PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 6+ years of experience in Information Technology industry in DevOps/ Agile operations, Linux Administrator, Software Configuration Management/ Release Management Specialist and Cloud Management
• Experience in Linux Administration (Installation, Configuration, Tuning and Upgrades of Linux (Red Hat and Oracle).
• Experienced in all phases of the software development life - cycle (SDLC) with specific focus on the build and release of quality software. Experienced in Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Lean and most recently Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) practices.
• Custom integration, plugins dev for different tools around CI-CD like GIT, JENKINS, Artifactory, Rally, Guard, Reporting and Dashboards using API and other techniques.
• Highly skilled in automating Operating System installation and setup utilizing Jumpstart Servers for provisioning of Solaris 9/10 servers and Kickstart servers for provisioning of RHEL 4.x/5.x/6. x.
• In-depth understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, SCRUM to Stash Migration, Waterfall methodologies.
• Expertise in implementing the Configuration Management Tools like CHEF, PUPPET and Ansible
• Strong proficiency in supporting Production Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, VMWare) as well as traditional managed hosted environments.
• Managed local deployments in Kubernetes, creating local cluster and deploying application containers.
• Container management using Docker by writing Docker files and set up the automated build on Docker HUB and installed and configured Kubernetes.
• Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
• Developed Pom.xml files for Maven build scripts.
• Experience in administering and maintaining Atlassian products like JIRA, bamboo, Confluence
• Maintaining a farm of EC2 instances, ELB's and RDS.
• Worked on Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates.
• Implemented CHEF Recipes for Deployment on build on internal Data Centre Servers. Also re-used and modified same CHEF Recipes to create a Deployment directly into Amazon EC2 instances.
• Evaluating testing of CHEF Recipes - Concept of Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Infrastructure as a Code.
• Automate Continuous Build and Deploy Scripts for JENKINS Continuous Integration tool
• Automated the cloud deployments using CHEF, PYTHON (Boto & fabric) and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.
• Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Amazon EC2, CHEF, and custom Ruby/Bash scripts
• Design and Developed Web Services, RESTful API's for Mobile Apps using Python Django-REST and Flask Frameworks on Nginx and UWSGI servers.
• Experience in working on cloud AWS cloud EC2, S3, EFS, RDS, Load Balancer, Auto Scaling with AWS command line interface and AWS PYTHON SDK.
• Excellent trouble shooting skills to find the root causes using the logging tools like Splunk, ELK Stack.
• Use of Docker to manage micro services for development and testing
• Worked on infrastructure with Docker containerization. Collaborated with development support teams to setup a continuous delivery environment with the use of Docker.
• Proficient in writing PUPPET modules and CHEF cookbooks.
• Experience in working on cloud AWS cloud EC2, S3, RDS, Load Balancer, Auto Scaling with AWS command line interface and AWS PYTHON SDK.
• Hands on experience with AWS cloud-specific technologies, including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Services (S3), Route 53, Cloud Formation, Elastic Beanstalk, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), RDS, Cloud Watch and many more
• Development and version control of CHEF Cookbooks, testing of Cookbooks using Food critic and Test Kitchen and running recipes on nodes managed by on-premise CHEF Server.
• Ability in deploying the developed code in a Web Sphere/Web Logic, Apache Tomcat/JBOSS, IIS7.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SCM Tools: Subversion, Git, Cvs, Aws and Stash.

CI & Provisioning Tools: Hudson, Jenkins, Bamboo 5.11, Ansible, Chef, Puppet.

Build Tools: Ant, Maven, Gradle.

Operating System: Windows 98/XP/NT/ 2000/2003/2008, UNIX, IOS, Red Hat LINUX, Ubuntu, Fedora.

Bug Tracker & Testing Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, Remedy, Junit, IBM Clear, Quest.

Analytics: SAS Studio, AWS EMR

SDLC: Agile, Scrum Waterfall Methodologies

Scripting Languages: Shell Script, Ruby, Batch Script, Groovy, Perl Script, PowerShell Script

Cloud: AWS, Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack

Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Dynatrace, Splunk, Datadog.

Web/App servers: WebLogic, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, RHEL, JBOSS.

