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Ankita Anand

London,United Kingdom

Summary

5+ years of experience comprising of Cloud and DevOps enablement, Infrastructure Provisioning, Configuration and Deployment Automation, Reliability, Observability, Production and Incident Management. Good organisational skills working in Agile/Waterfall models, accelerating release time by 25%.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Site Reliability Engineer

Direct Line Group
London, United Kingdom
05.2022 - Current
  • Involved in managing, standardising and automating the organisation’s cloud platform on Amazon Web Services, includes designing and developing solutions that ensure the consumers within the business are using the platform in a safe, governed, compliant way and following industry best practices.
  • Supporting software development to optimise platform and rollouts in effective and timely manner in accordance with SLAs/SLIs/SLOs.
  • Establishing and Improving common operational challenges faced in manual server administration with tooling and bash/python/synthetics scripts.
  • Delivered push based ingestion of AWS data to Splunk and its IAC in Terraform.
  • Applied engineering principles to troubleshooting and followed up on defined corrective actions to prevent reoccurrences, providing on call rota and regression and release support across the platform.
  • Spearheaded the DevOps efforts in the Digital Home Transformation initiative at DLG, overseeing the complete cloud infrastructure for the program whilst also progressed platform infra migration from Jenkins to GitHub workflows for new application pipelines.
  • Advised stakeholders on engineering procedures involved with monitoring their application's availability, latency, log aggregation and errors.
  • Research and rearchitecture engineering solutions to optimise cost and lead migrations of duplicate tooling stacks and processes.
  • Collaborated closely with stakeholders, playing a pivotal role in the decision-making process for application rollout and release strategies.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional development teams to raise technical standards for version control and source code management for existing projects.
  • Identified and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities/application issues to increase cloud and container security.
  • Created strategies for disaster management and recovery to minimise future disruption.
  • Configured cloud infrastructure components to optimise performance, enhance scalability, and ensure reliable integration with applications.
  • Develop teams to understand issues, create Splunk/AppD queries and dashboards for root cause analysis and work with them for development of enhancements/fixes.
  • Created run-books and frameworks for MIM, release support and architectural references for new onboards to DLG.
  • Work along with network/cloud teams to investigate misconfigs in stack templates and cleanup cloud resources.


Cloud DevOps Consultant

KPMG
Bangalore, India
02.2021 - 05.2022
  • Maintained RedHat Openshift based microservices architecture for 3 tier app to implement its CI/CD, version control, log aggregation, error reporting and monitoring via newrelic dashboards.
  • Developed container security by protecting cluster via securing API access using network policies to control traffic and leveraging built in features like RBAC, ensuring principle of least privilege and regular audits.
  • Worked on container image vulnerabilities, registries access, orchestrators and container engine.
  • Carried out regular updates and patches, included not only the container runtime and orchestration tools but also the applications running within the containers and the host systems themselves.
  • Collaborated with AWS, New relic and Red Hat sales,training and support teams to drive operational efficiency via SLAs/SLOs and maintain infra uptime of 99.9%.
  • Set up shared services and load balancing cluster based solutions for Jenkins, Elasticsearch and Sonarqube.
  • Provided inputs on data protection, access & authentication control, cloud resource management, monitoring, high availability, fault tolerance and scalability of infrastructure to aid functional testing.
  • Performed OpenShift cluster cost optimization by scheduled scaling of AWS app nodes and utilizing Jenkins pipelines to build artifacts.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer

DXC Technology
Noida, India
10.2017 - 01.2021
  • Experience in Build and Configuration Management tools like Packer and Puppet for building application specific AMIs and configurations via Puppet Modules and Manifests to automate manual installation processes for IIS and WAS.
  • Managed full AWS Lifecycle, Provisioning, Automation, Monitoring and Security using Terraform and Power shell scripts and Harshicorp Vault for secret management.
  • Configured ALBs, Route53 hosted zones, Lambdas, Cloudwatch metrics and Auto-Scaling strategies.
  • Automated Build and Deployment process by creating Jenkins CI/CD Pipelines for various applications.
  • Configured Groovy Jobs for regular Source code Builds and Nightly & Milestone builds.
  • Defined Branching and Tagging concepts in Version Control tool GIT for setting up branching strategies to meet development/testing requirements.
  • Led/Monitored Deployments in all Environments via Cloud watch/App Dynamics alongside Analysing, Testing and Debugging Build and Deployment issues in Major Sev/Incident Resolutions for Production via ServiceNow.
  • Managed Parallel Deployment Mechanisms for Disaster Recovery with reduced downtime for DNS switch over by creating Canary and Blue/Green Deployment Stacks.

Education

Bachelors of Technology - Computer Science

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Delhi, India
08.2013 - 08.2017

Skills

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Python
  • Jenkins/Argos CI/CD
  • Docker
  • K8S / Redhat OpenShift
  • Packer
  • Puppet
  • Power shell
  • Bash
  • Helm Charts
  • GIT
  • SQL
  • Server Administration/Maintenance
  • Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Debugging
  • Networking
  • Incident Management
  • Optimising and performance tuning
  • Problem-solving

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Azure Fundamentals Certified
  • Agile Certified - DXC Technology

Accomplishments

  • DLG Team of FY2023 Q3
  • KPMG Client Appreciation
  • KPMG Kudos- Nov 2021
  • DXC STAR Performer - OCT'18, DEC'19, AUG'20
  • DXC Team Member Of The Month - Q1 FY19, Q2 FY20
  • Q1 FY21 DXC Quarterly Champs Award

Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer

Direct Line Group
05.2022 - Current

Cloud DevOps Consultant

KPMG
02.2021 - 05.2022

AWS Infrastructure Engineer

DXC Technology
10.2017 - 01.2021

Bachelors of Technology - Computer Science

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
08.2013 - 08.2017

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