Ritesh Walia | DevOps Engineer

Hi, I'm Ritesh Walia.

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Self-driven, quick starter, passionate with a curious mind who enjoys solving a complex and challenging real-world problems.

About

Industrious Cloud-Native DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience in designing, deploying, and operating scalable infrastructure and platforms. Well-rounded and conscientious professional skilled in managing production-grade clusters. Purposedriven engineer with a strong sense of ownership, committed to platform reliability, security, and seamless delivery. Proven ability to thrive in high-impact environments as both a collaborative team member and an individual contributor.

Orchestration: Cloudbees Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Source Code management: Git, Bit Bucket
Cloud-Native Technologies : GitOps with ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, AWS, Azure, OKE(Oracle Kubernetes Engine), AKS(Azure Kubernetes Service), SAP Gardener
Observability and Monitoring: AppDynamics, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana and Alert Manager.
Operating System: Linux and Windows
Database: Oracle Enterprise 12c and 19c Database and SAP Hana
IaC and Configuration Management: erraform, Ansible and Crossplane
Scripting: YAML, JSON, Python, Shell, Go(templating)
Tracking Tools: Jira, Rally, ServiceNow, BMC Remedy
Security & Compliance: Blackduck, Checkmarx, Sonarqube, SOC2 Audit, Velero, Diki and Falco

Looking for an opportunity to work in a challenging position combining my skills in Software Engineering, which provides professional development, interesting experiences and personal growth.

Experience

Oracle

Senior Consultant

Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
Managed OCI assets and integrated multiple OCI resources into solutions appropriate for setting up ORMB product.
Designed and wrote build scripts in scripting languages like shell, python.
Migrated source code repositories from Tortoise SVN to VBS-Git for 60+ projects.
Infrastructure setup for ORMB (Oracle Revenue Management and Billing) application in OCI using Oracle Database, Weblogic, tomcat, OUAF framework, Docker and Kubernetes.
Automated ORMB docker build, deployment, patching, application restarts, Database and application backups using Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory.
Determined areas for improvement and implemented processes to alleviate problems.
Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
Maintained metrics visibility using Oracle Enterprise Manager and Prometheus/Grafana to create useful dashboards and monitors
Developed POCs to demonstrate the viability of new ideas and technologies to support innovation.
Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, SonarQube, Git, JFrog Artifactory, Weblogic

September 2021 - Present | Bangalore, India

Infosys

Associate Consultant

Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
Introduced agile methodologies and effective development best practices to division to enhance product development.
Involved in troubleshooting application builds (like Maven, Gradle, NPM) and deployment failures with developers.
Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
Setting up CI/CD pipeline using BitBucket, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Blackduck, Jfrog Artifactory and RLM deployment.
Worked on Change implementations and production releases in cloud environments in Red Hat OpenShift 3.
Documented technical workflows and knowledge for reference in confluence for education of team members.
Collaborated closely with product development teams and other stakeholders.
Tools: Cloudbees Jenkins, SonarQube, AWS, AppDynamics, Jira, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes

February 2020 - August 2021 | Bangalore, India

Accenture

Application Development Associate

Participate in Sprint backlog refinement, sprint planning and stories estimation.
Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
Good practice in creating free style projects and maven projects and dependency projects.
Acted as primary role in triage of any build, deployment and testing errors or failures.
Worked on setting up application build and deployment in CICD pipeline using Git, Sonarqube, Jenkins, and IBM UCD.
Worked on setting up application on AWS and troubleshooting and maintenance in AWS.
Integration of monitoring tools like AppDynamics with applications running on RHEL.
Tools: IBM RTC, AWS, Jenkins, IBM Urban Code Deploy, AWS Lambda, Confluence, BMC Remedy

Dec 2017 - Feb 2020 | Bangalore, India