SUMMARY

• 8 years of IT experience as a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer and Build & Release Manager with major focus on Design, Build, Deployment, Configuration and Automation in a DevOps enterprise environment using Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CD) and Continuous testing (CT) framework to provide continuous benefits and improvements to the business on key strategic and critical projects in large - scale SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS.
• 2 and half year experience with recent deep Amazon Web Service (AWS) background and working on cloud infrastructure and tools. Delivery and automation of AWS infrastructure as a part of CI/CD pipeline for enterprise applications.
• Expertise in Infrastructure Development and Operations involving AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes Cloud Compute (EC2, EC2 Container Service, Lambda), Storage (S3, EFS), Networking & Content Delivery (VPC, CloudFront, Route 53), Developer Tools (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy), Security (IAM), Business Productivity (WorkDocs, WorkMail), Management Tools (CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Config). Also estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational Cost Control mechanisms.
• Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with specific focus on the build and release of quality software in Agile/Scrum enterprise environment.
• Experience on the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Deployment (CD) environment.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins by configuring and maintaining for the purpose of continuous integration (CI) and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.
• Extensively experienced in using Build Automation tools like ANT, Maven, Gradle and working knowledge on other build tools like MS Build Makefile.
• Familiarity with defect tracking tools such as: (Team Foundation Server) TFS Team Foundation, Jira.
• Experience in continuous integration and deployment using tool such as Jenkins. Improved continuous integration workflow, project testing, and deployments with Jenkins. Implemented code coverage and unit test plug-ins with Maven in Jenkins.
• Extensive experience in installation, Configuration, Updating, Support, and Maintenance of Linux (Red hat, CentOS), Ubuntu, Unix and Windows servers with expertise in troubleshooting skills.
• Proficient in major scripting languages (shell, Python, PHP, Perl). Experience in Strong CLI and API scripting. Created and wrote shell scripts (Bash), Ruby, Perl, Python and PowerShell for automating tasks.
• Extensible experience in setting up Baselines, Branching, Merging and Automation Processes using Bash, Perl and Python Scripts. Experience with Linux including configuration, networking, hardening, shells, package management and scripting.
• Experience in various configuration and automation management tools such as Chef, Puppet and Ansible.
• Have professional experience in deploying Docker Engines in Virtualized Platforms for containerization of multiple apps. Collaborated with development support teams to setup a continuous delivery environment with the use of build platform tool Docker. Experience in creating selenium grid model using Docker, running selenium test cases on Docker hub-node.
• Worked on Configuration management tool Chef for continuous delivery. Rewritten recipes for new environments. Experience in working with Chef Cookbooks, Chef Recipes, Chef attributes, Chef Templates, Chef Roles and Chef Environments. Experience with Chef Server and workstation to manage and configure nodes.
• Developed automation scripting in Python (core) using Puppet to deploy and manage Java applications across Linux servers.
• Involved in installation of configuration Management tool Puppet that includes Puppet Master and Puppet agents and enabling the secure communication between Master and the agents. Also Designed, Installed and Implemented Ansible configuration management system.
• Good understanding on middleware technologies such as WebSphere Application Server 7.x/8.x, JBOSS GA7/EAP6, IBM IHS, Apache & Tomcat. Hands on experience in managing these technologies through Chef.
• Highly skilled at supporting web and application servers (Apache, NodeJS, JBoss,Tomcat)and hands-on experience with installing and managing MySQL and Amazon web servers.
• Worked in querying database using JDBC to get data for Data Driven Selenium Web driver framework.
• Experience in installing, configuring and deploying AngularJS/2, Node JS, MongoDB applications in cloud and also experience in automating the mean stack application in the server. Experience in Strong loop for connecting between NodeJS and MondoDB (Backend) and also worked on loopback framework.
• Wrote deployment Automation scripts for multiple JAVA/J2EE and .NET Applications.
• Performed extensive trouble shooting experience including stack trace analysis and JVM tuning experience by changing to heap sizes according to the requirement.
• Performance tuning was done with respect to system, connection pools. Execute threads and JVM heap size.
• Built and Deployed Java/J2EE to a web application server in an Agile continuous integration environment and also automated the whole process.
• Experience in working on version control systems like subversion, GIT and Clear case. used other source code management client tools like Tortoise SVN, Stash, Source Tree, Git Bash, GitHub, Git GUI and other command line application etc.
• Experience in installing, configuring and managing RDBMS and NoSQL tools like SQL Server 2008/2012/2014 , MySQL, DB2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Cassandra.
• Experience with system health monitoring and optimizing performance (Cloud Watch, Nagios, Splunk)
• Experienced in ‘Test Planning, Test Execution and Test Status reporting’ using HP ALM, JIRA and Rational ClearQuest.
• Expertise in designing Testing documents like Test Plans/Script, Test Design Specifications, Test Case Specifications and Test Procedures.
• Worked with Business Systems Analysts, IT Teams, & QA Teams to discuss tickets/issues opened in Issue Management Trackers and deploy builds to various environments on parallel developments of multiple projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux (RedHat), CentOS, IBM AIX 5.x, WINDOWS.

