Vivek Parikh

About Vivek Parikh

At GEICO, my role as a Site Reliability Engineer harnesses my Azure acumen and DevOps skills to enhance our cloud infrastructure. Leading the charge in Azure Provisioning and Application Deployment Automation, I ensure optimal configurations for both technical excellence and cost-effectiveness.Our team\'s commitment to providing robust support and guidance has bolstered the Application Development Teams\' capabilities. With a focus on deploying cloud services and Kubernetes using Docker, we\'ve streamlined the build release process, exemplifying my dedication to innovative and reliable cloud solutions.

Experience

1. Site Reliability Azure Devops Engineer

   GEICO

   Jan 2019 — Present · Chevy Chase, MD, US

   Being a part of DevOps Team, working closely with Platform Operation Teams to provide healthy and compliant with all corporate regulation’s env to App Development Teams.•Providing Support, Guidance and Implementation in respect to Azure Provisioning and Application Deployment Automation for IAAS and PAAS.•Maintain Geico\'s Azure Cloud Infrastructure with Optimal Configuration from both technical and budgetary perspectives.•Support the infrastructure to enable strategic and effective use of tools by using the optimal configurations.•Providing support on Build Release management using ADO and deploying to cloud services, Kubernetes using docker and IaaS VM.•Providing operations support involving certificate management, application insight, Resource Groups, IP Management, Networking, Cloud Service, Redis Cache and BLOB storage account.•Work with Security team for verifying connectivity within the workload subscriptions and also between other on-prem domains and Azure cloud.•Wrote YAML Files to Automate the Build and Release Definitions. Also Created YAML Templates to automate the process.•Worked on integrating the Pipeline with Different tasks like Nugget, IIS, MSAZURE, Copy Files, Build Docker images, Pushing the code to Container Registry, etc.•Worked on Azure Chaos Studio and created Several Experiments for ingesting faults to application infrastructure using Agent Based Faults, Chaos Mesh Faults for AKS and Service Direct Faults.•Worked on Azure load testing and implemented it with Azure Chaos Studio for ingesting http Faults for the application and then validating the application for resiliency testing.•Created Dashboards for Observability and latency check for apps using Splunk and Dynatrace.•Troubleshoot azure related issues pertaining to quota management, networking, load balancer and provisioning issues using Azure PowerShell.•Created Azure runbook Automation using PowerShell to automate QC checks on IAAS machines and AKS Clusters.

Education

• Fairleigh Dickinson University

  M.S (Master of Science), Computer Science

  2007 — 2009

• Fairleigh Dickinson University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

• Rosary High School

  High School, High School

  1988 — 2001

• Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology

Skills

• Powerbi
• Centos
• Javascriptmvc
• Dns
• Yum
• Unix Administration
• Rpm
• Troubleshooting
• Vmware Esx
• Sed
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Network Administration
• Operating Systems
• Perl
• Data Center
• Sql Server
• Jboss Application Server
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Server Administration
• Html Scripting
• Sql
• Linux
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Vb.net
• Networking
• Suse
• Microsoft Sql Server
• C#
• Perl Script
• Microsoft Azure
• Tcp/Ip
• Security
• Awk
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Routers
• Active Directory
• Unix