SUMMARY:

• Carry 4+ years of IT experience and gained expertise as DevOps Engineer experienced in Automating, Developing, Configuring and deploying instances on AWS, Azure and Rackspace cloud environments and Data centers, Automation and Unix administration and transformed traditional environments to virtualized environments with, AWS - EC2, EBS, ELB, S3, Kinesis, Redshift, Matillion, Load Balancing, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Dockers, Vagrant, Jira, OpenStack - Nova, Neutron, Swift, Cinder, Glance, Horizon, savvis and VMware.
• Developed sub versioning system deployed in private cloud using OpenStack services
• Implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in Open stack cloud through Chef recipes and Integrated KVM hypervisor with Open stack
• Familiar with Open stack concepts of user facing availability zones and administrator facing host aggregates
• Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances, virtual private cloud (VPCs), and security groups.
• Setting up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket
• Experience developing secure, reliable, scalable, python applications on the AWS cloud
• Maintaining the security groups in EC2, EC2 VPC and controlling the inbound and outbound traffic that are allowed to reach the instances
• Knowledge about loading and streaming of data applications using AWS Kinesis
• Performed operations on mirror imaging, auto scaling and monitoring the actions of users in their respective groups
• Knowledge about Dockers that provide automation and deployment of applications inside software containers by providing additional layer of abstraction and automation of operating system level virtualization on Linux.
• Experience in steam line configuration for maintaining servers and related infrastructure with Chef Configuration management tool.
• Performed operations Puppet to describe system configuration and their state.
• Experience in deploying and managing systems through Ansible.
• Knowledge about Jenkins non as continuous integration tool often referred as deployment tool enables deploying scripts to launch virtual machines through VMware, Vagrant, Dockers
• Knowledge about the Savvis enterprise cloud computing service that enables us in managing the servers through web portal interface.
• Knowledge about Microsoft Azure in creating cloud environment and managing the application and servers across Microsoft managed global datacenters.
• Professional experience of 4+ years in virtualization technologies like VMWARE, VDI and 6+ yrs on windows and Unix (mainly Linux) and 5+ yrs. on storage technologies.
• Experience in interchanging the data format using JSON
• Proficiency in installing and configuring VMware VSphere 5.x/ 4.x / ESXi 3.5 and VMware VCenter 4/3.5, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, FT.
• Experience in working with Linux / Unix Servers, used them as Build Boxes, Using of Commands,
• Conversions of physical machines to Virtual machines formats with VMware Converter
• Expertise in VMware view applications in delivering virtual desktops that run in the data center to the end users
• Experience in configuring customized alarms in Vcenter server for data store usage, host CPU and Memory usage
• Managing the VMware Automation center to accelerate the delivery and ongoing management with personalized business infrastructure and customer services
• Experienced in running Vcenter Orchestrator to create workflows and recover the data from disaster and migrate virtual machines and resources.
• Supported Virtual environments of enterprise customers running mission critical applications and served as technical contact for architectural decision-making, daily operations and support
• Provided systems administration support to physical Windows and Unix environments for various web, application and database
• Understand traditional, converged and hyper-converged infrastructures and can make architectural recommendations based on end user and business requirements.
• Expertise in design and Implementation of Windows, VMWARE environments on Cisco UCS, HP Blade Servers, Dell Power Edge series.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003/ 2008 Servers, MS Exchange 2003/2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2007
• Strong noledge and working experience on Citrix Xen Desktop, VWMARE VDI environment supporting 5000+ user environments.
• Represent highly motivated team player, with great communication skillset.

TECHNICAL SKILLSET:

Operating System: Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, sun Solaris 9/10, Red Hat Enterprise 4/5 and SUSE Linux 9/10.

VMware / Cloud Platform: AWS-EC2, S3, EBS, SQS, Cloud Watch, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, OpenStack- Nova, Neutron, Swift, Cylinder, Glance, Horizon, VMware Esxi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5, Vsphere6.0, VCenter Operations Manager, VMware Converter P2V, VMware Vcloud5, VMware View5.0, vRealize Automation Center, Vcenter Operations, Vcenter Orchestrator, VSphere Vcenter server, vCloud suite, Vcloud director, update manager, VSphere Client, vCops, VMware Converter, HA, DRS.

Storage: EMC VMAX, NETAPP, VNX, HP EVA, EMC Data Domain, ISCSI, FC.

