Nitesh K.
Fremantle WA 6160
AWS Certified Developer and SysOps Engineer with over 10 years of experience managing enterprise-scale IT infrastructure across multinational organizations. Expertise in cloud platforms, including AWS, VMware, Azure, and Rackspace, with strong hands-on experience in server administration, networking, firewalls, virtualization, and cloud operations. Skilled in AI/ML infrastructure, AI DevOps, VPS migration, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), delivering secure, scalable, and highly available environments. Proven track record of improving operational efficiency, maximizing system uptime, and ensuring business continuity. Recognized for strong leadership, problem-solving, and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead teams and deliver reliable technology solutions aligned with business objectives.
- Designed and maintained monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to improve system reliability, performance, and operational visibility.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define technical requirements, optimize cloud architectures, and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Provided technical support and consulting services to international clients across finance, technology, and enterprise sectors, ensuring successful project delivery and customer satisfaction.
- Developed and maintained operational runbooks and documentation in Confluence, improving on-call efficiency and incident management processes.
- Collaborated closely with development and operations teams to improve system reliability, deployment practices, and infrastructure scalability.
- Implemented serverless architectures (Lambda, AppSync, GraphQL, Cognito) and containerized deployments (EKS, ECS) for scalable, resilient systems.
- Designed, developed, and deployed CostQ.ai, a proprietary AWS FinOps platform, enabling improved cloud cost visibility, optimization, and operational efficiency for internal teams and external clients.
- Managed cloud infrastructure using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, ensuring scalable, secure, and repeatable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments.
- Conducted security assessments, compliance audits, and policy enforcement across AWS environments, ensuring adherence to organizational and regulatory requirements.
- Successfully delivered over 20 cloud projects involving automation, infrastructure modernization, monitoring, incident response, and cloud migration initiatives.
- Implemented security best practices and DevSecOps processes throughout the software development lifecycle, enhancing overall security posture and compliance readiness.
- Designed, deployed, and managed microservices-based infrastructure on AWS EKS, supporting over 100,000 concurrent users.
- Implemented and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline, significantly improving deployment speed, reliability, and automation.
- Established production readiness standards covering performance, availability, security, scalability, and compliance requirements.
- Enhanced system observability by implementing monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, and AWS CloudWatch, reducing incident response and resolution times.
- Led cross-functional teams during critical production incidents and outages, ensuring high system availability and rapid recovery.
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Architected and deployed scalable AI/ML infrastructure on AWS, enabling production-ready machine learning workflows and generative AI use cases via Amazon Bedrock.
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Built intelligent automation pipelines with Textract and Elasticsearch for document ingestion, search, and analytics, streamlining data processing.
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Designed and implemented a centralized data lake using AWS Glue and Athena to support ETL, transformation, and ad-hoc querying of large datasets.
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Developed CI/CD pipelines for frontend, backend, and ML models using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and SageMaker, automating testing, training, and deployment.
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Implemented serverless architectures (Lambda, AppSync, GraphQL, Cognito) and containerized deployments(EKS, ECS) for scalable, resilient systems.
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Built log monitoring and visualization solutions with CloudWatch, Kinesis, and Elasticsearch, coupled with performance tracking and alerting for large-scale servers.
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Led the DevOps team, coordinated cross-team cloud initiatives, and delivered secure, cost-optimized cloud solutionsthat accelerated analytics and business insights.
- Led a support team of 20 System Engineers, overseeing day-to-day operations and ensuring high service quality.
- Deployed applications and enterprise solutions for top banks in Nepal, managing complex production environments.
- Served as Disaster Recovery Team Lead, developing and maintaining robust backup and recovery strategies.
- Managed web application and email hosting for all Nepal and UK clients on Linux servers (CentOS & Ubuntu), supporting 500+ servers.
- Initially hired as a full-time Systems Administrator following a consulting role, responsible for maintaining a 50+ mixed server environment (Windows/Unix/Linux) with 99.9% uptime or better.
- Evaluated, monitored, and optimized IT infrastructure, focusing on availability, reliability, scalability, security, data confidentiality, and system integrity.
- Implemented automated cloud infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform and CloudFormation, streamlining deployment processes.
- Developed reusable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) modules to maintain consistent environments across Development, Staging, and Production.
- Spearheaded migration from legacy VPS systems to modern cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring seamless service continuity.
- Designed and executed a phased migration strategy with zero downtime, minimizing operational impact.
- Enhanced system performance, reduced operational costs, and strengthened security post-migration through best-practice implementations.
- Worked in Apple Service Center: iFix Store Nepal as iPhone/iPad/Mac Software Troubleshooter and Technician.
- Provided support to the IT Department in assigning the task to new hires and interns.
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Automated infrastructure provisioning across AWS services using Terraform and CloudFormation.
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Standardized deployments with reusable IaC modules for Dev, Staging, and Prod environments.
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Implemented GitOps best practices with version-controlled infrastructure, enabling faster rollbacks, disaster recovery, and compliance.
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Reduced manual errors and deployment times through automation, improving reliability and operational efficiency.