SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience in Information Technology industry in various roles wif excellent experience in Software Integration, Configuration, Build & Release management and Development for several markets driven international organizations.
• Experienced in all phases of teh software development life - cycle (SDLC) wif specific focus on teh build and release of quality software. Experienced in Waterfall, Agile/Scrum and most recently Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) practices.
• Manage user permissions on Azure Active Directory and implement RBAC policies on Resource Groups.
• Experience on DevOpstools such asChef, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, GIT,andDocker.
• Experience in Amazon Cloud Services and its features (AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, snapshots, Auto scaling, Cloud Formation, Lambda, SES, SQS, SNS, RDS, ELB, EBS, CloudWatch, S3 etc)
• Experience in building policies for access control and user profiles using AWS IAM, S3 controls wif bucket policies.
• Excellent noledge of S3 storage strategies such as Versioning, life cycle policies, cross region replication.
• Configuring and managing teh Auto Scaling Groups, Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) and EC2 snapshots for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Configuring notifications for various AWS services and created performance metrics using CloudWatch Alarms and SNS.
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Azure Boards, Azure Repo and Azure Pipelines for .net applications.
• Experience in setting up teh chef workstation, chef repo as well as nodes from teh scratch.
• Implemented DR tests for critical production servers (chef Manager, CPM tool and WSUS) for High availability and Fault tolerance.
• Created Shell Scripts for automating daily tasks and bulk copying/renaming and moving files across server.
• Created roles for teh users and groups to assume teh temporary access to teh services like EC2, S3, RDS and DynamoDB using AWS IAM Service.
• Hands-on experience in working wif configuration management tools likeAnsible and Chef.
• 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.
• Experienced in Branching, Merging, Tagging and maintaining teh version across teh environments using SCM tools like GIT and Subversion (SVN) on Linux platforms.
• Provided administrative support and monitoring database systems. Writing scripts or using tools to extract data from teh database or load data into teh database as needed. Update data or content to ensure teh freshness of teh web system.
• Worked wif development team to set up development and testing environment and a process to deploy application to each environment. Evaluate and propose new or improved system architecture
• Deployed and configured Chef Server and Chef Solo including bootstrapping of chef client nodes for provisioning; Created roles, cookbooks, recipes, and data bags for server configuration, deployment, and app stack build outs.
• Installation and support ofVMWAREESX/ESXi 3.5/4.x/5.x server which hosts teh virtual servers for teh test/dev/staging environment.
• Installed Jenkins, Maven and created CI and CD jobs in teh AWS cloud using EC2 instances.
• Used tools such as SNOW & REMEDY to Managed Product Backlog, Track bugs and Confluence for documentation.
• Well organized wif interpersonal and developmental skills, strong work ethics and willingness to work hard to achieve employer goals and targets.
• Excellent Communication skills and Intrapersonal Skills wifListening, Speaking, Writing, Presentationandproactive in learningof advance concepts in IT technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Version Control Systems: GIT, SVN, AWS Code Commit

Configuration Management Tools: Chef, Ansible, Code Deploy

CI Automation and Build Tools: Maven, Jenkins, Code Build

Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes

Tracking Tools: JIRA

Logging and Monitoring: Syslog

Cloud Technologies: AWS, Azure

Web/Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, Jboss, Nginx

Languages/Scripts: Core Java, C#, Bash, Python

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, DynamoDB, SQL Server

Web Technologies.: HTML5, CSS, Java Script

Operating Systems: RHEL 5/6/7, IBM-AIX 5.x, CentOs 5/6, Windows 98, Windows 2000, windows 2008

Network Protocols: SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, UDP and RIP, ISCSI, Fiber Channel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston

Azure DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Azure Boards, Azure Repo and Azure Pipelines for .net applications.
• Maintain Release notes on wiki and created work items using Azure Boards.
• Configure and maintain variables, secure files on libraries and integrate wif CD pipeline.
• Configured release pipelines to deploy artifacts to azure functions app & web apps.
• Provisioned Azure function apps, SQL databases, Key vault & Azure app services using Azure DevOps IAC.
• Configure and mange AAD users on Azure DevOps at organization level and created teams and groups at projects level wif restricted access to Azure DevOps environment.
• Configure new service connections on Azure DevOps to access teh Resource Groups and deploy teh artifacts.
• Configured Azure Multi-Factor Autantication (MFA) as a part of Azure AD Premium to securely autanticate users and worked on creating custom Azure templates for quick deployments and advancedPowerShellscripting. Deployed Azure SQL DB wif GEO Replication, Azure SQL DB Sync to standby database in another region & Fail over configuration.
• Establishing Web system specifications by analyzing access, information, and security requirements; designing system infrastructure. Documenting system configuration, processes, and procedures.
• Maintaining Web system performance by performing system monitoring and analysis and performance tuning; troubleshooting systems; designing and running system load/stress testing; escalating application problems to vendor. Upgrading Web system by conferring wif vendors and services; developing, testing, evaluating, and installing enhancements and new software.
• Worked on JIRA and Service Now for Task assignment, Incidents management, change requests and story boards to meet SLA’s.
• Work wif development team to set up development and testing environment and a process to deploy application to each environment. Evaluate and propose new or improved system architecture.
• Provide administrative support and monitoring database systems. Writing scripts or using tools to extract data from teh database or load data into teh database as needed. Update data or content to ensure teh freshness of teh web system.
• Developed and implemented CI/CD pipeline using CloudFormation template to deploy docker images on ECR.
• Developed CloudFormation templates for manually provisioned AWS infrastructure and migrated to ITS compliance AWS control tower.
• Created and Deployed CI pipeline for React application which includes lint and unit test stages using AWS Code Commit and AWS Code Build.
• Migrated Postgres databases from on-prem to AWS RDS instance wif minimal downtime using AWS DMS service
• Implemented CloudWatch Dashboards and Alarms to monitor services like RDS, EC2 and SQS.
• Involved in troubleshooting issues on network connectivity, performance and configuration management for critical application servers.
• Provisioned AWS infrastructure services like VPC, EC2, Autoscaling Groups, ELB, Elasticsearch, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch Event rules, ECS, CloudFront etc., using CloudFormation.
• Gathered teh requirements to build teh CI/CD pipeline for teh back-end deployments for Development, Test, Pre-Production and Production environments using In-place and Blue/Green deployments.
• Configured and maintained teh monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using Cloud Watch.
• Worked on data analytic tool ‘Grafana’ for monitoring network end to end infrastructure.
• Supported application teams on OS upgradation of cloud instances using backup and restore process.
• Configured WSUS servers, approved patches to customer environments and monitored teh servers using AWS Cloud watch monitoring service.
• Developed EC2 related automation scripts for infrastructure cost optimization using python(boto3).
• Implemented N2W Cloud Protection Manager (CPM) backup solution for Customer Resources infrastructure, including teh related policies and scheduling.
• Installed Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, wrote Recipes, and Cookbooks and uploaded them to Chef-server and managedAWSfor EC2/S3 & ELB wif Chef Cookbooks.
• Written Chef Cookbooks for installing Tomcat & Nginx and for configuring load balancers and fail over.
• Securing Web system by developing system access, monitoring, control, and evaluation; establishing and testing disaster recovery policies and procedures; completing back-ups; maintaining documentation. Work wif Information Security Specialist for routine audit of teh related systems.
• Working wif development team to set up development and testing environment and a process to deploy application to each environment. Evaluating and proposing new or improved system architecture.
• Configured AWS CloudFront wif API gateways and Lambda for Front S3 static code
• Providing system administrative support and monitoring database systems. Write script or use tools to extract data from teh database or load data into teh database as needed. Update data or content to ensure teh freshness of teh web system.

Confidential, Houston

AWS DevOps/Cloud Operations

Responsibilities:

• Deployed applications into teh AWS cloud using Amazon EC2, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), IAM (Identity and Access Management), AWS S3, Glacier, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail and Route 53.
• Worked closely wif teh SCM to do analysis and performance issues dat might occur in future due to configuration changes in teh production servers.
• Worked closely wif teh development teams to implement teh necessary tools and process to support teh automation of builds, deployment, testing and Infrastructure (Infrastructure as code) using chef
• Managing teh user account by assigning and minimizing teh roles to teh various AWS services through IAM.
• Configuring and versioning teh S3 buckets and creating teh life cycle policies to store and archive data to Amazon Glacier.
• Developed cookbooks locally and test automation code in AWS environment wif testing tools such as Test kitchen and chef spec.
• Tested monthly baked custom AMI’s on bootstrap use-cases for OS environments like Linux (RHEL & SUSE) and Windows (2008, 2012R2 & 2016).
• Built configuration on test kitchen files for driver like Docker, vagrant using chef generators to test cookbooks locally on AWS environment.
• Created and performed unit and integration tests using tools like test kitchen and chef spec(Rspec framework).
• Designing and creating teh cloud Formation template to automate teh process of application deployments.
• Configuring and managing teh Auto Scaling Groups, Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) and EC2 snapshots for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Configuring notifications for various AWS services and created performance metrics using CloudWatch Alarms and SNS.
• Tested monthly baked custom AMI’s on bootstrap use-cases for OS environments like Linux (RHEL & SUSE) and Windows (2008, 2012R2 & 2016).
• Implemented DR tests for critical production servers (chef Manager, CPM tool and WSUS) for High availability and Fault tolerance.

Environment: AWS(EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS, Route53, ELB, Cloud Watch, CloudFormation,AWSAuto Scaling, Lambda), GIT, SQL, confluence,AWSCLI, Unix/Linux, Ruby, Shell scripting, Chef, Nginx, Tomcat.

Confidential, Chicago

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migration of Existing Application to AWS cloud
• Designed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Build servers using AWS: Importing volumes, launching EC2, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers, Route 53, SES and SNS in teh defined virtual private connection.
• Involved in provisioning AWS S3 buckets for backup of teh application and sync dis content wif remaining S3 backups, by creating entry for AWS S3 SYNC in crontab.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline wif Docker, Jenkins and GitHub and AWS AMI's.
• Implemented EC2 backup strategies by creating EBS Snapshots and attaching teh volumes to EC2s when needed.
• Experience in working wif EC2 Container Service plugin in JENKINS which automates teh Jenkins master-slave configuration by creating temporary slaves.
• Maintained build related scripts developed in shell for Maven builds. Created and modified build configuration files including POM.xml.
• Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
• Worked wif Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment.
• Created Docker images using a Dockerfile, Worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing docker volumes.
• To achieve Continuous Delivery goal on high scalable environment, used Docker coupled wif kubernetes.
• Automated teh process of retrieving cloud watch metrics like CPU, Mem, Network utilization scripts and presenting them in xlsx format.

Environment: AWS(EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS, Route53, ELB, Cloud Watch, CloudFormation,AWSAuto Scaling, Lambda), GIT, AWSCLI, Unix/Linux, Ruby, Shell scripting, Ansible, Docker, Nginx, Tomcat.