SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of experience in IT industry compromising of Linux Administration, DevOps, Build and Release Engineering, building binaries, deployments of artifacts and entire life cycle model in Enterprise Applications.
• Proficient with methodologies of DevOps and production deployment which include Compiling, Packaging, Deploying and application configurations.
• Experience in scripting language such as Shell and Python.
• Skillful in building of deployment artifacts such as war & ear from source code using Maven.
• Development and configuration experience with software provisioning tools like Puppet and Ansible and knowledge on Ansible tower.
• Knowledge on Container management using Docker to create images.
• In depth knowledge/experience in creating Jenkins CI pipelines and good experience in automating deployment pipelines.
• Hands - On experience in Implement, Build, and Deployment of CI/CD pipelines, managing projects often includes tracking multiple deployments across multiple pipeline stages (Dev, Test/QA staging and production).
• Cloud infrastructure development using OpenStack (Nova, Ironic and Glance) Expert-level knowledge of Amazon EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, Autoscaling, IAM, SQS, security groups, Lambda, Cloud Watch and other AWS services.
• Experience in various databases like DB2, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Redshift.
• Experience with SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) solutions.
• Skilled in monitoring servers using Nagios.
• Used GIT for branching, tagging, and merging.
• Good at Documenting and understanding User requirements and System Specifications.
• Versatile team player with good analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work directly with all levels of Management to gather user requirements.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and managerial skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, c#, ASP.NET, C/C++, Python, SQL, PL/SQL

Cloud Computing: AWS (EC2, ELB, DynamoDB, S3, CFT, RDS, IAM )

Configuration Management: Chef, Ansible, OpenStack

Source Code Management: Subversion, Git

Build Tools: Ant, Maven

CI Tools: Jenkins

Virtualization Tools: Docker, VMware, Virtual Box

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, DB

Web/Application Servers: Tomcat, WebLogicOperating systems: Windows, Linux/RHEL, Mac OS X, iOS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) provisioning and good knowledge of AWS services like EC2, Elastic Load-balancers, Elastic Container Service, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Front, Elastic File system, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, IAM.
• Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed reaching one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Working on Multiple AWS instances, set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs, Auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
• Created Cloud Formation (CFT) templates and deployed AWS resources like EC2, Autoscaling, EBS, S3.
• Cloud infrastructure development using (Nova, Ironic and Glance)
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Autoscaling groups and monitored alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Installed, configured and managed the Ansible Configuration Management Tool and Manage the configurations of multiple servers using Ansible.
• Worked with Ansible playbooks for orchestration, provisioning, configuration management and application development.
• Experienced working with Ansible tower to create projects, inventory file, jinja2 templates and scheduling jobs.
• Wrote Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of AWS Nodes and Test Playbooks on AWS instances.
• Developed Ansible roles to maintain the large playbooks easily.
• Used the Ansible Galaxy, a shared repository for the roles to download, share and manage the roles.
• Designed Devops workflow for multiple applications by orchestrating Test, Build, Release and Deploy phases through various CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible & Cloud formation tools.
• Created inventory and configured the ansible.cfg files for parallel deployment in Ansible for automating the Continuous delivery process.
• Used Jenkins and Ansible for Continuous Integration and continuous deployment in multiple environments
• Written few jenkinsfiles using Groovy scripting.
• Provided WLST and configured various WebLogic components/services via python script.
• Build the deliverable artifacts using Maven as a build tool in Jenkins for Java applications and deploy them to various environments
• Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
• Provided ideas and concepts for future software development for build tools and requirements for release activities.
• Used Maven Dependency Management system to deploy the snapshots and release versions of code to the Nexus repository. Created site for the application using the Maven site.
• Managed the Maven project dependencies by creating parent-child relationships between the projects.
• Integrated GIT with Jenkins using the GitLab plugin to automate the process of source code check-out by providing the URL and credentials of the GIT repository.
• Assisted developers with appropriate branching and resolved the conflicts related to merging of the source code.
• Used Apache Tomcat as the application server for the deployment of the code on windows and Linux environments.
• Build the artifacts through Jenkins CICD pipeline wherein for every 1-hour triggering Poll SCM in the Build Trigger. Resolved the issues occurred during the build process.
• Used Junit for the unit testing of the application.
• Installed and configured the Nexus Repository Manager for storing the artifacts within the organization.
• Deployed the artifacts stored in the Nexus to the Apache Tomcat Server.
• Migrating the data to respective DEV and QA Oracle database before doing code roll-out
• Accomplished the goal of making release management a streamlined process in the project within a short span of time.
• Managed Release issues and risks, escalating to the appropriate levels as needed. Managed multiple environments for various phases of code promotion.
• Improved the productivity and reduced the time utilized for project deliverables by making improvements in the build and release processes.

