Simranpreet Singh Sangha
Sr. System Engineer
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Total Exp: 10+ years
Presently working with EVRY India Pvt Ltd.
A total of 10+ years of experience in IT industry working as a consultant in Infrastructure & Application Operations and having an expertise in AWS Cloud Operations/Application/Data Centre Operations. A good team player who leads the team from the front, keep mentoring the team members and help them to grow their technical skills. Proven to possess management skills, is self-directed, organised, motivated and willing to take new initiatives. Strong verbal and written communication & presentation skills. Ability to work well under pressure and within reduced time constraints. Experienced team participant, works well where the independent decision is required.
Technical Skills
Cloud Computing
Amazon Web Services, Azure
Monitoring Tools
AWS CloudWatch, Nagios, Zabbix, Check_mk
Web Servers
Apache,/Nginx/IIS Web Servers, Tomcat/JBoss Application Servers
Operating System Management
Linux/Unix Servers
DevOps tools
Git, Dockers, Ansible, Jenkins, Nagios, CI/CD tools
1: Working with EVRY India Ltd. since June 2018
Key performance indicators:
Maintaining AWS Infrastructure for multiple clients
Implemented Dynatrace enterprise monitoring tool for AWS resource monitoring
Worked along with the clients to reduce overall running costs of the infrastructure
Implemented AWS WAF for protection from SQL Injection, DDoS, Cross-site Scripting and other external attacks.
Configured Cisco Stealthwatch with AWS for traffic analysis.
Involved in designing,deploying and configuring a multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS, Route53, ELB, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, AWS AutoScaling, Lambda, Elastic BeanStalk) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
Managing AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing for Production, QA and UAT environments
Extending the Root or secondary EBS Volume size and type of an EC2 Instance online with zero downtime
Created NAT gateways and instances to allow communication from the private instances to the internet through bastion hosts
Installation of AWS CLI to control various AWS services
Working with version control and source code management tools like GIT
Connecting On-Prem resources to AWS infra via point-to-site VPN
Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
Working with various AWS Beanstalk Environments hosting Applications
EBS Volume Encryption for security for data at rest and in transit
Procuring AWS SSL Certificates for data encryption for HTTP traffic for EC2 and CDN
Setup/Managing CDN on Amazon CloudFront (Origin path: Server/S3/ALB) to improve site performance
Creating/Managing buckets in S3 (CLI) for backups, images for CDN service and object lifecycle management
Registering and managing hosted zones in Route 53
Working with VPCs, NAT instances and Route tables
Maintaining, configuring various Unix/Linux servers hosting client Applications
2: Worked with BlouinArtinfo Corp December 2017 to June 2018.
Key performance indicators:
Designing, deploying and operating highly available, scalable and fault tolerant systems using Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Working with Developers on various day-to-day issues
Creating IAM users and working with various roles, policies and permissions
Participate in pre-sales engagements as needed
Developed and produced documentation of the implemented solution
Worked with CodeCommit, CodeBuild and CodeDeploy for CI/CD Pipelines
Setting up Backups and Archiving polices for various datastores
3: Worked with Trans American Information Systems, Gurgaon from October 2015 to November 2016.
Key performance indicators:
Installed and Setup Web Servers (Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, and WebLogic), DB Server (MySQL and Oracle)
Maintaining AWS Infrastructure for the Organization
Providing development infrastructure environment and assisting development.
Analyzing, monitoring and maintaining server environments for seamless delivery to the clients.
Continuous upgrade in the infrastructure environment for better efficiency, cost cutting and time management.
Scheduling jobs using crontab
4: Worked with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Noida from April 2015 to October 2015.
Key performance indicators:
Management of 200+ Linux Servers with Multiple websites in a heterogeneous environment
Monitoring external and internal websites of the organization through Dynatrace and Identifying issues as per the alerts and providing immediate resolution.
Installing and Managing SSL certificates
Setting up new Apache Vhosts with SSL certificates and respective DNS as per requirement
Responsible for troubleshooting Mount points, NFS, Mail issues.
Maintained and configured Web server: Apache and Application servers (Tomcat and JBoss).
5: Worked with Kayako Infotech Ltd. Gurgaon, from December 2008 to February 2015.
Key performance indicators:
Installing, configuring and maintaining Kayako Helpdesk instances on client’s as well as the hosted environment.
Created “wiki.kayako.com”.
Created Kayako 4 manual.
Collaborated, organized and documented the Kayako processes for different departments viz. Sales, Support, Services, HR, Development, Finance, Accounts.
Process trainer for Sales, Services and Support department. Responsible for a success rate of graduate trainees.
Responsible for Process auditing for Technical departments and Quality coaching on the basis of Auditing and responsible for improvements and issues encountered during the auditing process.
Leading Linux engineering team at Kayako for delivering exceptional customer experience.
6: Worked with A1 Technology Ltd., Chandigarh from October 2006 - Dec 2008.
Key performance indicators:
Installation and configuration of Linux OS (Fedora and RHEL), Windows Server.
Worked on implementing, managing and deploying servers which include DNS server, Mail server, SVN data repository server. Managing services which include daily backup, creating shell scripts for backups
Worked on setting up Rewrite rules through “.htaccess” files
Monitoring Apache Server access logs and error logs.
Monitoring Linux Server Health via MRTG, Top, and other Linux monitoring tools.
Languages -
English
Hindi
Punjabi
SUMMARY
Professional Qualification
Amazon Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level
RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
Academic Qualification
Degree/Class Board/UniversityYear
B. Tech. (ECE)Punjab Technical University2003
XII Punjab State Education Board1999
X ICSE 1997
Personal Details:
Passport No.: P-
PAN card No. : BPMPS6946H
Present Address : #59, Mehar Enclave, Jalandhar, 144003
