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.
• Thought Leadership - Spoke on customer panels, executive briefings and industry events on various topics, including company strategy, cloud deployment and migration best practices, migrating to an IT-as-a-Service model and new approaches to web-based security.

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

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, KubernetsOpen filer, Putty.exe, Outlook express, Winscp.exe, SSH. Nexus 1kv, VCloud connector, UCS Manager Remedy, Tivoli Enterpriser manager, Nexus 1kv, VSG, VNMC, docker, Micro servicesHardware Skills:Dell PowerEdge 2450, 6450, 6800, 1850, 1950, 2950, R610, R710 Series. HP ProLiant DL 100, DL 300, DL 385 G7, DL500 Series, C7 Enclosures Cisco Unified Computing (UCS)PODS with B200/B400 M3 Supermicro Fat Twin chassis (PODS) model F424AS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Lead DevOps Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Migrated applications from Legacy data to the AWS cloud.
• 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.
• 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)
• Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier.
• Created Python scripts to totally automate AWS services which includes web servers, ELB, Cloud Front distribution, database, and database security groups, S3 bucket and application configuration, this script creates stacks, single servers, or joins web servers to stacks.
• Auto scaling of Web Application instances based on the Cloud watch alarms during sudden increase in network traffic.
• 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, Linux using Amazon, Chef, and custom Ruby/Bash scripts.
• 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.
• Installed GIT and cloning the central repository via Jenkins.
• Developed CI/CD system with Jenkins on Kubernetes container environment, utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment for the CI/CD system to build and test and deploy.
• Created images stored in the Docker container and uploaded to Docker hub.
• Worked on several Docker components like Docker Engine, Docker-Hub, Docker-Compose, Docker Registry and Docker Swarm.
• 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.
• Automated cloud deployment using Chef, Python and AWS Cloud Formation Templates. Used Chef for unattended bootstrapping in AWS.

• Extensively used Ruby scripting on Chef Automation for creating cookbooks comprising all resources, data bags, templates, attributes.
• Written Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall process improvement to any manual process.
• Responsible for managing the Chef client nodes and upload the cookbooks to chef-server from workstation.
• Experience in maintain the infrastructure by managing the inventory files in Ansible.
• Designed, Installed, and Implemented Ansible configuration management system.
• Writing an Ansible playbook from scratch to upgrade the servers one at a time in serial to reduce the downtime of running sites.
• Managed a PaaS for deployments using Docker, Ansible which reduced deployment risks.
• Managed Atlassian Tools Confluence and JIRA.
• Deploy builds to production and work with the teams to identify and troubleshoot any issues.
• Implemented Nagios monitoring solution for mission critical servers.
• Administered Linux servers for several functions including managing Apache/Tomcat server, mail server, and MySQL databases in both development and production.

Environment: AWS, 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, Dallas, TX

Sr. DevOps Consultant

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
• Setting up Data Center using Puppet by writing custom modules for all services like DNS, NFS,
• Packages, Custom RPMs, Product specific modules or Cookbooks and recipes.
• 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.
• Worked on AWS workshop
• 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
• Supported SUSE, Centos, and Red hat Linux
• Hyperic Monitoring automation and scripting
• Monitoring tool and deployment automation development.
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud () is Amazon’s innovative web service that is pioneering
• Cloud computing and utility computing by providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
• Diagnose complex systems issues with multiple influencing factors.

• Vsphere 5.5 and 5.1 host support (profile creation, resource pools, and templates)
• Physical hardware and storage support working with Devops concepts and techniques
• Have good experience on continuous build execution through Jenkins
• Experience developing and maintaining automated deployment scripts in Linux using Chef, puppet, etc
• Vb-Script, puppet, and Ruby scripting
• Deployment and Support: Assist team members in resolving the technical queries related to the tools
• VCloud Hybrid Service and Amazon Web services R&D.
• 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, Solaris 8, 9,10, Fedora, Windows 2008/2012, SVN, BitBucket, Azure, MSBuild, NuGet, Maven, Ruby, Shell scripts, Ant, Nagios, Sonar, Agile, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, NUnit, Apache Tomcat, Runbooks, Apache

Confidential, Dallas, TX

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.
• Deploying 1kV in primary, secondary mode. Troubleshooting N1kV configuration, VEM configuration and operation.
• Develop & Manage daily Operations of Web servers (Release and deployment of packages).
• Wndows server administration
• Implement new Services on AWS (Amazon Web Services).
• Completed project of On-premises servers to AWS cloud
• Worked on Cloudberry software to take the on-premises data backup on AWS S3
• Working on S3 buckets & EFS for storage and data
• Working on Route53 to manage websites redirection migration, DNS records & CNAME
• Working on AWS Linux &
• Develop Prototype to test solution with automation.
• Identify customer required deliverables & all tasks for the project.
• Monitor & adjust estimates to integrate new constraints.
• Respond to customer needs by email, phone calls & one to one meetings.
• MAC /Request/CIP/SR/Incidents working on different issues.
• 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.

