PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9 years in the field of Information Technology industry experience in Devops, Configuration Management, Web applications, Cloud Infrastructure, DWH, BI Reports
• Creative in automating, configuring and deploying instances on AWS cloud environments and Data centers.
• Skilled in initiating the enterprise infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience in Infrastructure, Development and Operations that involves AWS Cloud platforms, EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, RDS, SES, ELB, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, Elastic Cache, Cloud Watch, SNS.
• Familiar with Inbound/Outbound in AWS Security groups according to the requirements.
• Building automation tools and components to aid in installation and provisioning of cloud - based applications in AWS, Azure or similar cloud providers.
• Expertise on Cloud that includes AWS, PaaS and environment automation tools using Cloud Formation, Chef, Puppet.
• Setting up data in AWS using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket.
• Ability to create new snapshots and delete old snapshots in S3 using S3 CLI tools.
• Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances and setting up security groups.
• Creating snapshots and Amazon machine images (AMI) of the instances for backup and creating clone instance and can create complex Identity and access Management (IAM) policies for delegated administration within AWS.
• Familiar with cloud computing environments such as AWS and Google cloud environment. Collaborate with systems administrators and architects when necessary to perform system designs. Familiar with Virtual Machine tools such as VMWare and Virtual box.
• Utilized Kubernetes for the run time environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and deploy in an open source platform.
• Deployed and Supported Development infrastructure to include, Ansible, MySQL, Jenkins, GIT and ELK Stacks.
• Skilled in applying Git and repository management.
• Excellent in managing multiple corporate applications into GitHub code management repo. Creating user level of access for related GitHub project directories to the code changes.
• Experienced in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GitHub, Subversion (SVN) on Linux and windows platforms. Maintained and administered GIT source code tool.
• Experienced with migrating code base from SVN to GIT. Automated, designed and implemented continuous integration using GIT, Jenkins, Chef.
• Expertise in using build tools like MAVEN and ANT for the building of deployable artifacts such as war & ear from source code.
• Knowledge about Jenkins known as continuous integration tool often referred as deployment tool enables deploying scripts to launch virtual machines through VMware, Vagrant, and Dockers.
• Deployed application using Ant and Maven. Strong understanding of build.xml and pom.xml files
• Expertise in containerization and handling multiple images using Docker and Docker-composer and knowledge on Docker engine, Hub, Machine.
• Strong knowledge in deploying and monitoring scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using Chef.
• Proficient in working on Chef with the help of Knife commands to manage Nodes.
• Experienced on working Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Git, maven, Docker, Nagios and Linux/Unix system administrator on Redhat EL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, Debian, CentOS 4.x,5.x, and VMware.
• Examining Cookbooks using food critics, implemented chef Recipes and modified them to create a deployment into Amazon EC2 instances, Chef attributes and Chef Templates
• Have written Chef Cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize end-product configuration.
• Proficient in automating the code using Chef and Python to build AWS environments autonomously.
• Skilled in Jenkins and created Jenkins pipeline for continuous integration and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments.
• Skilled in various Bug tracking tools like JIRA, Remedy, HP quality center, HP ALM, HP Service Manager and IBM clear quest.
• Trouble shooted and resolved issues related to application development, deployment and operations.
• Applied servers like Tomcat, WebLogic across Linux platforms as well as wrote shell scripts in Unix
• Experienced in implementing and administering monitoring tools Nagios.
• Familiar with designing and deploying container-based production clusters using Docker.
• Implemented a production ready, load balance, highly available, fault tolerant Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Scheduled, deployed and managed container replicas on a node cluster using Kubernetes.
• Capable of compiling on continuous delivery platform like Jenkins.
• Hands on Python and shell scripting.
• Managed all the databases especially based on SQL.
• Extensively used ETL methodology for supporting Data Extraction, transformations and loading processing
• Mastered in automating the deployment of products and services and actively monitors to ensure uptime and effective performance of applications and data centers.
• Acting as an escalation point to address issues with outages and operations and actively forecasts to proactively address issues and minimize downtimes.
• Managing the entire deployment process, including the production environments and the user acceptance testing process.
• Capable of Building engineering automation and productivity tools that helps to sort and scale applications in the production environment
• Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and project life cycle processes from analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance of standalone object oriented enterprise applications.
• Strong Expertise in analyzing the Apache and Web sphere logs using Splunk and Application servers performance monitoring by Wily
• Experience Business Intelligence tool like Cognos
• Extensive experience in Banking & Finance Domain.
• Have executed projects on Onsite/Offshore models and thoroughly understood the process & functions performed at Onsite/Offshore.
• Ability to co-relate business requirements with the required technology skills.
• Excellent team player and self-starter with good ability to work independently and possess good analytical, problem solving and logical skills.
• Commitment to continuous learning, skill development and knowledge sharing across the team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Unix, Windows, Linux, Solaris

