SUMMARY

• AWS certified cloud engineerwith around 9+ Years of experience in IT industry comprising of Systems Administration and Change Management, Software Configuration Management (SCM), Build and Release management and Process Engineering.
• Private Cloud Environment - Leveraging AWS and Puppetto rapidly provision internal computer systems for various clients.
• Develop Puppet modulesand role/profiles for installation and configuration of software for required for various applications/blueprints.
• Wrote python scripts to manage AWS resources from API calls using BOTOSDK and also worked with AWS CLI.
• Wrote Ansible play books to launch AWS instances and used Ansible to manage web applications, configuration files, used mount points and packages.
• Setup Puppet Master, client and wrote scripts to deploy applications on Dev, QA, production environment.
• Maintenance and Vulnerability Management of Hybrid infrastructure andCI/CD using Chef - Cookbooks.
• Experience with Chef Enterprise Hosted as well as On-Premise, Installed Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, Wrote Recipes andCookbooksand uploaded them toChef-server, managed On-site Applications/ Services/Packages using Chefas well as AWS for EC2/S3/Route53 & ELB with Chef Cookbooks.
• Extensive experience in developing and maintaining build, deployment scripts for test, Staging and Production environments usingANT, Maven, Shell and Perl Scripts.
• Maintained high Availability clustered and standalone server environments and refined automation component with scripting and configuration management (Ansible).
• Hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (PaaS & IaaS), Storage, Web Apps, Active Directory, Application Insights, Internet of Things (IoT),AzureSearch, Key Vault, Visual Studio Online (VSO) and SQL Azure.
• Strong experience in automating Vulnerability Management patching andCI/CD using Chefand other tools likeGitLab, Jenkins, and AWS/Open Stack.
• In depth Knowledge of AWS cloud service likeCompute, Network, Storage and Identity & access management.
• Hands-on Experience in configuration of Network architecture on AWS with VPC,Subnets,Internet gateway,NAT, Route table.
• Responsible for ensuring Systems & Network Security, maintaining performance and setting up monitoring using Cloud Watch and Nagios.
• Experience in working on version controller tools like GitHub (GIT), Subversion (SVN) and software builds tools like Apache Maven, Apache Ant.
• Extensively worked on CI/CD pipeline for code deployment by engaging different tools (Git,Jenkins,CodePipeline) in the process right from developer code check-in to Production deployment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevOps Tools: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Vagrant, Docker and Splunk

Cloud Platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, OpenStack

Scripting Languages: PERL, Ruby, Python, Shell Programming

Web/App Servers: Web logic, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS

Build & CI Tools: ANT, Maven, Hudson/Jenkins, Cruise Control, Bamboo, Nexus

SCM Tools: CVS, SVN, ClearCase, GitHub, Perforce

Databases: Oracle, SQL, Enterprise NoSQL, Cassandra

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, MS DOS, Windows 2012, 2008 Server

Programming Languages: Java, J2EE, C++

Monitoring ToolsSpunk, Nagios: Virtualization/Container Vagrant, Docker, VMware

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and usedS3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup onAWS.
• Work with other teams to help develop thePuppetinfrastructure to conform to various requirements including security and compliance of managed servers.
• Built a VPC, established the site-to- site VPN connection betweenData Center and AWS.
• Develop push-button automation for app teams fordeploymentsin multiple environments like Dev, QA, and Production.
• Help with the creation ofdevstandards forPuppet module development including best practices for version control (git).
• Perform troubleshooting and monitoring of the Linux server on AWS usingZabbix,NagiosandSplunk.
• Management and Administration of AWS ServicesCLI,EC2,VPC,S3,ELBGlacier,Route 53,CloudTrail,IAM, and Trusted Advisor services.
• Created automated pipelines in AWSCode Pipelineto deploy Docker containers in AWSECSusing serviceslikeCloudFormation,CodeBuild,CodeDeploy,S3andpuppet.
• Worked on JIRA for defect/issues logging & tracking and documented all my work usingCONFLUENCE.
• Integrated services like GitHub, AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins and AWS Elastic Beanstalk to create a deployment pipeline.
• Good Experience in architecting and configuring secure cloud VPC using private and public networks through subnets inAWS.
• AmazonIAMservice enabled to grant permissions and resources to users. Managed roles and permissions of users with the help ofAWSIAM.
• Designing and implementing fully automated server build management, monitoring and deployment by using Technologies likePuppet.
• Deployed Puppet,Puppet dashboardfor configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Initiating alarms inCloudWatchservice for monitoring the server's performance,CPU Utilization, disk usage etc. to take recommended actions for better performance.
• Configured AWSMulti Factor AuthenticationinIAMto implement 2 step authentication of user's access using Google Authenticator and AWS Virtual MFA.
• Included security groups, networkACLs,Internet Gateways, andElastic IP'sto ensure a safe area for organization in AWSpublic cloud.
• Writing UNIX shell scriptsto automate the jobs and schedulingcronjobs for job automation using commands with Crontab.
• Wrote Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations ofAWSNodes and TestPlaybookson AWS instances usingPython. Experience withPuppetto more easily manage enterprise Puppet deployments
• Design AWSCloud Formation templates to create custom sizedVPC,subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates
• Created scripts inPythonwhich integrated with AmazonAPIto control instance operations.
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling /naming conventions usingGITsource control.

