SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker & Continuous Integration using GIT, SVN, Jenkins, VMWare, ANT and programming in Ruby, Perl & Shell Scripting.
• Worked on Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, ELB, Auto Scaling, Route53, Lambda, etc.).
• Worked for AWS in Linux & Deployment.
• Worked on migration of services in data centers like Database, Domain's & Server's to Cloud Infrastructure (Amazon Web Services).
• Worked on Virtualization of LVM, KVM, Bridge, Disk, RAM, CPU on Superb DC.
• Worked with different database Environments like MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2 & Oracle RAC.
• Ability to manage SCM processes which include compiling, packaging, deploying and application configurations.
• Manipulation of Shell Scripts, Bash Scripts, Pearl Scripts & Java Scripts during migration.
• Exposed to all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Planning, Developing, Testing, Implementation & Post - Production analysis of the project.
• Knowledge on Scripting Languages like Ruby, Pearl, Bash, Python, Shell, PHP & Java.
• Good exposure in cloud formation script template using Chef, Terraform.
• Expertise in Application Deployments & Environment configuration using Chef, Puppet & Ansible.
• Expertise in using built tools like Maven and ANT for the building of deployable artifacts such as jar & war from source code.
• Expertise in DevOps tools like Jenkins, Build Forge, Urban Code Deploy, and Puppet & Chef.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. DevOps/ AWS Engineer

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Implementing new projects builds framework using Jenkins & Maven as build framework tools.
• Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Chef, and Maven in Linux environment.
• Written wrapper scripts to automate deployment of cookbooks on nodes and running the chef client on them in a Chef-Solo environment.
• Converting production support scripts to Chef Recipes.
• Implemented project migration and portfolio migration tasks.
• Installed WebLogic applications and spearheaded deployment activities.
• Manage deployment automation using Puppet, MCollective, Custom Puppet modules, Ruby.
• Installed, configured, and maintained QA and production systems.
• Developed and maintained the continuous integration and deployment systems using Jenkins, ANT, Maven, Nexus, Ansible and Run deck.
• Refined automation components with scripting and configuration management (Ansible).
• Installed Urban Code Deploy server, agents and doing deployments in various environments.
• Testing of cookbooks with Chef Spec.
• Performed WebLogic Server administration tasks such as installation, configuration, monitoring and performance tuning.
• Wrote Puppet manifests for deploying, configuring, and managing collected for metric collection and monitoring.
• Analyze Cassandra database and compare it with other open-source NoSQL database to find which of them better suites the current requirement.
• Stood up Cassandra clusters in the Amazon Web Services Cloud and migrated data between environments.
• Assisted customer in implementing DevOps strategies using Build Forge as the automated engine.
• Setting up client server model of Chef in deployment environments of OCI.
• Worked on documentation - Chef basics, Initial setup of Chef, Data bags implementation, coding standards, Cookbook document, testing docs.
• Worked with different bug tools like JIRA, Rally, and IBM Clear Quest.
• Developing Ant and Maven scripts to automate the compilation, deployment, and testing of Web and J2EE applications.
• Creating a fully Automated Build and Deployment Platform and coordinating code build promotions and orchestrated deployments using Jenkins/Hudson and GitHub.
• Performed deployment, ongoing maintenance & configuration of systems for maximum availability, security, performance, and documentation in a Linux based production environment.
• Installed & maintained XEN & VMWare servers with multiple VM's running a multi VLAN Physical & VM environment.
• AWS server provisioning using Chef Recipes.
• Responsible for building scalable distributed data solutions using Hadoop Eco System.
• Migrating an on-premises application to AWS.
• Designed and worked with team to implement ELK (Elastic search, Log stash and Kibana) Stack on AWS.
• Evaluated Chef and Puppet framework and tools to automate the cloud deployment and operations.
• Build server deployment on Cloud (EC2) servers with the help of DevOps tools like Puppet.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
• Defining Release Process & Policy for projects early in SDLC.
• Successfully migrated the Django database from SQLite to MySQL to PostgreSQL with complete data integrity.
• Wrote PowerShell scripts for administrative tasks and management of the server infrastructure.
• Configured TFS to run continuous integration of builds and execute unit test on all check-ins for ASP .NET Web Applications.
• Automating build process using Subversion (SVN) and ANT.
• Used Docker coupled with load-balancing tool Nginx to achieve Continuous Delivery.
• Resolved ADC Mailbox queries related to TFS/Build issues.
• Adding the New Co-Admin and Managing the Co-Admins for all the Subscriptions in the Windows Azure Platform.
• Worked directly with Azure Product team in tracking and resolving defects in the beta Azure IaaS offering.
• Responsible for configuring management to different application layer modules.
• Responsible for database build, release, and configuration.
• Setup various Team Projects into different Team Project Collections in TFS.
• Perform Deployment of Release to various QA & UAT in Linux environments.
• Worked with different team members for automation and Release components.
• Supporting different projects build & Release SCM effort e.g. branching, tagging, merge etc.

