Inderjit Singh
Toronto
Summary
Motivated DevOps Consultant with 16 years of experience, recognized for assessing operational needs and developing solutions to save costs, improve revenues, and drive customer satisfaction. Resourceful and well-organized with excellent leadership and team-building record.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
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 DockerKubernetes
- 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
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
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 optimisation.
Sr Windows Systems Administrator
Net Solutions North America
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, 2019) 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
07.2008 - 02.2010
- Proactively maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24x7x365 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
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 towards meetings to ensure that the team are improving performance, service, modernising 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 minimising 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 & Recovery specifically related to Infrastructure .
Education
Diploma - Computer Applications, Computer hardware & Networking
Kurukshetra University
2008
Diploma (JCNP Diploma) - undefined
Punjab University
2007
Bachelor - Arts
Jetking
2006
Skills
- Management & Leadership skills
- Group Presentations
- Strong Rist Management
- Refined system and debugging skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Technical analysis
- Best practices and standards
- Project documentation
- Understanding of major DevOps Tools
- Tools customization
Accomplishments
- DevOps Architect with 16+ years of experience in IT industry with configuration Management, Continuous Integration and Cloud Implementations analysis, design and maintenance of client/server and web applications as the primary tasks
- Excellent experience with Small, Medium & Enterprise companies in implementing and managing various IT Solutions
- Developed and implemented DevOps best practices in a large resort chain services company, including infrastructure automation using Ansible, Kubernetes cluster management, and application deployment using Jenkins Pipelines
- Implemented automated testing frameworks such as Selenium WebDriver to ensure quality standards are met before code is deployed into production environments
- Expertise on Cloud IaaS & PaaS Solutions, Linux & Windows System Administration, DevOps Engineering
- Strong professional experience working with Windows, Cloud Azure , Azure DevOps and AWS cloud
- Expertise in Software Configuration Management (SCM), Build, Deployment and Release Management, Software advancement environment set up and DevOps automation engineering with AWS Cloud and Azure Implementations
- Professional Expertise
- Focused on Automation of Infrastructure on the Azure & AWS using Terraform for multi region SaaS applications providing geographical HA and AutoScaling and On-Demand Region provisioning
- Development Systems, Automation, Testing and Auto Deployment and Integration Operation implementation (DevOps)
- Analysing IT requirements within companies and giving independent and objective advice on the use of IT
- Deployment of SSIS Packages in Azure and Management of MSSQL Server, encompassing database backup and monitoring activities
- Provisioning of many different environments with Terraform in collaboration with Ansible, Docker and CI/CD Pipeline tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, CircleCI, GO.CD, Bitbucket Pipeline
- Proficient in Working with Azure IaaS / PaaS Server to setup the applications based on business requirement
- Good understanding in Azure Servies like : Manage Azure VMs, Azure Network Management Security (NSG like Azure Firewall), Azure App services and Auto Scale Configuration, Azure Load balance and Application Gateway, VNet configuration, Vnet peer, VPN configuration, Resource Group, Disk Management, Snapshot, Backup management of Azure Databases and Virtual machine, FTP configuration, HTTPS and HTTPS Azure application, Azure SQL Server databases management, Azure monitor and alerts,(Zabbix and Site24x7) Activity logs
- Azure Board with Agile Process, Azure Active Directory management and Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Very good working experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines to Azure and deploying applications to azure services such as Virtual Machines, App Service, Azure kubernetes (AKS), Azure SQL database and Azure Service Fabric
- Used Jenkins and Ansible for Continuous Integration and continuous deployment in Multiple environments
- End-to-End CI/CD process on various tech stack (Node, .Net Core/Framework, Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, Angular, React, Gradle, Maven)
- Experienced in AWS Cloud platform with features EC2, VPC, ELB, Auto-Scaling, Security Groups, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation
- Solid understanding in building web server components using system stack such as Apache, Nginx, My SQL, Mongo Db and MS SQL as well
- Maintain proficiency with industry best practices in IT Security, Integration, and Testing
- Manage IT end-user help desk resources and evaluate performance
- Implement a 24x7 on-call program to manage critical escalations/incidents
- Recruit, train and support help desk representatives and technicians.
Certification
CKA (Certified Kubernetes Admin) | AWS Certified | Azure Certified MCITP ID - 7471012 | CCNA & RHCE Certified| Google Cloud Certified | Comp TIA Security
Languages
English
Advanced
Hindi
Advanced
Punjabi
Fluent
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
Diploma - Computer Applications, Computer hardware & Networking
Kurukshetra University
Diploma (JCNP Diploma) - undefined
Punjab University
Bachelor - Arts
Jetking