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Ankit Tripathi
DEVOPS LEAD
Brussels
Summary
• DevOps Lead with 14+ yrs. of experience in the field of infrastructure design and Cloud/DevOps implementation for large scale enterprises.
• Design and Develop Cloud solutions to meet business requirements. Expected to perform the Subject Matter Expert role on cloud implementations.
• Redhat Linux 6/7/8 certified and also Professional scrum master certified.
• Active collaboration and partnership with IT Apps, Data architect, TechOps Managers & other product owners.
• Leading the team on any Deployment Process Automations as part of the change management and release management.
• Work closely with Enterprise architect to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure resources. Leverage platforms and technologies to improve scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Good understanding of ITIL framework. ITIL Foundation V3 certified.
• Apply SRE principles to enhance system reliability, performance, and availability. Collaborate with the team to implement best practices for monitoring, incident response, and reliability engineering.
• Define, design, document & roll out cost effective architectures for your functional domain to meet business requirements.
• Breaking down of application to different microservices and dockerising them by writing docker file.
• Proactively troubleshoot and resolve production issues, minimizing downtime and ensuring platform stability.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Managing all Cloud Infrastructure Assets on Amazon AWS ,GCP and AZURE.
• Linux/AIXSystem administration activities like: installation, build, patching & Decommission, server hardening.
• Managing AWS infrastructure (EKS,ELB,ECR,EC2,S3,cloudtrail,cloudwatch,codepipeline)via Terraform.
• Upgrading Helm charts for Kubernetes resources.
• Monitoring and Logging Services on ELK Stack (Elastic Search/Logstash/Kibana) & Prometheus.
• Handing container orchestration ,auto scaling and clustering by Kubernetes.
• Experience with administering a large virtualisation environment on VMware.
• Knowledge on databases like oracle , Maria & mongo DB.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
DevSecops Engineer
European Commission
brussels
02.2024 - Current
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, QA, and product managers, to integrate DevOps practices for legacy application.
- Migration of application to docker containers by writing docker files.
- Configuring and implementing promethus and alertmanager on redhat openshift and sending alerts to splunk index.
- maintaining datacenter redhat patching by redhat satellite servers.
- Configuring postgres database on openshift by writing stateful set and config map.
- writing python and bash script for configuring puppet auditing on master server.
- using LDAP services as an IAM solution for single sign on to application.
- Redhat server migration of 7 to 8 done via RHN and capsule server.
Senior AWS Platform Engineer
KBC Bank
Leuven
07.2021 - 01.2024
- Following Agile methodology and working in scrum team
- To design, implement and maintain solutions to manage and monitor the AWS accounts – IAM
- Working experience on (Containerization - Docker, Amazon EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, ECR, and PostgreSQL)
- Writing terraform modules to build and deploy infrastructure in AWS
- Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS environments as code
- Maintenance and improvements of the production and ACC environments and resolving the incidents (handling 600+ linux servers).Access Management, CloudWatch, Proxy, Firewall, Discussing system and server upgrades with IT managers
- Hands-on keyboard' AWS implementation experience across a broad range of AWS services
- Experience with core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as: organization's, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies
- Backup and Disaster Recovery approach and design
- AWS Cost Management and Optimizations
- Using OPA Gatekeeper and writing Kubernetes network policies to control network traffic in egress/Ingress
- Upgrading helm charts for Kubernetes resources and deploying it
- Ensure successful governance and process in place for effective control and improvement of the platform’s performance
- Supporting DevOps team with a strong governance process to ensure high quality, reuse of code and minimize customization
- Managing and creating ON-prem Data centre infrastructure on red-hat Linux/ubuntu/windows
- Hands-on AWS experience with QuickSight smart dash-boarding with connection to Athena
- Hand-on experience on L3 activities like server build, hardening .security policies OS patching
- Firmware upgrade
- Encrypting S3 buckets allowing only https traffic
- Experience with monitoring tool like Prometheus , nagios and doing auditing of systems
- Technology stack:
- ITIL, Confluence, Linux, Git, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, helm, CI/CD, Gatekeeper.
- Monitored and evaluated engineering performance to recommend improvements.
- Performed complex calculations to analyze and optimize engineering processes.
DevOps System Engineer
Sciensano
Brussels
05.2020 - 06.2021
- Following Agile methodology and working in scrum team
- Worked Ansible and Jenkins for Continuous Integration and scheduling
- Coaching and designing the application build and deployment pipelines (CI/CD) process
- Worked on SNOW and CONFLUENCE tool
- Deploying our HD4DP 2.0 application in 200+hospitals of Belgium
- Monitoring/Alerting/Logging Services with Prometheus, and Grafana
- Writing Docker file and dockerised different application and database
- Red hat enterprise Linux and Ubuntu System administration activities like: installation, build, patching and Decommission, server hardening
- Building and pushing Docker images and deploying the containers to production and managing via Kubernetes
- Hand on experience with ansible roles and yaml ansible playbook configuration
- Monitoring of our infra via Nagios tool
- Onitor system activity and events like System Performance Monitoring CPU, Memory, Network and Disk
- Doing activities like Kernel management, NGINX configuration and server hardening
- Creating new VMs on GCP hypervisor and vSphere client 6.5
- Good understanding of ITIL framework
- ITIL Foundation and change management
DevOps Engineer
ING Bank Belgium
Brussels
10.2017 - 05.2020
- Creating and monitoring the Build jobs in Jenkins and to maintain the integration with GIT
- Following Agile methodology and working in scrum team under SDLC
- Worked on TFS/Ansible and Nolio for Continuous Integration and scheduling
- Coaching and designing the application build and deployment pipelines (CI/CD) process
- Worked on SNOW and CONFLUENCE tool
- Unix shell scripting to automate all the day today tasks
- Monitoring/Alerting/Logging Services and correlating patterns (e.g
- Prometheus, Logstash, elastic search, Kibana)
- Performing provisioning of infrastructure tasks on AZURE
- Experience in troubleshooting and tuning JVM-based server applications
- Redhat enterprise Linux System administration activities like: installation, build, patching and Decommission, server hardening
- Building and pushing Docker images to jfrog artifactory and deploying the containers to production
- Hand on experience with unix shell scripting and yaml ansible playbook configuration
- Monitor system activity and events like System Performance Monitoring CPU, Memory, Network and Disk
- Kernel management, tuning of kernel parameters
- Azure DevOps implementation
- Creating azure pipeline to automate all OPS related work
- Keeping our application compliance with IT risk policies
- Deployment of Tomcat server by azure pipeline and connect to SQL database
- Monitor and proactively troubleshoot cloud and infra resources
- Created monitoring stack for logging and monitoring tools to improve observability across systems (e.g.Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus, Collectd)
- Strong experience on Container Orchestration tools .( Kubernetes).
