PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Dynamic and motivated engineer with an overall IT experience of 8+ years as DevOps Engineer, Build and Release Engineer, Systems Engineer and AWS/Azure Cloud Engineer with Continuous Integration/Delivery as an iterative process and automation of infrastructure including end - to-end code configuration using various tools.
• Configured, supported applications in AWS Cloud environment that are hosted on PaaS Environment like services (Elastic Beanstalk, ECS etc.) to have end-end automation created and integrated with Terraform, GitLab and AWS.
• Hands-on experience in Azure Development, worked on Azure web applications, Virtual Machines, Azure Key Vault, Azure AD, Azure search, and Azure Notification hub.
• Played a pivotal role in implementing DevOps Model across the organization and implemented vulnerability checks at different phases which is in-support of Dev-SecOps model for pipelines running in GitLab.
• Experience in Developing automated continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline for code deployment using Jenkins.Used Jenkins as Continuous Integration tool for creating new jobs, managing required plug-ins, build trigger, build system, and post build actions, scheduled automation builds.
• Experience in Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes to create pods, Config Maps, and deployments into cluster, Containerized Java and Nodejs applications, run it in AWS ElasticKubernetes Service.
• Worked with Jenkins jobs Maven, Multibranch, MultiJob, Jenkins declarative pipelines for Infrastructure and Application Integration platforms.
• Designed multiple VPC’s and public/private subnets with required number of IP’s using CIDR blocks,Route Tables, Security groups and Elastic Load Balancer.
• Worked with AWS IAM for granular permissions to specific AWSUsers, Groups and Roles by creating IAM policies, Automated AWS deployment and configuration tasks usingLambda.
• Knowledge in Installing, configuring, and managing full end-to-end GitLab setup, Pipeline Management. Also, managed and utilized GitLab runners to support application testing and fill system level to support GitLab.
• Experienced in Installing, Configuration and management in HA Ansible Centralized Server (Tower) and creating the playbooks to support various middleware application servers and involved in configuring the Ansible tower as a configuration management tool to automate repetitive tasks.
• Involved in integrating chef cookbooks into Jenkins jobs forCDframework, and worked with various custom resources, created roles & environments, and using chef handlers for different auto kickoff requirement jobs.
• Transferred Terraform from as an enterprise level cloud infrastructure automation solution by maintaining prewritten Cloud Formation scripts and converting Python BOTO3 CLI scripts as a custom wrapper in Terraform null resources.
• Integrated the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service with AWS CloudWatch, Auto Scaling Groups, SQS and VPC for monitoring, scaling, and load-balancing the application and used AWS Fargate Engine for container services, security is improved through application isolation by design.
• Created Application Microservices using On-Premises Kubernetes with Helm Charts that supports Dev, Stage, POC and Prod Environments for different Application needs.
• Deployed On-Premises/Cloud based Kubernetes Clusters with Terraform/Jenkins for deployment Strategies using Blue/Green and Canary.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts using Python, Shell, Bash, and Parsing languages using Yaml/Json thereby automating build and deployment process in various enterprise environments.
• Worked on implementing test cases to follow DevSecOps strategy model that supports microservice applications via Jenkins pipelines.
• Strong Analytical, Diagnostics, troubleshooting skills to consistently deliver, support, administer productive technological solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Linux (RedHat, CENTOS), Unix, Solaris, Ubuntu, Windows, MacOS.

Version Control: GIT, GITHUB, Bitbucket, GitLab, AWS Code Commit

Configuration and Management Tools: Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Kubernetes, Terraform

Cloud Environments: AWS, Azure, GCP

Virtual Servers: vSphere, VMware Virtual Center and VMware ESX Servers.

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, Bash, Python and YAML, JavaScript, JSON.

Ticket/Monitoring Tools: JIRA, Splunk, Nagios, ELK, AWS Cloud Watch.

Database: MySQL, Oracle, DB2, MongoDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL.

Web Server/Application Servers: Tomcat, Apache, Application Server, IIS, Oracle WebLogic.

Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm, AWS Fargate.