• Worked on professional services and made profit of $12 million USD revenue flowing into the project within 3 months of project kick start. Received clients’ appreciation and Confidential management rewarded with 200 performance points
• Involved all required stake holders to identify the revenue leakage and did root cause analysis for backup revenue leakage. Client delivery lead sent a reward recognition mail and Confidential management recognized with 200 celebrative performance points
• Identified revenue leakage for 21 customers on BMC and AWS cloud platform and fixed the issue. Received recognition from Confidential management
• Fixed billing issues for one of the biggest Telstra’s client Visy group Pty Ltd and received appreciation from revenue assurance team ed with Telstra Zing s, Better Together, Show You care, Make Complexity Simple

Confidential

Cloud Delivery Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and Assessment of Application hosted on the servers.
• Analysis and Assessment of Site where all the servers located.
• Follow up with the Server Owners, Application Owners and Site Owners for information required for the assessment.
• Providing Analysis report to the Management to take appropriate decision on Migration of Servers, Applications and sites.
• Assess IT Infrastructure devices or server assessment in Data center for OS Migration & Virtualization.
• Managing and troubleshooting Linux and Windows servers.
• Analysis of 32,000 Server for assessment across 178 Geographical locations.
• Data concerning the current inventory and configuration of IT environment.
• Managing Tivoli Storage Manager on Linux Platform & Windows Platform.
• Operating & Manage TSM for Scheduled backup of data center servers.
• Manage Operations of Web servers (Release and deploy of packages).
• Availability management, Upgrades management.
• Consult technological improvements to client
• Meetings: Schedule and chair project status meetings, weekly deployment team meetings, and any other Meetings whose purpose is related to delivery of deployment into data center infrastructure.
• Project Management, ensuring projects are implemented with quality and client satisfaction.
• Managing team of 6 Technical Engineers in the region (GCC and India)
• Responsible for the Architectural & Analyses guidance of all the aspects of VMware Infrastructure.
• Perform Capacity Planning, Design, architecture and Proof of Concept for vSphere 5.0 rollout covering Migration from legacy 5.1 & 5.5 ESX environments.
• Building/Deploying Private cloud and Hybrid Cloud using AWS, BMC and VMWare vCloudSuite, VMware Vcloud automation Center and using heterogeneous Hypervisor technologies like vSphere, KVM, Hyper-V, AWS
• Provide guidance regarding the use of virtualized systems, capability of systems to deliver information, and subject matter expertise regarding current systems and emerging technology.
• Managing vmware Vcac configuration and implementation

• 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 backup Jobs and Data Center activities like maintains backup tapes for IBM Library.
• Supporting for NOC teaming to resolving on various tickets.
• Installing new servers and configured as per project requirement.
• Maintains Vendor\AMC\Tickets tracker with excel sheets.
• Conducting the sections for L1 and Fresher’s.
• 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.
• Work with global Engineering teams to report any bugs in the server provisioning process.
• 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,
• Managing Configuration of VMotion, Alerts, SNMP, NTP
• Giving offshore support for two data centers for more than 3000 servers.
• Supporting more than 800+ servers for India, Pakistan, Srilanka
• Migrating the Physical Server to Virtual Server using VMware Convertor (P2V Convention).
• Involved in Network Teaming & Bridge mode configured in ESX Servers and Virtual Servers.
• Taking care of Patch Management in ESX Server through Update Manager & Accessing the ESX Server using Putty

• Monitoring Server Health Status of the CPU processors, Memory, Fans, Temperature and Voltage
• Configuring data store to ESX server using SCSI, iSCSI or LUN. (SAN/NAS)
• Raising the GCM for server commissioning/De-commissioning and server build and server PBC.
• Working on CR, GRS, Incident and SRM tickets.
• Creating TSM node with TSM team for backup. Installing various server monitoring tools like Symantec ESM, Tivoli gateway and Nimsoft.

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)
• As per the server build policy of the organization.
• 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