Application Servers: Web sphere, Web logic, Tomcat, JBOSS

Web Servers: Apache, Nginx

Configuration Management: Chef, Docker

CI Tools: Jenkins

Programming Languages: C, SQL, HTML, Java

Scripting: Shell, Phython

Virtualization: VMware, Oracle Virtual box

Versioning Tools: GIT, SVN

BI Tools: Cognos 8.x & 10.1.1

CRM Tool: Sales Force, Epiphany Tool

Bug Reporting: JIRA, HP ALM, HP SM

Cloud Environment: AWS, Google Cloud Compute Engine

Databases: DB2 9.5/9.7,Oracle 11i/10g, MS SQL Server 2008 R2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Release engineer for a team that involved different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases
• Experience in creating Devops strategy in a mix environment of Linux (RHEL, CENTOS) servers along with Amazon Web Services.
• Implemented and developed solutions enabling Development and Operations teams to build, deploy, monitor and test applications and environments.
• Involved in Installed, Configured and administrated Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines, Setup Master Slave architecture to improve performance
• Configured WebLogic Servers in a Cluster solution for High Availability, Load balancing and fail over support.
• Deployment of application to the Tomcat/ WebLogic Application Server
• Installed and configured the Nexus repository manager for sharing the artifacts within the company.
• Worked closely with the Application developers and Devops to debug software and system problems.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub, whenever a new git hub branch gets started, Jenkins, our Continuous Integration server, automatically attempts to build a new Docker container from it, The Docker container leverages Linux containers and has the AMI baked in. Converted our staging and Production environment from a handful AMI’s to a single bare metal host running Docker.
• Involved in Change Management and Incident Management process
• Analyze and resolved conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT
• Experience in writing maven pom.xml and ant build.xml for build scripts.
• Used Maven Nexus Repository to upload the build artifacts after a successful build.
• Responsible for maintaining standard operation procedures for storage environment.
• Updating YUM Repository and Red Hat Package Manager (RPM).
• Experience in providing technical services to projects, user requests and data queries.
• Maintains 150 servers and 8 repositories for releases and check performance to reduce the time taken in each activity.
• Created work flows in JIRA to manage the changes from development till Production.
• On-call support for 24/7 for troubleshooting production issues.

Technologies: Apache, RPM, GIT, Jenkins, Nexus, Maven, JIRA, Docker, WebSphere, Splunk, Wily, HP Service Manager, SOAP UI

Confidential, New York City, New York

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided Change Management and Build support for more than 4 different applications, built and deployed to lower and higher environments. Defined and Implemented Change Management and Release Management Processes, Policies and Procedure
• Created deployment workflows in Jenkins which includes prerelease, release and post release steps
• Analyze and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT.
• Implement, maintain and support reliable, timely and reproducible builds for project teams.
• Work with development/testing, deployment, systems/infrastructure and project teams to ensure continuous operation of build and test systems
• Implement, maintain and support reliable, timely and reproducible builds for project teams.
• Interact with developers and Enterprise Configuration Management Team for changes to best practices and tools to eliminate non-efficient practices and bottlenecks.
• Created and maintained user accounts, roles on Jira, MySQL, production and staging servers
• Involved I Designing and creating highly scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, highly secured, distributed infrastructure (IAAS) using AWS EC2 instances, EBS Snapshot, S3, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, RDS, KMS, Lambda, Redshift, SNS etc.
• Involved in Creating and Designing highly secured Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Implemented monitoring process of cloud environment and notification system using cloud watch and SNS.
• Actively involved in configuration of SSO integration between Local User repository (like LDAP) of local datacenter and AWS IAM using SAML
• Experience in writing python scripts
• On-call support for 24/7 for troubleshooting production issues.

Technologies: AWS, GIT, Jenkins, Web logic, JIRA, Shell, Chef, ruby, Maven, Gradle,Linux, Python

Confidential, New York City, New York

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Single Resource Project (I have handled the project unaided), directly involved in all the communications with the Client from Offshore.
• Exclusively validated the crucial reports like Concur vs Non Concur, 13 months Historical Data, Budget to Actuals, Consolidated Statements Reports, FISR Reports, Income Statements.
• Involved in Business analysis and requirement gathering
• Validated the Significant Dashboards - NFP Dashboard, Executive Leadership Master Dash board, Sales Force Dashboard.
• Created the cubes for validating the financial reports in the Analysis Studio and created queries in the Query studio.
• Created complex queries for the Sales Force reports are validated against the backend SQL Server DB.
• Experience Sandbox while deploy code changes from Developer Environment to Test Environment.
• Integrate of Application with Salesforce.com with using SOAP &REST web services API.
• Created various Profiles, Roles, and Page Layouts and configured the Permissions based on the Organization hierarchy requirements.
• Validated custom reports and dashboards for analyzing the information provided by the user.
• Imported & created data from excel sheets into Leads, Accounts, Contacts and Opportunities using Data Loader and Import Wizard and scheduling tools to automate bulk data loading.

