SUMMARY:

• Senior Devops/AWS Engineer with more than 3 years of AWS experience out of 11+ years of combined IT experience.
• Experience in architecting complex enterprise distributed systems with expertise in defining strategy, platform/application architecture and Enterprise application integration.
• Administration and architecting of public (AWS) and private cloud platforms.
• Experience in AWS provisioning and good knowledge of AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, Cloud trail, Cloud watch, SNS, Glacier, ELB, SQS, SWF, EBS etc.
• Extensive experience in Agile Methodology, Scrum processes, Sprint Planning, Story based Development and Project Management
• Management and design of integrated build pipelines using continuous integration workflows such as Jira, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Docker
• Expertise in code deployments, bug fixes through Dev Ops tools
• Experience in configuration management through Puppet, StackIQ Salt, Chef, Ansible, BladeLogic
• Experience in maintaining json, yaml, salt xml files
• Experience in installation, configuration, and management of Splunk Data Engine
• Experience in configuring Puppet Master and Puppet agents in large infrastructure
• Expertise in OpenVAS management
• Expertise in Qualys vulnerability management, Qualys scans, remediation
• Experience on Web Servers such Tomcat 3.x, 4.x, 5.x & Apache Server 1.x,2.x
• Administration of UNIX systems (Red hat Linux, Sun Solaris, HP UX and IBM AIX) and VMware environments.
• Expertise in scripting for automation, and monitoring using Shell & Python scripts.
• Audit and manage PCI compliance v3.0 standards
• Defining Process & Ensuring process adherence to ensure best quality of service.
• Responsible for technology research, budgeting, feasibility, evaluation and proof of concept.
• Vast experience in work environment with a mix of onsite - offshore Global Delivery model
• Excellent communication, team membership and relationship management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Technologies: AWS

Methodologies: Agile Scrum

Continuous Integration: GIT, Jenkins, SVN

Scripting: Shell, Python

Application Servers: WebSphere, Tomcat

Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Nagios

Container Technology: Docker

Cluster Technologies: Veritas Clusters, Linux Cluster

Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef, Ansible

Storage Technologies: 8300, Nettop Filer

Backup Tools: Veritas NetBackup, TSM

Operating Systems: Linux, AIX, HP-UX

Virtualization: VMWare ESX, vSphere, KVM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. DevOps/AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on Dev Ops team on multiple projects
• Experience in AWS migration
• Experience as a product owner migrating applications on Amazon Web Services
• Expertise in security automation and orchestrating workloads across public and private cloud providers
• Expertise in automation of configuration management with Ansible, AWS Cloud formation, AWS APIs, Boto3
• Experience in deploying and operating AWS resources like Cloud Formation, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, KMS, VPC, SNS, EBS, ELB, Cloud watch using the AWS console / AWS cli / AWS API calls
• Expertise in code deployments, bug fixes through Dev Ops tools
• Strong understanding of AWS command line, Cloud formation, Workflow Scripting in Cloud formation, Devops.
• Expertise in creating and maintaining AWS Cloud Formation.
• Expertise in writing python codes for Lambda functions
• Expertise in building automation pipelines
• Expertise in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment
• Expertise in bug fixes, merging codes in Jenkins Integration
• Expertise in scripting languages such as python, shell.
• Expertise with VCS tools / SCM such as git, stash, svn, rcs
• Expertise working in an Agile, fast paced, DevOps environment
• Expertise in Docker containerized environment, hosting web servers on containers, building docker images using Docker file
• Setup Splunk monitoring tool
• Creating S3 buckets and managing S3 bucket policies
• Document issue resolutions and learned information in Jira Confluence
• Experience as Scrum master, Scrum calls, Retrospective meetings, Sprint planning sessions and story creations
• Experience in mentoring other operations engineers on best practices and techniques

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Sr. DevOps/AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working with Dev Ops team on multiple projects
• Facilitating daily scrum meetings, enforcing timeframes and responding to the roadblocks, tracking baseline, sprint planning and sprint retrospective
• Experience in planning sprint release and making sure team has a crystal-clear understanding of sprint goals
• Working in tandem with Product Owner in finding ways to effectively maintain prioritize the Product backlog and release plan
• Experience in deploying and operating AWS, specifically VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, ELB, Cloud Formation and Cloud Watch using the AWS console.
• Use Amazon EC2 features to provision, monitor, scale and distribute compute infrastructure
• Use Amazon Cloud Watch metrics to monitor the health and utilization of AWS resources
• Experience in established Enterprise VPN and Amazon VPC integration with data center
• Experience in maintaining Salt xml, yamil configuration files
• Configuration and implementation of Nagios monitoring tool
• Experience in installation, configuration, and management of Splunk Data Engine
• Expertise in Git version control tool
• Expertise in bug fixes, merging codes in Jenkins Integration
• Expertise in Qualys vulnerability management (open ssl, nfs utils, php security)
• Provide on-call support by rotation to provide 24x7x365 support

