SUMMARY:

• 9 years of experience in Designing, Architecting and implementing solutions on Windows Azure Cloud Computing, DevOps Administrator, Linux Administrator and Microsoft Technologies in Designing, Developing and Implementing Intranet, Internet, Client/Server Applications.
• Designed, configured and deployed Microsoft Azure for a multitude of applications utilizing the Azure stack (Including Compute, Web & Mobile, Blobs, Resource Groups, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, and ARM), focusing on high - availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Administrator and Architect of Cloud platforms ( AWS ).
• Experienced in creating Confidential EC2 instances and setting up security groups.
• Hands on experience in setting up DB in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 bucket and configuring instances backups S3 bucket to ensure fault tolerance and high availability.
• Performed configuration, deployment and support of cloud services including Confidential Web Services (AWS).
• Utilized Configuration Management Tool Chef & created Chef Cookbooks using recipes to automate system operations.
• Extensively worked on Continuous Integration and deployment using various CI Tools like Puppet, Chef, Hudson and Bamboo.
• Extensively worked with Puppet. Installing puppet master, agents, writing catalogs, manifests and pushing them to agents for CI and CD.
• Experience with Setting up Chef Infrastructure, Chef-repo and Boot strapping chef nodes.
• Experience in writing complex cookbooks, recipes and configure them by applying node convergence on various production nodes.
• Administered and managed a Splunk server to monitor both Windows and Linux physical and virtual environments.
• Managed Linux and Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2 using Chef Server. Configured and monitored distributed and multi-platform servers using Chef.
• Experience with configuring and working on Docker.
• Used Ansible for configuration management and deployed all the services on to the cloud using Ansible.
• Experienced in Installation, Configuration and Administration of Windows, Red Hat Linux, Cent OS and VMware Environments.
• Designed and Implemented a Microservices container CI/CD solution within AWS leveraging Jenkins, GitLabs, Docker, Ansible and Kubernetes
• Automate ELK cluster installation on windows using Ansible and power shell.
• Set up system for dynamically adding and removing web services from a server using Docker, Nginx.
• Experience in successfully troubleshooting various production related outages.
• Involved in installing, configuring and administration of Redhat Linux 4.x, 5.x, 6.1 servers by using Kickstart and Jump Start servers and supported various applications running on them.
• Designed, configured and managed public/private cloud infrastructures utilizing Confidential Web Services (AWS) including EC2, Auto-Scaling in launching EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancer, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Glacier, Cloud Front, RDS, VPC, Direct Connect, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, IAM, SNS .
• Experience in working with various CI/CD tools like Hudson/Jenkins, Sonar, Subversion and Nexus, artifactory.
• Expert Knowledge in Bash Shell Scripting, Automation of cron Jobs.
• Experience in using configuration management tools like Puppet.
• Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines.
• Experience in load balancing and monitoring with Nagios.
• Experienced in installing, configuring, modifying, testing and deploying applications on Apache Web server, IBM Web sphere application servers.
• Knowledge on hosting and deploying applications using WebSphere Application Servers.
• Experienced in scripting for automation and monitoring using Shell and Python scripts.
• Experience in administering, installation, configuration, support and maintenance of Linux.
• Good understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Good experience on deploying and configuring Linux VM in Azure.
• Experience Azure Platform Development, Deployment Concepts., hosted Cloud Services, platform service and close interface with Windows Azure Multi-factor Authentications.

SKILL:

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008/2012 Servers Redhat Linux 4/5/6/7 Ubuntu 12/13/14, Debian

SQL Server, MS: Access, Oracle 10g/9i, MySQL, Mongodb

Web Technologies: ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, XML

WEB/APP Servers: IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0/8.5 , Apache Tomcat

HYPER: V, VMWARE Client, Virtual Box

Load Balancers: Network load balancer (NLB), ELB

Networking/Protocol: TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN, SMTP, LAN, FTP/TFTP.

Automation tool: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Kickstart.

Monitoring tools: GOMEZ, SCOM, NAGIOS

Volume Manager: VERITAS Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager, LVM with Linux

Build& Deployment tools: VSTS, TFS, GitHub, CHEF, Jenkins.

