SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented, innovative thinker with solid technical and business acumen.
• Proven track record of success in designing, building, and growing both business organizations, as well as strategic and tactical IT solutions in complex multi-vendor environments.
• Noted for driving value for the organization, customers, partners and employees through:
• Customer Success - Actively involved with customers.
• Served as the Executive Sponsor for key strategic accounts, where I was the primary point of contact for customer executives.
• Also served as executive on strategic customer escalations, both as the face of the Company to the Customer, as well as the voice of the Customer when driving requirements back to Product Engineering.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Server Skills: Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 Std/Adv/Ent Server, Active Directory, MS SQL Server, MS HYPER-V, DHCP, Windows Terminal Server, Citrix Server, VMware ESX 3.x, vSphere 4.x/5.x, MS VMM, VMware HA Clustering, Linux, Fedora, AWS.Azure

Application Skills: Microsoft Office 98/2000/ /2013 , Puppet, Ansible, agile, scrum, HCX, NSX, JIRA, VM Ware Workstation, vCenter 3\4\4.1\5, vCloud hybrid services, Linux Appliance, Nagios, Symantec & McAfee Enterprise Anti - Virus Suite, VCAC, chef, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernets Open filer, Putty.exe, Outlook express, Winscp.exe, SSH. Nexus 1kv, VCloud connector, UCS Manager Remedy, Tivoli Enterpriser manager, Nexus 1kv, VSG, VNMC, docker, Micro services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, SFO, CA

Devops-Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Excellent experience in Developing and Implementing processes, Operations management.
• Automation and Systems Integration, Vendor Management for third party integrations.
• Excellent experience as Lead DevOps architect in designing, implementation and automation using Infrastructure as code
• Experience in deploying large scale Kubernetes cluster-based environments with AWS ec2 (RBAC)
• CI/CD setup using “Immutable Infrastructure Design” on AWS/Azure using Ansible, ECS, Docker and Jenkins build pipelines.
• Supporting 25+ non-production and production chef-based environments
• Experience with Blue Green and canary deployment with kubernetes deployments.
• Deploying new\update codebase as the process of Build & Release Management for Cox applications
• VMware vSphere operation including window/Linux/datacenter operation.
• Good experience on DevOps tools such as Chef, Vagrant, Virtual Box, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, ANT, SVN, GIT, and Docker.
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, Dynamo DB, EBS, EFS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups.
• Expertise in creating pods and clusters in Kubernetes and deployed those using Open Shift.
• Used Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple name spaced versions
• Develop CI/CD system with Jenkins on Google's Kubernetes container environment, utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment for the CI/CD system to build and test and deploy.
• Involved in development of Test environment on Docker containers and configuring the Docker containers using Kubernetes, Maven, Nexus, Nagios.
• Responsible for installing Kubernetes and deploying applications on containers in Kubernetes.
• Worked on deployment automation of all micro services to pull image from Private Docker registry and deploy to Kubernetes cluster.
• Used Kubernetes for creating new Projects, Services for load balancing and adding them to Routes by accessing from outside, created Pods through new application and controlling, scaling and troubleshooting pods through SSH.
• Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.
• Integrated Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes by creating pods, configMaps and deployments.
• Experience with container based virtualized deployment using Docker, Kubernetes, working with docker images Docker hub and Docker registries.
• Worked with Docker and Kubernetes on multiple cloud providers, from helping developers build and
• Containerize their application (CI/CD) to deploying either on public or private cloud.
• Development of automation of Kubernetes clusters with Ansible, writing playbooks.
• Kubernetes architecture: node, kubelet manages pods, their containers, images, volumes, network kube-proxy is a simple network proxy and load balancer responsible for reflecting services on nodes.
• Linux container orchestration with Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS, and more
• Developed and contributed a Cluster application to the Kubernetes project.

Environment: AWS,Azure, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Trail and Route 53, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, JIRA, Nagios, Linux, Docker, Chef, Ansible, Git version Control, Cloud Formation, AWS CLI, AWS Auto Scaling, Maven, Subversion, Jenkins, Unix/Linux, Shell scripting.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Lead DevOps Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for setting up new instances, migrating existing services from physical servers to AWS cloud.
• Automated infrastructure in AWS using amazon web services. Deploy puppet to completely provision and manage AWS instances, volumes, DNS, and S3.
• Configured Amazon Cloud API Servers using AMI's and configuring the servers for specified applications.
• Handling release management process for Dev, UAT,QA1 environment.
• Built servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection.
• Configure and manage AWS Glacier, to move old data to archives based on retention policy of databases / applications (AWS Glacier Vaults)
• Managed AWS instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT environments as well as infrastructure servers for GIT and Chef.
• Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Cassandra,
• Setup and Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Process stack using AWS, GIT, Jenkins and Chef.
• Configured RDS instances using Cloud formations and Terraform.
• Used Terraform to map more complex dependencies and identify network issue.
• Built Jenkins jobs to create AWS infrastructure from repos containing terraform code.
• Created images stored in the Docker container and uploaded to Docker hub.
• Worked on Kubernetes and Docker images to provide platform as service on private and public cloud in VMware Cloud.
• Installed and configured configuration tool such as Chef Server / workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AWS nodes.
• Experience in maintain the infrastructure by managing the inventory files in Ansible.
• Designed, Installed, and Implemented Ansible configuration management system.

