SUMMARY

• Around 7 Years of IT Industry experience in Cloud Computing, DevOps, Deployment, and support. Expertise in configuration Management tools like chef, CI/CD with Jenkins.
• DevOps engineer with in - depth knowledge of Cloud Computing strategies & expertise in the areas of Build and Release management, CI/CD pipeline, Configuration management, Automation, containerization, cloud solutions, Linux Administration and maintaining cloud environment.
• Working as a Cloud Administrator on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups using ARM templates. Worked on remote login to Virtual Machines to troubleshoot, monitor and deploy applications.
• Expertise in Architecting and Implementing Azure Service Offering, such as Azure cloud services, Azure storage, Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Storage, Azure VMs, Azure Functions, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Monitor, and Azure Service Bus.
• Experience in migrating on-premises applications to Azure and configured the subnets as per the project requirement and Deployments in Azure.
• Worked on RBAC roles on all the resources that are deployed in Azure.
• Hands on experience on Backup and restore Azure services and in Design and configure Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DNS settings, security policies and routing. Azure cloud services, Active directory, Azure Service Bus, Cosmos DB.
• Hands-on experience in Azure Cloud Services (PaaS & IaaS).
• Created and configured new JIRA projects and worked with departments to maintain existing JIRA projects. Experience in using bug tracking systems like JIRA, Remedy.
• Analysis, design, development, enhancement, testing, and maintenance of LDAP applications.
• Managed environments DEV, FQA, QA, UAT and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies.
• Deployed and configured Chef server including bootstrapping of Chef client nodes for provisioning and experience in developing Chef recipes through Knife command-line tool, customized Ruby scripts to create Chef cookbooks to manage systems configuration on Chef Server to initiate Chef Nodes.
• Troubleshooting issues on Chef and Azure portal. Resizing the servers and adding storage on cloud servers through PowerShell and Azure portal.
• Wrote Python Scripts to Monitor Variety of Services & Perl Scripts with Hash/Arrays to Insert/Delete/Modify content in multiple servers. Wrote Python and Shell scripts to monitor installed enterprise applications and to get information from the logs and database in the required format and other daily activities and jobs.
• Developed automation scripting in Python (core) using Puppet to deploy and manage Java applications across Linux servers.
• Writing Customized Deployment Process templates for deploying source bits to Dev/QA/UAT/PROD Environments using PowerShell.
• Recently involved in Azure Dynamics 365 with the Administration stuff like Assigning the roles, deploying the Solutions, and updating the recommendation steps.
• Created Some roles by using teams in Dynamics 365 Portal.
• Excellent communicative, interpersonal, intuitive, analysis and leadership skills with ability to work efficiently in both independent and teamwork environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL/CentOS 5.x/6.x/7, Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora, Sun Solaris 7/8/9/10, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012.

Web Technologies/Programing Languages: XML, HTML, .Net, Java Script, C, C++, Ruby, Perl scripting, Python, Shell scripting, Json.

Scripting Languages: Shell, Bash, Perl, Ruby and Python scripting.

Databases: MySql, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, SQL Server.

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Remedy and IBM Clear Quest, Bugzilla, HP Quality Center.

Version Controls: BitBucket, GIT, Visual SVN.

Web/App Server: Apache, IIS, HIS, Tomcat, WebSphere Application Server, JBoss.

Build/Automation Tools: Puppet, Chef, Ant, Maven, Jenkins.

Cloud Platform: Azure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Deerfield IL

Cloud Admin/Azure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in managing Confidential Linux/Windows server infrastructure and data - center operations by effectively planning, installing, configuring and optimize the IT infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance.
• Identifies and communicates risks and issues impacting business rules, functional requirements, and specifications.
• Experience in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Deploying and managing resources on Azure Cloud. Worked on Azure cloud infrastructure and stack of services (SQL, VNet, Storage accounts, containers, User defined routes, Azure Site recovery, Traffic manager, Azure Automation, ARM Templates, Azure Load Balancer, Application gateway functions).
• Worked on IAM (RBAC) roles in the deployed resources in Azure.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Designed Application Security Groups (ASGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Deploying Azure resources through Pipelines.
• Using RBAC policy providing access to the resource groups and subscriptions.
• Power scheduling the VM’s over the weekends by using the Logic app.
• Deployed and configured Chef server including bootstrapping of Chef client nodes for provisioning and experience in developing Chef recipes through Knife command-line tool, customized Ruby scripts to create Chef cookbooks to manage systems configuration on Chef Server to initiate Chef Nodes.
• Troubleshooting issues on Chef and Azure portal. Resizing the servers and adding storage on cloud servers through PowerShell and Azure portal.
• Created model cookbooks for the servers for the other team need LDAP access. Trouble shooting and bootstrapping the servers to check in.
• Experience in migration of consumer data from one production server to another production server over the network with the help of Bash and Perl scripting.
• Developed Cron jobs and Shell Scripts (Shell, Python) for automating administration tasks like file system management, process management, backup and restore.
• Created resource groups on various VNets and deployed successfully using PowerShell commands and merging it via Bit bucket.
• Worked on Monitoring health of resource in Azure and Installing OMS Agents on the servers. Monitoring application using app insights and log analytics. Worked on updating the billing tags and enterprise tags to the legacy subscriptions.
• Managed Azure Container Registry to store private Docker images, which are deployed and Azure pipelines to build, test, and deployments. Azure Monitor to collect metrics and logs. Configured Monitor to track performance and maintain security.
• Recently started working on Dynamics 365 Admin stuff like assigning roles and deploying build solutions and sharing the apps that we have created and assigning the roles.
• Worked with Microsoft associated on resolving bugs with azure.