Web Technologies: Servlets, JDBC, JSP, HTML, Java Script, XML, JSON.

Languages: C, C++, SQL, .NET, PYTHON, Spring, Ruby, Objective C, Java/J2EE.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure/SCDM Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience as Cloud AWS DevOps Engineer project teams that involved different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases.
• Build and release software baselines, code merges, branch and label creation in Subversion/GIT and interfaced between development and infrastructure.
• Working for DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to CHEF for Cloud Automation.
• Administration of RHEL 5,6,7 which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting on both pseries and VMware virtualization systems
• Developed scripts using PERL, BASH and BATCH files for Automation of Activities and builds.
• Authored application using Spring Cloud services (spring version of Netflix OSS-Eureka, Circuit Breaker, and Ribbon).
• Experience in using automations tools like CHEF for deploying Cassandra cluster.
• Deployed application using Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) CLI.
• Wrote Python routines to log into the websites and fetch data for selected options.
• Developed Python/Django application for Google Analytics aggregation and reporting.
• Build and use CloudFormation\ Terraform templates to design and launch applications.
• Use of Docker to manage micro services for development and testing.
• Generated Python Django forms to record data of online users and used Pytest for writing test cases.
• Used Kubernetes to deploy and manage containers (pods) on AWS.
• Utilized standard Python modules such as CSV and pickle for development.
• Developed Wrapper in Python for instantiating multi-threaded application.
• Created Private Cloud using Kubernetes that supports development, test and production environments.
• Written and developed CHEF Cookbooks from scratch for custom installation of application.
• Used CHEF for Continuous Delivery. Managed CI and CD process and delivered all application in rpms.
• Writing chef recipes for various applications and deploying them in AWS using Terraform.
• Worked extensively with different Bug tracking tools like JIRA, Remedy
• Actively involved in architecture of DevOps platform and cloud solutions.
• Integration of Automated Build with Deployment Pipeline. Currently installed CHEF Server and clients to pick up the Build from JENKINS repository and deploy in target environments (Integration, QA, and Production).
• Created proper documentation for new server setups and existing servers.
• Developed installer scripts using Maven, PYTHON for various products to be hosted on Application Servers
• Worked on installation of Docker using Docker toolbox.
• Worked on creation of custom Docker container images, tagging and pushing the images.
• Implemented CHEF Cookbooks for OS component configuration to keep AWS server's template minimal.
• Written CHEF Cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize end product configuration.
• Maintenance of source code in GIT. Branching, Creating LABELS, merging of codes on GIT for QA testing and release.
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues in JIRA and Confluence as users.
• Provided documentation of customer JIRA terms, standard practices, and implementation and weekly status reports
• Integrating various provisioning and monitoring modules into a single platform.
• Managed central repositories: Implemented Atlassian Stash along with GIT to host GIT central repositories for source code across products, facilitate code reviews and login audits for Security Compliance.
• Designed and implemented the backup strategy for all the critical systems such as build machines, bug tracking tools, central repositories etc.

Environment: CHEF, JENKINS, Cloud Foundry, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Docker, PYTHON, Ruby CHEF, JIRA, Confluence, Cassandra, Maven, Artifactory, GITHUB, Ubuntu, CentOS, Linux, AWS ELB, AWS SQS, AWS S3, AWS Cloud Watch, Ruby, PowerShell, Tomcat, Apache, Kubernetes.

