Nitin Chahal
Senior Devops @National Trust
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Devops @National Trust
Swindon, GB
Led large-scale migration of legacy and open-source workloads into highly available, containerised AWS EKS platforms, significantly improving resilience, operability, and deployment consistency while reducing platform outages by ~90%.•Owned the end-to-end AWS platform lifecycle across EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and MSK, delivering upgrades, OS patching, security hardening, capacity tuning, and blue/green deployments to enable zero-downtime change.•Designed and operated Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines for containerised and Java workloads, embedding security and quality gates and enabling GitOps-driven delivery using Helm and Flux across multiple AWS accounts and clusters.•Standardised Infrastructure as Code using reusable Terraform modules, improving governance, repeatability, and speed of delivery across cloud environments.•Improved performance and customer experience through APM instrumentation, slow-query analysis, and load testing, working closely with analytics teams to optimise application behaviour under peak traffic.•Delivered measurable AWS cost optimisation through rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, autoscaling, and environment scheduling, supported by FinOps practices and Trusted Advisor insights.•Strengthened cloud security using AWS-native and third-party tooling, implementing centralised security controls, federated identity, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation.•Architected secure AWS networking foundations using Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, inspection VPCs, WAFs, and controlled third-party connectivity.•Built a unified observability platform with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, and synthetic monitoring, automating operational and incident-response workflows.•Led database platform migrations and upgrades across Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch, improving scalability, security, and operational reliability.
EDUCATION
Dr MGR Educational and Research Institute
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT NITIN CHAHAL
AWS-certified Senior Web operations Engineer with 15+ years of experience across IT and Telecom network. Strong expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure design, migration, automation, CI/CD, and performance optimization. Proven ability to manage complex change processes, evaluate vendor solutions, deliver large-scale migrations, and troubleshoot production issues with speed and efficiency. A proactive engineer skilled at identifying problems, proposing solutions, and implementing changes in controlled production environments. Cloud & Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.AWS Services: EKS, Fargate, IAM, EC2, ELB, S3, VPC, Route 53, Identity Centre, RDS, API GW, Transit Gateway, direct connect, SQS, SNS and many moreDevOps, CI/CD & Infrastructure Automation: GitOps (Flux/helm),GitHub Actions Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS CloudFormation, Anchore, SonarQube and Nexus. Database and scripting: SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Python, Bash and Yaml scripting.Machine learning: Amazon Bedrock and Amazon QMonitoring & Observability Tools: New Relic, Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Icinga, Observe point, ZAbbix and other Internal/3rd party tools and dashboards.Certificate & Security Tools: GlobalSign Certificate Manager, Radware WAF, BT DNS, Hashi Corp Vault, Tenable, Sentinel, AWS Security Hub, AWS Config, AWS Guarduty and GuardicoreContent & Digital Platforms: Akamai CDN(Fastly), AWS Cloud front, Nginx, varnish, HA Proxy, Bloom reach CMS, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Magento portal for shop ecommerceCollaboration & Productivity: Jira, ConfluenceCertifications: AWS Solutions Architect - Associate - 2022AWS Developer - Associate -2022AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate 2022AWS Advanced networking -2023
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