Confidential, Dallas

AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created scripts in Python (Boto)which integrated withAmazon API to control instance operations.
• Designed, built and coordinate an automated build & release CI/CD process using Gitlab, Jenkins and Puppeton hybrid IT infrastructure.
• Involved in designing and developing Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, AmazonSWF, AmazonSQS, and other services of theAWS infrastructure.
• Running build jobs and integration tests on Jenkins Master/Slave configuration.
• Managed Servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform instances usingPuppet configuration management.
• Involved in maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.
• Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud solutions such asAmazon Web Services (AWS).
• Responsible for monitoring the AWS resources usingCloud Watchand also application resources usingNagios.
• CreatedAWSMulti-Factor Authentication(MFA)for instanceRDP/SSHlogon, worked with teams to lockdownsecurity groups.
• Involved in complete SDLC life cycle - Designing, Coding, Testing, Debugging and Production Support.
• Installed/Configured/ManagedPuppet Master/Agent. Wrote custom Modules and Manifests, downloaded pre-written modules from puppet-forge. Up gradation or Migration of Puppet Community and Enterprise.
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriatebranching, labeling/naming conventions usingGit.
• Branching, Merging, Release Activities on Version Control Tool GIT. UsedGitHub as version control to store source code and implementedGitfor branching and merging operations for Java Source Code

Environment: Java/J2EE, Jenkins, JIRA, Maven, GIT, ANT, AWS, Python, Ruby, Cassandra, Web logic, Unix Shell Scripting, Nagios, Cloud Watch

Confidential, Plano, TX

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built S3 buckets and managed policies forS3buckets and used S3 bucket and Glacier forstorageandbackuponAWS.
• Good Experience inarchitectingandconfiguringsecure cloudVPCusing private and public networks throughsubnetsinAWS.
• AmazonIAMservice enabled to grant permissions and resources to users. Managed roles and permissions of users with the help ofAWSIAM.
• Designing and implementing fully automated server build management, monitoring and deployment by using Technologies likePuppet.
• Deployed Puppet,Puppet dashboardfor configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Initiating alarms inCloudWatchservice for monitoring the server's performance,CPU Utilization, disk usage etc. to take recommended actions for better performance.
• Configured AWS Multi Factor AuthenticationinIAMto implement 2 step authentication of user's access using Google Authenticator and AWS Virtual MFA.
• Includedsecurity groups, networkACLs,Internet Gateways, andElastic IP'sto ensure a safe area for organization in AWS public cloud.
• Utilized Amazon Route53 to manageDNSzones and also assign public DNS names toelastic load balancers IP’s.
• Writing UNIX shell scriptsto automate the jobs and schedulingcronjobs for job automation using commands with Crontab.
• Wrote Ansible Playbooks with Pythons’ as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of AWS Nodes and TestPlay books on AWS instances usingPython. Experience withAnsible Towerto more easily manage enterprise Ansible deployments
• Design AWS Cloud Formationtemplates to create custom sizedVPC,subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates
• Created scripts in Python which integrated with AmazonAPIto control instance operations.
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling /naming conventions usingGITsource control.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication with the help of Endpoints and also VM Migrations from Transitional hosts on Canada Boxes.
• Customize existing cook books downloaded from the chef supermarket usingRuby DSL and Chef Handlers.
• Written wrapper scripts to automate deployment of cookbooks on nodes and running the chef client on them in aChef-Solo environment.
• Built a prototype Azure application that accesses 3rd party data services via Web Services. The solution dynamically scales, automatically adding/removing cloud-based compute, storage and network resources based upon changing workloads.
• Developed an Azure based high performance compute environment to support the massive computational requirements of client congressional redistricting Azure application.
• Create Cache Memory on Windows Azure to improve the performance of data transfer between SQL Azure and WCF services.
• Build Data Sync job on Windows Azure to synchronize data from SQL 2012 databases to SQL Azure.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication with the help of Endpoints and also VM Migrations from Transitional hosts on Canada Boxes.
• Designed system for the Azure platform to ensure massive compute resources are available to allow NKRto scale internationally.
• Design and Implemented WCF services layer hosted on Windows Azure. This layer is the middle tier between SQL Azure and SharePoint online external content.
• Developed a conical map/reduce-like architectural pattern that that is designed to leverage the Azure platform.
• Work in progress onPOCto migrate to Windows Azure to address scalability and performance issues.

Environment: Azure, Java/J2EE, ANT, Maven, Subversion, Puppet, OpenStack, Jenkins, GIT, Linux, Shell/Perl Scripts, Python, Tomcat, Jira.

Confidential

Systems/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completed Hardware and Software builds for new server deployments, ensuring adherence to documented build procedures.
• Installed and maintained RJ45, CAT6 and/or optical fiber cables across the Data Center and variousMDFs around the lot.
• Installed and maintained AC/DC power PDU's (Sentry- Server Tech) with Temperature &Humiditysensors, connectionsMaster/Slave, configuring all the PDU's in the Sentry Management application.
• Assisted in the operation, and maintenance of all electrical, mechanical, and HVAC equipment within the Data Center/Facility.
• Facilitated the growth of the IT Infrastructure Service support and participated in the development of its products and services.
• Audited changes for IP's,Gateway,ports, etc.
• Installed and administered UNIX, RedHat Linux and Windows NT servers.
• Install and ConfigureLinux withApache, Oracle 8I andPHP(LAMP Project).

Environment: Ant, Java, Maven, Subversion, Hudson, Linux, Solaris, Web Sphere, Shell scripting, Nexus.