SUMMARY:

• 8 years of Experience in System/Infrastructure/Cloud and Network Administration
• Experience in Installing, Upgrading, Maintaining and Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution and other linux distributions in public cloud
• Experience in creating AWS computing instance Services like EC2 and AmazonElastic Load Balancing
• Experience in Creating and managing a AWS Storage services like S3, EBS and Amazon CloudFront
• Expertise in Creating an Amazon RDS and Handle software installation, backups, and patches as well as routine administrative tasks
• Extensive experience in using Build Automation DevOps tools like ANT, Maven, GIT and Jenkins
• Experience working with Puppet to perform automation of Configuration management and application deployments
• Experience in maintaining and executing Build scripts to automate development and production builds
• Maintaining and administering the Source code repositories, including implementation of automated controls and enhancements
• Experience in migrating multiple projects between different version control repositories such as CVS, PVCS, CVS to Subversion/Git, ClearCase to Subversion
• Hands - on Experience in Administration, Configuration and Troubleshooting of high end disk storage systems such as EMC CLARiiON and VMAX/Symmetrix DMX in mission production environment
• Strong experience with management tools includes EMC Control Center ECC, SymCLI, Performance Manager, EMC VNX Unisphere Manager/Analyzer/Naviseccli, and Event Manager
• Expertise in Array based and Host Based Migration tools like Open Replicator, SnapView, Snapshot/Clone, Snapmirror and Snapvault, SAN Copy, SRDF DM, OpenMigrator and PPME
• Good skills on providing file access for NFS and CIFS clients using Celerra Manager and Celerra CLI
• Expertise on VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management, Configuring RAID Groups and LUNs,configuring storage pools and creating thick/thin LUNs, LUN Migration, Configuring FAST-VP, Configuring FAST Cache
• Proficient in using Cisco Fabric Manager and Brocade WebTools /CLI.Experience and involvement in Installation, configuration and administration of PowerPath on UNIX and Windows servers for Path Failover and Load Balancing
• Installed and Configured iSCSI, Fiber Channel, TCP/IP protocols with in SAN/NAS environments
• Experience in design and implementation of High availability &Disaster Recovery Solutions for SAN/NAS Environments
• Expertise in multi-vendor operating systems which includes Solaris, Linux, AIX and WINDOWS.
• Requirement analysis and propose the best possible solution to clients
• Hands on experience in Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 5.0/ESXi4.1 and, ESX 3.X servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0andvCenter Converter
• Experience Poweredge and HP servers using Custom and kickstart installation and Interactive Installation
• Experience in Upgrading, Migration, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance monitoring and Fine-tuning of systems running various Linux platforms
• Upgraded servers using RPM Package Manager and Yum
• Strong technical background in Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and logical partitioning
• Experience installing backup software on Linux and UNIX servers
• Involved in developing custom images on Cloud using AWS Images and on VMWare ESX using Templates and involved in building physical servers
• Involved in health check of servers after patching / rebooting and checked all the services of Linux servers on AWS Cloud and also physical servers
• Worked on Popular Application Services like Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Simple WorkFlow Service(SWS)
• Created documentation for customer environments, processes, technical training and support procedures
• Experience in identifying and analyzing technical issues and troubleshooting them

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Windows 2008, 2012, AIX, Solaris and RHEL, VMWare ESXi 5.1

Amazon Web Services: EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, OpsWorks, CloudFormation, VPC, cloud front, lambda, Glacier, storage gateway

Integration tools: Cloud Watch, Beanstalk, Nagios, Puppet, ANT/Maven, Jenkins, GIT

Programming languages: Python, C++, C, php, xml, JavaScript.

Storage: VNX 7500, 5700,5300 and 7600, 5800, VNXe, Vplex ClARiiON, CX600/CX700/CX3-40/CX3-80/CX4-480 /CX4-960

SAN Switches: Cisco, McData and Brocade

SAN Software: EMC-SolutionsEnabler,SYMCLI,EMC-Symmetrix ManagementConsole, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer,EMC-Centera. Unisphere for VMAX with Performance Analyzer, Unisphere for VNX Unified Administration, Unisphere Manager, NAVISECCLI, Connectrix Manager, Powerpath and Powerpath VE

Backup and Recovery: EMC NetWorker 7.6, Veritas NetBackup 6.5/6.0/5.1, IBM TSM 5.2/4.2

NAS Platform: EMC Celerra, Windows CIFS server, NetApp.

