SUMMARY

• 7 plus years of experience as a LINUX (Red Hat, Ubuntu, SuSE, CentOS) System Administrator, VMware Admin, AWS Engineer and OpenStack Cloud Engineer.
• Experience with OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Swift, Ceilometer, Horizon, Glance, Keystone, Orchestration and Cinder.
• Experience in deploying, configuring and managing servers in OpenStack.
• Configure, monitor and maintain OpenStack Neutron cloud environment.
• Experience in writing scripts to use OpenStack Heat.
• Experience in Load Balancing and Resource Allocation for Tenants, Accounts.
• Experience in OpenStack CLI and contributed for OpenStack documentation.
• Automate infrastructure using Chef and Ansible.
• Worked on core AWS services for Setting up new server EC2 instances in AWS, configuring Security groups, and setting up Elastic IP's, auto - scaling configuration, and Cloud Formation.
• Monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using CloudWatch.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Autoscaling groups.
• Deployed Applications, managed infrastructure using tools like Ansible, Chef and Puppet.
• Knowledge On Red Hat OpenStack & HP Hellion.
• VMware infrastructure installation, Configuration and managing (ESXi 4.x/ ESXi 5.x)
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS, Fault tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware infrastructure.
• Creating, Cloning Virtual Machines, templates and migrating servers between ESX hosts.
• Experienced in maintaining, upgrading and troubleshooting VMware virtual machines.
• Experience in creating Alarms and monitoring Virtual Machine performance.
• Attended Training on VMware vSphere 6.0.
• Experienced in managing the server cluster environment including configuration and permissions.
• Configured Kickstart Server in Linux Servers.
• Experience in installing, configuring and implementing the Raid technologies.
• Worked on Data-Center operation and migration across Unix and Linux platforms.
• Configured Volume groups, logical volumes and file systems on Linux.
• Monitor applications, services, operating systems, network protocols and server with Nagios Network Management tool.
• Configuring and managing LDAP, DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS in Red Hat Linux and other Network Services, Linux kernel and memory upgrades.
• Created UNIX scripts for automated data backup, status of the storage.
• Experience in using various network protocols like HTTP, FTP, UDP, TCP/IP, POP and SMTP.
• Experience in configuring Nginx and Apache Tomcat server.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Agile Development Methodology, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Worked with different Bug tracking Tools like Jira, ClearQuest.
• Experience in using version Control tools like Git, Sun, and Mercurial.
• Experience in using various tools like Splunk, Jenkins, Vagrant and Nexus.
• Ability to learn quickly and in corporate new knowledge in the rapidly evolving Cloud landscape.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Certification: Red Hat Certified System Administrator In Red Hat OpenStackMirantis Certified Associate Level.

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x, Solaris 10.x/11.x, openSuSE 11.x/12.x/13.x, CentOS 5.x/6.x/7.x, Ubuntu.

Hardware: Dell Servers, Cisco UCS, HP, EMC, IBM Blade Center, RoutersSwitches.

Languages: Python, Ruby, JSON, REST, YAML, CSS, HTML, Shell, bash, CC++, Java, Java Script, SQL, Role Based Access Control (RBAC).

OpenStack: Nova, Glance, Swift, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, CeilometerKeystone, Horizon.

Amazon Web Services: EC2, S3, Elastic IPs, EBS, Security Groups, Route 53, VPCCloudFormation, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Glacier.

Devops Tools: Chef, Ansible, Puppet.

Networking: TTP, FTP, SFTP, UDP, TCP/IP, POP, SMTP.

Other Tools: OpenDaylight, Ceph, HAProxy, VSphere Web Client, VSphere Client, VCenter Server, Splunk, Kanban, Nexus, Jira, Remedy, ClearQuest, Nagios, LDAP, Nginx, Apache Tomcat, Vagrant, Hudson, Jenkins, ALM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Trumbull, CT

OpenStack Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed OpenStack on a multi node environment for High Availability using HAProxy.
• Integrated Ceph as a SDDC with OpenStack for block and object storage.
• Integrating multiple storage back-ends with OpenStack.
• Used OpenDaylight as SDN controller in OpenStack environment.
• Trained on OpenStack Development by HP.
• Knowledge on integrating Pacemaker with OpenStack.
• Experience inwriting HOT scripts to build on demand resources.
• Creating Instances, Snapshots, Templates and use them based on the requirement.
• Creating Public and Private networks as per the requirement of applications.
• Creating and managing Meters, Alarms using Ceilometer for checking the Health of Resources.
• Integrated KVM and vSphere with OpenStack environment.
• Creating security polices for Instances.
• Configure and manage the Swift Object Storage,Keystone, Glance and Flavors.
• Experience in using OpenStack Command line Interface to create and configure instances, networks, images, flavors, containers, volumes, accounts and tenants.
• Deployed multiple VMs with same role to distribute workloads and increase reliability through redundancy using Load Balance as a Service.
• Used Ansible as DevOps tool and Git as SCM tool to automate the deployment of infrastructure.
• Installed and Configured Nagios.
• Knowledge on integrating different kinds of SDDC and SDN with OpenStack.