Technologies: Sales Force, Cognos 10.1.1, SOAP, SQL Server 2008 R2, Sand Box, Egnyte.

Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Cognos upgrade testing from version 8.4 to 10.1
• Created Test plan, Test cases for the migrated versions and execution.
• Provided guidance and consulting, and administrative support to Cognos package developers, report authors and report consumers.
• Provided timely and accurate support for non-prod and prod Cognos environments related issues and independently resolve issues of intermediate complexity.
• Regularly monitor performance and availability of Cognos environments to ensure ongoing utility.
• Identified batch dependencies and created the detailed Batch testing run book.
• Design, develop, and test custom code to automate routine administrative and monitoring tasks.
• Create detailed process and procedural documentation - e.g., environment specifications, user’s guide, etc.
• Involved in Test Scheduling and milestones with the dependencies
• Assess and evaluate changes in Cognos 10, and inform and influence the design and implementation of Cognos 10 migration project.
• Worked on the nights to capture the performance stats from Production and which were used as baseline stats to validate against the test results.
• Experience in writing python scripts
• Install and configure various Cognos 10 components.

Technologies: Cognos, Oracle 11i, Windows XP, UNIX, HP ALM 11, Scripting - Batch, Python

Confidential, St Louis, Missouri

ETL Batch Jobs Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Incident management of Autosys batch jobs on the UNIX applications servers-responding to alerts within SLA timeliness, working on resolution, escalating if needed adhering to set process.
• Has been working as an Onsite coordinator to the team of 8 members.
• Analyzing the Root cause for the job failures and resolve the issues
• Communicating to stake holders and business users in case of any batch delays due to high volume data
• Proactively identifying problems and proposing fixes.
• Working on ad-hoc requests in the production.
• Tracking the incidents and service requests on SharePoint based trackers, maintaining knowledge base.
• Providing support for the inbound and outbound data file transmissions.
• Provided Knowledge transition for the new joiners.
• Coordinating with the Offshore on daily basis.

Technologies: TWS, Informatica, Oracle 10g, Toad, Windows XP, UNIX, Hp ALM 11, Db2 9.7

Confidential

Java Applications Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installation and administration of Cent OS
• Configured kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Redhat Satellite server.
• Remote system administration using tools like SSH, Telnet
• Planning and implementing system upgrades including hardware, operating system and periodical patches.
• Installation, configuration and administration of VMware.
• Automation of jobs through Tiwoli Work Load Scheduler and autosys.
• Applied appropriate support packages/patches to maintain system integrity.
• Performed capacity analysis, monitored and controlled disk space usage on systems.
• Monitored system activities and fine-tuned system parameters and configurations to optimize performance and ensure security of systems.
• Adding servers to domain and managing the groups and user in AD, installing and configuring send mail.
• Worked with project manager and auditing teams to implement PCI compliance.
• Organized various meetings with teams as mentioned above for tracking their requirements as inputs to get this done and designed the plan/steps involved and took user approvals.
• Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving permissions issues, user and group quota.
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Created new groups and tested first in development, QA Boxes and then implemented the same in production Boxes.

Technologies: Java, Centos, Linux, Sun Servers, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Autosys, Maven

Confidential

Cognos Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Took the project through complete SDLC for application development.
• Gathered and analyzed the functional requirements.
• Developed List, crosstab, drill through, master-detail, chart and complex reports which involved Multiple Prompts, Filters, multi-page, multi-query reports against multiple databases for the users to view information both by business unit and at a more strategic level across the organization.
• Distributed Reports through Bursting, E-mail and uploading to folders
• Coordinating the development, testing and QA activities from offshore.
• Provided Requirement Analysis for each request and translate the same into system design.
• Involved in the effort estimation of the project and was responsible for all Cross Sell Page Integrations and will ensure the smooth execution and timely completion of the same.
• Provided round-the-clock production management and in case of any breakdown in code, helped in analyzing, identifying and resolving technical issues immediately.

Technologies: Cognos, Informatica, Epiphany Tool, UNIX, Oracle 9i and Manual Testing