting multi-tenant production workloads.
- Administered Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS EKS, GCP GKE, and on-premise environments, ensuring high availability, security, and operational resilience.
- Supported AWS Landing Zone operations by provisioning and onboarding AWS accounts, configuring IAM roles, permissions, policies using Terraform.
- Implemented and managed Istio service mesh for advanced traffic routing, mTLS enforcement, and service observability across distributed microservices architectures.
- Strengthened DevOps security posture by integrating OPA Gatekeeper policy enforcement, Snyk vulnerability scanning, SonarQube SAST, and IAM least-privilege controls into CI/CD pipelines.
- Deployed and operated core AWS services including VPC, EC2, EKS, IAM, Security Groups, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
- Automated GCP service account provisioning across multiple projects and environments using Terraform, improving governance, auditability, and consistency.
- Proactively monitored Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus and Grafana, leveraging K9s, Kubernetes Studio, and custom kubectl plugins to significantly speed up root cause analysis and minimize incident resolution time.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams in Agile environments, participating in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and daily stand-ups. Utilized Jira for issue tracking and sprint management, and Confluence for technical documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge sharing.
- Provided technical leadership, mentoring and guided junior DevOps engineers through structured knowledge-sharing sessions, increasing team delivery velocity and technical depth.
DevOps Engineer at ILink Infosoft Pvt. Ltd. (2019-09 – 2022-10)
- Deployed and optimized production-grade Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal servers using Rancher RKE v1 on Fedora CoreOS, enabling on-premise cloud-native capabilities.
- Automated Fedora CoreOS node provisioning via PXE boot and Ignition configs, reducing node bootstrap time and ensuring repeatable, secure deployments.
- Deployed highly available stateful workloads including PostgreSQL, MinIO, and Keycloak on Kubernetes using operator patterns and hostPath volumes.
- Implemented Kubernetes audit policies to capture security-critical events and forwarded structured logs to Grafana via Promtail for centralized analysis.
- Deployed and tuned Calico CNI and Istio service mesh; implemented Kubernetes NetworkPolicies and Istio VirtualServices, DestinationRules and Gateways for secure inter-service and external communication.
- Established comprehensive observability stack covering Kubernetes nodes, Linux VMs, and Windows VMs using Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Node Exporter, and WMI Exporter.
- Managed full lifecycle of Rancher server including installation, upgrades, and downstream cluster provisioning; supported Alpine, CentOS, Fedora, and CoreOS distributions.
- Diagnosed and resolved complex issues in virtual server and Kubernetes environments, reducing mean time to resolution across production incidents.
Senior IT Executive at Bonaz Capital Research Firm (2018-12 – 2019-08)
- Deployed and managed calling server on CentOS, Spark chat server, Zimbra mail server, and internal CRM platform for the organization.
- Maintained network security through wireless configuration hardening and MAC address filtering; oversaw hardware and network asset inventory.
- Mentored colleagues on remote troubleshooting techniques, improving team incident response efficiency.
Global Support Engineer at Matrix Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (2016-10 – 2018-08)
- Managed Samba NFS, Apache web server, and WDS/DHCP on Windows Server 2008; performed daily VMware administration including VM backups, snapshot management, template cloning, and performance reporting.
- Administered Office 365 for email, licensing, and backup across the organization; streamlined cloud data backup using Vaultize, Druva, and OneDrive.
- Managed provisioning of virtual machines and operating systems in alignment with company policy and security standards.
System Analyst at Yash Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (2010-11 – 2014-11)
- Configured Linux environments including RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu on VMware Workstation and Microsoft Virtual PC to meet project and team requirements.
- Resolved hardware, software, and licensing issues to maintain operational efficiency and uptime across the organization.
- Provided remote technical support via TeamViewer, VNC, AnyDesk, and Ammyy Admin, ensuring timely resolution of end-user issues.
