Author Profile

Japneet Sahni

DevOps Consultant

Japneet has 13 years of automating the provisioning and management of infrastructure and the deployment and configuration of applications. He uses open source tools to set up configuration management, implement CI/CD pipelines and build Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Credentials

  • Hashicorp Core Contributor 2023
  • Certified GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Network Engineer, Security Engineer
  • Certified Microsoft Solutions Architect (AZ_305), Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
  • Hashicorp Certified - Vault Operations Professional, Terraform and Consul Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), Administrator (CKA) and Application Developer (CKAD)
  • Certified AWS Solutions Architect (SAA), Developer Associate (DVA), Sysops Administrator (SOA)
  • Certified GitHub Actions

Experience

DevOps Consultant - Arctiq (April 2022 - Present)

  • Design and Implementation of first ever Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution using Hashicorp Boundary and Vault with a renowned Canadian Bank.
  • Design multi-region, highly available Vault and Boundary Cluster on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Helm charts and templates.
  • End to end configuration setup of Vault and Boundary with Terraform.
  • Integration of spring boot applications using Vault’s Kubernetes authentication method.
  • Discovery and adoption framework of Anthos Service Mesh (ASM) 
  • Automating GCP cluster, networking, load balancer and NEGs using Terraform.

CGI - Senior Cloud & DevOps  Architect  (August 2020 - April 2022)

  • Led Practices and Tools team (P&T) for Bell Canada as Solutions Architect to improve software delivery practices adoption by a unified approach.
  • Chief Gitlab, Ansible Tower, Artifactory & Vault  Architect: Designed and implemented highly available architectures on GCP, serving more than 3000 users with monthly automated upgrades.
  • Introduced GitOps to automate all terraform orchestration for all our unified tools.

Implemented Prometheus, Grafana and Alert Manager for monitoring and alerting solutions for all 4 Enterprise tools.

Publicis Sapient - Cloud & DevOps Specialist  (January 2010 - July 2020)

  • Implemented the design of a resilient, fault tolerant, highly available, micro-service based infrastructure in AWS and GCP using IaC tools (Terraform and Ansible).
  • Fostered a culture of continuous integration & continuous delivery which reduced deployment time from 3 hours to 2 minutes by using Jenkins multibranch pipeline & focused on Pipeline as Code.
  • Implemented cost optimization resulting in a yearly saving of $79,000 by introducing culture of containerization and immutable infrastructure using Helm
  • Collaborated with the agile team to bring concept of environment on demand leading to on-time feature release for >95% of feature requests

Competencies

Cloud: Google Cloud Platform,, Amazon Web Services,, Microsoft Azure

Tools: Git, Terraform, Vault, Boundary, Consul, Ansible, Bash, Google Anthos, Kubernetes, Istio, Artifactory, Xray, Ansible Tower

CI/CD: Gitlab,  Jenkins, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Github Actions

Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu)