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Devops Engineer

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About Simranpreet

A total of 10+ years of experience in IT industry working as a consultant in Infrastructure & Application Operations and having an expertise in AWS Cloud Operations/Application/Data Centre Operations. A good team player who leads the team from the front, keep mentoring the team members and help them to grow their technical skills. Proven to possess management skills, is self-directed, organised, motivated and willing to take new initiatives. Strong verbal and written communication & presentation skills. Ability to work well under pressure and within reduced time constraints. Experienced team participant, works well where the independent decision is required.

 

Work Experience

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Devops Engineer

  • January 2011 - January 2023 - 12 Year
  • India

Projects

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AWS Infrastructure Provisioning And Support

  • June 2021 - December 2021 - 7 Months
Role & Responsibility

    Maintaining AWS Infrastructure for multiple clients
    Implemented Dynatrace enterprise monitoring tool for AWS resource monitoring
    Worked along with the clients to reduce overall running costs of the infrastructure
    Implemented AWS WAF for protection from SQL Injection, DDoS, Cross-site Scripting and other external attacks.
    Configured Cisco Stealth watch with AWS for traffic analysis. 
    Involved in designing, deploying and configuring a multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS, Route53, ELB, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, AWS Autoscaling, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
    Managing AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing for Production, QA and UAT environments
    Extending the Root or secondary EBS Volume size and type of an EC2 Instance online with zero downtime
    Created NAT gateways and instances to allow communication from the private instances to the internet through bastion hosts
    Installation of AWS CLI to control various AWS services 
    Working with version control and source code management tools like GIT
    Connecting On-Prem resources to AWS infra via point-to-site VPN
    Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
    Working with various AWS Beanstalk Environments hosting Applications
    EBS Volume Encryption for security for data at rest and in transit
    Procuring AWS SSL Certificates for data encryption for HTTP traffic for EC2 and CDN
    Setup/Managing CDN on Amazon CloudFront (Origin path: Server/S3/ALB) to improve site performance
    Creating/Managing buckets in S3 (CLI) for backups, images for CDN service and object lifecycle management
    Registering and managing hosted zones in Route 53
    Working with VPCs, NAT instances and Route tables
    Maintaining, configuring various Unix/Linux servers hosting client Applications
    Extensively worked on Installation and configuration of Windows 12/12R2/16 Servers on largely distributed environment.
    Web URL’s creation, Site creation and Application deployment on IIS 6.0, IIS 7.5 and IIS 8.5 web servers.
    Managed SSL Certificates for all lower and production environment and worked on renewing and setting up certificates with application in IIS
    Troubleshooting Certificate issues with the help of SSL diagnostic tool.
    Worked with vendors on Application deployments
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AWS DevOps Implementation And Configuration

  • December 2017 - June 2018 - 7 Months
Role & Responsibility

    Designing, deploying and operating highly available, scalable and fault tolerant systems using Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Working with Developers on various day-to-day issues
    Creating IAM users and working with various roles, policies and permissions
    Participate in pre-sales engagements as needed
    Developed and produced documentation of the implemented solution
    Worked with CodeCommit, CodeBuild and CodeDeploy for CI/CD Pipelines
    Setting up Backups and Archiving polices for various datastores
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Systems Administration And Implementation

  • October 2015 - November 2016 - 14 Months
Role & Responsibility
    Installed and Setup Web Servers (Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, and WebLogic), DB Server (MySQL and Oracle)
    Maintaining AWS Infrastructure for the Organization
    Providing development infrastructure environment and assisting development. 
    Analyzing, monitoring and maintaining server environments for seamless delivery to the clients. 
    Continuous upgrade in the infrastructure environment for better efficiency, cost cutting and time management. 
    Scheduling jobs using crontab
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Data Center Management

  • April 2015 - October 2015 - 7 Months
Role & Responsibility
    Management of 200+ Linux Servers with Multiple websites in a heterogeneous environment
    Monitoring external and internal websites of the organization through Dynatrace and Identifying issues as per the alerts and providing immediate resolution.
    Installing and Managing SSL certificates
    Setting up new Apache Vhosts with SSL certificates and respective DNS as per requirement
    Responsible for troubleshooting Mount points, NFS, Mail issues.
    Maintained and configured Web server: Apache and Application servers (Tomcat and JBoss).
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Startup: Kayako

  • December 2008 - February 2015 - 75 Months
Role & Responsibility
    Installing, configuring and maintaining Kayako Helpdesk instances on client’s as well as the hosted environment. 
    Created “wiki.kayako.com”. 
    Created Kayako 4 manual. 
    Collaborated, organized and documented the Kayako processes for different departments viz.
     Sales, Support, Services, HR, Development, Finance, Accounts. 
    Process trainer for Sales, Services and Support department. Responsible for a success rate of graduate trainees. 
    Responsible for Process auditing for Technical departments and Quality coaching on the basis
     of Auditing and responsible for improvements and issues encountered during the auditing process. 
    Leading Linux engineering team at Kayako for delivering exceptional customer experience.
        
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Provisioning OpenSource

  • October 2006 - December 2008 - 27 Months
Role & Responsibility
    Installation and configuration of Linux OS (Fedora and RHEL), Windows Server.  
    Worked on implementing, managing and deploying servers which include DNS server, Mail server, SVN data repository server.
     Managing services which include daily backup, creating shell scripts for backups
    Worked on setting up Rewrite rules through “.htaccess” files
    Monitoring Apache Server access logs and error logs.
    Monitoring Linux Server Health via MRTG, Top, and other Linux monitoring tools.
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Industry Expertise

Education

Education

in B. Tech

Punjab University
  • June 2000 - June 2003

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