I am DevOps engineer specialized in design, build and operate Kafka clusters.
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Kafka
DevOps
Linux Administration
Ansible
AWS
Prometheus
Grafana
Openshift
Docker
Jenkins
English
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German
Fortgeschritten

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

3 Jahre 4 Monate
2023-01 - heute

Design and implement Confluent Kafka Platform

Senior Platform Engineer Kafka Kubernetes
Senior Platform Engineer
  • Designed and implemented Confluent Kafka Platform on on-premise private cloud Linux servers using Ansible playbooks and configured Ansible tower (AWX) jobs for various tasks.
  • Implemented Kafka security with mTLS authentication and authorisations through RBAC.
  • Installed and configured Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting Kafka clusters.
  • Served as a subject matter expert for multiple Kafka integration projects through workshops to understand the use cases and implemented data pipelines.
  • Integrated external systems like IBM MQ (Mainframe & distributed), DB2, JDBC Databases with Kafka clusters
  • Enabled Hybrid Kafka integration between On-premise Kafka clusters and Azure Event Hubs & Confluent Cloud using Connectors and cluster link.
  • Created and operated Azure EventHubs and Confluent Cloud using Terraform and Flink Platform using Helm charts.
  • Developed Python based Kafka Ops tool and automated Azure DevOps CICD pipelines for clients to manage their Kafka objects like topics, schemas, RBAC, connectors.
  • Automated Kafka cluster upgrades with zero downtime with proper health checks integration
Kafka Kubernetes
Euroclear
Düsseldorf, Germany
11 Monate
2022-03 - 2023-01

Deploy DataOps tool Lenses to monitor and administrate Kafka clusters

Senior Kafka SRE
Senior Kafka SRE
  • Build and Operated Kafka clusters using Strimzi operator in multi-cloud environments.
  • Integrated external systems like Vertica to Kafka with JDBC connectors
  • Implemented monitoring solutions using the DataOps tool Lenses.
  • Enhanced operational efficiency through automation and robust security protocols.
Celonis Labs GmbH
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
3 Jahre 6 Monate
2018-09 - 2022-02

Install, configure and manage Confluent Kafka clusters

DevOps Consultant
DevOps Consultant
  • Focused on DevOps consulting with a primary emphasis on Kafka installation, configuration, and security measures.
  • Installed and configured Confluent Kafka on Linux systems using Ansible.
  • Implemented security protocols for Kafka components, including SASL plaintext and SSL certificates, and established topic-level authorization through ACLs for users accessing Kafka via various APIs.
  • Automated Kafka deployment processes across multiple stages utilizing GitHub, Jenkins, and Ansible.
  • Developed a shared Kafka platform supporting multiple tenants, ensuring isolation through strict authentication and authorization practices.
  • Set up and configured Prometheus and Grafana to monitor Kafka clusters using node exporters and JMX exporters.
beON Consult GmbH
Düsseldorf
2 Jahre 8 Monate
2015-10 - 2018-05

Automate Build and Deployment process-setup

Tech Lead
Tech Lead
  • Automate Build and Deployment process-setup, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of applications onto different environments like DEV, QA, UAT and Production

  • Worked on CI/CD pipelines for Java Applications by using GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Tomcat and Dockers in the process right from developer code check-in to production deployment.

  • Install, configure, monitor and manage Unix/Linux servers

  • Upgrade firmware for Cisco UCS C series hardware and perform kernel patching for Linux servers

  • Migrating On-premise servers to AWS cloud using AWS Server Migration service

  • Build and manage new Linux servers in AWS cloud

  • Automated routine system administrative tasks using Ansible playbooks, roles and inventory files

  • Build and manage Linux infrastructure (RHEL, SUSE)

  • Automated operational work with Ansible 

  • Evaluated new technologies with POCs and advise the management with the benefits

  • Upgrade hardware firmware for Cisco UCS C series hardware

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
1 Jahr 2 Monate
2014-08 - 2015-09

Performed Storage Migrations at host level

Migration Engineer
Migration Engineer
  • Performed Storage Migrations at host level for Solaris and Linux servers

  • Detect the new LUNs from new storage box, initialize them in the servers and add them to existing Disk groups

  • Perform plex mirroring using vxassist, copy the data from one disk to another using vxevac and pvmove command

