SUMMARY:

IT professional with extensive “hands - on” experience; as a Cloud DevOps Engineer/ Solution Architect. My background includes proven track record of planning, designing and implementation of new infrastructure. Performed day-to-day roles and responsibilities of Cloud DevOps Engineer/Solution Architect which include but not limited to designing and implementation of mission critical systems, security implementation on system infrastructure, provide centralize configuration management solution and implementation, infrastructure maintenance, systems monitoring, excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Profoundly talented and resourceful DevOps/Solution Architect aspiring for a bright and challenging career in Information system & technology, which would enable me provide solutions to modern day technical issues and also impact upcoming generation with needed IT knowledge.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Server 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2012, Mac OS, VMware ESXi, Unix (Solaris10) and Linux (RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Opensuse, etc.)

Physical Hardware: Dell, HP, etc)Virtualization: ESXi, Hyper-V, and KVM

Private and Public Cloud Infrastructure: (Amazon AWS, Azure, and Openstack)

Platform as a Service/Containerization: OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker-Swamp

Applications/Software: Sphere, IIS, Active Directory, MS SQL Server, Windows Server Update Service, zimbra, Puppet (Configuration Management tool ), OpenShift, Docker, Docker Swamp, Rancher, Harbor, Terraform, CloudFormation, Openstack, Splunk, ELK, New Relic, Nagios, Patrol, OMD, Cacti, MySQL, WebSphere, Apache, Ngnix, Tomcat, Jboss, SiteScope, Spacewalk, OSSEC, DenyHosts, Tripwire, Patrol, Lynis (Auditing tool), Archsight, Git/Gitolite, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Stash, GitHub, GitLab, bamboo, Postgres, MYSQL, Sendmail, Cron, SSH, FTP,NFS, Samba, DHCP, Artifactory, Fail2ban, Squid Proxy, PhpMyAdmin, Pounds, Piranha (Load Balancer), LDAP (389 DS), Veeam, Bind DNS, Zabbix, Splunk, Cisco VPN, FileZilla, WINSCP etc.

Programming: Bash, PowerShell and Ruby scripting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, Virginia

Computer System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Perform architecture design, system evaluation, system analysis, and infrastructure assessment.
• Vagrant environment setup and management for easy development.
• Development workflow setup and management. Implementing tool like Jenkins, Jira, Stash/Git, Git/Gitolite etc.
• Created AWS cloud formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB, security groups. Worked on tagging standard for proper identification and ownership of EC2 instances and other AWS Services like Cloud Front, cloud watch, RDS, S3, Route53, SNS, SQS, Cloud Trail.
• Experience on AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53, Auto scaling groups, Cloud watch, Cloud Front, IAM for installing configuring and troubleshooting on various Amazon images for server migration from physical into cloud.
• Experience in working on version control systems like Subversion, GIT by using source code management client tools like Tortoise SVN, GitBash, GitHub, Git GUI and other command line application
• Configured RDS instances using CloudFormation and Terraform. Used Terraform to map more complex dependencies and identified network issue.
• Created S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets, utilized S3 bucket for storage and backup on AWS.
• Configured, supported and maintained all network, firewall, storage, load balancers, operating systems, and software in AWS EC2 and created detailed AWS Security groups which behaved as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed reaching one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Managed infrastructure in AWS with Terraform and orchestrated Docker containers, pushed Docker images to private registry
• Provisioned AWS infrastructure using Terraform. Created new providers and resources to automate infrastructure provisioning.
• Develop Terraform script for provisioning resources on the cloud.
• Automate instances provisioning using terraform and CloudFormation.
• Management of terraform code using repository management tools
• Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection and open stack to provision new machines for clients.
• Perform Architecture implementation of different application both enterprise application and open source application.
• Implemented cluster services using Docker and Kubernetes to manage local deployments in Kubernetes by building a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster using Terraform and Ansible and deploying application containers.
• Installed/configured/maintained/administrated the network servers DNS, NIS, NFS, Sendmail and application server Apache, JBOSS, WebLogic, and Samba on Linux.
• Created Python scripts to totally automate AWS services which includes web servers, ELB, Cloud Front distribution, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application configuration, this script creates stacks, single servers, or joins web servers to stacks.
• Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build staging and production environments. Defined Terraform modules such as Compute, Network, Operations, and Users to reuse in different environments.
• Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant, auto scaling Kubernetes AWS infrastructure and micro service container orchestration
• Experience in installing, configuring, supporting and troubleshooting Unix/Linux Networking services and protocols like NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS, NFS, DHCP, NAS, FTP, SSH and SAMBA.
• Playbook to copy and remove files on remote systems. Created inventory in Ansible for automating the continuous deployment.
• Manage AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT environments as well as infrastructure servers for GIT and Puppet.
• Used Ansible Tower, which provides an easy-to-use dashboard and role-based access control, so that it's easier to allow individual teams access to use Ansible for their deployments.
• As part of continuously delivering Agile team, develop, test, and deploy Data platform features Develop ongoing test automation using Chef, Python based framework Using Ansible to Setup/teardown of ELK stack (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana).
• Used Jenkins and pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes
• Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, on GCP. Utilized kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting Linux Systems identifying Hardware, software (both OS and Application level), and networking Issues
• Experience with AWS instances spanning across Dev, Test and Pre-production and Cloud Automation through Open Source DevOps tools like Chef, Jenkins & Docker.
• Administered Bamboo servers and Jenkins which includes install, upgrade, backup, adding users, creating plans, installing local/remote agent, adding capabilities, performance tuning, troubleshooting issues and maintenance
• Configured email and messaging notifications, managed users and permissions, system settings and Maintained two Jenkins servers and one Bamboo server to deploy into production and non-production environment

