Pravin Verma
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Toptal member since May 20, 2024
Pravin is a network, system, cloud, and DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience in the IT industry. His track record shows consistent, timely, and professional deliveries, supported by multiple active certifications across various domains. Pravin has designed and implemented robust, scalable infrastructure from scratch and migrated manually provisioned setups to infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions, enhancing efficiency and optimizing resources within complex projects.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 11 years
- Windows - 11 years
- DevOps - 5 years
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 5 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 5 years
- Amazon EKS - 5 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 5 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Terraform Cloud, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Office 365, Google, Google Workspace, Gmail
The most amazing...
...accomplishment I've achieved was successfully migrating 100% of manually provisioned infrastructure to infrastructure as code (IaC)—an email migration.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
One of the Top 10 companies which builds Servers/Network devices.
- Worked for a company that builds servers and network devices. Hired staff, trained juniors, and led a team of 10+ people. Supported subordinates when required and coordinated with management for new implementations or when needed.
- Tracked and fixed bugs using Jira as a reporting tool. Maintained documentation in Confluence for future use.
- Took care of disaster recovery scenarios like testing the backups and having proper documentation of policies and steps we followed as an ISO-certified company.
- Supported developers to run their code smoothly on infrastructure like Airflow, Trino, web apps, RDS, Redis, etc.
- Achieved a 50% cost reduction through strategic resource optimization, demonstrating my ability to deliver substantial savings without compromising performance.
- Spearheaded the migration from Amazon CloudWatch to Elasticsearch, providing a more comprehensive and insightful visualization of logs. This achievement underscores my capacity to handle complex, high-visibility projects.
- Used code to deploy the infrastructure for multiple clients and environments like development, stage, and production.
- Used Terraform modules and resources for better manageability, AWS S3 for storing the Terraform state files, and DynamoDB for locking the state. Provisioned other services like Route 53, AWS WAF, API Gateway, RDS, etc.
Network, System, Cloud, and DevOps Engineer
Freelance Clients
- Supported Sally Beauty (client) and Vertisystem (payroll company).
- Provided client support for VMware ESXi, Citrix, Windows Servers, SolarWinds, Azure, etc. Provisioned new servers, upgraded the servers, modified the resources, provided access to users, managed AD, DNS, etc.
- Led the migration of the data center in record time. Shifted the data center to a new location and implemented Layer 2/Layer 3 switches, Wi-Fi/access points, firewall/UTM, servers, etc. (for internal use).
- Provisioned servers on Microsoft Hyper-V and deployed active directory (AD and ADC), DHCP, DNS, WSUS, Ubiquiti Controller, SQL Servers, etc. (for internal use).
- Used the following brands: Cisco, Fortinet, Ubiquiti, HP, Microsoft, VMware, etc.
- Supported Indeed (client) and Vertisystem (payroll company). Worked as a network automation engineer.
- Provided support to automate network-related tasks using Ansible and Python scripts to fetch the data from network devices and push it to a tool with the data of all network devices.
- Used Jira to track ticket status and update the team. Used code to automate the entire thing successfully in one year.
Network Administrator
Sonic Biochem
- Served as an individual contributor for the main office, managing their infrastructure, including Windows/Hyper-V Servers and VM backups stored on tapes for disaster recovery scenarios.
- Established a setup that continuously copied data to remote locations and served the data in case the primary site went down for any reason. As an ISO 27001-certified company, we took documentation very seriously.
- Managed a team of 10+ engineers deployed to different locations and assisted them with issues they could not resolve on their own.
- Upgraded/patched the servers and networking devices in all the environments continuously. Moved our data center to a different location successfully.
Senior Network Engineer
Omega Networks
- Implemented a hospital's core infrastructure, including the configuration of networks, firewalls, Wi-Fi, servers, etc. It took around two months for the whole setup.
- Deployed Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V for VMs, Fortinet firewalls, Cisco Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches, and Cisco router for terminating ISP.
- Deployed an open-source NAS/SAN solution built on openmediavault and a custom-built rack server to another client.
- Worked on other brands like Cyberoam, SonicWall, and open-source UTM solutions.
- Supported an international client with offices in India, managing their network infrastructure, Wi-Fi, servers, etc.
Experience
Infrastructure Migration to an IaC Solution
We use code to deploy the infrastructure for multiple clients and environments like development, stage, and production. We constantly edit or add new modules and resources according to usage. Now, we can provision the entire infrastructure for any environment or client in one day.
I used Terraform modules and resources for better manageability, AWS S3 for storing the Terraform state files, and DynamoDB for locking the state. I also provisioned other services like Route 53, AWS WAF, API Gateway, RDS, etc.
Email Migration | Google to Office 365
Email Migration | cPanel to Google
Education
Master's Degree in Information Technology
Dr. C.V. Raman University - India
Certifications
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002)
HashiCorp
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)
Palo Alto Networks
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Understanding of Cisco Network Devices
Cisco
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA Routing and Switching)
Cisco
Skills
Libraries/APIs
OneDrive
Tools
Amazon EKS, Terraform, Git, AWS IAM, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Grafana, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), GitHub, ELK (Elastic Stack), GitLab CI/CD, VPN, Helm, Azure App Service, Azure DevOps Services, Microsoft Exchange, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, VMware, Apache Airflow, Dell EMC, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Jira, Confluence
Languages
YAML, Bash, Python, Snowflake, Python 3, Python Script, SQL
Paradigms
DevOps, Automation, DevSecOps, Agile, Azure DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI)
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows, MacOS, Amazon EC2, Docker, AWS Lambda, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Azure, SharePoint, SharePoint 365, cPanel, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016
Storage
Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, MySQL, Azure Active Directory, Azure Storage, PostgreSQL, HP Servers
Frameworks
Django
Other
Terraform Cloud, Pipelines, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps, Identity & Access Management (IAM), AWS CodePipeline, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Business Services, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Migration, Cloud, Palo Alto Networks, Firewalls, Cloud Resources, Office 365, Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps Engineer, Amazon Route 53, SecOps, Serverless, Prometheus, Monitoring, Linux Kernel, System Administration, Cloud Architecture, Release Management, Microsoft 365, DMARC, DNS, Cloud Monitoring, Deployment, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS VPN, Network Engineering, Networks, Single Sign-on (SSO), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), HTTPS, SSL Certificates, SSL Configurations, DNS Servers, Networking, Amazon RDS, Security, AWS Cloud Security, Amazon Redshift, DHCP, eBGP, EIGRP, First Hop Redundancy Protocol (FHRP), Grep, Network Security, Network Topology, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Static Routing, Troubleshooting, WAN, Cloud Computing, Cloud Platforms, Cloud Services, Applications, Azure Administrator, Azure Virtual Machines, Multi-factor Authentication (MFA), PIM, Azure Virtual Networks, Infrastructure Components, IPv6, LAN Switching, Network Management Stations (NMS), Network Programmability, Cloud Engineering, HCP Terraform, Infrastructure Automation, IT Infrastructure, App Infrastructure, Google, Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Email, Migration, Email Migration, Gmail, Servers, VMware ESXi, Amazon Webstore, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cisco, Cisco UCS, HP Enterprise (HPE), IBM SAN, ASA Firewalls, Layer 2 Networking, Layer 3 Networking, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Fortinet, Ubiquiti, Cisco IOS, MikroTik, IBM Servers, NetBackup, IPv4, Dynamic Routing
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