Environment: Chef, Jenkins, GIT, Maven, Artifactory, Jira, Linux, Java/J2EE, WebLogic, RHEL, Azure, JIRA, AWS EC2, AWS ELB, AWS SQS, AWS S3, AWS Cloud Formation Templates, AWS RDS, AWS Cloud Watch, PowerShell.

Build & Release Engineer

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Developed build and deployment processes.
• Used IBM Rational Clear Case as Version Control.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest in Windows and UNIX environment.
• Managed Clear Case repositories for branching, merging and tagging.
• Used JIRA for change control & ticketing.
• Implemented SharePoint Disaster Recovery Plan for multiple SharePoint 2010 environments.
• Administered and managed SharePoint Farms and SharePoint Databases.
• Performed administrative activities such as site creations, creating and managing user's permissions, backup and restore SharePoint sites.
• Utilize Puppet for configuration management of hosted Instances with AWS.
• Automate provisioning of Amazon AWS instances.
• Wrote Puppet Manifest files to deploy automated tasks to many servers at once.
• Automated Clear Case based release management process including monitoring changes between releases.
• Developed Shell/Bash/Perl Scripts for automation purpose.
• Handled code reviews and merging Pull requests.f
• Diagnosed and resolved issues relating to local and wide area network performance.
• Worked with JIRA, a tool that handles DCR (Defect Change Request) & MR (Maintenance Request).
• Written cookbooks for WebLogic, JDK and Jenkins, Tomcat, JBoss and deployment automation.
• Set up CI (Continuous Integration) for major releases in Jenkins and TeamCity.
• Resolving merging issues during build and release by conducting meetings with developers and managers.
• Responsible for designing and deploying best SCM processes and procedures.
• Rolled out Chef to all servers, and used the Chef Node database to drive host configuration, DNS zones, monitoring & backups.
• Formulated and executed designing standards for DNS servers.
• Worked closely with software developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems.
• Developed and maintained integration and release processes.
• Able to create scripts for system administration and AWS using languages such as Bash and Python.
• Maintained and coordinated environment configuration, controls, code integrity, and code conflict resolution.
• Implemented Maven builds to automate JAR and WAR.
• Developed automation and deployment utilities using Ruby, Bash, PowerShell, Python and Run deck.
• Used Build Forge for Continuous Integration and Deployment into Web Sphere Application Servers.
• Supported and developed tools for integration, automated testing, and release management.
• Verified if the methods used to create and recreate software builds are consistent and repeatable.
• Releasing code to testing regions or staging areas as per the schedule published.
• Used Clear Quest as ticketing tool.

Environment: Clear Case, Maven, Build Forge, JIRA, RHEL, Perl Scripts, Shell Scripts, XML, Web Sphere, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, AWS.

DevOps Engineer

Nigel Frank International - La Jolla, CA

Responsibilities:

