SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of IT experience and 7+ years of Experience in DevOps/Build & Release, Linux/Unix administration which includes strong experience in Automating, Configuring and deploying instances on AWS cloud environments.
• Experience in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, IAM, SNS, RDS, EBS, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, Cloud - Formation AWS Config, Autoscalling, Cloud Front, AMI, S3.
• Experience in building the infrastructure by writing various Terraform/Cloud Formation templates.
• Experience in administration of Production, Development & Test environment’s working in various flavors of Linux and Unix like RHEL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, Suse Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, AIX 5.2 /5.3 /6.1 /7.1 and Solaris 8, 9, 10.
• Hands-on experience onAnsibleandAnsible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
• Experienced in working on DevOps/Agile operation process including various tools (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation, Environment, Service, Incident and Change Management).
• Experience in development and configuration with software provisioning tools like Chef, Puppet and Ansible.
• Wrote several Custom Ansibleplaybooks for various Applications/Web Servers.
• Designed and created multiple deployment strategies using Continuous Integration and Continuous Development Pipelines and configuration management tools with remote execution to ensure zero downtime and shortened deployment cycles via automated deployments.
• Created and wrote shell scripts (Bash), Python and Perl for automating tasks.
• Extensively experienced in using Build Automation tools like ANT, Maven, Gradle and working knowledge on other build tools like make file.
• Experience in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GIT, Subversion (SVN) on Linux and windows platforms.
• Extensively worked with automation tools like Hudson, Jenkins and Build Forge to implement the End to End Automation.
• Experience in Linux Administration (Installation, Configuration, Tuning and Upgrades of Linux (RedHat and Oracle Solaris, BSD, MAC OS).
• Maintained ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Experience in using Nexus and Artifactory Repository Managers for Maven builds.
• Experience using RPMs to TEMPeffectively package the applications for product deployments.
• Experience is using Apache Tomcat, .NET Application, JBoss, Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere Application servers for deployments.
• Familiar with Cloud watch, Elastic IP’s and managing security groups on AWS.
• Quick Learner, Self-motivator and ability to work in challenging & versatile environments with an excellent written/verbal communication.
• Applicatoin Containerization using Docker.
• Strong knowledge of system performance and monitoring tools, ESP Job Scheduler.
• End user support via Ticket and Asset Management software with JIRA Service Desk
• Capable of quickly learning and delivering solutions as an individual and as part of a team.
• Providing 24X7 On-call, Production and Customer Support including troubleshooting problems related to Linux& Windows servers.
• Expertise in resolving file system errors, system crashes and errors.
• Experience in DR (Disaster Recovery) planning and testing activities.
• Experience in working with virtualization technologies like VMware in building and configuring Linux, windows servers as a part of cost TEMPeffective solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Services: AWS (EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, Elastic Cache, IAM)

Configuration Management tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, ANT, Maven, BuildForge

Programming: C, Java/J2EE, .NET, Xml, Korn Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python, Groovy, PowerShell, SQL, Boto, Fabric, JavaScript, HTML

OS Platforms: UNIX (Solaris 8,9,10), Linux 5/6, Ubuntu, AIX, Windows 2008,2012. Mac OS

SCM/Version Control Tools: Subversion, GIT, Tortoise SVN, Clear case, Perforce, CVS

Web Service Tools: JBoss, Apache Tomcat 5.x, IntelliJ IDEA, Oracle WebLogic 10.x/11.x, IBM WebSphere 5.x,6.x,7.0, Ngnix, IIS Server, JBoss

CI Tools: Jenkins/Hudson, Bamboo, U Deploy, X Deploy, Anthill Pro

SDLC: Agile, Waterfall Methodologies

Database Systems: SQL Server 2008/2012, Oracle 9i/10g, PL/SQL, MS Access, DB2, Postgres, Sybase.

Hard Ware: Sun T2000, M5000, Ultra Enterprise 6000/5000, SPARC sun4c/sun4u, Dell Blade Servers, HP Blade Servers, Dell R720/R730, MAC Pro

Ticketing/Bug Tracking: Jira, Remedy, Servicenow, Junit, PMD, Red Mine, and Bugzilla.

Virtualization: VMware, VCAC, VSphere, VCenter, VCloud.

Monitoring tools: Nagios, Opsview, Hobbit, Splunk.