Environment: AWS, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Trail and Route 53, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, JIRA, Nagios, Linux, Docker, Chef, Ansible, Git version Control

Confidential

Sr. Datacenter Deployment eng

Responsibilities:

• DEVOPS experience into Puppet (open source/ Enterprise) and CHEF tools.
• IT experience into IT Automation and OS administration.
• Managing infrastructure of different OS and N/w using Puppet Open source and Puppet Ent.
• Day to day activities on Private Cloud and Vcenter and vSphere
• Deploy the NSX Manager, Configure Lookup Service for NSX, Adding group and user access for NSX
• Connect NSX to vCenter Upgrade to NSX Edge
• Configuring Puppet Enterprise Tool for pushing conf files, installation of packages and etc.
• Maintenance of Puppet Enterprise and resolving issues with client communication
• Private and public cloud configuration and support, Created AWS VPC for Development & assigned subnet and route table to VPC. Named EBS volumes which is attached to each instance.
• Building Multitenant, utility shared, VPC, Zombie and Dedicate clouds.
• Deployment of Vcloud Director and VCD upgrades 5.1 - 5.5
• Deployment and configuration of firewall rules for Edges
• Troubleshooting of NSX systems and logs

Environment: Hybrid Cloud services, vCloud Air, Win, RedHat Linux 5.x/6.x, Centos, EMC Smart, EMC Avamar backup, vRealize, vCloud connector, vCenter, AWS Cloud, AWS Lambda, puppet, GitLab CI, Fedora, Windows 2008/2012, SVN, BitBucket, Azure, MSBuild, Maven, Shell scripts, Ant, Nagios, Sonar, Agile, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Apache, Tomcat

Confidential

Data center deployment Engineer/cloud Deploy Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Activating customers on both utility hosting and dedicated hosting platform in cloud.
• Cisco UCS configuration, troubleshooting of Service Profile, Firmware upgrades and troubleshooting of ESXi host and Linux hosts.
• Develop & Manage daily Operations of Web servers (Release and deployment of packages).
• Windows server administration. Completed project of On-premises servers to AWS cloud
• Working on S3 buckets, EFS for storage and data
• Working on different vendors like EMC/Cisco/VMware/netapp.
• Monitoring and maintaining 3000 ESXi servers and 4300 windows/Linux boxes across the globe.
• Engaging with customer’s activation of their infrastructures build.
• Remote troubleshooting for Singapore/ Hong Kong /Australia/UK/US datacenters.
• Working experience with BMC Remedy for ticketing and Change request for Datacenter management services.
• Build and troubleshooting in VMware Cloud /BMC Cloud Life cycle Management.
• Architected, Planed, Designed and administrator server consolidation project through use of VMware VSphere and vCenter.
• Having experience of managing the VMware ESX based Citrix farm which includes more than 1000 business critical applications, 18 farms, 500 servers (including Citrix, Windows and Linux).
• The environment has grown to over 80 ESXi hosts and 1400 Virtual machines for Production/DR/UAT and development roles.
• Installing various security agents on servers like Symantec ESM, Big fix for updates.
• Allow the users to access to application and kill the user sessions through Citrix management console.
• Work with Data Center teams to get the server racked and stacked, allocate storage, schedule backupJobs and Data Center activities like maintains backup tapes for IBM Library.
• Supporting for NOC teaming to resolving on various tickets.
• Spearheading efforts across Installing, configuring & managing VMware ESX 4.x as well as Installing, configuring & managing Virtual Center 4.x.
• Successfully Implemented Virtual infrastructure with VMware vSphere 4.0 for DOD internal project.
• Work with Data Center teams to get the server racked & stacked, allocate storage, schedule backup job.
• Successfully completed Windows Server Maintenance Plan (WSMP 2010/11) on 3000 servers.
• Building servers with server provisioning tools.
• Provide hands-on operational support for the Citrix (Windows) server estate and to resolve operational issues to a satisfactory and timely conclusion.
• Provide high quality Citrix and O\S skills to application teams during project initialization to ensure designs are fit for purpose and supportable.
• Successful implementation of Data Center consolidation using vSphere 4 ESX/i vCenter, VMotion, Convertor, XenDesktop, VDI and PlateSpin’s Power convert.
• Giving offshore support for two data centers for more than 3000 servers.

Environment: Win2003/2008 Server, ESX, Citrix, Hyper-v, exchange, ESM, SAN, Symantec net backup.

Confidential

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the planning, installation & configuring Server builds on HP Blade servers (Wintel)
• Configuration and Installation VMware vSphere 4.x, ESX servers 3.x and VMware vCenter and rollout VM Guest OS (Windows / Linux) on HP BL Servers.

Environment: Win2008/Win2003 Server, Win2000 Prof, Win XP, Linux, ESX 3.5/4.0.

Confidential

Server support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Active Directory. Creating, managing and troubleshooting group policies.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting replication status. Installing, configuring and troubleshooting DHCP and DNS servers, troubleshooting the event logs on the servers.

Environment: Win 98, Winxp/Win2000 Server, Win2003, VM Ware ESX 3.5