• Experience with AWS instances spanning across Dev, Test and Pre-Production and Cloud Automation through Open Source DevOps tools like Ansible, Jenkins & Docker.
• Worked hands-on to create automated, containerized cloud application platform (PaaS), and design and implement DevOps processes that use those platforms.
• Build AWS Cloud formation templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Designed roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM).
• Integrated AWS DynamoDB using AWS Lambda to store the values items and backup the DynamoDB streams.
• Analyzed the ANT build projects for conversion and converting to Maven build projects.
• Developing pom.xml files for Maven build scripts.
• Written Manifests/Recipes and Ruby Scripts to customize the Puppet/Chef as per our environment.
• Written multiple cookbooks in Chef. Implemented environments, roles, and data bags in Chef for better environment management.
• Configuration management and deployments using Chef Server.
• Good understanding of Knife, Chef Bootstrap process etc.
• Written Terraform templates, Chef Cookbooks, receipes and pushed them onto Chef Server for configuring EC2 instances.
• Ability to execution of XML, Ant Scripts, Ruby, Shell Scripts, Perl Scripts, Power Shell Scripts, and JAVA Scripts.
• Used Python API for uploading all the agent logs into Azure blob storage.
• Working experience on Windows PowerShell Scripting for purposes of task automation and configuration management.
• Managed internal deployments of monitoring and alarm services for the Azure Infrastructure (OMS).
• Implemented Python Scripts using stranded libraries for getting all the agent logs (Inventory, Remote connections, and Network usage and performance counters) from the different flavors of Linux.
• Created and wrote Shell Scripts (Bash), Ruby, Python, and PowerShell for automating tasks.
• Terraform for automating VPC's, ELB's, Security Groups, SQS queues, S3 buckets and continuing to replace the rest of our infrastructure.
• Used PowerShell Scripting for automating process and collecting reports for daily tasks. Experience in Shell Scripts (Bash), Ruby, Python and PowerShell for automating tasks.
• Good knowledge working with infrastructure automation (Perl, Shell & Ruby).
• Implemented a CD pipeline involving Jenkins & GIT to complete the automation from commit to deployment.
• Worked in GIT implementation containing various Remote repositories for a single application.
• Branching, labeling and merge strategies for all application in GIT.
• Migrate SVN repositories to GIT and administrate GITLAB to manage GIT repositories.
• Involved in setting up of subversion-SVN server, server maintenance, Client machines Setup.
• Expertise working with Apache, Control M, SVN, CVS, Build forge, DB2, Hudson, Jenkins, Autosys, Maven, LDAP and Unix Scripting.
• Automating the regular tasks in Subversion and streamlining the process of access to SVN.
• Performed all necessary day-to-day CVS/Subversion repositories and the access control strategies.
• Administered TFS for .NET applications.
• Deployment of .NET batch applications which processes high volumes of data.
• Performed parallel build for .NET application which will automatically decides which of the projects in the generated build list can be built independently.
• Creation of branches in CVS and Subversion for parallel development process.
• Merging release branches back to trunk after the production release and resolving of conflicts during merging in both CVS and Subversion.
• Worked with the architects on SDLC process being the owner of post development environments.
• Coordinating the resources by working closely with Project Manger's for the release and Project Manager for all the Operational Projects.
• Installed and Configured Jenkins and created End-to-End automation for projects.
• Carried out deployments and builds on various environments using Jenkins continuous Integration tool.
• Well versed with user and plugin management for Jenkins.
• Developed and implemented the software release management for the release of web applications.
• Wrote ANT and Maven Scripts to automate the build process.
• Managed the Maven repository using Nexus tool and used the same to share the snapshots and release of internal projects.
• Worked closely with deployment team and SQA team for product releases.
• Implemented Configuration Management, Change Management policies and procedures.
• Worked as a system administrator for the built and deployment process on Enterprise server.
• Used IBM WebSphere as Web application server for deploying artifacts.
• Deploying newly built code using WebSphere Admin Console and deleting the old deployed code.
• Documented project's software release management procedures with input decisions.
• Automation of daily tasks using Shell and Perl Scripts.
• Incorporated the Code Quality Tools Find Bugs coverture into ANT projects.
• Used JIRA as a change Management/Work Management/SCRUM Agile tool.

Environment: ANT, Maven, Subversion, CVS, Chef, Puppet, Docker, Terraform, AWS IAM, AWS VPC, AWS Lambda, AWS NAT, OMS, Linux, Shell/Perl Scripts, Python, DB2, Hudson, LDAP, GIT, Jenkins, Tomcat, JIRA.

