OBJECTIVE:

Experienced with AWS Infrastructure deployments & Legacy Datacenter Technologies. Professional with vast Infrastructure knowledge. Trained in engineering communication that impact all levels of organizations. Capable of objective analysis and skilled at making quick decisions based on wisdom, experience, and judgment, and having excellent presentation skills. Possess positive attitude, leadership quality, and hands - on teamwork.

SUMMARY:

• Over 6+ years of experience in IT industry supporting Infrastructure deployments and DevOps
• Hands on experience with deploying of both Physical and Virtual Infrastructure in Legacy-On Prem- Data centers(Meadowville, Volo and Knolls Data Centers)
• 4+ years of Designing and deploying highly available and fault tolerant Infrastructure solutions in on Prem Data centers for- several Business Critical Applications.
• 3+ years of experience with Strategically engaging and Partnering with Network and compute resources to accomplish successful outcomes on key project initiatives.
• 2+ years of DevOps experience working with App teams in migrating Enterprise applications to AWS
• 3+ years of experience using - Jenkins, GitHub, Ansible, Chef and Cloud Formation
• 3+ years of using AWS services such as - EC2, ELB, Cloudwatch, Route53, S3, RDS
• 3+ years of Developing and implementing -highly resilient, scalable, fault tolerant and HA solutions using AWS services for confidential
• 2+ years of designing EDE (Enterprise Data Exchange) solutions for project/application- file transfer needs
• 3 years of providing B2B network connectivity solutions - VPN, MPLS, DS3, OC3, T1 lines - to projects needing connectivity to 3rd party vendor
• Solid understanding of LAN/WAN topology, extensive knowledge in designing and configuring DNS, DHCP, SNMP, VPN connection, TCP/IP, IP Subnet, VLAN, DRAC, ILO and Terminal Server
• Expertise in designing, planning, implementing a new virtual systems infrastructure consisting of Cisco UCS blade center running VMware ESXi 4.1 and attached to NetApp FAS 6150.
• Design and implement of computing platforms utilizing Cisco UCS, Nexus, and NetApp storage

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• AWS Infrastructure Deployments
• App migrations to AWS
• CICD set up
• Microsoft Windows
• UNIX
• VMware
• VMware Certified Professional
• Masters in Computer Sciences - Gannon University
• DevOps/Agile/SCRUM- Methodologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AWS Services: EC2, RDS, ELB, Route53, Direct Connect, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation

DevOps: GitHub, GitLab, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Python Boto3

VMware Products: Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure 4 with Virtual Center, ESX3.x, ESX4.x, ESXi, VMotion, HA, DRS, Managing Resource pools, ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Converter, Virtual Center, ESX Patch management.

Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiiON, NetApp FAS Solutions 6240

Microsoft: Windows Server (2008 and 2003), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP.

Linux: SUSE, Red Hat Linux.

Hardware: Dell (Dell Servers Dell PowerEdge R710, Cisco UCS B200 M1, M2, Cisco (Switches 6500, 2750, 2900), Confidential BL460C, C-7000, DL580 s.

Racks and Cabling: Installation of Hardware, Cable Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlottesville, VA

AWS Migrations Engineer / Architecture and Automation/Devops

• Consult with Application teams/DevOps and gather application requirements for assisting with- on prem to AWS- migration
• Provide cost saving and optimized resilient architecture solutions for standing up web, app and db tiers in aws for hosting s1 application
• Use AWS services (VPC, EC2, ALB, Route53, ASG, Lambda, RDS, EMR, s3) and build fault tolerant multi-region HA infrastructure solutions
• Set up BASTION hosts to allow AD integrated user access to prod/nonprod AWS environments
• Develop several python AWS boto3 scripts to deploy - Load Balancers, Target Groups, route53 CNAME, Security Groups) to support web, app and db tiers infrastructure
• Design and build HA RESILIENT solution for- NON PROD, PROD and DR -JENKINS servers using boto3 and ANSIBLE
• Convert environment build jobs JENKINS DSL that enables to reproduce any new server
• Build JENKINS CI/CD pipelines and set up automation to enable push button full stack- BLUE/GREEN deployments for entire LOB
• Develop multiple ANSIBLE playbooks for configuration management of web and app tier infrastructure set up Jenkins/CICD- pipelines for provisioning milti-tier infrastructure(web/app/db) using automation, enabling push button deployment for entire LOB
• Use AGILE/DEVOPS principles for PI Planning, task breakdown, resource involvement and solutions implementation
• Test and troubleshoot any issues pre and post provisioning for infrastructure
• Develop and implement TIMER solution for auto shutdown of ec2 instances (8 hours of up time) saving running costs in non prod account
• Implement strategic solution for Disaster Recovery environment from scratch and migrating traffic flow

