SUMMARY

• Have 8 years of strong experience in AWS, DevOps and as Linux admin with strong innovative and technical background.
• Experienced with Handling Cloud environments (AWS).
• Experience with Infrastructure Development & Operations involvingAWS Cloud platforms, EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, RDS, SES, ELB, EMR, VPC, Auto scaling, Cloud Front& Formation, Cloud Watch, SNS, AWSImport/ Export.
• Configuration management using Amazon Cloud Formation, Continuous integration with Jenkins, AWSmanagement (EC2, EBS, RDS, Route 53)
• Transformed traditional environment to virtualized environments with AWS - EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, and EBS.
• Worked with Amazon IAM console to create custom users and groups.
• Knowledge about loading and streaming of data applications usingAWS.
• Automate, configure and deploy instances on AWS cloud environments.
• Decent knowledge on experience with AWS Redshift.
• Deployed applications in Elastic Beanstalk and Orchestration of various services.
• Developed Cloud formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.
• Created Cloud Formation template stacks to automate for building new VPCs using JSON files.
• Build scripts on AWS cloud for scheduling EC2 auto scaling load balancer.
• Created and configured the continuous delivery pipelines for deploying Micro-Services and Lambda functions using Jenkins CI Server.
• Experience with Jenkins/Maven deployment and build management system.
• Worked with Puppet which is used to manage Linux but later versions support Microsoft Windows.
• Hands-on experience with configuration & automation tools such as CHEF and PUPPET.
• Designed and implemented Chef including the internal best practices, cook books, automated cook book CI and CD system. Made use of Jenkins for Chef CI.
• Wrote Chef Cook books using the several components like attributes, files, recipes, resources and templates.
• Configuration Management and source code repository management using tools like GIT, Subversion (SVN).
• Used GIT to manage code and GitHub for issues and pull requests and Slack for internal communication.
• Deployed and configured GIT repositories with branching, forks, tagging and notifications.
• Experience in system monitoring with Nagios.
• Have ample experience in load balancing and monitoring with Nagios
• Installed and configured Splunk to monitor application and server logs.
• Build and troubleshooting experience in Windows Server 2008 & 2012 with VMware ESX Server, ESXi Server and V center 5.0/5.1.
• Managed VMware Infrastructure/vSphere5 clusters on Test/Development environments.
• Good experience with MS exchange 2010.
• Hands on experience with Information Technology Service Management (ITSM).
• Experience with TCP/IP networking.
• Excellent understanding of Network topologies such as LAN, WAN, VPN and Firewalls.
• Provided support and build experience with RAC clustering.
• Basic scripting done in Bash, Python, Perl, K-shell, Power shell for automated tasks.
• Good Exposure and Experienced in VMware ESX servers and Virtual Center Administration.
• Configure YUM server with hands on experience in installing, uninstalling and upgrading the software packages through RPM and YUM.
• Knowledge of Firewall deployment and management.
• Knowledge of WIFI configuration and maintenance.
• Experience with documenting, software usage procedures, network diagrams and project documentation.
• Expertise in Deploying Patches for Red Hat Linux Servers.
• Handling problems or requirements as per the ticket (Remedy) created.
• Troubleshoot of server virtualization products like KVM, XEN, VMware, and Virtual Box.
• Detect hardware related issues like Disk Failure, RAM, and NIC Card. Provide Hosting and Deployment Solution in PACI (Parallels Automation Cloud Infrastructure) based on Linux, VMware.
• Ensured system security by hardening and auditing the systems as per guidelines in Linux experienced in system analysis, troubleshooting and performance tuning of operating systems.
• Maintained proper documentation of all the activities carried out during the project.
• Having good Skill Set in acknowledging compliance commissioning and change Management for patches and also to track patches with XLS services.
• Planned, scheduled and implemented OS patches on Linux systems as a part of proactive maintenance.
• Good experience in networking, Operating Systems and Application level security. Also involved in design of custom protection architectures.
• Excellent communicative, interpersonal, intuitive, analysis and leadership skills with ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Environment: Amazon web services EC2, S3, Elastic load balancer, Cloud watch, Route 53, Redshift, AMI s, IAM, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Nagios, GIT hub

