Nikilesh Kale

DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience in architecting/automating and optimizing mission critical deployments over large infrastructure. Proficient with Configuration Management tools, and in developing Ci/CD pipelines.

Summary 

• DevOps AWS/Azure professional with 6 years of IT industry experience, experienced in Process Automation, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Build & Release Management.
• Manage, Deploy and monitoring of scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) and Azure with CF, ARM templates, terraform, Worked on Terraform/stacks to automate setting up the Staging, UAT, Pre-Production and Production environment for building new resources.
• Expertise in Continuous Integration setup. Configured multiple build jobs with pipeline script, integrated test cases, created distributed builds, performed plug-in installations, monitoring & backup using Jenkins.
• Proficient in VCS tools like GIT on Branching, Tagging and Merging the source code between different Branches. IT administration like resolving issues regarding & providing access permissions to the developers over branches.
• Hands-on experience in provisioning, orchestration, installing packages, services, configuration, and deployment using Ansible. Expertise in writing playbooks and creating Roles for Scalability and Reusability in Ansible.
• Professional Experience on Containerization tools like Docker, writing Docker/Docker Compose files for creating Docker images and containers for different environments. Maintained pods, services, load balancers, secrets, config maps and deployed applications to cluster for continuous deployment using Helm in Kubernetes.
• Utilized Cloud Watch & Azure Monitor to monitor resources to set alarm for Notification or Automated actions, and monitor logs for better understanding and operation of the system which helped in troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Experience on generating shell scripts for build activities in QA, Staging and Production environments.
• Good at communicative, interpersonal, intuitive, analysis and leadership skills with ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments. Closely worked with Developers and Analysts to address project requirements. Able to effectively manage time and prioritize multiple projects.

Educational Background 

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad- Aug ‘10-Sep ‘14

• Bachelor of Technology in the field of Information & Technology (IT) from Aurora's Scientific, Technological and Research Academy - JNTUH