Pankaj Dahiya

Experience

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  Wipro Limited

  Nov 2015 - Apr 2019

  Network Administrator

  ● Monitoring and Administration of WAN Links all over India throughEntuity and BMC Dashboard tools.● Providing relevant access to different portals/services to the users/sites.● Timely updating of ACLs and applying LAN filtering.● Replacement of Routers, Switches, faulty modules and IOS up-gradation.● Implementation of network connectivity at new sites.● Taking switches and routers back up on monthly basis.

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  83incs

  Apr 2019 - Aug 2022

  DevOps Technical Lead

  ● Create and maintain Kubernetes clusters via Kubespray and Rancher.● Creating Helm charts for all the services and keep upgrading them withnew requirements.● Monitoring of kubernetes clusters and its services via Grafana andPrometheus.● Implementation of CI/CD with Jenkins (or Gitlab pipelines) andArgoCD.● Securing DB creds and secrets with Hasicorp Vault.Implementation of Service access and discovery via Hashicorp Consul.● Automated tasks via bash Scripts.● Created an application on GoLang leveraging Kubernetes and HelmgoClient.● Implemented VerneMq, Kafka and KafkaConnect in production. Show less

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  SailPoint

  Aug 2022 - now

  DevOps Engineer

  Experienced DevOps Engineer specialized in Kubernetes cluster management, AWS cloud infrastructure (ECS to EKS migrations), and automation via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Terragrunt. My role involves orchestrating containerized environments, ensuring system scalability, reliability, and streamlining deployments. I've led successful migrations of microservices to EKS and transitioned from Kustomize to Helm for more efficient configuration management.Responsibilities:Design and manage Kubernetes clusters for optimized application deployment and scaling.Migrate services from ECS to EKS, enhancing orchestration capabilities and system resilience.Implement IaC with Terraform and Terragrunt, promoting code reusability and efficient infrastructure updates.Transition deployment strategies from Kustomize to Helm, improving deployment process and manageability.On-call management of critical production alerts, maintaining high availability and system integrity.Skills:Kubernetes, Docker: Container orchestration and management.AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, S3): Comprehensive cloud service management.Terraform, Terragrunt: Infrastructure automation for maintaining code DRY principles.Helm, Kustomize: Deployment automation and configuration management.CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and scripting for automated workflows and system health.Objective: To contribute my expertise in DevOps, cloud management, and automation to a dynamic team, driving operational excellence and innovation in cloud and container infrastructure. Show less