SUMMARY:

• Over 11 years IT experience in Database and Linux/Unix Systems Administration, with experience in the domain of Federal ( Confidential / Confidential ), Health Care( Confidential / Confidential ), Financials ( Confidential ), Education ( Confidential )
• DevOps Administrator with work experience in DevOps, Amazon Web Service(AWS),Cloud Computing and Administration, Virtualization, Continuous Integration (Chef, Puppet, Jenkins,Ansible, SVN, Maven), Oracle Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, LDAP User and systems Security management, Storage Management, Security, Virtualization and Performance Management and Networking
• Experienced in working on DevOps/Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation, Environment, Service, Incident and Change Management).
• Excellent systems administration skills (Windows and Linux Servers - RedHat, Ubuntu, AIX, Solaris)
• Experience deploying highly scalable and fault-tolerant services within cloud infrastructure
• Proven ability to manage database infrastructure in AWS (RDS and EC2)
• Expert level experience with AWS DevOps tools, technologies and APIs associated with IAM, CloudFormation, AMIs, SNS, EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, IAM, Route 53, Security Groups, etc.
• Networking (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL), Support / Troubleshooting experience
• Strong hands-on background in database technologies (Oracle, Mysql, MS SQL, RDS, DynamoDB)
• Solid knowledge of Source/Version Control Tools: CVS, Subversion, Git, Version Manager
• Familiarity with Agile Development Methodology
• Experience working with all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Strong working knowledge of storage environments (SAN, NAS)
• Good knowledge of security management, auditing methodology and technology risk assessment
• knowledge of Oracle 10g/11g/12C Database, RAC/ASM/HA, goldengate, and Data Guard environment
• Experience with web deployment technology specifically including Linux, Apache, Tomcat, and Java.
• Expertise with IPsec, VPN, Load Balancing, Routing Protocols, SSH, Network Monitoring / Troubleshooting tools
• Experience building infrastructure as code. ss
• Hands-on experience migrating Oracle, SQL Server instances to AWS RDS (Oracle to Oracle migration, Oracle to Postgres migration, Oracle to MySQL)
• Experience with deploying configuration management and CI/CD services such as (Puppet, Ansible, Powershell, Jenkins, Vagrant, Docker, JIRA, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk)
• Strong experience with the following technologies: Linux administration, Linux scripting (python, bash), MySQL, Postgres SQL, Microsoft Windows Server OS, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix XenApp, VMWare virtualization, Backup Software
• Expert level experience with AWS DevOps tools, technologies and APIs associated with IAM, CloudFormation, AMIs, SNS, EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, IAM, Route 53, Security Groups, etc.
• Expert level experience in implementing Continuous delivery and Continuous integration from end to end

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

CLOUD (AWS- SysOps/DevOps): EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, VPC, Auto Scaling, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, Code Deploy, IAM, Route 53, SES, SNS, SQS, Cloud Trail

VIRTUALIZATION: VMware, vSphere, vCenter, vCloud, Virtual Box

AUTOMATION: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, saltstack, Powershell, Unix Shell scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, SVN, Git, Docker,EC2 container service (ECS), Ant, Maven

Oracle Database: 9i/10g/11g/12C, 12C OEM, RAC, ASM, DATAGUARD, RMAN, Performance Tuning (AWR, ADDM), Oracle Security/Access Control, Oracle CPU, Oracle RAC, DBCA, OUI, RMAN with NetBackup

MS SQL: MS SQL server 2000/05/08 Administration, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, IIS

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Linux (Amazon, Red Hat 4,5,6, CENTOS & SUSE), Solaris 10/9/8, Confidential AIX, Ubuntu 12/13, Windows

PROTOCOLS: TCP/IP, SNMP, SMTP, TELNET

NETWORKING SECURITY GROUPS: TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, LAN, FTP/TFTP.