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Maven, Gradle.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Montgomery, AL

Sr. SysOps / Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with AWS Control Tower to govern the identities and create RBAC (Role Based Access Control) policies in AWS IAM.
• Worked with other teammates in providing support for utilizing the AWS console effectively.
• Worked with Azure configuration and supported technologies that involve M365 or Active Directory.
• Designed and implemented virtual server setup within Azure.
• Developed and created various PowerShell scripts to run Azure environments.
• Provided support for Azure related on-premises components (MFA, ADFS, etc.).
• Monitor environments and systems for operational and performance issues by creating dashboards in Dynatrace for various metrics as requested by the client.
• Actively assisted client staff on project tasks and project reporting by using JIRA.
• Deployed and maintained production environment using AWS EC2 instances and ECS with Docker.
• Architected various virtual servers on Docker as per Test, Development and Production environments.
• Created various Docker files to setup automated build on Docker HUB for effective container management.
• Worked with various firewall / network infrastructure services related to AWS and Azure to provide robust security according to the client requirements.

Environment: AWS (EC2, AWS Route53, EKS, VPC, AWS IAM, AWS RDS, SNS, API Gateway, AWS S3, AWS ELB, Dynamo DB)Microsoft Azure, Linux, RHEL, VMWARE, Shell Scripts, JIRA, Docker, Dynatrace.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Hybrid Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Closely monitor, support, and develop procedures to create Linux, Windows and other types of Linux versions packages that are to be deployed into the ASTRA Hybrid Cloud Platform.
• Update the top 100 CVE’s (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) that customers from various vendors get affected by while deploying the workloads into the ASTRA Hybrid Cloud.
• Develop processes to support various workload related agents that are deployed into ASTRA via HALO (Cloud Passage) which is an ASTRA compliance agent.
• Assist and instruct ASTRA users to configure security rules and on-board their existing applications to the ASTRA Hybrid Cloud Platform.
• Route various ASTRA users to get the access to the applications using UPSTART.
• Direct ASTRA Hybrid Cloud users to create the most secure VM’s known as the ATT Official Image also known as the Linux Golden Image that has the ASTRA compliance agent which is powered by Azure Sentinel One.
• Guide ASTRA users in also deploying their Kubernetes Clusters in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) of various Azure applications and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) of various AWS applications into the ASTRA Hybrid Cloud that provides container security of the workloads 24/7 which provides a dashboard report of the SVA’s (Software Vulnerability Assessment) of the container images operating in that cluster.

Environment: AWS (EC2, AWS Route53, EKS, VPC, AWS IAM, AWS RDS, SNS, API Gateway, AWS S3, AWS ELB, Dynamo DB)Microsoft Azure, GCP, Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, VMWARE, Shell Scripts, JIRA, Docker.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Cloud infrastructure based of VPC, EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Redshift, ELB, NLB, Autoscaling, IAM on AWS using Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform.
• Used AWS Fargate in collaboration with AWS ECS and AWS EKS for container-based application running to provide high security and reliability.
• Implemented DevSecOps with Jenkins to reduce threats, vulnerabilities and performed risk assessments to detect and analyze threats during the CI/CD process.
• Implemented CI/CD strategy in involving Jenkins, Terraform Enterprise and AWS that tracks the Security Vulnerabilities for applications running in AWS ECS using Amazon Security Hub.
• Worked on Terraform modules, providers, and resources to setup vault elements like LDAP Authentication Methods, Namespaces, and Secret Engines etc.
• Worked on AWS CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Cloud Trail services and CloudFront to set up and manage cached content delivery.
• Responsible for writing reusable Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) Modules by using Terraform for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS AWS cloud resources and mentoring the peers to write consumable code to automate the infrastructure provisioning for cloud applications.
• Implemented Security Scans like Static and Dynamic Application testing at each layer of DevOps life cycle and converted the existing DevOps methodologies/workflows to DevSecOps model.
• Created function in Lambda that aggregates the data from incoming events, then stored result data in Amazon Dynamo DB and S3.
• Expertise in using Boto3 python libraries integrating with Ansible and Terraform for Managing EBS volumes and scheduling Lambda functions for AWS tasks.
• Migrating existing AWS infrastructure to Serverless Architecture (AWS Lambda) by deploying Terraform (IaaC) code from GitHub repositories to implement AWS Lambda functions to run scripts in response to CloudWatch events in the Amazon DynamoDB table and S3 bucket to HTTP requests using Amazon API gateway and AWS SDK’s.
• Authored Cloud formation JSON templates, Terraform Templates and Configured S3 buckets with various Life Cycle Policies to archive the data to storage classes based on requirement.
• Experience in Configuration Automation and Centralized Management with Ansible and Implemented Ansible to manage all existing servers and automate the build/configuration of new servers.
• Experience in writing various Custom Ansible Playbooks for deployment orchestration and developed Ansible Playbooks to simplify and automate day-to-day server administration tasks.
• Created Terraform templates for provisioning AWS resources and used Terraform graph to visualize execution plan. Used Terraform to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and production environments for software development projects.
• Automated Datadog Dashboards with the stack through Terraform Scripts. Configured CloudWatch and Datadog to monitor real-time granular metrics of all the AWS Services and configured individual dashboards for each resource Agents.
• Used Jenkins and Pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the Docker Registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.
• Developed dashboards for alarms on Dynatrace for Application performance monitoring of Microservices, help understanding the possible source of the problem and prevent outages.
• Experience in infrastructure architecture and design of complex distributed systems environments, including failover techniques, recovery/rollback, and application partitioning.
• Configuring, automation and maintaining build and deployment CI/CD tools Git/Git Lab, Jenkins, Bit Bucket, Docker Registry, Nexus, and JIRA for Multi-Environment.