Database: SQL, MySQL, RDS

ScriptingLanguage: UNIX Shell

Web Server: Tomcat, HTTP Server

Networking: TCP/IP, NIS, NIS+, NFS, DNS, DHCP, WAN, SMTP, SNMP, LAN, SSH, FTP/TFTP.

File Systems: UFS, swapfs, Tmpfs, zfs, jfs, jfs2, ext2, ext3, fat, ntfs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bonita Springs, FL

AWS/Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided configuration management expertise to all software development projects.
• Creation of Cost optimization metrics to Monitor, Optimize the total spend on cloud resources and Supporting the Cost-Effective Resources.
• Monitoring, collecting and tracking metrics and setting up to react automatically to change in AWS resources.
• Involved in the production release cycle, which includes phases like Development, Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing and Production Environments.
• Implemented Project Management tool on AWS Cloud which requires Apache Tomcat application Server, PostgreSql DB.
• Implemented continuous integration and tracking source code changes using Jenkins.
• Build, manage, and continuously improved the build infrastructure for global software development engineering teams including implementation of build scripts, continuous integration infrastructure and deployment tools.
• Created JIRA issues for prioritizing what is important, and cope up with what’s going on around the project.
• Integrated Maven with Jenkins for the builds as the Continuous Integration process.
• Configured plugins for the integration tools to the version control tools.
• Created Jenkins jobs for Applications for Dev, QA, STG and PROD Environments.
• Build Java code on to different Jenkins servers as per the schedule, as a DevOps engineer.
• Migrated code on to Stage and Prod from Dev and QA environments.
• Deployed code to Dev, QA, Stage and Prod Environments.
• Providing Application Support from the Infrastructure point of view.
• Environment configuration and product deployments using Puppet.
• Develop and maintain Perl, Shell scripts for automation of build and release tasks.
• Maintained JIRA for tracking and updating project defects and tasks.
• Integration of Jenkins with Jira, GITHUB.
• Worked with web server like Apache Tomcat for deploying and starting application, as a main part of DevOps.
• Troubleshooted Production Issues pertaining to AWS Cloud Resources and Application Infrastructure point of view.
• Managed and Documented all post deployment issues utilizing the Post Deployments Issue Log.
• Kept information organized and accessible with a flexible page hierarchy using confluence pages.
• Documentation of builds, source control processes, plans and the work done to mitigate future projects.
• Assisted my seniors and project leaders in troubleshooting technical issues.
• Involved in Scrum meetings, artifacts and other scrum activities in collaboration with the team.

Environment: AWS Cloud Resources, Perl Scripting, Shell Scripting, Subversion, JIRA, GIT, Puppet, Apache Tomcat, Confluence, Maven, and Jenkins.

