SUMMARY

• Over 6 plus years of IT experience and gained expertise in systems - Windows and Unix administration and transformed traditional environments to virtualized environments wif AWS - EC2, EBS, S3, Load Balancing, VMWARE, Open Stacks - Nova, Neutron, Swift, Cinder, Glance.
• Familiar wif Linux servers.
• Familiar wif Configuration Management tools like Chef, SaltStack.
• Design highly available, cost effective and fault tolerant systems using multiple EC2 instances, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balance and AMIs.
• Utilize EBS to store persistent data and mitigate failure by using snapshots.
• Design AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Design roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and Create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup.
• Utilize Amazon Glacier for archiving data.
• Manage network security using Security Groups, and IAM.
• Use Amazon RDS to manage, create snapshots, and automate backup of database.
• Dynamo dB to perform basic database administration.
• Good understanding of ELB, general networking principals, firewalls, routing technologies and DNS (Route53)
• Utilize Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB services, DynamoDB tables, EBS volumes; to set alarms for notification or automated actions; and to monitor logs for a better understanding and operation of the system.
• Managing and analyzing the petabyte-scalable data using AWS Redshift cluster
• Stay current wif the latest features/capabilities of the AWS platform.
• Experience in steam line configuration for maintaining servers and related infrastructure wif Chef configuration management tool
• Performed operations in Puppet to describe system configuration and their state.
• Implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in Openstack cloud through chef recipes and Integrated KVM hypervisor wif openstack.
• Knowledge about Jenkins non as continuous integration tool often referred as deployment tool enables deploying scriptsto launch virtual machines through VMware, Vagrant, Dockers.
• Familiar wif Opsenstack concepts of user facing availablitiy zones and administrator facing host aggregates.
• 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, Host Profiles, SRM 5.0/4.0, VApps, VMware VCenter Converter, VMware systems monitoring tools and APIs
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003/ 2008 Servers, MS Exchange 2003/2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2007
• Well versed wif Storage technologies, All Flash and Hybrid storage arrays of multiple vendors - EMC, HP, IBM configured, and integrated virtual and physical environments for high performance and availability.
• Participated in capacity planning, and forecasted trending reports for procuring servers, network and storage.
• Implemented disaster recovery solutions of physical and virtual environments using various local and remote replication methodologies - like VMWARE SRM, SAN Based Replication like - EMC Recover Point, SRDF and HP Remote Copy.
• Highly experience in LAN/WAN networking architecture and TCP/IP protocol stack, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts.
• Strong working noledge of installing and supporting DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS environment.
• Experience in administering, maintaining and troubleshooting of Enterprise Storage Arrays V-MAX, DMX-2/3/4, mid-range storage arrays VNX 5500/5700/7500 , EMC NS120/480/960, CX 4-120/480/960 , and also Brocade and CiscoFCSwitches.
• Experienced in Zoning, Mapping, Masking, Meta creation, Device group creation, Continuous Data Protection (TimeFinder, Snapview), Continuous Remote Replication (SRDF, Mirrorview), and Remote Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication using SRDF-S and SRDF-A.
• Engineered Splunk to build, configure and maintain heterogeneous environments and in-depth noledge of log analysis generated by various systems including security products
• Architecture components wifin Splunk (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy & Universal forwarder, Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts, Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing, License model.
• Worked on Setup Splunk Forwarders for new application levels brought into environment.Extensive experience in deploying, configuring and administering Splunk clusters.
• Helped application teams in on-boarding Splunk and creating dashboards, alerts, reports etc.
• Developed custom app configurations (deployment-apps) wifin SPLUNK in order to parse, index multiple types of log format across all application environments.
• System Administration familiar wif Windows Servers, Red Hat Linux Enterprise Servers, Solaris & IBM AIX

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud (Iaas): AWS, VMware, Openstack

Backup tools: CPM (Cloud Protection Manger), NetBackup & Backup Excec.

Operating System: Linux, Solaris & UNIX.

