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Hi, I am Parth Sharma

Parth Sharma

SRE

I am a Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for automation and cloud computing. I have experience in building and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure. I am a strong advocate for DevOps culture and have a keen interest in cloud-native technologies.

Skills

Kubernetes
Kubernetes

CKA certified. Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters on various cloud platform & on-prem. Created & deployed Helm charts.

Docker
Docker

Containerization. Created Docker images for applications. Managed Docker containers.

ArgoCD
ArgoCD

Deployed and managed ArgoCD for GitOps workflow. Experienced in writing ArgoCD App of Apps.

Terraform
Terraform

Managed cloud resources using Terraform for IaC to automate infrastructure provisioning. Created reusable modules.

Istio
Istio

For Service Mesh in the cluster. Used istio to collect telemetry data, secure service-to-service communication, and enforce policies.

Github Actions
Github Actions

CI/CD. Created GitHub Actions workflows for various automation tasks like image build, testing & pushing to artifact registry.

Jenkins
Jenkins

Configured Jenkins pipelines for various CI/CD automation in a repo. Automated testing & deployment.

Prometheus and Grafana
Prometheus and Grafana

Monitoring & Alerting. Configured Prometheus for monitoring & alerting. Created custom alerts.

VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics

Another verstile tool for monitoring & Alerting. Time-series database. Deployed and managed VictoriaMetrics.

OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry

For Observability. Integrated OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing. Created custom instrumentation.

ELK Stack
ELK Stack

Log Management. Configured ELK stack for log management. Created custom dashboards in Kibana.

Linux
Linux

Strong knowledge of Linux. Shell scripting. System administration tasks.

Python
Python

Python scripts to automate tasks in order to reduce manual toil.

Ansible
Ansible

Created Ansible playbook to manage infrastructure. Automated repetitive tasks.

Experiences

1
SAP Canada

Jan 2021 - Present

Montreal

In SAP, I am working as a SRE for an open-source project called kyma.

Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2021 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Managing 100s of kyma clusters (k8s runtimes) on AWS, GCP & Azure.
  • Setup ArgoCD & workflows to deploy & upgrade k8s resources on our cluster in GitOps manner while keeping DevSecOps best practices.
  • Automated CI using GitHub Actions that increased faster development in SDLC.
  • Provisioned & configured IaC repo and deployed it using Terraform.
  • Setup monitoring & logging to have meaningful availability of our applications in tune with our SLAs.
  • Lead many blameless post-mortems after an incidence & created runbook to quickly resolve issues in any future occurrence.
Ericsson Canada

Nov 2018 - Jan 2021

Montreal

In Ericsson, I worked as a DevOps Engineer to build & deploy multi-tenant kube clusters for 5G network services.

DevOps Engineer

Nov 2018 - Jan 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Deployed, scaled and managed multi-tenants Kubernetes clusters.
  • Clusters monitored with Prometheus & Grafana to ensure high availability & no downtime.
  • Setup Jenkins pipeline to automate upgrading of microservices that removed manual toll & errors.
  • Collaborated with developers to onboard microservices on cluster & setup realistic SLAs.
  • Being part of on-call roster, managed incident over outage bridges and resolved issue with zero or minimal business impact.
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3
Volanté Systems

Nov 2018 - Jan 2021

Toronto

Volanté Systems is a POS software company. I worked as a Configuration Engineer to automate deployment & monitoring of POS systems.

Configuration Engineer

Nov 2018 - Jan 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Automated deployment of POS systems on client’s site.
  • Maintained many Linux servers running POS software.
  • Configured iptables firewall & hardening Linux systems for security.
  • Responsible for setting up user access, installing & upgrading packages and maintaining POS software.
  • Configured, generated & presented reports as per clients request.

Projects

My ArgoCd Project
My ArgoCd Project
Owner Jan 2024 - Present

ArgoCD setup for my home lab k8s clusters with RBAC, SSO, and monitoring.

ArgoCD
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Monitoring Project
Monitoring Project
Owner Jan 2024 - Present

Monitoring setup for my clusters deployed with Prometheus Operator including Grafana.

Prometheus Grafana