  • Disassociate and remove the old plexes using vxplex command, remove the old LUNs from servers. Reclaim them from storage

  • Worked with Hitachi Data Systems Data Migration Team to do the Host based Storage migrations for clients

Synectiks IT & Consulting Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
5 Monate
2014-04 - 2014-08

Provided L3 support

Senior Associate
Senior Associate
  • Provided level 3 support for ICICI Bank Unix/Linux infrastructure

  • Worked with vendors to provision and replace failed hardware in DC

  • Monitor and manage Red Hat/ Solaris servers of ICICI Bank

  • Performed regular patching on servers and keep OS up to date

  • Handing of UFS, NFS, disk partitioning, file system management, configuring auto mounts and Troubleshooting

  • Configuring, Installing Whole Root Zones, Adding Resources to zones

  • Cloning a zone, migrating zone and Sharing file systems to non-global zones

3i InfoTech Ltd
Hyderabad
2 Jahre 5 Monate
2011-11 - 2014-03

Performed Kernel patching and firmware upgrades

System Engineer
System Engineer
  • Performed Kernel patching and firmware upgrades on Solaris servers

  • Build the new Linux servers on VMware and Solaris Zones on Solaris physical servers

  • Worked with Vendor (Oracle, Symantec) for any Operating system and Server hardware related issues and replaced failed hardware components

  • Good exposure in doing resource upgrade in Solaris servers having zones, Linux servers running on VMware

  • Actively involved in ITIL process includes Incident Management, Problem Management and Change Management

  • Created and Managing Users/Groups, LVM, SWAP management, Cron jobs creation, NFS, SCP

  • Extending file system using metattach & growfs of SVM in Solaris and LVM in Linux

  • Managing network Interfaces, and IP Multipathing (IPMP) to provide high availability of Network Interfaces

  • Created and managed ZFS and VxFS file systems

  • I was part of a small team to monitor and manage Unix/Linux Systems across two Data centers

  • Build the new servers and do the server hardening as per the requirements

  • Decommission the Old Solaris physical and Zone servers

  • Patch the Servers periodically to keep the latest kernel

DataCede Chennai Pvt Ltd
Chennai
7 Monate
2011-04 - 2011-10

Create and update the Change requests

System Administrator
System Administrator

Worked as a L1 Administrator for monitoring Unix/Linux servers

  • Monitor the Incidents and assign them to appropriate teams

  • Create and update the Change requests

  • Raise the support tickets with vendors for any high priority issues

  • Resolve CPU, Memory and File system alerts

  • Perform Solaris server patching

  • Worked on creating, deleting users, and setting up cron jobs

  • Perform server reboots as per the requests from App owners

  • Level 1 support for Unix/Linux servers

  • Monitor the servers

Maintec Technologies Pvt Ltd
Bangalore

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

3 Jahre 1 Monat
2007-08 - 2010-08

Computer Applications (MCA)

Master, Acharya Nagarjuna University
Master
Acharya Nagarjuna University

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Kafka DevOps Linux Administration Ansible AWS Prometheus Grafana Openshift Docker Jenkins

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile

  • Dynamic IT Professional with over 15 years of experience in the DevOps ecosystem, specializing in Apache Kafka and Kubernetes, has successfully designed and implemented Confluent/Apache Kafka platforms that significantly enhanced data streaming capabilities and solved complex data streaming challenges for global enterprises.
  • Designed and Implemented Apache Kafka clusters across on-prem and cloud environments using Strimzi, Confluent Platform and CFK (Confluent for Kubernetes Platform) and Confluent Cloud.
  • Build and manage Flink Platform on AKS using Helm charts and Hybrid integrations between Linux based Onpremise Kafka clusters and Azure EventHubs, Confluent Cloud using Connectors and cluster linking.
  • Implemented various Kafka connectors like IBM MQ, JDBC, Event Hub etc to integrate Kafka with external systems
  • Installed and configured Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting of Kafka clusters
  • Work in an agile based environments teams spread across globally and get along with colleagues.