Confidential

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Sending the Uptime and Downtime notifications to teams regarding Servers status as a part of the Build Engineer role at the time of deploying the EAR and WAR package in Tomcat Admin Console.
• Involved in initiating regular build jobs using the Continuous Integration tool like Jenkins.
• Configured Jenkins for doing the build in all the dev, test, QA and production environments.
• Implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in AWS cloud.
• Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.
• Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Written CloudFormation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.
• Involved in development of Test environment on Docker containers and configuring the Docker containers using Kubernetes
• Evaluated and designed the software and the infrastructure for the company-wide private container cloud solution based on Kubernetes, Swarm, Docker and Python.
• Automated moving configurations and Branding updates using Ansible.
• Automated CI/CD process using Jenkins, build-pipeline-plug in, maven, SVN.
• Experience in managing Source control systems SVN.
• Developed Chef cookbooks to ease web application deployment for Python, Ruby, and Node.js.
• Implemented new Chef cookbooks to support Python applications.
• Improved Poise helper's library and core Chef APIs for developing new resources.
• Evaluated Ruby product releases and code reviews to make necessary adjustments prior to execution.
• Supported process automation stapes for automation of manual processes using Ruby
• Written bash scripts to deploy the Java based packages like ear and war on the Tomcat Application server. Worked extensively on Subversion as Version Control.
• Coordinated with all the teams before and after the production deployments for the smooth production releases.
• Used Artifactory repository tool for maintaining the Java based release code packages.
• Written Bash scripts to apply the Integration label to all the files which needs manual labeling of files.
• Involved in fully automated code deployments (GitHub to server) with the ability to deploy specific, point-in-time revisions of code
• Automated Release Notes using Python and Shell scripts.
• Planned the overall design and strategy for Java/J2EE deployments in Jenkins.
• Involved in tracking project progress with JIRA and GitHub version control
• Used SonarQube for code coverage.

Environment: Java/J2ee, Ant, Chef, Salt Stack, Jenkins, Maven, MQ, Dynatrace, Subversion, QC, Tomcat, TC Server, GitHub, Jenkins, Python, Bash and UNIX/Linux.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer/ Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications per the agile process throughout the organization, supporting the Infrastructure.
• Using Chef, deployed and configured Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring in integration with CloudWatch.
• Design and document CI/CD tools configuration management.
• With setting up Chef Infra, bootstrapping nodes, creating and uploading Chef Recipes, Chef Node convergence in Chef SCM.
• Created a Continuous Delivery pipeline to bundle Chef Cookbooks and Cloud formation templates and push them to S3 buckets using Jenkins, Git.
• Installed Chef Server Enterprise on premise/workstation/bootstrapped the nodes using knife and automated by testing Chef recipes/cookbooks with test-kitchen/Chef spec.
• Also, used Chef for provisioning the infrastructure and also wrote Chef cookbooks and recipes to provision several pre-production environments.
• Worked on setting up the projects in GIT created POM.xml file and integrating with Jenkins for continuous integration.
• Ability to work for analyzing with SonarQube Scanner for MS build and java applications.
• Automated Smoke and Functional test cases using Selenium WebDriver, Junit and Java (Eclipse IDE).
• Scheduled, deployed and managed container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes
• Improved and managed Maven plugin (Maven-config filter-plugin) for managing configuration through the modules.
• Maintain and administrate the Splunk Logging tool by Quire and verify repeated issues and exceptions.
• Used various services of AWS for this infrastructure.
• Automated the Build and deploy of all internal Java environments using various continuous integration tools and scripting languages Extracted the data from MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server using Sqoop and loaded data into Cassandra.
• Used EC2 as virtual servers to host GIT, Jenkins and configuration management tool like Chef. Converted slow and manual procedures to dynamic API generated procedures.
• Created best practices Build environment using Jenkins, Packer, immutable instances and AWS.
• Strong proficiency in supporting Production Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, VMWare) as well as traditional managed hosted environments.
• Building and Installing servers through Azure Resource Manager Templates or Azure Portal.
• Managing Amazon instances by taking AMIs and performing administration and monitoring of Amazon instances likeEC2 using Amazon Cloud Watch, Transfer data from Datacenters to cloud using AWS Import/Export Snowball service.
• Involved in building own PAAS with Docker deployed various applications through Dockers containers.
• Coordinated with team leads to determine needs and how best to implement JIRA within department.
• Dockerized applications by creating Docker images from Docker file.
• Worked on deployment automation of all the Microservices to pull image from the private docker registry and deploy to docker swarm cluster using Chef.
• Implemented continuous integration using Jenkins and configured various plugins GIT, Maven, SonarQube, and Nexus.
• Worked on Docker compose to schedule multiple containers and written Compose.yml files to configure and scale multiple application services.
• Used ANT and MAVEN as a build tools on java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
• Hands on experience in installing and administrating CI tools like Jenkins, GIT, Perforce and Artifactory.
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using Git.
• Implemented DevOps pipeline using various tools like Jenkins, GIT, SonarQube and Nexus Artifactory.

