PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Skilled DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of hands - on experience supporting, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes.
• My skillset includes Building enterprise class, highly available CI/CD pipelines from code in a highly elastic, cloud native environment, improve deployment process within AWS, and improve automated test and simulation frameworks. Monitor, analyze, and report performance statistics for cloud hosted environments.
• As an SRE, ensure 100% availability of Applications and ensure its performance and functionalities available as defined by means of scaled up the resources with enough capacity, well defined alerts/monitoring.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Environment: Linux, UNIX, Windows.

Networking: F5 Load Balancers

Web/App servers: Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, Webmethods.

Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef.

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting.

Cloud: AWS, Azure.

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes.

Build/CICD/Version Control: GIT, Perforce, Bitbucket, Artifactory.

Security: IRM Remediation, PKI Infrastructure.

Tools: Jira, New Relic, App Dynamics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, CO

Sr Software Engineer / SRE Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Design of different Release Environments for new projects and monitoring.
• Experience in building CI/CD Pipeline for automating the code release process using Integration tools like GIT, GitHub, and Jenkins and artifact repo in Linux Environment.
• Strong knowledge in creating Jenkins Jobs CI/CD pipeline. Experience in Jenkins to automate most of the build related tasks.
• Deployed Java applications into web application servers like JBoss.
• Performed and deployed Builds for various Environments like QA, Integration, UAT and Productions Environments.
• Responsible for moving Legacy application to Cloud environment (Azure and AWS).
• Used AWS Resources like EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, Security Groups.
• Involved in building Docker components like Docker Engine, Machine, Compose and Docker Registry, building own Paas with Docker; deployed various applications through Dockers containers.
• Administered Web and Application servers including Jboss, Tomcat, and Apache.
• Lead application security compliance and audit efforts.
• Worked as SRE to make sure environments have proper DR and Fault-tolerance and ensure environment maintain its SLA (99.999).
• Managed projects and efforts that required specialized infrastructure and network knowledge and skills. Also, implemented, built and provided infrastructure support for all environments.
• Participated in agile development processes.
• Delivered highest availability, stability and resiliency across a portfolio of mission critical systems.
• Hands on experience with SDLC, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methods.
• Responsible for administrating Middleware layer, applying product patches, troubleshooting application issues and SSL certificate maintenance.
• Experience with performance tuning of JVM, EJB's & Data sources and Root Cause Analysis.
• Worked on network load balancers/traffic managers especially F5 LTM/GTM's and managed PKI infrastructure.

