🚀 About Me:
I am an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with 8 years of expertise in the Network and Security domain. I have a strong background in system engineering, automation, and infrastructure management.
🔹 Key Skills & Expertise:
✅ Security & Networking: Strong background and experience in Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco Routers and Switches, F5 LTM/APM. API integration for firewall and network automation.
✅ Kubernetes & Containers: Foundational knowledge of Kubernetes with hands-on exposure to OpenShift, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), and ECS (Elastic Container Service) in lab environments. Built custom Docker images containing Ansible and Python to execute playbooks, deployed via GitLab Runners running on a Kubernetes platform.
✅ Programming & Automation: Hands-on coding in Python and Bash for infrastructure scripting. Developed scripts for repetitive ops tasks.
✅ CI/CD & DevOps: Experience in Git, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and Ansible for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
✅ Observability & Monitoring: Built real-time dashboards using Grafana, Zabbix, Splunk & Observium tool to monitor infrastructure and application metrics.
✅ Cloud Platforms: Foundational knowledge of AWS and Azure, including automation of firewall/security rules and infrastructure deployments.
✅ Collaboration Tools: Worked in Agile setups using Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket. Produced reusable Ansible roles and Python modules to scale DevOps practices
🎯 What I Do:
- Implementation and maintaining the network infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform & Ansible
- Develop, execute scripts and automate the infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment of cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Python, Ansible & Terraform.
- Enhance system stability & performance through proactive monitoring and best practices
- Deploy, monitor, and maintain OpenShift container platform
- Troubleshoot and resolve Network & Firewall-related issues.
- Collaborate across teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud-related challenges
Implement DevOps practices to establish and assure organizational governance and best practices in Cloud deployments. Validate cloud architectures to meet organizational and industry standards using Terraform, Ansible, and Packer. Apply configuration management and eliminated drift using Ansible and Azure Automation.