SUMMARY

• With an industry experience of having 10 years, I have been working as a Solution Architect on AWS cloud, DevOps, Continuous Integration, Migration, Configuration Management, Build, Deploy and Release management, Agile methodologies, Unix, Linux and Vmware.
• Experience in various stages of software deployment life cycle including requirements analysis, design, development, deployment and testing of various business applications.
• Experience with an in - depth level of understanding in the strategy and practical implementation of AWS Cloud-Specific technologies including EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, RDS, SES, ELB, EMR, ECS, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, Elastic Cache, Cloud Watch, RedShift, Lambda, SNS, Dynamo DB.
• Handling migration of on-premises applications to cloud, and created resources in cloud to enable this, using all critical AWS tools, used ELB (Elastic Load Balancer), EFS (Elastic File System) and Auto-Scaling policies for scalability, elasticity and availability.
• Engineered Splunk to build, configure and maintain heterogeneous environments and in-depth knowledge of log analysis generated by various systems including security products.
• Understanding of major operating systems, management, cloud security authentication, authorization, cloud compliance, cloud data protection, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), network as a service, storage as a service, active directory and cloud infrastructure components.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins Freestyle and pipeline jobs for end-to-end automation to build, test and deliver artifacts and troubleshoot the build issue during the Jenkins build process.
• Developed Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Continuity proposal utilizing AWS Services.
• 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.
• Have knowledge on Red Hat Satellite servers.
• Experience in creating custom views, reporting and automated alerting for both operational and security use using Qradar.
• Installed and Configured chef server/workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AWS nodes. Managed and monitored the instances (chef clients) on AWS EC2.
• Resolved AWS Network Infrastructure Issues, troubleshoot HPC Performance and HA Configuration
• Expertise in automating builds and deployment process using Bash, Python and Shell scripts with focus on DevOps tools, CI/CD, AWS Cloud Architecture.
• Worked in different software development life cycles using the Waterfall, Agile methodologies and have great experience with the tools like GITHUB, Jenkins and Subversion (SVN).
• Expertise in implementing DevOps culture through CI/CD tools like Repos, Jenkins, Code Pipeline, Maven, and configuration management tools like Chef.
• Setup up and maintenance of automated environment using basic Chef & cookbooks and mostly on Puppet manifest and modules within AWS environment.
• Experience on performing tasks like Branching, Tagging, and Release Activities on Version Control Tools like SVN, GIT.
• Experience on AWS (Amazon Web Services), VMware virtualization/Windows, Linux and Infrastructure management.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, configuration and administration of Red Hat Virtual machines in Vmware Environment.
• Experience with Bug tracking tool like JIRA, Created and wrote shell scripts (Bash), Python for automating tasks.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work as team or individually, ability to learn new technologies quickly, good interaction with developers, managers and team members to coordinated job tasks and strong commitment to work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud: Amazon Web services (AWS)

AWS Services: EC2, RDS, ELB, S3, Route 53, ElastiCache, IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Elastic Beanstalk, SNS, AWS Resource groups etc.

Version Control: GIT, GIT Hub, Subversion (SVN), Code Commit, TFS.

Web Servers: Apache, Tomcat

Configuration Management: Puppet, Maven, Docker, Ansible

Development Languages: Python, People Code

Build Tools: MAVEN, Jenkins

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS Solution Architect

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud Formation.
• Migrated the current Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used auto scaling feature. Involved in Remediation and patching of Unix/Linux Servers.
• Configured AWS IAM and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in VPC.
• Created Terra form scripts to move existing on-premises applications to cloud.
• Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
• Used MySQL, DynamoDB and Elastic Cache to perform basic database administration.
• Used GZIP with AWS Cloud Front to forward compressed files to destination node/instances.
• Build out server automation with Continuous Integration - Continuous Deployment tools like Jenkins/ Maven for deployment and build management system.
• Installed and configured configuration tool such as Chef Server / workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AWS nodes.
• Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
• Manage Amazon Redshift clusters such as launching the cluster and specifying the node type.
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in AWS cloud.
• Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.
• Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup.
• Utilized Configuration Management tool Chef & created Chef Cookbooks using recipes to automate system operations.
• Build servers using AWS, Importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection.
• Deployed applications on AWS by using Elastic Beanstalk.
• Manage AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT environments as well as infrastructure servers for GIT and Chef.
• Created python scripts to totally automate AWS services, which includes web 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.
• User, Group creation, monitoring and maintaining log for system status/health using Linux commands and Nagios system monitor.
• Good understanding of ELB, security groups, NACL, NAT, firewall and Route 53.

