SUMMARY:

• A Senior AWS/Linux Consultant/System admin/Dev ops engineer aspiring for deep technical role to spearhead Infrastructure services with a reputed organization.
• 14+ years of total experience in System Administration, Technical consulting and Architect roles in core Linux and Open source applications as well as team lead & team management roles. 5+ years of experience on NetApp storage and AWS administration.
• I focus on Linux, AWS, Storage and mature open source technologies. I consistently rely on my core strengths of outstanding critical thinking skills, trouble shooting ability, design and implementing capabilities to quickly assimilate and use innovative technologies beyond my existing experience. I am known for my integrity, work ethic and technical mastery.

AWS/Linux/Dev ops

• Well knowledge and experience on Amazon cloud (AWS) administration
• Hands on experience in provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS
• Hands on experience in Enterprise VPN and Amazon VPC integration with data center
• Experience in developing Cloud Formation Scripts for AWS Orchestration
• Application deployment and data migration on AWS
• Ability to design high availability applications on AWS across availability zones and regions
• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, EFS, IAM,Lambda,EMR,ECS etc.
• AWS Trouble shooting.
• Designing, Provisioning & Maintaining Linux servers located at different geographies.
• Experience on setting up centralized logging system like ELK .
• Production experience in managing large environments using configuration management tool like CHEF, ANSIBLE.
• Experience in CI/CD technology like Jenkins, Docker, Salt, GitLab, Artifactoty, AWS code commit, code pipeline etc.
• Designed and created multiple deployment strategies using CI/CD Pipelines and configuration management tools with remote execution to ensure zero downtime and shortened deployment cycles via automated deployments.
• Experienced in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using tools like Git - Hub, Git-Lab, Subversion (SVN) and CVS
• Well knowledge and experience on NetApp storage administration.
• Implemented complete datacenter monitoring solution using the open source Nagios core with lot of add-ons for graphs, customer demanded service monitoring and reporting.
• Worked as part of the datacenter team for server provisioning, designing, upgrades, patches and server hardening.
• Proven ability in deploying various application servers and well experienced in critical production environment
• Designed, created cloud formation template and implemented various application stack in AWS
• Designed, configured and implemented Oracle OEM 12C and Spacewalk for Linux configuration and patch management
• Designed, configured and implemented Linux-AD authentication using SSSD
• Worked as part of DC server/OS team along with the storage/network team for implementing DR of the existing environment.
• Expertise in deploying and maintenance of web, DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, SAMBA, FTP, forward/reverse Proxy, Apache and mail server applications.
• Strong knowledge in VPN, SVN and Virtualization.
• Ability to deploy applications securely and with optimization.
• Proven ability in managing multiple large and complex implementation of the SAN
• Strong experience in data backup management & storage management in data centre
• Experience on VERITAS clustering
• Experience on IT-Middleware and file transferring to venders
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills
• Automation of day to day activities by creating administrative scripts/programs to ease the work of the fellow team members.

Technical Architect

• Conducting feasibility-study for undertaking new business critical projects and finalizing documents.
• Played key role in client meetings by determining requirements and specifications.
• Performed design reviews across company and collected enterprise architecture performance metrics to assure continuous improvement.
• Analyze business and technology challenges and suggest solutions
• Explicitly worked from the proposition phase to the transition phase of new projects and included in presales activities in a technical perspective to procure new business.

Project Management

• Handling complete Project Management activities including preparation of technical documents, resource and task scheduling, and coordinating team meetings for reviewing project progress.
• Managing complete operations involving process set up and management, resource scheduling, definition of targets, finalization of deadlines, and allocation of tasks to team members and team leaders.
• Instituting necessary process controls & ensuring compliance with the same.
• POC for multiple team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: RHEL/CentOS/OEL/Fedora - Expert Level FreeBSD, HP-UX/ AIX, Windows - Intermediate Level Debian/Ubuntu, SUSE, Solaris - Novice Level

Server & Applications: DNS, DHCP, FTP, SAMBA, SQUID, NFS, NIS, NTP,Syslog, Open LDAP, MySQL, Open VPN, Send mail, Kernel tuning,, wiki

Web Technology: Apache, nginx, lighttpd, Tomcat

DevOps Tools: Jenkins, GitLab, SVN, Artifactory, Ansible, Chef, AWS Code commit, Code pipeline etc.

Cloud: AWS (EC2, EBS, VPC, EFS, Clod formation, RDS, ELK,ECS etc.), Rackspace, OpenQRM

Virtualization: Virtuzoo, VMware

Scripting: Shell, Python and Perl .

