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Hi, I’m

Ajit Kumar Rath

Senior DevOps Engineer
Hyderabad
Ajit Kumar Rath

Summary

A passionate Senior DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of relevant experience. I aim to leverage my expertise to optimize and automate infrastructure management, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and ensure robust monitoring and security practices. With a particular focus on Kubernetes, I seek to enhance container orchestration, deployment scalability, and cluster management within a dynamic and forward-thinking organization.

Overview

7
years of professional experience
5
Certificates

Work History

Tech Mahindra

Senior Software Engineer- Cloud DevOps Engineer
10.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Managed and supported containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS), ensuring high availability and scalability in AWS cloud environments.
  • Designed and automated infrastructure using Terraform, reducing manual provisioning efforts, and improving deployment consistency.
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI, enabling automated build, test, and deployment workflows across multiple environments.
  • Created and optimized Docker images, including consolidating multiple services into a single, reusable base image, significantly reducing build time in CI pipelines.
  • Monitored application and infrastructure health using Grafana, implementing alerts and dashboards to proactively identify and resolve issues.
  • Performed troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA) for production issues, improving system reliability, and minimizing downtime.
  • Worked closely with development teams to implement DevOps best practices, ensuring smooth deployments, and faster release cycles.
  • Managed AWS services such as EC2, IAM, S3, and EKS, ensuring secure and optimized cloud infrastructure.
  • Automated operational tasks using Bash scripting and basic Python, reducing repetitive manual work.
  • Ensured application reliability and performance through monitoring, logging, and continuous improvements.
  • Participated in on-call support and incident handling, ensuring quick recovery and minimal impact on business operations.
  • Implemented logging and observability practices using tools like Datadog, and basic ELK exposure, if you have.
  • Maintained Linux-based servers, including debugging, performance tuning, and system-level issue resolution.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support microservices architecture deployments.
  • Assisted in cost optimization efforts by analyzing resource usage, and improving infrastructure efficiency.

Wipro Technologies

Senior Associate
05.2020 - 05.2022

Job overview

  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI for automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
  • Containerized applications using Docker and optimized images to improve build efficiency and deployment speed.
  • Deployed applications to Kubernetes (EKS) using manifests and Helm charts.
  • Implemented rolling deployments, blue-green deployments, and rollback strategies to ensure zero or minimal downtime.
  • Managed version control and release workflows using Git and GitLab.
  • Ensured high availability, reliability, and performance of production systems.
  • Implemented monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus and Grafana.

Cognizant Technologies Solutions

Process Executive - DevOps Engineer
05.2019 - 05.2020

Job overview

  • Troubleshoot complex issues in a production environment, providing swift resolutions to minimize disruptions.
  • Managed cloud infrastructure on AWS, including EC2, EKS, IAM, S3, and networking components.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, ensuring consistent and repeatable environments.
  • Performed capacity planning, scaling, and cost optimization for cloud resources.
  • Ensured infrastructure security by following IAM best practices and access controls.
  • Troubleshot Linux system issues related to CPU, memory, disk, and process utilization in production environments.
  • Monitored system performance using tools like top, htop, vmstat, iostat, free, df, and du.
  • Diagnosed and resolved service failures using system logs and journald (journalctl, /var/log).
  • Managed and debugged systemd services, including start, stop, restart, and failure analysis.

Education

VITAM (B.P.U.T University)
Berhampur

Graduation B-Tech from Electrical Engineering
01-2018

University Overview

GPA: 7.33 CGPA

Chikiti Mahavidyalaya
Chikiti

Intermediate from Science Education
01-2014

University Overview

GPA: 53%

R.R.B.P
Chikiti

School from Matriculation
01-2012

University Overview

GPA: 70%

Skills

Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Amazon EKS, Docker Swarm

CI/CD & DevOps Tools: Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Action

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform

Scripting & Automation: Shell Script, Python Script

AWS migration Tool: AWS application migration services(MGN), AWS DB migration DMS, cloudEndure Migration, Rsync

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, VPC, IAM, EBS, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, AWS Copilot, AWS Code pipeline, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager (SSM) AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ALB / NLB), AWS Route 53, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS CloudTrail)

Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Configuration Management: Ansible

Security & DevSecOps: SonarQube, Trivy (container security scanning)

Container Registry/Artifact Repository: Amazon ECR, Nexus Repository, JFrog Artifactory

Networking & Infrastructure: Load Balancing, DNS Management, SSL/TLS, Reverse Proxy (Nginx)

Agile / Collaboration: Confluence, ServiceNow, Slack

VCS: Git, Bitbucket

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Timeline

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

06-2026

GitHub Copoilt

08-2024

Java Programming

05-2023

Agile DevOps

05-2023

Senior Software Engineer- Cloud DevOps Engineer

Tech Mahindra
10.2022 - Current

AWS Cloud Practitioner

08-2022

Senior Associate

Wipro Technologies
05.2020 - 05.2022

Process Executive - DevOps Engineer

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
05.2019 - 05.2020

Chikiti Mahavidyalaya

Intermediate from Science Education

R.R.B.P

School from Matriculation

VITAM (B.P.U.T University)

Graduation B-Tech from Electrical Engineering

Declaration

I, hereby declare that all the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge. Ajit Kumar Rath

Ajit Kumar RathSenior DevOps Engineer