Skills

  • Data Streaming (Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Confluent Cloud, MSK, Event Hub, Strimzi Operator)
  • IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
  • Container Platform (Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker & Azure AKS)
  • GitOps (Argo CD, Kustomize & Helm)
  • DevOps (Jenkins & Azure DevOps)
  • Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Lenses & Datadog)
  • Cloud (AWS & Azure)

Betriebssysteme

RedHat Linux
Suse
Oracle linux
Solaris


Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

3 Jahre 4 Monate
2023-01 - heute

Design and implement Confluent Kafka Platform

Senior Platform Engineer Kafka Kubernetes
Senior Platform Engineer
  • Designed and implemented Confluent Kafka Platform on on-premise private cloud Linux servers using Ansible playbooks and configured Ansible tower (AWX) jobs for various tasks.
  • Implemented Kafka security with mTLS authentication and authorisations through RBAC.
  • Installed and configured Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting Kafka clusters.
  • Served as a subject matter expert for multiple Kafka integration projects through workshops to understand the use cases and implemented data pipelines.
  • Integrated external systems like IBM MQ (Mainframe & distributed), DB2, JDBC Databases with Kafka clusters
  • Enabled Hybrid Kafka integration between On-premise Kafka clusters and Azure Event Hubs & Confluent Cloud using Connectors and cluster link.
  • Created and operated Azure EventHubs and Confluent Cloud using Terraform and Flink Platform using Helm charts.
  • Developed Python based Kafka Ops tool and automated Azure DevOps CICD pipelines for clients to manage their Kafka objects like topics, schemas, RBAC, connectors.
  • Automated Kafka cluster upgrades with zero downtime with proper health checks integration
Kafka Kubernetes
Euroclear
Düsseldorf, Germany
11 Monate
2022-03 - 2023-01

Deploy DataOps tool Lenses to monitor and administrate Kafka clusters

Senior Kafka SRE
Senior Kafka SRE
  • Build and Operated Kafka clusters using Strimzi operator in multi-cloud environments.
  • Integrated external systems like Vertica to Kafka with JDBC connectors
  • Implemented monitoring solutions using the DataOps tool Lenses.
  • Enhanced operational efficiency through automation and robust security protocols.
Celonis Labs GmbH
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
3 Jahre 6 Monate
2018-09 - 2022-02

Install, configure and manage Confluent Kafka clusters

DevOps Consultant
DevOps Consultant
  • Focused on DevOps consulting with a primary emphasis on Kafka installation, configuration, and security measures.
  • Installed and configured Confluent Kafka on Linux systems using Ansible.
  • Implemented security protocols for Kafka components, including SASL plaintext and SSL certificates, and established topic-level authorization through ACLs for users accessing Kafka via various APIs.
  • Automated Kafka deployment processes across multiple stages utilizing GitHub, Jenkins, and Ansible.
  • Developed a shared Kafka platform supporting multiple tenants, ensuring isolation through strict authentication and authorization practices.
  • Set up and configured Prometheus and Grafana to monitor Kafka clusters using node exporters and JMX exporters.
beON Consult GmbH
Düsseldorf
2 Jahre 8 Monate
2015-10 - 2018-05

Automate Build and Deployment process-setup

Tech Lead
Tech Lead
  • Automate Build and Deployment process-setup, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of applications onto different environments like DEV, QA, UAT and Production

  • Worked on CI/CD pipelines for Java Applications by using GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Tomcat and Dockers in the process right from developer code check-in to production deployment.

  • Install, configure, monitor and manage Unix/Linux servers

  • Upgrade firmware for Cisco UCS C series hardware and perform kernel patching for Linux servers

  • Migrating On-premise servers to AWS cloud using AWS Server Migration service

  • Build and manage new Linux servers in AWS cloud

  • Automated routine system administrative tasks using Ansible playbooks, roles and inventory files

  • Build and manage Linux infrastructure (RHEL, SUSE)

  • Automated operational work with Ansible 

  • Evaluated new technologies with POCs and advise the management with the benefits

  • Upgrade hardware firmware for Cisco UCS C series hardware

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
1 Jahr 2 Monate
2014-08 - 2015-09

Performed Storage Migrations at host level

Migration Engineer
Migration Engineer
  • Performed Storage Migrations at host level for Solaris and Linux servers

  • Detect the new LUNs from new storage box, initialize them in the servers and add them to existing Disk groups

  • Perform plex mirroring using vxassist, copy the data from one disk to another using vxevac and pvmove command

  • Disassociate and remove the old plexes using vxplex command, remove the old LUNs from servers. Reclaim them from storage

