Arun Kumar Thapa

About Arun Kumar Thapa

Highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in managing cloud services for major clients. Expert in maintaining and upgrading both on-premises and cloud-based Kubernetes clusters across AWS and Azure environments. Adept at automating deployment processes using Terraform and Ansible, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins to enhance development workflows.Proficient in troubleshooting Kubernetes cluster issues and implementing robust monitoring and alerting solutions with Prometheus and Grafana. Experienced in leveraging the EFK stack for efficient logging and issue resolution.Skilled in designing high-availability environments and managing high-load traffic with autoscaling solutions and load balancers. Demonstrated success in executing zero-downtime deployments and configuring Istio service meshes to improve microservices communication and security. Competent in Linux shell/bash scripting for effective automation and system management.Proficient in a wide range of tools and technologies like - Cloud: Azure ( Active Directory [AD], RBAC, Subscription, ACR, AKS, Vnet, PLS/PLE, VM, Storage Account [ file share - NFS/SMB ], NSG, Public IP, SendGrid [ SaaS ] – smtp, Private/Public DNS Zone, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, MySQL [ PaaS ], CDN, Firewall, NAT Gateway )AWS ( EC2, Volume, Auto Scaling, NACLs, Route Table, NAT Gateway, Security Group, VPC, Route 53, Firewall, IAM, EFS, S3, ECR, EKS, Load Balancers, RDS ) Containerization: Docker Orchestration: Kubernetes CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Git Scripting: Bash Scripting Infrastructure as code (IaC): Terraform Packaging: Helm Architecture: Monolithic/Microservices Service Mesh Tool: Istio Webserver: Nginx Monitoring: Prometheus/Grafana Logging: ELK/EFK Configuration Management Tool: Ansible Platform: Linux, Windows

Experience

1. Devops Engineer

   EPAM Systems

   Jul 2024 — Present · Gurugram, IN

Education

• RGPV University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

  2016 — 2020