Virtualization: VSphere 5.0/4.0/ 4.1, ESX/ESXi server 5.0/4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 , V Sphere Client,VCenter, VMotion, Storage VMotion, VMware Update Manager, VMware Tools, VMware Converter, DRS, HA

Operating Systems: Red hat Linux, Cent OS, Windows servers 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2, Windows client OS XP/Vista/Windows 7

Programming languages: Shell scripting, python, basic Perl

Application Servers: Microsoft Active Directory 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2,DHCP, DNS, WINS

Web servers: Apache Server, IIS Web server

Databases: Dynamo DB, DB 2, SQL server

Automation Tools: Puppet, Chef

Antivirus: Symantec Endpoint, Norton Antivirus and McAfee

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS, VPN, DNS, NTP, WINS, FTP, SSH, BGP, WinSCP and Telnet

Documentation Apps: MS Office 2010/ 2007/2003

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, installing, and supporting AWS infrastructure.
• Worked on AWS - Amazon Cloud - EC2, Security Groups, Elastic IP's, Load balancers, Auto scaling groups, S3, Elastic Bean Stack, Direct Connect, VPC, Cloud watch, IAM and a number of other services as well.
• Designed the future state architecture of various applications which are being migrated from on premise data center to AWS considering the HA and DR of those applications.
• Monitored resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB services and EBS volumes using Cloud Watch.
• Responsible to create various Cloud Watch alarms that sends an Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) message when the alarm triggers.
• Installed application on AWS EC2 instances and also configured the storage on S3 buckets.
• Experienced in configuring AWS S3 and their life cycle policies and to backup files and archive files in Amazon Glacier.
• Designed Stacks using Amazon Cloud Formation templates to launch AWS Infrastructure and resources.
• Developed AWS Cloud formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB and security groups.
• Designed, configured and managed public/private cloud infrastructures utilizing Amazon Web Services and Experienced in creating Amazon EC2 instances and setting up security groups and Configured Elastic Load Balancers.
• Worked on auto scaling the instances to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly reliable systems.
• Worked on the POC for implementation of NAS solution in AWS for various applications with dependencies.
• Worked on Amazon RDS which includes automatic failover and high availability at the database layer for MYSQL workloads.
• Captured regular snapshots for EBS volumes using CPM Cloud protection manager.
• Configured hourly snapshots for the production servers and daily snapshots for the Development and test servers.
• Created VPC’s virtual private cloud with both public and private subnets and groups for servers and created security groups to associate with the networks.
• Created VPC’s to create public facing subnet for web servers with internet access and private facing subnet for backend applications and databases with no internet access.
• Designed roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity access management IAM.
• Enabled MFA multi factor authentication to secure the AWS accounts.
• Good experience in supporting multi region and multi-AZ applications in AWS.
• Installed and configured packages using Chef Cookbooks and also deployed apps.
• Implemented Chef Cookbooks for OS component configuration to keep AWS server’s template minimal.
• Installed and configured web servers like Apache web server.
• Used Jenkins to automate the build process and integrate with other tools.
• Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process.
• Supported the code builds by integrating with continuous integration tool Jenkins.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Responsible for communicating the cut over plan and migration approach for the application teams, application owner and business owner.
• Responsible for final testing which is done by the application team once the application is completely migrated.

Environment: AWS EC2, Security groups, Elastic IP’s, Load balancers, S3, EBS, Direct Connect, VPC, Cloud Watch, IAM, RDS, CPM, NAS, Chef, Jenkins

Confidential, Southlake, TX

Responsibilities:

• Experience in designing and deployingAWSSolutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto scaling groups.
• Responsible for managing infrastructure provisioning (S3, ELB, EC2, RDS, Route 53, IAM, security groups - CIDR's, VCP, NAT) and deployment and EC2 Installs.
• Worked at optimizing volumes and EC2 instances and created multiple VPC instances.
• Experience working with IAM in order to create new accounts, roles and groups.
• Experience in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, Elastic load balancer, Auto scaling groups.
• Automate Deployment using configuration Management tool like Puppet to provision AmazonAWS Instances to enable continuous Deployments.
• Involved in maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDS, Dynamo DB and SNS services inAWScloud.
• Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
• Having extensive experience in AWS Redshift data ware house for columnar data storage.
• Experience involving configuring S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in glacier.
• Created Chef Automation tools and builds, to do an overall process improvement to any manual processes.
• Written Chef Cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize end product configuration.
• Experience working on User admingroups, maintaining account and monitoring system performance using Nagios.
• Participated in configuring and monitoring distributed and multiple platform servers using Puppet. Used Puppet server and workstation to manage and configure nodes.
• Experience in writing Puppet manifests to automate configuration of a broad range of services.
• Experience in managing virtual instances and disks using Puppet.
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet dashboard for configuration management to existing infrastructure
• Configured Jenkins to implement nightly builds on daily basis and generated change log that includes changes happened from last 24 hours.
• Strong experience with CI (Continuous integration) and CD (Continuous deployment) methodologies with Jenkins.
• Experience in designing and implementing continuous integration system using Jenkins by creating Python and Perl scripts.
• Experience in configuring and maintaining LAMP stack on production and staging servers.
• Administered code line GIT pushes to production and customer servers and developed and improved GIT push scripts.
• Analyze and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT.
• Installed VMware VSphere 5 and created virtual machines on ESX 5.0 Servers using Dell PowerEdge R410.
• Worked on maintenance of ESX host clusters and security.
• Install EMC Power Path and create Storage RAID groups, LUN's and assigning them to the servers.
• Managed and configured VMware virtual machine for RHEL.
• Installed, configured and maintained DNS, FTP, TCP/IP and Samba on Red Hat Linux.
• Installed, configured and maintained web servers like HTTP Web Server, Apache Web Server, WebSphere Application Server and Samba Server on Red Hat Linux.
• Responsible for installation and upgrade of patches and packages on RHEL 5/6 using RPM & YUM.

Environment: AWSEC2, VPC, Auto scaling, ELB, Red Hat EL 3/4/5/6, CloudWatch, EBS, Directory Services, Route53, MS SQL 2012, SQL Server Mirroring, Active Directory, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, GIT.

Sr. AWS Engineer

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Experience in architecting and configuring secure VPC through private and public networks in AWS.
• Created and managed cloud VMs withAWSEC2 command line clients andAWSmanagement console.
• Involved in designing and deploying a multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWSstack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWSCloud formation
• Used security groups, network ACLs, Internet Gateways, NAT instances and IPtables to ensure a secure zone for organizations inAWSpublic cloud.
• Setup elastic load-balancers for different applications to ensure high availability of applications.
• Used open-SSL to generate SSL s and setting up SSL for ELBs through VeriSign.
• Used Amazon Route53 to manage DNS zones and also give public DNS names to elastic load balancers IP's.
• Used Amazon RDS Multi-AZ for automatic failover and high availability at the database tier for MySQL workloads.
• Used Cloud formation and launch configurations to automate repeatable provisioning ofAWS resources for applications.
• Good experience with Dynamo DB, Redshift and amazon EMR.
• On boarded and migrated test and staging use cases for applications toAWScloud with public and private IP ranges to increase development productivity by reducing test-run times.
• Used Amazon IAM to grant fine-grained access toAWSresources to users. Also managed roles and permissions of users toAWSaccount through IAM.
• Used CloudFront to deliver content fromAWSedge locations to users, allowing for further reduction of load on front-end servers.
• Setup auto scaling groups based on memory and CPU to adapt to unforeseen spikes without having an outage or needing manual intervention
• Used Amazon S3 to backup database instances periodically to save snapshots of data.
• UsedAWScommand line client and management console to interact withAWSresources and APIs.
• Leveraged Cloudinit and user data scripts to initialize EC2 VMs with application configuration.
• Used Cloudwatch logs to move application logs to S3 and create alarms based on a few exceptions raised by applications.
• Bootstrapping instances using Chef and integrating with auto scaling.
• Manage the configurations of multiple servers using Chef, Written multiple manifests and also customized facts for efficient management of the Chef Clients.
• Installed and configured Nagios on Linux servers.
• Actively involved in architecting the puppet infrastructure to manage more than 2000 servers.
• Pushed all Configuration management into Puppet to allow for rapid roll-out of new infrastructure.
• Involved in Installing Jenkins on a Linux machine and created a master and slave configuration to implement multiple parallel builds through a build farm..
• Implemented zero downtime deployment process in WebLogic using python and shell script and automated it using Jenkins.
• Deployed and managed a private puppet infrastructure inAWSto deploy applications.
• Developed and maintained puppet manifests and modules required deploying different applications on EC2 instances.
• Worked in Agile methodology with bi-weekly sprint goals in a scrum model with daily standups.
• Experience leading the DevOps support team to debug infrastructure failures and ensuring high availability applications.
• Used Github as source code version control system.
• Trained a group of employees about infrastructure management usingAWSManagement Console.