Confidential, Richmond, VA

AWS Cloud Migration Engineer / DevOps Support

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Application teams/DevOps and gather application requirements for assisting with- on prem to AWS- migration
• Analyze on-prem infrastructure and application interactions and propose AWS services to use for the cloud architecture for migration
• Prepare detailed AWS migration Architecture diagram and review with Infosec for Enterprise security compliance and help remediating any security issues
• Use AWS services like AWS EC2 Instances, VPC, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Auto Scaling Group (ASG), Cloud Formation(CF), S3, RDS, Route53 and Cloud Watch- to develop multi-tiered scalable, resilient, HA Infrastructure Solution/s for project requirements
• ­­­­­­ Develop push-button automation for app teams for deployments in multiple environments like Dev, QA, and Production
• Prepare Network assessment based on project architecture and application flow and review with Public cloud team to obtain Security Group/s assignment for QA and PROD environments
• Develop IAM policies for System accounts for QA and PROD deployments
• Onboard application with Centrify so end user access is enabled for their SSO logins
• Use CloudFormation, Jenkins, Chef/Ansible and GitHub- to build CI/CD automation for DevOps infrastructure deployment
• Make monitoring tool recommendations (SPLUNK, Bluestripe, AppDynamics etc) per Application requirements
• Create and configure the DNS as needed for AWS resources like- ELB and EC2 using Bigdog API
• Use AGILE/SCRUM methodology with stories on Version one tool, to track progress of ongoing project efforts.
• Prepare Cloud custodian policies for best use of AWS resources in CARD Dev and PROD AWS accounts
• Advise project teams on AWS best practices such as- for high availability using Blue/Green Deployment, use of encryption keys for automation and centrify for server access etc.
• Take part in end to end testing of a deployment in all regions and help with troubleshooting as needed
• Help app team coordinate with Release Management(RM) and Production support (IPS) for deployment of Prod- Infrastructure/code releases
• Engage Network team on need basis for 3rd party network firewall changes and validate the change
• Create customized automation wrapper shell scripts for app installs during server boot strapping
• Provide on call support in both testing and production environment as needed

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Systems Integrator, CARD Delivery(Legacy)

Responsibilities:

• Meet with Project team to discuss their infrastructure requirements and fill out Non Functional Requirements(NFR) template
• Determine from NFR, Network and Compute needs of a project, and complete the Network assessment
• Attend the network review meetings to request allocation-hours for network resources
• Request compute resources from horizontal compute platform
• Set up kick off meetings with assigned Network(F5, Data Network Engineer, Firewall Engineer) and compute resources(Unix, Database) to discuss project requirements
• Put in reservations for servers needed for Oracle or SQL Databases and other application servers
• Attend reservation meetings for respective server platform(Oralce/SQL/VM), confirm available cluster capacity and server reservations
• Draft a Compute Technical Design Document(cTDD) for Infrastructure deployment in KDC/PDC
• Get the drafted designs reviewed and approved by Enterprise Architects and cTDD review panel
• Request IP addresses for any servers being built and configure DNS by raising HPSM quote with DNS Engineering team.
• Prepare Infrastructure Requirement Document(IRD) with all build data required to kick off server build.
• Estimate the sizing of server/s and storage needs for infrastructure build out
• Build the server and network infrastructure required by the project after in On- Prem Data centers using Confidential ’s Operations Management Systems (OMS) tool.
• Work with Open Systems Hosting(OSH)-Horizontal team to get post provisioning and boot strapping the servers completed
• Raise HPSM quote for Configuration of Big IP- F5 device as needed by requesting VIPs(Virtual IPs) on Load balancer front end and back end.
• Complete an FMF by populating IP addresses, ports, protocol, source and destination and work with Firewall engineer for obtaining firewall rules.
• Interface with ISRM for any Domain boundary Exceptions needed for pushing requested firewall rules for the project.
• Work with Data Network Engineer/XML to also implement any static routes required for allowing network connectivity for the application. Coordinate with Network and Change Management to schedule and implement the changes needed
• Raise itemized Technology Purchase Request for infrastructure getting deployed in KDC/PDC
• Provide recommendations to projects on best B2B connectivity solutions and co-ordinate with network resources - Firewall and Data Network in setting up connectivity using- DS3/MPLS/T1/OC3 circuits
• Troubleshoot with resources for any issues that arise with network or compute implementations
• Raise OMS storage requests for allocating storage to existing on-prem servers. Work with Unix resource to mount the allocated storage on required filesystem
• Make suggestions to project on the best Enterprise Data Exchange(EDE) file transfer solution to adopt for their application needs- like- Connect: Direct, SFTP over internet, mailbox set up etc.
• Knowing EDE requirements of a project, raise an HPSM EDE Quote and follow up with EDE resource for file transfer solution implementation.

Confidential, Pontiac, MI

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of VMware vSphere 4.1 with Enterprise Plus Features of vDistributed Switch and Host Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 3.0, 3.5 to vSphere 4.0 and Update 1 including vCenter4.0, ESX Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to vSphere 4.0 (Ver 7)
• Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers Storage Migration on 3000 VM's.
• Implementation of SRM 4.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware Vsphere Environment vSphere Linked Mode and replicated storage,
• Configuring Sites Roles and Privileges, Alarms for monitoring the Site Status.
• Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites
• Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Redhat and SUSE and VMkernel Linux appliances
• Worked on cloud platforms utilizing Cisco UCS, NetApp, VMware ESXi, Windows, and RHEL
• Design, plan, implement a new virtual systems infrastructure consisting of Cisco UCS blade center running VMware ESXi 4.1 and attached to NetApp FAS 6240
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, vMotion, Sv-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, and Templates
• Building VM's and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools