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Ankit Bhalla

Ankit Bhalla

DevOps Specialist

New Delhi, IN
(91) 958-226-2929
English, Hindi

Background


About

About

Certified Devops Engineer having around fourteen years of hands-on experience in architecting/ automating and optimizing mission-critical deployments over a large infrastructure and having experience in all phases of the software development life - cycle (SDLC) with specific focus on the build and release of quality software Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Lean practices.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Principal Member of Technical StaffOracle

    May, 2022 - Present

    Help building IDP SaaS Platform for onbarding fusion applications, microserives over OCI and Kubernetes.

    • Installing IDP to build layers from the bottom up, starting with IaaS and ending with “Day 2” configurations that we perform on an installed and running platform deployment.

    • Building platform using Terraform and oracle build service by automation pipelines to automate the installation of internal platform components or services on to Oracle cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes.

    • Designing the highly scalable platform using Kubernetes on oracle cloud infrastructure, as the primary control component along with custom resources, openapi specifications using sdks, along with cncf graduated tools such as helm charts, cert-manager, linkerd service mesh for mTLS, ingress, argocd ecosystem.

    • Automated deployments, upgrades and backups of the (ossp) platform using gitlab CI pipelines, sonar, and integrated it with internal secrets vault.

    • Providing support for Dev teams to troubleshoot failed applications and services in IDP environments.

    • Created and maintaining virtual machines, including buildpack upgrades using Bash, Python SDK's CLI, Platform CLI.

    • Installed to forward data and to monitor the platform and application performance using tools prometheus and internal apm tools.

    • Assisting with system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments.

  • Design SpecialistBritish Telecom

    Mar, 2020 - Mar, 20222 years

    Help building CI Platform for Oracle Fusion, application migration on AWS and Kubernetes.

    • Designed automation framework for Oracle Fusion suite applications using shared libraries for Jenkins Pipelines, Maven assembly plugin, HP UFT, SonarQube, Nexus, and Python WLST for powering multiple deployments every day to keep quality and velocity.

    • Integrated DB Versioning tool Flyway for Oracle, MySQL database patches across all environments

    • Helped to evangelize the Git flow model across teams and drive its adoption.

    • Lead the implementation of Infrastructure-As-Code (Terraform, helm charts, Ansible playbooks) wherever possible using TDD framework and Lean Practices

    • Participated in the Lookout migration of critical workloads hosted both on-Prem VM's, Oracle Linux Container Services(Kubernetes Clusters) to Amazon hybrid cloud services which allowed for our consumer product to have zero downtime and function within the cloud.

    • Built a user-friendly interface for microservices on-Boarding using GitOps pipelines that concealed the complexity of the underlying Kubernetes platform and allowed for baked-in best practices and enforcement of security policies.

    • Experience with log shipping and data parsing/enrichment; log streaming pipeline; centralize log management repository and search; data visualizations; alerting.

    • Owned applications forecasting and planning infrastructure requirements using Kubecost, Hygieia DevOps Metrics dashboard.

    • Use of ServiceNow and Kanban for incident management, change control and task management.

  • Lead TechnologyNagarro

    Jan, 2018 - Mar, 20202 years 2 months

    Lead Engineer - Application lifecycle Management

    • Implement Git branching strategies for multiple microservices for release management.

    • SonarQube and Nightwatch to keep quality and velocity

    • Lead the implementation of secure cloud architecture best practices & Pioneered Infrastructure-As-Code wherever possible

    • Deployed from zero full AWS infrastructure utilizing EKS for development and production clusters. Secured the system in order to be compliant with GDPR and HIPAA. Utilized Gitlab CI and Helm Charts for continues delivery and releases. Supported HA RDS clusters with read-replicas for zero-downtime database access.

    • Automated the entire incident process including alerting, documenting and recording of all incidents using Slack, Pagerduty, Jira and Dynatrace.

    • Own the reliability of production systems across development and production environments in US, EU and APAC.

    • Responsible Secrets management using AWS secrets manager integrated with our CI/CD pipeline along with being used by all services for secure transportation of secrets and Okta as IDP provider.

  • Senior ConsultantThoughtworks

    Jul, 2017 - Dec, 20175 months

    DevOps Consultant - World's Largest Financial Services Company

    • Infrastructure as Code practice on AWS using terraform.

    • Migrated Microservices to treadmill (Morgan Stanley Kubernetes distribution).

    • Supporting development teams with microservices development.

    • Actively involved and hands-on in writing infrastructure tools and services for internal teams in Python, and Bash

  • Lead EngineerSamsung R&D Institute, Delhi

    Sep, 2016 - Jul, 20179 months

    SRE - Managing High volume traffic application for Smart TV division

    • Managed High traffic application hosted on AWS across five geographies using configuration management tool ansible, created ansible playbooks.

    • Setting up CI platform for Bigdata Scala apps and integrated those with Fisheye and Crucible for code reviews.

    • Maintaining fleet of Big Data Platform Kafka, Zookeeper, Cassandra, Hadoop, Solr, Redis.

    • Secured all Lookout AWS accounts using a AWS lambda, CloudTrail and Config.

  • Associate Lead TechnologyNagarro

    Oct, 2015 - Sep, 201610 months

    Migration - Migration of SAP Hybris Platform to AWS Cloud and CI

    • Infra Provisioning using Cloudformation templates with Custom function Resources using AWS Lambda functions

    • Migration of SAP Hybris build Pipeline from Atlassian Stack to OSS Platform Jenkins, Sonar, Nexus and deployments through AWS Code Deploy with Autoscaling Lifecycle hooks for Deployments for Hybris.

    • Stream Application logs using Fluentd ingestion Layer syslog to splunk.

    • Setup Globally distributed CDN for static assets delivery

  • Senior Software EngineerhCentive acquired by Optum (a UnitedHealth Group company)

    Jul, 2014 - Oct, 20151 year 3 months

    Build and Release Eningeer

    • Migration of code repository from svn to hosted git.

    • Creating a fully Automated Build and Deployment Platform and coordinating code builds, promotions and orchestrated deployments.

    • Managing Chef Cookbooks Recipes Roles, environments using version control, Berkshelf and developed test framework with kitchen for audit cookbooks InSpec compliance for developer’s wrapper cookbooks.

  • Software EngineerST Microelectronics

    Oct, 2012 - Jun, 20141 year 9 months

    Application Release to Production Team

    • Managing Oracle Middleware Tuxedo Environment using IBM Tivoli workload scheduler.

    • Application lifecycle Management.

    • Helped developing teams onboarding new applications on self managed cloud.

  • Sr AnalystHCL Technologies Ltd

    Dec, 2010 - Sep, 20121 year 9 months

    Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

    • Managed Service Provider for Infra as a Service using CA 3tera Applogic hybrid cloud.

    • Server patching of linux servers using BMC Automation suite bladelogic with help of shell,python scripts.

Skills

Skills

  • Cloud
    Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureOCI
  • CI/CD
    JenkinsGitlab CIAzure DevopsSonarQubeArgo WorkflowsArgoCD
  • Internal Developer Platform
    TerraformCrossPlaneBackstageKubevelaCloudFormationAnsible
  • Containers
    DockerKubernetes (EKS, OKE, Rancher)HelmKustomizeService Mesh
  • Monitoring
    PrometheusThanosDynatraceGrafana/Kibana
  • Log Aggregation
    FluentdKafka
  • Scripting
    Shell ScriptingPythongo
Education

Education

  • Computer Science Engineering, Bachelors, Government Engineering College, Ajmer

    Jul, 2006 - Jul, 2010

Publications

Publications

Interests

Interests

  • Travelling

  • Opensource

  • Reading