SUMMARY

• About 8+ years of experience in the IT industry comprising VMware/ Windows Administration, Build/Release Management and DevOps.
• Performed several Windows R2, 2008 R2 to 2012 and upgrades.
• Experience in creating and applying ESXi 4.0/ 4.1/5.0/5.5/6. 0/6.5/6.7/7.0 Host profile, Storage profiles.
• Experience in cloning and creating Templates from VMs, Snapshot and using vSphere features like vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS and HA.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS, FTP, Terminal Server, ADFS.
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware vSphere Update manager 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 and upgraded ESXi from 4.1 to 5.0/5.0 to 5.5 to 6.0, 6.5 and patched ESXi 6.0/6.5 to ESXi 6.7/7.0.
• Experience in Windows Administration and Virtualization implementation which includes Windows 2008\2008R2\2012\2012R2\2016\2019 Server Administration, VMWare, Active Directory, VDI, DNS, DHCP servers, ITIL Process, LAN/WAN/Network and Citrix Administration.
• Extensive experience in VMware vSphere & Windows administration (Both Tier 3 & Tier 2 - support)
• Extensive experience with Windows 2008 clustering services.
• Experience in administering Microsoft Windows Server 2019, Server 2016, Server 2012R2, Server 2008R2, Windows 2003, Windows 2000 Server & Windows NT Environments, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP. Experience using VEEAM backup tool.
• Expertise in Infrastructure Development and Operations involving AWS Cloud Services like EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, VPC, ELB, Route53, Auto Scaling, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, API Gateway, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, NAT, AWS Lambda and experienced in Cloud Automation.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS cloud services like Computing, Networking, Storage, Identity and Access Management.
• Hands-on experience in configuring Network Architecture on AWS with VPC, Subnets, Internet Gateway, NAT and Route table.
• Good understanding of Azure Development, App Services, Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, Virtual Machines, Fabric Controller, Azure AD, Azure Search and Notification Hub.
• Strong knowledge in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (PaaS& IaaS), Application Insights, Document DB, Internet of Things, Azure Monitoring, Key Vault, Visual Studio Online and SQL Azure.
• Experience in using DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Tomcat.
• Experience in Automating resource creation process using JSON, Shell, Bash and Python scripts.
• Experience in writing Playbooks and deploying applications using Ansible.
• Expertise in all areas of Jenkins like Plugin Management, Securing and Scaling Jenkins, integrating Code Analysis, performance issues, Analytics and Test Phases to complete the CI/CD pipeline within Jenkins.
• Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis tools like SonarQube.
• Experience in AWS with EKS - using CloudFormation.
• Experience in using Ngnix Application servers for Deployments, Hosting, Load Balancing and Proxy Configurations.
• Created Monitoring scripts using Python and Shell script and built Dashboards and Alerts for applications.
• Experience in supporting platforms like LINUX, Ubuntu, CentOS, iOS and Windows XP/Vista/7/8 of Production, Test and Development servers.
• Experience in Branching, Merging, Tagging, and maintaining the versions across the environments using SCM tools like Subversion (SVN), GIT.
• Responsible for ensuring Systems & Network Security, maintaining performance, and setting up monitoring using CloudWatch and Nagios.
• Strong knowledge in implementing Test Driven Development, Automating Unit tests using Maven in Jenkins.
• Experience in building VMware virtual servers and physical servers with Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019.
• Experience in Installing and configuring Microsoft Hyper-V and Hyper-V VMs administration.
• Experience with VMware vSphere distributed switch and Cisco Nexus 1000V.
• Experience in Data Center migration and P2V migration projects using tools like VMware vConverter, Plate Spin Migrate.
• Hands on experience in front end (Angular) development using HTML and typescript.
• Good understanding of networking concepts including TCP, UDP, VPN, VPC, NAT, Subnet, DNS, Gateways and Routers.
• Experience in handling Infrastructure as a Service on Google Cloud Platform, supported environments for configuring Virtual Machines, Network, Storage, IAM, Autoscaling and Load Balancers.
• Experience in Infrastructure management involving Linux system/servers’ administration and supported environments hosted on premises and GCP.
• Understanding of various technologies including Applications, Databases, Networking, Telecommunications and Connectivity Release Deployment.
• Strong working experience in Linux and Windows environments. Experience in Linux/Unix System Administration, Installations, Upgrades and Troubleshooting.
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Agile, Scrum & Waterfall methodology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

CI and Build Tools: Jenkins, Maven

Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, CloudFormation

Containerization Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

Version Control: Bitbucket, Git, SVN

Scripting and Programming Languages: Bash, Shell, Python, HTML, Java, YAML

Cloud Platform: AWS, GCP

Monitoring Tools: Nagios, CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus.