Confidential, Denver, CO

IT Systems Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an SRE, my role is to improve and maintain the web application life cycle from inception to design, deployment, operation and refinement.
• Ensure and maintain the reliability, availability (99.999) and performance of applications.
• Proficient in AWS Cloud-based systems deployment using tools such as AWS S3, EC2 and responsible to move Legacy application to Cloud environment (AWS) and troubleshooted application hosted on AWS.
• Good understanding on OpenShift platform in managing Docker Containers and Kubernetes Clusters, SDLC, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Worked with Software Engineering teams; evaluate system specifications, provision and support delivery of application infrastructure.
• Responsible for setting up high availability and Disaster Recovery for all Prod facing Apps.
• Played an active role in critical production issue resolution both (Priority 1 and Priority 2).
• Experience in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Analyzed/Designed and delivered solutions to improve the availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of Confidential ’s services.
• Delivered highest availability, stability and resiliency across a portfolio of mission critical systems.
• Understanding of SDLC, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Involved in enterprise wide projects for system stability.
• Experience in configuration management using Chef, Jenkins, Git,P4, Jira, Service now, confluence and Splunk.
• Responsible for administrating Middleware layer, applying product patches, troubleshooting application issues and SSL certificate maintenance.
• Experience with app and web server configuration and maintenance (JBoss, Apache Tomcat), Working knowledge on Memcached, Redis, Nginx and network load balancers/traffic managers especially F5 LTM/GTM's.
• Lead Mergers and Acquisitions project for Application Migration, application security compliance and audit efforts.
• Experienced in Application Architecture, IT Solution Delivery.
• Managed PKI infrastructure and made sure that all applications are in compliance with market standards.
• Closely worked with Development, QA, Product and Business owner teams to ensure high quality and timely delivery of builds and releases across multiple platforms and environments.
• Worked hand on hand with Confidential Solutions Engineering/Architect teams to increase efficiency of our apps.
• Analyzed/Designed and delivered solutions to improve the availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of Confidential ’s services.
• Responsible for administrating Middleware layer, applying product patches, troubleshooting application issues and SSL certificate maintenance, installing, configuring, performance tuning, debugging issues and providing day to day operational support for Redhat JBoss.
• Experience with performance tuning of JVM, EJB's, Data sources and Application architecture, web server configuration and maintenance (JBoss, Apache Tomcat).
• Working knowledge on Memcached, Redis, Nginx, network load balancers/traffic managers F5 LTM/GTM's.
• Point person/Lead for Mergers and Acquisitions as it relates to Application Migration.
• Responsible to set up new healthcare applications in public cloud Azure environment.
• Experience in IT Solution Delivery and architecture and SME for Multiple Apps.
• Worked closely with Development, QA, Product and Business owner teams and ensured high quality and timely delivery of builds and releases across multiple platforms and environments.
• Worked with Confidential Solutions Engineering/Architect teams to increase efficiency of our apps.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for engineering for various project and operational needs and supporting Healthcare applications.
• Installed new / rebuild existing servers and Instances and configured hardware, peripherals, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Deployed and managed Jboss/Tomcat in a multi-system and clustered configuration.
• Worked with hardware load balancers, particularly F5 BIG-IP products.
• Performed daily system monitoring, verified the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewed system and application logs, and completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Recommended innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks and also identified approaches that leverage our resources and provided economies of scale.
• Performed daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
• Provided production support for P1 alerts per request from various areas. Also, investigated and troubleshooted issues.
• Applied OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis and upgraded administrative tools and utilities. Configured/added new services as necessary for Development, QA and Production servers.
• Upgraded and configured system software that supports Healthcare infrastructure applications per project/operational needs.
• Performed periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Performed ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configured CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
• Maintained data center environmental and monitoring equipment.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Infrastructure Team and support Desktop Standardization, Automated Desktop Maintenance and Deployment and support of Client Desktops.
• Proficient with VM environment.
• Conducted Installation, configuration, testing, support of VMware ESX server and Virtual Center .
• Created/Managed Virtual Machines (VM) and c reated templates/images to deploy VMs.
• Troubleshooted patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machine using VMware Update manager.
• In depth knowledge on VM Ware ESX Server, Server and Desktop Virtualization products.
• Assisted the development and execution of enterprise workstation remote imaging deployment methodology.
• Worked with Infrastructure team to build and deploy standardized desktops.
• Ensured correct installation, configuration, use and maintenance of the SCCM Environment.
• Familiarity creating, configuring, deploying, and maintaining images through SCCM.
• Installed and configured Linux Systems.
• Managed user accounts, permissions, active directory, anti-virus and anti-spam software.
• Proficient with Active Directory, Group Policy and Terminal Services Administration.
• Provided Helpdesk Supports and follow up with users and team in timely manner.
• Responsible for managing all system data back-up and restore processes.
• Monitored system performance and network connectivity to remote offices.
• Developed and deployed automation solutions to streamline the install and upgrade processes .
• Assisted the database team in Installation, configuration and upgrading of Oracle server software and related products.
• Monitored the growth of the database and was involved in creating the backup and recovery procedures.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Systems Technician

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating the daily Desktop support for classrooms throughout the University, including monitoring information entered into call ticket management system, and scheduling classroom technology equipment requests for all faculty, staff, and students as related to classroom teaching.
• Troubleshooted equipment malfunctions, failures, and develop resolutions in a timely fashion.
• Worked with Systems team to build and deploy standardized desktops.
• Strong knowledge on Unix Fundamentals with Redhat Linux version 4/5.
• Experience in Oracle database administration on UNIX platform.