  • Worked with Hitachi Data Systems Data Migration Team to do the Host based Storage migrations for clients

Synectiks IT & Consulting Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
5 Monate
2014-04 - 2014-08

Provided L3 support

Senior Associate
Senior Associate
  • Provided level 3 support for ICICI Bank Unix/Linux infrastructure

  • Worked with vendors to provision and replace failed hardware in DC

  • Monitor and manage Red Hat/ Solaris servers of ICICI Bank

  • Performed regular patching on servers and keep OS up to date

  • Handing of UFS, NFS, disk partitioning, file system management, configuring auto mounts and Troubleshooting

  • Configuring, Installing Whole Root Zones, Adding Resources to zones

  • Cloning a zone, migrating zone and Sharing file systems to non-global zones

3i InfoTech Ltd
Hyderabad
2 Jahre 5 Monate
2011-11 - 2014-03

Performed Kernel patching and firmware upgrades

System Engineer
System Engineer
  • Performed Kernel patching and firmware upgrades on Solaris servers

  • Build the new Linux servers on VMware and Solaris Zones on Solaris physical servers

  • Worked with Vendor (Oracle, Symantec) for any Operating system and Server hardware related issues and replaced failed hardware components

  • Good exposure in doing resource upgrade in Solaris servers having zones, Linux servers running on VMware

  • Actively involved in ITIL process includes Incident Management, Problem Management and Change Management

  • Created and Managing Users/Groups, LVM, SWAP management, Cron jobs creation, NFS, SCP

  • Extending file system using metattach & growfs of SVM in Solaris and LVM in Linux

  • Managing network Interfaces, and IP Multipathing (IPMP) to provide high availability of Network Interfaces

  • Created and managed ZFS and VxFS file systems

  • I was part of a small team to monitor and manage Unix/Linux Systems across two Data centers

  • Build the new servers and do the server hardening as per the requirements

  • Decommission the Old Solaris physical and Zone servers

  • Patch the Servers periodically to keep the latest kernel

DataCede Chennai Pvt Ltd
Chennai
7 Monate
2011-04 - 2011-10

Create and update the Change requests

System Administrator
System Administrator

Worked as a L1 Administrator for monitoring Unix/Linux servers

  • Monitor the Incidents and assign them to appropriate teams

  • Create and update the Change requests

  • Raise the support tickets with vendors for any high priority issues

  • Resolve CPU, Memory and File system alerts

  • Perform Solaris server patching

  • Worked on creating, deleting users, and setting up cron jobs

  • Perform server reboots as per the requests from App owners

  • Level 1 support for Unix/Linux servers

  • Monitor the servers

Maintec Technologies Pvt Ltd
Bangalore

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

3 Jahre 1 Monat
2007-08 - 2010-08

Computer Applications (MCA)

Master, Acharya Nagarjuna University
Master
Acharya Nagarjuna University

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Kafka DevOps Linux Administration Ansible AWS Prometheus Grafana Openshift Docker Jenkins

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile

  • Dynamic IT Professional with over 15 years of experience in the DevOps ecosystem, specializing in Apache Kafka and Kubernetes, has successfully designed and implemented Confluent/Apache Kafka platforms that significantly enhanced data streaming capabilities and solved complex data streaming challenges for global enterprises.
  • Designed and Implemented Apache Kafka clusters across on-prem and cloud environments using Strimzi, Confluent Platform and CFK (Confluent for Kubernetes Platform) and Confluent Cloud.
  • Build and manage Flink Platform on AKS using Helm charts and Hybrid integrations between Linux based Onpremise Kafka clusters and Azure EventHubs, Confluent Cloud using Connectors and cluster linking.
  • Implemented various Kafka connectors like IBM MQ, JDBC, Event Hub etc to integrate Kafka with external systems
  • Installed and configured Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting of Kafka clusters
  • Work in an agile based environments teams spread across globally and get along with colleagues.


Skills

  • Data Streaming (Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Confluent Cloud, MSK, Event Hub, Strimzi Operator)
  • IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
  • Container Platform (Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker & Azure AKS)
  • GitOps (Argo CD, Kustomize & Helm)
  • DevOps (Jenkins & Azure DevOps)
  • Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Lenses & Datadog)
  • Cloud (AWS & Azure)

Betriebssysteme

RedHat Linux
Suse
Oracle linux
Solaris


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