SUMMARY:

• A competent professional with over 10+ years’ experience as DevOps Engineer, Technical Architect Automation Services, and Senior System Engineer responsible for DevOps automation, IT Process Automation, configuration management, systems administration, compliance, continuous integration, business continuity, disaster recovery and test automation in a large enterprise, mission critical environment with geographically dispersed systems, architectures, and teams utilizing Agile, Scrum & Lean methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Recent Stack:: AWS Cloud Services, OpenStack, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible Playbooks, Ansible Tower, RedHat CloudForms, Jenkins, Git, SVN, Atlassian Jira, ReST APIs, Atlassian Confluence, Python scripts, Service Orchestration concepts, Bash scripts.

DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, Terraform.

Cloud/Hypervisor: RedHat CloudForms, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Open Stack, AWS, VMware ESXi.

Database: MySQL and Oracle.

Webservers: Apache, Nginx, Tomcat

Applications: NagiOS, Jenkins, SVN, Artifactory, Jira, Confluence.

Configuration Management: Ansible Playbooks, Ansible Tower, Puppet.

Languages: Python, Perl, Shell, PowerShell.

Operating System: Solaris, RHEL, SuSe, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Windows.

Network: L2, L3, Public cloud network components, DNS, SSH and troubleshooting.

Hardware: Sun SPARC and x86, Fujitsu Siemens SPARC and x86, HP RMS, Blade, C7000 enclosures.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Consultant / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary focus on Workflow design and RedHat CloudForms, Ansible Tower and OpenStack integration.
• Design and implement Ansible Tower Cluster and Ansible Isolated Nodes across Silicon Valley, DC and NY metros for private and public beta releases.
• Service Catalog, Service Dialog creation for Create, Read, Update and Retire operations on RedHat Cloudforms.
• Provide ReST API contracts to North Bound Microservices which interfaces with CloudForms for CRUD operations.
• Automate using ReST API for South Bound calls by creating workflow job templates in Ansible tower, outline and write playbooks for provisioning/configuring of VNF on OpenStack (CSR1000v, Arista).
• Design L2 configuration workflow for with parameters required across UI, Ansible Tower and OpenStack (NFVi) systems.
• Outline and write playbooks to create VNF and push router configurations, send responses to UI with UUID and facts of the VNF.

Senior System Specialist / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architect CI/CD pipeline for test automation using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes and Git.
• Host Life Cycle Management of virtual instances running on AWS, OpenStack, Azure and VMWare ESXi using RedHat CloudForms.
• Disaster Recovery planning of DevOps environment tools Jira, Confluence and Artifactory.
• Ansible playbook for application deployment and configuration management, orchestration on virtual instances to install and push initial configuration.
• Ansible playbooks to connect to AWS using access keys and gather facts, start, stop, and terminate instances, create AMI from existing instance, creating VPC, identity and access management.
• Create custom Docker containers, tag and deploy to repository in Artifactory.
• System administration of virtual instances and administration of Jira, Confluence and Artifactory.

Techincal Architect / DevOps Engineer/ ITSM

Responsibilities:

• Technical Architect for the COE team that provides IT Process Automation capability to service delivery to be able to better service their customers. Network, Voice, Messaging & Collaboration, and Compute/Build are a few use cases that I have helped build as part of this team.
• Design and implement workflows that execute across different systems including Service Now, VMWare, Avaya, Cisco and Microsoft Active Directory.
• Ansible playbooks to manage cisco network devices using modules such as ios command, ios facts, ios interface, ios ping and populate networks logs for debugging.
• Write custom scripts using bash, powershell and python where tools fall short of required functionality.
• Mentor and guide the workflow specialists and developers in building scripts required for automation.
• Identify automation benefits across various service deliveries and help project manager put together execution plan for implementation.
• Collate scripts and design automation library for the organization to be able to use this across service deliveries as well as internal deliveries.
• Created a demo as part of marketing collateral to help customers understand IT Process Automation better and to be able to relate to the same. Contributed to a Whitepaper on IT Process Automation.

Technical Lead / Cloud Engineer 

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate different cloud vendors, Eucalyptus, HP CloudSystem, OpenStack, AWS and VCloud.
• Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost - effective cloud solutions.
• Delivery focused architectural, development and deployment approach using agile practices.
• Led focused project teams in the configuration and customization of Infrastructure as a Service.
• Discuss and define the APIs needed for Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service model.
• Define Use Cases and Test Strategies for different cloud platforms. Design network configuration for products.
• Develop and test scripts to install platform for Share at Once product with JBoss and JBoss Fuse.
• Automate build and report status of warnings and errors in the code.
• Automate Module Testing and reports of more than 1200 test cases.
• Automate code check-in and feature base branch out depending on Module Test results.
• Publish results in Jenkins. On demand test results for immediate resolution.
• Automate code coverage, complexity measures and static code analysis.
• Work with management to plan and execute testing activities.
• Hardware sizing and virtualization of build environment.
• Participate in Sprint/iteration planning sessions, where stories of next iteration are discussed and estimated with story points.
• Attend backlog grooming session, where stories are prioritized, and acceptance criteria is defined for future iterations. Participate in iteration closure meetings.
• Interact directly with staging team to accommodate any changes or faults reported.
• Created Migration steps and backup plan. Backup and Restore design and implementation.

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop, deploy, and test EE SolSEE on Solaris sparc and x86 platforms, EE WRLSEE on Linux.
• Planning for Changes in Production Environment. Liaison with Internal or External Service Providers and Vendors. Coordinating in writing Test Strategy, Test Case, and Review session.
• Setting up of System Test Team for Backup and Restore, Configuration Management and Performance Management.
• Data Center Operations, NOC Operations and Monitoring.
• Execution of Approved Changes and Emergency Changes in Production Environment.
• Monitoring and Reporting of Recurring Incidents and Utilization trends in Production Environment.
• Competencies for solving all Operational incidents and problems in Production Environment.

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Automate administration activities.
• Installation and domain configuration of PC and Laptop.
• Tool administration and hardware support.
• Maintain Build and Production environments.
• Monitor using tools such as Nagios and Cacti.
• Hosting of Clearcase, SVN, NIS and Home Directory Servers.
• Move high availability servers to VMWare ESX based machines.