Avinash K

About Avinash K

An Adept Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience working in the IT industry with strong foundations in Configuration Management, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD), Build and Release Management, System/Network Administration on various cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and have experience working in fast paced Agile teams. Hands-on experience in tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Ansible, several scripting languages and monitoring tools.

Experience

1. Sr Azure Infrastructure Engineer

   Mercury Insurance

   Jan 2020 — Present · Brea, CA, US

   Worked on various Azure Services like Compute, Caching, Azure SQL, ARM (Azure resource manager), Storage, Virtual Networks, Azure Active Directory (AD), Fabric Controller, Azure Data Factory, Application Gateways, API Management, Scheduling, Azure Autoscaling, Azure Log Analytics Workspace and PowerShell Automation-> Created and implemented ARM templates and deployed them using the Azure portal, also used Azure quick start templates for Cloud Infrastructure design and implementation to deploy Web applications using Azure PowerShell Workflow-> Involved in selecting the appropriate Azure service based on compute, data or security requirements and leveraging Azure SDKs to interact with Azure services-> Created Azure Role-based Access Control (RBAC) to segregate duties within our team and provide only necessary access to users-> Designed delivery pipeline for different environments like DEV, QA, UAT and Production and implemented Azure DevOps as a continuous integration service-> Created custom agent pools and configured self-hosted agents for running Azure pipelines by implementing various roles and tasks in Ansible Playbooks. Wrote Ansible playbooks using Python SSH as wrapper for managing configurations of various Azure instances-> Created reusable pipelines in Azure DevOps by passing build parameters using variable groups and integrated it with Azure Key Vault to fetch sensitive information like client secret and access token-> Set up Kubernetes Clusters for running microservices and pushed microservices into production with Kubernetes backed Infrastructure. Automated the deployment of Kubernetes clusters using Ansible playbooks-> Involved in troubleshooting and resolving several issues like CrashLoopBackoff while creating Kubernetes Pods by analyzing logs in production environment->Wrote many Python Scripts to automate tagging the resources based on the user input and by processing the CSV or YAML files provided as Inputs.

Education

• University of Central Missouri

  Master's degree, Computer Science