Manpreet Singh

Uithoorn, 1422JR Netherlands  |   (+31) 0685-803665  |   manpreet23011995@gmail.com

  • Cloud automation / Devops engineer with 7+ years of experience in implementing and managing private cloud(VMware) and public cloud (Azure) solutions across multiple organizations.
  • Proficient in developing and managing CI/CD pipelines using (Azure DevOps, jenkins, GitLab, BitBucket).
  • Have good understanding of Infrastructure as Code by using tools like Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack.
  • Hands-on knowledge of software containerization platforms like Docker, Packer and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Nomad and Docker Swarm.
  • Implementing unit test using jasmine framework for infra code.
  • Follow agile methodology for team collaboration and project management.



Experience

DevOps Engineer Proficient

(Employer : HCL Technologies B.V.)
(Customer : Dutch Bank)

The project involves migration of vRA, vRO codebase from 6.x to 7.x environments via DevOps defined principles of building artifacts-based releases via VMware IaC Toolchain. As an DevOps Engineer, my taks were :

  • Implementing and designing pipeline structures for Azure DevOps and defining the way of working in the environments to adopt DevOps principles.
  • Creating and managing codebase in Azure Repos and publishing the packages to Azure Artifacts.
  • Creating release pipelines to facilitate the provisioning of infrastructure and releasing code base to production environments.
  • Maintaining codebases and Implementing features for linux, windows and container based services.
  • Enabling client to provision infrastructure as a part of single release pipeline using IaC toolsets like:- Terraform.
  • Migrating legacy networks from NSX-V to NSX-T and creating microservices for consuming network constructs by means of APIs.
  • Developing APIs using GoLang for consuming microservices based architecture
  • Participating in Agile/scrum ceremonies to achieve common expectations and team goals.

January 2019 - Present

Senior Cloud Automation Engineer

(Employer : HCL Technologies)
(Customer : Swiss multinational pharmaceutical )

The project involves the implementation of a Private Cloud infrastructure on newly setup SDDC POD environment, compliant as per the latest VVD (4.0), used to provide application patterned blueprints on SDN. As a Cloud Automation Engineer, my taks were :

  • Analysing the scope of automation in an environment and providing better approaches.
  • Worked as a Cloud Automation Developer and delivered automated and orchestrated workflows and solutions
  • Worked in Highly Secured environment and inhibiting all the precautionary standards while delivering the solutions
  • Have been a part of Private Cloud Automation from early stages of gathering pre-requisites till handingover the solutions
  • Done project planning, process designing, creating reports and documents to provide an efficient and resilient automation use-cases.
  • Successfully done deployment, installation, and configuration of VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and vRealize Automation (vRA).
  • Carried out several integrations involving Third-Party vendors (using REST) with vRO and vRA.
  • Leveraged Life Cycle Extensibility to deliver complex vRA use-cases.
  • Efficiently worked on Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS) custom blueprint forms in vRA and vRO.
  • Used vRA REST APIs to maintain the dynamicity in the automation solutions.
  • Developed PowerShell scripts to automate Windows operations along with PowerCLI.

July 2017 - December 2018

Cloud Developer

(Employer : HCL Technologies)

The project involves the implementation of a Private Cloud infrastructure on newly setup environment for internal team to provide seamless delivery of workloads. As an cloud developer, my taks were :

  • Deploying/configuring vRealize Automation 7.6 and Orchestrator as per client specifications.
  • Creating blueprints and designing Custom Forms for providing “Decision Driven” automated Provisioning
  • Developing vRO Workflows for multiple integrations with CM(Ansible), ITSM (Service Now), database (SQL 2012 ,2016), logging & monitoring (vRLI, Wavefront, vROPS), vulnerability scanning (Rapid7).
  • Creating vRA subscriptions and vRO workflows for executing POST provisioning tasks (Agent installation and onboarding, SQL installation, vulnerability scan) on newly deployed workloads.
  • Document the Build procedure and SOP for the process.
  • Part of 5 members team implemented and configured the vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator to provision and manage workloads.

July 2016 - June 2017

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
CLOUD MANAGEMENT PLATFORM       vRealize Automation, Terraform, Azure
ORCHESTRATORS       VMware vRealize Orchestrator, Kubernetes, Openshift, HashiCorp Nomad, GKE
SCRIPTING JavaScript/ECMAScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, YAML, GoLang, HCL, HTML, Bash, C#
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT       Ansible, AWX/Ansible Automation Platform, SCCM, Puppet
CI/CD TOOLSETS Azure DevOps Services, vCodeStream, Jenkins, GitLab, Docker
OPERATING SYSTEMS       MS Windows, Linux, Mac
DATABASES MS-SQL, Postgres, CouchDB, CockroachDB
MANAGEMENT TOOLS       Azure Boards, Confluence, MS Office
ITSM TOOLS Service Now (Jakarta, London), JIRA
SCM       Git, Git lab, Git Hub, BitBucket
BUILD AUTOMATION Toolsets Maven, nodeJS


PERSONAL SKILLS
  • Good Communication Skills
  • Having keen interest in learning new technologies
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Flexible and dependable

Awards & Certifications

  • VMware Technical Solutions Professional –Management Automation 2016
  • VMware vSphere 6.0 Foundations
  • VMware Certified Professional 7 – Cloud Management and Automation
  • VMware Certified Professional - Cloud Management and Automation 2021
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
  • Eduvision Certified: GOLANG Training
  • AMCAT Certified Software Engineer - IT Services
  • AMCAT Certified Data Processing Specialist

Education

GGSIPU university, DELHI, INDIA

BTECH (Information Technology)
May 2012 - May 2016

Guru Harkrishan Public School, DELHI, INDIA

High School
April 2000 - April 2012

Interests

Apart from being a DevOps engineer, I like to enjoy most of my time exploring new places outside. Like to travel around the world and explore culture and people.

When forced indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and thriller genre movies and television shows, and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements.