SUMMARY

• 6+ years of professional experience as a Systems Engineer and Network Engineer.
• Experience in Infrastructure Development and Operations involving AWS Cloud platforms, EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, RDS, SES, ELB, Auto scaling, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, Red Shift, Lambda, SNS, DynamoDB,Beanstalk, AWS Import/Export.
• Expertise in migrating key systems from on premise hosting to AWS Web Services.
• Provided security and managed user access and quota using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), including creating new Policies for user management in JSON.
• Experience in architecting and configuring secure VPC through private and public networks in AWS.
• Managing users and groups using the AWS’s Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Demonstrated proficiency in network administration (DNS, Load Balancing, and VPN).
• Setting up and administering DNS system in AWS using Route53.
• Excelled on creating AMI (AWS Machine Images) that utilizes ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) and Auto Scaling. That Auto Scaling fired up new resources those will by default bootstrapped with the Chef Server.
• Troubleshoot AWS EC2 Status check including System Status checks and Instance Status check alerts.
• Good experience on Networking in AWS, VPC and Data center to Cloud Connectivity, Security Groups, Route Tables and ACL's in AWS.
• Good understanding of AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS), various volume types and utilization of different types of EBS volumes based on requirement.
• Execution of Test cases, Test Scripts and Reported the issues using the defect management tool Agile Accelerator.
• Experience working in a DevopsEnvironment as a Devopsengineer working on various technologies/applications like Puppet, CHEF, GIT, SVN, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, ANT, Maven.
• Extensive experience includes Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools like Puppet and Chef, DevOps Build/Release Management, Change/Incident Management and Cloud Management.
• Managed Ubuntu Linux and Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2 using Puppet.
• Experience in managing multi - tenant Cassandra clusters on public cloud environment - Amazon Web Services (AWS)-EC2, Rackspace and on private cloud infrastructure - OpenStack cloud platform
• Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis Tools like JUnit, NUnit, Jenkins and CAST.
• Experience in using configuration management tools like Puppet/Ansible/ Chef and knowledge on Salt.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and leader ship quality with ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Windows Powershell, (VMWare) PowerCLI, VBS, C++.

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, DOM, XML, KML, AJAX, JQuery, JSON.

Frameworks: Django, Pyramid, Flask, Angular JS, CSS Bootstrap, Struts, Springs, Hiberante.

Container Deployments: uDeploy, Docker, Serena.

Application Servers: HTTP web server, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic Server, WebSphere.

IDE's/Development: •NetBeans, Pycharm, Pyscripter, PyDev for Eclipse.

J2EE Technologies: JDBC, Servlets and JSP.

Databases: Oracle (8i, 9i,10g, 11g), Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, MSSQL Server.

Deployment tools: Heroku, Jenkins, Maven, Amazon EC2.

Analytic Tools: Adobe CQ, Google Analytics Fiddler.

Cloud Computing: VPC, EBS, S3, RDS, AWS EC2 .

Issue Trackers: Bugzilla, JIRA, JUnit.

Operating Systems: Windows, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS and Mac OSX.

Protocols: SOAP, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS.

Version Control: SVN, CVS, Git.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, McLean, VA

AWS AWS/Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Architectural Diagrams for different applications before migrating into Amazon cloud for flexible, cost- effective, reliable, scalable, high-performance and secured.
• Involves in loading data from On-premises data warehouse to AWS’s Cloud using different AWS Services.
• Build servers using AWS: Importing volumes, launching EC2, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers, Route 53, SES and SNS in the defined virtual private connection.
• Creating alarms in Cloud Watch service for monitoring the server performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage etc.
• Designing and configuring the AWS Secure Notification Service (SNS) and Secure Email Service (SES) architecture of the solution and working with a client.
• Maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route53, SES and SNS services in the AWS cloud.
• Created Cloud Formation template stacks to automate for building new VPCs using JSON files.
• Designed, Installed and Implemented Ansibleconfiguration management system.
• Setting up private networks and sub-networks using Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and creating security groups to associate with the networks.
• Performed the role of organizer for the Scrum and Pre-Scrum calls and successfully implemented the Agilemethodology.
• Performed the role of Scrum Master and successfully implemented the Agile methodology.
• Configured Elastic Load balancer (ELB) including high availability of ELB using various subnets in various availability zones, configured security settings and health check for application.
• Rapid-provisioning and configuration management for Ubuntu using Chef on Amazon Web Services.
• Automated cloud deployments using chef, python (boto & fabric) AWS Cloud Formation Templates.
• Implemented Continuous Integration and deployment using various CI Tools like Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, Chef.
• Used Chefto manage Web Applications, Config Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points, and Packages.
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet dashboard for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Implemented continuous integration web hooks and workflows around Jenkins to automate the dev test deploy workflow around Puppet codebase.
• Implemented Chef Recipes for Deployment on build on internal Data Centre Servers. Also re-used and modified same Chef Recipes to create a Deployment directly into Amazon EC2 instances.
• Configured AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) user policy for accessing/restricting specific AWS services.

Environment: AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Trail and Route 53, VDI), Linux, Puppet, chef, VPC, AWS EC2, S3, Route53, EBS, IAM, ELB, Cloud watch, Cloud Formation, AWS Auto Scaling.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

AWS/Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrating existing on premise applications and services to AWS
• Involved in designing and deploying a multiple application utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM, Cloud watch) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud formation.
• Creating Cloud watch alerts for instances and using them in Auto scaling launch configurations and configured Route 53.
• Automate infrastructure in AWS utilizing Amazon web services (AWS). Deploy puppet to completely provision and manage AWS EC2 instances, volumes, DNS, and S3.
• Worked on Managing the Private Cloud Environment using Chef.
• Managed Chef Cookbooks to automate system operations.
• AWS Cloud management using Chef Automation.
• Automated the cloud deployments using chef, python and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using GIT, SVN source control.
• Managed build results in Jenkins and deployed using workflows.
• Great exposure to network protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, SMTP, FTP, TELNET, HTTP and Experience with Oracle, MySQL and Server DB Tasks.
• Identified the Root Cause Analysis for the defects identified using 'Agile Accelerator' tool.
• Reported the Test Status based on Sprint, User Story, Severity, Root cause and Status using Agile Accelerator.
• Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Red Hat Linux using Puppet.
• Used Chef for automatic deployment and provisioning to different environments.
• Created continuous integration system using SVN, ANT, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet full automation.
• Setup puppet master, client and wrote scripts to deploy applications on Dev, QA, production environment
• Created continuous integration system using Ant, Jenkins, chef. full automation, Continuous Integration, faster and flawless deployments.
• Integrated Build Process through Jenkins to various SCM tools like GitHub, SVN.
• Utilized Cloud Watch service to monitor the QA/on-demand instances, S3 metrics, configuring alarms for performance environments during load testing.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of NAS mounts on Solaris and Linux Servers and Performed package and patches management, firmware upgrades and debugging.
• Configuration and maintenance of Apache and Tomcat Servers and Manage Red Hat Linux and Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2.

Environment: AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, Windows AD, MS WSFC, MS SQL 2012, SQL Server Always on Availability Group, Chef, Puppet, SQL Web Replication, ELB, Route53, SQL Server Mirroring, Active Directory.