Scripting: PowerShell, Shell Scripting, Ruby, Python

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. Cloud Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing, configuring, designing and Implementing Azure architecture.
• Responsible for developing Power shell Scripts to spin virtual machines, cloud services, Network Security Groups, Internal Load balancer etc in our IAAS environment.
• Worked on storage accounts, CDN, and service bus for the data availability in global level
• Responsible for troubleshooting the data sync issues between the databases in SQL Azure.
• Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.
• Creation of EC2 roles, policy document in AWS using AWS Identity Access Management.
• Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup.
• Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
• Installed and administered repository to deploy the artifacts generated by Maven and Ant and to store the dependent jars which are used during the build
• Experience in Jenkins/Hudson by installing, configuring and maintaining for continuous integration (CI) and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments.
• Scripted cross-platform automation solutions in Python, Ruby and Shell.
• Designed and implemented new procedures for infrastructure migration using Puppet.
• Worked on integrating GIT into the continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Anthill-Pro, Jenkins, Cruise Control and Subversion. Written scripts to containerize Chef using Docker and orchestrate it using Kubernetes. Configured the services using modern devops tools, like Ansible.
• Automated deployment of Linux applications, system configuration and security settings using Puppet Enterprise.
• Automated various infrastructure activities like Continuous Deployment, Application Server setup, Stack Monitoring using Ansible playbooks and has integrated Ansible with Rundeck and Jenkins.
• Developed microservice onboarding tools leveraging Python and Jenkins allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deploy and services
• Integrated Kafka, Cassandra, ELK along with numerous other open-source frameworks into the platform stack. Installation / configuration of each component is handled via automation.
• Implemented Puppet modules to automate configuration of a broad range of services.
• Leveraging kops implemented a Kubernetes Container Orchestration solution within AWS allowing for easy management, creation and recovery of assets
• Expertise in build and deployment automation using Vagrant, VMWare ESX, Docker containers, Puppet and Chef.
• Maintaining automated environment using Chef recipes and Cookbooks
• Configured the IT infrastructure as code writing manifests, classes, and modules in Puppet.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Confidential Web Services.
• Defined branching, labeling, and merge strategies for all applications in Git.
• Built Continuous Integration environment Jenkins and Continuous delivery environment.
• Utilized Configuration Management Tool Chef & created Chef Cookbooks using recipes to automate system operations.
• Experience in Designing Azure Resource Manager Template and extensive experience in designing custom build steps using PowerShell
• Planned the backing up of Databases and Disaster Recovery /Restore procedures
• Responsible networking protocols and components including TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls, IPSec, IP Subnetting, etc.

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for measuring web applications performance, capacity planning and configured Virtual Directories. Using IIS Manger to support new additional applications located in different place to the existing Web Sites
• Responsible for doing monthly deployment to Azure rigs by managed software and hardware load balancers in cluster environments
• Using Chef to maintain the configuration.
• Hands on Experience with WordPress and have a good knowledge on Content Management Systems.
• Hands on experience in monitoring EC2 instances using Nagios.
• Configuring S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to store data and thereby archiving files through Confidential Glacier.
• Managing Confidential Web Services like ELB, EC2, S3, RDS.
• Expertise in using various Puppet features including Resource management (Package, Service, File), User
• Management, Modules, Class, Definition, Templates, Factor and external commands.
• Experienced with installation of packages, patches, maintenance& RPM updates on Red Hat Linux.
• Basic scripting done in Korn, Ruby, Bash, Python, CSH and Perl for automated tasks.
• Virtualization Products VMware ESX Server/ Virtualization Client 2.5.
• Solid experience in Automation Tools Chef/Puppet.
• Worked on creation of Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
• Experience in setting up the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI and CD).
• Extensively worked on Continuous Integration and deployment using various CI Tools like Puppet, Chef, Hudson and Bamboo.
• Experience in writing Power shell script to do Patching, Imaging and Deployments in Azure.
• Configured Nagios to monitor EC2 Linux instances with puppet automation.
• Configured Apache webserver in the Linux AWS Cloud environment using Puppet automation.
• Extensive knowledge on writing and deploying modules in puppet.
• Hands on Experience in AWS Cloud in various AWS Services such as Route 53 Domain configuration.
• Configured and monitored distributed and multi-platform servers using Nagios.
• Configured S3 to host static web content.
• Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

