Akshay Narayan

Led the end-to-end migration of complete on-premises infrastructure to Azure Cloud, designing and implementing a robust hub-and-spoke network topology using Terraform.

Developed and standardized reusable Terraform modules, significantly improving infrastructure provisioning efficiency and consistency across environments.

Provisioned production-ready Private Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters via Terraform and automated deployments using Ansible playbooks, ensuring scalable and secure environments.

Managed and automated TLS certificate lifecycle on Kubernetes clusters using cert-manager, enhancing application security and compliance.

Designed and implemented dedicated Kubernetes clusters for each environment within the hub-and-spoke model, centralizing traffic routing through Azure Firewall for enhanced security and control.

Orchestrated the migration of approximately 150GB of production MySQL data from multiple on-premises servers to Azure Flexible Servers, leveraging replication for a cutover with minimal downtime.

Significantly enhanced Kubernetes High Availability by distributing nodes across two Azure Availability Zones, boosting fault tolerance and uptime.

Provided expert troubleshooting and debugging for Kubernetes issues, optimizing application performance and resource utilization through Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) and Cluster Autoscaler.

Led the refactoring of a monolithic repository into a multi-repository structure and engineered new CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, streamlining development workflows for the Dev team.

Currently responsible for comprehensive management and oversight of all Azure infrastructure and the end-to-end release cycle for application updates.

Led a cross-functional team of 4-5 engineers, including external consultants, on critical infrastructure projects.

Proactively contributed strategic insights and implemented improvements to ensure platform scalability, reliability, and security.

Functioned as a Senior DevOps Engineer, specializing in AWS services to build and maintain robust data pipelines using Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitHub Actions workflows.

Implemented comprehensive monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch to ensure system health and performance.

Developed, modified, and maintained GitHub workflows to align with evolving SDLC processes, improving release efficiency.

Engineered custom alerting and metric collection solutions for internal services leveraging AWS Lambda and Glue jobs, enhancing operational visibility.

Developed AWS Lambda functions to process AWS logs, generating custom metrics for a centralized monitoring system to provide actionable insights.

Leveraged a diverse set of DevOps tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Vault, and Helm to streamline operations and deployments.

Developed and managed scalable infrastructure on AWS using core services such as EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, RDS, and Route 53.

Utilized advanced features of Version Control Systems (Bitbucket/GitHub) for collaborative development and code management.

Provided critical support to development teams, resolving day-to-day issues related to application deployment and release cycles.

Fully automated deployment processes on Jenkins, integrating CI/CD best practices to enhance efficiency and reliability.

Automated ad-hoc tasks, including MySQL and MongoDB user management, through Jenkins to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.

Utilized Terraform for efficient and consistent infrastructure provisioning.

Managed and optimized ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack deployments on Kubernetes clusters for centralized logging and monitoring.

Resolved production-level technical issues and performed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to prevent recurrence.

Executed a zero-downtime migration of MySQL from version 5 to 8 using Alibaba Cloud DTS services, ensuring continuous data availability.

Set up, deployed, and maintained Django, WordPress, and Magento projects in production environments.

Troubleshot Linux server issues, maintained AWS architectures, configured server monitoring tools, and optimized web/application servers and database backups/monitoring.

Proficiently utilized core AWS services (S3, EC2, ELB, EBS, Route53, VPC, Auto Scaling) and deployment services (Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, CloudFormation), ensuring adherence to security best practices (IAM, CloudWatch).

Managed user accounts, disk quotas, and automated job scheduling using Crontab.

Managed and maintained databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

Configured and optimized LAMP and LEMP stacks for web application hosting.

Provisioned and managed Amazon EC2 instances, VPCs, and security groups to establish secure and scalable cloud infrastructure.

Gained hands-on experience with various Linux distributions, including CentOS and Red Hat.

Developed foundational knowledge in Linux system administration, including file systems, commands, and configuration of proxy servers (Squid), web servers (Apache), and FTP servers (Vsftpd).