About

Hitesh Kumar Pradhan is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Technical Anchor DevOps with over 7.4 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a technocrat who has worked on various cutting-edge software applications for prestigious clients. Hitesh is proficient in DevOps methodologies, tools, and processes, and has contributed to the design and rollout of several software applications. Hitesh has extensive experience in automating the CI and deployment of products to on-prem and cloud-based Kubernetes clusters, using tools like ArgoCD, Helm, and Ansible. He has also integrated CNCF projects like Chart Museum, Harbor, Container-d, OpenEBS, and other open-source projects to serve product requirements and reduce overall costs. Hitesh has worked on security hardening of Kubernetes clusters using different tools like RBAC, mTLS at services using Service Mesh (Kuma), Kyverno, and Trivy for Image scanning. He has managed technical projects like new namespace setup on the OpenShift, capacity planning, and decommission of legacy applications after migration to private cloud. Hitesh is skilled in incident management and technical maintenance of applications. He handles the logging and monitoring of applications using various tools like Fluent-bit, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk. He also creates and manages dashboards and other features on the Splunk App and sets up and monitors alerts to take appropriate action if any alerts are triggered. Hitesh has experience in creating infrastructure and maintaining it on Linux/Windows for various business clients. He maintains servers in cloud environments that are scalable as per the application demand. He is an administrator/Operation engineer on software containerization platforms like Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes on the Cloud Platform. He sets up and maintains system/container monitoring tools like Prometheus using docker containerization. Hitesh has managed AWS services like IAM, S3, EC2, ECR, and EKS. He has also maintained DBs in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and IBM DB2. He has worked on various Linux administration tasks on the server to ensure that applications run fine and has automated various manual tasks, including the deployment process, by writing shell scripts. Overall, Hitesh has relevant experience of 8.53 years and is proficient in DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, AWS, Ansible, MySQL, infra, Software Engineering, Azure, and Jenkins.