ARGHYA DAS

ARGHYA DAS

CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER | SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER | IT SYSTEMS ENGINEER
B10, Block b, Debnath Apartment, 700061, Kolkata, IND.

About

9+ years in Linux, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Python. Skilled in CI/CD optimization, scalable cloud solutions, and infra performance. Backend DevOps Tech Lead at IBM, leading cloud strategies for global clients.

Work

IBM
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AWS DevOps Tech Lead

Summary

AWS DevOps Tech Lead at IBM, leading cloud migration, CI/CD automation, security hardening, and infrastructure optimization for global clients.

Highlights

Led cloud migration strategies for critical workloads, ensuring smooth transitions across AWS services like VPC, EC2, Route 53, RDS, Lambda, and ECS with minimal downtime and thorough documentation.

Developed and led the team to implement the OpsBuddy Terraform module for tag-based resource start/stop, reducing cloud infrastructure costs by 25% through automated resource management.

Implemented a robust monitoring solution with ELK Stack, Sentry, and CloudWatch, improving real-time error tracking and performance insights, reducing MTTR by 30% and boosting system stability.

Optimized Jenkins CI/CD for SaaS with Bash, Python, and Go in Kubernetes, reducing deployment errors by 95% and speeding up delivery.

Reduced environment setup time by 80% through modular Terraform configurations and automated server maintenance with Ansible, ensuring consistency in system administration across 200+ VMs.

Led and mentored the Application SRE team, monitoring SLA, SLO, and SLI, driving growth, collaboration, and a 20% improvement in handling high-priority DevOps and vulnerability-related tickets.

Pursuit Software INC
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Senior System Engineer

Full time

Summary

Senior System Engineer at Pursuit Software, optimized CI/CD pipelines, integrated security tools, and enhanced cloud monitoring to improve efficiency and security.

Highlights

Engineered and deployed Azure DevOps pipelines that integrated AWS S3, Linux VM, Tosca, and Salesforce, optimizing technical information flow and reducing testing lead times by 25%.

Led DevSecOps adoption, integrating SonarQube and OWASP ZAP into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring system security and reducing vulnerabilities by 60%.

Implemented and guided HIPAA compliance in AWS using KMS, IAM, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty, automating security and monitoring processes to ensure data protection and regulatory adherence.

Mihup Communications
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DevOps Engineer

Full time

Summary

DevOps Engineer at Mihup Communications, optimized AWS infrastructure, enhanced system reliability, and built scalable ML solutions with Kubernetes and microservices.

Highlights

Optimized AWS cloud infrastructure like VPC, Linux EC2, IAM role policy, ALB, subnetting, S3 storage lifecycle, ensuring high availability and secure network performance for enterprise-grade systems.

Enhanced system reliability by 30% through proactive monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.

Built a scalable NLP VQA ML solution using AWS SQS, EFS, Lambda, S3 and Kinesis in Kubernetes cluster with Helm. Reduced processing time by 40% and improved scalability through automated data ingestion and model inference.

Developed Go microservices for real-time analytics, handling millions of transactions with RabbitMQ in Docker, while leading GitOps-driven CI/CD with ArgoCD across multi-cloud environments.

Forte Network Solutions
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System and Network Engineer

Full time

Summary

System and Network Engineer at Forte Network Solutions, managed AWS deployments, server administration, database maintenance, and network security enhancements.

Highlights

Streamlined AWS deployments and Windows / Linux / Unix / server administration with DMZ architecture, boosting security and performance for web applications.

Configured DNS, VLAN routing, VPN, Routers, Firewalls and managed network security, reinforcing networking concepts and improving remote control solutions.

Administered MySQL Database, DynamoDB, MSSQL, automating maintenance tasks, and boosting operational support by 30%.

Managed security patches and firewalls, improving network security and cutting vulnerabilities by 40%.

Education

University Of Calcutta

M.Tech

Computer Engineering and Applications

West Bengal State University

Masters(M.Sc)

Computer Science

Languages

English

Fluent

German

Basic

Bengali

Native

Hindi

Fluent

Certificates

HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
AWS SysOps Administrator Associate
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
IBM Watsonx Essentials (GenAi)

Skills

Version Control

Git, GitHub, Bitbucket (Git-based repositories).

CI/CD Tools

Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline.

Containerization & Orchestration

Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, EKS, ECS.

Security & Code Quality

IAM, KMS, WAF, Security Hub, SonarQube, Invicti, Snyk, Brinqa, OWASP.

Monitoring & Logging

Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, NewRelic.

Artifact Repositories

Nexus, JFrog Artifactory.

Cloud Technologies

AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP.

Configuration Management

Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, OpenTofu, GitOps.

Scripting & Coding

Python, Bash, Groovy, YAML, Go, HCL, TypeScript, PowerShell.

Servers

Linux/Unix servers, Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, CentOs, Rocky, Fedora, VMware.

Protocols

HTTP, REST, TLS, gRPC, DNS, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, NFS, SFTP, ICMP, BGP, LDAP, RDP, IPsec.

Interests

Soft Skills

Cross-functional Team Collaborate, Agile, Teamwork, Innovation, Passion for Problem-solving, Adaptability, Time management, Emotional intelligence, Leadership, Critical thinking, Conflict resolution, Feedback, Troubleshooting, Verbal Communication, Coordination, Explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, Root cause analysis, Self-motivated.

Projects

Philip Morris International
Abbott