Environment: AWS EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, Elastic search, Route53 (DNS), API Gateway, Hashi Corp, Cloud Formation, Dynamo DB, RDS, Redshift, SNS, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, Shell scripts, Python, Git, GitHub, Jira.

Confidential, Plano, TX

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Strong Knowledge and expertise on AWS, specifically in EC2, Route53, S3, IAM, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, Lambda, EMR, ECS, Redshift, Aurora, Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy, Autoscaling, CloudFormation, focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance in AWS Cloud Formation.
• Integrated AWS Dynamo DB using AWS Lambda to store the values the items and backup the Dynamo DB streams for Analytics.
• Expertise in managing the system state and log AWS API events to trigger cloud watch & cloud trail alerts by using AWS Lambda.
• Expertise triggering AWS Lambda in Amazon S3, Redshift, Kinesis for transitioning the data and filtering data on the fly and Implemented AWS Lambda to schedule events for creating backups, checking idle services.
• Experience in migration, bursting, storage tiering of Multi-Tier Environments using AWS Server Migration service into Hybrid cloud on AWS and involved in TCO to estimate cost saving in AWS and created a detailed set of reports used in executive presentations.
• Involved in build and maintain Highly Available secure multi-zone AWS cloud infrastructure utilizing Chef with AWS Cloud Formation and Jenkins for continuous integration.
• Hands on experience in writing Terraform API modules to manage infrastructure, for automatic creation of AWS services like RDS instances, VPC’s, Autoscaling groups, load balancers, SQS, S3 buckets.
• Worked on Hashi corp Vault secret tool to provide security for credentials, tokens, and API keys.
• Experience in creating and managing Azure resource groups, VMSS, Availability Set, storage accounts, virtual networks, and App Services.
• Migrated Windows Active directories and .net applications from AWS to Azure cloud by implementing POC’s in the organization and performing POT’s in Azure implementation.
• Migrated On-prem Windows Application to Azure VM’s and worked with Vnet engineer to configure traffic routing’s and manage Transit Hub Workflows.
• Involved in writing Chef Cookbooks and Recipes to automate the deployment process and to integrating Chef Cookbooks into Jenkins jobs forCDframework.
• Installing and configuration of an automated tool Puppet that included installation and configuration of Puppet Master, Agents and Module Development and Dashboard Setup.
• Involved in Modifying the Puppet forge as per the requirement on Puppet and involved in creating modules and manifests in Puppet using Ruby.
• Installed and used Chef Server Enterprise on premise, workstation and bootstrapped the nodes using knife and automated by writing ruby scripts in Chef Recipes and Cookbooks with test-kitchen/chef spec.
• Ansible and Packer to build Jenkins Master AMI. This includes Groovy to configure plugins, configuration files and jobs deployed with DSL plug-in, Ruby, and Vagrant file to help with testing of that AMI and a Python Script to help to rotate old version of the AMI.
• Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
• Developed 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.
• Implemented Istio as a service mesh in Kubernetes for secure communication across pods from ingress to service and to pods and implemented Nginx for providing reverse proxy.
• Managed local Deployments in Kubernetes using Open shift platform, creating local cluster, and deploying application containers and Implemented Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple names spaced versions.
• Maintained Infrastructure using the virtualization tools like VMware and Cloud Computing Service like AWS in all environments & extensively worked with Remedy ticketing system and provided 24/7 on call support for production.

