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6k+@Linkedin|Ready to Relocate |DevOps Engineer | Kubernetes| AWS | Docker | EKS | ArgoCD + Github Actions | Grafana + Prometheus | DynamoDB | Jenkins + GitLab | Nexus| Python | agentic AI | Claude automation

About

Extensive DevOps Expertise: 6.3 years of specialized experience in DevOps, within a total of 10 years in IT. DevOps Engineer Achievements: • Cost Reduction: Implemented AWS cost optimization, utilizing reserved and spot instances, cutting infrastructure costs by 30%. • Performance Improvement: Leveraged Terraform for IaC to automate infrastructure, boosting deployment efficiency by 40% and reducing errors by 20%. • Scalability: Designed AWS auto-scaling solutions, enhancing system scalability by 50% to handle increased loads seamlessly. • CI/CD Implementation: Orchestrated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, slashing release cycle times by 35% for faster, reliable deployments. • Monitoring and Alerts: Deployed Prometheus and Grafana, cutting MTTD and MTTR by 25% with enhanced system observability. • Kubernetes and Container Orchestration: Proficient in managing and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and Helm for package management and deployments. • Cloud and Automation Proficiency: Skilled in AWS, containerization (EKS, ECR), infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and Jenkins). • Security and Monitoring Focus: Implemented security scanning (OWASP, Trivy, SonarQube) and monitoring/logging solutions (Kibana, Grafana and Prometheus). • Proven Track Record: Demonstrated ability to optimize system performance, reduce deployment errors, and enhance application security. Feel free to connect with me to discuss DevOps best practices, cloud solutions, or any technology-related topics.

Location

Pune Division

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Work experience

Senior DevOps Engineer at Tech SMCSQUARED, Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mo, Pune City

Senior DevOps Engineer at EPAM Systems, Feb 2022 - Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, ○ Managed and scaled containerized applications using AWS EKS and ECR, ensuring persistent storage with PV, PVC, and secure service accounts. ○ Implemented and managed AWS IAM policies for secure access control and least privilege principles. ○ Utilized DynamoDB to manage high-throughput transaction data and user session information for financial applications, ensuring low-latency access. ○ Used Packer to build golden images and terraform to provision infrastructure, streamlining deployment processes, automated configuration management using Ansible playbooks. ○ Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for automated builds, tests, and artifact creation. Employed ArgoCD for GitOps-based continuous delivery to Kubernetes clusters, ensuring declarative and automated application deployments ○ Implemented OWASP, Trivy, and SonarQube for automated security scanning within CI/CD pipelines. ○ Ensured secure communication between microservices using Kubernetes Ingress and AWS Load Balancers. ○ Collaborated with development teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and bug fixes into production. ○ Leveraged Kibana for log aggregation and analysis, facilitating troubleshooting and performance monitoring. ○ Utilized Grafana to create dashboards for visualizing metrics and logs, providing real-time insights into system health.

Software Engineer DevOps at Cerence Inc., May 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Duties include the following: - Senior Quality Assurance Engineer details - Onboarding new QA hires (including overall technical ramp-up) - Coaching new QA hires (managing expectations, setting up for their success) - Guiding extending existing QA infrastructure into analytics and reporting Key contributions- ○ Re-structured automation framework to adopt the recent change in few services. ○ Automated JWT token authentication flow and manage all existing tests with minor refactor. ○ Implemented Auto Scaling Groups to dynamically manage EKS node capacity, mitigating server bottlenecks and ensuring optimal performance. ○ Functioned as the primary DevOps Engineer for a Kubernetes-based Conversational AI Platform, supporting a hybrid speech voice recognition service. ○ Architected and deployed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions on AWS using Terraform, provisioning and managing IaaS and PaaS services. ○ Automated microservice deployments with Docker and Kubernetes, achieving high availability and fault tolerance. ○ Configured and managed Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters on AWS, utilizing Elastic Container Registry (ECR) for container storage and leveraging EC2, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and NAT Gateways for robust infrastructure. ○ Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for Java Spring Boot microservices, integrating code quality and vulnerability scanning with SonarQube and Static Application Security Testing (SAST). ○ Established comprehensive system monitoring and alerting using Prometheus/Grafana and Kibana, enabling proactive issue resolution and performance optimization.

Software Development Engineer in Test at Barclays, Oct 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, ○ Integrated automated testing frameworks (Selenium, RestAssured, Cucumber) into the CI/CD pipeline, enhancing software release reliability. ○ Engineered GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment workflows, accelerating release cycles. ○ Established robust version control strategies using Git, ensuring code integrity and facilitating collaborative development. ○ Performed comprehensive performance testing to identify and mitigate deployment bottlenecks, optimizing application performance. ○ Deployed applications to QA environments on AWS EC2 instances and triggered automated QA test suites, ensuring thorough pre-release validation. ○ Implemented real-time monitoring of application metrics using Grafana and log analysis with Kibana, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution. ○ Leveraged AWS S3 buckets for secure storage and retrieval of transaction files, facilitating data validation and integrity.

QA Engineer at Sigma Systems, Dec 2017 - Sep 2018 · 10 mos, Pune Area, India, - Performed smoke, functional, retesting, end to end / sanity and regression testing to improve quality of product. - Used selenium web driver with Typescript to automate the regression tests suits. - Used BDD framework to manage automation test scripts. - Used on Version One as test case management and defect tracking tool with agile methodology. - Experienced in Unix Commands to manage Unix environment. - Experience in Oracle database management systems to persist data and confirming the same. - Design and build testable solutions specifically for end-to-end integration - Deploy automated testing into infrastructure using common Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools - Advocate for agile delivery in automated unit, component, system integration, smoke and performance testing

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, shivaji university

Bachelor's degree(B.E), Information Technology, S.M.D. bharti High School,Arni

Public links

github: https://github.com/niteshops