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INDERJIT SINGH

Toronto,Canada

Summary

Dynamic cloud solutions architect with a strong focus on innovation, specializing in Kubernetes, SSO, Azure, and AWS. Demonstrated leadership in system administration and incident management has led to significant enhancements in IT operations through the integration of AI-driven workflows and automated healing configurations. Proven ability to align technical expertise with strategic initiatives to optimize performance and security.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Consultant

Upwork
Toronto, Canada
07.2022 - Current
  • Hands on Experience with AWS / Azure / GCP / Linode/ Digital Ocean /
  • Rsackspace
  • Managing teams, including progress monitoring and reporting
  • A minimum of 3+ years in a solution or technical architect role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms
  • Advanced understanding of solution architecture
  • Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using (Azure) IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities
  • Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation
  • Managed the end-to-end life cycles of a project in solution architect capacity
  • Experience with mission critical technology components with DR capabilities
  • Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design and management
  • Extensive experience in financial management, solution plan development and product cost estimation
  • Ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems faced at Client while adhering to security and other Client standards
  • Follow and nurture Site Reliability principles within the team
  • Ensure stable and reliable application and associated services on multiple environments
  • Create Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), strive for full automated solutions, ensure the up-time and security of all cloud platform systems and infrastructure
  • Experience supporting peer teams and their responsibilities; such as infrastructure, operations, engineering, info-security
  • Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Azure
  • DevOps, Ansible, Terraform etc
  • Experience with Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries and tools
  • Must Have Strong Unix, Jenkins, Virtualization
  • Experience with the core Azure services, Jenkins and Sonar
  • Hands-On experience in setting up DevOps pipelines for solutions involving containers and orchestration
  • Good background in Linux/Unix Windows administration
  • Architect enterprise grade IaaS PaaS solutions, with security by design on the public cloud platform
  • Sound knowledge of container cluster orchestration technologies such as Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Experience with Azure Resource Manager templates, PowerShell, JSON YAML
  • Good understanding of network, databases, virtualization, containers, load balancing, DNS
  • Strong notions of security best practices (e.g
  • Using Azure AD Roles, VNet, Azure Firewall, Azure NSG etc.)
  • Good understanding of SDLC and agile methodologies
  • Awareness of latest technologies and trends

Sr Systems Specialist

HCL Comnet
Gurgaon, India
10.2011 - 05.2021
  • Install and configure .Net Applications in Microsoft IIS 5.5/6/7/8/10
  • Windows Servers 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019
  • Configure JDBC Providers, Data Sources, Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL
  • LDAP
  • Work with the Network team to configure websites for high availability and load balancing
  • Analyze log files and diagnose Application Server problems
  • Troubleshoot problems related to web server/appserver configuration and performance issues
  • Maintain and upgrade IIS environments
  • Develop and implement automation scripts using PowerShell and scripting
  • Execute changes and provide solutions for incidents within established SLAs
  • Strong hands on experience on IIS servers (HTML, JavaScript, XML, AJAX
  • Service-Oriented Architecture)
  • Exposure in configuring and troubleshooting virtual directory / application pool
  • Manage multiple sites, IIS performance Tuning
  • Hands on experience on SSL configuration / administration scripts and
  • Authentication modes
  • Exposure to COM+ and ASP .NET framework and command line admin scripts
  • Experience in Cluster, Load balancer distribution session, Firewall
  • IIS troubleshooting experience and Best practices implementation
  • Windows server administration with production environment troubleshooting experience
  • Able to create technical manuals and other documentation.

Sr Systems Manager

Safaltek Private Limited
Chandigarh, India
09.2010 - 09.2011
  • Managing team of 8 system admins
  • Proficient with Windows and Linux
  • Able to install LAMP stack on a server with multi-domain hosting
  • Hosting control panel knowledge like Plesk, Cpanel, PHPMyAdmin, IIS , MSSQL
  • Mysql etc
  • Linux mail server troubleshooting and support
  • Website hosting and MySQL database support
  • Basic knowledge of HTML / PHP syntax for troubleshooting
  • Manage DNS records types including MX records, A records, etc
  • Proactive with customer support and issue resolution in a quick and efficient manner
  • Awareness of best practices for server security and hardening, tuning, patching, and optimization.