Container Technologies: Vagrant, Docker, K8’s (Kunernates)

Network Protocols: SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, NIS, LDAP, UDP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Cloud Engineer / Build Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential, is a FinTech start-up that leverages mobile and emerging technologies to transform point-of-care lending between healthcare consumers and professionals.
• Architect, Design and implement entire DEV, Pre-Prod/Integration environment on AWS, using VPC, EC2, ECS, ECR, Route53, Aurora DB(serverless and dedicated instance with multi AZ support).
• Design and implement VPN Server (SoftEther)to maximize security and take control of environment access along with IP forwarding, filtering set on the VPN server.
• Using all Open-Source CICD software’s with Containerization using Docker and Docker Swarm along with ESC and ECR on AWS.
• Design,Build and implemented Docker container for application like: Jenkins, Sonar-CE and Sonar-Developer,Postgres&Artifactory, all with persistence data.
• Implemented System and CICD performance monitoring using ELK Stack and Hygieia both running on Docker container.
• ELK Stack used for all EC2 system’s monitoring and Hygieia was for CICD monitoring including Jenkins builds, JIRA (cloud).
• Using Jenkins Declarative Pipeline for CICD for increased productivity, reduce build time and build agent usage (physical and Docker container).
• Configured and customized SonarQube Server and Analysis for Custom API Builds using Maven and for Android build using Gradle, and for iOS builds using Sonar-Scanner.

Client:Mcdonald’s corporation, chicago, il

(Capgemini & Publicis-Sapient)

Role:GMA DevOps Engineer&Infrastructure Support Engineer L1

Job Responsibilities:

• GMA (Global Mobile Application) DevOps Engineer supporting day to day GMA builds for Android (.apk) and iOS (.ipa) application build in hybrid environment including AWS for Android builds and Mac-Pro’s for iOS builds, used by all global markets e.g. US, AU, DE, UK, CA, etc.
• Design, build and manage Mac-Pro and Android build agents for location specific build requirement and deploy the final artifact to the required markets Apple iTunes or Google Beta for final release to markets.
• Designing system maintenance scriptsusing PYTHON and BASH SHELL forMAC PRO and AWS instances for Mobil build agents: cleaning of build workspace on schedule time, auto update of GEMS &PODS, remote installation, monitoring, parsing of system & build LOGS of errors and build failure and rectifying as per the SOA.
• Switched Jenkinsstandard jobs to pipeline and then Unified pipeline (1 pipeline per market) jobs so to increase productivity, reduce build time and easy to manage all builds with security access control by meeting and exceeding the SOA’s security requirement.
• POC on moving currently separate infrastructure for all team (Middleware, DNA, GMA, Etc.) to one unified system under Kubernetes cluster (K8’s)on AWS with Docker containerization of all Build agents.
• Under that POC for GMA team used CHEF to configure, customize and deploy Containers for building applications.
• Used Chef-Knifeplugin to deploy, configureMAC OS’s build agent Virtual system on VMWare ESXI on MAC PRO’s to increase productivity, with pre-customized MAC OS’s instances.
• Setting up Deployment Pipelines for Continuous Deployment in Release Management, using groovy for Jenkins for all Global Markets.
• Worked with different application teams to understand, analyze their current process, tools, techniques, workflows and involved in evaluation and finalization of state of art tools for GMA Application.
• Maintain environments Dev, SIT, QA, Stage and Production on baremetel (Mac Pro), and AWS.
• Involved in all aspects of project that move from DEV to PROD and work closely with Data Center, Development (DEV), Quality Assurance (QA), Management teams to ensure cross communication and confirmed approval of all development and productions changes.
• Designed and ImplementedELK stack on DOCKERSwarm (POC on MAC, production on AWS EC2 instance) using Docker file for GMA build monitoring.
• Created and Customized Kibanadashboard for each market based on standard monitoring KPI’s and custom KPI’s.
• POC on switching CI server from Jenkins to Bambooto keep all the CICD tool chain from one provider Altassian.
• Troubleshooting day to day build issue related to Ruby environment, GEMS, and PODS for iOS builds.