Storage: EMC, Netapp, VMAX

Server: Apache, Nginix

Issue Tracking: ITSM

Database: My SQL, MSSQL

Version Control: GIT, SVN

Tools: Jenkins, Splunk, Jira, Appdynamics

Build Tools: Maven, Jenkins

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS Engineer

Confidential, LA

Responsibilities:

• Experience on AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53, Auto scaling groups, Cloud watch, Cloud Front, IAM for installing configuring and troubleshooting on various Amazon images for server migration from physical into cloud.
• Designed Architectural Diagrams for different applications before migrating into Amazon cloud for flexible, cost- effective, reliable, scalable, high-performance and secured.
• 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 servers performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage etc.
• Implemented several Continuous Delivery Pipelines for different products using Chef, Jenkins & puppet
• Installed, Setup and configure various Jenkins jobs for application deployments, test cases execution.
• Designing and configuring the AWS Secure Notification Service (SNS) and Secure Email Service (SES) architecture of the solution and working wif client.
• Testing and maintaining cookbooks and uploading into chef server.
• Managing the chef client in order to perform configuration tasks from chef server.
• Maintaining servers and related infrastructure wif Chef
• Managed users and groups using the Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Managing IAM accounts (wif MFA) and IAM policies to meet security audit & compliance requirements.
• Maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, SES and SNS services in AWS cloud.
• Server migration using cloud services like AWS from physical to cloud environment.
• Created Cloud Formation template stacks to automate for building new VPCs using JSON files.
• Experience in AWS, which included managing application in the cloud and creating instances.
• Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 Instance for snapshots and creating clone instances.
• Setting up private networks and sub-networks using Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and creating security groups to associate wif the networks.
• Managed multiple AWS accounts wif multiple VPC's for both production and non-prod where primary objectives included automation, build out, integration and cost control.
• Taking regular snapshots for EBS volumes using CPM (Cloud Protection manager).
• Tested and configured AWS Workspaces (Windows virtual desktop solution) for custom application requirement.
• Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Deploying EC2 instances, ELBs by using Cloud Formation in AWS.
• Managing S3 buckets and bucket policies.

Cloud Operations Engineer

Confidential, Seattle

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

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 wif 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.
• Worked on creating a test OpenStack environment testing VMWARE integrated OpenStack support.
• Partnered wif systems, database, and middleware teams to create roadmap for enabling services in the IT catalogue.
• Managing the servers and their applications by automating the platform using the configuration management tool SaltStack.
• Experience in writing formulas for automation of applications and as well as for database
• Maintaining the infrastructure and integrating the saltstack wif Openstack cloud in deploying the VMs along wif the designated applications in an automated process
• Supported applications running in private cloud developed using VMWARE and public cloud - AWS environments.
• Experience in backup strategies, periodical audits, implementation of new features and delivering High Availability of applications to the users.
• Experience wif security tightening processes and managing resources upon all the cloud vendors.
• Interact wif 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.
• Provided level 3 technical supports for mission critical applications cloud infrastructure, mostly dealing wif availability and scalability issues.
• 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 wif widely varying needs.
• 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 wif EC2 Auto scaling groups.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
• Work wif different team members for automation of Release components.
• Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX and Windows - PowerShell, Shell script etc.

Splunk Engineer

Confidential, MO

Environment: JDK1.4, J2EE, Jrockit8.1, JSP, Servlets, EJB, LDAP, JDBC, XML, Oracle9i, WebLogic Server 9.x, Win2K, AIX, Solaris, Linux

Responsibilities:

• Supported on call schedule for Production Support.
• Deployed the applications like formats of WAR, JAR, andEAR in WebLogic 9.x.
• Configuring and Administering JDBC, JMS, JNDI in WebLogic Server 9.x.
• Install, configure and administer BEA WebLogic Server 9.x in various environments.
• Install and configure Apache Web Server in various environments.
• Configure and administered of WebLogic server wif Oracle9i database.
• Deployed the applications on multiple WebLogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, High
• Configure Clustering EJB objects, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.
• Configured Node manager to administer the Managed servers.
• Configuration and administration of Connection pools for JDBC connections.
• Configure LDAP using Sun ONE Directory Server for user authentication.
• Used configuration wizard and configuration builder extensively to create and manage WebLogic domains.
• Setting up the cluster environment for WebLogic Server integrated wif multiple workflows.
• Configured & deployed applications in work environments like Development, System Test and Production
• Developed ANT build scripts, UNIX shell scripts and auto deployment process.
• Configure JNDI server as repository for EJB Home stubs, JDBC data source, JMS connection factories, queues and topics.