Confidential, New York, NY

AWS Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Architectural diagrams based up on the client requirements for their application hosting in the AWS Cloud Environments.
• Created AWS computing instance Services like EC2 and AmazonElastic Load Balancing in AWS CLoud.
• Created and managed a AWS Storage services like S3, EBS and Amazon Cloud Front.
• Created an Amazon RDS and Handled software installation, backups, and patches as well as routine administrative tasks.
• Implemented popular networking services like Amazon Virtual private Cloud(VPC) for the private cloud in the public cloud.
• Configured and implemented the Amazon EC2 instances for our application teams.
• Troubleshooting issues with the application developers to the EC2 instances.
• Configured the SSL certificates for EC2, database and Amazon cli servers.
• Created User accounts for the Development group, DB-Group, Testing group by using AWS IAM service.
• Monitoring the AWS Infrastructure Response Time, Application/Service availability, Backend Transaction time, Throughput using CloudWatch and Site24x7.
• Configured Federation services for the Applications Single-SignOn in AWS cloud using AWS IAM service
• Automating daily and incremental backups by using Duplicatitool for windows to transfer the data in to S3.
• Created Alarms and Alerts in CloudWatch, Site24x7 and AWS SNS services for monitoring the Servers Performance CPU Utilization, Diskspace, Storage and Bandwidth Utilization.
• Worked on Puppet to perform automation of Configuration management and application deployments.
• Configured VPN'S for the communication between the servers of AWS side and client side.
• Worked in an agile development team to deliver an end to end continuous integration/continuous delivery product in an open source environment using tools like Chef &Jenkins.
• Designed, implemented, and support of automated containerized infrastructure, leveraging continuous integration and continuous delivery processes for service development, and cluster/monitoring/day2 tooling for infrastructure service deployment and administration.
• Maintained and executed Build scripts to automate development and production builds.
• Maintained and administered the Source code repositories, including implementation of automated controls and enhancements.
• Developed custom images on Cloud using AWS AMI'S(Amazon Machine Images) and on VMware ESX using Templates.
• Monitored health check of servers after patching / rebooting and checked all the services of Linux servers on AWS Cloud and also physical servers.
• Worked on Popular Application Services like Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Simple Workflow Service(SWS).
• Worked with Storage Area Network (SAN) team to get LUNS (EMC and Hitachi) and scan them on both RHEL and Solaris servers to create/expand the File systems and worked with Network Attached Storage (NAS) to allocate NAS on different servers.
• Proactive maintenance on systems by timely scheduling of at jobs, batch jobs and Cronjobs, Auto-sys Jobs. Worked on Scheduling cronjobs, installed the necessary packages for back up requirement.
• Installed and configured J2EE Application servers on Windows and Unix environments.
• Installed fix packs to overcome App server problems.
• Implemented Migration planning, developed, tested and moved the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Created documentation for Client environments, processes, technical training and support procedures.

Environment: Amazon EC2 Services,VPC,S3,Glacier,CloudWatch,Cloud formation,Puppet,Bash,Jira,RedHat Linux, Cisco UCS, EMC SAN, VMware, Windows 2012, Windows2008,Microsoft exchange, DNS,DHCP,NFS.

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

Systems Engineer/ DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Configured and implemented the Amazon EC2 instances for our application teams configured VPC for the private cloud in the public cloud
• Troubleshoot any issues with the application developers to the EC2 instances
• Configured the SSL certificates for EC2, database and Amazon cli servers
• Configured the data backup of private cloud VMware data to amazon s3 buckets
• Configured packages and automate the package deployments using puppet
• Configured puppet manifests to manage the automation of service/files and modules in the environment.
• Created shell scripts to manage basic automation in the environment.
• Administering/Monitoring Subversion(SVN)/Git, Jenkins on RHEL Linux cloud environment.
• Installed Subversion(SVN)/Git and performed all necessary day-to-day Subversion(SVN)/Git support for allprojects.
• Used Build Tools like ANT/Maven for setup of Build Jobs in Jenkins.
• Worked with Amazon web services customer support to resolve any billing issues with AWS
• Installed, Configured & Upgraded of Linux (Red Hat 6.X, 5.X) and Solaris (10/9/8).
• Configured and managed RHEL linux, and windows systems
• Installed security packages on servers and follow audit and compliance requirement.
• Performed automated installations of Operating System using kickstart for Linux and Jumpstart for Solaris using Global Build Provisioning Tool.
• Default Path configuration for different application.
• TCP/IP Configuration like assigning IP addresses, configuring network interfaces, assigning static routes, hostnames etc.
• Hardware support and replacement of the faulty units.
• Implementations of automatic secure SSH Login, User and Group administration.
• Analysis of the Logs including unusual activities/errors/warnings.
• System Cloning, System Copy, and Data Refresh as agreed to by the business stakeholders..
• Backup and recovery of OS, Application and Database.
• Responsible for developing and planning the implementation of technical downtime and recovery processes and the technical setup of downtime systems in a close partnership with the Technical Architect/Lead, Cache DBAs.
• Monitoring system performance and resource utilization and provide ongoing trend analysis for forecasting future resource requirements and kernel tuning to enhance the system performance.
• Worked on creating and administering raw devices for Sybase and Oracle databases.
• Worked on large Data Center Migration Project. Migrated Linux/Unix Servers from one data center to other data center with minimal downtime.
• Configured and implemented p2v migration for multiple servers to vmware environment.
• Worked on migrating servers from Legacy Model to Global Build Model.
• Administered NFS, Auto mount, DNS, KDC/LDAP, Sendmail, DHCP, samba in heterogeneous environment.
• Implemented Security Hardening per company policy using UNIX features.
• Worked with Storage Area Network (SAN) team to get LUNS (EMC and Hitachi) and scan them on both RHEL and Solaris servers to create/expand the Filesystems and worked with Network Attached Storage (NAS) to allocate NAS on different servers.
• Upgrade RHEL OS, install packages, patches on multiple systems and manage systems via Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Proactive maintenance on systems by timely scheduling of at jobs, batch jobs and Cronjobs, Auto-sys Jobs. Worked on Scheduling cronjobs, installed the necessary packages for back up requirement.

