PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of IT industry experience in designing build process, Systems Administration, Software Configuration Management (SCM), Process Automation, Build and Deployment Automation, Release management, Change management, Source Code repository and Environment management.
• Experienced professional having expertise in all phases of teh software development life - cycle (SDLC) with specific focus on teh build and release of quality software. Experienced in Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Lean and most recently Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) practices.
• Highly experienced in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, AWS Config, Auto Scaling, Cloud Front, IAM, S3 and Route53
• Experience using DevOps and other continuous delivery mechanisms within ITIL processes.
• Recognized for good professional approach in handling and fulfilling internal/external customer’s and project needs.
• me is a quick learner and able to pick up new technologies.
• me have excellent communication skills which halp me in focusing on client deliverables.
• Building up SCM and Release Management teams.
• Streamlining teh Global Release Management.
• Define Release Management goals and a strategy to achieve it.
• Measuring / monitoring / reporting teh work done by RM/SCM team.
• Continuous Delivery strategy with emphasis on Infrastructure as a Service.
• Automation of major infrastructure components of multi-tier sites: middleware, application configuration, deployment, cloud services API, databases, Linux OS, and teh orchestration from environment provision to site QA testing through various stages of teh Release life cycle.
• Worked for projects involving Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, and Continuous Integration/Delivery for various High availability and revenue generating applications.
• Used Chef for server management automation. Created several Cookbooks and Recipes to build servers (VMs) on AWS.
• Experience writing Puppet modules to automate teh deployment process and to integrating Puppet Blueprints into Jenkins jobs for a continuous delivery framework.
• Implemented Continuous Integration methodology -- build on code change, deploy to test systems, run smoke, regression, and user acceptance tests of web applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Platform: AWS, Azure, Rackspace

Configuration Management: Chef, Puppet, Ansible

Continous Integration: Jenkins, AnthillPro, CruiseControl, uBuild, uDeploy, Bamboo and TeamCity

Database: MySQL, Oracle 10g/11g/12c, MS SQL Server, Mongo DB, Cassandra

Build Tools: Visual Studio, Ant, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, Bamboo

Version Control Tools: GIT, CVS, GitHub, BitBucket, Subversion (SVN), Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Application Servers: HTTP, Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere, Weblogic, Jboss, IIS

Virtualization: VMware WorkStation, Oracle Virtualbox

Scripting: Ant, Maven, Shell Scripting

SDLC: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

Languages: C, C++, Java, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, XML

Operating Systems: Red hat, Ubuntu, CentOS, Linux, Solaris and WINDOWS

Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Cloud Watch, Splunk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richmond, VA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created AWS S3 buckets, performed folder management in each bucket, Managed cloud trail logs and objects within each bucket
• Worked Confidential optimizing volumes and AWS EC2 instances and created multiple VPC instances.
• Worked with IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups.
• Experience in creating alarms and notifications for AWS EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
• Worked on AWS CLI and AWS APIs through ruby scripting.
• For monitoring teh AWS components Sensu is used as Monitoring tool and for alerting Uchiva dashboard is used.
• Developed Chef cookbooks from scratch and wrote recipes, scripts, monitoring checks and developed LWRP’s for teh cookbooks.
• Setup Chef Server, workstation, client and wrote scripts to deploy applications.
• Used cookbooks, recipes, roles, Databags, run list to deploy web applications, applications servers and vendor applications.
• Designed and Implemented Chef, including teh internal best practices, cookbooks, automated cookbook CI and CD system. Made use of Jenkins for Chef CI, Berkshelf for dependency management, and Test-Kitchen for testing and development.
• Maintained automated environment using Chef Recipes & cookbooks within AWS environment.
• Worked with Developers in using Chef as a configuration management tool, managing users, resources and deploying servers.
• Written wrapper scripts to automate deployment of cookbooks on nodes and running teh chef client on them in a Chef-Solo environment.
• Worked on documentation - Chef basics, Initial setup of Chef, Data bags implementation, coding standards, Cookbook document, Testing docs.
• Configuration and administration of LDAP, NFS, FTP, SAMBA and POSTFIX Servers in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Deployed NIS and NFS for administrative and project requirements
• Defined branching, labeling, and merge strategies for all applications in Git
• Used Docker for running different programs on a single VM
• Docker images includes setting teh entry point and volumes, also ran Docker containers
• Worked on installation of Docker using toolbox & creation of custom Docker container images, tagging and pushing teh images
• Engineered Splunk to build, configure and maintain heterogeneous environments and in-depth knowledge of log analysis generated by varioussystemsincluding security products
• Experience developing Splunk queries and dashboards targeted Confidential understanding application performance and capacity analysis.
• Worked on setup of various dashboards, reports and alerts in Splunk

