SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of experience in architecture, deploying and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers, mobile devices, and peripheral equipment.Worked with almost all the VMware ESX versions starting from ESX3/4/5i up until the latest 6.5.
• Worked with vCenter server, vSphere and vCenter appliance. Prior Experience includes VMware Lab Manager3.5.
• Have extensive working Experience with VDI, vCAC, vSRM, vCM, vCOPS/vROPS, ITBM and VMware Horizon.
• Managed multiple P2V conversions and server migrations using VMWare ovftool, VMware converter and PowerCli depending on the need and requirement.
• Experience in Server monitoring, capacity planning, application monitoring with the help of Tivoli, HP insight and WebTop.
• Experience in iSCSI, SAN, NAS/ NFS storage and RAID concepts.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills on AIX, red hat Linux, Solaris, work with multiple team and vendors and provide RCA for any issues related to the server.
• Strong management and administration skills in providing installation, configuration, troubleshooting, backup and recovery in multiple Applications on AIX and Red hat Linux machines.
• Linux bare metal recovery has been implemented on the account using REAR and successfully tested the recovery on a virtual machine.
• Experience in Confidential Web Sphere Administration and setting up Confidential Web Sphere Application Servers in the development, testing and production environments.
• Vast experience with Storage Systems that includes Confidential DS4K/5K series, Confidential XIV - 2nd generation and 3rd generation
• Storage Provisioning, Volume and Filesystem Management using Veritas Volume Manager and VERITAS Filesystem (Veritas Storage Foundation), Configuring ZFS filesystems.
• Worked on different platform on SUSE Linux which includes 10.x,11.x
• Installed, monitored and supported Web and Application Servers on AIX and Linux environments.
• Proven experience of monitoring tools such as Nagios, Confidential Tivoli Monitoring. Strong Troubleshooting and implementation skills in enabling and maintaining SSL/HTTPS.
• Well-versed with bash, Python, Perl, Ruby scripts for infrastructure automation
• Configured Apache as load balancer and Squid as proxy wherever required to scale the applications
• Created Jenkins pipeline jobs for Puppet release process for module deployment, using Kanban Agile Methodology for puppet development
• Over 2 years of experience in Chef, developed cookbooks for middleware automation using Ruby, Python. Setup chef server and agent architecture. Developed recipes for WAS, JBOSS and Tomcat server provisioning.
• Deep experience with the following AWS components - EC2, S3, Elastic IPs, EBS, Security Groups, VPC, ELB, Elastic Cache, Cloud Formation, Elastic Bean Stock, EC2 container service, Creating S3 and EBS Storage service and mounted to the EC2 server instance
• Experience in planning and configuring AWS servers, installing middleware tools and setting up DB2 instances.
• Worked with Confidential Soft layer(IAAS), Confidential Blue Mix(PAAS), AWS and various cloud services and built architecture as per the requirement
• Experience with Virtual box, Xen, Vagrant, Docker container as service and developed Docker files

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages & Scripts: C, C++, PL/SQL, DHTML, CSS, CGI (PERL) PHP, Python, PERL, Ruby,GIT, Bit bucket, Shell, Bash, Korn, Cshell.

Networking & Communication Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, Putty, SOAP, FTP, SMTP, SFTP, SCP, Humming Birdv7.1, Vantiv32, Protocol analyzers (wire shark, ethereal).

Database: Oracle 8.x/9.0, DB2, MS SQL Server 2000/ 2003/2008/2012 , MS Access. Microsoft SQL 2005, DB2, Casandra, MySQL.

Skills: FTP, Java/JSP, MS Access, MS Office Suite, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PMS Project, and MS Word.

Web/Application Servers: WebSphere 5.x/6.0/6.1, Tomcat, TC Server, WebLogic, Glassfish, JBOSS 4.x/5.x/6.x, Confidential HTTP Server, WebSphere Portal Server4.0, 5.x, Confidential Tivoli Directory Server 5.1.

Middleware: WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0, Confidential Data Power XS40, XI50, CA Site Minder 5.5/6.0, JBOSS, WebLogic, WSRR, Tomcat, WebSphere Portal Server 6.0, WebSphere Process Server, AMQ, IIB, Active MQ, JBOSS fuse.

Operating Systems: Confidential -AIX 4.x/5.x/7.x, Sun Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000/NT/ 2003/2008/2012 , Red Hat Linux 5.x/ 6.x/ 7.x, RPMs.

Development/Build tools/frameworks: WSAD, RAD, JCreator, ANT, Maven, Wily Introscope, Ruby, Cucumber, Eclipse, Selenium,

GUI Front End Tools: Visual Basic 5.0/6.0, and Developer 2000, HTML, PHP.