Sr Windows Systems Administrator

Net Solutions North America
Mohali, India
02.2010 - 08.2010
  • Responsible for the analysis, administration and support of Exchange, O365
  • Azure and Windows Servers
  • Diagnoses and troubleshoots problems with Windows Servers within established procedures, responds to End User requests for technical support and assistance
  • Works in ticketing system to solve day-to-day technical requests & escalated issues
  • Coordinate any application changes with stakeholders within the framework of a
  • Change Request system and Review process
  • Ability to research solutions to complex issues and resolve them
  • Interfaces with vendors and other IT Groups to ensure appropriate resolution during network outages or periods of reduced performance
  • Hands on experience working on Windows OS (2003, 2008R2, 2012R2, 2016, server operating Systems
  • Microsoft Infrastructure ( Active Directory, AD sites and Services, GPO's, Domain
  • Trust, DNS, DHCP, File and Print Servers, DFS, IIS, Hyper-V)
  • Should have good hands on experience on Office 365 (SharePoint/OneDrive/Exchange Online) and Exchange 2010/2013
  • Knowledge on Patch management (WSUS/SCCM/MECM)
  • Knowledge on Microsoft Azure (PAAS / IAAS).

Systems Administrator

Red Horns Private Limited
Mohali, India
07.2008 - 02.2010
  • Proactively maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure technology to maintain a7x365 uptime service
  • Engineering of systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs
  • Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments
  • Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
  • Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning
  • Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers, workstations, and network hardware
  • Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
  • Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
  • Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes

Jr. System Administrator

X-Tech
Mohali, India
11.2006 - 07.2008
  • Management of the IT System Administrator team, this includes providing support, supervising staff, and providing direction and mentorship to staff
  • Demonstrable ability to think around issues and look at the wider picture in order to provide solutions through a variety of problem-solving techniques
  • Facilitate and contribute to meetings to ensure that the team is improving performance, service, modernizing IT, and enhancing product quality.
  • Use information gathered at these meetings to target areas for continual service improvements
  • Update and review the IT Service Catalogue ensuring that items are up to date, accurate and fit for purpose
  • Identify insights into Incident and Service Request that aide in minimizing service disruption to users
  • Monitor and support IT service delivery ensuring systems, services, methodologies, and procedures are in place and followed
  • Be responsible for effective capacity planning, ensuring that the appropriate resource(s) are in place to enable a high quality and performing service
  • Ensure future demand from growth and projects is understood and factored into capacity plans
  • Support Team on Customer Response, Root Cause Analysis, Resolution &

Education

Post Graduate Diploma of Computer Applications - Computer Applications

Kurukshetra University
Kurukshetra , India
05-2008

Hardware And Networking Diploma - Hardware And Networking

Jetking Hardware And Networking Diploma
Chandigarh
03-2007

Bachelor of Arts - Arts

Punjab University
Chandigarh
05-2006

Skills

  • Kubernetes and Container technologies
  • DevOps and DevSecOps Workflows
  • AIOps Configurations
  • Azure and AWS Cloud Platforms
  • Incident management
  • System administration
  • Network security
  • CI/CD integration
  • Configuration management
  • Infrastructure automation
  • Monitoring and logging
  • Virtualization technologies
  • Microservices architecture
  • IT operations
  • Cybersecurity best practices
  • Git workflow management

Languages

English
Professional
Hindi
Professional

Certification

  • RHCE Certified
  • CCNA certified
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
  • CompTIA Security+
  • CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • Google Professional Cloud Architect Certification

