PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ Years of extensive work experience on DevOps/ Build Engineering & Release Management process, including Building binaries, end - to-end code configuration, & deployments of artifacts for entire life cycle model in Enterprise Applications.
• Expert at Software Development Life Cycles and Agile Programming Methodologies.
• Skilled enough to Build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions (using scripting languages such as Shell, Python etc.)
• Experienced in using Nexus and Artifactory Repository Managers for Maven Builds.
• Well Experienced in working on source controller tools like Subversion (SVN), GIT, MKS, IBM Clear case.
• Good command in working with Tracking Tools Atlassian JIRA, Remedy and IBM Rational Clear Quest.
• Good understanding of Operating Systems like Linux, UNIX, Windows.
• Expertise in Querying RDBMS such as Oracle, MY SQL and SQL Server by using SQL for data integrity.
• Comprehensive experience in the design and implementation of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery and DevOps Operations for Agile projects, working with technologies and platforms including UNIX/Linux, Java, Subversion, Git, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS, Open stack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Kubernetes, Docker, Tomcat, across the Banking, Finance, and Airlines Sector.
• Experienced with implementation of Infrastructure Automation with Puppet, Chef & Ansible.
• Chef Automation experience including writing cookbooks, customized recipes for test driven development environments and test kitchen.
• Strong understanding of AWS technologies (EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, MapReduce, Pipeline, Opsworks, ELB, EBS, S3, VPC, Route 53, cloudwatch, SQS)
• Experience in using AWS including EC2, Auto-Scaling in launching EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancer, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Glacier, Cloud Front, RDS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, IAM, SNS.
• Implemented Mesos marathon , Kubernetes for Orchestration with Docker.
• Well Adverse with the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) processes, which include compiling, packaging, deploying and Application configurations.
• Worked with Nagios, Icinga, Cloud Watch, New Relic, Dynatrace & AppDynamics for Monitoring solutions.
• Designed and configured deployment strategies using deployment tools like Rundeck, UDeploy etc.
• Expert in deploying the code through web application servers like Web Sphere/Web Logic/ Apache Tomcat/JBOSS and jetty.
• Expertise Designing developing and Implementation of Blue green and Rolling Deployment with CICD pipeline for various applications.
• Integrated Security Scan during the build process using HP fortify.
• Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis Tools like JUnit, Cobertura, PMD, Findbugs and Checkstyle.
• Experience in software Build tools like Apache Maven, Apache Ant, Gradle.
• Hands-on Experience of the J2EE Framework and its components as related to Java build, test, deployment and release management initiatives.
• Extensive Knowledge of Release Management. Expertise in Critical Production Issues, Outage Management, DR, SLA (Production Support)
• Experience in design analysis, application development, debugging, testing and documentation of the various phases in a software development life cycle .
• Migrated Applications from On-Premises to Cloud Provider and supported all the activities regarding them.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 98/XP/NT/ 2000/2003/2008 , UNIX, LINUX, UBUNTU, RHEL.

Source control tools: Subversion, Clear case, GIT and Perforce, MKS.

Build Tools: ANT, MAVEN, GRADLE.

CI Tools: Hudson, Jenkins, Bamboo, and Build Forge.

Repositories: Nexus, Artifactory.

Languages: C, C++, Shell scripting, Python, Java/J2EE.

Bug Tracking tools: JIRA, Remedy, Clear Quest, BugZilla.

Web servers: Web logic, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS.

Databases: Oracle, SQL SERVER, MY SQL, DB2.

Cloud Providers: AWS, OpenStack

Container Tools: Docker

Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Icinga, Cloud Watch, AppDynamics etc.

