Anil Kumar

DevOps Engineering Lead(Interim)

✔ Led the automation initiatives within the team, driving the implementation of automation tools and processes to reduce manual work and streamline operations.
✔ Led a team of DevOps professionals as the Interim Manager, overseeing the Enterprise DevOps platforms and ensuring their smooth operation.
✔ Successfully managed and coordinated a global team, including the Mexico Team, in implementing standardized processes and ensuring consistent delivery of DevOps services.
✔ Successfully upgraded multiple platforms with a user base of over 25K, ensuring minimal disruption and enhanced performance.
✔ Demonstrated exceptional leadership during platform crises, effectively resolving issues and minimizing downtime to ensure business continuity.
✔ Mentored and coached team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth, resulting in improved performance and morale.
✔ Applied comprehensive knowledge of product management and project management methodologies to drive successful project delivery within scope, timeline, and budget.
✔ Spearheaded the design and implementation of CI/CD systems (Jenkins, Bamboo), binary management tools (Artifactory, Nexus), and ALM tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket), enabling streamlined software development and release processes.
✔ Played a pivotal role in the adoption of agile software development practices, driving the implementation of DevOps best practices and ensuring successful transformation at the enterprise level.
✔ Leveraged expertise in cloud technologies, deploying cloud-native applications and optimizing cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for efficient and scalable operations.
✔ Spearheaded the development and implementation of a Configuration Management Database (CMDB), enabling effective tracking and management of infrastructure and application assets.
✔ Promoted clear documentation practices using FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles, ensuring that documentation was comprehensive, well-organized, and easily accessible to the team.
✔ Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including legal, security, and compliance, to align DevOps processes and practices with organizational policies and standards.
✔ Actively participated in change management activities, ensuring smooth transitions during software releases and minimizing the impact on end-users.
✔ Fostered a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging and implementing feedback loops, driving innovation and optimizing processes.
✔ Acted as a key liaison with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status, risks, and mitigation plans.
✔ Demonstrated excellent problem-solving and communication skills, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to achieve project goals and deliver high-quality solutions.
✔ Proactively identified opportunities for process improvements and implemented measures to enhance operational efficiency, resulting in cost savings and increased productivity.

Service Manager/Technical Lead - DevOps

✔ Led the adoption of GitHub Enterprise at scale as the Github Product Lead, driving the implementation of the platform across the organization and ensuring its successful integration into existing workflows.
✔ Designed and delivered end-to-end automation for the migration of Bitbucket repositories to GitHub, including stakeholder management, approvals, and permissions replication using issue ops methodologies.
✔ Served as the DevOps Technical Lead, re-engineering and streamlining existing DevOps services to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
✔ Acted as the DevSecOps Community Lead, enforcing Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and vulnerability scans to ensure the security and integrity of software deliverables.
✔ Successfully managed operational services as an Operational Service Manager, ensuring adherence to best practices and procedures for smooth operations.
✔ Led DevOps Steering Groups, driving collaboration and decision-making on DevOps initiatives and strategies.
✔ Developed and implemented robust processes for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) to accelerate software delivery and increase release frequency.
✔ Championed the implementation of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, leveraging tools such as Terraform and Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
✔ Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and implement improvements in application performance, scalability, and reliability, resulting in enhanced user experience and reduced downtime.
✔ Actively participated in capacity planning and scalability initiatives, ensuring infrastructure resources were optimized to meet growing demands.
✔ Implemented monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve issues, minimizing impact on end-users and improving system availability.
✔ Fostered a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing, organizing workshops and training sessions to enhance team members' skills and expertise in DevOps practices and tools.
✔ Received recognition for outstanding performance and contributions to achieving organizational goals.

Technical Lead - DevOps

✔ As a Technical Lead, Defining the DevOps strategy for the organization and creating(implementing) the DevOps platform for enabling DevOps practices for various technology stacks.
✔ Designing and Implementing the end to end ALM Solutions( Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, and Crowd ).
✔ Designing and Implementing the end to end Continous Integration (CI) and Continous Deployment (CD) platform using Jenkins, Sonarqube and Nexus.
✔ Designing and Implementing the container orchestration platform based on Kubernetes.
✔ Driving the key projects in the organization towards the Containers.

