Professional Profile

Professional Summary

Experienced Automation Lead and DevOps Engineer with 17+ years in the IT industry, specializing in secure cloud architecture, Privileged Access Management (PAM) automation, and continuous delivery. Certified in AWS (SAA, SOA), Kubernetes (CKA), and HashiCorp Terraform/Vault.

Expertise in driving end-to-end automation for infrastructure and security workflows using GitLab Pipelines/GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Python. Proven ability to architect containerized solutions (EKS) and implement robust observability stacks (OTEL, Prometheus, grafana, Splunk). Currently leading automation initiatives to streamline Vault operations, Cloudflare zone/user management, firewall interface creation.

Technical Competencies

Core Mission: Design and implementation of end-to-end automation workflows for critical infrastructure.

• Infrastructure Automation: Designed automation workflows
  • Cloudflare Zone/User Management: Utilizing Bash, Python, Terraform, and GitLab Pipelines and cloudflare API interactions
  • Firewall Interface Creation: Creating servicenow flows and integrating with gitlab pipelines and automation the change creation for the requests
• CI/CD Orchestration: Built robust pipelines in GitLab and GitHub Actions integrating custom Python shell scripts to handle logic and API interactions.
• Operational Excellence: Implemented automated pipeline failure alerts to trigger email and chat notifications, ensuring rapid incident response.
• Vault & Identity Automation: Automated request fulfillment for Vault Namespace Creation and Certification Renewals using iCare Forms and Backstage Templates.

• Infrastructure as Code: Designed and managed scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring consistency across environments.
• Container Migration: Led the migration of workloads from EC2 to AWS ECS/EKS, implementing modern containerized architectures.
• Standardization: Developed reusable Terraform modules and Docker base images to standardize deployments.
• DevSecOps: Implemented CI/CD pipelines integrated with security tools to support rapid feature releases.
• Secrets Management: Secured EKS clusters by setting up Vault database secret engines and sidecar agents.

• Solution Delivery: Led the design of complex cloud solutions, orchestrating workloads using Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.
• AWS Architecture: Managed extensive AWS environments including EC2, VPC, EKS, CloudFormation, S3, and IAM.
• Project Management: Directed technical delivery, including Architecture Designs, BOM, and UAT documentation.
• Monitoring: Implemented comprehensive network monitoring tools for infrastructure analysis.

• Network Optimization: Configured routers/switches and resolved complex routing faults.
• Packet Analysis: Configured SPAN ports to direct traffic to TAP switches connected to Gigastor, utilizing Observer for deep packet analysis.
• Flow Monitoring: Configured NetFlow on routers to analyze traffic patterns and identify top talkers.