Accomplishments

  • See my work examples: https://tinyurl.com/indyworksamples
  • Overall Experience: 16+ years in the IT industry, focusing on configuration management, continuous integration, and cloud implementations. Proficient in analysis, design, and maintenance of client/server and web applications.
  • Industry Experience: Worked with small, medium, and enterprise companies to implement and manage various IT solutions.
  • DevOps Implementations: Developed and implemented DevOps best practices in a large resort chain services company. Infrastructure automation using Ansible, Kubernetes cluster management, and Jenkins Pipelines for application deployment. Automated testing framework implementation, including Selenium WebDriver, to
    meet quality standards before production deployment.
  • Cloud and System Administration: Expertise in Cloud IaaS & PaaS Solutions, Linux & Windows System Administration, and DevOps Engineering. Strong experience with Windows, Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps, and AWS Cloud.
  • Software Configuration and DevOps Automation: Proficient in SCM, build, deployment, and release management.
    Expertise in DevOps automation engineering with AWS Cloud and Azure implementations.
  • Professional Expertise: Automation of Infrastructure on Azure & AWS using Terraform for SaaS applications with geographic HA, Autoscaling, and on-demand region provisioning. Development systems automation, testing, auto-deployment, and integration operation (DevOps).IT requirements analysis and independent,
    objective IT use advice.
  • Database and Environment Provisioning: SSIS Package deployment in Azure,MSSQL Server management including database backup and monitoring. Provisioning of environments with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and CI/CD Pipeline tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, TeamCity,ArgoCD, CircleCI, GO.CD, Bitbucket Pipeline).
  • Azure Specific Skills: Proficient in working with Azure IaaS/PaaS, managing Azure VMs, network security, app services, load balancing, and VNet configuration. Experience in Azure SQL Server database management, Azure
    monitoring, alerts, Azure Board with Agile Process, Azure Active Directory, and RBAC.CI/CD pipelines setup in Azure, deploying applications to Azure services (Virtual Machines, App Service, AKS, Azure SQL database, Azure Service Fabric,Logic App, Keyvault,App Config, Workload and managed identities).
  • AWS Cloud Platform: Experienced in AWS Cloud features (EC2, EKS, VPC, ELB,Auto-Scaling, Security Groups, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CodeBuild, Container registry).
  • Web Server and Security: Solid understanding of web server components(Apache, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, MS SQL).Maintain proficiency with IT security, integration, and testing best practices.
  • IT Support and Management: Managed IT end-user help desk resources and evaluate performance.
    Implemented a 24x7 on-call program for critical escalations/incidents management. Recruited, trained, and supported help desk representatives and technicians.
  • Technological Proficiency: End-to-end CI/CD process expertise across various tech stacks (Node, .Net Core/Framework, Java, Python, Angular,React, Gradle, Maven).
  • Cybersecurity Skills: With over 5 years of hands-on experience in security roles, I have provided support for incident response, threat intelligence, secure architecture, and various security assurance activities. My expertise extends to SAST and DAST scanning, as well as working with PCI and SOC Audit reports such as SOC 2 Type 2. I possess extensive knowledge in cyber risk management frameworks, conducting threat risk assessments, and recommending mitigations. Proficient in cybersecurity concepts such as cloud security, encryption, and
    defense-in-depth, I have a proven track record of driving effective security solutions. I excel in developing and deploying security training programs and possess strong interpersonal skills for effective stakeholder communication, from technical teams to senior executives. Additionally, I am adept at agile responsiveness, relationship management with vendors, and crafting clear technical and business documentation.

Timeline

DevOps Consultant

Upwork
07.2022 - Current

Sr Systems Specialist

HCL Comnet
10.2011 - 05.2021

Sr Systems Manager

Safaltek Private Limited
09.2010 - 09.2011

Sr Windows Systems Administrator

Net Solutions North America
02.2010 - 08.2010

Systems Administrator

Red Horns Private Limited
07.2008 - 02.2010

Jr. System Administrator

X-Tech
11.2006 - 07.2008

Post Graduate Diploma of Computer Applications - Computer Applications

Kurukshetra University

Hardware And Networking Diploma - Hardware And Networking

Jetking Hardware And Networking Diploma

Bachelor of Arts - Arts

Punjab University
INDERJIT SINGH