Senior Consultant - DevOps

✔ Designed created and delivered a multi-cloud native container DevOps (PAAS) platform for application development and deployment resulting in the streamlining of application delivery for the enterprise. The platform uses Docker as the container technology and deployed onto Kubernetes on AWS and VMware with a switch that can be used to deploy to either location. The platform has the end to end CI/CD pipeline, centralized logging and monitoring with target availability of 99.99%.
✔ Designed created and delivered an Enterprise Level CI/CD Environment using Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, and other tools with failover mechanism achieved using Terraform
✔ Designed and delivered enterprise-wide CI/CD Pipelines for Spring boot, Java, Python, Node JS, PHP, and Html applications using Packer and Artifactory tools.
✔ Designed end to end CI/CD Pipelines for Mule Soft Api Deployments.
✔ Defined delivered and championed the adoption of Enterprise-wide Application Lifecycle Management Tooling (ALM) based on Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket (Git). Delivered this to over 8,000 users within IT and the business resulting in operational efficiency and project delivery transparency including using Jira for delivering validated (GxP) projects.
✔ Independently designed and executed company catalog for DevOps support and development.
✔ Designed DevOps master page and page layouts, serving as company's main DevOps support for all technical complications.
✔ Travelled to Mexico and provided in-person training for global team members & development teams for seamless development and deployments of enterprise applications.
✔ Leading the enterprise Continuous Integration practice. Providing advisory services in enterprise continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery to key projects around the organization. Collecting and documenting experiences in the internal DevOps COE.

Senior DevOps Engineer

✔ I have been part of the Design & Implementation of the Docker Container's Orchestration Eco System using Hashicorp Nomad and Consul.
✔ Designing & Implemented the fully automated Jenkins Pipeline for automatic Deployment which follows all phases of DevOps lifecycle including Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, and Continuous Delivery.
✔ Lead Jenkins 2.0 Project, which is focused for Creating Jenkins 2.x Environment & migrating Jenkins Workloads from Jenkins 1.x to 2.X Core.
✔ Designed and implemented a multi-site Artifactory Setup and integrated with existing Nexus Binary management system.
✔ Created and Delivered Jenkins Environment based on Nomad Cluster including dynamic slaves’ creation in Cluster.
✔ Supported the Tomcat Shared Cluster, which was designed to handle multiple tomcat projects with minimum resources.
✔ Support the client development team (mobile app and web app) to build their component to interact with the micro-services.
✔ Maintaining the AWS infrastructure and ensuring the VPC is secured and ensuring that the services are interacting through the private DNS.
✔ Maintain the MongoDB, MySQL DB, and messaging services like RabbitMQ cluster.
✔ Keep learns and does implementation on the latest technologies and train team members.
✔ Designed a monitoring solution using Zabbix, Wavefront, and Sumologic.

DevOps Engineer

✔ I was part of the R&D team to find the best CI/CD tool of organization. InR&D, I & my team evaluated various tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Thoughtworks GO, UDeploy, and other tools.
✔ I was part of the Cloud Smurfs team, where I was primarily worked for designing and delivering internal Cloud (VMware Based Cloud) & Docker Platform for different regions of the organization.
✔ I was designed CI/CD Pipelines for Projects which have Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Code Quality, Continuous Deployment, and Continous Security Testing Phases.
✔ I have been part of the team which delivered organization-wide discussion forum using Discouse.io.
✔ I was administrated Continuous Integration(Jenkins), Source Code Management(Bitbucket & Gitolite), Binary management Systems(Artifactory), Code Quality management Systems(Sonarqube).
✔ I was designed and delivered Jenkins pipeline for the integration of Selenium Framework in the CI/CD Pipelines.
✔ I was designed and implemented best Source code branching strategies (Bitbucket and Gitolite) to enable parallel development for multiple releases.
✔ I was provided training and support different employees in source control, build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation.
✔ I was taken care of backup, restore, mirroring of the codebase to multiple locations according to policies and standards.
✔ I was developed, tested, and implemented necessary automation scripts on need-based.
✔ I was Written, distributed, and maintained the required technical documents according to policies and standards.