PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over all 9 years of experience in designing Build process, Software Product Development, Process
• Automation, Build and Deployment Automation, Release Management, Packaging Quality
• Control Source Code repository & Environment management.
• Strong believer of DevOps Methodologies and working towards a core DevOps engineer who can bring an end to end work flow of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and
• Continuous Deployment process for an organization.
• Experience in writing chef cookbooks and recipes to automate middleware installations, domain creations and deployment activities.
• Wrote chef cookbooks using the several of its components like attributes, files, recipes, resources and templates.
• Experience with LAMP setup on RHEL with configuration management tools like Chef.
• Implemented a CD pipeline involving Jenkins, Rundeck, Chef to complete the Automation from commit to Deployment.
• Knowledge and expertise on all aspects of Chef concepts like chef server, workstations, Nodes,
• Chef clients and various components like ohai, push jobs, super market etc.
• Created AWS instances and deployed applications and delivered for QA teams to initiate performance testing.
• Knowledge on Vagrant & Docker based container deployments to create shelf environments for dev teams and containerization of environments delivery for releases.
• Worked in managing VMs in Amazon using AWS and EC2
• Hands on experience in AWS provisioning and good knowledge of AWS services like EC2, S3,
• Glacier, ELB, RDS
• Provisioning EC2 instances and have knowledge on all resource areas of EC2 like Instances,
• Dedicated hosts, volumes, Key pairs, Elastic IP's, Snapshots, Load Balancers and Security Groups.
• Branching/Labelling/Merging and other SCM work on various Centralized (SVN, Perforce) and Distributed VCS.
• Experience migrating SVN repositories to GIT
• Written pre & post commit hook scripts to accommodate various development requests.
• Experience working on Docker hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration.
• Knowledge on various Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, Compose and Docker
• Registry.
• Worked in Git implementation containing various Remote repositories for a single application.
• Proposed, Implemented and maintained New Branching strategies for development teams to support trunk, development baseline codes along with several feature branches.
• Implemented and supported CI process via Jenkins and Bamboo for several java applications including setting up pipeline jobs and downstream job configurations in Jenkins.
• Experience in setting up Released based CI jobs based on branches, and environment specific job configurations.
• Wrote Ant build scripts for creating jar, war and ear artifacts, which were then deployed to
• Apache, Tomcat and JBoss.
• Maintained continuous build automation implemented with Maven and Ant run within Hudson/Jenkins
• Wrote recipes and cookbooks to install and configure node.js on several servers.
• Experience with build tools Ant and Maven for writing build.xmls and pom.xmls for new applications and improvising the existing build scripts on need basis.
• Mavenized several Ant projects to created release/snapshot process with release plugin
• Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis Tools like MSTest, JUnit, and Cobertura.
• Experience in using Nexus and Artifactory Repository Managers for Maven build
• Administered and Implemented CI tools Hudson and Anthill Pro for automated builds
• Experience with end to end orchestration tools like Anthill Pro, Udeploy and Rundeck to implement and maintain a build to deployment life cycle with one click of a button.
• Good Understanding of ITIL Release Management guidelines from Release and Change Management perspective.
• Drive improvements to our build and release scripts, tools and processes
• Define best practices for source control, continuous integration, automated testing and release management.
• Experience with web and application servers (Apache http server, Tomcat)
• Managed environments DEV, SIT, QA, UAT and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies
• Responsible for delivery of new environments with various middleware configurations for newly assigned projects and Performed backfill activities on all environments to bring the environments up to current release cycles.
• Installation, Configuration and Management of RDBMS and NOSQL tools such as MySQL,
• DB2, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB & Cassandra.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Oaks, PA