Confidential, Baltimore, Maryland

Systems Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Management of the company IT infrastructure; Physical, Virtual, Private and Public cloud.
• Implementation of CI/CD pipeline for container deployment
• Implementation and management of private container registry
• Deployment of containers using Ansible-playbook
• Performing tuning and system troubleshooting on the infrastructure and applications.
• Puppet ground up environment setup and management.
• Implemented Ansible and Puppet from scratch and Deployed on build for internal Data Centre Servers. Also, re-used and modified same Module and playbook to create a Deployment directly into Amazon EC2 Instances.
• Installed & configured Jenkins to support various Java builds and Jenkins plugins to automate continuous builds and publishing Docker images to the Nexus repository.
• Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing Docker volumes.
• Used Jenkins and pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes and Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes
• Setup from scratch Continuous Integration (CI) environments (Jenkins on ec2 over vpc) complete with automated unit testing and Code Coverage tools.
• Build scripts using MAVEN build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments
• WebSphere application server installation and management; Single and cluster setup
• Application integration with database such as MySQL and DB2
• Provide Architectural and Engineering designs support for Cloud based infrastructure
• Deploy, test and document Development, Pre-Production and Production environments.
• Train and mentor Junior Administrators and Engineers.
• Use Amazon EC2 features to provision, monitor; scale and distribute compute infrastructure.
• Create Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources such as subnets, network access control lists, and security groups.
• Openstack setup and management.
• Use Amazon Cloud Watch metrics to monitor the health and utilization of AWS cloud resources and OMD for monitoring the physical and Virtual resources.
• Setup and management of the company system log analysis and log reporting tool using ELK.
• Setup auditing tool with lynis security auditing tool.
• Create gold images for physical and virtual environment using Cobbler,
• Configure multi-factor authentication on virtual and hardware devices
• Create client accounts on behalf of client and configure consolidated billing.
• Create IAM users and groups
• Management of MySQL and Postgres database

Confidential, Vienna, Virginia

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Ground/Up setup and support of Puppetlabs enterprise architecture
• Set up and manage dynamic environment using R10K
• Set up and manage developers work flow using Git and Gitolite for developers access control
• Management of configuration files and users account, privileges and rights; also trouble-shooting of issues arising in the infrastructure setup
• Writing of puppet manifest (Manually /forge)
• Management of Virtual machine within the VMware infrastructure
• Users account management
• OpenShift (paas) service setup and management for scalability and web application deployment
• Openstack private cloud setup and management.
• System and utilities monitoring using monitoring tools like OMD, Nagios etc.
• Maintaining consistent uptime of virtual machine; leveraging different features of VMware such as Vmotion, Storage Vmotion, Storage DRS, High Availability, Fault Tolerance etc.
• Setup and management of CI (Continuous Integration tools) for project management (Jenkins, Git)
• Development of automation techniques to enhance Operation.
• Setup and management of Git/Gitolite for repository management
• Manage multiple Linux servers in a virtualized/cloud environment.
• Support software services running on the boxes—Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, etc.
• Migration on servers to cloud environment (AWS)
• Set up different security groups on AWS environment and management of their firewall rules
• New machine cloning and configuration management on both physical, virtual and AWS cloud environment
• Worked on installations and upgrades of Atlassian applications like JIRA, Confluence, Stash/BitBucket and Bamboo.
• Used Splunk for monitor and analyze large scale machine generated data and integrated with various applications and services through API.
• Installing, managing, troubleshooting, securing, configuring and tuning critical servers on Linux platforms, as well as responsible for Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of RedHat Linux, Linux/UNIX Systems.
• Writing of puppet custom module and use of puppet forge module.
• R10k environment setup for dynamic environment management.
• Puppet Master and Agent upgrade.
• Configuration management and automation using puppet.
• Perform architecture design, system evaluation, system analysis, and infrastructure assessment.
• Vagrant environment setup and management for easy development.
• Development workflow setup and management. Implementing tool like Jenkins, Jira, Stash/Git, Git/Gitolite etc.
• WebSphere application server installation and management; Single and cluster setup
• Application integration with database such as MySQL and DB2
• Provide Architectural and Engineering designs support for Cloud based infrastructure
• Deploy, test and document Development, Pre-Production and Production environments.
• Use Amazon EC2 features to provision, monitor; scale and distribute compute infrastructure.

