SUMMARY

• 8 years of IT experience in DevOps/Systems Engineering teams in top financial companies
• Experience in cloud based platforms, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps methodologies and Docker containers
• Setup and build AWS infrastructure with various resources: Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Simple Storage Services (S3), Route 53, Glacier, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cloud formation, Cloud watch, VPC - Virtual Private Cloud
• Experience working with AWS management console to create EC2 instances, EBS volumes, S3 buckets, Snapshots of EBS volumes, Security groups and Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
• Experience working with Bash Scripts to run series of AWS commands to install and configure EC2 instances
• Experience working with Cloud Formation JSON templates to design and test multiple stacks.
• Worked on security groups and Network Access Control Lists within AWS
• Have good understanding of various EC2 instance options within AWS depending on the application type/needs
• Working experience with latest configuration management/deployment tools including Ansible
• Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies
• Experience in development and configuration experience with software provisioning tools like Ansible, Chef and Puppet
• Experience working with DevOps tools, GIT (version control), Jenkins/Maven (Continuous Integration), Splunk/Nagios (Monitoring) and JIRA (Project tracking)
• Strong experience working in AIX/UNIX, Linux, Red Hat, CentOS and Windows environments
• Experience implementing projects in Agile methodologies
• Knowledge of Infrastructure, Databases, Applications and overall software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with installation and administration of various operating systems including AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 / RHEL 5,6,7 / CentOS 6,7
• Experience working with Micro services and containerized platforms like Docker and its components like Docker file, Docker image and Docker containers
• Experience working with ITIL (Incident, Change and Problem Management)
• Working extensively on BMC Remedy and Service Now tools
• Excellent Data center experience working with different vendors like IBM, HP, Cisco, Dell and helped with installations and configurations locally inside secure global data centers
• Experience working with different Vendors/Technical Account Managers/Engineers for review of new products/features and setup quarterly meetings to discuss in detail about their advantages and recommend clients as appropriate
• Extensive experience with Builds, Installations, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Troubleshooting of servers both in Production and Non-Production environments
• Proficient in writing Python and shell scripts
• Project Management experience working on agile projects within Engineering teams and work closely with Dev, QA and Production Operations
• Excellent presentation, analytical, documentation and interpersonal communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, Red-Hat Linux (RHEL), CentOS, UNIX, Solaris, Windows

Hardware: IBM RS/6000, P-Series P770, P8; HP DL360, 380, 580, Cisco, EMC, Dell

Database: RDBMS, ORACLE, DB2, MySQL, SQL, NoSQL, Mongo DB

Tools: Splunk, Nagios, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Cloud watch

Network: TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, HTTP/HTTPS

Performance: NMON, Topas, Net stat, IO Stat, VM stat, LPAR2RRD

Domain Knowledge: Financial, Banking, Payments, Consulting, Information Technology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working experience with broad range of AWS Cloud services: EC2, VPC, S3, EBS, snapshots, Auto Scaling, Route53, Cloud formation, RDS, IAM and Cloud Watch.
• Configured and maintained user accounts for Dev, QA, Production teams and created roles for EC2, RDS, S3, Cloud Watch, EBS resources to communicate with each other using AMI.
• Created AWS launch configurations based on customized AMI and use this launch configuration to configure auto scaling groups and implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).
• Created alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
• Used Cloud Formation templates to design and test multiple stacks in different environments according to the application developer’s plan & strategies.
• Experience in creating Amazon EBS Snapshots for backups and storing them in S3 buckets.
• Used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups.
• Worked with AWS IAM service to create new IAM users & groups, defining roles and policies and Identity providers.
• Installed and administered Docker containers.
• Worked on Docker components like Docker Engine and creating Docker images.
• Experience with configuring Ansible on servers and using Ansible for deploying packages to multiple nodes
• Worked on establishing connections to clients using SSH keys with master Ansible node and writing Ansible Playbooks for various deployments in production and non-production environments.
• Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed reaching one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Used Cloud Watch for monitoring AWS cloud resources and applications that deployed on AWS by creating new alarm, enable notification service.
• Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI & CD) Process stack using GIT, Jenkins and Ansible.
• Experience with Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX servers and Red Hat Linux.
• Worked on Tech Refresh project for migration from old P5/P6 hardware to new P7/P8 hardware.
• Worked on migration of IBM systems from AIX 6.1 to 7.1.
• Worked on migration strategies to efficiently migrate the systems by reducing downtime and document the changes for operations team to execute the tasks in production systems.
• Worked with compliance and auditing team to review the TSR (Technical Security Requirement) vulnerabilities and address the issue appropriately.
• Worked on decommissioning old systems.
• Used Splunk, CMDB, BMC, Jira for project tracking and Tableau for scorecards.
• Network management of TCP/IP networks, IP address management.
• Installation of Tesla NVidia GPU’s K80/P100’s and installation of Tensor flow on Linux systems for Deep Research and Visa Research project groups.
• Provide data center strategy execution for future needs based on the application and the type of environment (Production/non-production).
• Provided on-call support for Distributed Systems Engineering.
• BAU activities and Data center activities.

