SUMMARY

• I have 23 years of IT Infrastructure and Programming experience. Out of that, 10 plus years of expertise is in Cloud Architecture & DevOps Engineering.
• I have helped create DevOps technical groups from ground level up, hiring new employees and consultants to add to the existing people in the group.
• Working experience on build and continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Maven and ANT
• Hands - on experience with Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Ops works and OpenStack, Kubernetes
• Configured Ansible to manage AWS environments and automate the build process for core AMIs used by all application deployments including Auto scaling, and Cloud formation scripts
• Created custom policies using IAM (Identity Access Management) for AWS Cloud resources and Groups and Maintained IAM roles and User credentials
• Experienced in setup and maintenance of Load Balancers. TCP/IP fundamentals, DNS, FTP, LDAP, Remote Access, Security Management, System Troubleshooting skills, and good knowledge in networking concepts
• Implemented numerous server migrations on both Linux/Unix and Windows servers. Migrations include moving all clients and their data, configuration settings, testing and verifying everything is correct with zero downtime
• Expertise in code deployment on web application servers like Web Sphere/Web Logic/Apache Tomcat/JBOSS
• Well-versed in creating and updating Chef Manifests and modules, files, and packages, Automation cloud deployments using Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform
• Good command over Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Proficient in web technologies like HTML, CSS, XHTML and XML
• Experience in configuring and deploying Web Applications using Tomcat and Apache.
• Proficient in using scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, Java
• Extensive experience in Linux/Unix system Administration, System/Server Builds, Server Installations/Upgrade/ Patches, Migration, and Trouble shooting developer tools like Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, and Code Pipeline • Profound knowledge of RDBMS concepts and extensively worked with Oracle 10g/9i, PL/SQL, SQL Server & DB2
• Experience working with NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Dynamo DB
• Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub and Docker registries and Kubernetes.
• I am a master programmer as well as a master scripter when it comes to VRealize VMware platforms as well as Chef and other DevOps tool script creations. I have mentored the people in the group I formed on how to become better programmers and at writing scripts as well as how to come up with scripts to manage the DevOps environment.
• 20 years of programming experience in all main stream object oriented and legacy languages; C, C++, JAVA, Python, Ruby, JavaScript etc.
• 23 years of Infrastructure Architecture Virtualization platform experience as well as migration to cloud of legacy data centers from physical to virtual.
• Enterprise Architect experienced architecture, design, and implementation. Extensive experience in cloud systems design and implementation. Expert in network and client/server architecture. And have effectively managed projects involving IT backend infrastructure and architecture design.
• Managed, IT strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, policy, processes, standards, organizational design, governance, and change management to enable technology and program delivery.
• Lead and built large teams, creating a positive work environment by developing new opportunities, successful delivery of engagements, monitoring of organizational health, and the driving of thought leadership.
• Successfully designed and delivered secure cloud solutions for major organizations; Confidential, Confidential, MetLife, and Confidential & Confidential to name a few.
• AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, VMware V Cloud, Open Stack platforms used and migrated to from on prem data centers to hybrid and public clouds.
• Created DevOps culture and a collaboration between development, operations and testing.
• Designed, architected and deployed Big Data management platforms on public clouds.
• Architected and managed the migration of monolithic applications from on prem data centers to microservices based on cloud solutions.
• Designed cloud deployment strategies that mitigate risk while meeting infrastructure and budgetary needs.
• Ten years of experience with IAAS, PAAS and SAAS technologies.
• Experience in creation of security compliant infrastructure and applications platforms in the cloud.
• Actively and hands on involved in the creation, implementation, and delivery of private and hybrid cloud-based solutions for my customers.
• Extensive knowledge in the programming as well as the architecture and infrastructure domains.
• Master programmer as well as a master scripter when it comes to Vrealize VMware platforms as well as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell and other DevOps tool script creations.
• Robust track record of delivering applications and cloud-based infrastructure delivery in an Agile environment
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure automation tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
• Strong Linux system architecture experience (Red Hat/Centos/Ubuntu)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Chef, Puppet Enterprise, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, V Realize.
• AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, OpenStack.
• Hybrid, Off Premise, On Premise models implemented.
• JAVA, JavaScript, C++, C#, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, Power Shell, SOAP and REST, SQL
• SCM Tool: GIT, Subversion (SVN), Perforce, Jenkins, Hudson
• Operating System: UNIX, Linux, Windows
• Database System: Oracle, MongoDB
• DevOps: Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Ansible
• Maven, Ansible, Terraform.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Cloud Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Data center consolidation and virtualization
• Moving applications locally hosted apps to cloud and hybrid cloud platforms on Open Stack, AWS, Azure, GCP and VMware Vcloud.
• Cloud security standards followed during architecture and security design.
• SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) implementation
• Service catalog, virtualization, automation and orchestration
• Architectural design and implementation of cloud management tools
• Migration of 75% applications to private, hybrid and public cloud.
• Implementation of Containers.
• Implementation of essential attributes of cloud compute: on-demand/self-service, anywhere network access, location transparent resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and pay-per-use service.
• Consulted in pre-cloud architecture layout and future integration plans.
• Vendor research, selection, contract negotiations, and final approval process formalized and executed.
• Experience analyzing and implementing access control mechanisms and security methodologies.
• Involved in the security issues dealing with cloud computing and analysis.
• Implementation of AWS Lambda, creation of Lambda permissions model, IAM execution roles and Lambda function policies.

