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Amit Kumar

Vetted Talent

Amit Kumar

Vetted Talent

Amit Kumar is an experienced Cloud/Linux Engineer with a robust background in various aspects of system administration, cloud infrastructure management, and DevOps practices. With proficiency in a wide range of technologies including RedHat Linux, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Ansible, and Jenkins, he has demonstrated expertise in provisioning servers, ensuring cloud security, and resolving customer issues promptly. Amit has a Bachelor's degree in Commerce with Computer Science and has worked at Grras Solutions and Ninehertz India, where he contributed to designing, developing, and maintaining cloud-based solutions, providing technical direction to implementation teams, and ensuring optimal performance and uptime of applications. With excellent problem-solving skills, strong technical acumen, and effective communication abilities, Amit is a valuable asset in any team environment, adept at meeting tight deadlines and working under pressure.

  • Role

    Infrastructure Engineer

  • Years of Experience

    6 years

Skillsets

  • Virtualization platforms - 4 Years
  • JSON - 1 Years
  • SOLID principles - 3 Years
  • Computer & Network Security - 4 Years
  • cloud computimg - 5 Years
  • Cloud API - 3 Years
  • Hipaa security standards - 3 Years
  • CI/CD - 4 Years
  • ISO 27001 Standards - 2 Years
  • compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS) - 2 Years
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - 3 Years
  • Infrastructure Monitoring - 4 Years
  • AWS - 6 Years
  • server infrastructure - 5 Years
  • Security Audits - 3 Years
  • Network Infrastructure - 1 Years
  • Disaster Recovery - 4 Years
  • Cloud Infrastructure - 5 Years
  • Cloud Automation and Orchestration - 5 Years
  • Https - 6 Years
  • Kubernetes - 4 Years
  • Terraform - 4 Years
  • Docker - 4 Years

Vetted For

12Skills
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  • Results
  • Details
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    Senior AWS DevOps EngineerAI Screening
  • 59%
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  • Skills assessed :Agile principles, Jira, CI/CD Tools, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Java, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, Ruby On Rails
  • Score: 59/100

Professional Summary

6Years
  • Nov, 2021 - Jun, 20242 yr 6 months

    Devops Engineer

    Ninehertz India - Jaipur
  • Jun, 2017 - Nov, 20214 yr 5 months

    Cloud Engineer

    Grras Solutions

  • DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer

    Ninehertzindia Pvt Ltd

  • Cloud Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer

    Grras Solutions Pvt Ltd

Applications & Tools Known

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    AWS (Amazon Web Services)

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    Azure DevOps Server

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    Jenkins

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    Docker

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    Linux Admin

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    Terrafrom

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    Kubernetes

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    Debian

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    CentOS

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    Oracle VM

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    Ubuntu

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    Ansible

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    Amazon Web Services

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    Azure

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    GCP

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    AWS EC2

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    VPC

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    CLI

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    S3

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    IAM

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    GitHub

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    Apache

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    Nginx

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    LAMP

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    MERN

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    MEAN

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    AWS

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    Oracle

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    Terraform

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    EC2

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    SNS

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    Route53

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    IAM

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    EKS

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    ECS

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    CloudWatch

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    GitLab

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    OTRS

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    Jira

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    ELK Stack

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    MEAN stack

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    Oracle Cloud

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    IAM

Work History

6Years

Devops Engineer

Ninehertz India - Jaipur
Nov, 2021 - Jun, 20242 yr 6 months
    • Responsible for provisioning various Servers according to client need.
    • Work in tandem with our engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the company
    • Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
    • Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies
    • Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
    • Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
    • Develop and implement technical efforts to design, build, and deploy AWS applications at the direction of lead architects, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics
    • Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle for AWS solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance
    • Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
    • Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required
    • Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity
    • Design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems
    • Develop and maintain cloud solutions in accordance with best practices
    • Ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security
    • Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
    • Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements
    • Interact with clients, provide cloud support, and make recommendations based on client needs