Confidential, Columbia, Maryland

Operation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the operations of the Marketplace Systems.
• Coordinating the processes and activities that monitor systems, identify incidents, report incidents, and restore services as quickly as possible.
• Maintaining overall command and control, incident management, initial triage of events, categorization and prioritization, directing troubleshooting activities, technical and executive escalations, problem management, supporting change control, and mentoring of the operations team members.
• Provides key leadership with status updates and maintaining them as appropriate.
• Monitor computing resources within the Terremark environment; Areas Monitored include: Data Center Network, Infrastructure Bandwidth, Server / Infrastructure, Applications within the Terremark environment, Agent based Monitoring, Production Batch Processing, Event(s) & Alert(s) Escalation
• Alert system owners of degraded system status; and
• Alert system owners, stakeholders and management of production Severity 1 incidents
• Notify internal stakeholders of Severity 1 incidents received from Baltimore Data Center (BDC) that affect the Marketplace.
• Manage incident identification, notifications, ticket generation, recording, classification, investigation and the most complex diagnoses.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting; escalation and driving service restoration activities helping ensure all duties from a technical and non-technical perspective are completed in a consistent and timely manner.
• Manage production Severity 1 incidents to closure.
• Manage the Confidential Consumer Information and Insurance Systems Group (CIISG) Exchange Operations Center (EOC) email inbox.
• Authorize restart of Marketplace system processes as needed to keep resolve productions performance issues.
• Help feed and generate reporting (Trend analysis, etc.) by populating key metrics.
• Mine data and recommend actions.
• Submit progress reports to project Director and Deputy Project Director.
• Assist with Change Management, Problem Management, Configuration Management, Change Coordination, etc.
• Running, populating, delivering daily reports

System Operations Engineer

Confidential, Rockville, Maryland

Responsibilities:

• Development work flow design from ground up and management.
• Repository management using tools like Git, GitLab, GitHub and Gitolite.
• Systems Installation, configuration, security and maintenance in UNIX, Linux & Window environment using series of open source tools.
• Setup development work flow integrating tool like Jira, Stash, Jenkins, confluence and puppet.
• Puppet infrastructure setup from ground up( puppet enterprise and open source experience )
• Configuration and application deployment management by writing different manifests.
• Troubleshooting and fixing issue in puppet infrastructure.
• Image servers (Linux/Unix and Window), client computers and remotely manage their applications after deployment
• Manage VMware Infrastructure of Anti-Piracy Department.
• Leverage the features of vSphere to maintain constant uptime of our sensitive servers
• Patch management on both physical, cloud and virtual environment.
• Raid management and hardware support
• Cloud infrastructure setup and management. ( Digital Ocean & AWS)
• Security management of the cloud environment
• Creating new file systems on Linux Machine, managing and checking data Consistency of file systems.
• Setup LAMP stacks (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
• Setup and manage Piranha (Load Balancer Cluster) in other to achieve High availability for the company webserver
• Responsible for installing, monitoring and management of vCenter/VMware environment of virtual servers
• Ground up setup and debugging of issue on Nagios server and connecting client
• Setup Nagios server and Cacti Server on Linux Machine to monitor systems uptime, services and file systems

Confidential, Essex, Maryland

Helpdesk Analyst/Linux System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Development work flow design from ground up and management.
• Repository management using tools like Git, GitLab, GitHub and Gitolite.
• Systems Installation, configuration, security and maintenance in UNIX, Linux & Window environment using series of open source tools.
• Setup development work flow integrating tool like Jira, Stash, Jenkins, confluence and puppet.
• Puppet infrastructure setup from ground up( puppet enterprise and open source experience )
• Configuration and application deployment management by writing different manifests.
• Troubleshooting and fixing issue in puppet infrastructure.
• Image servers (Linux/Unix and Window), client computers and remotely manage their applications after deployment
• Manage VMware Infrastructure of Anti-Piracy Department.
• Leverage the features of vSphere to maintain constant uptime of our sensitive servers
• Patch management on both physical, cloud and virtual environment.
• Raid management and hardware support
• Cloud infrastructure setup and management. ( Digital Ocean & AWS)
• Security management of the cloud environment
• Creating new file systems on Linux Machine, managing and checking data Consistency of file systems.
• Setup LAMP stacks (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
• Setup and manage Piranha (Load Balancer Cluster) in other to achieve High availability for the company webserver
• Responsible for installing, monitoring and management of vCenter/VMware environment of virtual servers
• Ground up setup and debugging of issue on Nagios server and connecting client
• Setup Nagios server and Cacti Server on Linux Machine to monitor systems uptime, services and file systems