PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 16 years of experience in architecting complex enterprise distributed systems with expertise in defining strategy, platform/application architecture and Enterprise application integration.
• Administration and architecting of public (AWS) and private cloud platforms.
• Experience in AWS provisioningand good knowledge of AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, Cloudformation,Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, SNS, Glacier, ELB, SQS, SWF, EBS etc.
• Extensive experiencein AgileMethodology, Scrum processes, Sprint Planning, Story based DevelopmentandProject Management
• Management and design of integrated build pipelines using continuous integration workflows such as Jira, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Docker
• Experience in configuration management through Puppet, StackIQ Salt, Chef, Ansible, Bladelogic
• Experience in installation, configuration, and management of Splunk Data Engine
• Expertise in finding security problems using CFN nag, Cloud Custodian
• Expertise in OpenVAS management
• Expertise in Qualys vulnerability management, Qualys scans, remediation
• Experience on Web Servers such Tomcat 3.x, 4.x, 5.x & Apache Server 1.x,2.x
• Administration of UNIX systems (Redhat Linux, Sun Solaris, HP UX and IBM AIX) and Vmware environments.
• Expertise in scripting for automation, and monitoring using Shell & Python scripts.
• Audit and manage PCI compliance v3.0 standards
• Defining Process & Ensuring process adherence to ensure best quality of service.
• Responsible for technology research, budgeting, feasibility, evaluation and proof of concept.
• Vast experience in work environment with a mix ofonsite - offshoreGlobal Delivery model
• Excellent communication, team and relationship management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Technologies: AWS

Big Data: Mapr Hadoop

CI CD: Git, SVN, Maven, Jenkins, JiraScripting: Shell, Python

Application server: websphere, tomcat

Monitoring: Splunk, Nagios, BMC Patrol

Configuration management: Puppet, Stack IQ Salt, Chef, Ansible

Cloud Security compliance tools: cfn-nag, cloud custodian

Container technology: Docker

Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX

Methodologies: Agile Scrum

Virtualization: ESX, vSphere, KVM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential (Dallas, TX)

Sr Dev Ops / AWS Lead

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in security automation and orchestrating workloads across public and private cloud providers
• Experience as a product owner migrating applications on Amazon Web Services
• Expertise in automation of configuration management with Ansible, AWS Cloudformation, AWS APIs, Boto3
• Experience in deploying and operating AWS resources like Cloud Formation, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, KMS, VPC, SNS, EBS, ELB, Cloudwatch using the AWS console / AWS cli / AWS API calls
• Expertise in creating and maintaining AWS Cloud Formation and Terraform templates
• Expertise in writing python codes for Lambda functions
• Expertise in building automation pipelines
• Expertise in bug fixes, merging codes in Jenkins Integration
• Expertise in scripting languages such as python, shell.
• Expertise with git stash (vcs / scm tool)
• Expertise working in an Agile, fast paced, DevOps environment
• Expertise in Docker containerized environment, hosting web servers on containers, building docker images using Dockerfile
• Experience in setting up Splunk monitoring and alerting
• Document issue resolutions and learned information in Jira Confluence
• Experience as Scrum master, Scrum calls, Retrospective meetings, Sprint planning sessions and story creations

Confidential (Cupertino, CA)

Dev Ops Lead

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Confidential iCloud services (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)
• Experience in PAAS (Platform as a service) application deployment
• Expertise in code deployments, bug fixes through Dev Ops tools
• Managing infrastructure using Puppet, Verdad configuration management tools
• Experience in maintaining Puppet modules, manifests, classes
• Expertise in SVN and Git version control tool
• Setup and administration of log mining processes utilizing Splunk
• Report / Resolve systems alerts and process issues reported by Nagios, Hubble, and Nmsys monitoring tools
• Experience in configuration management by Carnival
• Using Amazon EC2 features to provision, monitor, scale and distribute compute Infrastructure
• Design high availability applications on AWS across availability zones and availability regions
• Managing Incident & Change Request through Radar, Espresso ticketing tool
• Document issue resolutions and learned information in Confluence and wiki sharePoint
• Provide on-call support by rotation

Confidential (Phoenix, AZ)

Dev Ops Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Dev Ops team on multiple projects
• Facilitatingdaily scrum meetings, enforcing timeframes and responding to the roadblocks, tracking baseline, sprint planning and sprint retrospective
• Experience in planning sprint release and making sure team has a crystal clear understanding of sprint goals
• Working in tandem with Product Owner in finding ways to effectively maintainprioritize the Product backlog and release plan
• Experience in deploying and operating AWS, specifically VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, ELB, Cloud Formation and Cloud Watch using the AWS console.
• Use Amazon EC2 features to provision, monitor, scale and distribute compute infrastructure
• Use Amazon Cloud Watch metrics to monitor the health and utilization of AWS resources
• Experience in leading a team that established Enterprise VPN and Amazon VPC integration with data center
• Build MapR Hadoop Clusters using StackIQ (Rocks/Salt)
• Experience in maintaining Salt xml, yaml configuration files
• Configuration and management of Big Data Applications Kafka, Storm, Skytree
• Configuration and implementation of Nagios monitoring tool
• Expertise in MapR Hadoop administration
• Expertise in Queue push across the Big data environment through StackIQ Salt configuration management
• Expertise in Qualys vulnerability management (openssl, nfs utils, php security)