Confidential

Cloud Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed and helped create and grow the DevOps team while focusing on the cloud initiative that includes the following:
• CI/CD pipeline implementation by implementing tools to ensure version control, continuous integration, artifact repository, deployment orchestration, and configuration management.
• Tools utilized were: Eclipse, Visual Studio, GitHub, Jenkins, artifactory, Chef, puppet, and Ansible.
• Implemented container clustering and orchestration utilizing Docker Swarm Mode and Kubernetes.
• Threat modelling for web applications and web API
• Web security and compliance; Firewalls, DOS prevention, Intrusion detection and prevention, IDS/IPS, PCI, HIPAA, FIPS. FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP.
• Secure cloud configuration; VPC, security groups, IAM,
• On premise and in cloud implementation of hybrid environment. vSphere platform management via v Cloud Suite
• V Realize suite of cloud management platform implemented
• VRO orchestrator implemented and scripts created / utilized
• Kinesis for Analytics of streaming data
• Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Presto implementation
• Elasticseach clusters

Confidential

Cloud Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Amazon Cognito for user sign-ins and storage
• Amazon API Gateway and Lambda for cloud logic
• Push notifications using Amazon SNS
• VMWare Consultant with VRealize Automation VRA vCloud Architect / vRealize / VRO Automation Development
• On premise and in cloud implementation of hybrid environment.
• Automated deployment, continuous integration, and release engineering tools implemented. vRealize / vRO workflows development vRA management and configuration vRA RESTful API development
• JavaScript and PowerShell scripts development & incorporation in workflows
• Integration and development of Service Now with VMWare backend to automate the provisioning of infrastructure and services.
• Development of VRA, VCloud air, SharePoint orchestration tools.
• NSX Design and Implementation
• VRO for reporting and management of hypervisors

Confidential

Cloud Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect for Azure.
• Azure databases, storage, service bus configurations.
• Building CI/CD methodologies in Azure using VS online, Jenkins, TFS.
• Azure reference architecture and security pattern implementation.
• Azure Resource Manager API builds.
• Deployments of three tier apps using ARM templates.
• Automation of Azure dev, test, and prod environments.
• Utilizing MS VSTS, Azure SDK to generate scripts.
• SAML, LDAP, AD, ADFS, and backend APIs connections via API
• PowerShell to install and configure Azure environments.
• JSON configuration files and PowerShell to automate CI/CD pipelines.