Version Control Tools: GIT, Source Tree, GitHub, SVN, IBM Rational Clear Case

Languages/Scripts: Bash, Python, Groovy, C, JAVA, XML, SHELL, PERL, Ruby

Databases: My SQL, MS Access, Oracle, DB2, No SQL (Cassandra, MongoDB)

Web/Application Servers: Apache Tomcat 6.x/7.x, JBoss 7.x, Nginx, WebLogic 11g/12/c, WebSphere 7/8, Sun ONE 6.x, MS IIS server 6.0/7.0, IBM-HTTP Server

CI Tools: Jenkins, Ant HillPro, Team city, Bamboo

Build Tools: Ant, Maven, Grunt, Gradle, MS Build, SBuild

DevOps Tools: (CM tools)Chef, Puppet, Ansible

Testing: Junit, Selenium, cucumber, QTP

Bug Reporting Tools: BugZilla, HPQC, JIRA and Rational Clear Quest

Mean Stack: Angular JS, Angular 2, Strongloop, Loopback, Node JS, Mongo DBAtlassian JIRA, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Confluence

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java

Cloud: AWS Cloud service, Azure, Openstack

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DevOps & AWS Cloud Engineer

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Managed Ubuntu, Linux and Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2 instance by creating Chef Nodes through Open-Source Chef Server.
• Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications. Scheduled the Linux Cron jobs and Jenkins jobs for build automation.
• Installed, Deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x/7.x, CentOS and installation of packages and patches for Red Hat Linux Servers. Performed Mounting and un-mounting the netapp storageLUNs to the Red Hat Linux servers and troubleshooting the issues encountered.
• Highly involved in configuring, monitoring and multi-platform servers by defining Chef server from workstation to manage and configure Chef nodes.
• Maintaining a farm of AWS solution using EC2 instances, ELB's, S3, EBS, Auto Scaling, AWS EMR and RDS. Setting up servers through using AWS for deployment or other uses for application.
• Supported 250+ AWS Cloud instances and also familiar with Amazon Cloud command line management. Experience in AWS CloudFormation template to launch Amazon EC2 instances. Working on AWS cloud to provision new instances, S3 Storage Services, AWS EC2, Cloud watch services and CI/CD pipeline management through Jenkins.
• Strong experience utilizing Jenkins for enterprise scale infrastructure configuration and application deployments & checking out the code from GIT and use Ant/Maven to build Jar, war and ear artifacts.
• Used Maven as build tool on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
• Experience in AWS S3 Browser for pushing object files to the AWS S3 Console cloud and also worked on permissions, properties, etc. Worked on storing the web applications (CSS, Server, Client, etc.) in Amazon S3 Bucket and linking to the Route 53 by generating name servers.
• Involved in Architect, build and maintain Highly Available secure multi-zone AWS cloud infrastructure utilizing Chef with AWS Cloud Formation and Jenkins for continuous integration.
• Deploying and Working on web application & Implementing the Private cloud setup On Open Stack, AWS Cloud.
• Deploying the Openstack components on multimode with High availability environment
• Migrate the Build tool Jenkins to Bamboo and integrated with Bitbucket and JIRA. Utilized Bitbucket server, Bamboo, and Crucible integrated with Jira and Confluence. Accomplishing parity of process between the two systems before releasing to the stakeholders. Set up customized Jira Projects, Workflow, Confluence Spaces and Jira permission.