Environment: AWS EC2, S3, Tomcat Apache, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Dynamo DB, VPC, IAM, Nagios, Git, Chef, Linux, Data Centre Migration AWS, Jenkins, Maven, Terra form, ELB, Redshift, NAT, Route 53, Elasti Cache

AWS Cloud Engineer

Confidential, IN

Responsibilities:

• Configuring, supporting and maintaining all network firewall, storage, load balancer, operating systems and software in AWSEC2 Instances.
• Configuring S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in amazon Glacier.
• Designing AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Managing AWS infrastructure and automation with CLI and API. Working on Inbound and Outbound services with automation of Chef.
• Deployed multiple resources simultaneously, using Cloud Formation templates in AWS.
• Managing AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA environments as well as infrastructure servers for GIT and Chef.
• Utilizing Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB services, Dynamo DB tables, EBS volumes to set alarms for notification or automated actions and to monitor logs for a better understanding and operation of the system.
• Launching and configuring of Amazon EC2 Cloud Servers using AMI's, Configured an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), NACL, and Database Subnet Group for isolation of resources within the Amazon RDS.
• Administered code line GIT pushes (releases) to production and customer servers and Developed and improved GIT push scripts.
• Defined dependencies and plug-ins in Maven pom.xml for various activities and integrated Maven with GIT to manage and deploy project related tags.
• Developing build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Built Automation and Build Pipe Line Development using Jenkins, GitHub and Maven. Set up build pipelines in Jenkins by using various plugins like Maven plugin, EC2 plugin etc.
• Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Maven, Python and Shell.
• Maintaining JIRA for tracking and updating project defects and tasks.
• Responsible for Plugin Management, User Management, regular incremental backups and regular maintenance for recovery.
• Writing wrapper scripts to automate deployment of cookbooks on nodes and running the chef client on them in a Chef-Solo environment.

Environment: AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Trail), Cloud Formation Templates, GIT, GitHub, Bash, Python, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Linux, Unix, Apache Tomcat, Windows, Jira.

Aws/DevOps Engineer

Confidential, IN

Responsibilities:

• Created AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT, EC2 instances, ELB, Security Groups.
• Worked on core AWS services such as Setting up new server (EC2) instances/services in AWS, configuring, Managing and supported AWS Security related issues, such IAM and S3 policies for user access.
• Installed, configured multiple operating systems and provisioned similar instances on AWS cloud.
• Configured and administered AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) resources such as instances, EBS volumes, snapshots, elastic load balancers, AMI's, security Groups, elastic IP's, Key pairs and Amazon Cloud watch for different zones in development, testing environments.
• Created and maintained AWS Virtual private cloud (VPC), subnets, Internet Gateways, Route Tables under AWS Cloud Environment.
• Enabled ELB to automatically route traffic across multiple instances and multiple Availability Zones.
• Created S3 buckets for EC2 instances to store all the content including HTML pages, images, CSS files and Java script files.
• Created the cloud formation template to spin up the EC2 instances.
• Created cookbooks for tomcat and WebLogic to provision the Linux servers.
• Managed application specific cookbooks, recipes, roles, data bags & environments in chef.
• Supported server/VM provisioning activities, middleware installation and deployment activities via chef.
• Written Chef cookbooks and recipes to Provision Several pre-prod environments consisting of Cassandra DB installations, weblogic domain creations and several proprietary middleware installations
• Written Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall process improvement to any manual processes.
• Experience with chef test kitchen, berkshelf and chef spec for unit test cases
• Implemented configuration management and version control on chef cookbooks implementing a "Infrastructure as code" methodology to automate build and deployment operations tasks.
• Registry and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configurations
• Managed daily and nightly Integration test builds for Dev Teams sizing upto 15 and ensured the build stabilization for nightly deploys.
• Managed users, organizations and repositories in GitHub.
• Building CI pipelines in Jenkins while also fully scripting the creation and provisioning of Jenkins.
• Work with packaging team to make appropriate packages available in central library for puppet module development.
• Work with Build and Release teams to enhance the current process to implement a better software packaging and delivery by automation using Jenkins & chef.
• Created instances (VMs) in AWS with required stack of infrastructure for application teams.
• Used Jenkins to run chef on VMs created in AWS cloud.
• Maintain a Live Like environment to test any production issues on the setup and push it into production
• Managed Nodes, Run lists, roles, environments, data bags, cookbooks, recipes in Chef.