Confidential (Framingham, MA)

Sr. Dev Ops Engineer / Onsite Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architecture/design and deployment of solutions using bare solutions, VMWare, and Amazon Web Services
• Experience in deploying and operating AWS, specifically EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, ELB, and Cloud Watch using the AWS console
• Managing Incident & Change Request through Service-now ticketing tool & ensuring customer business needs and expectations are met up to the mark
• Experience in configuring Puppet Master and Puppet agents in large infrastructure
• Server configuration management viaChef. Workstation setup for Knife plugin and establish connectivity between Chef server and workstation
• Pushing of chef - cookbook, roles, databags on chef-server using knife plugin and executing it on node.
• Expertise in Veritas volume manager and Veritas clusters
• Expertise in Splunk logs Analysis, management of Splunk forwarders
• Installation and administration of application serversWebSphere
• Experience in RCS and GIT version control tools
• Expertise in Data center migration activities
• Expertise in Veritas cluster foundation upgrades new team members in Agile principles, scrum processes and helping them transition from waterfall methodology to agile practice
• Expertise in patch and configuration management through pdsh utility
• Experience in maintaining Password Vault
• Document issue resolutions and learned information in the team’s Knowledge Base (Confluence / Wiki docs).

Confidential (Tucson, AZ)

Sr. Principal Infrastructure Engineer (Sr. Linux / Unix Support)

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in performance engineering, troubleshooting, and production support to quickly resolve major issues from the application level to the network and web server level to the O/S level Configuration and Management of Nagios Monitoring Tool.
• Participate in the Internal Change Management processes and present change tickets to CAB as per ITIL process
• Server configuration management viaPuppet
• Managing Incident & Change Request through Remedy ticketing tool & ensuring customer business needs and expectations are met up to the mark.
• Performing Code reviews with the team, design reviews with the Architects.
• PXEkickstart of Red hat Enterprise Linux
• Developed and maintained the continuous integration and deployment systems using Jenkins, ANT, and Ruby.
• Document issue resolutions and learned information in the team’s Knowledge Base (Wiki docs).
• Expertise in Veritas volume manager and Veritas clusters

Confidential (Hartford, CT)

Advisory Technical Services Professional (Sr. Linux Administrator)

Responsibilities:

• Provide Level 3 system support to the above said servers and co-ordinate with the architects, vendors, application teams.
• Server configuration management viaBalde Logic
• Expertise in deploying jobs through Blade logic
• Expertise in Puppet configuration and management.
• Installation and administration of application serversWebLogic and Tomcat.
• Expertise in tuning oracle kernel parameter and huge page setups on Linux platform
• Expertise in handling storage migration from DMX to VMAX
• Expertise in RHEL OS upgrades to RHEL 6.3
• Expertise in OpenVAS management

Confidential (Boston, MA)

Team Lead Linux / Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provide System Administration and Hardware Support for about 6000+ servers based on different flavors of Linux/ Unix
• Monitor team performance, delegate tasks, report on metrics
• Managing Problem & Change Request through Peregrine Service Center application
• Installing different applications on Linux servers (TSM, Patrol, IDD, etc)
• Backing up and Restoring files from TSM
• Install patches on red hat servers using red hat satellite servers managed by client.
• Experience in VM Ware (Configuring / Provisioning / Migrating VM’s)
• Experience in performing weekend migrations, monthly outages (servers and applications) and handling issues during migrations.
• Participating DR drill activities.

Confidential

Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provide Level 3 system support to the above said servers and co-ordinate with the help desk
• Create raw devices under veritas volume manager for Oracle Databases purpose
• Setting up NFS servers and NFS clients
• Backup scheduled through NFS
• Establish ssh password less connections between Linux / Unix servers (using rsa keys)
• Generate weekly picklist list using the netbackup tool.
• End to end Data centre migration activity from one location to another geographic location
• Document, update, and track all work done using XIUS-bcgi work tracking utilities (Remedy, SalesForce)

Confidential

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Provide Level 2 system support to the above said servers and co-ordinate with the help desk
• Patching up the kernels and OS related patches.
• Recovering the system from panics due to hardware or software failures.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing of UNIX (SGI Linux & Mac OS) and Windows 2000 Domain Controller and Desktop Support.
• Establish and maintain hardware RAIDs, Backup and Recovery Policies Backups in DDS tapes (Incremental / Full backup)
• Expertise in DSP and Fairlight DAWs applications