Linux/Unix Admin

Confidential - Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Solaris, AIX, Linux, and Windows-NT operating systems.
• Installation of Packages and Patches.
• Supported 24/7 high availability production servers.
• Monitoring System using HP/ITO, do kernel tuning to enhance the system performance.
• Configuration and Administration of DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS, send mail.
• Installation, configuration, and remediation of various Security software.
• Installation and configuration of Netscape and Apache Web Server and Samba Server.
• Jumpstart installation. Writing Shell and Perl Scripting for automation of job.
• Configuration of Hardware and Software RAID. Disk replacement and File system recovery.
• Interaction with vendors for Hardware and Software supports.
• Configuration and Administration of Veritas Cluster.
• Day-to-Day maintenance of Veritas Cluster Servers.
• Disk and File system management through Veritas Volume Manager, LVM and SVM.
• Migrating source code from PVCS to SVN using SVN Importer.
• Installation and configuration of Apache and Web Sphere Server in Linux Platform.
• Backup management through VERITAS Net backup. Creation of Volumes and pools and scheduling the job.
• Installation and configuration of Network Printer with Centralized control of print client.
• Database Backup and Recovery Performance Monitoring and Tuning.
• Planning and setup of Disaster Recovery Servers.
• Trouble shooting of day to day system and user problems.
• Arbitrated Customer/User meetings to establish needs, initiated/managed risk assessment team, define expectations and explain capabilities of current technologies.
• Documented system requirements.
• Oversaw customer installation and acceptance testing of the product, Product resided on Sun/Veritas configuration.
• Provided 24/7-support coverage, pager support and weekend support.

Environment: Solaris 8/9/10, Red Hat Linux 5, AIX 4.x/5.x, Sun Enterprise 450/420R/250 Servers, Ultra Enterprise 2/1 Servers, SPARC server 1000, SPARC server 20 Enterprise Servers, VERITAS.

Linux/Unix Admin

Confidential - Cary, NC

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX Linux operating systems.
• Experience in patching with live upgrade/standard install cluster and applying firmware.
• Experience with VMWare Virtualization using ESX hypervisor of Vsphere 4.0.
• Configured Solaris Jumpstart Server, maintained Server 6.0, backup data of Servers using VERITAS Net Backup, maintained security of the Solaris Servers.
• Performance monitoring and Tuning using top, prstat, sar, vmsat, ps, iostat etc.
• Shell Scripting to automate tasks on Solaris and Linux and automated jobs using Crontob.
• Configuration of VERITAS Cluster Server, Service Guard from the scratch and maintained service group/packages for failover and redundancy purpose.
• Worked on cronolog in Linux servers for managing the logs of the Web Servers and performed automation using Shell and Perl Scripts.
• Extensively worked on Administering FileNet P8 (Process Task Manager, Application Engine, Content Engine, Process Engine).
• Worked on high performance applications in a clustered environment.
• Involved in Implementing and Administrating enterprise level data backup and recovery.
• Implemented backup solution for the Network.
• Installed and configured file and Application servers running on Sun Servers.
• Configuring and maintaining network services such as LDAP, DNS, NIS, NFS, Web, Mail, FTP.
• Implementation of RAID 0/1/5 for creation of logical volumes using VERITAS Volume Manager in SAN Storage Area Environment.
• Troubleshooting and analysis of hardware and software failures for various servers (core dump and log file analysis).
• Worked with storage team to configure NAS.
• Managed Network troubleshooting applications TCP/IP including Ethernet, IP addressing & Sub netting, routing.
• Provided 24x7 on call and remote support for UNIX Production Problems and responding to users tickets from Remedy.
• Worked on creating user accounts, user administration, local and global groups on Solaris platform.
• Created User Accounts and Network Shares. Configured SUN Workstations as Domain Clients.
• Administrated NFS, NIS, DHCP, and DNS Samba services running on AIX, Sun Solaris and RHEL.
• Worked with storage team to configure EMC SAN, NAS and iSCSI configuration.
• Managed Users for AIX, Solaris, HP-UNIX, and Linux Servers and assigned right to access network resources.

Environment: Red Hat Linux, Solaris 8/9/10, HP-UX 11.0, VMware ESX 4.x, VERITAS, Sun Enterprise 450/420R/250 Servers, Ultra Enterprise 2/1 Servers, SPARC server 1000, SPARC server 20 Enterprise Servers, SPARC Server 1000/20, HP 9000 K, L, N class Server.