Environment: JIRA, SVN, Apache ANT, XML, Maven, Jerkins, Anthill Pro, Apache Tomcat, Shell Script, Unix/Linux, Windows, Oracle.

VM Ware Engineer

Confidential, IN

Responsibilities:

• In place upgrade of Domain Controllers from Windows 2012 to Windows 2012R2 in Hyper V.
• Performed hardware and software maintenance of Windows Server environment including VMware ESX/ESXi Host, Clusters, Servers and Virtual Machines; and Interfaced with different Venders.
• Created technical documents detailing P2V, V2V migrations and Windows upgrades.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines, installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines; including deploying link Clones using View Composer. Assigned dedicated/floating pools as per requirement.
• Set up virtual network using VSphere Distributed Switch, standard switch, port groups and VM kernel.
• Vital contributor to VMware infrastructure design at new facility, using vSphere, vCenter and VMware ESXi4 and ESXi5 to provide a mission-critical production infrastructure..
• Troubleshoot WMI connection issues for Windows 2003 servers when running the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit.
• Participated in installation and configuration of vCenter Server, and VSphere licensing.
• Worked with Physical System (rack/stack, cabling, hard drive replacement, hardware upgrades); also installed, configured and supported Cisco UCS and HP servers.
• Managed and supported VMware vCloud Center and VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) in Customer's preproduction environment.
• Converted Physical servers to Virtual servers using VMware vCenter Converter standalone tool and migrated those servers.
• Implementation and maintenance of Group Policies and Active Directory Replication.
• Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM's.
• Provide support for Windows Server 2003/2008, Active Directory, and other Windows-related technologies.
• Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers.
• Perform inventory of existing server environment and gather server utilization statistics such as CPU, RAM, Memory and Network.
• Migrated Web Sites and Active Directory from legacy systems to new environment.
• Preparation and validation of the migration workbooks before the migration job is setup.
• Technical documentation on the diagnostics procedure and process documentation on troubleshooting, configuration.

VM Ware Engineer

Confidential, IN

Responsibilities:

• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
• Installation of VC server and Installing Virtual center components
• Updated ESX host's using Vmware Update manager.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Worked on Migration concepts like Vmotion and cold migration, Storage Vmotion
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Managing an ESX server host from Virtual center.
• Creating Virtual switch.
• Connecting to ESX server by using VIC, putty and Web access.
• Working on networking concepts like creation Vswitches, different types of port groups, Nic.

System Administrator

Confidential, IN

Responsibilities:

• Served in computer maintenance, performed all types of hardware, software maintenance and engineering in addition to systems selection, backup and technical support.
• Installing, configuring and Windows 2003 servers of DHCP, FTP, Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active Directory.
• Implemented, Managed ISA server 2004 Firewall with web filtering and Remote Access VPN.
• Implemented and managed McAfee Antivirus EPO Server and clients for LAN security
• Monitoring of Internet usage, Antivirus statistics and reporting to Project Manager.
• Responsible & managing Online Trading applications, Servers & Connectivity with stock exchanges, providing remote support to end clients and branch users.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.)
• Investigated user problems, determined possible solutions, oversaw software, installation and upgrades.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data centre on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Planned and coordinated with major vendors like ISP and V-SATs service providers for installation/Down Calls of branches.
• Assigned duties and supervised a team of junior network engineers.