Environment: CHEF, JENKINS, Cloud Foundry, Cloud Watch, CloudFormation, Docker, Python, Ruby, Artifactory, GITHUB, Linux, AWS ELB, AWS EMR, AWS S3, AWS Cloud Formation Templates. Ruby Spec, Unit Testing, SonarQube.

Confidential, Carmel, IN

Senior Cloud AWS/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience as Cloud AWS DevOps Engineer project teams that involved different development teams and Multiple simultaneous software releases.
• Build and release software baselines, code merges, branch and label creation in Subversion/GIT and interfaced between development and infrastructure.
• Working for DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to CHEF for Cloud Automation.
• Ability to work for Analyzing with Unit Testing, SonarQube Scanner for Jenkins as Pipelines to build applications.
• Administration of RHEL 5,6,7 which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting on both Pseries and VMware virtualization systems
• Developed scripts using PERL, BASH and BATCH files for Automation of Activities and builds.
• Authored application using Spring Cloud services (spring version of Netflix OSS-Eureka, Circuit Breaker, and Ribbon).
• Wrote Python routines to log into the websites and fetch data for selected options.
• Developed Python/Django application for Google Analytics aggregation and reporting.
• Container management using Docker by writing Docker files and set up the automated build on Docker HUB and installed and configured Kubernetes
• Experience in supporting data analysis projects using EMR on the AWS Services AWS Cloud and exporting and importing data into S3.
• Generated Python Django forms to record data of online users and used PyTest for writing test cases.
• Developed Wrapper in Python for instantiating multi-threaded application.
• Written and developed CHEF Cookbooks from scratch for custom installation of application.
• Writing chef recipes for various applications and deploying them in AWS using Terraform.
• Responsible for CI and CD using JENKINS, Maven and CHEF.
• AWS EC2/VPC/S3/SQS/SNS based infrastructure automation through Ansible, Python, Bash Scripts.
• Developed installer scripts using Maven, PYTHON for various products to be hosted on Application Servers.
• Worked on installation of Docker using Docker toolbox.
• Worked on creation of custom Docker container images, tagging and pushing the images.
• Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
• Excellent trouble shooting skills to find the root causes using the logging tools like Splunk, ELK Stack.
• Developed Pom.xml files for Maven build scripts.
• Experience in administering and maintaining Atlassian products like JIRA, bamboo, Confluence
• Maintaining a farm of EC2 instances, ELB's and RDS.
• Implemented CHEF Recipes for Deployment on build on internal Data Centre Servers. Also re-used and modified same CHEF Recipes to create a Deployment directly into Amazon EC2 instances.
• Evaluating testing of CHEF Recipes - Concept of Test-Driven Development for Infrastructure as a Code.
• Automated the cloud deployments using CHEF, PYTHON (Boto & fabric) and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.
• Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Amazon EC2, CHEF, and custom Ruby/Bash scripts
• Implemented CHEF Cookbooks for OS component configuration to keep AWS server's template minimal.
• Written CHEF Cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize end product configuration.
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues in JIRA and Confluence as users.
• Provided documentation of customer JIRA terms, standard practices, and implementation and weekly status reports.