Confidential

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing Red Hat 4/5, Solaris 8/9/10, configuring, and performing periodic updates. Worked with 2 and 4 node clusters using Veritas Cluster Server 4.0 and was involved in troubleshooting cluster issues which included service group, resource issues.
• Worked with VMware ESX Server 3.5 and configured VMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
• Worked on LDOMs on T2000 servers. Configured and Reconfigured System Controller (SC) and ALOM on multiple Architecture Sun Servers.
• Upgraded server memory on RHEL5 & 6 servers. Installed and updated system firmware, ILO/ILO2 Firmware and installed patches for the various OS.
• Patching and updating of Linux servers from the Satellite Servers, Redhat Network (rhn) and Solaris servers from the centralized repository and using Patch Update Manager.
• Installed and maintain puppet-based configuration management system. Managed Linux system security, utilizing TCP Wrappers, PAMs, and IPTables firewall. Configured SELinux layer of security on Red Hat server 5.
• Used ISS System Scanner to detect and remove system security vulnerabilities. Troubleshoot application issues on Red Hat Linux servers.
• Troubleshooting Sun, IBM and HP Servers for booting, network, hardware, user and OS related issues. Configured network settings on servers. Resolved TCP/IP issues on RHEL 5 & 6 servers.
• Worked on FTP servers for sending and receiving files between local and remote servers. Administer NFS on Sun Solaris & Red Hat Linux servers. Involved with the SSL certificate missing issues and installed certificates from backups.
• Performed user account administration, created groups and add users to the appropriate group.
• Created Storage Group, Zones, Volume groups, and different RAID's using EMC Utility and responsible for backup and recovery using NetApps snapshot.
• Configure and managing LVM on Linux using tools like lvextend, lvcreate, resize2fs etc.
• Veritas File system and Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 are used to configure the RAID 1 and RAID 5 Storage Systems.
• Systems log management, Data backup and restoration with UNIX native tools (tar/dd).
• Sudo administration and Red hat Linux package administration using RPM and YUM.

Environment: Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.x, 5.x, IBM X 3650, X3850, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220/T5240, Sun Fire V120/V240/V440/V490/V880, E420R/E450, Netra T1, Sun Fire 3800, T1000, T2000 HP Proliant DL 380, LDOMS 1.2, ISS system Scanner, Team quest, VMwareVeritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server 4.0, SVM/LVM, VMware ESX Server 3.5

Confidential

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sending the Uptime and Downtime notifications to teams regarding Servers Status as a part of the Build Engineer role at the time of deploying the EAR and WAR package in Tomcat Admin Console. Configured Jenkins for doing the build in all the non-production and production environments.
• Regular Build jobs are initiated using the Continuous Integration tool like Jenkins.
• Created scripts in Python which integrated with Amazon API to control instance operations.
• Used Perforce Version Control System to manage source code.
• Responsible for day to day Build and Deployments in pre-production and production environments.
• Involved in editing the existing Ant/Maven files in case of errors or changes in the project requirements.
• Connected continuous integration system with GIT version control repository and continually build as the check-in's come from the developer.
• Used Remedy Change Management and Bug Tracking to track the issues in all pre-production and production environments.
• Worked extensively on CVS, Subversion as Version Control.
• Publishing the Release notes for all the releases. Worked with JIRA for Issue Tracking and monitoring.
• Coordinated with all the teams before and after the production deployments for the smooth production releases.
• Converted old builds using Make to Ant and XML for doing Java build.
• Written Shell scripts to apply the Integration label to all the files which needs manual labeling of files. Provided the assistance for the smooth phase of Release for the Emergency and Expedite Releases by getting the Director Level Approval and coordinating with different teams.
• Created a complete release process doc, which explains all the steps involved in the release process. Environment: Ant, Maven, Subversion, UNIX, GIT, Tomcat, Jenkins, Python, Ruby, Remedy, PL/SQL.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the daily basic operating system management tasks including server and workstation maintenance and checks and application and device installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Providing general troubleshooting and problem solving, creating, implementing and documenting data backup and other functions to provide for an effective LAN.
• Provides support for trouble calls relating to Network Enterprise Center (NEC) network systems and personal computers.
• Respond to trouble calls, evaluate and analyze network, hardware and software
• Experienced in installing Windows 2003, and Windows 2008. Create and manage domain and exchange/MS Office user accounts, organizational units, and security groups.
• Installing, Configuring and Managing network infrastructure such us DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, VPN client and Network Security.
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues in enterprise Citrix environment, including Web Interface, application enumeration and performance issues, Printing and provisioning issues, for internal and external clients.
• Monitoring Firewalls using Firewall Analyzer and troubleshooting VPN related issue checks and correct any monitoring software system alerts.
• Monitor and maintain appropriate anti-virus and patch management systems, ensuring up-to-date virus protection and updates of all workstations.

Environment: LAN, DHCP, DNS, VPN, File Servers, Firewall Analyzer, Windows Server, Web Servers.