SUMMARY

• Eight years of experience in complex technology integration projects wif prominence on Cloud, VMware Virtualization and Linux.
• Experience in deploying, configuring and managing OpenStack Services.
• Knowledge on HP Hellion & Red Hat OpenStack.
• Creating Custom images for OpenStack and writing Post Instance creation Scripts using Cloud - Init (cloud-config scripts).
• Automated infrastructure and Deployed Applications using tools like Ansible, Chef and Puppet.
• Worked on core AWS services for Setting up new server EC2 instances in AWS, configuring Security groups, and setting up Elastic IP's, auto-scaling configuration, and Cloud Formation.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch.
• Created Elastic Load Balancing to distribute incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances.
• VMware infrastructure installation, Configuration and managing (ESXi 4.x/ ESXi 5.x).
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS, and Fault tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware infrastructure.
• Creating, Cloning Virtual Machines, templates and migrating servers between ESX hosts.
• Attended Training on VMware vSphere 6.0.
• Configured Kickstart Server in Linux Servers.
• Worked on Data-Center operation and migration across Unix and Linux platforms.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Agile Development Methodology, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Skillful to absorb quickly and in corporate new knowledge in teh rapidly evolving Cloud landscape.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Computing platform: OpenStack, Amazon web services

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows 9x, 2000, XP, VISTA & 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012

Virtualization: VMware, KVM

Devops tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Server Hardware: Cisco UCS Blades, Confidential Servers, EMC, IBM Blade Center, HP Proliant Blades BL series

Other Tools: OpenDaylight, Ceph, HAProxy, vSphere Web Client, vSphere Client, Splunk, Kanban, Nexus, Jira, Remedy, ClearQuest, Nagios, LDAP, Nginx, Apache Tomcat, Vagrant, Hudson, Jenkins, ALM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, VA

OpenStack Cloud Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed OpenStack and integrated wif Open Contrail.
• Written Ansible playbooks to automate teh Post and Pre-deployment process.
• Troubleshooting and analyzing logs, component configurations, command outputs, and testing fixes in our Internal/Prod labs.
• Playbooks to automate Murano packages, Aggregates, AZ, Flavors and Images.
• Deployed Vanilla Foreman and Integrated wif OpenStack to collect facts.
• Perform cataloging and deploying VNF’s using HP Director and OSM.
• Performing Scale in and scale out of VNF’s.
• Installed several plugins in Jenkins to support multiple tools required for teh implementation of projects.
• Written customized ruby facts for Fact Collection.
• Reviewing Code for Automation Scrum and merging it to required Repos.
• Creating Docker images in test Environment.
• Creating Kubernetes cluster and automating teh cluster creation through ansible.
• Implementing VRRP Functionality for High availability of routers and removed Corosync in existing environments.
• Automating OpenStack related issues through Ansible.
• Automating Kernel Downgrade procedure and modifying sysctl parameters.
• Developed python scripts for reservation of LUNs, configure multipath and to configure networking.
• Debugging python code using PDB library.
• Knowledge on Open Source Orchestrators like Tacker, Open Baton.
• Based on issues raised in itrack, modifying configurations and replicating teh changes across environments.

Environment: Nova, Horizon, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, Cinder, Heat, Swift, Ceilometer, Murano, Foreman, Ceph, Pacemaker, Corosync, HAProxy, Contrail, Open Daylight, Ansible, Hypervisors (KVM, ESXi), Operating Systems (Linux, Windows), Vagrant, Virtual box, Open vSwitch, Git, YAML, Python, Ruby, Shell Scripting, Cloud-Init.

Confidential, SFO, CA

OpenStack Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed OpenStack on a multi node environment for High Availability using HAProxy.
• Integrated several storage back-ends wif OpenStack.
• Integrated KVM wif OpenStack environment.
• Integrated OpenDaylight as SDN controller in OpenStack environment.
• Used Ceph as a SDDC wif OpenStack for block and object storage.
• Experience in using OpenStack Command line Interface to create and configure instances, networks, images, flavors, containers, volumes, accounts and tenants.
• Creating and managing Meters, Alarms using Ceilometer for checking teh Health of Resources.
• Experience in writing HOT scripts to build on demand resources using Heat as a Service.
• Creating Instances, Snapshots, Templates and use them based on teh requirement.
• Creating Public and Private Networks as per teh requirement of applications.
• Creating security polices for Instances and written Python Scripts.
• Configure and manage teh Swift Object Storage, Keystone, Glance and Flavors.
• Installed and Configured Nagios.
• Written Shell Scripts for manual deployment of OpenStack.
• Used Ansible as DevOps tool and Git as SCM tool to automate teh deployment of infrastructure.
• Familiarity on integrating Pacemaker wif OpenStack and upgrading OpenStack to Newer versions.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Custom Groups and Roles using Identity and Access Management.
• Experience in using to CloudWatch to dynamically monitor AWS Recourses.
• Used Simple Storage Service to host static Web Content.
• Experience in creating Public facing subnet for Webservers using Amazon VPC and Application servers in a Private facing subnet wif no Internet access.
• Experience in using on Amazon CloudFront and CloudFormation.
• Scripted and altered cookbooks for automating teh infrastructure.
• Used Test Kitchen for Chef cookbook testing.
• Experience on working wif Chef Roles and Chef Roles in Chef Management Console.
• Created S3 buckets wif Standard and Glacier configuration for backups.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers wif EC2 Auto Scaling groups.
• Used Jenkins and Hudson for CI and CD.

Confidential, Houston, TX

VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for vMotion migrations between ESX Servers.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed vSwitch, DRS, Patches, Snapshots, Disk expansions, Templates.
• Proper power down and up process during maintenance of ESXi hosts or power outage.
• Converted teh physical machines to Virtual machines by using vCenter converter.
• Monitoring application log, security log and system log using Splunk.
• Creation of Windows and Linux VMs and deploying them in teh different datacenters.
• Creating and mirroring preconfigured Operating system like Windows/Linux.
• Implementing backup and disaster recovery protocols.
• Providing Load balancing capability for teh virtual infrastructure.
• Installed, Configured and managed and Administered VMware ESXi Servers.
• Creating Datacenters in vSphere Web Client and adding hosts to teh Datacenter.
• Configuring Backups on Servers and File Servers and restoring teh data as per requirement.
• Performed Storage vMotion and vMotion.
• Installed and Administered VMware ESXi Servers.
• Created roles and permissions for specified users to give control over teh VMs
• Working on Remedy tickets and prioritizing teh work as per teh SLAs.

Confidential

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Monitored System Activities like CPU, Memory and Disk usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Installed and configured Apache Tomcat and Nginx Servers.
• Creation of logical Volumes (LVM) for Linux operating systems.
• User administration dat included creating backup account for new users and deleting account for deleted users.
• Involved in installation, configuration and management for corporate Linux and Unix Servers.
• Creating system Disk partition, mirroring root disk drive, configuring device groups.
• Installation of patches and packages using RPM and YUM in Red Hat Linux.
• Created Profiles, users, roles and maintained system security.
• Installed and configured SSH Gate for remote and secured connection.
• Configuration of DHCP, NFS, DNS servers.
• Used Veritas File System and Veritas Volume Manager to configure Raid-1 and Raid-5.
• Created and modified users and groups.
• Backup management (logical, hot and cold backups) and recovery in teh event of failure.
• Used Jira for tracking defects and Kanban for assigning tasks.
• Used Nexus for collecting, managing dependencies and storing artifacts.
• Monitored networks using networking monitoring tool Nagios.
• Creating, troubleshooting and mounting NFS File systems on different OS platforms.