Tejas Firke

Tejas Firke

Devops Engineer
India
Marathi, English, Hindi

About Me

DevOps Engineer with 2+ years of experience automating CI/CD pipelines, managing production-grade AWS infrastructure via Terraform, and orchestrating containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes. Proficient in pro…

Experience

DevOps Engineer

Zetapad Technologies, Pune, India
Nov 2024 - Present · 1 year 11 months

<p>Designed and managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch) using Terraform.<br>
Built reusable modules enabling one-command environment creation across 3+ environments.<br>
Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and GitHub Actions.<br>
Integrated SonarQube static analysis and Trivy container scanning, reducing deployment defects by 40%.<br>
Containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.<br>
Managed rolling deployments, pod restarts, and kubectl troubleshooting across on-call shifts to maintain service continuity.<br>
Set up CloudWatch dashboards and log alerts to track service health and flag anomalies before escalation, enabling faster incident response.<br>
Configured IAM roles and least-privilege policies.<br>
Automated routine provisioning with Bash and Python, reducing manual ops effort by 30% and supported a compliance review.<br>
Embedded OWASP ZAP and Trivy into pipelines for early CVE detection.<br>
Remediated all flagged vulnerabilities in collaboration with the security team before every production release.</p>

DevOps Engineer

Zetapad Technologies, Pune, India · Pune, India
Oct 2024 - Present · 2 years

<p>Designed and managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch) using Terraform. Developed reusable modules to enable one-command environment provisioning across 3+ environments.</p><p>Built and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and GitHub Actions. Integrated SonarQube for static code analysis and Trivy for container scanning, reducing deployment defects by 40%.</p><p>Containerized application workloads using Docker and Kubernetes. Managed rolling deployments, pod restarts, and kubectl-based troubleshooting during on-call shifts to ensure 24/7 service continuity.</p><p>Configured CloudWatch dashboards and log-based alerts to monitor service health and detect anomalies proactively. This enabled faster incident response and significantly reduced escalation times.</p><p>Implemented IAM roles with least-privilege policies and automated routine provisioning tasks using Bash and Python scripts. Cut manual operations effort by 30% while supporting internal compliance reviews.</p><p>Embedded OWASP ZAP and Trivy into CI/CD pipelines for early CVE detection. Collaborated closely with the security team to remediate all flagged vulnerabilities prior to every production release.</p>

Network Engineer

Lucasaa Advertising Limited, Pune, India
Feb 2024 - Sep 2024 · 7 months

<p>Designed enterprise high-availability network including LAN/WAN, firewalls, and load balancers for mission-critical ad-delivery platforms handling 5x peak traffic spikes.<br>
Reduced MTTR by 35% by deploying Prometheus and Grafana real-time alerting.<br>
Detected anomalies proactively and prevented user-facing incidents before escalation.<br>
Automated repetitive network provisioning via Bash scripts, cutting maintenance time by 25% and eliminating manual configuration errors across the fleet.<br>
Conducted periodic security audits of firewall rules, ACLs, and VPN configurations.<br>
Identified and remediated 12+ policy gaps, strengthening the overall network security posture.</p>

Network Engineer

Lucasaa Advertising Limited · Nashik, India
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024 · 7 months

<p>Supported the design and maintenance of enterprise network infrastructure spanning LAN/WAN, firewalls, and load balancers. Ensured reliable performance for ad-delivery platforms during high-traffic scenarios.</p><p>Contributed to the implementation of Prometheus and Grafana monitoring stacks. Assisted in building alert rules that enabled the team to resolve anomalies before they impacted end users.</p><p>Developed Bash automation scripts for routine network provisioning tasks. Reduced repetitive manual work by 25% and minimized human error across multi-device configurations.</p><p>Executed scheduled security audits of firewall rule sets, ACLs, and VPN policies. Identified and documented 12+ configuration gaps that were subsequently remediated by the network security team.</p>

PROJECTS

KubeFlowOps

self
Duration : 05-Feb-2026 - 13-Feb-2026

<p> Deployed containerised Nginx apps to AWS EKS using kubectl and YAML manifests; configured Deployments and Services and validated pod-to-pod service discovery end to end. </p><p> Implemented rolling updates with automatic rollback on failure; created ECR image-pull secrets, applied RBAC policies, and debugged CrashLoopBackOff errors using kubectl logs and node descriptions</p>

Food Delivery Deployment

self
Duration : 04-Dec-2025 - 19-Dec-2025

<p>Architected a full CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins for a React/Node.js app covering checkout, build, test, security scan, and deploy with automated pass/fail email notifications on every run. </p><p>Integrated SonarQube, OWASP dependency checks, and Trivy; used Docker Scout to review CVE reports before pushing images to DockerHub; deployed to Kubernetes with 2 replicas and Prometheus health alerting.</p><p></p><p></p>

Certifications

Cloud DevOPs Course

CloudBlitz · Pune, India · 2025

Skills

Python Azure Amazon Web Services (AWS) Docker Jenkins Kubernetes Terraform AWS EC2 S3 RDS VPC IAM EKS Lambda CloudWatch Helm multi-stage builds image hardening pod management Git Maven AlertManager log aggregation alerting pipelines shell scripting Linux sysadmin YAML VPN ACL SSL/TLS LAN/WAN load balancing VPC design firewall hardening ECR ECS CloudTrail Route53 Auto Scaling
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