PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE:

Highly inclined IT professional with 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Automation, Cloud, VMware and Operations. Besides, strong understanding of Cloud Computing (IaaS/PaaS), Object Oriented and Structured Programming Methodologies and Storage. Seeking a rewarding position that utilizes my technical skills and experience and keen to work in an environment where I can enhance my working capacities.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Automate deployment and provisioning of applications via Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Chef and CloudFormation.
• Performed P2P and P2V migrations across OpenVZ, VMware and Amazon EC2 environment.
• Monitored API calls within VPC environment by using Cloud Trail.
• Strong knowledge about Configuration Management (CM) using Puppet, Ansible and Chef.
• Configured and monitored distributed and multi - platform servers using Chef.
• Development of Chef Cookbooks to manage systems configuration.
• Excellent at defining Chef Server and workstation to manage and configure nodes.
• Managed Linux and Windows virtual servers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 using Chef Server.
• Experienced in automating, configuring and deploying instances on AWS, Azure and Rackspace cloud.
• Proficient in AWS Cloud platform and its features that includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, CloudFormation AWS Config, Auto scaling, CloudFront, IAM, S3, and R53.
• Migrated applications to the AWScloud.
• Implemented automation with Vagrant, Chef on AWS for application testing, deployment, and development.
• Prepared documentation describing the configuration state of each item that was under CM control.
• Installed and configured Splunk for log monitoring and also forwarded system stats to splunk indexer, then created dashboards and alerts using the generated data.
• Integrated Circonus with splunk using Splunk/Circonus APIs for sophisticated monitoring.
• Good Knowledge in Virtual servers including VMware ESX server, Docker, Vagrant and Openvz environments.
• Configured alarms, Root Cause and System Log Analysis, Reporting and Troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs
• Responsible for architecting and building a globally scalable and distributed infrastructure.
• Managed and operated the Big Data environment.
• Utilize DevOps methodologies and best practices to create infrastructure automation and continuous delivery.
• Wrote deployment Automation scripts for multiple JAVA/J2EE Applications.
• In-depth understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) processes that include compiling, packaging, deploying and application configurations.
• Integrated Eclipse IDE with different version control tools like Subversion (SVN), GIT and CVS.
• Ability in troubleshooting, configuring and Deploying Enterprise Applications in application servers such as Tomcat, Websphere, Weblogic, Apache and Jboss.
• Proficient in installation, configuration and maintenance of PHP and Drupal applications on web servers Apache, Tomcat and Jboss.
• Managed environments DEV, SIT, QA, UAT and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies.
• Experience in working on XL Deploy, XL Release for continuous delivery of applications and integrating XL Deploy with Jenkins.
• Experience in Querying RDBMS such as Oracle, MY SQL and SQL Server.
• Expertise in working with different Bug Tracking Tools like JIRA, IBM Clear Quest and HP Quality Center.
• Responsible to maintain all Windows servers Operating Systems like (Windows 2003/2003 R2, 2008 and 2012).
• Installed and Managed Active directory and FSMO Roles Transfer in Active Directory forest.
• Good knowledge on ITIL Process and coordinated different teams across the globe to deploy different builds.

SKILLS:

Cloud Services: Amazon Web Services (EC2, VPC, SNS, SQS, EMR, Redshift), Azure and Rackspace

Configuration Management Tools: Ansible, Puppet, Chef

Build Tools: SVN, GIT, CVS

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, Hudson

VMware: VSphere, VMware ESX and ESXi 3/3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5 , Virtual center server 2.0/4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5 , Vmware View 4.0/4.5/4.6,VMware converter enterprise, VMware Update Manager, Vmotion and SVmotion, Thinapp

Protocols: TCP/IP, OSPF, RTP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, TELNET

Programming Languages: Java, C++, C, SQL, PL/SQL

Scripting: Shell, Python, Perl, Bash

Web Languages: HTML, DHTML, XML

Database Servers: Cassandra, DynamoDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server 6.5/7.0, MySQL, MS SQL Server 2005/2012

Web Servers: Apache, Tomcat, IIS 7

Operating Systems: RHEL, Linux, Solaris, Windows Server 2003/2008

Developing Tools and Platforms: Eclipse, .Net Framework, Visual Studio .NET, Visual Studio 6, MS Visual SourceSafe, Erwin, MS Developer Studio

Other Tools: Splunk, Appdynamics, Circonus, Nagios, Graphite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Allen, TX

Sr. AWS/Devops Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• To keep up with the rapid growth of the business, achieved architecting and building a globally scalable and distributed infrastructure using automation and continuous integration.
• Wrote custom cookbooks for automating components that are not available in marketplace.
• Installed packaged applications from third party vendors, upgraded and patched these applications as needed.
• Automated deployment of packaged applications using python and shell.
• Integration of GIT, Maven/Nexus, Jenkins, Jira and Cloud Foundry.
• Worked on creating Jenkins jobs to automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment.
• Installed, configured and maintained Jenkins CI.
• Utilize DevOps methodologies and best practices to create infrastructure automation and continuous delivery.
• Ensure communication between Operations and all Engineering Teams, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters.
• Performed application server builds in EC2 environment and monitoring them using cloud watch.
• Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Creating snapshots and Amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances.
• Developing automation scripts using EC2 commands.
• Creating Security groups for both individual instances and for group of instances under a network.
• Setting up scalability for application servers using command line interface.
• Set-up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket.
• Designing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) High Availability.
• Creating new IAM users & groups, defining roles and policies and Identity providers using IAM service.
• Designing, configuring, storing huge amount of data across AWS regions with fail-safe and disaster recovery options using AWS Elastic Block Storage, Simple Storage Service, archiving old data using AWS Glacier.
• Creating S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets and utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
• Setting up and administering DNS system in AWS using Route53.
• Creating Private networks and sub-networks and bringing instances under them based on the requirement.
• Maintained all development tools and infrastructure and insure availability for a 24/7 development cycle with teams.
• Managed Chef to Configure and monitor distributed and multi-platform servers.
• Managed the configurations of the instances using Opscode Chef. Written and modified various Cookbooks/Recipes for better management of the systems.
• Work with Developers in using Chef as a configuration management tool, managing users, resources and deploying servers.
• Managed and maintained Linux and Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2 using Chef Server.
• Expertise in customizing Splunk for monitoring, Application Management and security per customer requirements and industry best practice.
• Implementation of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).
• Database Encryption for mirrored Databases. SQL Web Replication implementation.
• Migration of over 2500 Applications with 3000+ Databases.

