Author Profile

Aditya Sharma

DevOps Consultant

I have over 12 years of experience in designing, implementing, deploying, and managing multi-vendor IT infrastructure. I am skilled in various cloud vendors and Kubernetes flavours, and I love to learn cutting-edge technologies. I am efficient in engineering/automating complex technical issues, which helps me to stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in the field.

Credentials

  • Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate
  • Hashicorp Certified Vault Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in MultiCluster Management

Experience

DevOps Consultant - Arctiq (April 2022 - Present)

  • Design and Deployment of production grade solution of Openshift on AWS (ROSA) 4.x and configuration of GitOps using ArgoCD
  • Design and Deployment of production grade solution of Openshift on Azure (ARO) 4.x
  • Delivered workshops for Developer and Day-2 ops community on Openshift 4.x
  • Implementation of RedHat Advanced Cluster Management to manage multi-cloud/hybrid clusters
  • Design and Implementation of Advanced Cluster Security (RHACS) to secure K8s clusters / applications.
  • Design and Implementation of Anthos (GKE On-prem) on Bare Metal
  • Implementation of Anthos Config Management and Anthos Service Mesh in multi-cloud/hybrid setup
  • Design and Implementation of Quay Registry and Clair Scanning to enable DevSecOps.
  • Design and Implementation of DevSecOps pipeline using Gitlab SaaS

Senior Consultant  - CGI ( 2019 - 2022)

  • Design enterprise wide Unified DevOps pipeline used by developers across business units leveraging Gitlab, Ansible Tower, Artifactory, SonarQube as unified solutions.
  • Designed and implemented highly available architectures on private cloud, serving more than 3000 users with monthly automated upgrades.
  • Architect of Ansible Tower platform and cloud migration to support over 2M jobs/yr.
  • Introduced GitOps to automate all terraform orchestration for all the unified tools.
  • Implemented Prometheus, Grafana and Alert Manager for monitoring and alerting solutions for all 4 Enterprise tools. 
  • Design SLOs/SLIs and Operations Dashboard to gauge the platform health and user adoption
  • Setup Gitflow to branch Infra and code pipelines to build Infra, multi stage docker images, ECR and deploy to ECS/Fargate.
  • Contributed to Open Source Code for Grafana to create new SVG plugin which allows easy creation of Process Map Diagrams across any line of business.
  • Design SLOs/SLIs and Operations Dashboard to gauge the platform health and user adoption.

Competencies

Skills: OpenShift/K8s design and implementation, CICD pipeline development using Gitlab / GitHub, Site Reliability Engineering, GCP, AWS, Azure, Git, Terraform, Vault, Ansible, Bash, ArgoCD, Google Anthos, GKE, EKS, AKS, Kubernetes, Istio, Artifactory, Xray, Clair, Stackrox, Ansible Tower, RedHat ACS, RedHat ACM, Quay

Value-added leadership: clear communication, highly organized, agility and adaptability, assertive