SUMMARY:

• Competitive IT Professional with 9+ Years of Experience with Confidential as a Midtier and Cloud AWS/DevOps Engineer
• Have worked for various clients in various roles across multiple technologies such as Unix(AIX) Admin, IBM WebSphere, File Net Imaging Service, Amazon Web Services, Hadoop, Chef, Jenkins, Splunk and DataDog etc
• Currently working on Dashboard Designing for Cloud migration project using the following tools, like Splunk, DataDog, CloudWatcher and Kubernetes
• Facilitating meetings, and involved in product decisions for AWS cloud support in the Kuberentes and other AWS support project.
• Have extensive experience in working closely with Partners and Vendors and making sure the deliverables were on track to exceedingly meet business expectations.
• Worked with several teams to transition workflows to Continuous Integration and Delivery model and implemented best practices for utilizing AWS.
• Experience in working with various CI/CD tools like Jenkins/Hudson, Nexus and Artifactory.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like App Dynamic and Splunk for monitoring network services and host resources.
• Experience in creating Splunk and DataDog dashboard and Alerts creation.
• Designed, built and deployed a multitude of applications utilizing a number of components of the AWS(Amazon web services), Including EC2, S3,Auto Scaling group, Elastic MapReduce, Elastic Load Balancing (Classic/Application), RDS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, snapshots and IAM, focusing on high - availability and fault tolerance.
• Integrating Jenkins with AWS to automate Services.
• Proficient in managing chef cookbooks& Recipes to manage systems configuration.
• Creating and configuring Jenkins jobs, build and delivery pipelines.
• Extensive experience includes Software Configuration Management (SCM), DevOps Build/Release Management, Change/Incident Management and Cloud Management.
• Coordination experience with various teams like Dev, QA and production Operations.
• Experienced in Design an Architectural Diagram for different applications before migrating into Amazon cloud for flexible, cost-effective, reliable, scalable, high-performance and secured.
• Have experience using MAVEN and ANT as a Build Tool for the building of deployable artifacts (Jar, war & ear) from source code and software containers like Docker.
• Delivered architecture designs and solutions for public, private and hybrid clouds covering the cloud architecture tiers and portfolios of cloud services.
• Used AWS Cloud Formation and AWS OpsWorks to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test and production environments for a software development project.
• Expertise in creating DevOps strategy in a mix environment of Linux, Unix(AIX, Solaris) servers and Windows along with Amazon Web Services for Corporate Datacenter migrations.
• Sound knowledge with web application servers like, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, etc
• Deployment, configuration and management of provision tools such as Chef, Terraform and Cloud Formation Template
• Worked on deploying Database like, Hadoop, Mongo DB, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL in AWS.
• Infrastructure management of the Banking E-commerce Websites, and middleware applications both on AWS and On-prem.
• Co-ordinating the Linux/Unix system Administration, System Builds, Server Builds, Installations, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Trouble shooting and Application health checks
• Have good experience working with the backend system issues such as mainframe and IBM WebSphere MQ server.
• Running crisis calls for all the production impacting issues and driving to quick resolution by involving the right teams.
• Worked on deploying Database like, Hadoop, Mongo DB, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL in AWS.
• Infrastructure management of the Banking E-commerce Websites, and middleware applications both on AWS and On-prem.
• Co-ordinating the Linux/Unix system Administration, System Builds, Server Builds, Installations, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Trouble shooting and Application health checks
• Have good experience working with the backend system issues such as mainframe and IBM WebSphere MQ server.
• Running crisis calls for all the production impacting issues and driving to quick resolution by involving the right teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Amazon Linux AMI, Linux (Red Hat), Unix (AIX), Solaris, Windows

Web and Middleware: Tomcat, APACHE, IBM Web Sphere, JBoss, Microsoft IIS server, IBM WebSphere MQ.