Version Control Tools/ CI /CD/CM tools: Win CVS, Perforce, Clear Case, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Build Forge 7.x/8.x, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Nexus.Cloud technologies: AWS, Private Cloud, Open stack, Dockers, Cloud forms, Foreman, VMWare, Xen

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

DEVOPS/Cloud/AWS Engineer

Responsibilities: 

• Implemented automated build and deployment process for applications and re-engineering set up for better user experience, and leading up to building a continuous integration system. 
• Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process. 
• Conceived, Designed, Installed and Implemented CI/ CD automation system. 
• Created and updated Bash scripts and modules, files, and packages. 
• Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation using Jenkins along with Shell scripts to automate routine jobs. 
• Automated the deployments using Jenkins and its respective dependency plugins. 
• Implemented nightly builds on Jenkins and automated various scopes of testing on Jenkins. 
• Implemented rapid-provisioning and lifecycle management for Linux using custom Bash scripts. 
• Installed, Configured and Administered Hudson/Jenkins Continuous Integration Tool. 
• Developed automation framework for Application Deployments to the Hadoop environments. 
• Performed Branching, Tagging, Release Activities on Version Control Tools: GIT and GITLAB. 
• Developed shell scripts for automation of the build and release process, developed Custom Scripts to monitor repositories, Server storage. 
• Used Maven as build tool on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code. 
• Deployed the Hadoop applications into dashboard application servers like oozie. 
• Performed and deployed Builds for various Environments like Dev, Test, QA, Onboarding and Productions Environments. 
• Responsible for defining branching & merging strategy, checking policies, improving code quality, automated Gated Checkins, defining backup and archival plans. 
• Enabled Continuous Delivery through Deployment into several environments of Development, Test and Production using Maven and Sonarqube. 
• Automated Hadoop sqoop deployments from production to the development environments. 
• Created Python Scripts to Automate AWS services which include web servers, ELB, CloudfrontDistribution, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application configuration, this Script creates stacks, single servers or joins web servers to stacks. 
• Automated the cloud deployments using Puppet, Python and AWS Cloud Formation Templates. 
• Created scripts in Python which Integrated with Amazon API to control instance operations. 
• Maintained Build Related scripts developed in ANT, Python and Shell. Modified build Configuration files including Ant's build.xml. 
• Converting production support scripts to chef recipes. 
• Implemented Packer based scripts for continuous integration with the Jenkins server and deployed packer based scripts on to the Amazon ec2 instances. 
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Optimized volumes and EC2 instances. 
• Involved in automated deployment of ebs and chroot based automated deployments on to the AWS cloud ec2 instance servers. 
• Configured Nagios to monitor EC2 Linux instances with puppet automation. 
• Configured Apache webserver in the Linux AWS Cloud environment using Puppet automation. 
• Extensive knowledge on writing and deploying modules in puppet. 
• Hands on Experience in AWS Cloud in various AWS Services such as Redshift Cluster, Route 53 Domain configuration. 
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups. 
• To achieve Continuous Delivery goal on high scalable environment, used Docker coupled with load-balancing tool Nginx. 
• Worked on creation of custom Docker container images, tagging and pushing the images. 
• Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle. 
• Worked on installing of Docker using Docker toolbox. 
• Experience with container based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker HUB and Docker registries. 
• Worked on creation of Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle. 
• Worked on setting up the automated build on Docker HUB. 
• Used Docker as a new level of simplicity to defining and creating applications or services by encapsulating them in containers. 
• Used Docker containers for eliminating a source of friction between development and operations. 
• Used Docker machine as a virtualization between systems. 
• Automated application deployment in the cloud using Docker technology using Elastic Container Service scheduler. 
• Created and managed a Docker deployment pipeline for custom application images in the cloud using Jenkins. 
• Worked on creation of various subscriptions and topics using SNS and SQS based services and automated the complete deployment environment on AWS. 
• Enhanced the automation to assist, repeat and consist configuration management using Ansible based YAML scripts. 
• Designed and implemented fully automated server build management, monitoring and deployment by using Ansible playbooks and Modules 
• Conceived, Designed, Installed and Implemented Chef configuration management system. 
• Created and updated Chef manifests and modules, files, and packages. 
• Automated the cloud deployments using Chef and AWScloudformation templates. 
• Implemented rapid-provisioning and lifecycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Amazon EC2, Chef, and custom Bash scripts. 
• Developed automation scripting in Python (core) using Chef to deploy and manage Java applications across Linux servers. 
• Worked on Version control setups like GIT and integration tools Jenkins 
• Installed, Configured and Administered Hudson/Jenkins Continuous Integration Tool. 
• Developed automation framework for Application Deployments to the cloud environments. 
• Developed shell scripts for automation of the build and release process, developed Custom Scripts to monitor repositories, Server storage. 
• Deployed the Java applications into web application servers like JBoss. 
• Performed and deployed Builds for various Environments like QA, Integration, UAT and Productions Environments. 
• Worked on the installation and configuration of the monitoring tool Nagios. 
• Implemented Nagios core/XI for monitoring Infrastructure resources. 
• Set up customized monitoring with Nagios, & PNP4Nagios Graphs for the legacy and new environments. 
• Automated Nagios services for database server, web-server, application-server, networks, file sizes, RAM utilization, Disk performances using Python script in Chef. 
• To achieve Continuous Delivery goal on high scalable environment, used Docker coupled with load-balancing tool Nginx. 
• Bootstrapping automation scripting for virtual servers, using VMWare clusters. 
• Worked on Apache and Firewalls in both development and production. 