Environment: AWS, VDI, GIT version Control, Chef, Unix/Linux, Windows, Docker, Splunk.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided Configuration Management and Build support for more TEMPthan 5 different applications, built and deployed to teh production and lower environments
• Defined and Implemented Configuration Management and Release Management Processes, Policies and Procedures
• Worked with Engineers on providing teh configuration details of teh DEV environments and assisting in Creating Chef recipes for a Proof of Concept
• Used existing cookbooks from Chef Marketplace and customizing teh recipes with respect to each VM.
• Customized changes in Data Bags, Roles and Recipes.
• Involved in searching node attributes using Knife.
• Deploying teh cookbooks, recipes using knife tool from Chef-DK Workstation to Chef-server
• Created user, rpm packages and patch management & configuration implementations.
• Responsible for maintaining teh run list on chef-server.
• Maintained branches/forks in GITHUB version control for teh changes made in cookbooks as per release.
• Automated Apache-webserver configuration, DB Server configuration, SSSD Configuration, LAMP by writing Ruby Cook books in Chef.
• Mentored team to configure workstation, bootstrap a node and deploy cookbooks.
• Responsible for Continuous Integration(CI) and Continuous Delivery(CD) process implementation from Dev to Eval, Eval to Pre-Prod/ Pre-Prod to Production systems using Jenkins, GIT, SVN, Chef automation tool.
• Rapid provisioning and Configuration Management for Linux, Windows using Chef
• Experience working with Chef Enterprise Hosted as well as On-Premise, Installing Workstation, Bootstrapping Nodes.
• Experience writing Recipes and Cookbooks and uploading them to Chef-server, Managed On-site OS/Applications/Services/Packages using Chef with Chef Cookbooks
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub and AWS AMI's, whenever a new GitHub branch gets started, Jenkins, our Continuous Integration server automatically attempts to build a new Docker container from it, Teh Docker container leverages Linux containers and has teh AMI backed in
• Expertise in implementation and maintenance of Apache Httpd, SMTP, DHCP, NFS, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management & Security trouble shooting skills
• Configuring DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS in Red hat Linux other Network Services
• Analyze and resolve compilation and deployment errors related to code development, branching, merging and building of source code
• Created and maintained GitHub repositories, branches and tags and Experience in administering Git
• Maintained and managed assignedsystems, Splunk related issues and administrators
• As part of SIEM, monitored notable events through Splunk Enterprise Security

Environment: AWS, Chef, GitHub, Apache, ANT, Docker, Splunk, NFS, Shell Scripts.

Confidential, Norfolk, VA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive exposure to Configuration management policies and practices with regards to SDLC along with automation of scripting using shell, python and Perl scripting
• Hands on Exposure on Version Control GIT
• Created branches in GIT implementing parallel development process
• Worked on Maven creating artifacts through source code and internal deployment in Nexus repository
• Installed Jenkins on Linux machines and created master and slave configurations to implement multiple parallel builds
• Created Power Shell Scripts to patch DLLs across various servers and to automate databasedeployments (Dachas) using SSDT
• Application deployment and configuration for enterprise scale infrastructure using Jenkins
• Performed DevOps for Linux, Mac and windows platforms
• Extensive experience with Nagios monitoring system as well as other monitoring tools
• Implemented Configuration management and change management policies
• Monitor and analyze servers and resolve any problems, maintain systems reporting, tuning
• Created users, manage user permissions, maintain User & File system quota on Linux servers
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands
• Maintaining integrity of security with teh use of group policies across domains supporting users through email, on call and troubleshooting
• Maintaining inventory of all components including systems and other hardware performed User Account management, data backups, and users' logon support
• Maintaining user's data backup by creating user folder in File Server and Applying Security permission on folders
• Monitored trouble ticket queue to attend user and system calls. Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress and for upcoming changes in environment

Environment: RHEL, HCMP, LVM, Apache1.3, DNS, NFS, NIS, Oracle 8i TSM, Work Load Manager PAR, VERITAS Netback up, NIM, Samba, Dell Power Vault, Storage TEK, L700.