Security Tools: Veracode

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setting up the CI/CD automation environment for Application team if necessary and help them through the process of build and release automation.
• Used MAVEN, GRADLE as build tools on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code and conducted SVN to GIT migration.
• Developed Scripts for AWS Orchestration and designed new back-end services, maintaining and expanding our AWS infrastructure, and providing mentorship to others on my team.
• Develop/capture/document architectural best practices for building systems on AWS.
• Working with technical and non-technical teams across Amazon (AWS).
• Architected & Implemented security to meet PCI requirements, using VPC Public/Private subnets, Security Groups, NACLs, IAM roles, policies, VPN, WAF, Cloud Trail etc. to pass penetration testing against infrastructure.
• Configured applications in virtual private cloud (VPC) and hardened it from malicious attacks using 2-layer protection from security groups (at instance level) and network access control lists (NACL, at subnet level) and using network access translator (NAT) instance.
• Monitored the performance of the system using ps, prstat, vmstat, mpstat, perfmeter and iostat to check the CPU utilization, bottlenecks of I/O devices, Memory usage and Network traffic
• Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Designed GIT branching strategies, merging per the needs of release frequency by implementing GIT flow workflow on GitHub.
• Setup Jenkins tool to integrate the JAVA project and maintained Jenkins with continuous integration and deployment.
• Experience in writing Ansible scripts to configure tomcat servers and maintain application deployments.
• Designed, Installed and Implemented Ansible configuration management system.
• Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Mount points and Packages.
• Written multiple cookbooks in chef, implemented environments, roles, data bags in chef for better environment management.
• Implemented logging solutions & visualizations with Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana.
• Provision, for deployment, orchestration, and operations across multiple data centers and cloud providers, Core Coverage, Cloud-Specific Infrastructure and Systems and Architecture Cloud Planning
• Experience designing, implementing or supporting Cloud Infrastructure solutions.
• Install and configure the RabbitMQ environment for the Analytics and setup the supervisor for managing process availability.
• Administered and Engineered Jenkins for managing weekly Build, Test and Deploy chain, SVN/GIT with Dev/Test/Prod Branching Model for weekly releases.
• Involved in SSL Security management for enterprise, maintaining s across multiple ssl providers, and integrating s into products such as apache, tomcat, AWS-ELB
• Implemented Docker to create images of the applications and dynamically provision slaves as a part of Master -Slave Configurations to Jenkins CI/CD multibranch pipelines .
• Implement cluster services using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Developed Dev/Test/Prod environments of different applications on AWS by provisioning Kubernetes clusters on EC2 instances using Docker, Bash, Ansible.
• Integrated Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes by creating pods and deploying them.
• Administer, secure, and maintain multiple Kubernetes clusters to support a global service.
• Implemented Blue Green Deployments for Rolling Upgrades in Production with the hardware vendors and application teams.
• Working on Deployment procedures using middleware like Apache Tomcat, creating deploy scripts and setting for the Production Release.
• Worked in Atlassian JIRA to conduct backlog grooming, sprint activities to achieve milestones.
• Monitored Application Performance with tools like Dynatrace.
• Worked on the connectivity and Firewall issues for the installation and connectivity of the tools.
• Involved in the troubleshooting the servers.

Environment: JAVA, SVN, GIT, Apache Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Apache Tomcat, Shell Script, REST API, Chef, Linux, Windows, Atlassian JIRA, Python, Perl, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience with COTS implementation for the Project “Workforce Innovation” and worked with developers to design batch component deployment procedures.
• Used MAVEN, GRADLE as build tools on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code and conducted SVN to BITBUCKET (GIT) migration.
• Involved in administration, authentication, authorization, security, backups and strategies for Subversion and GIT.
• Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud formation JSON templates.
• Responsible for providing Infrastructure teams with requirements for the setup of servers, databases, messaging queues, network, and other hardware configuration.
• Migrated from Build Forge to Jenkins and took care of all the jobs and configs.
• Created, implementation, maintenance, and documentation of tools to support the automated build and deployment processes.
• Experience with Configuration Management Tools like CHEF and responsible for managing the chef client nodes and upload the cookbooks to chef-server from workstation.
• Used Chef to configure and manage infrastructure. Created cookbooks to automate the configuration setups. Established Chef Best practices approaches to system deployment and managing Chef Cookbook as a unit of software deployment and independently version controlled.
• Written Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall process improvement to any manual process.
• Worked with Linux and windows environments to deal with different sections of the project. Administered WebSphere and tomcat to create clusters and work with deployments.
• Involved in the day-to-day build support, build problem resolution, and build automation of the DEV and ITEST environments.
• Have Experience working with Run deck to perform deployments to tomcat servers.
• Integrated Atlassian FishEye, Crucible, Confluence & JIRA for source code change set analysis, code reviews, documentation and bug tracking respectively.
• Work with the SWA Technical Support Teams on creating and automation deployment scripts.
• Automated installation of components and administration of environments in Dev, Itest and QA.
• Worked on Service Now to ensure all changes go through the approved SWA change management process. Managed and created Change Request and Service Request for the Delivery Team.
• Responsible setting up monitoring of stats and security for Dev and ITEST environments
• Designed workflows in Atlassian JIRA to deal with issues and maintained all the user stories for tracking as per Agile style.
• Worked with New Relic, Appdynamics to measure application performance bottlenecks.
• Excellent partnering, communication, and negotiation skills to interact effectively with Technology development and support groups.