Storage Tech: Solaris /Linux Volume Manager, Veritas, Symantec NetBackup, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, VPN, VMware, Oracle Database, MySql Database, MS SQL database

SCRIPTING: UNIX Shells (sh, csh, ksh, bash), Perl, SQL, JavaScript, Ruby, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer/ DBA

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Linux Administration, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, Release Management and Cloud Implementations
• Hands on Experience in using configuration management tools like Puppet/Chef/Ansible
• Proficient in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, CloudFormation AWS Config, Autoscalling, CloudFront, IAM, S3, and R53
• Hands on experience Configuring Access Lists for inbound and outbound to infrastructure
• Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters
• Implementing new projects builds framework using Jenkins and Maven as build framework tools
• Create AWS instances via Jenkins with EC2 plugin and integrated nodes in Chef via knife command line utility
• Worked with IAM service creating new IAM users & groups, defining roles and policies and Identity providers
• Created alarms and trigger points in CloudWatch based on thresholds and monitored the server's performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage
• Utilized AWS Cloud watch to monitor environment for operational & performance metrics during load testing
• Wrote Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and replaced the current manual build and deployment process
• Migrate Oracle database to redshift (datawarehouse)
• Implemented a fresh Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration process from end to end and wrote supporting documentation for others to follow
• Implemented Docker based Continues Integration and Deployment framework
• Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, CHEF, Maven in Linux and Windows environment
• Install, configure, modify, test & deploy applications on Apache Webserver, Nginx & Tomcat, JBoss App Servers
• Experience in Bash, Perl, Python scripting on Linux
• Experience with Bug tracking tool like JIRA, Remedy
• Developed Puppet manifest to automate deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management of key clusters
• Automation of OS builds and Application Installation through Puppet & Chef and used Nagios for application and OS resource monitoring
• Written wrapper scripts to automate deployment of cookbooks on nodes and running the chef client on them in a Chef-Solo environment
• Implementing change requests raised by user for server configuration or other issues
• Involved in designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS CloudFormation
• Configured S3 to host static web content
• Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, and IIS
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates
• Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates
• Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS(SQL), Route 53, VPC, Dynamo DB(NoSQL), SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud
• Automated various infrastructure activities like Continuous Deployment, Application Server setup, Stack monitoring using Ansible playbooks and has Integrated Ansible with Jenkins
• 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
• Created scripts in Python which Integrated with Amazon API to control instance operations
• Maintained Build Related scripts developed in ANT, Python and Shell.
• Migrated Oracle Databases from on-premises to AWS RDS - Oracle, Postgres, MySQL (views, stored procedures, functions, materialized views)
• Migrated MSSQL Server database from Rackspace to AWS and provided day to day support
• Migrating existing on-premises applications to AWS from end to end - Web/app servers, databases, load balanacer, etc
• Created monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch
• Responsible for distributed applications across hybrid AWS and physical data centers
• Build DataSync job on Windows Azure to synchronize school’s data from SQL 2012 databases to SQL Azure
• Optimization / cost reduction of Amazon AWS services (EC2, S3, EBS, ROUTE53, SES, VPC)
• Migrated data from on-prem to AWS redshift

Confidential

Sr. Consultant (DevOps/ Cloud Engineer/ DBA)

Responsibilities:

• Build servers using AWS: Importing volumes, launching EC2, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers, Route 53, SES, SNS in the defined virtual private connection.
• Configured and Managed Elastic Load Balancing(ELB) for fault tolerance and to avoid single point of failure of applications, hence provide high availability and network load balancing.
• Created privatized AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and launched instances, to provide high security and accessibility to applications and databases, so that inbound and outbound network traffic is accessed restricted
• Integrated Subversion and Ant/Maven with Jenkins to implement the continuous integration process.
• Involved in developing custom scripts using Shell (bash) to automate jobs.
• Provide 24*7 Application availability using AutoScaling Services, including configuring, defining and testing auto scaling policies and also created alarms to call scale up/down policy.
• Monitor Resources and Applications using AWS Cloud Watch, including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, SNS and configured notifications for the alarms generated based on events defined.
• Provided security and managed user access and quota using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), including creating new Policies for user management in JSON
• Created multi AZ VPC instances
• installation of packages, patches, maintenance & RPM updates on Red Hat Linux.
• Transfer data from Datacenters to cloud using AWS Import/Export Snowball service.
• Deploy, monitor and manage applications in AWS cloud using Elastic Beanstalk(EBS) into Development, Test and Production web and application server environment
• Migrating into amazon cloud for flexible, cost- effective, reliable, scalable, high-performance and security
• Was involved in maintaining Billing and Cost Management for multiple AWS accounts.
• Maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, SES and SNS services in AWS cloud.
• Automating backups using python scripts to transfer data in S3 bucket.
• Creating alarms in Cloud Watch service for monitoring the servers performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage etc.
• Experience in working on source controller tools like Subversion (SVN), CVS, Confidential Clear case, and GIT
• Implemented and Enhanced the Existing Scripts which are developed in Shell
• Experience in installing and deploying Apache
• Creating templates in VMware environment from ISO images, VM deployments, Installation and configuration of red hat 6.x-64, 7.x-64, Suse 11, 12 Linux servers, Ubuntu, Cent OS configuration on VMware .
• Used configuration management tools like ansible, Chef and Puppet to automate deployments
• Experience building infrastructure as code.
• Wrote Puppet manifests and Chef cook books from scratch for configuration on windows and Linux systems.
• Migrate Oracle 12c database from VMware to AWS
• Expertise in the installation of Oracle 12c management agents(OEM)
• Creating scripts that generate reports to proactively monitor the environment
• Installing and maintaining goldengate data replication to suit business needs
• Migrating databases to datacenters to AWS RDS(cloud), while maintaining them
• Build servers using AWS: Creating VPC, Importing volumes, launching EC2, creating security groups
• Responsible to apply Oracle quarterly patch on 300 databases including production (before deadline), while still adequately attending to other business needs.
• Creation of cloud formation Templates from cloudformer of existing environments to use in building similar environments in the same or different regions for High Availability
• Experience in IaaS and PaaS in a hybrid cloud environment working with private and public cloud service providers
• Created a discussion group for cloud support team in shared point and also maintained all documentations here
• Analyze and Evaluate Existing Architecture at Customer on Premise Datacenters and Design, Configure and migrate complex Network architectures to AWS Public Cloud.
• Key member of a Managed Services team that installs, configures and maintains Software, Databases and Web applications
• Experience with Cloud Front, Glacier, and Dynamo DB.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum environment.
• Architect and deployed security-conscious infrastructure with complex VPC peering, VPN, security groups and NAT configuration
• Created scripts to monitor the environment and notify DevOps team of detached volumes and elastic IPs(EIP)
• Perform software installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Linux system
• Providing 24/7 on-call support on a monthly rotational basis
• Automating database backups
• Documenting all the processes for above, issues, root cause analysis and its solutions in timely manner.

Confidential

Sr. Cloud Systems Engineer/ DBA

Responsibilities:

• Build servers using AWS: Importing volumes, launching EC2, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers, Route 53, SES, SNS in the defined virtual private connection
• Migrate databases from local datacenters to AWS RDS(cloud)
• Install Oracle 11g databases for new applications
• Configured and managed AWS Glacier, to move old data to archives based on retention policy of databases/ applications (AWS Glacier Vaults)
• On-call support for 24/7 for troubleshooting production issues.
• Created reusable Cloud Formation Templates for deployments and automation
• Experience in IaaS and PaaS in a hybrid cloud environment working with private and public cloud service providers
• Created a discussion group for cloud support team in shared point and also maintained all documentations here
• Analyze and evaluate existing Architecture at Customer on Premise Datacenters and Design, Configure and migrate complex Network architectures to AWS Public Cloud.
• Key member of a Managed Services team that installs, configures and maintains Software, Databases and Web applications
• Experience with Cloud Front, Glacier, and Dynamo DB.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum environment.
• Perform software installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Linux system
• Configured S3 lifecycle of Applications & Databases logs, including deleting old logs, archiving logs based on retention policy of Apps and Databases.
• Configured and managed AWS Glacier, to move old data to archives based on retention policy of databases/ applications (AWS Glacier Vaults).
• Configured Docker container for branching purposes.
• Wrote Puppet manifests and Chef cook books from scratch for configuration.
• Reduced build + deployment times by designing and implementing Docker workflow.
• Deploying applications on docker via ECS (EC2 container service)
• Automate database backups
• identify and resolve network security issues
• Troubleshoot and fix performance issues as new applications start using the new databases
• Monitor databases using Oracle 12c cloud control
• Supported over 60 mission critical Oracle databases of versions 10.2.0.4, 11.2.0.3, 11.2.0.4,12.1.0.1 with different maximum availability setup as in RAC, physical standby, and active dataguard
• Performed testing and certification of Oracle 12c Physical standby databases
• Lead team effort to meet deadlines e.g coordinating, tracking, and installing 12c cloud control agents in several production database servers and reporting progress to management
• Upgraded several Oracle database from 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.4/12 c
• Provided 24 by 7 on-call support for business
• Lead efforts to troubleshoot and tune long running jobs in order to meet SLA; e.g.: A job which ran for 18.5hrs was tuned to run for 4.50hrs
• Maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, SES and SNS services in AWS cloud.
• Worked as RDS DBA on Oracle/SQL Server/Postgres/Mysql/DynamoDB/Redshift
• Work with Developers on tools like Vagrant and Docker - for building and deploying applications on cloud environment
• Created a Python script with Boto, to scan through AWS environment and look for untagged instances, and parsed to a monitoring tool (Nagios) to warn, when any asset is left untagged.
• Experienced in AWS CloudFront, including creating and managing distributions to provide access to S3 bucket hosted application and hence providing security to applications (by restricting access to S3)
• Transfer data from Datacenters to cloud using AWS Import/Export Snowball service.
• Monitor Resources and Applications using AWS Cloud Watch, including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, SNS and configured notifications for the alarms generated based on events defined.

