SUMMARY:

• Skilled & Proficient in Managing Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure through Automation PaaS & IaaS, Application Support & Solutions Engineering. Ensuring Site Reliability, DevSecOps Best Practices, Test Driven Development, Containerization, Monitoring & Security.
• 8 Years of Linux/Unix - RedHat, CentOS system automated installation, Configurations, Backups, Recovery management, Maintenance, Support and Troubleshooting, Kernel performance tuning, filesystem management, bash scripts for scheduled tasks and repeatable administration.
• 5 Years of Windows Server Configuration, PowerShell Automation, Configured Active Directory, DNS, IIS, Flex Volumes, NFS.
• Linux & Windows OS
• 4 years on AWS as a SysOps and Associate Architect to Design Cloud Native Solutions using Infra as a code library for IaaS, PaaS such as Snowflake, Fargate, EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, EMR, Route53, ALB, API Gateway, Auto Scaling, VPC Design, Lambda Functions, Cloud Trail, Guard Duty, Cloud Watch, IAM, KMS, SAML SSO and more.
• 2 Years on Azure with automation using ARM Templates, Azure VNETS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure App Services, Azure SQL Database, Azure AD Federation.
• Conducted POC with GCP (Google Cloud) Anthos and Kube-Flow for Hybrid Kubernetes Platform with managing RBAC and Service Account Principles, Stack Driver Monitoring, Argo & Tekton for Ci/Cd
• Cloud
• 4 years of Vsphere & Vcenter with administering, ESXi Hosts, Unattended Installs, HA, DRS, FC, SAN Distributed Switches, VMotion, Storage Migration, Fault Tolerance and Veeam Backups.
• Coordinate with vmware architect in Capacity planning implementation of new server build maintenance to minimize outages.
• On-Prem / VMWare
• 3 years of Docker writing Docker Files, Smoke Tests, Security Scanning, Networking, & Automating Deployment.
• 3 years of Kubernetes Creation of Clusters On-Prem with KUBEADM & Cloud with KOPS, Administered Worker Nodes, Storage Classes, RBAC, Namespaces, HA Masters, Ingress Controller, StateFull-Sets, Config-Map, Secrets, Service Discovery & Mesh with Instio/Envoy, Monitoring using Prometheus & Grafanna. Pod Autoscaling with Metrics Persistent Volumes and Claims, EndPoint Protection with CrowdStrike Falcon.
• Containers & Orchestration
• 4 years of experience in Terraform, Cloud Formation Template & Azure RM
• Customized Modules, Nested Stacks, State Management, Loops Conditionals Handlers, and Automating the needed provisioning of all IaaS & PaaS Services among Cloud and On-Prem.
• IaaC
• 5 Years of Experience with Ansible managing hosts files, authoring various playbooks and custom modules, working with Dynamic inventory, configuration of Ansible Tower and Integrating with Ci/Cd platforms for Pipeline deployment.
• Automated virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment with Ansible playbooks written using YAML
• 2 years of Chef writing recipes, cookbooks, working with knife, inspec, rspec, chef client bootstrap, chef server HA maintenance.
• Configuration Management
• 5 years of experience with Jenkins, GIT CI, Bamboo writing Pipeline as a code using Groovy or Scripted best practices or YAML with Azure DevOps Pipelines & GIT CI, Extension Shared Libraries, Plugins, Agents, Dynamic Scaling of Executions, Transitive project dependencies, webhook triggers and complete end to end installation of tool on linux.
• Integrated with Major CI and Cd Tools like: GitLab, Bitbucket, Github, Gradle, Maven, Jfrog Artifactory, Nexus, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, CrowdStrike, Twistlock, X-Ray, Junit, Cucumber, Nugget, Selenium, Ansible, Terraform, Spinnaker and more.
• CI/CD
• 4 years of experience with BASH & Powershell in writing scheduled tasks, loops, system automation, data processing, list comprehension, remote system configuration.
• 2 years with python creating nested loops and lambda functions and using boto3 and various modules to test REST API calls and validation and worked on serverless functions of data streaming, map-reduce and triggered event tasks.
• Scripting
• 5 years of experience with MySql, SQL Server configuration and Server Tuning, creation of DDl/DML, SQL Queries, InnoDB Caching Tuning, IOPS for Disk Optimization, Cross Region Replication with RDS and Azure Databases.
• 2 years of experience with No-Sql Databases like Mongo, ElastiCache, Cassandra, DynamoDB.