Cloud Engineer

Grras Solutions
Jun, 2017 - Nov, 20214 yr 5 months
    • Provisioning various servers according to client requirements.
    • Prioritizing security of cloud resources with utmost importance.
    • Resolving customer issues promptly and providing detailed solutions within deadlines.
    • Handling different types of cloud environments including public, private, and hybrid.
    • Conducting daily monitoring, management, troubleshooting, and issue resolution for systems and services hosted on cloud resources.
    • Collaborating as part of a team to design and develop cloud data solutions.
    • Assisting business development teams with pre-sales activities and responding to RFPs.
    • Designing, managing, and maintaining tools for automating operational processes.
    • Providing technical direction and oversight to cloud implementation teams.
    • Installing, updating, patching, migrating, configuring, troubleshooting, securing, backing up, disaster recovering, and fine-tuning UNIX systems (Red Hat Linux and AIX).
    • Configuring, backing up, recovering, and maintaining Linux (SuSE & RHEL) and AIX systems.
    • Creating Linux virtual machines using VMware Virtual Center, including creating VM templates and troubleshooting virtualization-related issues.
    • Providing 24/7 on-call production support by monitoring environment performance and troubleshooting production-related problems.
    • Installing and managing network-related services such as DNS, Apache, LDAP, NIS, NIS+, NFS, SAMBA, HTTPD, VSFTP, and SMTP, as well as remote access and security management.
    • Managing packages through RHEL Satellite Server and using YUM for package installation and updates.
    • Managing user and group security administration, including managing user account SUDO access.
    • Proposing VM provisioning solutions for analysis and/or implementation.
    • Monitoring CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization of VMs and bare-metal servers.

DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer

Ninehertzindia Pvt Ltd
    Responsible for provisioning various server architectures based on client needs. Defined best practices for application deployment and infrastructure maintenance. Ensured application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design, managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines. Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures. Developed and implemented technical efforts to design, build, and deploy applications.

Cloud Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer

Grras Solutions Pvt Ltd
    Performed installation, configuration, backup, recovery, and maintenance of various Linux distributions. Administered network services like DNS, Web Services with a focus on security management. Utilized YUM and RHEL Satellite Server for package management. Managed user and group security, including controlling sudo access. Installed firmware upgrades, OS patches, and performed performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems, handling vulnerabilities.

Achievements

  • Automated deployments: Successfully implemented CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD) to automate deployments, leading to faster release cycles and reduced manual errors (mention 60% reduction or specific timeframe improvement).
  • Cloud Migration: Successfully migrated on-premises infrastructure to the cloud (e.g., AWS, Azure) with minimal downtime, resulting in increased scalability, cost efficiency, and agility.
  • Security best practices: Implemented security best practices like infrastructure hardening, access control, and vulnerability management, improving the overall security posture of the infrastructure.
  • Knowledge sharing: Mentored junior engineers or colleagues on DevOps tools and best practices, fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing within the team.

Major Projects

4Projects

Other

confidential
Aug, 2017 - May, 20246 yr 9 months
    • 100+ Projects deployment with multiple tech stacks like Php, Laravel, Node, NodeJS, ReactJS, and WordPress on multiple environments like VMs, bare-metal, Ec2, Containers, and Clusters using various Cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, Oracle, IBM etc.

SocialMedia Application

Confidentials
Sep, 2022 - Feb, 20241 yr 5 months
    • It is a Social media platform for Dogs and has over 3 lakh users.
    • As a DevOps engineer working on a social media app, My roles and responsibilities would encompass a wide range of tasks focused on automating, streamlining, and securing the development, deployment, and maintenance processes. Utilized cloud platforms like AWS for provisioning and managing cloud resources like servers, databases, storage, and networking components using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible.

Multimedia Application With OTT

Confidentials
Apr, 2022 - Jan, 20241 yr 9 months
    • It is a horror movies and podcast platform and has 4 lakh+ users.
    • Implemented best practices like CI/CD Pipeline Management (CodeCommit) and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes(EKS), Optimizing the performance and scalability, Infrastructure hardening, Object storage for Media content (S3) with CDN (Cloudfront) and Multi staging Database(RDS).

Ecommerce(Magento)

Dec, 2021 - Oct, 20231 yr 10 months
    • E-commerce web application for Eu client.
    • The website backend is in Magento. Deployed on Bare metal server provisioned on Interserver.net.
    • Along with apache2, ElasticSearch, Redis, and Varnish were implemented. For media assets block storage and CDN were there.

Education

  • Bachelors in Commerce in Computer Science

    Maharaja Ganga Singh University Bikaner (2019)

  • Bachelor of Commerce with computer science

    MGSU University Bikaner

Certifications

  • Project Management

    Great Learning Academy (Feb, 2024)

  • Aws cloud practitioner by amazon

  • Elastic stack by great learning academy

  • Cloud computing architecture by great learning academy

  • Microsoft azure essentials by great learning academy

  • Project management by great learning academy

  • Project management by great learnings academy

Interests

  • Trekking
  • Travelling
  • Learning
  • Exploring Places