ETL Tools: AbInitio, EME Web interface

Languages: C++, Java, Json

CI/CD Tools: Hudson, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Chef, Terraform, Cloud Formation Template, Docker

Monitoring Tools: Control M, Splunk, IBM Confidential, Confidential Control M, HP Sitescope, App Dynamics, DataDog, ELK

Version control: Git, GitHub

AWS Cloud: AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, S3, IAM, SNS, RDS-PostgreSQL, Elastic Cache, Route53, Cloud front, Cloud Formation, OpsWorks, Cloud Watch, Dynamo DB, Elastic Map Reduce, Amazon WorkSpaces, SQS, Amazon Glacier, AWS LAMBDA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, IL

Middleware System Admin / AWS DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning, Design, Road maps, POC implementations for AWS Cloud technologies.
• Had an extensive role in On-Prem Midtier application migrations to the cloud-lift and shift to AWS infrastructure.
• Worked closely with development teams to integrate their projects into the production AWS environment and ensure their ongoing support.
• Designing and approving the AWS architecture diagrams and release models.
• Automated the front-ends platform into highly scalable, consistent, repeatable infrastructure using high degree of automation using Chef, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and cloud Formation.
• Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS Cloud watch and Splunk.
• Managed and handled KT sessions to the Offshore team on Chef Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, Wrote Recipes and Cookbooks and uploaded them to Chef-server. Managed On-site OS/Applications/Services/ Packages using Chef as well as AWS for EC2/S3&ELB with Chef Cookbooks.
• Have utilized json templates for cloud formation and ruby scripts for chef automation during production deployments.
• Added project users to the AWS account with multifactor authentication enabled and least privilege permissions.
• Deploying and validating the applications automated through the jenkins pipeline using pipeline groovy script.
• Used maven as build tool on java projects for the deployment of build artifacts on the source code.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups.
• Built S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket and glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
• Played a major part in keeping the production system alive and mitigating the customer impact by validating Splunk and App Dynamics traffic and setup valid monitoring alerts.
• Run crisis calls impacting customers and perform emergency change orders and deployments. Re-spinning stale application instances/web instances.
• Co-ordinated and performed the Disaster Recovery exercise for Customer facing critical applications on the AWS platforms involving Route 53 changes and DB promotions (PostgreSQL, Mongo DB) for applications involving databases.

Environment: Amazon Web Services, IAM, S3, EBS, AWS, SDK, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Terraform, GitHub, Chef, Java, Agile, Apache Tomcat 7.0, JSON, Python.

Confidential

AIX Lead

Responsibilities:

• Technically sophisticated professional, with a career span of 4+ years with expertise in multiple segments of IT Administration and Support for AIX Platform , Hardware and Software Troubleshooting for IBM servers and AIX, customer service & troubleshooting.
• Expertise in system and network administration ; installation and configuration of AIX and to manage the Lpar, VIO and HA servers.
• Handled 32 members team as Security patch focal. Have achieved successful completion of APAR patching and server build.
• Proven abilities in planning / implementing and executing support functions using IT as business tool; disaster recovery planning and implementation for large enterprise infrastructure in a global environment.
• Acknowledged team member and motivator having ability to integrate team efforts to maximize team productivity.
• Managing and supporting the web sphere and MQ application server management.
• Handling HACMP and Java / web-sphere tickets.
• Closely worked with Application, DB and MQ team to schedule the patching changes and execute the changed without any issues.

Environment: AIX, Linux, MQ and Oracle Database

Confidential

AIX Support Engineer / Middleware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked in 24*7 environments to maintain the 99.9% uptime of the servers and services.
• Handled Apar team of 32 members.
• Acted as focal for managing the daily activities in team and reporting data to client.
• OS & Hardware support for AIX servers.
• Managed the Lpars.
• Scripted the daily activities and provided on-call support.
• Managed Apar and eUps patching on all 1000+ servers on Quarterly basis.
• Worked in various problems involving the Aix servers.
• Worked on the Incident issues related to the patching activities.
• Worked with Web sphere and SAN team to provide full application setup.
• Worked on Confidential for the servers and application related issues.

AIX System Administration

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided AIX platform support to support teams including Application Development, Information Security, Data Network Services, Middleware (Database, MQ etc), Help Desk and Server Operations as required by involvement in projects or in the course of supporting day to day issues.
• Managed support call with IBM (e.g., open, severity levels, escalation, closing, information gathering), Generated server snap shot to analyze software or hardware issues. Coordinated hardware repairs; Hardware component replacements (Adapter replacements, Disk replacements, Processor replacements, Power supply etc).
• Determined Performance problems using vmstat, topas, iostat and provided resolution by analyzing the performance reports.