DANNY CHAUHAN

DevOps/Platform Engineer -ITV

Key responsibilities:

• Assist in the maintain and refactoring of terraform code/modules

Assist with Kubernetes troubleshooting

Aid in the placement of IAM policies through terraform

Contribute to SIG meetings such as Security and Service mesh

Assist with developer queries

Assist with automation on BAU tasks through Jenkins CI/CD scripts

Assist in Karpenter API upgrade from alpha to Beta

Assist in cross account access for secrets managed by AWS secrets Manager

Asist in the development of CloudWatch alarms needed for concurrency monitoring

Deploy Cloudheath application on Kubernetes for cost optimisation

Assist in BAU tasks which include managing user permissions through IAM role policies

Upgrade CRD’s relating to Karpenter for cost savings

Overhauled terraform Monitoring module to support complex CloudWatch quires

Gained an insight as to how Kubernetes jobs can be diagnosed through Grafana when combined with a Loki data source

Relevant Skills Acquired:

• Gained an understanding of IAM within AWS context
• Gained knowledge on the infrastructure at the organisation and have thus gained an understanding on approaches to apply security best practices
• Gained an understating of AWS S3 bucket policy application through terraform
• Gained an understanding of how Kubernetes secrets can be created thought the use of the external secrets helm chart
• Gained an understanding of how Karpenter works
• Gained an understanding of how Prometheus alerts are sent to slack through alert manager via Prometheus gauges which are triggered through CloudWatch metrics via a lambda written in Python

DevSecOps/Cloud Security Engineer - ITV

Key responsibilities:

• Assist teams in creating a cloud workload assessment
• Create Bash scripts alias to allow for a better workflow when conducting cloud infrastructure workflow assessments
• Asist in delivery of cloud workload assessment
• Research new tooling to aid in detection or prevention of malware such as Flaco for Kubernetes and Open Policy Agent
• Give suggestions on optimisations to the team's workflow
• Help to create AWS Lambda (serverless) architecture to update security contacts from AWS organisations
• Use terraform to deploy Lightspin for vulnerability scanning
• Assist in docker container development, specially updating deprecated tools in dev container which utilised pip and later pipx
• Assist in BAU requests raised either by the internal or external team
• Mentor team members on Terraform logic
• Upgrade the security infrastructure so that it is using the latest terraform modules available

Relevant Skills Acquired:

• An understanding on how to create and optimise Bash scripts for a given cloud infrastructure workflow
• An understanding on how compares and contrast tools so that a tangible benefit can be communicated back to the business
• An understanding of serverless architecture with AWS
• Gained an understanding of the AWS SAM cli to help with building and testing Python based Lambdas locally

DevOps/Platform Engineer - Capgemini

Position is under NDA, details will be limited as a result

• Upskill new members in the team
• Assist in the creation of S3 buckets through terraform
• Assist in automation of BAU tasks
• Fix issues related to hosts through Zabbix/Dynatrace
• Assist in Kubernetes troubleshooting
• Assist in high priority tickets

Relevant Skills Acquired:

• Gained knowledge on AWS services such as S3, KMS, EC2
• Gained knowledge on how to communicate with 3rd parties