VMware Administrator

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Environment: VMware ESXi 4.5/5.0, windows 2008/2012, vcenter server, VSphere client, NFS, ISCSI,HP EVA, EMC VMAX, VNX, EMC Data Domain, EMC Avamar, SRM, Dell Open Manager, Solar winds VM monitor, vCOPS.

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.
• Implemented storage vMotion to migrate VM’s from HP EVA to EMC VMAX, VNX storage.
• Maintain and administer all virtual backups wif EMC Avamar/Data Domain Backup and Recovery technology.
• Create and manage maintenance process procedures for VMware version updates patches on all ESXi Hosts. Ensuring seamless failover and testing during maintenance tasks.
• Report on VM improvements, and make recommendations for the upgrades, which includes VM virtual hardware versions, and VMware Tools wif less business impact.
• Develop and implement processes to streamline management and VM builds wifin our ESXi environment.
• Integrated EMC storage array VNX, VMAX wif vCenter server using VSI plugins, and enabled VAAI and VASA.
• 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.
• Management, monitoring and troubleshooting of physical server environment using Dell Open Manager, Firmware and Bios updates and working wif respective hardware vendors for ordering troubleshooting.
• Enabled monitoring and alerting of virtual environment wif the utilization of Solarwinds VM Monitor, vCOPS and various other monitoring tools.
• Provide on-call support for server infrastructure or application failures resulting in the need to engage on-call IT personnel.

VMware / Linux System Administrator

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Environment: VMware ESXi 4.x, VMware converter, HA, DRS, Red Hat Linux DNS, SUN Solaris 9/10, NFS, LVM, Oracle, Opsware.

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured ESXi 4.x infrastructure environment for huge Data Center migration.
• Performed physical to virtual (VMware) Migrations for over 180 servers using VMware Converter Standalone.
• Managed and maintained virtual computing environment based on VMware and administered virtual windows and Linux operation systems.
• Create templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions.
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster wif HA and DRS.
• Creating and managing resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Perform Life Cycle Management for ESXi hosts. Worked on capacity planning and management of Virtual machines in VMware environment.
• Managing, maintaining and running servers in Linux environment.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the issues on the servers and provide a solution in a timely fashion.
• Install / Configure VIO servers as well as configuring virtual Ethernet shared Ethernet (SEA), virtual SCSI and NPIV on IBM Power 6 and 7 systems.
• Installed, upgraded and configured SUN Solaris 9/10 on Sun Servers.
• Troubleshooting issues related to NFS, SSH, NIS, DNS, FTP, VMWARE, NETBACKUP, VERITAS (VCS), ZONES, LVM, RAID, File System, Permissions, Performance Monitoring, IP Bonding, Multipathing, NAS, SAN, Storage, V-Center, Opsware, Power Broker, etc.

UNIX/LINUX ADMIN

Confidential

Environment: RHEL Linux 4/5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9/10, Solaris 8/9/10, Veritas NetBackup.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, architect, build and monitor highly available, secure UNIX environments.
• Manage, design and implement disaster recovery solutions.
• Install, Administer and maintain various Sun and HP Servers running Solaris 8/9/10,
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9/10.
• Monitor Performance on Solaris 8/9/10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9/10.
• Administer, Configure and Troubleshoot VERITAS Volume Manager, File Systems and VERITAS Cluster Server. Configured Zones and Zones File system for Resource Sharing in Solaris 10.
• Installed and configured VERITAS NetBackup 6.5 Client on Solaris 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
• Prepared Shell Scripts for Process Automation, File System, Hardware and Network Alerts.
• Installed and Configured NetMon on Solaris 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Creating and Managing User and Group Administration and Access Privilege Setting wif SUDOERS on Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.