SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated problem solving with very good troubleshooting ability AWS Cloud Systems/Devops engineer and very strong knowledge on RHEL, centos, UBUNTU, and windows systems and environments.
• Over 10 years of proficiency with Linux and Microsoft platforms.
• As someone who has always loved technologies, my interest have served me a great deal in acquiring enormous knowledge on both Linux and Microsoft platform to help environments issues.
• Installation and Administration of Centos/RHEL Linux/Ubuntu.
• Proficiency and administration of Atlassian suite, like jira, confluence, stash, fisheye/crucible, bamboo, bit bucket.
• Proficiency with Git and SVN.
• Proficiency with Jenkins, and Maven for Confidential build automation.
• Proficiency with Ansible core, and Tower for configuration management and automation.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools like Splunk, Zabbix, Appdynamics, Spice Works, nagios.
• Proficiency with Python.
• Proficiency with JBoss and Tomcat.
• Proficiency with Redhat satellite for package updates.
• Proficiency with F5 and HA proxy for load balancing.
• Proficiency with Veritas Symantec netbackup.
• Proficiency with LVM
• Proficiency with databases like Informix, Oracle, Sqlserver.
• Proficiency with certificate signing request(CSR) cacerts, and SSL certs.
• Strong Knowledge of various protocols and services like TCP/IP, TCP, UDP, IP ICMP, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, FTP, SSH,
• Bash Shell Scripting for task automation.
• Installation and Administration of Windows Server 2008.
• LDAP and Active Directory for User Authentication.
• Proficiency with Virtualization Software like VMWare Vcenter, ESXi and VirtualBox
• Databases Administration and SQL Programming.
• Bugzilla Ticketing and Project Management System.
• Troubleshooting skills using log files and various other tools.
• Proficiency with Office Application Software.
• Useful Qualities:
• Problem solving, creative designing, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Quick learner, good multiple - task, handling working in a fast paced environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Manassas, VA

AWS Cloud Engineer/Linux SME

Responsibilities:

• Deployed and maintained applications in AWS test environment using preconfigured EC2 AMIs, and also preconfigured ECS docker containers build from a Dockerfile and imported into ECR, leveraging on AWS high availability and fault tolerant tools like Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancer and Route 53, and using CloudWatch metrics to trigger events.
• Using Configuration management tools ie Ansible to create Ansible playbooks for prevalidations, postvalidations and automation of patches and other tasks that needed automation in the environment.
• Reconfigured Satellite 6 and capsule servers for content management to sync and pull patch updates through content views using foreman-proxy, katello pulp service
• Managing and updating subscriptions entitlements for Redhat linux environment.

Confidential, Silver spring, MD

AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Lift and Shift(rehost) and Migrated applications and databases like from a Rackspace environment to the AWS cloud environment by using AWS DMS and Snowball, mysqldump, tarballs, and also Percona software, to ensure successful migration and validate connections.
• Installed and configured Grafana with telegraf to integrete with Zabbix for monitoring and graphical display of applications performance and metric in AWS.
• Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide and enable necessary competency.
• Created Cloudformation templates and Ansible playbooks to deploy preconfigured EC2 AMI bunbled applications with Security group attached to Elastic loadbanlencer and Autoscaling and Route 53.