Environment: Red Hat Linux, Solaris 10/9/8, Dell PowerEdge, Hp proliant, cisco ucs, EMC SAN, VMware, Windows 2012,Windows2008, Microsoft exchange, DNS,DHCP,NFS, Amazon EC2, lamda, S3, glacier, cloud formation, puppet, bash

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Storage/Cloud Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in working with EMC private cloud with VMware stack using VCE VBLOCK environment.
• Worked with EMC, Cisco and VMware vendors to understand the plan to implement the VCE private cloud infrastructure in the environment.
• Worked on Installing and implementing the profiles in Cisco UCS blades and install VMware on the Cisco UCS blade environments.
• Worked with the network admins to create the FCOE or converged infrastructure in the environment.
• Troubleshoot any issues with the deployment of the multiple servers with BLOCK based VMDK and NFS storage environment for VMware.
• Configured multiple virtual machines ( Linux and windows ) and hand over the VM's to the application teams.
• Configured Amazon EC2 machines in amazon web services
• Configured VPC and created multiple ip's for the team to loginto the public cloud
• Managed the public cloud environment and installed modules using puppet
• Configured modules in the Aws and private linux stacks using puppet
• Configure manifests and deploy them using puppet
• Created bash and shell scripts to automate some of the services required in the environment
• Created AWS s3 buckets and glacier vaults for backup and archive purposes
• Handling production servers and network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2003 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, RADIUS clients and Terminal Servers on Windows 2012.
• Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groupsand given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Familiar with web based .Net application, xml integration in IIS web server, IIS Clustering, Load Balancing, Logging and Reporting.
• Installed and Implemented VMware Vsphere 4.x on the host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI Configured HBAs for in-house infrastructure environment.
• Configured the virtual environment backup and restore policies of VMware and physical server environment
• Installed and implemented NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
• Configured and managed the EMC products such as
• Data Domain for backups intend of Tapes
• DMX: Allocated storage to the VMware private cloud environment
• Vplex: Used for VMware replication from one site to another to make it active/in-active
• Vmax: configured and migrated the data from the old DMX to the new VMAX
• Installed and implemented open source OpenFiler 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for VMware and other servers with iSCSI initiators. Also managing iStor SAN and Symantec Backup Exec 12.
• Connected Thin Client (WYSE, DevonIT), desktop Windows Xp2 clients to RDS 6.1.
• Installed and implemented to Manage Engine monitoring application and configured SNMP and WMI on Servers and other network devices for reporting and alerts notifications.
• Responsible for helpdesk support using Spiceworks ticketing system, inventory and system reporting.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, Vmware ESX 4.1 Server,Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall Remote desktop services .

