ANSHUL SAXENA
DevOps Strategist | Cloud & Automation Enthusiast
Waterloo,NSW
Summary
DevOps strategist with over 14 years of experience designing secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure solutions. AWS Certified Solutions Architect and Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible, with deep expertise in Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, and Bash. Skilled in building robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and in architecting resilient cloud environments with strong disaster recovery practices. Adept at optimizing systems and streamlining delivery in Agile settings. I combine technical depth with strategic vision to deliver reliable and future-ready infrastructure.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
Commonwealth Bank
Sydney, NSW
05.2024 - Current
- Refactored and optimized Terraform codebase for scalable and modular provisioning of Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) infrastructure in AWS.
- Led the design and implementation of a scalable infrastructure provisioning strategy for SAP environments using Ansible and Terraform.
- Architected and delivered a fully automated AAP config-as-code promotion pipeline for SAP.
- Refactored and modularized core Terraform components for SAP to support scalability, maintainability, and reusability.
- Developed dynamic generation of main.tf and tfvars files using custom Ansible modules to streamline SAP Terraform module usage across environments.
- Enhanced logging and monitoring of sensitive file activity by integrating Linux auditd with Splunk, strengthening compliance and audit readiness.
- Developed and deployed GitHub Actions to fully automate the versioning, testing, and release process of Terraform modules and Ansible collections.
- Designed and implemented a custom AAP execution environment tailored for SAP workloads, enabling seamless automation and alignment with enterprise compliance standards.
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
University of Technology Sydney
Sydney, NSW
06.2022 - 05.2024
- Directed a team of senior engineers in the successful implementation of SailPoint's IdentityIQ application, ensuring effective collaboration and timely delivery of project goals.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive AWS infrastructure-as-code solution using Terraform and GitHub Actions, encompassing VPC, TGW attachment, Route53, ACM, ALB, NLB, ASGs, RDS, IAM, SSM, CloudWatch, and S3 for streamlined provisioning and management.
- Conducted comprehensive security assessments in AWS, ensuring adherence to best practices and safeguarding critical infrastructure and data.
- Implemented and automated AWS network hub-and-spoke infrastructure, including Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPC, and Transit Gateway attachments, utilizing Terraform and GitHub Actions for seamless deployment and management.
- Designed and implemented an automated VM provisioning process in vSphere by integrating the ServiceNow catalog and GitHub Workflow, which triggered Terraform scripts, enhancing efficiency, reducing manual errors, and increasing infrastructure scalability.
- Designed and automated the provisioning of golden images within AWS and vSphere environments using Packer and GitHub Actions.
- Managed the deployment of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) onto AWS EKS using Terraform and GitHub Actions to successfully install DataRobot 9.0, significantly improving platform automation and scalability.
Senior Automation Engineer
Dragonfly Technologies
06.2021 - 06.2022
- Working with Telstra Purple team, helping them automate various customised use cases around On-Boarding of physical and virtual network devices.
- Responsible for writing python modules and ansible playbooks for the tech stack involving Azure Blob Store, ServiceNow, ScienceLogic, OpenVPN etc.
- Creation and Implementation of various automated workflows for Telstra’s Rapid platform.
- Building APIs for the in-house automation product using FastAPI, Python and SQLAlchemy.
Senior Automation Engineer
ING Australia
09.2019 - 06.2021
- System administrator responsible for the multi-cluster installation, configuration, blue/green upgrade and capacity management of enterprise OpenShift Container Platform.
- Responsible for the end-to-end automation of Infrastructure, Security and Network stack.
- Responsible for writing Ansible modules in python for the customised use cases.
- Automated various use cases for Nutanix Prism – Protection domain management (Async DR/Metro availability), protection domain migration, local and remote snapshot creation/deletion, managing VMs.
- Automated config for Network appliances like BIG IP/F5 load balancers, Cisco routers/switches, Infoblox IP/DNS management using Ansible.
- Automated SOE template build using Packer and Ansible for RHEL6/7/8, Windows 2012, 2012R2, 2016.
DevOps Consultant
Avocado Consulting
05.2018 - 09.2019
- Responsible for Installation and Configuration of multi-cluster Ansible Tower setup.
- Implemented Dynamic and Smart inventories in Ansible Tower for the hybrid cloud environment.
- Automated end to end provisioning of VMs including hostname generation, domain registration, ip address assignment, tagging instances, satellite registration, OS hardening and installation of various agents like puppet, zabbix, illumio and rubrik in the hybrid cloud environment through Ansible tower following ansible best practices.
- Automated various use cases for a financial institution to be used as a service leveraging Ansible tower API (Database as a service, Network as a service, Patch as a service, Provisioning as a service).
- Responsible for conversion of puppet modules for weblogic installation and configuration to ansible roles.
- Implemented CICD pipeline for Environment as a service using Jenkins and Ansible.
- Implemented LDAP configuration in Ansible Tower to use the existing AD.
- Responsible for writing Terraform scripts from scratch for building Dev and staging environment.
Technology Specialist (DevOps)
Amdocs DVCI
03.2016 - 03.2018
- Project management and planning across geographically disparate teams along with Remote resource and people management.
- Automated various Infrastructure tasks using Ansible and CloudFormation.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins responsible for creating builds, build tests, installing environment with the newly created build and testing the newly implemented code.
- Responsible for the overall design/architectural solutions for AWS hosted application.
- Responsible for performance monitoring, analysis, capacity planning & scalability.
- Responsible for installation and support for Production environment and to support the ongoing design and architectural changes to the system.
- Created Kibana dashboard for Amdocs BSS Suite which gives an overview of voice, sms/mms, data and users currently logged in the system.
Senior Integration
Amdocs Montenegro
04.2014 - 03.2016
- Relocated to Montenegro as a sole Infra Integration Focal for Crnogorskih Telekom.
- Successfully conducted OJT of CT employees.
- Implemented first fully distributed Amdocs CES 9.1 production environment.
- I was responsible for support to the ongoing design and architectural changes to the system.
- My role was a customer facing role and required me to understand, analyse, design and implement the infrastructure changes as and when required by the customer.
Senior Subject Matter Expert
Amdocs DVCI
08.2010 - 04.2014
- Automated upgrade procedure to save time and reduce human intervention.
- Implemented postpaid billing system at one of India's largest mobile operators spanning all 23 circles.
- Install, configure maintain Amdocs CES 9.x environments in ST, UAT and Production setups with various Amdocs clients.
- Improved performance by finding bottleneck in system and tuning for the same.
- Participated in production architecture design and came up with production sizing along with development teams and customers.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
07-2010
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS) – EC2, ALB, S3, IAM, VPC, TGW, CloudWatch, RDS, EKS, Route53, SSM, Lambda
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer
- Configuration Management: Ansible (Playbooks, Roles, AAP)
- CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Scripting & Programming: Python, Shell Scripting (Bash)
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Docker Compose
- Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
Certification
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Languages
English
Hindi
Work Authorization
Australian Citizen
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Commonwealth Bank
05.2024 - Current
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
University of Technology Sydney
06.2022 - 05.2024
Senior Automation Engineer
Dragonfly Technologies
06.2021 - 06.2022
Senior Automation Engineer
ING Australia
09.2019 - 06.2021
DevOps Consultant
Avocado Consulting
05.2018 - 09.2019
Technology Specialist (DevOps)
Amdocs DVCI
03.2016 - 03.2018
Senior Integration
Amdocs Montenegro
04.2014 - 03.2016
Senior Subject Matter Expert
Amdocs DVCI
08.2010 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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