Nitin Kansal

About Nitin Kansal

Overall 18+ Years of experience in exploration, Design, Testing, implementation and Production servers Support- Currently working as Full Stack Cloud Engineer- Sr Manager with Pfizer Pharmaceutical - Actively participate in high level team activities such as suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements and conducting tool evaluations- Deep knowledge on cloud services like IAM, EC2, S3, ELK, ELB, VPC, Route53, RDS, SQS, Lambda Function, Monitoring and auditing using CloudWatch and CloudTrail- Azure cloud services like VM, Vnet, Storage accounts, azure key Vault, service principal, azure webapp, functions, application gateway, traffic manager, Load Balancer, Azure Kubernetes Services- Created 100+ ansible playbooks, workflows and job templates to provision the infrastructure in AWS and manage that and perform day 2 operations- Focused on deploying services on AWS EKS kubernetes end to end starting from exploration to production and delivering that to end users for use- Customized helm charts and use that integrating the services with LDAP- Extensive knowledge on managed kubernetes service EKS by AWS. Created and configured EKS OIDC Identify provider to assign IAM role permissions to pods running as part of deployment- Configured EKS kubernetes Logging – fluentd and filebeat and monitoring -Prometheus and Grafana- Experience with Kubernetes to Manage the Containerized Applications, creating stateful set, Configmaps, Deployments, Secrets, Services and Deploying Application Containers as Pods- Exploration on persistent shared volume solution with portworx- Installed Istio in environments using Helm Chart for Implementation of Istio Service Mesh with Envoy Sidecars- POC on Canary release using Istio, mTLS between pods to make the connection secure- Installed and Configured Kiali for the Visualization of Traffic in Real-Time. Created virtual service and destination rules from Kiali and through manifests- Configured Istio to use Jaeger for Distributed Tracing & fluent for Logging your Cluster Metrics- Built multiple dockerfile and used Artifactory and harbor for storing the docker private images- Extensive knowledge on Ansible automation for configuration management and keep the environment up to date. Used ansible to deploy services on kubernetes on demand. Very deep knowledge on ansible tower- Good exposure of all the stages of the Project development cycle, design, implementations, specification, documentation, coding, debugging and testing.

Experience

1. Full Stack Cloud Architect

   Pfizer

   Aug 2021 — Present · IN

   As a Full Stack Cloud Engineer my role is more on designing, implementing and solutioning.Collaboration with product vendors, cloud provider and opensource community to influence product features and roadmapsDesigning and implementation of platforms for running analytics, artificial and machine learning workloads.Experience working with Global Geographical dispersed teamsExtensive experience as full stack cloud engineer including AWS, Azure, Dev SecOps, CI/CD and automation with ansible and terraformParticipates in identifying and evaluating new technologies, innovations, and outsourced partner relationships for alignment with design strategy, technology roadmap, and helps create plans for integration and update into architectureEffectively lead both onshore and offshore DevOps engineers for smooth deliverablesDeep knowledge on AWS like IAM, EC2, S3, EKS, ELB, VPC, Route53, RDS, SQS, Lambda Function, Monitoring and auditing using CloudWatch and CloudTrail.Good understanding on Azure cloud services like VM, Vnet, Storage accounts, azure key Vault, service principal, azure webapp, functions, application gateway, traffic manager, Load Balancer, Azure Kubernetes ServicesFocused on deploying services on AWS EKS Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Cluster end to end starting from exploration to production and delivered that to end users for useExploration of new tools and technologies to support Data Science Engineers

Education

• NC College Of Engineering

  B. Tech. Computers, Comuters

  2001 — 2005

• Udacity

  Microservices at Scale using AWS & Kubernetes

• CDAC noida

  Post Graduate System and Database Administration, System and Database Administration

  2005 — 2006

• IMT Ghaziabad

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Operations Management and Supervision

  2009 — 2012