About

Omkar Dhomane is a Systems Engineer at Verizon with a Master of Science in Telecommunications from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is certified in AWS, Red Hat, and Cisco. Omkar's professional and academic background is primarily in Cloud Computing, Systems Engineering, Computer Networking, DevOps, and SRE. As a Senior Systems Engineer at Verizon, Omkar's responsibilities include developing new virtualization solutions in cloud network environments using tools and platforms such as VMWare, OpenStack, and AWS. He is also responsible for deploying type 1 hypervisors including VMware ESXI 6.5+, OpenShift, Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle, Xen, and Citrix. Omkar applies advanced troubleshooting techniques related to DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, Load Balancing, IPSec, and Routing to proactively mitigate potential network issues that could impact regular operations workflow. Omkar also contributes to the deployment of in-house developed applications, including monolithic, microservices, containerized applications based on Docker, and appropriate orchestration systems using Kubernetes. He collaborates with other DevOps and SRE teams to utilize open-source automation tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, and Jenkins. Omkar also helps develop Python and Shell scripts and automation systems for expediting deployment and system administrative tasks. Prior to his role at Verizon, Omkar worked as a Cloud Support Engineer with the DevOps team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, he supported AWS services that focused on Compute technologies, storage services, operations and monitoring services, containerization services, and services that enable customers to migrate their on-premise workloads to AWS. Omkar gained hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible and SSM, infrastructure provisioning tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and automating common tasks with Python and Bash/Shell scripting. He applied advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions for AWS customers and drove customer interactions by thoughtfully working with customers to dive deep into the root cause of an issue. Omkar also worked as a Software Developer Intern at Juniors Read LLC, where his responsibilities included extracting and processing raw data sets in HTML and CSS, writing modular shell scripts, web scraping using Python libraries, and calling associated REST APIs. Omkar's tech stack includes AWS, DevOps, SRE, Ansible, Terraform, Python,