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Anish K. - Remote DevOps engineer

Anish K.

Based in: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Timezone: London (UTC+1)

Summary

Highly skilled AWS Cloud Architect with 5+ years of experience in designing, architecting, securing and implementation. An outstanding performer in building high quality solutions that are scalable, highly available and fault tolerant tailored towards an enterprise business outcome. Hands on experience with developer tools (AWS CodeSuite services, Git, Jenkins, Gitlab), Container orchestration (AWS Container Services – ECS, EKS and open source Kubernetes), Infrastructure automation (Terraform, CloudFormation and AWS CDK). Experienced in designing and deploying secure network architectures for operating in hybrid mode (AWS and on-premise).

Proficient in DevOps, Containerization, Cloud Engineering and Cloud Security with proven success in automating, building and deploying processes for operational excellence. Accomplished in defining, planning and implementing strategies for cloud adoption of enterprises.

Work Experience

Cloud Engineer
Balyasny Asset Management | Aug 2023 - Present
Git
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
HashiCorp
Grafana
Prometheus
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
  • Responsible for deploying and managing the Control Tower for the organisation.
  • Configuring Account Factory for Terraform to automate the provisioning and customisation for AWS accounts.
  • Segregating Portfolio Team’s workloads to team specific accounts from the shared account.
  • Building pipelines for automatic release for application as well as infrastructure.
  • Responsible for creating and managing Kubernetes cluster for hosting application workloads using helm charts.
  • Integrating Kubernetes cluster with different community products to reduce manual operational efforts like Istio as Service Mesh, OPA gatekeeper for governance, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, Velero forbackup etc.
  • Using Terraform in conjunction with Atlantis for automatic AWS infrastructure provisioning.
  • Responsible for securing overall workload (Infra and application) of Balyasny
  • Working with following Tech stack for application and infra management:
    • Git - Version control System
    • Terraform and CloudFormation - Infrastructure as Code
    • Jenkins and Atlantis - Pipeline
    • Prometheus, Grafana, Komodor and Rancher - Monitoring and Observability
    • S3 and CloudWatch - Logging and Monitoring
    • EKS and ECS - Compute
    • RDS, EBS volumes, ElasticCache - Storage
    • AWS Batch and Airflow - job processing
    • AWS Secrets Manager and Hashicorp vault - Secrets management.
    • Cloudability - Billing dashboard.
Cloud Architect
Amazon Web Services | Jul 2018 - Jul 2023
Git
Python 3
Kubernetes
Datadog
Terraform
Computer networking
SIEM
Argo CD
Security Automation
AWS (Amazon Web Services)

§ Manage customers for Migration, Modernization, DevOps, Containerization and Landing Zone setup to manage applications and infrastructure in AWS Cloud.

§ Consult with customers to understand their business requirement and building solutions to achieve business outcomes.

§ BuildPipelinesforapplicationandinfrastructurereleasesusingAWSCodeSuiteserviceslikeAWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodeStar.

§ Assist enterprises to modernization the application by converting the monolithic application to micro-services or containers and deploy them on AWS ECS or AWS EKS.

§ Have extensive knowledge of multiple AWS service in different domains like Compute, security, Network, storage and analytics.

§ Compose and create CloudFormation, Terraform and CDK scripts to ensure repeatable, sustainable AWS infrastructure is effectively managed and automated.

§ Lead projects from technical perspective to deliver customer business outcomes in defined deadlines.

§ Perform hands on POC work to create out-of-box solutions using new tools and technologies to achieve customer's business requirements.

§ Deliver design documents, codes and operational runbook to allow customer to operate independently after project handover.

§ Configure and deploy backup solution in Landing zone to prevent application disruption and automatic disaster recovery.

§ Provide technical and architectural oversight for systems and projects that are required to be reliable, massively scalable, highly available, and maintainable.

§ Experience in documenting security controls for DevOps and Cloud environments using industry standard guidelines such as Center for Internet Security (CIS), ISO, NIST, etc. to meet organizations standards.

Education

Savitribai Phule Pune University
Bachelor's degree・Information Technology
Jul 2014 - Jun 2018