SUMMARY:

• IT professional with 16 years of proven track record with full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience including analysis, design, development, testing and deployment using waterfall and agile software development methodologies
• Certified AWS solutions architect with passion for business process automation platforms
• Strategist for optimizing all aspect of the continuous integration, release and deployment processes using container and virtualization techniques like Docker and Kubernetes
• Expert in Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline setup by creating multiple stages like build, integration, test, stage and production
• Experience in working with AWS resources like IAM, EC2, EBS, S3, ELB, VPC, ECS, Lambda, Route 53, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, Chef, ansible, CloudFront, Terraform, CloudTrail, RedShift, SQS, SNS and experienced in Cloud automation
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates and expertise in architecting secure VPC Solutions in AWS with the help of Network ACLs, Security Groups, public and private network configurations.
• Designed scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS) within AWS Cloud using Route53 to route traffic to AWS Cloud from users connected using AWS Direct Connect for larger deployments
• Experience in writing Ansible playbooks in Python for installing WebLogic/tomcat application, deployment of WAR, JAR AND EAR files across all the environments
• Excellent experience in release/change/defect and vendor management
• More than 12 years of experience in managing onshore and offshore IT resources across the globe
• Expert in leading support/Integration, manual/automation and load & performance management teams
• Extensive experience in leading major application server's server migration projects across data centers
• Versatile knowledge in supporting device /product life cycle
• Excellent knowledge of F5, Web configurations, caching, and content delivery networks

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

Jenkins, docker/Swarm, Kubernetes, Ansible, Python, AWS EC2, IAM, Route53, S3, RDS, Lambda, XML, Web services, Nagios, Kafka, Java/J2EE, Oracle/SQL Server, Linux, MQ series, Apache, JBoss/WebSphere/ WebLogic, ALM, UFT, Telerik, JIRA, SOAP UI, SQL. Microsoft office suite, TFS 2017, MTM, Hadoop, Pig, Hive.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DevOps Manager

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Responsibilities:

• Successfully created and implemented fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins, GIT, docker, release manager and PowerShell.
• Worked directly with agile Application Development teams to provide daily support aligned with a model of Continuous Delivery.
• Maintained transparent communication channel with business and IT leaders by summarizing and reporting on continuous improvement updates and issues.
• Led the overall build and test process for strategy, automation, performance, load, scalability, test case/data management, and full integration testing.
• Helped teams as a SME on issues that impact product quality, performance, scalability and system stability.
• Guided teams to implement deployment standards, best practices, and continuous improvement for unit testing, build, test automation, continuous integration and delivery, and code reviews.
• Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app that was refactored into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.
• Created POC for cloud architecture model for the existing on premises model to be elastic, fault tolerant, highly available and scalable with a focus on supporting business continuity (agreed RTO/RPO Disaster recovery)
• Provided mentoring,, and support for external teams and team members.
• Responsible for creating and maintain documentation around the build and quality assurance agile process that conforms to SOC2, SOX, HIPAA, FDA, and company standard controls.

Technologies: TFS, SQL Server, C#, Jenkins, GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kafka, Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, Ansible, ECS, Nagios, Splunk, AWS EC2, AWS Lamba, AWS RDS

DevOps Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support and implement agile development, collaborate with other application teams to meet Sprint commitments.
• Used Git for source code version control and integrated with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline, code quality tracking and user management with build tools Maven and Ant.
• Automated build and deployment process with Jenkins and Maven, eliminating 50% of manual work
• Support high end, complex problem management to identify complex problems and develop work around solutions and resolutions
• Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging
• Responsible for architecting front end provisioning application with a combination of web/application servers and MQ for optimal performance by collaborating with network/database admin teams on F5 load balancer decisions, RAC multi node setup and geo high availability and DR solutions.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams like capacity, infrastructure and network on infrastructure strategy and planning to handle millions of transactions of provisioning and device management applications per day.
• Improved workflows and processes for effectiveness and efficiency to align with company's strategic goals.
• Lead and guide test automation effort for all applications, support organizational effort to replace change synergy with ALM defect management tool. Also helped integrating JIRA/SVN with ALM to help development team.
• Tasked with hiring, on boarding, coaching, developing, and conducting performance appraisals.

Technologies: Unix/Linux, Jenkins, Docker, Python, Java/J2EE, GIT/SVN, Nagios, Apache, WebSphere/JBoss, Oracle, Splunk

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided technology leadership for infrastructure, scalability and performance
• Oversee capacity planning, deployment and performance management of key systems
• Supported all aspects of management reporting with clear, concise, timely presentation of required information.
• Designed and configured a highly available and fault tolerant web application with a combination of web/application servers and a load balancer with custom caching requirements and load balancing needs.
• Led integration and testing teams to deliver most reliable and quality software integrated with rest of the enterprise applications.
• Provided business justification, reviewed SOW with vendors and managed vendor schedule, deliverables and resources to ensure delivery of a quality product.
• Forecasted LOE hours and created periodic audit reports to ensure accrual and forecast compliance.
• Resolved conflicts and provide solutions to the team to fulfill their tasks

Technologies: Unix/Linux, Shell scripting, CVS, Java/J2EE, Apache, WebLogic, MQ, Oracle, Splunk

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed simulators and other components by re - engineering a vendor provisioning application which helped to identify various code issues during functional and L&P testing.
• This role was also responsible for installing, maintaining various software like MQ, Orbix, and vendor applications in multiple environments (dev-production) and supporting non-production provision applications.
• Responsible for supporting system and end-to-end testing teams on 7*24 on call schedule.
• Plan, coordinate activities following ITIL framework.

Technologies: Unix/Linux, Shell scripting, CVS, Java/J2EE, Apache, WebLogic, MQ, Orbix, Oracle, Splunk

Programmer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a programmer consultant for various clients like Sprint, AdminiQuest.
• The development was primarily using Java/J2EE/SQL server technologies etc.
• Collaborated with business, solutions architect and system analysts and QA teams to deliver solution end-to-end.
• Worked with delivery teams to implement development standards and best practices.

Technologies: Unix/Linux, Java/J2EE, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, SQL Server