EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Having 6+ years of experience in AWS/Azure Cloud Providers, Linux/Windows administration and maintenance, Scripting/Automation and cloud administration projects where responsible for Managing servers, software installation, monitoring, troubleshooting, build, deployment and process.
• Experienced in AWS and Azure Cloud providers and managing the Team.
• Positive, inquisitive and a highly motivated team - player exhibiting self-motivation and can identify proactively propose solutions to problems in a timely manner.
• Experienced in handling Linux/Windows administration maintenance and application support projects, enhancements on series platform.
• Good analysis, communication, administration, team co-ordination and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in Technical Leads, Project management and People management.
• Keen understanding of design and development principles, processes and different phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Fast learner who is consistently cited for ability to achieve rapid comfort level in all environments, worked on own initiative and as part of a team and showed passion in people management
• Dynamic, enterprising and consistently cited for programming expert fulfilling all responsibilities vested on me with strong time management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology: Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, VMWare)

OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Centos, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux and Win 9x/2000/XP/7

Scripting: PERL, Power shell, HTML, and Shell scripting.

Database: MySQL 5.x, Oracle9g, 10g, MSSQL Server, MySQL Replication, MySQL High Availability with DRBD, MySQL Disaster Recovery and MySQL Clustered

Tools: GIT, Jenkins, Jira & Confluence, Zenoss, WinSCP, SNOW, Putty, Nagios Monitoring System

Other Interfaces: FTP

Application Services: Web Server Apache, IIS Server4/5, Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory

Build & Tools: Ansibl, GIT, Chef, Puppet, SVN

Mail Servers: SMTP, POP, IMAP, Exim

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

AWS Cloud Architect

Operating System: Linux (Centos, RHEL, Ubuntu) and Windows 2008, Windows 2012

Environment: AWS, Linux, Windows, MySQL, SQL server, IIS, Apache Web sphere, Tomcat, Jenkins, GIT, DB2, Ansible, Powershell, Shell scripting, SNOW, JIRA, Akamai, Confluence

Responsibilities:

• Application assessment and design architecture for each application total 17 Application.
• Cloud Formation script to provision virtual machine with help of hardened image
• Ansible Scripts to download and install application specific softwares like IIS, .Net, DB2, MSSQL, Oracle, MQ, MSSQL, OBIEE, ODI, Java, Weblogic, Oracle, etc.
• Ansible script to Install and configure SSO.
• Disaster Recovery architecture and implementation
• Applying patches in Amazon Machine Image and applying hardening rules and using AMI to build application servers.
• Solution and Assessment for Cost optimization
• Implemented auto scaling solution for critical applications
• Implemented S3 solution which can be used to store software’s, app code & DB backup’s.
• Application deployments using auto scaling to avoid downtime.
• IAM user management & policies applied to avoid using Amazon provided images to entire team.
• Implementing all modules as per Verizon policy.
• Delivered logic through CI/CD pipeline.
• Lamda functionality to schedule automatic snapshot backup with retention

Confidential

Operating System: Linux (Centos, RHEL, Ubuntu) and Windows 2008, Windows 2012

Environment: AWS, Azure, Linux, Windows, VMWare, MySQL, SQL server, IIS, Apache Web sphere, Tomcat, Zenoss, Shell scripting, PHP, SNOW, JIRA, Akamai, Confluence

Responsibilities:

• Managing Amazon Web Services in Dedicated mode with Confidential Customer were I worked and learnt from Data center assessment phase, Planning and designing phase, Customer Interaction and presentation for SOW approval, implementing phase and managing all the servers as a Single resource.
• Operating System Management like Regular Patching, Monitoring & Troubleshooting OS resources like CPU, Disk, Memory, HTTP etc.
• User Management on AWS (IAM), Confidential Application, FTP, AD management, Cloud360 Monitoring Tool User Management, Jira & Confluence, Akamai Etc.
• Providing access to the Reports, Application Access, and Database Access with respective Roles for the particular user.
• SSL Management like Installing/Rotating certificate in AWS Load Balancer, Installing Certificate in Apache WebServer, Installing and pinning certificate in Akamai.
• Providing access to Projects in Confluence and creating groups, roles, in Jira.
• Creating and managing users in Jira & confluence
• Creating space on the Confluence.
• Configuring and installing Jira & Confluence on the Linux Server and managing the services and Java Heap Sizes.
• Working with Jira team and analyzing the issue along with them by providing the logs and suggested changes on the configuration.
• Generating the reports based on the tickets opened in Jira.
• Creating Projects and assigning roles to the appropriate users.
• Creating Issues types, Work Flows, Screens, Fields
• Setting Up Banners in case of maintenance, Kernel Update, or any other major issues to Notify the users.
• Managing Cron Jobs and analyzing based on failures and re-executing upon fixing the Cron Jobs.
• Migrated DNS to Route53 in AWS.
• Regularly pushing the Database backups to S3 & Glacier.
• Deployments and designs will be performed in multiple cloud providers. i..e AWS / Azure
• Setup auto scaling groups based on CPU to adapt to unforeseen spikes without having an outage or needing manual intervention
• Installing 3rd Party tools like LogRhythm, Nessus Scan, Qualys Scan, Alert Logic, Cloud360 Tools to the Application VM’s.
• In Akamai - Co-coordinating maintenance activity along with 3rd party.
• Identifying and fixing the environment from Hackers.
• Vulnerability Assessment in each quarter.
• Implementing Confidential to the customer upon Completing Audit with 3rd Party Team
• Providing Value Adds based to optimize the Cost and resource.
• Frequent health check on Components which involves Cost factor.

Confidential

Operating System: Linux, Windows variants

Technology: Amazon Web Services, Azure, VMWare

SME & Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• On boarded new clients to the team and gaining the knowledge from Client and proactively providing KT to the team.
• Validating the environment and adding the value adds to the project before going to the deliverable.
• Experience in architecting and configuring secure VPC through private and public networks in AWS.
• Used security groups, network ACLs, Internet Gateways, NAT instances and iptables to ensure a secure zone for organizations in AWS public cloud.
• DR Solution and implemented in Customer environment and completed within RTO/RPO.
• On boarded customers to SNOW tool.
• Provided Knowledge transfer to Team in timely manner and coordinated with Client calls.
• Hosted the multiple applications in a single ELB and AWS Server (Cost Saving).
• Identified the resource utilization in each server and provided Value add to reduce the cost.
• Worked on Cloud Computing (Azure). Following are the features implemented and worked Virtual Machines, Load Balancer, Storage accounts, Virtual Networks, SQL Databases, Availability Sets, Containers, Route Tables, and End Points etc.
• Attending the external trainings and getting certified on that particular technology.
• Configured and installed Zenoss monitoring application (UI) in an appropriate Linux server to enable alerts like CPU, Memory, URL, etc.
• Used shell scripting to automate daily tasks.
• Used PowerShell scripting to automate daily tasks.
• Involved Customer Application Deployments and drastically reduced the downtime by automating the process and implementing Cloud features.
• Shell scripting to collect CPU, Memory and Disk utilization of Linux servers.
• Worked on Cloud Computing (AWS). Following are the features implemented and worked - Amazon EC2, S3, Amazon RDS, EBS, Auto scaling, Cloud front, SES, SQS, SNS, IAM and VPC, Route53.
• Involved in complete User administration (setup and maintaining account)
• Reviewing software installation procedures, testing on Development/Staging environment before on Production.
• Experience in Active directory configurations and support.
• Used Amazon IAM to grant fine-grained access to AWS resources to users. Also managed roles and permissions of users to AWS account through IAM.
• Implemented auto scaling for front end application clusters in AWS Cloud.
• Worked on Applying patches, installed monitoring tools.
• Working knowledge on Apache, Tomcat
• Supporting 300+ combination of Windows & Linux servers in production/stage/development environment.
• Worked on Unix/Linux user creation, file/directory level permissions, Sudo permissions etc.
• Regular proactive capacity planning and tending reviews of all systems
• Interaction with 3rd party vendors, Client Teams and senior onsite Systems Engineers as necessary to optimally perform job responsibilities
• Create and Maintain detailed up to date technical documentation (e.g. standards, process, Run Books)
• Managed and responding to proactive monitoring alerts, maintenance activity, shell scripting, performance monitoring, tuning, and system diagnostics by using Scale up and Scale down the configurations.