Environment: JAVA, SVN, GIT, Apache Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Apache Tomcat, Shell Script, REST API, Ansible, Linux, Windows, Atlassian JIRA, Python, Perl, AWS, Docker, Fisheye, Appdynamics.

Confidential, Sparks, MD

Sr. Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed Bill Me Later products and applications into test and production environments
• Worked closely with application developers to devise robust deployment, operating, monitoring, reporting for the Bill Me Later applications
• Participated in the release cycle of the product which involves environments like Development, INT, QA and Production.
• Used GIT for branching, tagging, and merging.
• Implemented Continuous Integration with Bamboo and created Plans accordingly.
• Tuned application configuration & Troubleshoot applications to support optimize performance per developer
• Skilled to Write, debug, maintain scripts in bash, perl etc.
• Created workflows in Atlassian JIRA and managed life cycle of user stories to conduct Definition of Done as per Agile Style.
• Coordinated with operations teams to create strategies and detailed plans for deployment sequencing, timing
• Experienced with release engineering, build or configuration management in Jboss /Tomcat web application environment.
• Experienced in Software Development Life-Cycle, Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management practices.
• Experienced administering a large-scale distributed application environment
• Experienced administering Java and C++ applications
• Solid understanding of UNIX environment and network technology (symlinks, NAS devices, NFS/CIFS mounting)
• Experienced in Creating Host Groups, Check command Definitions, Plugins to conduct Host Monitoring & URL Monitoring using Nagios, Icinga.
• Implemented Puppet for Infrastructure automation and employed Bandit 2.0 for deployment solutions.
• Worked as Nexus Administrator implementing automated schedules, updating indexes and cache mechanisms.
• Communicates with technical project leads, developers, quality assurance, and business team members
• Excellent time management, written and communication skills, decision making, presentation, relationship and organization skills.

Environment: Bandit 2.0, Bamboo, GIT, Perl Scripts, Shell Scripts, XML, Tomcat/JBoss.

Confidential, Monterey Park, CA

Software Configuration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Administrated build and deployment processes.
• Administrated SVN repositories for branching, merging, and tagging.
• Involved in creating new environments for testing purposes.
• Developed Shell/Batch/Perl Scripts for automation purpose.
• Resolving build issues during build and release by conducting meetings with developers and managers.
• Responsible for deploying best SCM processes and procedures.
• Worked closely with software developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems
• Developed and maintained integration and release processes.
• Maintained and coordinated environment configuration, controls, code integrity, and code conflict resolution.
• Analyzed and Converted ANT scripts to MAVEN to standardize the procedures.
• Integrated builds with Code Quality Tools like Cobertura, PMD and Findbugs.
• Administered Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server.
• Supported and developed tools for integration, automated testing and release management.
• Used Puppet for application automatic deployment and provisioning to different environments.
• Involved in Research of the project application architecture to support/resolve build, compile, and test issues/problems.
• Releasing code to testing regions or staging areas according to the schedule published.

Environment: Subversion, Maven, Jenkins, Perl Scripts, Shell Scripts, XML, Tomcat/JBoss, Puppet.

Confidential, Birmingham, Alabama

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and supported the Software Release Management and procedures.
• Implemented SVN branching and merging operations for Java Source Code.
• Setup different environments for build, (Development, Test, Pre-production and Production).
• Worked with Development Team Leads and testing teams to establish a build schedule, execute the builds and troubleshoot build failures, if any.
• Coordinated with the Development Teams to receive the correct versions of re-usable and dependent components and with Environment team for issuing/installing successful builds.
• Created documents on build process and flow, build script maintenance, user guide for developers for local builds.
• Automated the build and release management process including monitoring changes between releases.
• Developed utilities for developers to check the checkouts, elements modified based on project and branch .
• Responsible for building and releasing packages for testing.
• Developed Python scripts for automation purposes.
• Deployed the J2EE applications into web application servers like Apache Tomcat.
• Executed user administration and maintenance tasks including creating users and groups, reports and queries.
• Used ANT and MAVEN for building the applications and developing the build scripts.
• Incorporated the Code Quality Tools FindBugs and Cobertura into ANT Projects.
• Used Hudson to perform automated Builds and Deployments.
• Expert in User Management and Plugin Management for Teamcity.
• Build configured and support Application team environments.
• Managed environments using VMware, VSphere, VCenter, Vworkstation and VPlayer.
• Performed deployments to machines in Amazon Cloud AWS.

