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Akash Hikadi

Senior Devops Engineer at Siemens | AWS | Terraform | OpenShift | Kubernetes | GitLab CI/CD | ArgoCD | GitOps | Ex-Perfios

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
Apr 20233 yrs 5 mosPresent

Bengaluru

• Contributed to enterprise lift-and-shift migration of 20+ applications from on-premises datacenter to AWS, covering compute, networking, VPC, IAM and RDS provisioning via Terraform. • Contributed in architecting the AWS infrastructure via terraform and later solely owned the automation of Terraform-based infrastructure provision through GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including custom Docker executor images pre-configured with Terraform CLI and AWS CLI. • Implemented keyless AWS authentication for CI/CD using IAM Roles with OIDC federation (GitLab → AWS), eliminating static credentials and applying branch- and repo-level trust policy restrictions. • Maintained and operated GitOps workflows for 20+ containerized applications on Red Hat Openshift (Enterprise Kubernetes) using ArgoCD, Kubernetes manifests and GitLab repositories across dev and production environments. • Conducted deployment operations for containerised applications using GitOps workflows with GitLab repositories • Took end-to-end ownership of Zabbix monitoring platform on Openshift (Enterprise Kubernetes) — deployed Zabbix Server, Web components and used RDS mysql as DB backend; built custom Oracle SQL-based metric monitors for proactive operational alerting. • Performed annual SSL/TLS certificate rotation across all Openshift (Enterprise Kubernetes) • Designed reusable GitLab pipeline templates with shared role-assumption jobs and environment-based credential injection, reducing pipeline duplication across multiple AWS-hosted projects. • Evaluated and enforced IAM least-privilege policies across CI/CD pipelines, reducing attack surface by scoping role trust to specific GitLab repositories, branches and environments. • Collaborated with cross-functional application, database and infrastructure teams to drive stable releases and platform SLA adherence.
Perfios Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Apr 20221 yrMar 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Perfios Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Dec 20201 yr 4 mosMar 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mobiotics
Oct 20181 yr 11 mosAug 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Avankia
Jul 20153 yrs 3 mosSep 2018

Bangalore, India

Akash’s AI Stack

github copilot
github copilot

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

The Oxford College of Engineering, Bangalore

20114 yrs2015

PUC, Science

SRA Composite Pre-Univerisity College, Banahatti

20092 yrs2011

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Headline

Senior Devops Engineer at Siemens | AWS | Terraform | OpenShift | Kubernetes | GitLab CI/CD | ArgoCD | GitOps | Ex-Perfios

About

Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, automation and platform engineering. Specialised in AWS, Terraform/IaC, Red Hat OpenShift (Enterprise Kubernetes), GitOps with ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD pipelines. Currently driving cloud modernisation and infrastructure automation at Siemens. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

github copilot

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited, Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, • Contributed to enterprise lift-and-shift migration of 20+ applications from on-premises datacenter to AWS, covering compute, networking, VPC, IAM and RDS provisioning via Terraform. • Contributed in architecting the AWS infrastructure via terraform and later solely owned the automation of Terraform-based infrastructure provision through GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including custom Docker executor images pre-configured with Terraform CLI and AWS CLI. • Implemented keyless AWS authentication for CI/CD using IAM Roles with OIDC federation (GitLab → AWS), eliminating static credentials and applying branch- and repo-level trust policy restrictions. • Maintained and operated GitOps workflows for 20+ containerized applications on Red Hat Openshift (Enterprise Kubernetes) using ArgoCD, Kubernetes manifests and GitLab repositories across dev and production environments. • Conducted deployment operations for containerised applications using GitOps workflows with GitLab repositories • Took end-to-end ownership of Zabbix monitoring platform on Openshift (Enterprise Kubernetes) — deployed Zabbix Server, Web components and used RDS mysql as DB backend; built custom Oracle SQL-based metric monitors for proactive operational alerting. • Performed annual SSL/TLS certificate rotation across all Openshift (Enterprise Kubernetes) • Designed reusable GitLab pipeline templates with shared role-assumption jobs and environment-based credential injection, reducing pipeline duplication across multiple AWS-hosted projects. • Evaluated and enforced IAM least-privilege policies across CI/CD pipelines, reducing attack surface by scoping role trust to specific GitLab repositories, branches and environments. • Collaborated with cross-functional application, database and infrastructure teams to drive stable releases and platform SLA adherence.

Lead DevOps at Perfios Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Apr 2022 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

DevOps Engineer at Perfios Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Dec 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

DevOps Engineer at Mobiotics, Oct 2018 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Linux Adminstrator at Avankia, Jul 2015 - Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, The Oxford College of Engineering, Bangalore

PUC, Science, SRA Composite Pre-Univerisity College, Banahatti

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