About

Nitish is a highly experienced DevOps Engineer with over 10 years of experience in implementing DevOps practices and working in Agile SDLC. He is an individual contributor and mentor with expertise in CI/CD for Java, Node, React, Angular, and Golang based applications on VM and Docker. Nitish has extensive experience in implementing CI/CD Pipelines in Bamboo and Jenkins and production release in public cloud instances, VMWare, and Docker. He has also automated deployment on various Public Clouds and VMWare using Bash and Ansible/Salt, and automated deployments on Docker Swarm and LXD. Nitish is proficient in using Configuration management tools like Salt and Ansible for automation and has automated the process from VM creation to application deployment. He has used Terraform for AWS resource provisioning and has experience in Jira and Gitlab Administration. Nitish has also worked on Log analysis using Rsyslog and ELK and installation and configuration of Zabbix for monitoring and alerting. In addition to his DevOps expertise, Nitish has experience in system administration, managing infrastructure, and providing support to clients. He has managed software Router and Firewall – Vyos, ClearOS, mail server, web servers, DNS, DHCP, Squid Proxy, and complex research-oriented software. Nitish has also configured automated backups with retention policy and provided L3 desktop support. Nitish's skillset overview includes proficiency in operating systems like CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL 7, and Windows, CM Tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Public Clouds like AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, Linode, and Public Cloud CLI like Azure(old), AWS. He is also proficient in container technology like Docker, LXD, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, virtualization like VMware, Xen, SCM tools like Gitlab, Bitbucket, scripting like Bash, Python (Novice), issue tracking tool like Jira, monitoring tools like Zabbix, Mantis, web servers like Apache, Nginx, DB Administration like MongoDB, MySQL, MSSQL, storage like NFS, firewall like Vyatta, Pfsense(Novice), server infrastructure like DHCP, DNS, Proxy, Postfix, server H/W like Dell PowerEdge R710 and R720, logging like Rsyslog, ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana), and code coverage tools like SonarQube. Nitish has won the VAST Hackathon