• Professional experience with JIRA tracking tool in setting up JIRA as defect tracking system.
• Worked with Chef to aid with deployment process and migrating in house systems to Amazon Cloud Services. Worked with Chef Enterprise Hosted & On-Premise, Installed Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, Wrote Recipes & Cookbooks and uploaded to Chef-server.
• Deploying and automating Java EE applications in cloud environment using Chef.
• Written Recipes in Ruby to customize the Chef Cookbooks as per the company environment. Developed chef cookbooks like tomcat, http, ntp etc., for automation of infrastructure. Use Test Kitchen to debug the Recipes and Cookbooks and uploaded them to the Chef-server.
• Able to kick off new instances on the fly on AWS EC2 using chef knife client and ready up a new environment in an hours time by bootstrapping with chef and running a runlist of around 25 Cookbooks.
• Responsible for completing stories in two-week sprints. Stories include developing and modifying new and existing Puppet modules to support newer versions of Infrastructure stack in windows and Linux platforms.
• Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Mount points and Packages.
• Written Ruby Scripts to deploy mean stack applications in the AWS EC2 Instance and bash scripts to deploy the Java based packages like EAR, WAR on the Tomcat application server.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub.
• Experience with Docker and Vagrant for different infrastructure setup and testing of code.
• Worked in Deploying the web application created with Angular 2, Node JS, Mongo DB in AWS EC2 Instances and also experience in creating collections, Inserting data and updating the data. Also worked in the backend by using NodeJS, ExpressJS and MongoDB.
• Ability to work with the Pre/Post deployment hooks to do any custom tasks such as running Unit Test or minify Java scripts.
• Involved in writing and executing script for regression and functional testing using QTP.
• Extensively used the record and Playback framework functionality by using QTP.
• Performed Device testing on Mobile, Tablets apps and Blu-ray devices.
• Identified the test cases that needs to be automated using QTP.
• Implemented various Checkpoints for data validation and synchronization and developed Reusable functions using QTP.
• Assisted in the execution of integration testing activities in QTP.
• Wrote deployment Automation scripts for multiple JAVA Applications.
• Handled all the client side validations, slide show, hide and show controls, dropdown menus and tab navigation usingAngular.JSand HTML5 and jQuery.
• Splunk deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Experience configuring AWS Cloudwatch for monitoring of instances during performance testing and also to monitor application performance on QA environments.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux/AIX, VMware, Amazon web services (AWS), GIT, Github, SVN, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Bash, Python, PowerShell, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Packer, AWS Code Deploy, Jira, Cucumber, Selenium, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, and JBoss.