Scripting: Ruby, python, bash, Linux administration

Database: MySQL, DB2 & MS-Access

Programming languages: c, c++, java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Cloud Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, automate, deploy, scale and manage both private and public cloud environments.
• Built private cloud using VMware vRealize suite technologies, and built self-service portals with automated OS deployment, network and storage allocation.
• Expertise in managing AWS cloud resources EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, RDS, Elastic beanstalk, Cloud Watch and IAM.
• Partnered with systems, database, and middleware teams to create roadmap for enabling services in the IT catalogue.
• Automating the systems, configuring the servers and orchestrating the deployments through Ansible
• Experience in backup strategies, periodical audits, implementation of new features and delivering High Availability of applications to the users.
• Experience with security tightening processes and managing resources upon all the cloud vendors.
• Interact with business units, understand the requirements and design the solution in either private or public clouds based on the application owner demands
• Monitored cloud infrastructure resources, and created utilization, trending, chargeback and show back reports.
• Managing and analyzing the petabyte-scalable data using AWS Redshift cluster.
• Provisioning the cluster, creating of nodes and upload the data set and perform data analysis queries using Redshift.
• Maintaining servers and related infrastructure with Chef Configuration management tool.
• Experienced in implementing and supporting High Availability solutions like Database mirroring, Clustering, Log shipping and Replication.
• Provided level 3 technical supports for mission critical applications cloud infrastructure, mostly dealing with availability and scalability issues.
• Interchanging the data format using JSON.
• Analyze and troubleshoot on an advanced level, performance of SAN-backed VMware ESX infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.
• Creating, Adding, Deleting the security groups and controlling the traffic for EC2 instances
• Setting up the rules to each security groups that associated to instances
• Created multi AZ VPC instances to enable high availability for applications.
• Used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups.
• Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
• Work with different team members for automation of Release components.
• Deployed various reports, different files to web logic, UNIX servers
• Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX and Windows - PowerShell, Shell script etc.

Environment: AWS - EC2, EBS, S3, Cloud Watch, Elastic Load Balancing, IAM, Chef, Puppet, VMWARE vSphere 5.5, vRealize Suite, OpenStack, RHEL 6.x, Windows Server 2008,2012, EMC Storage - VNX, XtremIO, Apache, python.

Confidential, woodland hills, CA

Open stack Cloud DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented multi-tier application provisioning in Openstack cloud, integrating it with Chef/Puppet
• Implemented horizontal auto-scaling in Openstack cloud, integrating it with Chef
• Installed and configured Essex, Folsom and Grizzly (multi-node architecture) versions of Openstack
• Integrated Openstack with OpenvSwitch to create Software-Defined-Networking tenant and service provider networks and routers
• Implemented automated local user provisioning in instances created in Openstack cloud through Chef recipes
• Integrated KVM hypervisor with Openstack
• Created an open source configuration management and automation PoV by evaluating Chef and Puppet in a cloud environment
• Monitoring through Nova, Swift, Glance, Horizon, Neutron and autanticating the services through keystone
• Implemented the usage cost and data performance by using Ceilometer
• Familiar with Openstack concepts of user facing availability zones and administrator facing host aggregates
• Implemented Software-Defined-Storage by integrating Ceph and Gluster to Openstack cloud
• Implemented horizontal auto-scaling use cases using Openstack components - Heat, Ceilometer
• Deploying the Openstack components on multimode with High availability environment
• Configuring the Openstack keystone, glance, cinder, swift
• Integrated Openstack (Ice house) with Open stack to create Software-Defined-Networking tenant and service provider network and routers.
• Implemented automated local user provisioning in instances created in Openstack cloud
• Design and implement internal Linux infrastructure project
• Perform software installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Linux system
• Configure and manage Ceph and Gluster as a Back End for Cinder.
• Maintaining the Security groups and setting up the rules for instances that are associated to the security groups
• Deploying the Open stack components on multi-node with High availability environment
• Creating bridge networks for internal and external access.
• Adding vSphere to nova compute nodes
• Manage and troubleshoot the Nova Compute and Controller Services.

ENVIRONMENT: Open stack- Nova, Neutron, Swift, Cinder, Glance, Horizon, Chef, Puppet, Red Hat Enterprise 4/5 and SUSE Linux 9/10, Windows2008, 2012 VMware ESXI, HA, DRS, Vcenter, VSphere.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Configuring and Managing VMware ESXi 4.5/5.0Server and Windows 2008/2012 servers
• Installing vCenter Server, vSphere Client and Web Client for operations and management.
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks, Storage, Memory and processers for the Virtual Machines.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines using templates and images, and building production ready VM’s
• Monitoring and managing performance of vSphere ESXi servers and Virtual Machines.
• Experience in adding NFS storage and iSCSI storage to vSphere hosts.
• Implemented Virtual Machine cold clone and hot clone procedure while cloning the VM’s.
• Implemented Virtual Machine cold migration and hot migration procedures.
• Configured Resource pools and Shares in VMware Environment for Prod, test and dev environments.
• Experience in configuring customized alarms in vCenter server for data store usage, host CPU and Memory usage.
• Participate in strategic planning and guidance of ESXi environment, which includes various sites, and DR solutions including SRM and VSphere replication.
• Develop and maintain proper documentation for procedures, processes, and design builds in regards to the virtual infrastructure.
• Provide on-call support for server infrastructure or application failures resulting in the need to engage on-call IT personnel.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows2003, 2008, 2012, VMware ESXI 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0, HA, DRS, NETAPP, EMC, VNX, VMAX, Virtual ISCSI, VM Monitor, Vcenter, VSphere.