SUMMARY:

• Performance and optimization oriented DEVOPS and Linux/Unix System Engineer with over 8 years of experience in AWS and more than 7 years of hands on experience in different flavors of Linux OS, Application Databases.
• Advanced experience in capacity building, data management, personnel and project management, and customer service delivery. Passionate customer focused advocate.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6&7, Ubuntu, Centos X86/X64 platforms, Solaris 10 & 11, Openshift, AWS

Devops Tools: Jenkins, Chef, Git, Github, ansible, Nexus, Jira, puppet, Docker

Languages: UNIX Shells (tcsh, ksh, sh, bash), ruby, html, YAML

AWS Services: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, ELB, EBS, Auto Scaling, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Route53, Cloud Trail, Opsworks, SNS, SQS, Security groups

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - SSA Baltimore, MD

PaaS Specialist

• Help SSA business unit transition their legacy infrastructure to the cloud with the goals of improving performance, reliability, scalability, availability and automation.
• Evaluate customer’s requirements, make recommendations and create documentation for best practices.
• Collaborate with development team to identify, troubleshoot and resolve deployed issues for component based applications.
• Restructure/align AWS resources to standard practices and conventions for all environment in a hybrid cloud setup
• Automate provisioning of AWS infrastructure using ansible playbooks.
• Manage SSA projects using;
• Openshift enterprise 3.x and AWS as platforms with Dockers and kubernetes as the orchestration engines on RHEL 7.X
• AWS services: EC2 (RHEL 7.2), Route 53, EBS volumes, AMI, ELB, multi-AZ deployment, VPCs, subnets, NACL, route tables, IGW, S3, IAM, Security groups, cloudwatch, cloudtrail, SNS, SQS, NAT
• Jenkins and Ansible for configuration, deployment and management
• Write ansible playbooks to provision AWS services such as ec2, s3
• Ansible playbooks to shutdown/startup ec2 in the openshift environment
• Anisble playbooks to remediate security scans on nexus
• Ansible playbooks to deploy openshift environment
• Satellite 6.x for server patching and life cycle management
• Cloudforms for ec2 instance monitoring
• Monitor ec2 application resources using Zenoss (CPU, Memory, server status etc)
• Maintain and document processes in confluence and stash
• Create change request on service now

Confidential, Reston VA

Devops Engineer

• Develop and provide input of hosting applications on the AWS Cloud platform taking into account infrastructure, sizing, disaster recovery, data protection and application requirements.
• Design and deploy highly available, dynamically scalable, cost effective, fault tolerant and reliable applications on AWS platform.
• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, lessons learned and process improvement.
• Implement customized AWS solutions for on premise and cloud environment client.
• Evaluate customer’s requirements and make recommendations for implementing, deploying, and provisioning application on the AWS platform.
• Focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment and promote enterprise solution deployment assets to target environments.
• Implemented continuous deployment systems with Jenkins and AWS OpsWorks
• Recommend strategies, best practices, and help with smooth transition from on premise environment to the cloud environment.
• Provide and document best practices, backup procedures, troubleshooting guides and making sure infrastructure and architecture drawings are current with changes.
• Partner with platform data and app teams to make sure architecture and infrastructure meet business requirements.
• Stay current with the latest features/capabilities of the AWS platform.
• Create training modules designed to assist and train onboarding new employees.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including the ability to foresee problems before they occur.
• Manage projects (xfinity, xpc, Elasticsearch Logstach Kibana(ELK), Dayview etc)
• Install, configure, maintain servers, virtual machines (CentOS 5, 6; RHEL 5 &6)
• Monitor virtual machine using nagios, check logs
• Troubleshoot virtual machines
• Deploy, configure services using puppet 3.7
• AWS: install, configure and deploy EC2 linux instances, s3, code deploy, code commit, RDS
• Install github repository, git: using git to pull and commit new docker images from docker hub. Pull, push and commit any changes to the github.
• Use JIRA for ticketing: create projects, create and manage tickets.
• Install and use xen and KVM for virtualization and creating virtual machines.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Vmware Engineer

• Install, configure ESXi 5.x
• Install, configure, maintain Virtual machines
• Install Linux (RHEL, CentOS, SUSE) and Unix (Solaris 10 &11) on virtual machines
• Large environment with +1000 virtual servers
• Maintain vsphere client, vCenter server, datacenters
• Troubleshoot virtual machines, physical servers
• Clone virtual machines
• Create templates from virtual machines
• Monitor virtual machines, physical servers
• File system management
• Logical volume management
• Manage users and group accounts
• Install and deploy HPVPV version 2.01(HP Virtualization Performance Viewer)
• Monitor and report VCenter server performance using Hpvpv
• Familiar with HPOO
• Familiar with HPSA
• Create scripts using bash/perl
• Some experience with Openstack for linux
• Experience with AWS cloud computing (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, Route 53, RDS)
• Install and configure Puppet enterprise 3.7
• Install and configure Request Tracker 4.2.9
• Install and configure webservers

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

Engineering Support System Administrator

• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintaining of RHEL 5 & 6, SUSE, CentOS 5 &6, Solaris 10, 11, Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows on virtual machines, physical servers (IBM, Dell, HP).
• Large environment with +2000 physical and virtual servers
• Cable and rack hardware (disk shelves, filers etc)
• Troubleshoot hardware and software
• Create clusters using clustered Data ONTAP 8
• 7-mode cluster-mode multipathing
• Configure SAN, NAS storage using fire channel cables, FCoE and ISCSI
• Manage ticketing system
• Manage DNS, DHCP, NFS servers, vLANs
• RHEL virtualization using vmware, ESXi
• Install and configure ESXi
• File system management
• Jumpstart for unix installation
• Use kickstart configurator for linux installations
• Logical volume management
• Configure and install cisco switches

Confidential, Landover, MD

Linux/UNIX Systems Administrator & Analyst 

• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of Solaris and Linux servers
• Large environment with 1500+ physical and virtual servers
• Performing needs assessment and patch management for Oracle Solaris Linux Enterprise systems.
• Infrastructure hardening and Security Administration & Installation on multiple systems
• Experience in Virtualization and AWS Cloud Computing (EC2, RDS, S3).
• Expertise in establishment and configuration of Solaris virtual environments. Installed multiple sparse and whole root zones within one physical instance of Solaris 10
• Performance Monitoring and capacity planning in anticipation of system resource usage and needs.
• Setup ZFS quotas, reservation and automatic NFS-share of directories
• Used SMF system utilities
• Working knowledge with shell scripting using Bourne Again Shell (BASH)
• Installed and configured VERITAS volume manager.
• Deploy, Install and configure Puppet enterprise 3.7
• Creation and management of LDOMS
• In-depth knowledge of NFS, DHCP, NFS, FTP
• Implemented RAID 0-5 solutions with VERITAS Volume Manager (Symantec Veritas version 6.0.1).
• Installed and configured Symantec VERITAS Netbackup master, media and client servers.
• Setup VERITAS Netbackup policies.
• Working knowledge with SAN, NAS
• Experience using YUM and RPM for package management
• Logical Volume Management maintenance
• Install and build apache web servers
• RHEL virtualization with VMWare 5.5, Kernel-based Virtual Machine
• EMC for storage