ENVIRONMENT: AWS Cloud, AWS Lambda, EC2, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, RedHat Linux 6.x, SVN, BitBucket, NuGet, Maven,Kubernetes, Ruby, Kabana, Shell scripts, Elasticsearch, Ant, Nagios, Sonarqube, Agile, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, NUnit, PowerShell, FileBeat, Apache Tomcat, Runbooks, Atlassian tools (BitBucket, Jira, Confluence,Jfrog, Bamboo)

Confidential, Woodbridge - NJ

DevOps Architect &Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, Setup, Configure and Maintain environments Dev, SIT, QA, Stage and Production on baremetel, Google Cloud, Azure Cloud and AWS.
• Setting up Deployment Pipelines for Continuous Deployment in Release Management using and following Agile Methodoloby.
• Deployed Asp.net(MVC) and Java applications to application servers in agile continuous integration environment and also automated the whole process, using Shell & Python for Linux network and Powershell for Windows network over Azure.
• Responsible for installing and configuring Jenkins Master and Slave nodes for windows environment and then replicating the same on to Linux envoronment by meeting or exceeding the security requirement.
• Worked with different application teams to understand, analyze their current process, tools, techniques, workflows and involved in evaluation and finalization of state of art tools.
• Involved in all aspects of project that move from DEV to PROD and work closely with Data Center, Development (DEV), Quality Assurance (QA), Management teams to ensure cross communication and confirmed approval of al development and productions changes.
• Wrote Chefcookbooks to configure, deploy and maintain software components of the existing and new infrastructure
• Wrote several terraform templates to create infrastructure for various applications.
• Worked on migrating existing application to Containerize using Docker.
• Experience in working with Vagrant for testing Ansible plays and deployments.
• Responsible for managing infrastructure provisioning (S3, ELB, EC2, RDS, Route 53, IAM, security groups - CIDR’s, VCP, NAT) and deployment via SCALR and EC2 Installs with CentOS, Ubuntu and RHEL 6 Linux.
• Worked on Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates
• Development of automation of Kubernetes clusters with both Fleet and Ansible.
• Extensive experience in using GIT CLI.
• Strictly followed Incident and Change Management, used Jira, youtrack, trello for ticket and Agile methodologies for day to day activities.
• Responsible for designing and deploying best SCM processes and procedures.
• Worked closely with software developers and Sysadmin to debug software and system problems
• Maintained and coordinated environment configuration, controls, code integrity, and code conflict resolution.
• Worked on POC and implementation of ELK stack.
• Worked on integrating application logs with Splunk and wrote several custom splunk queries for monitoring and alerting.
• Installed and Configured RUNDECK and wrote shell scripts to automate App/Web services bouncing/deployment.
• Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux/Windows machines.
• Analyze and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT& GITLAB.
• Used Jenkins andAnsiblefor Continuous Integration and continuous deployment in multiple environments.

ENVIRONMENT: AWS Cloud, AWS Lambda, EC2, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, Solaris 8, 9,10, Fedora, RedHat Linux 5.x/6.x, Windows 2008/2012, SVN, GitHub/BitBucket, Azure, MSBuild, NuGet, Maven,Kubernetes, Ruby, Kabana, Shell scripts, Elasticsearch, Ant, Nagios, Sonar, Agile, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, NUnit, PowerShell, WebLogic, FileBeat, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, CFEngine, Runbooks, Apache 1.3.x, 1.2, 2.x, Oracle 10g.

Confidential, JERSEY CITY, NJ

System & Network Administration

Responsibilities:

• Administration and Support for WSS Wintel Team’s 600 + servers,
• Configuration of Wins Serves, Database Servers with Oracle 9i and SQL 2000 Servers, Configuring & Deployment of Tivoli Agents.
• Deployment of Security Patches and High Priority Patches for all the servers in the group with the halp of in house Patch Management Software.
• Debugging of Windows Blue screen Bug Check with Windows Debugger for 32 & 64 bit (version 6.6.7.5). Reconcile, Maintenance & updating of WSS Wintel’s Assets records in IMS (Inventory Management System).
• Worked on all the projects / tasks like Asset Managements, Patch Deployment, Server support, Application support and Administration.
• Script using Window Scripting Host for the Account Audit Security, logon script, System Level policy and day-to-day Administration of Active Directory and user management. Configuration of Wins Serves, Database Servers with Oracle 9i and SQL 2000 Servers, Configuring & Deployment of Tivoli Agents.
• Supporting and assisting the existing Systems Administrator for routine troubleshooting for the in-house Applications.

