SUMMARY

• 10+ years of Overall IT experience specialized in System Administration working on Redhat Linux, Solaris, CentOS, Windows environments and VMware vSphere.
• 2+ years of experience in DevOps and Cloud technologies.
• Experienced in Kubernetes, Linux, AWS administration, Cloud Computing, Python, bash scripting, Data Center Operations, CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands - on with AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes. IAM, S3, EC2, VPC, AMI, SNS, RDS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, cloud Formation, Auto scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, ECS, EKS, Cloud Front, Route53,etc,.
• Proactive problem-solving abilities, excellent interpersonal and analytical skills, quick learner and efficient team player.
• Expertise in administering and implementation of various application platforms like IBM WebSphere portal, Jboss, Tomcat and Apache.
• Hands-on experience and expertise on monitoring solutions such as AppDynamics, Splunk Infrastructure, Thousandeyes, New relics, SolarWinds and Splunk.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with multiple teams and successfully deploy solutions in production.
• Through studying the environment, I have led the effort that efficiently brought down mean time to acknowledge and repair a system which in turn increased overall application availability from 98% to 99.9%.
• Trained in Containerization, Linux administration, Cloud Computing, Python, bash shell scripting, Data Center Operations, CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands on experience and expertise on IT Operational activities.
• Experienced in troubleshooting of complex information systems management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, interact and coordinate global teams.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, team problem solving ability, analytical, meet stringent deadlines and programming skills in high speed, quality conscious, multi-tasked environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS Systems: Linux, Solaris and Windows

Scripting: Shell Scripts, Python

Platforms: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Tomcat, Apache HTTP, IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Datapower, IBM IIB, Kafka, Docker

Tools: SolarWinds, Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relics, IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer, Big IP F5 load balancer, Thousandeyes, Ivanti, Ansible, .

CI/CD Tools: Bamboo, JIRA, Artifactory

Cloud Platform: AWS

Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, RedHat Openshift

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St.Petersburg, Florida

DevOps - AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing cloud services as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions.
• Met / worked with clients to conceptualize satisfactory solutions for migrating from OnPrem to the AWS cloud.
• Configured Security group for EC2 Window and Linux instances. Installed application on AWS EC2 instances and configured the storage on S3 buckets.
• Successfully ported legacy On Perm applications to AWS and achieved increase in availability and scalability using scripts monitoring actionable instance usage data.
• Set up Alarms on CloudWatch for EC2 instances and RDS instances with alarm notifications being sent to email when desired or specified threshold is passed.
• High Availability designed using Elastic load balancer (ELB & ALB).
• Auto Scaling for Web servers with Scale in and scale out automatically enabling fault tolerance and high availability.
• Created and managed policies for S3 buckets for storage and backup on AWS.
• Configured AWS IAM and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in VPC.
• Worked on Docker for virtualization, ship, run and deploy applications securely for speeding the build and release.
• Configured Security group for EC2 instances isolating them between different environments. Installed application on AWS EC2 instances and configured the storage on S3 buckets.
• Worked with migrating applications from customer on-premises data center to the cloud (AWS). Worked on (IaaS) migration in creating VM’s, storage accounts, VHDs, Storage Pools migrated on premise servers and created available sets and performed Hardening of VM’s and Disk encryption using the KEK Keys.
• Integrated AWS Cloud watch and Solarwinds leveraging everyone in the organization to monitor cloud instances.
• Developed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, Security Groups, etc.
• Utilize Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB services, Dynamo tables, EBS volumes.
• Have good exposure on Linux, Networking, monitoring tools & Debugging.

Confidential, St.Petersburg, Florida

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Manage IT infrastructure services.
• Create Baselines and apply critical and security patches to Windows and Linux Servers using Tools such as Redhat Satellite and Ivanti.
• Ensuring the integrity of servers and systems, by creating and managing security groups and network ACLs to ensure controlled access to instances.
• Track problems and reports on errors that are identified, solve them and give written documentation (SOPs) how to resolve these issues.
• Created automated scripts using python and bash to automate daily/regular activities.
• Worked on developing a solution to enable self-healing of targeted alerts using Python, Powershell and bash.
• Implement solutions on windows/Linux environments and set up high availability with industry standards.
• Perform system administration on Linux/Windows servers.
• Provide ideation and technical sessions and actively contribute towards troubleshooting and resolving complex managed IT services.
• Review, Analyze and provide support during all change release cycles.
• Trace, fill, and close out tickets from ServiceNow.
• Align standards, frameworks with overall business and technology strategy.
• Proactively setup monitors and automation to take care of standard operating processes.
• Document environmental design steps that need to be followed during troubleshooting complex solutions.
• Troubleshoot SNMP, SSL, DNS, Certificate issues, etc.
• Setting up monitoring environments using various monitoring that includes appDynamics, solarwinds, Splunk, NewRelics, Nastel insights, etc.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and work with global teams to efficiently deliver production support.
• Provide ideation and technical sessions and actively contribute towards troubleshooting and resolving complex managed IT services.
• Implement solutions on windows/Linux environments with industry standards.
• Proactively resolve issues and provide Level 1/2 production support.
• Setting up data ingestion, indexing, clustering, administering Splunk environment.
• Troubleshoot and collaborate with partners to fix/setup application platforms.
• File System Maintenance and Monitoring
• Performing mounts and unmounts.
• Responsible for User Administration in servers.
• Responsible for Enabling and revoking Privileges from the users.
• Monitor and take corrective action on CPU usage, Memory and swap space utilization.
• Monitoring disk space and clearing the space based on request/ Monitoring tools.
• Monitoring application availability, Server Health and connectivity through SAM.
• Apply kernel patch and application patches.
• Manage and monitor SVM volumes.
• Monitoring cluster servers.