Environment: AWS including EC2, S3, ELB, Lambda, Aurora, Kubernetes, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, Git, Chef, Docker, Docker Hub, Bit Bucket, Bash, Ruby, JIRA, Service Now, Linux.

Confidential

Build and Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As the member of the release engineer group, redefined processes and implemented various tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting, on Linux platform.
• Worked Primarily on RHEL, CentOS Operating Systems.
• Experience in using Boto3 python libraries integrating with Ansible and Terraform for managing EBS volumes and scheduling Lambda functions for AWS tasks.
• Worked closely with the Development team to maintain proper versioning of the source code in GIT to revert whenever required.
• Worked in all areas of Jenkins setting up CI for new branches, build automation, plugin management and securing Jenkins and setting up master/slave configurations.
• Handling the day-to-day Operations, install software, apply patches, manage file systems, monitoring performance and troubleshoot alerts.
• Experience in Centralized Automation and Centralized Management with Ansible and implemented Ansible to manage all existing servers and automate the build configuration of the new servers.
• Experience in troubleshooting on Ansible related implementation and playbook executions.
• Handling LVM related tasks, Creating, resizing LVM, Veritas Volume manager and managing Cluster environment using Veritas Cluster suite.
• Handling the day-to-day Operations, Troubleshooting& Solve Server Problems in LINUX.
• Installing and configuring RedHat Linux locally or over the network-kick start- (nfs, ftp, and http).
• Managed patches configuration, version control, service pack and reviews connectivity issues regarding security problems.
• Maintaining Server and Systems, provide IT support to Users, regularly manage backup process for Server and Client data.
• Monitoring system performance, Server load and bandwidth issues.
• Work with DBAs on installation of DB, restoration, and performance tuning.
• Installed and configured VNC server/client.
• Implement the policies for the users of the computer system and network.

Environment: Linux, GitHub/Bit Bucket, Yaml, Json, Shell and Perl scripts, SAN, SUSE 9,10, RHEL 5.x, RAID, CentOS 5, Windows2008, Logical Volume Manager, FTP, SFTP, SSH, RPM, YUM, LAN, VMware.

Confidential

Linux System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and administered windows and Linux (Centos, Ubuntu, and RedHat) servers.
• Troubleshooted booting related issues, creating boot records, working with system maintenance mode, recovering root password, fixing boot related issues, working with boot list.
• Created Bash, shell scripts for various Systems Administration tasks to automate repeated processes.
• Involved in Setup/Installing and configuring Centos, SUSE servers on HP x86 servers and other Commodity Hardware.
• Customized and compiling the Linux kernel according to the application/user requirements and various communication protocols by creating and maintaining new VM boxes using Linux virtual machine templates.
• Administration and support of Unix Servers including SUSE, Solaris, HP-UX & Red Hat Linux, and CentOS for different application needs.
• Release/Change Management interface through the staging phase, during and after full implementation ofSystem software up-gradation including database and website applications.
• Creating and maintaining users, profiles, security, privileges, disk space and process monitoring.
• User account management, worked with shell scripting (ksh, bash) to automate administration tasks.
• Creating, maintaining, and removing users and groups. Security settings on user accounts and groups. Working on System Management Services SMS and changing boot list order etc.
• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance of DNS/DHCP/NFS/SMB/LDAP Servers, Design and Configuration of Active Directory, Domain Controllers (Primary and Backup), Organizational Units, Sites and Domains, Group Policies, Users and Groups, Permissions.
• RPM package installation & upgrade released by Red Hat from repository & Support for application upgrade & rollback, services start/stop on Linux Servers.
• Handled hardware issues like Memory, hard disk, Motherboard, and Processor etc. & Performed processesAdministration and management like monitoring, start/stop various processes/sub processes.

Environment: Linux-RHEL 4.x and 5.x, VM Ware, vSphere, ESXi, Java, .NET, J2EE, Shell (bash), Active Directory, Apache Tomcat Application Server, SQL, LVM, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, TFTP, Apache Tomcat, RPM, YUM, RAID.