Authentication: 2-factor, SSO, SAML,SSSD

Security: DMZ, firewall, host, network, Anti-Virus, iptables, OS-level security.

Monitoring: Nagios, Sitescope,Gomez,SNMP, Sbrix and scripts. Network Advanced TCP/IP network configuration, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, firewall, Routing, protocols.

Storage: Netapp filer, Open filer .

Back up Tools: Comm Vault, EMC Avamar, Tar .

Clustering: VCS, DRBD, Linux-HA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Manager Operations

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Technical leader to align processes and tools, such as branching, source control structure, dependency management, Linux\Windows hybrid build infrastructure, code review, and check-in policies, that are developed and instrumented by DevOps teams across projects globally.
• Created the CloudBees Jenkins with High Availability using EFS for the file system in AWS. Created the infrastructure as Code using Cloud Formation Template.
• Setup the APIGEE application in Non-Production and Production Environment. Deployed application using Ansible playbook.
• Created and configured the CouchBase DB cluster in AWS. Created the infrastructure as Code using Cloud Formation Template
• Setup logging system ELK.
• Setup Mobile services on AWS.
• Setup the Git-lab with High Availability in AWS using Cloud Formation Template.
• Created the Jfrog’s Artifactory with High Availability in AWS using Cloud Formation Template.
• Created ECS cluster for deployment of Containers using Cloud Formation Template.
• Responsible for maintaining Linux servers (RHEL and Centos) as well as ensuring the health and stability of the server. This included trouble shooting possible package/library conflicts using various OS, server, and application logs to pinpoint the problem for it to be corrected.
• Managed various flavor of Linux virtual servers on AWS EC2 using Ansible.
• Worked in migrating the current application to Cloud like their API, Application in Agile methodology.
• Wrote automation scripts in Python, Ruby and bash.
• Configured and managed a network of Linux and Windows servers
• Managed, maintained and deployed to test, acceptance in PROD environments.
• Performed POC on various new tools like Jenkins, Git-lab, Jfrog’s Artifactory, and APIGEE.

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Administration of Amazon cloud (AWS) administration
• Provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS
• Create Cloud Formation templates for AWS Orchestration
• Design high availability applications on AWS across availability zones and regions
• Application deployment and data migration on AWS
• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS including DB
• AWS Trouble shooting
• Managing Linux servers and data center administration.
• Patch Management and IT-Middleware administration
• Manage and maintain VMware, and NetApp
• Automation using ansible
• SVN Administration.
• Basic administration and setup of Docker, Jenkin, Salt, Gitlab etc .
• Evaluating new open source technologies and absorbing them as per business requirements.
• Involved in migrations along with the DB, apps and network team.

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design and configuration of production, staging and development servers.
• Manage Linux, Solaris and HP-Unix servers.
• Data center and storage administration.
• Deploy servers on AWS
• Server Virtualization using Virtuozzo.
• Design, Implementation and managing reverse proxy servers.
• Create and Manage an Internal repository of custom build binaries.
• Apache - Tomcat web server / application server administration
• Install and configure Apache, Tomcat, PHP, MySQL, Cruise Control, Open deploy, Team site, SVN Client etc
• Cluster Management (VERITAS Clustering)
• Patch management.
• Configure load balancing using BIGIP.
• NFS,DNS and DHCP server administration .
• Setup authentication using Two-Factor, SSO, SAML
• Scan for vulnerabilities and Harden the server.
• Spear headed recruitment campaigns and mentoring of team members.

Confidential

System Administrator

Roles& Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of Linux and Windows servers
• Managing Windows And Linux Servers
• Managing Linux Send Mail server
• Managing Linux Iptables firewall
• Managing and maintaining Jabber IM server
• Managing DNS, DHCP, FTP, Open VPN, SVN and Web servers
• Managing VPN Server on Linux
• Dell NAS administration
• Performance Tuning and Monitoring
• Trouble Shooting

Confidential

System Administrator

Roles& Responsibilities.

• Leading Team
• Configuring Various server
• Managing Windows And Linux Servers
• Manage and maintains Mail server, Firewall, Web server, DNS server on Linux
• Managing and Maintenance users and group
• Backup and Restoring
• Remote Administration Performance Tuning and Monitoring
• Trouble Shooting

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementing Networks
• Installing And Configuring Server OS and Desktop OS (Linux and Windows)
• Managing and maintain Linux Servers
• Manage and maintains Mail server, Firewall, Web server on Linux.
• Managing and Maintain Active Directory
• Configuring Various Servers in both Linux and Windows
• Creating, Managing and marinating Groups And Users
• Creating, Managing and maintain OUs
• Backup and Restoring
• Performance Tuning and Monitoring
• Trouble Shooting