Environment: CHEF, OpenStack, Micro Services, JENKINS, Cloud Foundry, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Jenkins, SonarQube, Unit testing, Docker, PYTHON, Ruby CHEF, JIRA, Confluence, Maven, Artifactory, GitHub, Linux, AWS ELB, AWS EMR, AWS S3, AWS CloudFormation Templates, kubernetes.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Cloud Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and supported the Software Release Management and procedures.
• Installing, configuring and administering JENKINS CI tool on Linux machines.
• Build scripts on AWS cloud for scheduling EC2 auto Scaling load balancer with Python SDK.
• Worked on AWS cloud watch for monitoring the application infrastructure and used AWS email services for notifying.
• Deployed and troubleshoot of various JENKINS issues. Installed and uninstalled, upgraded and downgraded various plugins in JENKINS.
• Installation and configuration of management tool Puppet across RHEL environment.
• Developed python code for different tasks, dependencies, SLA watcher and time sensor for each job for workflow management and automation using Airflow tool.
• Completed the migration of On-premise data from DB2 to AWS Redshift
• Worked with GIT, GitHub and Maven projects configured in JENKINS.
• Involved in JENKINS backups and restores.
• Migrated applications from internal data center to AWS.
• Worked on Amazon cloud POC (AWS installation of open stack and Image).
• Involved in Setup and Configuration of PUPPET Configuration Management.
• Installed and configured an automated tool PUPPET that included the installation and configuration of the PUPPET master, agent nodes and an admin control workstation.
• Hosted monitoring and alerting web app for Elastic search clusters
• Developed search/analytics platform processing application logs/metrics a month using Java, Elastic search, Kibana.
• Created and updated PUPPET manifests and modules, files, and packages stored in the GIT repository.
• Installed/Configured/Managed PUPPET Master/Agent. Wrote custom Modules and Manifests, downloaded pre-written modules.
• Experience working with PUPPET Enterprise and PUPPET Open Source.
• Managed AWS based application infrastructure, using Puppet and Terraform configuration Management/orchestration tools.
• Responsible for creating PUPPET modules and Manifest files from scratch and experience in editing existing PUPPET manifests and automated manual installation processes using PUPPET
• Analyze and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery framework using JENKINS, PUPPET, Maven& Nexus in Linux environment.
• Using ANT, PUPPET Scripts with Ivy to build the application and deploy.
• Configured Apache webserver with WebSphere application server through proxy plug-in.
• Experience in designing and deploying best SCM processes and procedures.
• Involved in JIRA as defect tracking system and configure various workflows, customizations and plug-ins for JIRA bug/issue tracker.
• Experience in using WebLogic, Admin, WebLogic, Deployer and WebLogic server commands.
• Developed scripts for WebLogic application server administration.

Environment: Amazon Web Services, PUPPET, SVN, GIT, GitHub, JENKINS, SonarQube, CHEF, Maven, ANT, Tomcat, Cloud computing, Docker, JIRA, Shell/Perl Scripts, PYTHON, Nagios, Elastic Search, Terraform, MS SQL.

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Maintained RedHat Linux (RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x, 6.x & 7.x) on SPARC, x86 and Blade centers.
• Worked on Virtualizing RedHat servers using vSphere 4.1/5.0 and managed ESX servers using vCenter and also worked with ESX Cluster and vMotion.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/GIT Repositories, views, and the access control strategies.
• Developed scripts using PERL, BASH and BATCH files for Automation of Activities and builds.
• Created the ANT scripts and extension of existing ANT scripts for deployment of applications to HUDSON
• Experience in Working with Oracle ERP, Oracle Fusion Middleware applications (Build automation and deployment)
• Build and Release management - GIT, Maven, Jenkins administration, Nexus.
• Extensively involved in build and release management process for multiple applications using ANT, MAVEN, Jenkins
• Used ANT and MAVEN as a build tools on java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
• Setting up Change Management process and standardizing the policies for various applications
• Worked in setting up the repos to various projects in SVN
• Involved in migration from SVN to GIT repos and worked with Linux sys admins for the same
• Responsible for Deployment Automation - Puppet, mCollective, hiera, Custom Puppet modules, Ruby
• Experience in using Enterprise Chef for setting up Chef Workstation, Chef Server and nodes.
• Experience writing Chef Cookbooks and recipes to automate the deployment process and to integrating Chef Cookbooks into Jenkins jobs for a continuous delivery framework.
• Operations - Custom Shell scripts, Ruby scripts, VM and Environment management.
• Manage configuration of Web App and Deploy to AWS cloud server through Chef.

Environment: RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x, 6.x & 7.x, Git, Ant, Maven, Artifactory, Tomcat, WebSphere, Java, SVN, VMware, Shell, Perl Scripting, Nexus, SonarQube, Crucible, JIRA, WebLogic, WebSphere, Jenkins, CAST, Chef, Puppet.