Environment: EC2, Load balancing, Auto Scaling, route53, IAM, VPC, EMR, API, NAT, Cloud Watch, Network ACL, RDS, Cloud Formation, Chef, Jenkins, puppet, Elastic Search.

AWS Engineer

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• Design roles and groups usingAWSIdentity and Access Management (IAM).
• Maintained and developed Puppet modules responsible for deploying OpenStack and other cloud tools.
• Managed hardware, software, and networking for a large scale cluster on Amazon EC2.
• Used security groups, IAM roles, scaling groups, load balancers, Monitored EC2 instances with Cloud watch.
• Used Cloud watch for monitoring AWS cloud resources and the applications that are deployed on AWS by creating new alarm, enable notification service.
• Used Amazon S3 to backup database instances periodically to save snapshots of data.
• Deployed applications on AWS using Elastic bean stalk.
• Used ELB and auto scaling for load balancing and scaling EC2 instances up/down based on network traffic.
• Experience with analysis of logs and performing root cause analysis for various issues coming up on daily basis.
• Monitoring Live Traffic, logs, Memory utilization, Disk utilization and various other factors, which are important for deployment.
• Develop CloudFormation scripts to automate EC2 instances. Design user's credentials and profiles using AWSIAM.
• Automated system deployment, monitoring, alarming, and scaling in the Cloud.
• Created, deleted and managed user accounts used to interact withAWSand setup their ACLs with Amazon IAM.
• Decent knowledge on Dynamo DB and Amazon EMR.
• Manage network security using Load balancer, Auto-scaling, Security groups and NACLs.
• Creating NAT and Proxy instances inAWSand manage route tables, EIP's and NACLs.
• Used DNS management in Route53, Amazon S3 to backup database instances to save snapshots of data.
• Built python automation scripts to apply OS patching for EC2 instances for security upgrades.
• Used puppet to install and manage configurations on machines like logstash, logrotate etc.
• Created periodic EBS snapshots and rebuilt new EBS volumes from these snapshots to migrate applications.
• UsedAWScommand line client and management console to interact withAWSresources and APIs, Amazon RDS Multi-AZ for automatic failover and high availability at the database tier for MySQL workloads.
• Maintained existing and also helped creating new Users and tenants using Amazon IAM's.
• Manage Network allocation in VPC to create new public networks.
• On boarded new EC2 compute hypervisors with checks ensuring their health before enabling them.
• Build time series dashboards of different metrics using graphite.
• Built and managed centralized system for application logs using Elastic Search.
• Application deployments and environment configuration using Chef and Puppet.
• Wrote recipes, cookbooks and uploaded them to Chef-server.
• Automated Amazon server deployment for users using Puppet.
• Enabled customers to better manage software developments, deployments and infrastructure with CI and CD tools such as Chef, Jenkins and GitHub.
• Coordinate with other departments to setup health checks and monitors for high availability of cloud services.Defined security group rules for control plane services to secure the control plane network

Environment: AWS EC2, Load balancing, Auto Scaling, route53, VPC, IAM, RDS, EMR, MYSQL, Dynamo DB, Cloud Formation, Chef, Jenkins, puppet.