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows, Ubuntu, IOS

Databases: MySQL PRO, MS SQLServer 2014/2016, Oracle, Mongo DB.

Issue Tracking Tools: Service Now, Jira

Virtualization/Storage: VMware ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x, vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7/7.0 , ThinApp 4.x/5.x, SRM 4.1/5.0/5.5/6. x/8.x, vCloud, vShield,Cisco UCS, HP virtual connect, powerCLI, VMware, vConverter, PlateSpin.

Networking: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, Telnet, POP3, IMAP, VPN, hubs, Routers, switches, LAN/WAN, ARP, RARP,IPV4,IPV6.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS /DevOps Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building AWS infrastructure VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Autoscaling and RDS in Cloud formation using JSON templates.
• Managed IAM accounts, IAM policies, S3 and Security groups to help meet SOC-2 compliance standards.
• Configured S3 buckets to meet baseline requirements for Security Audit - Encryption, versioning, SSL, MFA, server access logging using Terraform.
• Automated and managed monthly OS patching in AWS Systems Manager using Terraform.
• Automated and managed Kubernetes node rotation.
• Automating the continuous delivery approach through AWS developer tools.
• Monitored EC2 instances and created alerting mechanism using CloudWatch.
• Created alarms and trigger points in CloudWatch based on thresholds and monitored the server's performance, CPU utilization and disk usage.
• Maintaining monitoring services in Grafana and Prometheus
• Actively participated in repo and cluster migration.
• Providing support for multiple solutions and handling infrastructure on daily basis.
• Created AWS permission sets using Terraform to provide controlled access to other teams.
• Participate in daily scrum and biweekly iteration activities.
• Creating CABs for a change to take place. Scheduling live meetings and engage different environments and teams.
• Responsible for designing and implementing business continuity solutions focused on high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and archiving.
• Troubleshoot hardware/software failures. Co-ordinate with impacted teams.
• Assist with designing, documenting, and maintaining IT strategy and standards.
• Writing Terraform scripts to spin up environments under security guidelines and governance.

Environment: Git, AWS, Terraform, Pivotal tracker, Grafana, Prometheus, Docker, Kubernetes, Bash, Linux, CloudWatch.

System Admin / DevOps Engineer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling groups in AWS on production EC2 instances to build fault tolerant and highly available applications.
• Estimated and optimized AWS usage costs.
• Created and managed S3 buckets for Storage and Backup on AWS.
• Automated regular AWS tasks like Snapshot creation using Python scripts.
• Utilized AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS and created nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backup.
• Implemented Feature Branching strategy, Labels and performed Merges using pull requests in Git.
• Integrated Git into Jenkins to automate the code checkout process. Used Git hooks for event-based triggers.
• Developed Bash and Python scripts to automate various stages of build and release process in Jenkins.
• Facilitated Java applications build process using Maven.
• Implemented and integrated SonarQube in CI/CD pipeline to maintain code quality and perform automatic code reviews to detect bugs in applications.
• Maintained and tracked inventory using Jenkins and set alerts to notify when the servers are full and needed attention.
• Developed Telegraf, Influxdb and Grafana (TIG stack) for monitoring the application servers and for alerting mechanisms.
• Installed and upgraded Jenkins plugins based on the application requirement in the Continuous Integration pipeline.
• Implemented Automation with Ansible on AWS for application development, testing and deployment.
• Enabled Multi-datacenter and High availability environment for Application Resiliency.
• Developed Ansible playbook to configure, deploy and maintain software components of the existing infrastructure.
• Deployed application which is containerized using Docker onto Kubernetes - managed by Amazon Elastic container service for Kubernetes (EKS).
• Configured and deployed AWS Lambda service to run codes in response to events and automatically manage resources.
• Worked on infrastructure with Docker Containerization. Collaborated with the development team to set up a Continuous Delivery environment using Docker.
• Written Docker files to build custom Docker Images and used Docker Hub, Docker Registry to manage the Images.
• Virtualized the servers using Docker as per development and test environment requirements along with configuring automation using Docker Containers.
• Created development and test environments for different applications by provisioning Kubernetes clusters on AWS using Docker, Ansible and Terraform.
• Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers.
• Administered and supported our VMWare Virtual Server Cluster, Nodes and Disks.
• Administered and supported our Microsoft 365 E5 environment.
• Administered and Supported Azure Active Directory & AD Connect Directory Syncs to on-prem AD.
• Installation, Configuration and administrating ability of Windows 2008,2012,2016,2019 service.
• Installation and Administration of windows 10/8/7 and update them with latest service pack.
• Well knowledge in configuration of File Server using File Server Resource Manager (FSRM), Distributed File System (DFS).
• Performed Service Discovery with Kubernetes, checked the health of the individual resources and enabled a self-healing process by automatically restarting and recovering the containers.
• Developed Logging services with Graylog server and used Mongodb for storing the configuration
• Elastic search for storing the shards, logs and indices. Created Indices for Graylog and maintained RBAC access.
• Implemented continuous delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub and AWS AMI’s.
• Monitored EC2 instances and created alerting mechanism using CloudWatch and Nagios.
• Created alarms and trigger points in CloudWatch based on thresholds and monitored the server's performance, CPU utilization and disk usage.
• Used Atlassian tools like JIRA, Confluence for issue tracking, documentation and code integration.