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Linux System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed configured and Administered Linux and Unix servers.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Linux Kickstart.
• Experience in Configuration of NIS, NFS, AutoFS on a Unix Domain along with Windows Clients using NFS through Solstice Network Client 3.2
• System and Network Administration training, which include but is not limited to installing Solaris, UNIX internals, NFS/NIS management, and DNS Configuration.
• Experience in Handling System tuning, log maintenance, disk space management etc
• Worked with shell scripts for automated installations, to extract logs.
• Hands on Experience in improving performance of database transactions by re-layout of Database files systems.
• Experience on Implementing various Red Hat Linux and SAN related requirements of users.
• Installed and configured J2EE Application servers on Windows and Unix environments.
• Installed fix packs to overcome App server problems.
• Thorough Knowledge on Performance monitoring with Iostat, VMstat, MPstat, Topas and Other Tools.
• Took backups on Solaris, windows filesystems using Veritas Netbackup.
• Took Unix native backups and restore using ufsdump, ufsrestore & tar commands.
• Installed Web Logic 8.1 with SP5 Server and configured Domains, Admin and managed servers for Applications to be deployed.
• Involved in Network Monitoring Using Nagios tool
• Worked on Solaris 10, Service management on Solaris 10 through SMF (Service Management Facility) svcs, svcadm, svccfg etc.
• Network troubleshooting using ‘ndd’, 'traceroute', 'netstat', 'ifconfig' and 'snoop' etc
• Configured and administered firewall rules to effectively monitor system files, port security, and network traffic activity coming through the firewall.
• Installed and configured Sudo for users to access the root privileges.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues and other day-to-day user trouble tickets.
• Experience in Servers consolidation and virtualization using XEN and VMware virtual infrastructure, VMware ESX, VMware Vcenter.
• Developed automated processes that run daily to check disk usage and perform clean-up of file systems on UNIX environments using shell scripting and CRON.

Environment: Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, Sun Enterprise Servers, HPSunOS, Oracle 10g &11g, Sybase, DB2 Client, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NFS, Web logic, Tuxedo, Apache, POP3, SMTP, VMware, vSphere ESX, Puppet.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Thorough Knowledge in Migrating Server to EMC tools add more storage to current infrastructure. Migrating from CLARiiON CX 3-40 to CLARiiON CX4-480.
• Experience in Configuring NetApp Storage environment.
• Configure Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees and allocate storage in NAS and SAN environments
• Troubleshoot Implementation issues including filer configuration, network configuration and routing, primary and Snap Mirror volume configuration Managed HP 4100, 5000 Storage works
• Add switches into current production SAN fabric.
• Experience in Monitoring and response to SAN related issues, escalate to vendors if needed.
• Worked with Production team to define backup needs and schedules.
• Assist the System DBA to standardized methods for Database backups.
• Worked with Production issues to Schedules backup jobs.
• Experience in Providing support to Production Support group who Run and Monitors all backup using
• Legato Networker.
• Designing and documenting the day-to-day Performance restore requests.
• Performance restores not handled by Operation.
• Worked with the management to create reports for Storage Capacity planning.
• Created scripts to add and remove tapes from silos, and automate the process to send tapes offsite.
• Experience in Developing, maintaining, verifying and documenting the backup, restore processes and procedures.

Environment: FAS 270/3020/3050, EMC CLARiiON CS 500, 700, CX3-40, HP EVA4100, EVA5000, XP 1024, EMC Control Center, HP CommandView, snapview, mirrorview, NAS, EMC Celera NS501G, powerpath, brocade fabric switches, Timefinder, BCV, Legato Networker.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning, architecting & design, implementing Win2003 and Win 2008 solution and system infrastructure integration.
• Win 2003 Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP
• Installation & Maintenance of Samba, Apache Web Server on Solaris & Linux.
• Implementation of RAID levels and Crash recovery of Volumes and disk groups.
• Scripting for daily routine administrative tasks, Scheduling tasks using CRON, Backup and Restore Management.
• Experience in Managing Inetd, SSH, iptables, crontab and autosys scheduling, rpm building and management, GRUB, FTP on linux and windows servers.
• Configuration of networks with NIS,NFS,DNS and Sendmail services.
• Installed sudo for use of user command limitations for contractors and other team members.
• Installed ssh for user login security via internet on an unsecured network.
• Experience in analyzing logs, problem determination, Recovery and restart.
• Worked with Korn shell, Bash shell and Bourne shells.
• Thorough Knowledge in Unix Shell Scripting and Perl Scripting.
• Experience in Implementing and Maintaining VERITAS Volume Manager.

Environment: Windows Server 2003, Solaris 10, Veritas Volume Manager, Shell Scripting, Perl, Samba, Apache Server, Sendmail.