SUMMARY

• Experienced IT professional working as a Systems/DevOps Engineer for the last 5 years.
• Proficient and knowledgeable in DevOps tools and architecture designs.
• Equipped with a combination of exceptional interpersonal soft skills in agile methodologies enhancing collaboration and transparency.
• Advanced technical knowledge in the realm of IT, automation, and cloud computing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• RHEL 7
• RHEL 6
• CentOS
• Ubuntu
• Dockers
• Kuberentes
• VMware
• Azure
• AWS
• GCP
• Git
• Bash
• Python
• Openshift
• Bamboo
• Jenkins
• CircleCI
• Microsoft
• Agile
• Ansible
• Puppet
• Terraform
• Cloudformation
• JSON
• YML
• XML
• Deployments and Releases
• Support
• Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring, provisioning, and managing AWS services such as EC2, IAM, S3, EBS, EFS, CloudWatch, Auto - scaling groups, VPC, lambda, and cloudformation.
• Creating and managing IAM permission policies, users, groups, and roles to manage resource access between multiple teams and environments with best security practices.
• Setting up ELB for high availability, making sure all resources are utilized evenly throughout and appointing resources as needed to the EC2 instances.
• Creating and provisioning S3 buckets and assigning storage classes for various objects
• Managing S3 buckets storage class manually and through object life cycle policies for optimizing storage utilization and costs for the organization.
• Creating EC2 instances with EBS and EFS for specific tasks, in addition to EBS volumes, IAM roles, custom AMI’s, security groups for multiple applications.
• Configuring Route53 for delegated domains by mapping domains to endpoints through configuration of resource records for multiple applications and web servers.
• Monitored servers and application health through Cloudwatch and Cloudtrail
• Configuring security for the infrastructure by enabling guard duty, cognito, multi-factor authentication and inspector.
• Built infrastructure for applications using Terraform, including adjusting variables based on the requirements of the new machines and environments.
• Deployed and troubleshoot Terraform scripts to provision infrastructure on cloud platforms.
• Managed state buckets and configured release pipelines for Terraform using cloud native services.
• Deployed Ansible playbooks and ran ad-hoc for automation and configuration management.
• Creating Ansible playbooks for automating older processes, service configurations, patching, and applications installs and upgrades.
• Running Ansible playbooks for upgrading and deploying in-house applications with various customers, including performing pre and post checks.
• Creating Ansible playbooks for specific services and operations such as NFS file shares, web server applications such as HTTP, HTTPS etc.
• Managing GIT repositories for source code by pushing the code to various branches, creating tags for revisions, adding changes and committing new updates.
• GIT commands to clone the central repository to the local server, merging the local changes with the feature, dev or test branch, and creating pull requests.
• Managing, provisioning and configuring web services (Apache,HTTP,NGINX)
• Created custom image in Dockerfile for Docker containers, and uploaded custom images provided by lead architects to JFrog artifactory, as well as migrated onto cloud
• Managed Docker containers in production and deployed new containers using Docker Files, writing a Docker compose YAML file, and also helped in containerizing applications.
• Configuring and attaching volumes to docker containers to provide persistent data volume, in addition to troubleshooting containers through logs.
• Deployed and troubleshooted CICD pipelines through Jenkins and Bamboo for upgrading existing infrastructure code and applications.
• Experience in continuous integration and continuous deployment using Jenkins for managing infrastructure and applications in dev, qa, stage and production environments
• Deployed and troubleshooted Kubernetes clusters regarding pod failures,resource utilization and corrupt images.
• Building out Kubernetes clusters by configuring Kubernetes services, managing volume resources, updating namespaces, managing deployment and replicas.
• Involved in setting up JIRA as a defect tracking system and configured various workflows, customizations and plug-ins for the JIRA bug/issue tracker.
• Handing and solving tickets for different troubleshooting issues on JIRA, in addition to being involved in release planning and executing the release build request through JIRA.
• Working in Agile environments, communicating with the team members for planning and resolving an issue and for bug development tasks.
• Performing bi-weekly sprints with my teams, communicating through JIRA to resolve issues and debugging the task in a faster and less time consuming way.

Confidential

Linux Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experienced with configuring different flavors of linux (RHEL 6/7, CentOS, Ubuntu).
• Troubleshooting slow servers using system utility tools such as top, ps, iostat, reprioritizing a process, postponing and killing processes on production systems,
• Managed swap space storage on systems with memory overutilization, to avoid server hung issues and facing any out of memory errors.
• Maintaining the system’s load by prioritizing the processes values through cli or top.
• Maintaining linux services on an expert level ( DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, FIREWALL, SSH, DHCP, TFTP, NGINX, LVM, PXE, CORN)
• Creating and managing storage through the use of partitions (Primary, Extended, Logical) including using fdisk command line tool to configure and mount partitions.
• Managing dynamic storage on Linux systems using Logical Volume manager (physical volume, volume group, logical volume), including extending and resizing logical volumes.
• Creating, managing and configuring file share services such as NFS, FTP, TFTP. Making file systems available for a certain amount of time to prevent security threats.
• Managing system load and processes using tools such as top, sar, and isotat.
• Troubleshooting network issues using traceroute, tcpdump, netstat.Using nmap to perform vulnerability tests on the system.
• Working with different networking protocol ( DNS DHCP, PING, TCP,UDP,HTTPS)
• Managing and troubleshooting web servers (Tomcat, apache, nginx), in addition to using nginx as a load balancer and proxy.
• Configuring DNS, managing resource records, and creating forward and reverse zones
• Deploying and configuring machines using PXE servers, and deploying customized kickstart configuration files based on application and environment needs.
• Modifying grub configuration file and tuning kernel parameters based on server needs.
• Configuring DHCP by assigning network configuration to servers upon creation.
• Worked with different streamline editing tools to find specific lines or words in large files and directories ( sed,awk, grep, cut, sort).
• Configuring and provisioning bare metal server machines. (HP Proliant, Dell R710).
• Configuring RAIDS level 0,1,5,6 on a bare metal server based on server usage.
• Accessing IDRAC and ILO through and troubleshooting the hung servers.
• Deploying multiple VMWare hypervisor virtual machines based on team and applications needs with custom resources and OVF templates.
• Deploying clusters for teams and applications. Managing the cluster on VMWare for redundancy using HA and DRS, including migrating machines using vmotion.
• Creating and scheduling automated weekly and daily jobs using crontab and bash scripts, such as backing up sensitive data on mission critical systems to disaster recovery servers.
• Install and configure mySQL and oracle database on linux servers.
• Creating and configuring ssh keys for users and systems with password-less access, and troubleshooting any user access issues revolving with keys.
• Creating and managing users and groups, including managing sudo access for users.
• Managing permissions for files and directories as well as umask permission.
• Modifying the security of a linux system using iptables, firewall, selinux, and control access.
• Monitoring and maintaining linux servers using nagios, including creating and resolving any alerts to resource utilization, server down, or service error on production systems.
• Managing Nagios hosts configuration through NRPE plugins for new servers in environments.
• Compressing and archiving large files and directories and transferring them over to a different environment using scp or rsync protocol.
• Using package management tools such as YUM, RPM, APT, and setting up a local repository for dependency applications for applications and security.
• Creating and managing nic-bonding using NIC cards for redundancy, load balancing, and managing load on a network.
• Resolving a high number of incident tickets in a fast paced environment in accordance to SLA’s and escalating severity one issue with senior managers.
• Collaborating with developers, QA, Database admins, and other engineers to carry out large projects and improve existing processes.