Environment: Git, VMware, Shell-Scripting, Perl, LDAP, Jenkins, GCP Services, AWS, SonarQube, Python, Open stack, Ansible, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Bash, Confluence, Nagios and CloudWatch.

System Admin / DevOps Engineer

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Application and Data migration from on-premises to AWS cloud.
• Used AWS Beanstalk (EBS) for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, Python and Docker.
• Built and managed S3 bucket policies. Used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
• Involved in designing and deploying multiple applications using AWSCloud infrastructure focusing on high availability, fault tolerance and auto scaling the instances.
• Launched EC2 instances and configured AWS IAM roles for them.
• Performed system backups according to the standards to ensure that the system can be quickly recovered after a crash or other outage and supports data integrity by ensuring that vital information is not lost during an outage during Disaster recovery.
• Maintained system security by noticing faults and frequently checked for vulnerabilities within the servers.
• Integrated Git with Jenkins to automate the code checkout process with the help of Jenkins DSL plugin.
• Automated the applications configuration, deployment and management with Ansible.
• Authored Ansible Playbooks with SSH as the wrapper to manage configurations of AWS nodes and test Playbooks on AWS instances.
• Setup new applications and environments from scratch - had the RHEL hosts provisioned to getting the app rolled out in production and provided server maintenance.
• Provided pre and postproduction deployment support end to end in an agile environment with a 4-week release cycle.
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation template using JSON to create customized VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of web applications and databases.
• Authored Ansible playbooks for configuring instances and created security baselines, roles, templates for reliable deployments.
• Maintained high availability clusters and standalone server environments and refined automation components with scripting and configuration management. (Ansible)
• Created Docker Images and handled multiple containers as a cluster with Docker Swarm as well as Compose for various applications and several micro services.
• Used Kubernetes to deploy containers inside a cluster.
• Used Kafka producer and consumer API to push and read messages from topic.
• Responsible for CI/CD process implementation using Jenkins along with Python and Shell scripts to automate routine jobs.
• Deployed and configured 2008 and 2012R2, 2016 on virtual and physical platforms.
• Built VMWare ESXi hosts from version 5.5,6.0, 6.5, 6.7 on Dell& Cisco UCS blade and rackmount servers.
• Experience in installing Dell PowerEdge M620, M630, M830 Blade Servers into the Chassis Dell PowerEdge M1000e and configuring Chassis, PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator and managed the chassis using Chassis Management Controller (CMC).
• Used iDRAC to access Dell Servers, specifically M620, M630 and R630 and R730 model hardware.
• Involved in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows 2008/2012/2016 servers by using Platespin Migrate & VMware vConverter.
• Created VM images through VMware vSphere Client for enterprise environments and support virtualization process.
• Installation, configuration and up-gradation of Windows servers 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2, 2016 VMs’.
• Created & Implemented Host profiles for Multiple Hosts & added FC LUNs as Datastores to multiple ESXi hosts.
• Created Jenkins pipeline for deployment using Ansible.
• Implemented and maintained monitoring and alerting of production servers storage using AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail and Nagios.

Environment: Jenkins, Ansible, EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, NAT, OpenShift, Git, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Mongo dB, AWS, GCP, Kafka, Maven, VMware, Shell-Scripting, Perl, LDAP, Bash, Nagios, CloudWatch.