Environment: GIT, Maven, Nexus, Jenkins, Jira, AWS, Splunk, Chef, Putty, Java

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Sr. AWS/Devops Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Automate daily provisioning of EC2 instances using Puppet.
• Provisioning CloudFormation stacks with boto Python/AWS APIs.
• Assurance and Enforcement checks for VPC and Classic services.
• Network design and integration for Direct Connect and VPN Gateways.
• Automation of Redshift, EC2, RDS, ElasticCache.
• Implement and manage Monitoring services with SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation.
• Hosting applications with the AWSCloud.
• Design highly available, cost effective and fault tolerant systems using multiple EC2 instances, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balance and AMIs.
• Design AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Automate test cases using boto/AWS APIs.
• Integrated external ticketing system (Zendesk) using REST APIs.
• Developed operations web console using Apache/Flask/Python.
• AWS automation for Puppet SaaS deployments.
• Work with SCM (source control management via Subversion and Git) to automate deployment of new code releases within AWS.
• Used the JIRA for bug tracking, creating the dashboard for issues.
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation.
• Design and implementation of ThinApp environment.
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version.
• ThinApp Packages Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and Production Implementation.
• Experience in writing and debugging multi-threaded applications and packaging.
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.

Environment: Subversion, GIT, Puppet, Chef, AWS, VMware, ThinApp, Unix/Linux, Jira, boto Python, Apache, Putty, Veritas, Zendesk, Axigen

Confidential, Montgomery, AL

VMware/Infrastructure Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Perl/KSH Retrieve and store various devices configuration daily (aprx.150000) from different internal EMS and backup infrastructure.
• Perl/KSH/Java code improvements and performance tune up.
• Perl/CGI/Apache web GUI changes and reports.
• Code migration from Solaris to Linux.
• Parse devices (Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, etc.) configuration files for Berkeley DB Troubleshooting ESX & Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and VMs.
• Installation, configuration and management of Veeam Backup and Replication for virtual machine backup.
• Management of HP SIM for hardware monitoring.
• Installation, configuration and management of Windows Server 2003.
• Management for Active Directory and patch management.
• Overall responsibilities include checking the health of servers, updates and backup.
• Check with the trouble ticketing system for any unread ticket. Also, troubleshooting if there are any bottlenecks; Responsible to perform BIOS update on Dell Systems.
• Handled all system administration duties for all Red Hat Linux and VM Servers on site.
• Responsibilities ranged from daily tasks to more advanced ones such as shell scripting, software installation and system/network troubleshooting.

Environment: Perl scripting, Shell scripting, Solaris, Linux, Java, Veeam, Cisco

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Setup and maintain ESXi, and standalone servers.
• ESXi version updates to 5.5 via VUM.
• ESXi resource planning.
• ESXi guest shell creation based on client needs.
• Configure ESXi guest storage affinity as needed for SDRS compliance.
• Configured HA, vMotion in host clusters.
• ESXi log creation for problem analysis.
• Work withVMwarevendor support for incident resolution and RCA.
• Monitor Host or Guest statistics through vCenter
• Run ESXi P2V, V2V and server migrations.
• Assisting in the upgrade and patching of 200ESXi servers in 2200 stores. Follow up with RCA on ESXi issues.
• Document department procedures, system analysis of ESXi hosts prior to upgrades.
• Checking for storage synchronization through vCenter plugin, Run pre-written scripts for ESXi host automation, break/Fix ESXi or Windows issues during on-call rotation.

Environment: VMware ESX and ESXi 3/3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5 , vCenter, Vmotion, SVmotion

Confidential

Systems/Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS)
• Configuration of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
• Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service (RIS), FTP server
• User, group, OU creation, implementing group policies.
• Configuration of Printer, Modem, Scanner.
• Semantic antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
• Installation of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003, Linux.
• Trouble shooting the networking related problems
• Experience in SAN and NAS set up and management, system administration (including server implementation & administration), technology support and technical troubleshooting under multi-platform environments.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Managing cron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Maintaining network inventory, data backup and documentation for all hardware & software
• Responsible for Installation, Configuration, Support and troubleshooting existing systems in Redhat Linux 3 and 4.
• Install and configure web (Apache, IIS), mail (SMTP, IMAP, POP3), and file servers on Linux servers.
• Created users and groups and assigned privileges to them, as a part of Network Security.
• Used the logical volume manager (LVM) to create a volume group, which was then partitioned into logical volumes.

Environment: Red Hat Linux 3.0/4.0, DHCP, DNS, FTP, Apache, SAN, Windows 98/XP/NT, Windows 2003/2005