nikhil Shankar
Open to work4 years experienceDevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation.
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16 skillsWork Experience
DevOps Engineer
GrayQuest
- Designed multi-stage CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins (Declarative Pipelines) integrating Maven builds and SonarQube quality scans, reducing end-to-end deployment time by 40%.
- Built reusable Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure, reducing manual provisioning effort and improving environment consistency.
- Containerized production services with optimized Dockerfiles, published images to AWS ECR, and deployed them on ECS, cutting environment mismatch incidents by 60%.
- Operated production workloads on Kubernetes (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Namespaces) with rolling updates and supported rollback procedures.
- Implemented blue-green and canary deployments on Kubernetes to support low-risk, near-zero-downtime releases during upgrades and feature rollouts.
- Configured Prometheus alerting and Grafana dashboards to track application health and surface production issues early.
Associate DevOps Engineer
Dignity Of Noble
- Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure with Terraform, keeping every environment change trackable, auditable, and reversible.
- Implemented the organization's first Jenkins CI/CD pipeline with GitHub webhooks, automating builds and tests on every commit.
- Integrated Trivy vulnerability scanning and OWASP security practices into the pipeline to identify issues before deployment.
- Containerized backend and frontend services with multi-stage Dockerfiles, standardizing configuration across dev, staging, and production.
- Supported early Kubernetes adoption by preparing manifests and deploying containerized services to development clusters.
- Enforced branch protection rules and a GitFlow release strategy, speeding up hotfix delivery across teams.
Junior DevOps Engineer
Careerlabs Technologies
- Migrated legacy manual deployments to containerized runtimes by writing optimized Dockerfiles.
- Maintained and extended Jenkins CI/CD jobs, fixing broken configurations and adding missing stages within active sprints.
- Embedded automated verification scripts into continuous integration workflows, enforcing quality checks before merge across consecutive sprint releases.
- Administered Git repositories, managing feature branches, pull requests, and merge conflicts to keep the main branch deployable.
Projects
PulseDeploy: GitOps-Driven Blood Donation Platform on AWS EKS
- Built a production-style GitOps platform for a containerized PHP/MySQL blood-donation application on AWS EKS.
- Automated EKS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and built Jenkins CI gates using SonarQube, Docker, and Trivy.
- Implemented Argo CD automated sync and drift self-healing, Kubernetes autoscaling, persistent MySQL storage, and network security controls.
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DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, and production monitoring. Proven track record of building reliable, scalable delivery pipelines and automating releases end to end.
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in CSE
Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education (2018 - 2022)