Systems Admin / DevOps Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Closely worked on AWS migration project successfully migrated on premise database & applications to AWS.
• Moved to s3 Bucket by using s3 data configured RDS.
• By using Database migration task successfully replicated data from on premise database to AWS RDS.
• Managing AWS infrastructure and its services like EC2, S3, Load-Balance, and RDS.
• Lunching EC2 Instances using previous server configuration AMI adding the Load-balance based on requirement.
• Configured VPN connection for the security purpose.
• Configured VPC & Subnets
• Configured VPC-Peering on same region VPC’s and also different region VPC as well.
• Performed VM Storage migrations to new EMC and Net app storage arrays.
• Administered and upgraded vCenter and ESXi servers from vSphere 4 to vSphere 5.1 and 5.5.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines usingVMwareConverter.
• Racked and installed ESXi servers and added to vCenter clusters.
• Performed data store migration usingVMwarestorage vMotion.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates.
• PowerShell, VBscript, Power CLI Windows batch scripting. Strong propensity to automate routine tasks via scripting. Ability to author scripts.
• Experience supporting MS Windows network infrastructure; including any of the following: Active Directory, WINS, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Exchange.
• Create and apply citrix policies to control connections, security and bandwidth settings using group policy management console, Citrix delivery services console and Local group policy editor.
• Reviewed supporting our MS Windows infrastructure and virtualization technologies.
• Installs, configures and maintains operating system workstations and servers, including web servers, in support of business processing requirements.
• Management of My SQL Aurora database using command line and Heidi SQL.
• Apache web Server management.
• Configured SFTP server and created Client accounts based on the requirement.
• As the part of Client requirement configured the same environment on EU Region as well. (servers, load-balance, RDS,VPN,WAF etc..)
• Worked on version control system Git tool.
• Experience in Creating branches and tags to separate build system.
• Milestone releases and Create build storage archives for back tracking builds.
• Create and configure new jobs for each and every module in Jenkins.
• Automated the bundling process and reduced all the manual intervention needed and merged that to the Jenkins job.
• Used Kafka with Apache storm to handle data pipeline for high-speed filtering and pattern matching.
• Automated builds using Jenkins and Git.
• Created the complete CI CD pipeline through Jenkins.
• Involved in all stages build and release management.
• Proficient in automatic the build and release cycle using Jenkins.
• Having experience on setting up and managingDockerprivate repository.

Environment: AWS, Jenkins, Git, Apache, SonarQube, Kafka, Python, Open stack, Ansible, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Bash, Confluence, Windows, VMware, Nagios and CloudWatch.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Experience creating VMware vRealize Orchestration (VRO) workflow.
• Automation of many task using VMware Vrealize Automation center VCAC and implemented many custom workflows using VRealize OrchestratorvRO.
• Experienced in creating Virtual Machine Templates and deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources.
• Managing and Installation of VMware ESXi 4.1 server, Installation and configuration of virtual center database and installation of VMware infrastructure virtual machines.
• Implemented the migrations of ESXi 4.0 and 4.1 servers to ESX5.1.
• Worked with implementation of Active Directory Services/DNS/DHCP/IIS in Windows 2003, 2008 R2 Server environment.
• Installed and configured MS Exchange 2003/2008/IIS servers migration and day to day operation of the same.
• Created Active directory group policies (GPOs) based on Domain, Site and OU structures to apply restriction to users, workstations and Servers.
• Extensively used Active Directory Services to manage Domain controllers and domain trusts and replication.
• Documented disaster recovery procedure for Active Directory Domain Controllers and FSMO role holders.
• Installed, configured and maintained 32-bit and 64-bitWindows 2003 servers and 64-bit Windows 2008 servers.
• Technical support, administration and troubleshooting of Microsoft Windows 2003 & Windows 2008 cluster servers.
• Administered and troubleshot Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and DFS issues.
• Installed and configured Microsoft SQL 2008 on failover cluster.
• Security Administration of File Server, user accounts and security groups on a multiple Active Directory domain.
• Installed, configured and administered print server / print queues.
• Worked on day on support troubleshooting client's problems.
• Built, configured and performed hardware upgrades of Windows servers.
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.
• Trouble shooting issues related to VMware ESX host, VMware virtual center, HA, DRS, VMware update manager.
• Maintained the Domain environment, including setting up the policies as per the security settings.
• Administered DNS, DHCP, WINS in Active Directory Environment.
• Coordinated with Application, Network and Security Teams and Vendor Management.
• Responsible for setting up Windows 2003/2000/NT Servers.
• Installed and configured Microsoft Windows 2003, Active Directory.
• Upgraded Windows 2003 to Windows 2008.
• Conversion of Microsoft SCCM packages to App-V sequences.

Environment: Windows server, VMware, Azure PaaS, IIS, SQL Server 2008/ 2012, Shell.