Confidential - NY

Linux/Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured RHEL 4x/5.x and CentOS, Virtual Machines in VMware ESXi using vCenter Server and vSphere Client.
• Network troubleshooting and worked with utilities like netstat, iostat, vmstat, sar, top and various third-party tools to troubleshoot user applications, system problems, file systems space issues, server panic/shutdown/hang, network problems, hardware issues related to disks, memory modules.
• Used Remedy (Incident and Change management) for Ticketing, extensively communicated with customers, participated in bridge calls and worked with various teams including oracle, blackboard, ITM, TSM, Netbackup, WebLogic, WebSphere, updated Runbooks.
• Worked with VCS - highly available.
• Experienced troubleshooting servers using utilities like netstat, iostat, vmstat, top, ifconfig etc.
• Worked with User Administration commands like useradd, groupadd, passwd, chmod, chgrp, usermod.
• Successfully installed and configured Oracle RAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
• Installed and Configured Nagios server in CentOS, also developed few plugins and checks to monitor various system related parameters, services and processes
• Day-to-day responsibilities include providing CVS support for different projects, maintaining the repositories, views.
• Support and monitoring of Windows desktops, Networking and server running on Solaris, Red Hat Linux, worked on User Administration including adding /deleting users, password aging, groups, file permissions.
• Worked with installation of Patches, FTP, unzip, untar, scheduling of cron jobs, worked with server monitoring using commands like uptime, ping and Solaris 10 utilities like svcs, svcadm.
• Build and deployed J2EE application in JBoss, used Maven for building and deployment.
• Integrated HP QC, QTP, Load Runner, and Performance Center with Jenkins, which would run tests and display results and reports on Jenkins.
• Experienced in testing the Application using HP QC, QTP, Selenium, performance center, Load runner.

ENVIRONMENT: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x/5.x, CentOS, Solaris 9, 10,VMware ESXi, NCCM (Network Configuration and Change Management), Sitescope, Nagios XI and Nagios Core, Oracle 9i, WebSphere, Tomcat, Java/J2EE, CI/CD, Maven, ClearCase/CVS, Jenkins, WebSphere, Team City, QTP.

Confidential - NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setting up of LAN & WAN networks using Cat 5e cables and fiber optic for switch-to-switch
• Configure Active Directory schema on MS 2000 Advance Server along with other server providing functions as DHCP, WINS, Print and User Home Director (Data servers), for a 300+ users with Windows 2000 Professional clients.
• Support Storage Area Network for User data and Backup’s over Fiber Channel, implemented RAID 5.
• Support, Reconfigured & troubleshooting of MS SMS 2.0.
• Configuration of Cisco Pix Firewall with Access list, NAT, RAS services for a Virtual Networks.
• Configuration of Cisco 2500 Router for VPN. Configured Proxy & Exchange 2000 & Print Servers. Implementing IP routing, IP address resolution, understanding TCP/IP statistics and monitoring network traffic. Configuring and troubleshooting DHCP, DNS, WINS and TCP/IP. Anti-virus from McAfee Office central is used for maintenance in Server and Clients.

Confidential

Computer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing, Installation and Configuration of various LAN / WAN Networks with wide client base at Trading Firm, Brokerage firm and Computer Training centers.
• Configured Servers like Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 and Novell Netware 5.0.
• Installed & supported Teller - made Applications with Server Connectivity.
• Installed and Configured & supported Hub, Switch (D-Link, 3-com, Nortel) and Routers (Cisco 800 & 2500 series).

Confidential

Network & Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project of Network & Hardware Configuration, Support and Network Migration.
• Reconfiguration of a Network of 1000 + Clients like Windows 95-98 along with 60 + Servers like Windows NT & Novell Netware 4.x.
• Troubleshooting of the Hardware of Servers from IBM NetFinity and Compaq ML3000 Series.
• Migrating from existing Network of 16 Bit Novell Netware 4.5 to 32 Bit Novell Netware 5.0.
• Reconfiguration of LAN Card to work on TCP/IP, with final connectivity to central datacenter in Mumbai (Bombay), for all the Branches of Gujarat Region.
• Implemented RAID level 5 and RAID level 1 at some small-scale Branches.
• Designed and implemented the new LAN Cabling at Ashram Road Branch and Navrangpura Branch both located in Ahmedabad India, with over 400 clients of voice and data using with Fiber-optic for maximum speed between switches.
• Configure Cisco Routers models 2500, 2600, and 3600 Series.

Confidential

Junior Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• An Institute providing Information Technology training course operating as a franchisee of LCC Infotech, India.
• Duties include: Installed, configure and administer a Network of 15 -client computers with Windows NT Server 4.0.