Raj Shekhar

Experience

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  HCLTech

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2017

  Senior Analyst

  Windows and VMware administration

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  Newgen Software

  Aug 2017 - Oct 2018

  Newgen Software Technologies Ltd.

  •Architecting AWS cloud services as per client’s requirement by ensuring client’s infrastructure is highly available and scalable and fault tolerant. Implementing HA and DR strategies as per the clientrequirement in a cost-effective way also ensuring the security concerns are fully met.•Architecting AWS solution by ensuring all the industry standards and compliance are met. (HIPAA, PCIDSS)•Assist in deploying Jboss Applications and minor configurations based on performance tuning•Analysing the new updates and assessing AWS services launched on daily basis to ensure the clientenvironment on AWS cloud is highly secure and updated.•Implementing client infrastructure by performing activities on following: AWS services: IAM, EC2, EBS, Auto scaling, S3, Glacier, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, API gateway,CloudWatch, SNS, CloudTrail, Load Balancer, Config, AWS Logs Review: Cloudtrail, AWS config, VPC Flow log, ELB access logs, S3 access logs.•Using AWS security services such Config, Lambda, KMS, WAF and shield, IAM, Certificate manager,Guard Duty, Inspector for proper security guidelines implementation•Created script for Inventory, Snapshot backup, Deletion of snapshot backup, Moving files on windows to S3 (PowerShell), Creating AMI, Generating SG/NACL Report, Generating IAM report, Storing WAF logs in S3, Automated Cold DR implementation using python on AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions Show less

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  Nagarro

  Oct 2018 - Jun 2021

  Associate Staff Engineer, Technology

  Public Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP): Roles and Responsibilities: -•Worked on different RFP's for various organization related to cloud operations, serving as a hands-on subject matter expert for Cloud Infrastructure (IAAS/PAAS) in an Azure/AWS/GCP infrastructureenvironment•Analysed client requirement and determined system architecture to achieve business goals or onboard new AWS Cloud Operation Projects by performing role of SME.•Work with business units, software developers, security, to design and build Cloud Infrastructure within AWS/Azure/GCP cloud providers•Leveraging the cost optimization strategies and best practices to reduce the cost for the clients.•Providing technical direction and oversight to cloud implementation teams•Working as L3 Cloud Operations Engineer for client with the infrastructure hosted on GCP•Preforming daily monitoring, management, troubleshooting and issue resolution to systems and services hosted on cloud resources•Providing Custom solutions using Python and shell scripts based on the client requirement like checking and implementation of IPTables rules in servers.•Provide IAC scripts based on clients requirement and integrating it using Jenkins•Automating daily tasks using Jenkins jobs•Deploying automation using Jenkins jobs specifically for situation based healing solutions•Managing and maintaining the GKE cluster and implementing automations for•Troubleshooting the Google Kubernetes engine cluster as well as other infrastructure components.•Automate task for audit loggings monitoring using Python script execution using AWS lambda•Testing for client requirements and perform POC using AWS services such as ( EC2, ELB, Autoscaling, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, , EFS, Glacier, IAM, SNS, SQS, EKS, ECS, Fargate, CloudWatch, Cloudtrail, Secret Manager, Lambda, SSM, ACM, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Dynamo DB, Elastic Cache, Config, Certificate Manager, Guard Duty, Inspector, AWS Budgets, AWS Cost explorer etc ) Show less

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jun 2021 - Dec 2021

  Associate Consultant

  •Working with Serverless application code for making changes in the currently running infrastructure•Creating code for deploying serverless application components•Working with gitlab merge requests for developers for pushing code to production•Working with Security tools for governance to manage infrastructure security

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  Neudesic Technologies Private Limited

  Dec 2021 - now

  Senior Consultant III

  Working With Azure Infrastructure services for designing, defining and deploying resources best suitedfor customer needs•Designed framework with Terraform to deploy services in an automated manner•Worked extensively to design Landing Zone with IAM, Security, Connectivity and Application based onClients inputs•Worked with Azure DevOps for defining CI/CD pipelines for deploying application for web and mobiledevices.•Worked with Security teams to analyse and improve infrastructure security based on OWASP’s ASVS4.0 list and mitigating security gaps found during the analysis•Worked on implementing Policies to implement proper security governance model•Worked with tools like Microsoft Threat Analyzer, Cairis to define the threats inside designedinfrastructure model•Worked with tools like SOAR for security related task orchestration•Worked on Kubernetes cluster along with Istio and OPA to define Traffic Management and Security forthe cluster along with Okta Integration•Worked on Lift and Shift Migration task for clients infra•Worked on migrating VM based workload to container workload Show less