• Configured SnowFlake for ETL Workloads with Data Streaming pipeline using Kenesis streams, Apache Kafka, Elastic Search.
• Databases
• 5 + years of Networking experience and Security Best Practices with Juniper, Cisco, AWS VPC, Azure VNETS, VPN, Express Route, Direct Connect Private Link, RouteTables, UDR, IPSEC, Firewall Zoning and more.
• Networking
• 8 years of experience in monitoring with configuration of Splunk HEC and Forwarders, DataDog, Appdynamics, Kafka, Signal FX, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafanna, Cloud Watch.
• Monitoring
• 5 Years + with JBOSS, Tomcat, Websphere, configure JVM tuning, JDBC, High Availability, Metrics Monitoring, Automated Deployments of services in Blue/Green or Canary.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

AWS & Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible forAWSplatform and its dimensions of scalability includingVPC, EC2, ELB, S3, and EBS, ROUTE 53.
• Involved in cloud automation using AWS cloud Formation Templates, Chef.
• Skilled in Infrastructure Development and Operations involving AWS Cloud platforms, EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, RDS, SES, ELB, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, Elastic Cache, Cloud Watch, SNS.
• Involved in designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost all theAWS stack(IncludingEC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud Formation.
• Migrating servers, databases and applications toAWSand Azure.
• Involved in Planning, deploying, monitoring, and maintainingAWScloud infrastructure consisting of multiple EC2 nodes and VMware Vm's as required in the environment.
• Used Identify and Access Management (IAM) to assign roles and to create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions toAWSresources.
• Worked with Terraform key features such as Infrastructure as code, Execution plans, Resource Graphs, Change Automation and extensively used Auto Scaling launch configuration templates for launching Amazon EC2 instances while deploying Microservices.
• Expertise in integrating Terraform with Ansible, Packer to create and Version the AWS Infrastructure, designing, automating, and implementing Amazon machine images (AMI) across various AWS Cloud environment
• Worked withAnsible Playbooks, modules and roles and maintained various Ansible modules for the upstream Ansible repository
• Used Ansible server and workstation to manage and configure nodes.
• Automated AWS infrastructure via Ansible and Jenkins - software and services configuration using Ansible
• Automated SonarQube for static analysis and code quality check to have the quality code used for deployment.
• Implemented and Configured AppDynamics APM tool for various .Net, Java, IOS, Android applications.
• Good understanding of Open shift platform in managingDockercontainers andKubernetes Clusters.
• Managed Kubernetes Kcharts using Helm, and Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes deployment and service files and managed releases of Helm packages.
• CreatedDocker imagesusing aDocker file, worked onDocker container snapshots, removing images and managingDocker volumes.
• Good skills in Install, configuration, and operation ofRed Hat Open shift.
• Used build tools to aggregate projects usingApache, Ant, Maven, Groovy tools, andGradle.
• Involved in Creating test branches from master branch of each repository onGITto perform testing of Gradle upgrade to LSR and then assisted DEV teams to do the same successfully and also usedGradleandJenkinsto trigger build process
• Good understanding in Pipelined Application Logs from App Servers to Elastic Search (ELK Stack) through Log stash.
• Involved in Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using Subversion (SVN) andGITsource control.
• Involved in Managing and administering multiple instances ofGIT, including the build server infrastructure and operating environment for Android; develop server-side scripts/SW to customizeGITand to tie in with other tools such asJira, Jenkins/HudsonandBamboo.
• Developed internal tool Quick Deploy for runbook automation, and automated release and deployment Management process using shell scripts, windows batch, and python withRundeckand Jenkins.
• Used Branching, Merging, Tagging and maintaining the version across the environments usingSCMtools likeGITandSubversion (SVN)on Linux platforms.
• Good knowledge inBash, Perl, Python, Ruby scriptingonLinux.
• Extensively worked onJenkinsfor continuous integration and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments.
• Installed, monitored and configured Applications inNginxandApache Tomcat Serverand establish connectivity to databases and troubleshoot issues on the fly.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost all of theAWS stack(IncludingEC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS CloudFormation.
• Migration of Existing Application toAWS cloud.
• Experience in configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Microsoft based production system;Microsoft Azure Cloud and Azure Active Directory.
• Involved in Automating Regular AWS tasks like snapshots creation usingPython scripts.
• Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed withJava, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby,andDockeron familiar servers such asApache,andIIS.
• CreatedPython scriptsto totally automateAWS services, which includesweb servers, ELB, Cloud Front distribution, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application configuration, this script creates stacks, single servers, or joins web servers to stacks.
• Worked onDocker Hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration.
• Worked on Built a newCI pipeline. Testing and deployment automation withDocker, Jenkins, andPuppet.
• Managed aPAASfor deployments usingDocker, AnsibleandMesoswhich reduced considerably deployment risks.
• Collaborated with development and Support teams to setup a Continuous Delivery environment with the use ofDocker, continuous build and Delivery tools.
• Monitored System/Application Logs of server using Splunk to detect Prod issues.
• WrittenChef Cookbooksfor various DB configurations to modularize and optimize end product configuration, converting production support scripts toChef RecipesandAWSserver provisioning using Chef Recipes.
• Configured Apache Web server in the LinuxAWScloud environment usingCHEFautomation.
• Utilized Configuration Management toolCHEFand createdChef Cookbooksusing recipes to automate system operations.
• Managed On-site Operating Systems/Apps/ Packages /Services using Chef as well as AWS for EC2/S3/Route53 & ELB with Chef Cookbooks.
• Experience in setting up the Chef Servers, Chef Workstations, Chef Nodes and involved in bootstrapping new infrastructure Chef Nodes for software configurations management.
• Configured local Maven repositories and multi-component Ant projects with Nexus artifactory and scheduled projects in Jenkins for continuous integration.
• Performed Branching, Tagging, Release Activities on Version Control Tools:SVN, GIT.
• Installed, configured and maintained web servers likeHTTP Web Server, Apache Web ServerandWebSphere Application ServeronRed Hat Linux.
• DevelopedGIThooks for the local repository, code commit and remote repository, code push functionality and worked on the GitHub.
• Worked on Build scripts usingAntandMavenbuild tools inJenkinsto move from one environment to other environments.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Build and Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Have written Unix shell scripts to automate SVN branching, merging, tagging and various other version control tasks.
• Have worked on Bamboo to configure Source Code Management tools and have executed triggers in SVN.
• Configured local Maven repositories and multi-component Ant projects with Nexus artifactory and scheduled projects in Jenkins for continuous integration.
• Have developed pom.xml files for Maven build scripts. Experience in administering and maintaining Atlassian products like JIRA and Confluence.
• Involved in Automation of OS builds and Application Installation throughPuppet.Nagiosfor application and hardware resource monitoring. Writing new plugins in Nagios to monitor resources.
• Automation configuration and deployment ofLinuxandWindowsmachines usingPuppet.
• Good understanding on Agile tools Rally, tracking status and setting up velocities for the projects.
• Deployed and monitored scalable infrastructure onAmazon Web Services (AWS)& configuration management usingPuppet.
• Worked on Redesigning and redeploying theNagiosimplementation. Nodes automatically added/removed themselves viaPuppet.
• Build and deploy Java applications, Oracle SOA based applications to Tomcat application servers by creating ANT scripts.
• Integrated Subversion into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process.
• Integrated Build dependencies and dependency blocking strategy in Bamboo.
• Deployed Puppet for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Built Puppet manifests and bootstrap scripts to allow us to bootstrap instances to various roles without having to maintain AMIs.
• Redesigned and redeployed the Nagios implementation. Nodes automatically added and removed themselves via Puppet.

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, upgrade and configuration ofRed Hat Linuxusing the kick start installation andSUSE
• UpdatingYUMRepositories andRPM.
• Created virtual servers on VMwareESX/ESXiand installed operating system on Guest servers.
• Configuring and Maintained DNSservers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, NIS, RPM.
• Developedshell scriptsfor automation purpose and installing and configuring Apache and supporting them onLinuxproduction servers.
• Troubleshooting Linux network, security related issues, capturing packets using tools such asIptables, firewall, TCP wrappers, NMAP.
• Performed configuration of standard Linux and network protocols, such asSMTP, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, NFS, SMTP, HTTP, SNMPand others.
• ImplementedLVMsand Raid level concepts in the production environment to the existing Linux systems.
• Involved in hardening,Linux Serverand Compiling, Building and installingApache Serverfrom sources with minimum modules.
• Administration ofUNIXservers likeAIXandSun Solarisin both test and production environment and applied patches.
• Build and Deployment of theLinuxhardware Nodes to host severalKVMtemplates.
• Created RPM packages using theRPMBUILDand checking the new build packages.
• Maintained user's data backup by creating particular user folder in file server and applying security permission on folders
• Responsible for configuring and connection toSSHthrough SSH clients likePuttyandCyber duck.
• Created and modified user, groups withSUDOpermission.