Environment: AWS, S3, EBS, IAM, VPC, Cloud, Ansible, AIX, LPARS, Linux, HMC, RHEL, HP, BMC Remedy, Share point, Jira

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

DevOps/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost all 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.
• Designed high availability environment for Application servers and database servers on EC2 by using ELB and Auto-scaling.
• Responsible for Continuous Integration and delivery in development, Quality Analysis, and Production environments and for configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Experience working with DevOps tools like Chef and Puppet.
• Working experience of installing Chef server and managing multiple nodes using Chef.
• Experience working with Apache and WebLogic servers.
• Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies.
• Used monitoring tools like Splunk and Nagios to keep track of complete AWS and on premise servers.
• Configures S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to backup files and archive files in Glacier.
• Configures Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Auto scaling groups.
• Created and monitored alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
• Create, configure and mange Resource pools and CPU load balancing.
• Worked on AWS for deploying EC2 instances of various flavors RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu in both Linux and Windows.
• Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
• Continuous Deployment tools like Jenkins/Maven for deployment and build management system
• 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.
• Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection.
• Good Knowledge of container based technologies including Docker.
• Migrated servers with AIX 6.1 to 7.1 using NIMADM.
• Worked on Live Partition Mobility to relocate running LPARs from one system to another.
• P-series consolidation and tech refresh of hardware/Operating systems.
• Migration method SAN disk rezoning VIO/NPIV.
• Prepared Disaster Recovery strategies & tested the same by restoring servers through mksysb restores.
• Build servers by restoring mksysb and worked on DR projects.
• 24x7 production support.

Environment: AWS, DevOps, Chef, Puppet, ELK, RHEL, Linux, UNIX/AIX, Splunk, Jira, GIT, Servicenow

Confidential

Sr Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Have experience in Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of high available and fault tolerant AIX/RHEL Systems.
• Evaluate, install, test, configure, maintain, tune, and troubleshoot AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1 and RHEL operating system software.
• Installed and build from scratch complete NIM Setup. Have different clients to NIM server and their Backup.
• Responsible for performance tuning of AIX servers.
• Worked on tickets to resolve issues for AIX/Linux systems.
• Experience in creating Logical Partitions of VIO servers and VIO clients on p-Series and assigning processor, memory and adapters to VIOS.
• Responsible for creating maintaining and managing LPARS and VIO with HMC console and command line.
• Used IBM Systems Director to run the inventory and load the OS into the LPAR using the gold images.
• Setup network printers and installed client/server applications. Define/setup network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and Network Information Services (NIS).
• Worked with YUM and RPM for installing packages in RHEL.
• Network management of TCP/IP networks, IP address management.
• Keep track of scorecards of hardware, migration and tech refresh projects for executive management updates. Weekly/Monthly Scorecards are updated and kept in share point site.
• Expertise in creating and managing Logical Volume Manager in AIX/RHEL
• Worked on increasing filesystems, decreasing file systems, import/export volume groups.
• Configured ILOs and Console connections for HP servers.
• Performing upgrades of OS and service pack updates.
• Have Inventory management knowledge of Hardware.
• Worked with FLRT tool from IBM to identify code levels and recommend firmware for various P-series frames and HMC’s.
• Monitoring servers using tools to find out CPU, Memory utilization during peaks.
• Worked with Vendors to understand and implement new features on Power systems.
• Worked on HMC upgrades and firmware level updates.
• Have daily backups, restoration of data as per business requirement.
• Performed User Account management, data backups, and user logon support.

Environment: AIX 6.1, 5.3, 5.2, LPARS, VIO, HMC console, POWER Virtualization, NIM, RHEL, BMC, HP DL series, Dell

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Have experience in Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX Systems.
• Have handled change management and problem determination AIX/RHEL.
• Network management of TCP/IP networks, IP address management.
• Security measures blocking unnecessary ports and restriction user’s remote logins.
• Creating File System, managing & checking data consistency of the File System.
• Provided remote technical support for the AIX team.
• Working knowledge of performance based tools.
• Responsible for Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX Systems using NIM.
• Virtualization - configured and upgraded servers to implement virtual HBA (NPIV) shared SCSI, shared Ethernet adapters, VLANS, allocating disks via VIO servers to client LPARs. Installed and upgraded HMC, upgraded system firmware.
• Experience working with error logging subsystem and Performance Monitoring tools like Topas, IO stat, Net stat.
• Accessing and controlling LPARS using HMC.
• Experience in Configuring and Managing Virtual Disks, Disk Mirrors & RAID Levels.
• Deployed the CRON for automating some jobs in scheduling processes.
• Added more resources like Memory, Disks and increasing the Swap and performed disk management using different RAID technologies.
• Worked on Logical Volume Manager to create Volume groups, Logical Volumes and created file systems as per the requirements.
• Worked on remediating AIX/Linux servers and done fix level updates.
• Worked on tickets to resolve the issues to customers.
• Knowledge of Windows based systems including hardware, software and applications.
• Responsible for the installation, setup, configuration, security administration and maintenance of all servers.
• Handle user account management on all AIX/Linux servers.

Environment: AIX, Red Hat Linux, LPAR, HMC, VIO, Web server, P-series, RS-6000 EMC SAN