Confidential, Honolulu, HI

DevOps Engineer/AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using AWS (Linux/ Ubuntu/RHEL) and Configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Performed S3 buckets creation, policies and on the IAM role based polices and customizing the JSON template.
• Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS Cloud watch.
• Managed servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform instances using Chef Configuration management.
• Redesigned infrastructure for high availability using multiple AWS availability zones.
• Installed Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, Wrote Recipes and Cookbooks and uploaded them to Chef server.
• Managed On-site OS/Applications/Services/ Packages using Chef as well as AWS for EC2/S3&ELB with Chef Cookbooks.
• Create Chef Automation tools and builds, and do an overall process improvement to any manual processes.
• Converting production support scripts to Chef recipes and AWS server provisioning using Chef Recipes.
• Involved in Bootstrapping instances using Chef and integrating with auto scaling.
• Manage the configurations of multiple servers using Chef.
• Written Chef Cookbooks and recipes to Provision several pre-prod environments consisting of Cassandra DB installations, WebLogic installation and creation of profiles.
• Downloaded several Chef cookbooks from the Chef supermarket.
• Responsible for managing the Chef Client nodes and upload the cookbooks to chef-server from Workstation.
• Experience in working with Attributes, Cookbooks, Recipes and Templates in Chef
• Used Chef Configuration management system to develop automation and monitoring web application and database servers.
• Installing and configuring the Terraform and building the infrastructure using terraform configuration file.
• Involved in setting up baseline code in GIT, created branches managed parallel development and performed merges and code roll outs
• Experienced in build and deployment of Java applications on to different environments such as QA, UAT and Production.
• Implemented Continuous Integration by integrating with different tools like Maven, GIT, Sonarqube, Nexus with Jenkins.
• Installed Sonarqube and integrated the database to the Sonarqube server.
• Integrated Sonarqube with various plugins.
• Deployed the java application into web application servers like Apache Tomcat.
• Experienced in deployment of applications on Apache Web server,and Application Servers such as Tomcat, JBoss.
• Implemented unit testing framework driven using Junit and Cucumber.
• Worked with various scripting languages like Shell, Ruby and Python.
• Coordinated with the Offshore and Onshore teams for Production Releases
• Strengthened the relationship with client by delivering successfully and this helped in moving more project scope to offshore.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and administered GIT and ensured reliability of application besides working on branching strategies for GIT.
• Integrated JIRA with GIT to help the change management process run smoothly.
• Developed Perl and shell scripts for automation of the build and release process, developed Custom Scripts to monitor repositories, Server storage.
• Used Shell/Python scripts to automate the deployment process.
• Automated Continuous Build and Deploy Scripts for Jenkins Continuous Integration tool.
• Worked on CI/CD tools Jenkins and GIT version control system for continuous smooth code release process.
• Implemented Maven builds for creating JAR, WAR and EAR artifact.
• Automated Weekly releases with Maven scripting for Compiling Java Code, Debugging and Placing Builds into Maven Repository.
• Implemented testing environment for Kubernetes and administered Kubernetes clusters.
• Worked on setting up Websphere Application servers, and configuring SVN and database connection over Eclipse IDE for development teams.
• Worked with developers for resolving runtime failures troubleshoot Build and Deployment Issues, with minimal downtime.
• Experienced administering a large scale distributed application environment.
• Resolved system issues and inconsistencies in coordination with QA and engineering teams.

Confidential

Build and Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with supporting teams to understand client deployment requests.
• Worked closely with Project Managers to understand a code/configuration release scope and how to confirm a release was successful.
• Setting up Jenkins master, adding the necessary plugins and adding more slaves to support scalability and agility.
• Configured application servers (Tomcat) to deploy the code.
• Integrated Maven with Jenkins for the builds as the Continuous Integration process.
• Build Java code in different Jenkins servers as per the schedule.
• Planning and setting up of Continuous Integration for various properties on Jenkins with Commit, Component, Assembly, Deploy and Smoke jobs.
• Setting up commit builds to check for compilation failures of checked-in source code by the developers to accelerate CI.
• Assembly, deploy jobs to list the exact configuration of packages with all their dependencies, settings and deploying them to various environments for running tests.
• Working with the development team to increase the unit test code coverage.
• Establish CI/CD for trunk and branches to support parallel development.
• Developed Perl and shell scripts for automation of build and release process.
• Building pom.xml file using MAVEN as build tool, collineating Jenkins with Maven.
• Creating SMTP severs for the email notifications of the build status to the concerned recipients.
• Planning the releasing activities and delivering them on schedule
• Managing nightly builds, weekly builds, feature addition builds, Integrating the latest available changes / components to the product software.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded Linux Kernel using YUM.
• Configuration and troubleshooting for Red Hat Linux.
• Performances, CPU and Memory monitoring of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Install, configure, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of RHEL 5.5 and higher
• Creating and maintaining user, groups account on Linux server and Day to day resolving ticket issues.
• Hands on experience using the VIM editor.
• Communicated with all levels of engineering, management, development and test teams.
• Performed troubleshooting to make VMware tools run on Linux Guest OS.
• Administering and troubleshooting of Redhat Clusters.
• Adding and removing nodes from and to the cluster.
• Configured RHEL servers, including creating configuration menu and scripts to make the process more efficient and reproducible.
• Interacted with business users for gathering the requirements for on boarding the applications to Citrix Servers.
• Configured, imaged, deployed, and integrated new equipment into the environment.
• Involved in working with WebSphere App server admin console for deploying applications.
• Firmware upgrade, managing the servers, collecting Logs, open KVM console for troubleshooting.
• Worked closely with developers and managers to resolve the issues that rose during the deployments to different environments.