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Anup Khanal

System Administrator & DevOps Engineer

anupkhanal40@gmail.comKathmandu, Nepalgithub.com/ank404linkedin.com/in/anup-khanal-9587b3169anupkhanal.info.np

Profile

System Administrator and DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience managing data centers, enterprise virtualization platforms, and cloud infrastructure. Proven track record of driving automation initiatives that reduce operational overhead, improve availability, and scale IT environments to meet business growth. Currently bridging traditional infrastructure management with modern DevOps practices at Silver Lining Pvt. Ltd., managing 100+ physical and virtual servers across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.

Experience

System Administrator & DevOps Engineer

Silver Lining Pvt. Ltd.

2022 – Present
  • ▸Led the adoption of containerization and built CI/CD pipelines from scratch, reducing release cycle time significantly.
  • ▸Migrated key production workloads to AWS, establishing a hybrid on-premises/cloud architecture.
  • ▸Introduced Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual provisioning time by over 60%.
  • ▸Designed and maintained multi-cloud strategy across AWS and Azure, including cost optimization and governance.
  • ▸Managed Kubernetes clusters for containerized workloads alongside Docker-based development environments.
DockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleAWSAzureGitHub ActionsCI/CD

Web Hosting & Email Infrastructure Lead

Silver Lining Pvt. Ltd.

2020 – Present
  • ▸Took full ownership of web hosting infrastructure including cPanel/WHM administration and Nginx reverse proxying.
  • ▸Hardened email security by implementing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC policies, reducing spam delivery failures by 80%.
  • ▸Managed SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle across all hosted client environments.
  • ▸Maintained 99.9% uptime SLA for client-facing web and email services.
  • ▸Configured and tuned firewall rules and access policies for perimeter security.
cPanel / WHMNginxEmail SecuritySPF / DKIM / DMARCSSL/TLSFirewall

System Administrator

Silver Lining Pvt. Ltd.

2018 – 2022
  • ▸Managed a large-scale data center with 100+ physical and virtual servers running VMware vSphere.
  • ▸Oversaw server provisioning, Linux and Windows administration, network configuration, and enterprise backup strategies.
  • ▸Implemented proactive monitoring systems that increased system availability by 35% and reduced incident response times.
  • ▸Administered Active Directory, group policies, and DNS/DHCP services across the corporate domain.
  • ▸Planned and executed disaster recovery procedures and maintained up-to-date runbooks.
VMware vSphereLinuxWindows ServerActive DirectoryNetwork ManagementBackup & DR

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Islington College, Kamalpokhari

Focus on network security, system administration, and cybersecurity.

2019

Intermediate — Management

Reliance International College, Chabahil

2015

Skills

Infrastructure & Virtualization
VMware vSphereLinux (RHEL / Ubuntu / Debian)Windows ServerActive DirectoryNetworkingSAN / NAS Storage
DevOps & Containers
DockerKubernetesCI/CD PipelinesGitHub ActionsGit
Cloud & IaC
AWSAzureGoogle CloudTerraformAnsible
Scripting & Automation
BashPowerShellPowerCLICron / Task Scheduling
Security
Firewall ConfigurationSSL / TLSVPNEmail Security (SPF / DKIM / DMARC)System Hardening
Web & Hosting
NginxcPanel / WHMManaged HostingEmail Server Administration
Operations
System MonitoringBackup & Disaster RecoveryCapacity PlanningIncident Response

Notable Projects

Automated CI/CD Pipeline for Dockerized Applications

GitHub Actions · Docker · Node.js · AWS · Terraform

End-to-end delivery pipeline automating build, test, and deployment for a containerized Node.js application on AWS.

PowerCLI — VMware Automation Suite

PowerShell · PowerCLI · VMware vSphere

Collection of scripts automating VMware ESXi and vCenter management tasks including VM provisioning, snapshots, and health reporting.

Server Stats — Linux Monitoring Tool

Bash · Linux

Lightweight Bash script that displays real-time server performance metrics including CPU, memory, disk, and network utilisation.

Homelab — Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Docker · Nginx Proxy Manager · Pi-hole · Immich · Temporal · Nextcloud · Portainer

Personal homelab server running 25+ Docker containers across infrastructure, storage, productivity, and automation stacks.