TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Redhat - Github- Python- VMware Ubuntu - Nagios - Docker- MySQL AWS- Splunk- Kubernetes - RAID Azure - Jira - OpenShift - Jfrog Ansible - YAML- Terraform - Jenkins

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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AWS Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in DevOps group running Jenkins in a Docker container with EC2 slaves in Amazon AWS cloud configuration.
• Launching EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu/RHEL) and Configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Create, manage, and delete users and groups as per the request using Amazon Identity and Access Management.
• Installed applications on AWS EC2 instances and configured S3 buckets.
• Created and managed S3 buckets access through policies, including IAM roles.
• Experience in designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto scaling groups.
• Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS Cloud watch.
• Used AWS console and the AWS CLI to launch and manage VM's with Public/Private subnet and setup load balancing, security groups etc.
• Configured Ansible to manage AWS environments and automate the build process for core AMIs used by all application deployments including Auto Scaling and Cloud Formation Scripts.
• Ran Ansible playbooks and created various roles for applications, then deployed the Applications/Services on hosts.
• Automated various infrastructure activities like Continuous Deployment, Application Server setup, stack monitoring using Ansible playbooks.
• Using roles, handlers, templates, variables to create dynamic playbooks.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub on AWS for automated releases.
• Used Kubernetes and OpenShift to deploy, load balancers, scale and manage Docker containers in production.
• 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.
• Experience in SQL Server Installation, Configuration, Backup and Recovery.
• Created Ansible playbooks to automatically install packages from a repository, to change the configuration of remotely configured machines and to deploy new builds.
• Configured the Ansible playbooks with Ansible Tower so that other users can run them with just a push of a button.
• Used Terraform scripts to automate future AWS service creations.
• Deployed the java application into web application servers like Apache, Tomcat.
• Used Ansible and Terraform for creating subnets, security groups, route tables and ACL's for VPC creation
• Virtualized servers using Docker for the test environments and dev-environments needs. And also configuration automation using Docker containers.
• Created branches and managed the source code for various applications in GIT.
• Worked on infrastructure with Docker containerization.
• Worked with Docker for a convenient environment setup the test environments.
• Created YAML scripts for cloudformation templates to launch multiple web servers, load balancers.
• Experience in working on version control systems like Subversion, GIT by using source code management client tools like Tortoise SVN, GitBash, GitHub, Bitbucket and other command line applications
• Experience in managing Ansible Playbooks with Ansible roles . Used file module in Ansible playbook to copy and remove files on remote systems. Created inventory in Ansible for automating the continuous deployment.
• Working knowledge of ticketing tools like JIRA, Zendesk.
• Collaborating with multiple levels of the organization to carry out large scale projects through the use of Jira user stories.
• Utilized BitBucket server, integrated with Jira and Confluence.

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Linux systems engineer

Responsibilities:

• Linux System Administrator with Linux, Red Hat, VMWare, Secured Storage Systems in production.
• Expertise in Networking TCP/IP, Ethernet, FTP, NFS, NIS, DNS, DHCP and RAIDs.
• Installed LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP for different applications.
• Monitored the performance of the system using TOP, SAR, PS, VMSTAT, NETSTAT, and IOSTAT.
• Used Logical Volume Manage (LVM) to create disk groups, Physical volumes, Volume groups, and used RAID technology for backup and recovery.
• Created and maintained user accounts, profiles, security rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Experience on working with disk formatting, creating, extending and reducing of Volume group (VG) s, Logical volume (LV) s, disk striping and file systems creation
• Orchestrated troubleshooting Hardware, Network, Storage, swap and File system issues, application bottlenecks, System recovery, Crash dump analysis, Performance tuning and TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, SMTP in Linux
• Experience in network administration, deploying and troubleshooting of DNS, LDAP,
• NFS and DHCP etc.
• Installed and configured DHCP server to give IP leases to production servers.
• Installed packages and modules with package management tools YUM and RPM.
• Password-less setup and agent-forwarding done for SSH login using ssh-keygen.
• Created and maintained network users, user environment, directories, and security.
• Analyzed, designed, and implemented Switches, Routers, Firewalls.
• Created BASH shell scripts to automate Cron jobs and system maintenance, including scheduling cron jobs for repetitive operations.
• Configured Kickstart servers and booted the images using PXE in RedHat Linux and also used RedHat Satellite server extensively.
• Installed and configured VMware setup and Worked on deployment of applications on VMware and vCenter.
• Working with physical servers including replacing hardware, troubleshooting through service ports such as ilo and idrac.
• Upgraded WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat and Apache application servers.
• Experience in setting up IP Bonding on Linux Enterprise Servers for high availability.
• Applied the Clustering Topology that meets High Availability and Failover requirement for performance and functionality.
• Implemented the use of Nagios tool for monitoring and analyzing the network loads on the individual Machines
• Worked alongside QA on various projects dealing with updates and patches of servers and applications by doing pre checks, deployments, an post checks while meeting deadlines
• Working knowledge in installing, configuring, implementing and managing RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5 technologies.
• Experience in writing Jira API Tools to auto-move Service Desk tickets of one issue type to a Jira project of another issue type and to extract the list of Jira users with the respective Jira Groups and Project Roles
• Worked with the Application Support Engineering team for troubleshooting the issues on the resolver nodes in the Prod Env.