OBJECTIVE

Experienced DevOps Engineer seeking an opportunity in order to bring extensive experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Networking, and System Administration to further the mission and goals of the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL/CentOS 5.x/6.x/7, Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora, Sun Solaris 7/8/9/10, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012

Build/Automation Tools: Puppet, Chef, Ant, Maven, Jenkins & Hudson

Languages: Shell, Bash, Perl, Ruby and Python scripting

Databases: MySql, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, SQL Server

Web/App Server: Apache, IIS, HIS, Tomcat, WebSphere Application Server, JBoss

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Fisheye, Crucible, Rally, Remedy and IBM Clear Quest, Bugzilla, and HP Quality Center

Version Control Tools: Subversion, GIT, Tortoise SVN, Visual SVN, Rational Clear Case

Web Technologies/Programing Languages: Servlets, JDBC, JSP, XML, HTML, .Net, Java Script, Java/J2EE, C, C++, Ruby, Perl scripting, Python, Shell scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Linux Admin/ Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and administration of VMware.
• Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using puppet.
• Experience in AWS, which included managing application in the cloud and creating instances.
• Developed automation scripting in Python (core) using Puppet to deploy and manage Java applications across Linux servers.
• Worked on Version controller like GIT and integration tools: Jenkins
• Worked on Installation/Configuration/Administrated VMware ESXi 5.1/5.5 & 6.0 and migrated existing servers into VMware Infrastructure
• Participated in Core and Enterprise Linux call and chat queues where I answered customer support requests while promoting security, fault tolerance and disaster recovery
• Worked multiple support roles aiding with escalated support requests
• Assisted customers with common connectivity issues by reviewing subnet, security group, ACL, routing, VPN, ELB, Autoscaling, RDS and Deployment configurations
• Insure impact of software releases to system performance and resource utilization of distributed and mainframe platforms are acceptable during load testing.
• Doing capacity Assessment for new requests of servers i.e. calculating CPU and Memory for new servers according to the current/future Applications running on the system.
• Installation and configuration of PostgresSQL database on RedHat/Debian Servers.
• Provided 24/7 on call support on Linux Production Servers. Responsible for maintaining security on Redhat Linux.
• Installation, Configuration and administration of VMware.
• Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using Chef.
• Installed/Configured/Managed Puppet Master/Agent. Wrote custom Modules and Manifests, downloaded pre - written modules from puppet-forge. Upgradation or Migration of Puppet Community and Enterprise.
• Managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, or custom-built .designing cloud-hosted solutions, specific AWS product suite experience.
• Proficient in using all Amazon Web Services including EC2, EBS, IAM, S3, ELB.
• Experience working with production servers at multiple data centers.
• Worked on Physical to Cloud Migration in AWS.
• Experience in migration of consumer data from one production server to another production server over the network with the help of Bash and Perl scripting.
• Used Puppet for Monitoring system and automation.
• Performed Disk management with the help of LVM (Logical Volume Manager).
• Configuration and Administration of Apache Web Server and SSL.
• Created and maintained network users, user environment, directories, and security.
• Provide the support of building the server, patching, user administration tasks, deployment, software installation, performance tuning and troubleshooting and KVM.
• Performed Disk management with the help of LVM (Logical Volume Manager).
• Configuration and Administration of Apache Web Server and SSL.
• Installed packages with yum and rpm.
• Listened to customer desires and advised proper services while coaching best practices and troubleshooting techniques
• Provided 24/7 on call support on Linux Production Servers.
• Responsible for maintaining security on Redhat Linux.
• Mentored teammates by shadowing and reverse shadowing support calls
• Documented nonstandard support solutions in internal knowledgebase and worked with service teams to improve public facing documentation
• Helped streamline training material and led the Troubleshooting new hire class

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Linux Admin/ Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Quickly communicate enabled technology and turnkey leadership skills.
• Managed operations, web site support including course registrations and technical issues as they arise.
• Supported internal employees and contractors across the United States
• Deployment, configuration and administration of VMware VSphere 5.1 environments as well as Red Hat (5.x and 6.x) and Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) environment and installed required binaries and packages.
• Configured and monitored Disk mirroring, stripping using LVM
• Migrated Physical Servers to Virtual Serves using VMware Converters and migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion.
• Done with LAMP Setup in RHEL, MySQL setup, Performance Tuning, Replication, Commands, Backup and overall Administration
• Managed VMWARE vSphere HOSTS in a HA/DRS Environment with vMotion/ Site Recovery Manager, Replication Manager vRealize Automation Center and Fiber SAN.
• Installed and configured DCHP server to give IP leases to production servers.
• Management of RedHat Linux user accounts, groups, directories and file permissions.
• Applied the Clustering Topology that meets High Availability and Failover requirement for performance and functionality.
• Performed administration tasks related to DNS, BIND, DHCP, NIS, LDAP.
• Setup and configured DHCP, Kickstart, and PXE servers for automated system builds.
• Migrated from in house Exchange and File servers to Microsoft Office 365 and hosted Exchange and SharePoint team sites
• Developed and migrated company website from a Windows web server to two load balanced AWS servers running Ubuntu Linux with Joomla CMS and Moodle LMS
• Streamlined, documented and trained staff on every operational task with the company during development and launch of the new company website/class registration system
• Managed all in house servers and services including company firewall, ESXi server, file server, Symantec AV server

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Linux Admin / Cloud Admin / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured servers using Kickstart method Red Hat Linux 5.x.
• Installation and configuration of RedHat Linux 5.3 on Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant and VMware ESX.
• Configuration of NIS, NFS, AutoFS on a Solaris Domain along with Windows Clients using NFS thru Solstice Network Client 3.2.
• Installation and configuration of MySql on RedHat Linux cluster nodes System and Network
• Administration training, which include but is not limited to installing UNIX HP, Solaris, UNIX internals, NFS/NIS management, and DNS Configuration
• Installation and configuration of Logical Volume Manager,Red Hat Linux cluster Suite and VERITAS.
• Handled System tuning, log maintenance,disk space management etc Wrote UNIX shell scripts for automated installations, to extract logs using Bash,Perl,Ksh,Phyton.
• Performance monitoring with Sar, Iostat, VMstat, MPstat and Other Tools.
• Involved working on Solaris 10 new topics like Zones, Containers, SMF etc.
• Worked on various user administration activities like adding users, file permissions, groupadd, Adding roles, sudo, creating links, mounting and unmounting file systems etc.
• Also Responsible for Tier 2 level support for all server related issues stated below
• Day-to-day support on Windows server and Active Directory
• Administering objects (users, groups, computers, contacts) on Active Directory
• User/Group maintenance, Maintain user group memberships and group policies
• Microsoft exchange server administration tasks related to mailboxes
• SMS 2003 administration include Manage sites, Transfer site settings, Software distribution
• SCCM/ConfigMgr 2007 administration include manage Sites, software distribution, device management
• SCCM reporting include creation of queries for user, computer, AD group discovery, also for software metering, automatic detection of configurations and settings
• Manage Security group membership for network drive related access
• Configure bulk utilities and automate common administration tasks
• Administer client specific application servers related to SAP ECC & BI
• Administer client specific applications through Salesforce
• Airwatch Mobile device management (MDM) include distribution of applications, data and configuration settings for company owned and employee owned devices
• Assist and train on Directory Resource Administrator a Citrix XenApp resource for administration
• Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures
• Perform weekly audits related to client server applications administration so as to be in compliance with Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002
• Perform audit and analysis to ensure optimal performance of production environments
• Assist other tier teams as and when required