Confidential, Washington, DC

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design highly available, cost effective and fault tolerant systems using multiple EC2 instances, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balance and AMIs.
• Utilize EBS to store persistent data and mitigate failure by using snapshots.
• Design AWS CloudFormation and ansible playbook templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Setup roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM).
• Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup.
• Manage network security using Security Groups, NACLS, and IAM.
• Use Amazon RDS to manage, create snapshots, and automate backup of database.
• Setup and integrate Jenkins with other tools for CI/CD implementation
• Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment and promote enterprise solution deployment assets to target environments by utilizing tools like Jenkins, Git, Artifactory and Ansible.
• Utilize EBS to store persistent data and mitigate failure by using snapshots.
• Design AWS CloudFormation and ansible playbook templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Setup roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM).
• Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup.
• Manage network security using Security Groups, NACLS, and IAM.
• Use Amazon RDS to manage, create snapshots, and automate backup of database.
• Setup and integrate Jenkins with other tools for CI/CD implementation
• Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment and promote enterprise solution deployment assets to target environments by utilizing tools like Jenkins, Git, Artifactory and Ansible.
• Automation using Ansible.
• Partner with platform data and app teams to make sure architecture and infrastructure meet business requirements.
• Utilize Git and GitHub for version control.
• Deploy codes in different environments like Test, UAT, Preproduction and Production.
• Managed our Atlassian suite stack that comprises of Jira, confluence, stash, fisheye/crucible, bamboo.
• Collaboration with other teams to generate and implement web application firewall (WAF) profile and SSL configuration for the environments security.
• Administering JBOSS and tomcat applications.
• Collaborating with, and part of a team tasked with applications deployments.
• Administration of Active directory users and DNS resolutions.
• Setup HA proxy for load balancing in production environment.
• Performing backup in the environment using Symantec netbackup.
• Provisioning instances using VMware VCenter for the dev and test environment
• Repurposing servers for reuse in the environment.
• Scheduling and implementing patches using both yum and RedHat satellite.
• Performing software installations and maintenance
• Part of a team of three who setup our high availability and disaster recovery environments in two data centers.
• Creating and ensure the appropriate documentations and templates are kept up to date in Mediawiki.
• Install and configured Appdynamics for system monitoring in the environment.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administering RedHat Enterprise, CentOS and Oracle Linux systems.
• Worked with Management and Operators to discuss processes and procedures that can solve issues of concern
• Collaborate with team to research, test and implement new technologies that would improve workflow and administer systems in the department.
• Speed up and Standardize Installation using Kickstart configuration
• Creating, Configuring and Maintaining software and local repositories in the yum.repos.d directory.
• Installation and upgrading software applications on servers and workstations.
• Monitoring and Implementing System Security Protocols as recommended by different security guides like STIGs.
• Using VMWare ESXi Server and VMWare VSphere Client (combination) to manage virtual machines (VMs).
• Periodically conduct System Backups and Restoration using Bacula.
• Responsible for developing backup policy strategies to ensure data protection for servers and workstations (Bacula).
• Install and configure Puppet to help manage configuration on numerous servers and workstations.
• Set up DNS Servers to resolve hostnames for both the internal and external networks.
• Preliminary troubleshooting of network and computer problems and resolve or escalate as required.
• Project management using Bugzilla.
• Setup secure shared file directories using NFS server.
• Combined devices to form flexible storages of different logical volumes using the Logical Volume Manager, LVM.
• Implemented RAID levels on storage to ensure failover protection and improve performance.
• Monitor systems and service availability using Nagios monitoring server
• Build, configure and manage Web servers using Apache and Tomcat.
• Administer firewall security using iptables.
• Installation and configuration of LDAP, ADS to consolidate and administer user accounts and authentication for both Windows and Linux machines.
• Develop and implement a security plan to mitigate against known threats and protect against unknown threats.
• Bash Shell scripting to help automate repetitive tasks using crontab.
• Collaborate with management level and users to find solution to technological needs.
• Set up a Centralized Logging Server by configuring rsyslog conf.

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation/configuration, operation and maintenance of system hardware and software and related infrastructure.
• Ensuring that the system hardware, operating system, software and related procedure adhere to the organizations value and enabling staffs.
• Applying Operating System patches and upgrades on a regular, and upgrading administrative tools and utilities. Configuring and adding new services if necessary
• Adding, removing, or updating user account information and resetting password, analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolved TCP/IP issues.
• Responded to and closed out trouble tickets.
• Monitor systems and service availability using Nagios monitoring server
• Monitoring and Implementing System Security Protocols as recommended by different security guides like STIGs
• Bash Shell scripting to help automate repetitive tasks using crontab
• Responsible for various hardware and software acquisitions and implementations.
• Expertise in Linux system installation, configuration and administration.
• Development and testing of backup and recovery methodologies, troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in bash scripting
• Provided all levels of technical support for Windows environment.
• Administering user accounts.