Confidential

Database/DevOps Engineer(consultant): Oracle/SQL Server/Linux

Responsibilities:

• Install and Upgrade databases from versions 9i to 11g
• Deployed quarterly PSU to DEV, QA, STAGE, and PROD databases including RAC, and dataguard
• Install and setup 11g Oracle grid control in prod server to monitor production environment
• Develop shell, SQL scripts, and stored procedures to automate database tasks
• Install and maintain Oracle 11g RAC on Linux physical servers and VMware virtual servers
• Manage and support data deployments across different tiers
• Implement Oracle standard RMAN backup procedures across various production databases
• Monitored the performance of databases and applied tuning when necessary
• SQL server migrations from SQL 2000, 2005 to 2008R2
• Set up disaster recovery solution (physical standby), with the primary database in Rockville and the standby in Bethesda
• Perform database design and modeling activities
• Deploy and maintain Data Guard configuration
• Implemented process improvement methodologies to decouple ETL development from Business operations
• Develop application capabilities using Oracle programming utilities (PL/SQL, triggers etc...)
• Maintain database users by implementing security hardening and assigning restricted roles.
• Develop and configure scripts for database management activities.
• Monitored the environment using Tivoli/OEM/Nagios
• Configure SQL Server database mirroring and SQL server log shipping between sites for maximum availability of mission critical production database
• Create database objects (schemas, tablespaces, tables, indexes, packages, triggers) for data load activities.
• Provided 24 X 7 dedicated supports for production database servers
• Performed maintenance tasks on databases during maintenance weekends
• Installed Oracle client on client machines
• Maintain database users by implementing security hardening and assigning restricted roles.
• Provided operational and application support to Oracle database and SQL server databases.

Confidential

Database Administrator/ Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Scheduling and running RMAN and datapump backup based on application requirements
• Restoring using RMAN backups of production databases to lower environments while troubleshooting performance issues
• Refreshing data from production to lower environment based on business needs
• Backing up and purging data from tables to free up space for new data
• Applying PSU/CPU patches to development, test, acceptance and production environments
• Maintaining RAC on Linux, Solaris machines
• Ensuring the security of database systems by enabling auditing
• Performing database upgrades from 8i and 10.2.0.4 to 11.1.0.7, 11.2.0.1, and 11.2.0.2
• Building standby databases using active database duplication
• Providing 24/7 database support
• Enforced the security of applications by restricting roles and privileges
• Deploy ASM for automatic file management
• Tuning databases or making recommendations on how to improve performance
• Implementing UNIX shell and SQL scripts for database task automation
• Created Oracle database repositories to support data warehousing activities.

Confidential

Oracle DBA/ Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed cold and hot backup to production databases using RMAN
• Applied recovery and restore operations of critical database file
• Maintained system security by applying appropriate roles and privileges to application users
• Upgraded and patched Oracle database on Windows and Unix servers
• Tuned the database and applications for faster and better performance
• Performed the normalization of databases
• Maintained database users by implementing security and assigning restricted roles
• Configured SQL scripts to build and administer Oracle database objects
• Created and managed tablespaces, tables, indexes, sequences, users, roles
• Installed and configured Oracle software to meet end user requirements
• Maintained and updated all Oracle schema password