Sakeeb Shaikh

Managed production and lower environment clusters on Amazon EKS
accommodating mixed workloads of Windows and Linux systems
Configured CloudWatch alarms for various AWS services such as ACM
(AWS Certificate Manager), Route 53, and RDS
Set up and configured New Relic alert conditions for synthetic
monitoring of websites
Integrated and configured Opsgenie tool with CloudWatch and New
Relic for effective incident management
Managed and updated custom rules in WAF during DDoS attacks on
websites
Implemented autoscaling using KEDA and HPA for frontend and
backend pods
Implemented and configured monitoring solutions like Prometheus
and Grafana for real-time system visibility
Upgraded and managed all EKS-based clusters using Terraform and
Terragrunt
Implemented RDS performance insights on production environments
using Flux and GitOps methodology
Conducted triaging and resolution of infrastructure and platformrelated issues in both production and lower environments
Led client calls to gather requirements and deliver new development
tasks within SLA
Configured alerting via SNS to receive notifications during system
issues and DDoS attacks
Participated in DR setup and DR drills to ensure business continuity
Optimized deployment pipelines time by more than 30%
Reduced Infra cost upto 25% by leveraging AWS native services like
Lambda and Event bridge
Initiated Finops optimization discussions and periodic reviews of AWS
cost and resource usage, optimizing configurations for maximum cost
efficiency
Renewed TLS/SSL Certs using SOPS and ACM
Remidiated vulnerabilities to avoid any potential impact
Worked upon Infrastructure Automation, System Monitoring, Cloud
Architecture, Cost Optimization, Security, Incident Response

Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault
tolerant, auto scaling Kubernetes cloud infrastructure and microservice
container orchestration
Containerizing applications using ECR and ensuring successful deployment
on Kubernetes
Experienced in creating pods, services, deployments, PV, PVC, and
Configured ALB as an Ingress Controller
Experience with Resource & Limits for Pods, Limit Range for Custom Object
like pods, deployment, Resource Quota for Namespace
Experience in Kubernetes to deploy & scale the Pod, load balance and
Experience in deploying and managing CI/CD pipeline via Jenkins
Experience in SCM tools like Git& Github for branching, tagging and
version management
Experienced with Pod Affinity, Node Affinity, Taint, Toleration, for Custom
POD scheduling
Experienced in deploying microservices on EKS cluster via Helm
Experience With Application Lifecycle Management like Rolling Updates &
Rollbacks via Helm

Worked on micro-services deployment on AWS Cloud
Configured Git with Jenkins and scheduled jobs
Experienced in setting up and configuring IAM policies \[roles, users, groups\]
for security and identity management
Experienced in setting and configuring AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
components. Including subnets, internet gateway, security groups and NAT
gateway
Identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues related to build and deploy
process. Working With Multiple Namespace, Managing & creating
Restricted Network Policies between Pods
Managing and granting user's access on jenkins pipelines via Role-Based
Acess Strategy
Creating and managing Helm Charts
Creating and managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform
Experienced in AWS services EC2, VPC, S3, IAM Role, Route 53, Cloud Front,
ELB and SNS
Working closely with application, database teams to ensure that the jobs
are completed within the SLA.