Environment: Ubuntu, Hadoop, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Python, Shell, VMware, Java, Ant, Maven, Hudson, GIT, Windows, JIRA, Ansible, Packer Chef, AWS, Sonarqube, Nagios, Python, Shell, VMware ESXi, Apache Webserver, JBoss, Apache JMETER, GIT, Ruby, VMWare ESX, Nagios

Confidential, Austin, TX

Linux/VMWare Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Apache and Firewalls in both development and production
• Worked with Windows, Solaris and Linux Servers to setup their networking as per Client’s request
• Installed and updated Citrix Patches on servers
• Work with VMware products like ESXi4.x/5.x, vsphere4.x, vCenter Server5.x, ITBM, vSRM, vCOPS,
• vCAC, vSRM, VDI, Horizon etc.
• Worked with Confidential XIV, Confidential DS4k series Storage servers. Configured zoning for our infrastructure
• And delivery needs
• Worked with Sun server and Blade chassis in setting up remote on-line classes.
• Managed Windows 2008 Active Directory, VMWare Active Directory Exchange Domain
• Administration and Microsoft Exchange 2007-2013
• Scheduled tasks for vMotion and Storage vMotion and managed snapshots prior
• To planned patch install or upgrade.
• Connecting and Configuring SAN and NAS Storage into the ESXi and Hyper-V Servers.
• Migration of servers P2V and V2V by using VMWare Converter and Plate Spin Migrate.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain Users, Administrating users and groups and
• Installing and configuring Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers from ILO management tool on
• Rack servers and blades.
• Worked with windows 2003/2008 servers, DNS, DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server, SQL,
• vSphere, Wins, P2V converter and patches.
• Configured Confidential TSM server for backing up our infrastructure servers.
• Built XIV from the scratch, created luns and mapped to ESXi servers and other infrastructure
• Servers
• Connected vCenter in vCAC and configured vSphere and vCloud director end points.
• Hands on experience with vCOPS, Configuring dashboards for clients
• Worked with setup, configuration and management of an enterprise VMWare VDI Horizon view
• Design, build and operational support on VDI hosts and vms.
• Experience in virtual infrastructure packaging in the VDI View enterprise environment.
• Migrate/package existing natively installed applications for use with VDI VMWare environment

Environment: Solaris 9, 10, RHEL release 3,4,5, Autosys, ESXi4.x/5.x/6.x,vsphere4.x, vCenter Server5.x,vSphere 6.x,ITBM,vSRM, vCOPS, vCAC, vSRM,VDI,Horizon,vCloud director TSM6.1.3, Sun servers(V880, V490, V210, V440, V880), Tape Libraries, e-servers X3850M2, Confidential X3950M2/M5, Confidential Power Systems,DS4800, DS4700,XIV, ITIM, Windows AD, Cisco 2960 Switches, Think Centers, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 7/8/XP, PowerCli, PowerShell

Confidential, Austin, TX

Cloud/VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided application teams secure and patched systems within the proper OS and middleware software lifecycle standards 
• Maintained and patched a robust and burgeoning VMware 3.5 environment of over 60+ hosts and 3000+ VMware guest operating systems hosted on enabling SAN technologies. 
• Responsible for managing VMware environment, knowledge of implementing VMware HA, DRS 
• Performed P2V, V2V migrations using VM Convertor 
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware ESXI server, Lab Manager, VMware 
• Workstation and VMware player. 
• Troubleshooting Windows OS, Mac OS, and VMwareESX 3.5/5.0 and application issues. Provide 1st and 2nd level support for critical IT business emergencies and issues. 
• Experience with installation and upgrade of SCOM. 
• Experience with PowerShell Scripting. 
• Installing and updating citrix patches on servers 
• Experience on installation and configuration of SCCM 2007 
• Experience working with Cisco Routers, Cisco Firewalls and Cisco Switches 
• Working knowledge of Load Balancing, Vmotion, Storage Vmotion, HA, DRS & Memory Virtualization. 
• Experience in TCP/IP connectivity and x86/x64 Operating System troubleshooting, installation, configuration and support of business application software suites 
• Participated in IT systems Disaster Recovery and high availability planning for business clients. 
• Install and maintain Stratus FT series fault Tolerant systems running Windows Server 2003 and 2008 x86/x64 Operating Systems.