Environment: Nova, Horizon, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, Cinder, Heat, Swift, Ceilometer, Ceph,HAProxy, OpenDaylight, Ansible, Hypervisors (KVM, ESXi), Operating Systems (Linux, Windows), Vagrant, Virtual box, Open vSwitch, Git, Anisble Tower, YAML, Python, Scripting.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

OpenStack Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used EC2 to launch instances.
• Designing roles and groups using AWS Identity and Access Management.
• Configured S3 to host static web content.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch.
• Created Amazon VPC to create public-facing subnet for webservers with Internet access and backend databases & application servers in a private-facing subnet with no Internet access.
• Worked on AWS CloudFormation and CloudFront.
• Written and modified various cookbooks for better management of systems.
• Used Test Kitchen for Chef cookbook testing.
• Utilized Chef Roles and Environments in Chef Management Console.
• Created S3 buckets with Standard and Glacier configuration for tape backs.
• Created Elastic Load Balancing to distribute incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances.
• Used Jenkins, Hudson for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Used to CloudWatch to actively monitoring stats from all of the parts in your AWS solutions.

Environment: EC2, VPC, EBS, S3, Security Groups, Elastic IPs, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Glacier, Chef Management Console, Test Kitchen, Jenkins, Hudson, Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Windows), Vagrant, Virtual box, Mercurial, JSON, Ruby.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Administered VMware ESXi Servers.
• Creating Datacenters in vSphere Web Client and adding hosts to the Datacenter.
• Implemented Fault tolerance and High availability.
• Performed P2V migrations.
• Providing L2 support for all virtual server alerts & issues.
• Creating Virtual Servers as per business requirement and specifications.
• Proper power down and up process during maintenance of ESXi hosts or power outage.
• Creating templates as per various business requirements.
• Using vCenter created alarms and monitoring events.
• Monitoring application log, security log and system log using Splunk.
• Creation of Windows and Linux VMs and deploying them in the different datacenters.
• Creating and mirroring preconfigured Operating system like Windows/Linux.
• Implementing backup and disaster recovery protocols.
• Providing Load balancing capability for the virtual infrastructure.
• Maintaining Cluster Servers and patch updates.
• Configuring Backups on Servers and File Servers and restoring the data as per requirement.
• Performed vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Centralized user account creation, enterprise activation of devices and deletion of user account.
• Configuring backup policies, jobs, email alerts, backup tape externalization policies etc.
• Worked on Bug tracking and reporting using ALM/Quality Center.
• Worked with change requests and problem tickets to meet the SLA.
• Working on Remedy tickets and prioritizing the work as per the SLAs.

Environment: vSphere Web Client, vSphere Client, ESX, ESXi, Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Windows), SQL, Oracle, Splunk, HA, Fault Tolerance, Remedy, vMotion, Storage vMotion, vSwitch, RecoverPoint, NFS.

Confidential

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in installation,configuration and management for corporate Linux and Unix Servers.
• Creating system Disk partition, mirroring root disk drive, configuring device groups.
• Installation of patches and packages using RPM and YUM in Red Hat Linux.
• Created Profiles, users, roles and maintained system security.
• User administration that included creating backup account for new users and deleting account for deleted users.
• Installed and configured SSH Gate for remote and secured connection.
• Configuration of DHCP, NFS, DNS servers.
• Used Veritas File System and Veritas Volume Manager to configure Raid-1 and Raid-5.
• Monitored System Activities like CPU, Memory and Disk usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Installed and configured Apache Tomcat and Nginx Servers.
• Creation of logical Volumes (LVM) for Linux operating systems.
• Created and modified users and groups.
• Backup management (logical, hot and cold backups) and recovery in the event of failure.
• Used Jira for tracking defects and Kanban for assigning tasks.
• Used Nexus for collecting, managing dependencies and storing artifacts.
• Monitored networks using networking monitoring tool Nagios.
• Creating, troubleshooting and mounting NFS File systems on different OS platforms.

Environment: Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Windows), NFS, DNS, DHCP, DNS, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Raid Technologies, Nignx, Jira, Kanban, Nexus, Nagios, Cold, Hot Backups Veritas File System, Veritas Volume Manager.