DevOps Engineer
Cognizant
06.2014 - 09.2017
- Hands on knowledge in implementing CI/CD and Configuration Management Automation
- Helped setup infrastructure automation for large scale ecommerce platforms
- Support customers real-time through chat, screen sharing, research and call-back, to resolve variety of support incidents ranging from basic “How To” to critical and complex technical issues in a 24x7x365 global support delivery team
- Implementation of HAproxy load balancer configuration and reverse proxy servers
- Having experience with Tomcat and IBM WebSphere
- Management and Administration of AWS Services CLI, EC2, VPC, S3, ELB Glacier, Route 53, Cloud trail, IAM, and Trusted Advisor services
- Configuring and Initiating alarms in CloudWatch service for monitoring the server's performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage etc
- To take recommended actions for better performance
- Registering and Patching Servers with RHN, Novell for Redhat and SUSE Via Puppet
- Working knowledge for enterprise strength techniques such as SAN, RAID, mirroring, Clustering, Consolidation,and Load Balancing
- Worked on configuration and troubleshooting of Redhat Linux 6,7/AIX 800+ servers
Unix Specialist
Ericsson global PVT LTD
05.2012 - 06.2014
- Develops effective problem resolution procedures related to data center computer systems and application software
- Level 3 Support for 800+ Red Hat Linux,and AIX
- Hardening servers based on security Policies and fixing vulnerabilities
- Performing Capacity Planning by IBM Tivoli Monitoring Tool
- Ability to use tools like IOSTAT, VMSTAT, SAR
- Installing, migrating and maintaining IBM AIX 5.x,6.1 on Pseries Servers
- Taking Mksysb backup and HMC critical backup
- Hardening the IBM AIX 5.x,6.1 on Pseries Servers
- AIX/LINUX server build and decommission
- Monitor system activity and events like System Performance Monitoring CPU, Memory, Network and Disk Utilization
- Kernel management, understanding of kernel parameters
- Red Hat Linux Server Configurations and HPUX 11iv1, 11iv2, 11iv3,AIX: NIS, NFS, NTP, SMTP, DNS, LDAP,DHCP, FTP, TELNET, SAMBA, APACHE Web Server Configurations
- Attaching new server to the storage and creating LUNs for the host
- Installation and Management of MySQL on Linux
- Technology stack:
- Redhat Linux/AIX and HP-UX.
Technical Solution Engineer
Hewlett Packard
Bangalore
09.2010 - 05.2012
- Working with Incident, Change and Problem Management tickets
- Creating Change Order, Work Order for maintenance
- File systems creation and extending the volumes under Logical Volume Manager
- Performance tuning and Security Implementation
- LVM and Root disk mirroring and disk replacement
- Kernel parameters modification and rebuilding of kernel
- Patch Management installation of patch including firmware up gradation
- Regular monitoring of system logs and file systems
- Monitoring servers performance using Glance and Top
- Analysis of Control M error logs and failed scripts
- Co-ordination for Root Cause Analysis of High Severity Incidents.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Programming
EWIT
Bangalore 08.2006 - 06.2010
Skills
Kubernetes, AWS, AZURE, Solution Architect
Accomplishments
Father's Name: Arvind Kumar Tripathi
Sex : Male
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Language Known : English, Hindi
Address : Brussels 1200
Passport Details: Passport NO: J8773016
Declaration:
I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my Knowledge and belief
(Ankit Tripathi)
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Interests
Hanging out with friends, travelling to beaches and mountains
Timeline
DevSecops Engineer
European Commission
02.2024 - Current
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
08-2022
Senior AWS Platform Engineer
KBC Bank
07.2021 - 01.2024
DevOps System Engineer
Sciensano
05.2020 - 06.2021
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
06-2018
DevOps Engineer
ING Bank Belgium
10.2017 - 05.2020
Redhat 7 certified Engineer
10-2016
ITIL V4 Certified
09-2015
DevOps Engineer
Cognizant
06.2014 - 09.2017
Redhat 6 Certified Engineer
11-2013
Unix Specialist
Ericsson global PVT LTD
05.2012 - 06.2014
Technical Solution Engineer
Hewlett Packard
09.2010 - 05.2012
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Programming
EWIT
08.2006 - 06.2010
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