OBJECTIVE:

Seeking to obtain a challenging and holistic infrastructure/DevOps role in a dynamic organization to apply my skills, experience and in innovative ways for the growth of the organization and myself.

SUMMARY:

• More than 3 years of experience in development and infrastructure
• Cloud - oriented professional, both in processes and technology
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
• Significant architectural and implementation experience with various AWS services, including EC2, ELB, IAM, EFS, Auto-Scaling Groups, CloudFormation, Route53, CloudWatch, S3 and more
• Sound knowledge of configuration management fundamentals and applied CM experience via Chef and CFEngine
• Designed and implemented monitoring strategies with Nagios and New Relic
• Excellent troubleshooting skills proven in the context of operating system, networking, complex, hybrid cloud architectures, basic hardware issues and business applications.
• Experience with installing and configuring Windows/Linux operating systems, Oracle middleware, enterprise software and microservices
• Experience with various programming languages, including Ruby, Python and Bash.
• Sound knowledge of databases, programming, design, networking fundamentals, software-as-a-service architecture.
• Certified in Business Associate with Business Foundation and Integration for SAP ERP 6.0.
• A highly self-motivated team player with great communication skills, excellent problem-solving skills, and a customer driven satisfaction oriented attitude.

SKILL:

Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Opennode

Programming: Bash, Ruby, PHP, Python 2.7, Javascript, HTML/CSS

CI/CD/Automation: Jenkins, GitHub, Mercurial, Fabric, JIRAConfiguration Management: Chef, CFEngine, Ansible

Network: TCP/IP, SSH, SSL, LDAP, DNS

Containers: Docker. Elastic Container Service

Data Pipeline: Filebeat, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Graylog

Hadoop: HDFS, Oozie, Hive, workflow management w/Azkaban

Databases: Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 7/8.1/10, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Oracle)

Other: RubyMine, Eclipse, PagerDuty, Pingdom, Apache Directory Studio, New Relic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Associate DevOps Engineer

Environment: Amazon Web Services, Chef, Ruby, RubyMine, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA, New Relic Synthetics

Responsibilities:

• Led the migration of application/infrastructure workloads from co-located data centers to the AWS cloud
• Developed Python/Bash scripts that automated both AWS and co-located infrastructure provisioning, data processing jobs, and system administration tasks
• Helped develop Elastic Container Service architecture (image repositories, service architecture, EC2 container instance sizing, etc.) and workflow for Graylog infrastructure
• Participated in developing automated infrastructure deployment scripts in Ruby that made use of AWS API calls to dynamically create infrastructure that was based on both external configuration files as well as business requirements
• Troubleshooted Azkaban/Oozie workflow failures using application logs and filesystem analysis
• Developed custom Chef cookbooks to manage installation and configuration of software, as well as utilizing the Knife CLI, attributes, data bags and other Chef artifacts/tools
• Implemented and resolved gaps in infrastructure and software provisioning via Chef and CFEngine
• Configured appropriate EC2 security groups and nACLs according to application access needs
• Setup EBS snapshot strategy for EC2 instances
• Built Amazon Machine Images per application requirements
• Setup and configured AWS ELBs, including parameters such as health checks and connection timeouts, that ensured application stability and HA
• Helped configure/troubleshoot VPN connectivity both via AWS VPN peering as well as Openswan VPN.
• Setup and configured AWS S3 buckets with appropriate access controls (including bucket policies) and web hosting capabilities
• Created and managed Nagios and New Relic alerts
• Created and managed IAM users, roles, permissions and policies for users, applications and servers using both console and IAM policies
• Setup and troubleshooted development Amazon Elastic MapReduce clusters
• Remediated application vulnerabilities involving weak SSL ciphers and browser caching
• Developed custom Jenkins jobs/pipelines that contained Bash shell scripts utilizing the AWS CLI to automate infrastructure provisioning
• Troubleshooted data processing pipeline, verifying timely batch processing of data by custom Spark and MapReduce applications and its movement from and to HDFS and Hive
• Troubleshooted network connectivity issues both with co-located infrastructure and in AWS
• Configured DNS using Route 53, Verisign and internal DNS servers
• Launched and troubleshooted complex, highly-available architectures in the Amazon Web Services cloud via AWS Cloudformation stacks and Ruby scripts
• Implemented and troubleshooted configuration management changes via Chef cookbooks, chef-client logs and Jenkins jobs
• Configured virtual servers, pools, application routing rules and other aspects on F5 BIG-IP load balancer
• Set up and administered Chef, Jenkins, Kafka, Graylog, Logstash and Gitlab servers
• Initiated and troubleshooted Continuous Delivery builds in Jenkins via JIRA tickets

• Helped develop and lead incremental, goal -oriented program for new hires
• Participated in Level 2 on-call rotation dealing with OOM errors, Pingdom alerts non-responsive servers, among other issues

Confidential, The Colony, TX

Web Developer

Environment: Amazon Web Services, Web Server, Wordpress, Linux, PHP, MySQL

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built static websites using the Bootstrap and Foundation frameworks
• Performed business/technical requirements analysis for custom online vacation planning application Installed and configured Drupal site as foundation for ecommerce implementation
• Consulted on mobile app concepts and architecture, including product develop ment
• Deployed and optimized Wordpress sites on Amazon Web Services using EC2 virtual machines (manual LAMP stack installation), Elastic Block Storage, Amazon RDS as well as configuring DNS via Route 53

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Business Intelligence Associate

Environment: OBIEE 11g, Linux VM, Oracle Linux 7, Oracle Weblogic Server, Oracle Enterprise Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed RPDs via Oracle BI Admin Tool (hierarchies, logical columns, aggregate columns, etc.) Developed complex reports and dashboards with OBIEE 11g
• Performed several full - stack installations of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g, including instances of Oracle Database 11g and Weblogic Server
• Performed troubleshooting of RPD, reports and OBIEE server
• Performed ETL using pure SQL using Excel files and target Oracle database via Oracle SQL Developer
• Performed basic administration tasks on virtual machines running Oracle Linux 7 Installed and configured LAMP server stack from scratch
• Performed dimensional modeling activities for data warehouses, including definition of cumulative metrics

Confidential, The Colony, TX

Web Developer

Environment: LAMP, Web Server, Wordpress.

Responsibilities:

• Developed custom copy regarding businesss overviews, service offerings and other related information for websites

• Developed custom social media strategy involving multiple social networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Slideshare and Youtube

• Advised clients on web technology, CMS theme and SaaS choices for business/non - profit purposes
• Customized Wordpress themes using HTML, CSS and PHP, created pages/widgets as well as integrated appropriate Wordpress plugins to meet customer requirements for Wordpress sites