SUMMARY:

• DevOps Engineer with 14+ years of hands - on experience supporting, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments.
• Extensively worked with Version Control Systems SVN (Subversion), GIT (bit-bucket).
• Extensively worked with automation tools like Jenkins, Nexus, IQ server, XL-Release to implement end-to-end Automation.
• Good knowledge in managing the Nexus repository for the maven, Nodejs, NPM artifacts and dependencies.
• Managed Docker orchestration and Docker containerization using Kubernetes.
• Experienced in supporting and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment platform. Experienced in Finance and Insurance domain.
• Managing the continuous delivery (CD) orchestra tool - XL Release for BlueGreen/Multi-AZ environment.
• Working with security and varied business units to mitigate vulnerabilities and make our system safe and secure.
• Good experience in Incident Handling and root cause analysis of production problems. Strong understanding of ITIL principles.
• Extensive experience in level3 application support and deployment of applications.
• Experienced in supporting applications hosted in Linux/windows machines.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting a continuous integration platform which consists XL-Release, LARA, Ansible, Jenkins, Nexus, Stash(bit-bucket), Docker, Kubernetes.
• Automated deployment of applications in Test, Dev and Production environments.
• Maintaining architecture and deployments for CI/CD pipeline for CA tool Nolio and in house developed tool DTC.
• Providing support on XL-Release deployment for Dev/Test/Prod deployments. Integrating build and deployment tools with XL-Release to automate deployment without any human error.
• Automated deployment status update into the SLACK/Nagios/Nimsoft tool to get tickets on service now.
• Creating and setting up shell scripts for monitoring alerts on servers to generate mobile/email/incident alert tickets before any critical situation on servers or for customer’s deployments.
• Experienced in supporting applications hosted in Linux/windows environments, deployments like JAVARA6/5/3, DotNet, Pega, Informatica, Package, Database, DataPower, filetransfer, NodeJS, bigdata on servers.
• Working closely with 3rd party vendors like Cloudbees, Sonatype, CA support(Nolio), X ebialabs on application issues.
• Keeping leadership in sync on issues and sustained engineering projects.
• Working in Ansible automation tool and GCP cloud.
• Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
• Coordinate with change management team for releases and approving changes from out application users.
• Log monitoring on Splunk/Kibana and release pipeline monitoring by Grafana dashboard to get the matrix of releases.
• Resolve Incident tickets and Service requests within SLA defined.

Environment: Linux, Git, shell script, Jenkins, Nexus, CA Automation, XL-Release, Confluence, Jira, service now. F5-load-balancer, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes.

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

System/WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• 24*7 Level2 Production support.
• Installing and configuring the Web Sphere application server.
• Building and configuring the cells, dmgr. HPSM, Service-now, TIBCO
• Creating JVMS according to client requirements.
• Creating the resources, install and deploy the application.
• Checking the resources connectivity on cell and JVM levels using support utilities.
• Managing the use of disk space and memory.
• Monitoring and performing servers' activities (File System usage,
• CPU utilization, Process monitoring, System Performance and Network Status).
• User management Creating and managing user accounts and passwords.
• Build X86 and SPARC servers and Zones.
• Firmware upgrade in all Solaris servers (T, M, V, etc. series).
• Installing the Solaris operating system 9and10 by using Jump start server and PXE server.
• Kernel Patching in Solaris Volume manager.
• Live Upgrade in Solaris 10 from kernel version u4 to u9.
• Drive failure. Raise case and work with Oracle
• Troubleshooting day to day issues based on the ticket system.

Environment: Linux, Solaris, shell script, HPSM, Web Sphere.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining architectural and maintenance activities under industrial principles of change and Release management process.
• Creating, scheduling and approving changes/tasks on HPSM/ITSM.
• Involved in Life-cycle management process (UNIX Server patching)
• Provide diagnostic support and act as interface to vendors for all failing components within the system.
• Develop and document operational procedures as we continue to grow.
• Plan and execute routine maintenance while minimizing risk and application downtime
• Analyzing different alerts generated through Hobbit alerts and Graphical Job monitor.
• Executing scripts on regular interval as per the requirement and process.
• Follow up with trouble tickets as per the SLA.
• Linux LVM, Creating and managing PV’s, VG’s, LV’s.
• Increasing the Volumes and File system size.
• Managing Password security and resource, user’s privileges and roles.
• Monitoring System Performance of Virtual Memory, Managing Swap space, Disk utilization.
• Expert in Installation, configuration of Patches and Packages along with Kernel Upgrade Configured and used Kickstart to install Linux OS.
• Resolve production issues reported by end users.

Confidential

System Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Application Software/printer installation as per project requirements.
• Monitoring pre-defined batch jobs (Linux file system and oracle jobs)
• Modifying existing Shell scripts if required, Code control maintenance and documentation.
• Automating tasks to increase quality and scale.
• Scheduling and controlling nightly batch processes.
• Interacting with production IT support, SysAdmin team and client to fix the issue.
• CPU utilization, Process monitoring, System Performance and Network Status).
• User management Creating and managing user accounts and passwords.
• Working knowledge of $Universe and monitoring tool.