Environment: VMWare ESXi3/4/5, Windows, NSX, vConverter, Plate Spin, DNS/DHCP/IIS, print servers, citrix, xen, SAN, Hardware- Internal/External Modems, NIC SCSI/IDE, Hubs, Switches, Confidential X3850, Pseries, Xseries servers

Confidential, Austin, TX

Technical Expert

Responsibilities: 

• Experience with operation and administration of Windows NT or Windows 2000 systems 
• Hands on experience with VMware ESXi Server or VMware products 
• Experience in working with development organizations in a new product introductions role 
• Strong Linux or UNIX administration skills familiarity with the installation and configuration of Linux or UNIX operating systems 
• Setup and operation of TCP/IP networking on Linux or UNIX systems 
• Ability to program and debug Perl administration scripts 
• Good practical working ability with VMware vSphere 3.5, 4.x, 
• L2 Technical support which includes vital hardware support. 
• Installation of OS like windows Xp Professional, 2003, 2008, win7, wins vista. 
• Configuring and troubleshooting of outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010. 
• Installation and configuration of ESX server 3.5. 
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. 
• Configure High Availability 
• Configure DRS, cold vmotion 
• Performed regular Server clean ups 
• Periodic ESXi/Windows log and alert analysis to ensure relevant alerts are being monitored and the system uptime were maintained at agreed SLAs. 
• Working with active directory. 
• Configure HA and DRS for the VMware clusters agreed by the customer 
• Configured customized alarms for Virtual environment as per the requirement from Client 
• Responsible for User Management in AD(User creation/Deletion/Password Reset) 
• Implementation of Group Policies/OU & assigning user to respective group/OU. 
• Configuring and deployment of Network printers. 
• Troubleshooting and configuration of NIC and other software(s). 
• Handling DNS queries for the domain users. 
• Applying basic diagnostic techniques to identifying the issue, investigate causes and recommend solutions to correct common failures.

Environment: Windows Servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Grouping Policy, Backup and Recovery, ISS(HTTP & FTP), ISA, Terminal Services, TCP/IP, VMWare ESX, Unix, Bash, Disk Management and File Sharing

Confidential, Bentonville, Arkansas 

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported infrastructure environment comprising SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Confidential - AIX servers
• Installed, configured and maintained Solaris,HP-UX 11i, Confidential AIX, and Linux.
• Migrated applications from PA-RISC to Itanium.
• Administered, maintained Red Hat 2.1, 3.0AS, ES, Troubleshooting Hardware, Operating System Application & Network problems and performance issues
• Performed tasks like Backup, Software Management including Patch updates, Documentation, User Management, Network Management etc.
• Set up Concurrent versioning system (CVS).
• Performed installations in HP-UX Ignite.
• Configured Disk Volume Management with LVM of HP-UX.
• Installed and removed software packages and patches on Solaris, HP and Linux systems.
• Performed software monitoring, installation and troubleshooting
• Performed reorganization of disk partitions, file systems, hard disk addition, memory upgrade, and DAT drive installation.
• Implemented upgrade plan for Solaris and HP-UX on development and production servers.
• Developed scripts for backups using Veritas,ufsdump.
• Coordinated with clients in selecting proper hardware and software according to the departmental needs.
• Installed and configured VERITAS Storage Foundation Suite, VxVM, VxCS and VxFS.
• File system tuning, growing, and shrinking with VERITAS File system 3.5/4.x (Vxfs).
• Installed, maintained and troubleshooting NIS, NFS, Automounter and DNS servers
• Monitored system activities, log maintenance, and disk space management.
• Installed and configured LDAP server.
• Servers’ consolidation and virtualization using VMwarevirtual infrastructure, VMwareESX.
• Configured all applications hardware diagnostics for SUN SPARC systems.
• RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packagesused for Linux distributions.
• Supervise network monitoring standards, security, disaster/recovery, resource utilization and stability.
• Maintained Database, taking backups from remote servers.
• Experience with NetApp storage.
• Used Perl and Shell Scripting extensively.
• Actively Involved at Data Center or Work station.
• Production Support of applications mysql, Tomcat, Apache (authentication, http services).
• Maintained of RAID technologies
• Installed and Configured Web Logic 8.1 on various Development and Production Boxes.
• Troubleshooting and maintenance of VERITAS Net Backup (4.5,5.0), Scripts for Daily backup reports, checking drivers’ status
• Installed and configured Modems, Network Printers&SCSITape drives.
• Administered, maintained Red Hat 2.1, 3.0AS, ES, Troubleshooting Hardware, Operating System Application & Network problems and performance issues
• File system management using Logical volume management and Veritas Volume management (3.5,4.1,4.5)