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a DevOps Engineer for a team that involves three different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases.
• Developed and implemented software release management strategies for various applications according to agile process
• Deployed java applications to application servers in agile continuous integration environment and also automated the whole process.
• Responsible for installing Jenkins master and slave nodes.
• Configured Git with Jenkins and schedule jobs using POLL SCM option.
• Performed integration of Code Quality Analysis techniques - Checkstyle, Findbugs with CI tools.
• Managed Sonatype Nexus repositories to download the artifacts (jar, war & ear) during the build.
• Used Shellscripts to automate the deployment process.
• Involved in setting up builds using Chef as a configuration management tool.
• Manage the configurations of more than 40 servers using Chef, configured Jenkins builds for continuous integration and delivery. Automated webserver content deployments via shell scripts.
• Established Chef Best practices approaches to system deployment with tools with vagrant and managing
• Chef Cookbook as a unit of software deployment and independently version controlled.
• Used cookbooks, recipes, roles, databags, runlist to deploy web applications, applications servers and vendor applications Created Chef cookbooks and recipes that kickoff post-install scripts.
• Used Test Kitchen to test the scripts and used OHAI to collect attributes on node.
• Followed agile principles and used JIRA for maintenance and Bug development tasks.
• Deployed the build artifacts into environments like QA, UAT and production according to the build life cycle.
• Configure, monitor and automate Amazon Web Services.
• Created and managed custom CentOS and Linux based AMIs
• Setup Elastic Load Balancer for distributing traffic among multiple WebLogic servers.
• Involved in deploying the content cloud platform on Amazon Web Services using EC2, S3 and EBS.
• Creating S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
• Experience in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using CloudWatch.
• Used SVN as source code repository.
• Created the branches in Subversion to implement the parallel development process.
• Merged release branches to the trunk after the production release and resolved the conflicts if any during the merge in subversion.
• Involved in migrating from SVN to GIT.
• Create and setup automated nightly build environment for java projects using Maven.
• Build scripts using ANT and MAVEN build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environment: s.
• Developed, maintained and distributed release notes for each scheduled release.
• Kept track of all releases and request of the developers through infrastructure management tool.

Environment: Subversion, GIT, Shell scripts, SUSE 9, 10, bash, ANT1.8/1.9, Maven, Apache Tomcat6.x/7.x, Jenkins1.x, Chef, JIRA, Nexus Maven, Splunk, Nagios4.x/5.x, Linux/Unix, Windows, Java, J2EE, Docker, AWS

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in transforming the legacy Admin model to DevOPS model by introducing various automation tools for host and cluster management.
• Worked on building automation pipeline to deploy and orchestrate services in AWS.
• Configuring CD/CI tools using Blue - Green deployment methodology.
• Configured Jenkins pipeline jobs and templatized workflows to improve reusability for building pipelines.
• Automated deployments of various JBOSS/J2EE web application on QA and PROD environments for different applications
• Managed the GIT branching strategy for a few applications by creating Release branches, Development branches thus ensuring the integrity of Trunk.
• Developed python modules to automate processes in AWS (AWS cloud formations/ Ec2).
• Automated configuration changes for all environments in cloud using Puppet and developed various modules and templates for different application roles.
• Created various CloudFormation templates for application deployment and management.
• Wrote puppet modules to configure Apache for different web application to improve performance.
• Configuring cloud application with different third party tools like New Relic
• Responsible for supporting and troubleshooting AWS Pipeline deployments
• NewRelic onto server (created CloudFormation template) to monitor applications
• Used Rundeck for job scheduling and automation.
• Designed shell script for Redshift cluster shutdown/startup automation based on the snapshots
• Supports weekly on call for troubleshooting application after hour issues
• Configured cloudbees Jenkins plugins for pushing Artifact, Log parser, build timeout plugins
• Implemented groove based templates for Jenkins jobs
• Made automated python script to run every quarterly to update the Ami security patches
• Configured the Load Balancers and VPC with Public and private subnets.

Environment: Puppet, Jenkins, AWS (EC2, S3, Redshift, Cloud formation), python, Shell scripting, Ruby, Linux Administration, Rundeck, JIRA, Jenkins, GIT.

Confidential, Topeka, KS

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Release Engineer for a team that involved different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases.
• Participated in weekly release meetings with Technology stakeholders to identify and mitigate potential risks associated with the releases and using Version Control Tools likes Rational Clear CaseRational Team Concert (RTC)
• Imported and managed multiple corporate applications into Tortoise SVN.
• Development, Quality Assurance and Management teams to ensure cross communication and confirmed approval of all production changes.
• Provided end - user s for all Tortoise SVN, JIR users to effectively use the tool.
• Build scripts using ANT and MAVEN build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environment: s.
• Deployed J2EE applications to Application servers in an Agile continuous integration environment and also automated the whole process.
• Created and maintained the Python deployment scripts for Web Sphere web application server.
• Used Ansible for deployment to make easier by avoiding to write scripts.
• Developed Perl and shell scripts for automation of the build and release process.
• Involved in editing the existing ANT/MAVEN files in case of errors or changes in the project requirements.
• Managed Maven project dependencies by creating parent-child relationships between Projects.
• Jenkins is used as a continuous integration tool for automation of daily process.
• Documented the entire build and release engineering process and provided on call support.

Environment: Tortoise SVN, Jenkins, Ansible, Sonar, Java/J2EE, ANT, MAVEN, Web Sphere, Perl Scripts, Shell Scripts, Ruby, XML, UNIX, Oracle10g, 11g, JIRA, Python