Devkota

About Devkota

A proactive, results-oriented IT professional with 7+ years of experience working as a Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer specializing in Configuration Management, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Containerization and Kubernetes orchestration using multi-cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Experience

1. Sr Cloud Devops Engineer

   Optum

   Jan 2021 — Present · Irving, TX, US

   Developed Ansible playbooks, inventories, and custom playbooks in YAML, and encrypted the data using Ansible Vault and maintained role-based access control by using Ansible Tower and implemented IT orchestration using Ansible to run tasks in a sequence which can work on different servers.• Involved in using Terraform migrate legacy and monolithic systems to Amazon Web Services and provisioned the highly available EC2 Instances using Terraform and cloud formation and wrote new plugins to support new functionality in Terraform.• Expertise in Architecting and Implementing Azure Service Offering, such as Azure cloud services, Azure storage, IIS, Azure• Azure Active Directory (AAD), Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Storage, Azure, Blob Storage, Azure VMs, SQL Database, Azure Functions, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Monitor, and Azure Service Bus.• Hands on experience on Backup and restore Azure services and in Design and configure Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing. Azure cloud services, Blob storage, Azure Service Bus, Cosmos DB.• Created Ansible roles in YAML and defined tasks, variables, files, handlers, and templates. Created inventory and configured the Ansible files for parallel deployment in Ansible for automating the Continuous delivery process.• Implemented a centralized logging system using Logstash configured as an ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to monitor system logs, AWS CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail Events, changes in S3.• Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards. Monitoring Splunk dashboards, Splunk Alerts and configure scheduled alerts based on the internal customer requirement.

Education

• Northwestern State University

  Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Environmental Science

• LSU Shreveport

  Master's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General