Environment: SVN, Ant, Maven, Hudson, JIRA, Shell, J2EE, Apache Tomcat Servers.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Build Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed infrastructure for UCM/SCM.
• Installing, configuring, troubleshooting and modifying software.
• Responsibilities also included, performing daily builds for managing in the System test and UAT environments.
• Responsible for implementing and making sure CMMI for our team.
• Written hooks for designing ClearQuest schema.
• Responsible for maintaining build scripts and checking build status.
• Documented release builds and source control processes and plans.
• Interact with the System Administration Engineers in issues relating to Hardware and Networking.
• Coordinating different tasks with different teams, e.g. for creating usage models for different project, coordinating code movement from different projects in ClearCase.
• Involved in the migration of code from CVS to Clearcase.
• Developed and documented all the processes for the migration.
• Change and Configuration Management analysis, design, developing, implementation, and Administration of client server and web-based applications.
• Involved in installation, configuration and maintenance of Rational ClearCase on Windows and Unix environments.
• Responsible for installing ClearCase and ClearQuest on client’s machines
• Worked extensively on Branch Management.
• Coordinated classes for different Rational Tools Trainer (ClearCase/ClearQuest).
• Build/Release experience.
• Established and implemented Change Control standards for different tasks.
• Provided support for other software development environment for Clearcase and Clearquest.
• Used AnthillPro to perform automated Builds and Deployments.
• Deployed applications into web application servers like Web logic.
• Defined and upgraded the current Configuration Management infrastructure to a new and robust architecture.

Environment: Unix, Windows, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Requisite Pro, Test Manager, CVS, Web logic.

Confidential

Build Engineer/Deployment Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the release cycle of the product which involve environments like Development QA UAT and Production
• Responsible for configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting Portal.
• Used CVS for Software Configuration management and maintaining the versions of code.
• Perform biweekly build cycle and testing processes on Solaris.
• Used Ant Scripts to automate the build process.
• Developed UNIX and Perl Scripts for manual deployment of the code to the different environments and E-mail the team when the build is completed.
• Deployed application modules to WAS 6.0 based clusters via ND admin console.
• Created deployment request tickets in Bugzilla for the deploying the code to Production.
• Attended the Minor/Major Event change control meetings to get necessary approvals for the deployment request.
• Administering the Build Forge Continuous Integration servers.
• Used Perl/Shell to automate build and deployment Process.
• Coordinated with developers, Business Analyst and Mangers to make sure that code is deployed in the Production environment.

Environment: CVS, ANT, Unix, Linux, Pearl Scripts, Bugzilla, WebSphere Application Server.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identified the Business Requirements of the project.
• Preparing the Design document by reviewing the Solution Requirement Specifications
• Working on the Change requests and involved in Construction phase. .
• Developed and Worked in Struts Frame Work.
• Used SVN for branching, tagging, and merging. Wrote ANT (Build.xml's) for Building Ant Projects.
• Configured Hudson for Continuous Integration.
• Established processes and tools to maintain code base integrity, including check-in validation rules and branch/merge processes.
• Deployed to Web Sphere Application Servers.
• Involved in troubleshooting of user interface using JSP.
• Writing Test Cases from Function Specifications.
• Handling Status Calls to explain the progress of defects.
• Providing reports and performing Cleanups requested by client.
• Java coding to Fix the defects and performing unit and Integrated testing.
• Capable of Creating new database instances & managing table Spaces, users & roles.
• Conversant in XML related technologies.
• Experience in developing dynamic web-based user interfaces using HTML and Java Script.
• API level of Testing is done. Automated the test case in C language.
• Preparing & Executing the Test cases for MDK Device. Preparing of Test Design, Test Case.
• Integrated the test case in to the test suite for Execution.
• Testing & reviewing the coding standards. Defect report, verifying, tracking using Clear Quest.

Environment: Subversion (SVN), ANT, Hudson, Web sphere, Perl Scripts, Shell Scripts, XML, Windows XP, SQL, and Oracle.