Build and Release Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Release Engineer in field of release automation for java technologies to achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Mounting & unmounting the netapp storage LUNs to the Redhat Linux servers and troubleshooting the issues encountered. Performance Tuning and Management for Linux/AIX server and working with the application/database team to resolve issues.
• Setting up new development branches, merging branches, facilitating the releases. Setting up the new repos, Managing the permissions for various GIT branches. Creating adhoc GIT stashes. Created post commit and pre-push hooks using Python in SVN and GIT repositories. Deployed and configured GIT repositories with branching, forks, tagging and merge requests.
• Written ANT/Maven scripting for compiling Java code, Debugging and placing Builds into Maven Repository to automate the weekly releases.
• Worked with Ant, Maven and Gradle Build tools in Java and CPP Environment. Used Build Tool Maven for setup of Build Jobs in Jenkins.
• Involved in Migration activities from Ant to Maven and also Maven to Gradle to enhance the build process.
• Experience in setting up the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) practices. for Release Automation of Java and Oracle Fusion Middleware Applications (Oracle ADF, Oracle SOA, OSB)
• Migration of Redhat linux servers from 4.x version and working with the application team to resolve the issues post migration. Building the Red hat Linux server in Vmware ESX client through Vsphere client
• Storage mapping on Redhat linux and create the Volume group, Filesystems using Logical Volume manager. Installed/Configured Redhat Linux cluster 5x version & Configuring the cluster resources
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure application servers, virtual hosts, web applications, web resources, back-end resources as well as deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere.
• Team role included working inVMware Orchestrator and VMwarevRealizeAutomationCenter 6.0 (vRA) catalog management creating cloud server provisioning entitlements, creating and defining business groups, creating catalog items, creating services for the catalog items, creating Windows 2008/2012) and Linux (Red Hat6) blueprints.
• Worked on TCP/IP Networking troubleshooting and Linux Network Administration.
• Responsible for development and enhancement of existing application using Java/J2EE technologies.
• Implement User Interface using technologies, including HTML, XML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Automated builds and deployments of business-critical customer-facing J2EE web applications into Web sphere 6.x application server environment on Solaris 10 platform.
• Installed and configured services like DNS, LDAP, FTP, SMTP, Tomcat, Apache web servers, NFS, RPM packages, SAMBA, SQUID, Postfix, and Remote Access. Proficient in Security Management and Security trouble shooting skills.
• Coordinated with application team in installation, configuration and troubleshoot issues with JBoss servers.
• Supporting day to day Emergency releases, Maintenance releases for every 2 weeks and Enterprise releases for every 4 weeks.
• Provided centralized software configuration management for enterprise application projects in a multi-tiered high-availability environment.
• Completing software builds and elevations, creating directories and security groups, and recreating prior versions. Monitored software, hardware, and/or middleware updates and utilizing technologies like Jenkins/Hudson, Ant, Maven Build and Stash.

Environment: Maven, Redhat Linux, Unix, Jira, Jenkins, Nexus, Git, JIRA, Apache/Tomcat server, shell scripts, Perl scripts, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, and JBoss.

Build and Release Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Build and Release Engineer, handled different development teams and a number of simultaneous software releases. Installed and configured Redhat Linux, Windows Server 2000, 2003 and ESX/ESXi servers and app software in across the network mostly Dell, HP and IBM hardware.
• Implementation of advanced partitioning schemes using Software RAID and LVM. Performed Servers consolidation and virtualization using VMware, VMware ESX, Virtual Center, VM tools.
• Scanning the newly assigned LUNs to the serves and assigning them to volume group and increasing the file system using Red Hat volume manager.
• Installed and configured Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing automation solution.
• Delivered specific versions of various components of an application into target environments.
• Involved in editing the existing ANT/MAVEN files in case of errors or changes in the project requirements.
• Maintain and track inventory using Jenkins and set alerts when the servers are full and need attention.
• Constructed/Architected a Continuous Integration CI Server and Implemented Build/Deploy automation Server utilizing CI Technologies like Subversion, Maven, MS Build, Ant, Sonar and Selenium for both .NET and JAVA Applications on mixed OS (Windows/Linux/Unix).
• Performed day-to-day admin activities like creating and managing Build, deploy activities and improving the release process.
• Used MAVEN to build the project into WAR and EAR files and Clear Case for version controlling.
• Responsible for development and enhancement of existing application using Java/J2EE technologies.
• Coordinated with application team in installation, configuration and troubleshoot issues with Apache, Web logic on Linux servers.
• Worked with Red hat Linux tools like RPM to install packages and patches for Red hat Linux Server and managed virtualized OS.
• Co-ordinate with Middle ware team in installation, configuration and troubleshoot issues with b Application Server and Apache/Tomcat server on Linux.
• Knowledge of concepts in code lines, branching, merging, integration, versioning etc.

Environment: Linux/ Unix, Websphere, Junit, Java, Maven, Tomcat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, UNIX, SVN, ANT.