Pushkar Laulkar

IT Systems Administrator

Abu Dhabi

Member since February, 2025

About Me

IT Systems Administrator working in Cyber Security domain. Primarily responsible for provisioning virtual infrastructure on VMware & AWS, further enhancing the process by automating through Ansible & Terraform reducing provisioning time by 60%. Deployed various Docker Compose based softwares. Performed initial admin configuration adhering to organizational policies & requirements, setting up ActiveDirectory authentication mechanism. Deployed Securden Privileged Access Management (PAM) on Windows systems to securely store & manage privileged account credentials. Configured secure vaults to centralize & protect sensitive credentials. Conducted basic setup, ensuring compliance with organizational security policies. Zabbix & Kubernetes Monitoring Deployed & configured Zabbix agents on 8 Kubernetes clusters across Dev, Stage, & Prod environments, enabling proactive monitoring of 10+ critical applications. Monitored K8s nodes, pods, Docker containers, VMs, & VMware infrastructure, ensuring 99.9% uptime with automated alerts. Set up uptime checks, SSL certificate expiry monitoring with auto-renewal, & auto-discovery for VMware environments, reducing manual intervention by 80%. Configured critical incident alerts via PushOver, improving response time by 30%, leading to faster issue resolution & minimal downtime. Developed automation using Python & Shell scripting by identifying potential use cases. Addressed & resolved issues reported by teams using the above softwares. Regular software, OS updates & patches to keep the systems up to date while minimizing downtime. Documented software installation, upgrade procedures, steps to resolve most common & frequent issues. Worked on pfSense, adding aliases, DNS entries, implementing network rules adhering to the least privilege policy. Skilled in AWS ( SysOps Admin Associate ), Azure ( Certified Azure Fundamentals ), GCP ( Certified Cloud Digital Leader ), Linux, Python & Shell Programming. Rich experience & troubleshooting experience in Container technology like Docker ( DCA ), Kubernetes ( CKA ). Worked with CI/CD ( Jenkins, Git, IaC ( Ansible, Terraform ( HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate ) ) ). Strong engineering professional with a Master's degree focused in Software Systems from BITS Pilani Dubai.