DevOps Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Microsoft Internet Information Services on windows 2003 servers by on hosting ASP, ASP.NET and HTML web applications on windows 2003 servers
• Monitored and analyzed log files to trouble shoot queries and improve performance of web applications using log parser tool and performance tool
• Performed debugging on CPU, memory and Network issues like memory leakage, high processor using applications and port problems.
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using GIT and Subversion (SVN) source control.
• Primarily used Ruby to write Git application and Chef recipes.
• Experience in load balancing and monitoring with Nagios and Splunk
• Installed, Setup and configure various Jenkins jobs for application deployments & test cases Execution.
• Implemented several Continuous Delivery Pipelines for different products using Chef, Jenkins & Puppet.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins and Bamboo for Continuous Integration and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.
• Build scripts using ANT and MAVEN build tools in Jenkins to move one environment to other environments.
• Responsible for Deployment, automation and installation of servers via Puppet and Chef.
• Involved in leading Automation Deployment Team by working with Puppet.
• Expertise in scripting for automation, and monitoring using Shell, Python and Ruby scripts.
• Developed Python Scripts for automation purpose.
• Developed Shell and Python scripts for automation of the build and release process.
• Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process
• Transitioned Infrastructure from private data center to Cloud (AWS). Experience with configuration management and automation tools Docker.
• Worked with developers to tune the SQL queries using SQL Profiler.
• Responsible for building and ­­­­­­­­­configuring virtual machines on multiple servers.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.x based servers using Kickstart in development, test and production environments.
• Installed/ upgraded patches and security (Kernel) patches for all applications in installed infrastructure.
• Installed and maintained a RHEL satellite server, Apache web server and SFTP server.
• Responsible for building and ­­­­­­­­­configuring virtual machines on multiple servers.
• Proactive maintenance on systems by timely upgrading Patches to the systems and applications, Scheduling of batch jobs and cron jobs.
• Worked on cluster environment, configured NLBs and assigning DIPs to the NLB
• Good knowledge of RAID groups and setting up NFS, CIFS
• Installed and configured replication and mirroring on windows servers to ensure high availability and fail over in clustering.
• Experienced with build environments such as Jenkins; container management system such as Docker and Puppet.
• Integrated Maven with Subversion to manage and deploy project related tags,
• Developed UNIX and PERL scripts for manual deployment of the code to the different environment.
• Working closely with Web Administrators to understand, participate, and experience the technical architect for web sites such as Apache, JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic; and deploying J2EE Applications to these environments.
• Installation of patches and packages using RPM and YUM in REDHAT LINUX.
• Modified kernel parameters to improve server performances in Linux.
• Monitored servers, switches, ports with NAGIOS monitoring tools.
• Written Shell scripts to apply the Integration label to all the files which needs manual labeling of files.
• Responsible for configuring and deploying web applications on IIS servers and configuring database servers on windows 2012 R2.

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration & Migration of Unix/Linux operating systems.
• Administered RedHat Linux 5.x/6 servers for several functions including managing Apace Tomcat server, mail server, MySQL database and firewalls in both development and production.
• Worked Primarily on RHEL 5/6, and Solaris 10/11 Operating Systems.
• Performed debugging on CPU, memory and Network issues like memory leakage, high processor using applications and port problems
• Setting up NIS/NFS on RedHat servers, setting up JBOSS cluster and Oracle 10g cluster, configuring load-balancing on apache, RedHat Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x
• Built a Linux kickstart server on x86 machine. Wrote shell scripts using C shell to initiate kickstart.
• Administered and managed a Splunk server to monitor both Windows and Linux, physical and virtual environments.
• Dashboard Creation in SPLUNK, running SPL Queries.
• Experienced in load balancer and monitoring balancing with Nagios and Splunk.
• Configuring Linux Firewall with IPCHAINS & IPTABLES.
• Troubleshooting day-to-day services, client side issues and hardware/software problems in the systems.
• Designed bash, ksh and perl scripts to automate applications and system management activites.
• Setting up network environments using TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, SNMP agents, DHCP and Proxy.
• Installation, Management, Configuration of LAN/WAN systems utilizing Cisco switches and routers.
• Kernel tuning, Writing Shell scripts for system maintenance and file management.
• Responsible for configuring real time backup of web servers.
• Log file was managed for troubleshooting and probable errors.