Confidential, Boston, MA

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Stand up DevOps effort across work with development & infrastructure teams to streamline build and deploy process for various application teams.
• Architecture/design and deployment of solutions using bare solutions, VMWare, and Amazon Web Services
• Experience in deploying and operating AWS, specifically EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, ELB, and Cloud Watch using the AWS console
• Managing Incident & Change Request through Service-now ticketing tool & ensuring customer business needs and expectations are met up to the mark
• Experience in configuring Puppet Master and Puppet agents in large infrastructure
• Server configuration management via Chef
• Work station setup for Knife plugin and establish connectivity between Chef server and workstation
• Pushing of chef - cookbook, roles, data bags on chef-server using knife plugin and executing it on node.
• Experience in writing modules, manifests, classes in Puppet
• Expertise in Veritas volume manager and Veritas clusters
• Expertise in Splunk logs Analysis, management of Splunk forwarders
• Installation and administration of application servers WebSphere
• Experience in RCS and GIT version control tools
• Expertise in Data center migration activities
• Expertise in Veritas cluster foundation upgrades
• Training new team members in Agile principles, scrum processes and helping them transition from waterfall methodology to agile practice
• Expertise in patch and configuration management through push utility
• Experience in maintaining Password Vault
• Involved in Interviewing/hiring new members and mentoring as required.
• Document issue resolutions and learned information in the team’s Knowledge Base (Confluence / Wiki docs).

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating daily scrum meetings, enforcing timeframes and responding to the roadblocks, tracking baseline, sprint planning and sprint retrospective
• Experience in planning sprint release and making sure team has a crystal-clear understanding of sprint goals
• Working in tandem with Product Owner in finding ways to effectively maintain prioritize the Product backlog and release plan
• Experience in deploying and operating AWS, specifically VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, ELB, Cloud Formation and Cloud Watch using the AWS console.
• Use Amazon EC2 features to provision, monitor, scale and distribute compute infrastructure
• Use Amazon Cloud Watch metrics to monitor the health and utilization of AWS resources
• Experience in leading a team that established Enterprise VPN and Amazon VPC integration with data center
• Build MapR Hadoop Clusters using StackIQ (Rocks/Salt)
• Experience in maintaining Salt xml, yamil configuration files
• Configuration and management of Big Data Applications Kafka, Storm, Sky tree
• Configuration and implementation of Nagios monitoring tool
• Expertise in MapR Hadoop administration
• Expertise in Queue push across the Big data environment through StackIQ Salt configuration management
• Experience in installation, configuration, and management of Splunk Data Engine
• Expertise in Git version control tool
• Expertise in bug fixes, merging codes in Jenkins Integration
• Expertise in Qualys vulnerability management (open ssl, nfs utils, php security)
• Provide on-call support by rotation to provide 24x7x365 support

Confidential

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Provide Level 2 system support to the above said servers and co-ordinate with the help desk
• Installation of Linux on various platforms.
• Refresh/Installation of Solaris 9/10 using Jumpstart Servers
• Provided support to Sun Entry and Midlevel servers
• Patching up the kernels and OS related patches.
• Recovering the system from panics due to hardware or software failures.
• Experience on Veritas Volume manager and Veritas Cluster.
• Designing, implementing and administering the company's internal network.
• Expertise in troubleshooting the user related problems on via chat, e-mail and remote support tool.
• Managing of UNIX (SGI Linux & Mac OS) and Windows 2000 Domain Controller and Desktop Support.
• Installation of software, OS, Antivirus and troubleshooting various installation issues
• Responsible for IT infrastructure design, implementation & installation
• Setup and maintain LAN/ WAN systems and ensure trouble free functioning
• Establish and maintain hardware RAIDs, Backup and Recovery Policies Backups in DDS tapes (Incremental / Full backup)
• Expertise in DSP and Fair light DAWs applications
• Troubleshooting network related issues.
• Management and troubleshooting of Network Printers/ plotters
• Periodic coordination of hardware & software upgrades.