Environment: Microsoft Azure, Azure Services, Azure Databricks, Jenkins, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes APIM, APIs, JIRA and BMC.

Confidential, Memphis TN

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Cloud formation template for running simple two-tier architecture in Amazon Web Services.
• Worked on designing, building and deploying many applications utilizing almost the AWS Stack (EC2, VPC, and Route 53 service, IAM, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, ELB, SNS and EFS) with focus on high-availability, scalability and fault-tolerance.
• Worked on AWS EC2 Instances creation, setting up VPC, launching EC2 instances different kind of private and public subnets based on the requirements for each of the applications.
• Developed the Jenkins Architecture, with Master and Slave Systems and Maintained Artifacts in Repositories such as Nexus and Clear Case, Subversion and GIT.
• Implementing infrastructure on new AWS systems and migration of existing Linux and Windows.
• Used IAM to assign roles, to create and manage AWS users, groups, and permissions to use AWS resources.
• Used Jenkins and Nexus to build code from Subversion and deploy to Testing and Developing environments.
• Hands on setting up the Ansible control machine (RHEL7) and configured the remote host inventories via ssh.
• Wrote several Playbooks and created various roles for applications using Ansible and deployed the Applications/Services on the client hosts.
• Implemented Ansible playbook to create required tables on the RDS Instance and initializing and configuring some of the settings for the instance using playbook.
• Orchestrated and migrated CI/CD processes using Cloud Formation Templates and Dockerized the infrastructure, which was setup in Vagrant, AWS and VPCs.
• Experience working on several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, Compose and Docker Registry.
• Responsible for installation & configuration of Jenkins to support various Java builds and Jenkins plugins to automate continuous builds and publishing Docker Images to the Nexus Repository.
• Used Jenkins and pipelines to drive all microservices builds using Maven/Gradle for Artifacts and Docker file Builds to Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes by building Production Grade Kube Clusters with KOPS.
• Used Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift to manage micro services for development of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Configured Jenkins Projects with Subversion, GIT and involved in migration of Bamboo server & Git server.
• Hands on experience with IAM to set up user roles with corresponding user and group policies using JSON.
• Hands on experience on JIRA for creating bug tickets, workflows, pulling reports from dashboard, creating and planning sprints.
• Monitored builds and deployments to ensure that failed builds or deployments are addressed in a timely manner using AppDynamics. Controlling administrative activities like user management, application management with AppDynamics and experience in network monitoring tool like CA Wily, Nagios.

Environment: AWS, EC2, S3, IAM, ELB, Cloud Watch, VPC, RDS, Route53, AWS ECS, Lambda, Jenkins, Artifactory, GIT, TFS, Tomcat, WebLogic and JBoss, SonarQube, Nagios, UDeploy, Ansible.

Confidential, Franklin TN

Cloud Admin/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked Configured AWS IAM and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in Virtual Private Cloud.
• Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
• Build out server automation with Continuous Integration-Continuous Deployment tools like Jenkins/Maven for deployment and build management system.
• Installed and configured configuration tool such as Chef Server / workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AWS nodes.
• Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable, and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in AWS cloud.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon Web Services.
• Utilized Configuration Management Tool Chef & created Chef Cookbooks using recipes to automate system operations.
• Managed version control tool GIT to version code changes to help developers/programmers branch/merge/ revert code.
• Handled admin tasks in Linux OS such as server restart, application installation and setting up monitor dashboards.
• Worked on User Group creation, monitoring and maintaining log for system status/health using Linux commands and Nagios system monitor.
• Worked on installation of Docker using toolbox & creation of custom Docker container images, tagging, and pushing the images.
• Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
• Perform Deployment Release to various QA & UAT environments, ensured processes are deployed successfully to production.

Environment: AWS, RHEL Linux, MySQL, Chef, Docker, Scripts, Ubuntu, GIT, JIRA.

Confidential

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with business analysts for getting updated requirements and supported change Management Processes.
• Worked on agile development life cycle.
• Installed and configured web application locally on workstation for development and testing.
• Developed detailed designs consistent with object-oriented principles.
• Presented work in peer review sessions and resolved all identified issues.
• Involved in building and Deployment of various projects using script files and Web Sphere Admin console.
• Used Jenkins as build framework tool for some projects.
• Wrote new ANT scripts to Automate build process and modified the existing ones according to the new project guidelines.
• Supported developers and other teams to successfully access and use modified scripts.
• Converted old builds using MAKE to ANT and XML.
• Involved in using Clear Case import tools for migrating data from CVS to Clear Case.
• Designed and implemented Clear Case and CVS metadata including elements, labels, attributes, triggers, and hyperlinks.
• Utilized CVS/Clear Case for maintaining build/release strategies.
• Documented release builds and source control procedures and plans.
• Automated Clear Case based release management process including monitoring changes between releases.
• Maintained the expected change requests for scheduled builds.
• Involved in development and maintenance of Perl scripts for build and release of tasks.
• Provided release updates to the management team and business liaison leads.
• Responsible for releasing code to the Product Test environment, Regression Test and to Production environments.
• Maintained the results after regression Test to confirm stability of the project.

Environment: SVN, Clear Case, make file, Docker, WebSphere Portal, Tomcat, IBM Build Forge, ANT, TFS, .net, C sharp, Visual studio, Python, Jacl, IBM, HTTP, DB2, Clear Quest, Tivoli, Shell, Linux Scripting.