VMware Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed, ImplementedVMware ESX i 4.0/4.1 host servers with vSphere Client and Configured HBAs &iSCSI SAN storage.
• Performed upgrading ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0 and VCenter 3.5 to 4.0 and created virtual machines, virtual machine templates, resource pools, standard virtual switches.
• Hands on experience in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server editions using enterpriseVMware converter and also installed theVMware tools on those machines.
• Hands on experienceand knowledge in creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions.
• Creating and ManagingVMware cluster with HA, DRS and Resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Good experience with MS exchange 2010.
• Used MS exchange 2010 for internal mail services.
• Hands on experience with Information Technology service management (ITSM).
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS and V motion.
• Helped customer build secure private cloud using VMware v Cloud Director (VCD).
• Working on Migration concepts like V motion and Cold migration.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network.
• Good experience with Powershell scripting.
• Troubleshooting ESX& Virtual Machines, build templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates, Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and Migrate / Upgrade ESX 3.5.
• Design and implement systems, network configurations, and network architecture, including hardware and software technology, site locations, and integration of technologies.
• Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
• Consulted with client to ensure agreement on system principles and the nature of the information processing or computation needs a computer program is to address.
• Assisted with daily administration of SQL server & Windows Server.
• Installed configured &administered Windows 2000/2003 Servers and Windows7, Vista/XP/2000 Pro work stations.
• Imaging of workstations, laptops, TCP/IP connectivity issues, remote support using VMware, Hyper V, RDP, LogMein, Team viewer etc.
• Coordinated with external vendors to provide timely service and issue remediation.
• Provide On- site support, Oncall support.
• Supporting their mailing applications like Outlook, supported Active Directory, Group policies, Client & Server application interaction, basic web systems, Exchange 2003 & 2007, VMware, Terminal Services, Enterprise back-up of hardware & software whenever required, Installation & Administration of Anti-Virus Software applications.
• Maintain the peripherals, such as printers, that are connected to the network & also document the asset IT inventories.
• Provide technical assistance in Hardware, Internet and Network and VoIP related issues.
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers.
• Management of Active Directory / DNS/DHCP and WINS.
• Studying the requirements of the organization, installation, configuration and deployment by using the System Management Server.
• Attending to clients for solving their technical problems and prompt solutions to their Problems for ensuring high satisfaction levels.
• Interacting with various vendors for sourcing products and solutions and for closure calls of certain services and their products, which are supported by them.
• Tracking asset movements and ensuring software and hardware assets are within control using the License Compliance and Asset Management.
• System Troubleshooting in case of a failure and maintain server uptime above 99.99%.

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory,VMware ESX i 4.0 Server, VMwareView, HP DL & ML server series, Confidential xSeries& System x servers, HP Insight Manager, Confidential Director, Cisco Enterprise Network.

VMware/Windows Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining the VMwareESX 3/4.x Environments.
• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows, Linux.
• Implemented Migration by performing P2V, V2V conversions using VMware Converter.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.
• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed v Switch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Monitoring and managing virtual servers.
• Configured DNS, DHCP.
• Provided design, implementation, administration and support of Windows 2000 Active Directory and Windows NT legacy domain.
• Investigated new technologies, software, patches, and security packages, which will improve system performance and systems administration procedures.
• Managed and supported Windows NT/2000/2003 Active Directory domain network in multi-locations.
• Documentation of end-user workstation for troubleshooting tips and maintenance procedures for help desk.
• Documented Disaster Recovery & Data Center Security Plan.
• Management of LAN/WAN infrastructure as a member of Network Monitoring Team.
• Good experience with PowerShell scripting.
• Taking care of pre requisites for servers before going for production.
• Updating service account passwords.
• Installed, configured and managing network file servers, print servers and maintaining various logs.
• Created virtual machines using Hyper-V and deployed prepared pre-production environment.
• Maintaining active directory system data and file server volume backups. Monitoring active directory integrity and replication.
• Logs file analysis using the Event Viewer and troubleshooting to resolve issues.
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production.
• Supported 24*7 on call schedule for Production support.

Environment: VMwareESX 4.0/3.5, Windows NT/, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, DNS, DHCP, LAN/WAN, V switch, Powershell, Windows XP.