About

Gaurav Kumar is a skilled DevOps Engineer with over 5 years of experience in implementing and supporting DevOps processes and tools. He has a proven track record of building a holistic DevOps enablement ecosystem for teams to consistently plan, build, and deliver customer engagements, internal projects, Line of Business applications, and organization role readiness. Currently, Gaurav is working as a DevOps Engineer at Landmark Group, where he has provided workshops to project team members on CI/CD pipelines, branching strategy, branch polices enforcement, Azure Service Principles, CT pipelines, Sonarqube quality rules, and gates. He has also worked on application modernization by onboarding applications to containerization and Kubernetes orchestration. Gaurav has implemented DevOps frameworks for Java Spring Boot containerized applications and deployed microservices in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). He has also implemented application monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and AppDynamics for the Java Spring Boot containerized applications on AKS. In addition, Gaurav has integrated security tools with DevOps processes and tools like SonarQube, SonarCloud, WhiteSource Bolt, VeraCode, and Cobertura (DevSecOps - for code analysis, code coverage, and vulnerability scanning). He has set up Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) cluster, CI/CD pipelines using Azure pipelines, performed Static Code Analysis using Sonarqube, Security Code scanner using Veracode & Fortify On Demand (FoD), Vulnerability scan for images in ACR (Azure Container Registry). He has also automated CT for mobile applications(apk) via Azure Pipelines with a headless approach to launch an emulator based on Android SDK, Appium, ADB bridge, and generate HTML reports + screenshots and send email alerts with reports enclosed. Gaurav has also provisioned various environments infrastructure using Terraform with CI/CD pipelines. He has developed and maintained operational artifacts, including runbooks, and helped developers in writing build scripts and storing binary artifacts in Azure artifacts. He has set up CronJobs for old logs deletion stored in Persistent Volume Claim (PVC), custom scripts required for auditing purposes within Kubernetes pods and generated alerts via email for application certificate expiry. Gaurav has also performed PoCs (Proof of Concepts) for new tools provisioning and implementation. Before joining Landmark Group, Gaurav worked as an Application Development Senior Analyst at Accenture, where he managed Source Code Management (Version Control System) tools like Git