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Ashwani Verma

Ashwani Verma

Lead DevOps Engineer

Sector 15, Rohini, New Delhi, Delhi, 110089
+91 8595533281
English, German, Hindi

Background


About

About

Seasoned Lead DevOps Engineer with over 10 years of hands-on experience and a demonstrated track record in establishing robust infrastructure monitoring and automation. Proven ability to reduce infrastructure costs by up to 20% and improve system resilience using cloud-native tools such as AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Expert in architecting, orchestrating, provisioning, monitoring, and automating complex systems. Strong leadership skills with a focus on team mentoring and client satisfaction.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • DevOps Lead, TO THE NEW

    May, 2023 - Present

    • Working as Lead DevOps to drive Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD Setup, Security, Monitoring Tools, Containerized platforms, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Configuration Management, etc.

    • Managed and optimized Cloudkeeper's AWS infrastructure using Terraform, enabling systematic and repeatable deployments and achieving 15% reduction in infrastructure costs.

    • Actively contributed to establishing a Microservices ecosystem, encompassing Dockerfile configuration, Docker CI/CD setup, Kubernetes cluster management, deployment strategies, and Helm packaging.

    • Collaborated with development teams to automate the software development lifecycle using Jenkins and GitLab CI, reducing deployment times by 30%.

    • Led AWS Partner-Led Services (PLS) initiatives for multiple clients, managing a team of 12 professionals.

    • Collaborated with AWS Technical Account Managers (TAMs) and Solution Architects to resolve customer issues, enhancing customer satisfaction by 25%.

    • Conducted more than 10 training sessions for team members on emerging technologies and best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement

  • Platform Engineer, Adidas India Marketing Private Limited

    Dec, 2020 - Apr, 20232 years 4 months

    • Managed a 50-node EFK cluster, processing 3 billion daily documents, and supported VictoriaMetrics handling 5 million daily metrics.

    • Engineered alerting and incident response systems for various teams using Opsgenie, Grafana, Prometheus, Instana, and ELK/EFK.

    • Led the design and onboarding of Landing Zone Logging architecture, overseeing streaming logs from 800+ AWS accounts.

    • Orchestrated observability AWS infrastructure deployments across dev, stg, and prod environments using Jenkins and Terraform IaC.

    • Proficient in deploying and managing AWS services like EC2, VPC, Load Balancers, ASG, Route53, OpenSearch, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, SQS, and SNS via IaC.

    • Authored technical run-books for L1 & L2 and actively contributed to on-call rotations.

    • Demonstrated expertise in command-line scripting with bash, Golang, and Python.

    • Proficient in a diverse technology stack, including ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash, Fluentd, Vector, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Harbour, Golang, Terraform (IaC), Jenkins, SQL DB, Security, Confluence, and Jira.

  • DevOps Engineer, Celestial Systems Pvt. Ltd.

    Dec, 2018 - Dec, 20201 year 11 months

    • Spearheaded the creation of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, streamlining deployment processes and reducing manual work by 70%.

    • Successfully slashed infrastructure costs by ~$200 monthly through proactive resource management during periods of reduced load and off business hours.

    • Authored Ansible playbooks as templates, reducing recurring tasks by 20% across diverse projects.

    • Designed cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure environments.

    • Implemented application environments utilizing Jenkins, AWS, and Azure DevOps.

    • Orchestrated Blue/Green infrastructure with Kubernetes, ensuring zero downtime during PROD deployments.

    • Proficient in technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, and Agile Scrum/Kanban methodologies.

  • Storage Administrator, CMS Computer Ltd.

    Sep, 2017 - Dec, 20181 year 2 months

    • Designed and implemented end-to-end AWS infrastructure, automating operations with GitHub Actions and AWS CDK, resulting in a 20% increase in efficiency.

    • Deployed on-demand infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt across multiple environments for testing and release purposes.

    • Orchestrated the deployment and maintenance of diverse infrastructure components, including Kubernetes clusters, EKS clusters, ELK stack, and Prometheus/Grafana.

    • Utilized Bash scripting for automated backups, uploading to S3 and Azure Blob Store, and implementing email alerts for site downtime.

    • Set up a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline with a tool stack including Git, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, and CodeDeploy.

    • Conducted infrastructure monitoring and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

    • Proficient in technologies such as Jenkins, Ansible, AWS, GitHub, Linux administration, ELK, and Grafana.

  • Senior Analyst, HCL Technologies

    May, 2014 - Sep, 20173 years 3 months

    Responsible for overseeing IT systems, user support, and network management. Implemented proactive maintenance and ensured the reliability of critical systems, providing seamless IT services to the organization.

    • Provided support and maintenance management of Dell EMC storage & Cisco switches.

    • Managed on-prem resources using Ansible configuration management.

    • Monitored and analyzed infrastructure performance using Nagios with routine storage capacity checks and reporting.

    • Proficient in technologies such as Ansible, Linux, Windows, Networking, Python, Cisco, and Storage.

    • Supporting storage infrastructure consist of EMC VMAX3, VMAX, VNX, Cisco SAN Switches

    • Responsible for performing provisioing storage in form of LUNs to VMs and servers

Skills

Skills

  • Cloud & DevOps Technologies

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Microsoft Azure

    Docker

    EKS Kubernetes

    Helm

    Harbour

    Terraform

    CloudFormation

    CDK

  • Monitoring and Alerting

    Prometheus

    Grafana

    Instana

    Opsgenie

  • Scripting and Automation

    Bash

    Python

    Golang

  • CI/CD

    Jenkins

    Azure DevOps

  • Logging

    Elastic Logstash Kibana(ELK)

    Fluentd

    Vector

  • Stream Processing

    Apache Kafka

    Amazon Kinesis

  • Operating Systems

    Linux

    Windows Server

    macOS

  • Database

    PostgreSQL

    MySQL

    Elasticsearch

  • Configuration Management

    Ansible

  • Version Control

    Git

    GitHub

  • Project Management

    Jira

    Confluence

    Slack

  • Agile Methodologies

    Scrum

    Kanban

Education

Education

  • Electronics and Communication Engineering, B.Tech, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

    Aug, 2009 - Jul, 2013

  • Higher Secondary Certificate, , Central Board of Secondary Education

    Apr, 2008 - Mar, 2009

  • Secondary School Certificate, , Central Board of Secondary Education

    Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2007

Certificates

Certificates

Interests

Interests

  • Technical

    Cloud Computing EnvironmentCloud Migration & DeploymentIncident Resolution/SLA AdherenceConfiguration ManagementVersion Control
  • Personal

    DocumentariesReading Technology BlogsCricket
References

References

  • Dipendra Sharma

    I’m happy to recommend Ashwani, with whom I had the pleasure of working at Celestial Systems. His expertise as a DevOps Engineer is truly impressive. Ashwani's collaborative spirit and dedication to excellence make him a fantastic colleague and an asset to any team.