EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 9 years of experience in the IT industry working extensively on AWS, Linux.
• Experience specialized in System Administration working on RedHat Linux, Oracle Enterprise, SUSE Linux, CentOS, HP - UX 10.2x, 11.3x, VMware, VMware vsphere ESX/ ESXi, and Windows environments.
• Involved in installation, configuration, and administration of RHEL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x Servers (HP - UX, Red Hat Linux, Solaris SUSE, and AIX) and CentOS.
• Experience in System Administration, System Builds, Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring, and Fine-tuning.
• Experience in working with Puppet, Chef, and Ansible
• Experience working with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing installing and implementing VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Proficient in shell scripting (Ksh/Csh/bash/Sed/Awk), PERL, Java Scripts for Oracle and Java Applications, and XML.
• Well-versed in configuring Volume Groups and Logical Volumes extended logical volumes for the system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
• Hands-on experience in building, maintaining production web infrastructures in Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) cloud platform.
• Configuration management using Amazon Cloud Formation, Continuous integration with Jenkins. AWS management (EC2, EBS, ASG, RDS, R53)
• Worked with Configuration management tool Puppet that is used to manage Linux servers.
• Experience in managing, monitoring, and logging alert tools like Splunk.
• Creating snapshots and Amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances.
• Optimized volumes and EC2 instances & Created multi-AZ VPC instances.
• Experienced in creating Amazon EC2 instances and setting up security groups.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows Server 2008, 2012 & 2012R2, RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x, Sun Solaris 10/11, Ubuntu, VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x/5.x, HPUX 11.X/12.x

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, Bourne, and Python

Databases: MS SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2012R2 & 2016

Cloud Environments: AWS, Azure

Application/Web Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat

Networking: SNMP, SMTP, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, LAN, WAN, DHCP, NFS, Cisco Routers

Automation Tools: Chef, Puppet.

Virtual Servers: VMware, ESC Servers, vSphere 5x, Solaris Zones.

Clusters: VERITAS Clusters, HACMP (High Availability)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Silver Spring, Maryland

AWS Sys-Ops Administrator/ AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for an application HHS-Accelerate, which can be used by the agency to award contracts effortlessly by taking into, account all the requirements needed by the agency.
• Deploy containers in Docker and experience working with Kubernetes.
• Experience working with AWS native service IAM.
• Experience in writing custom IAM policies using JSON.
• Experience working with serverless interactive query service Athena.
• Experience working with ETL-managed service Glue.
• Experience working with the applications hosted in Citrix.
• Building infrastructure using containers and create clusters on the built infrastructure in AWS.
• Experience in migrating applications and services from on-prem to cloud.
• Experience working with Linux OS, CentOS, RHEL, Solaris, and Ubuntu.
• Autoscale EC2 Instances according to the user specifications.
• Hands-on experience in building codes and deploying them in the AWS environment using Code Build and Code Deploy.
• Experience working with diagramming and vector graphics applications such as Visio and Draw.io.
• Managing Amazon Redshift and Dynamo DB.
• Deploy information in S3 buckets.
• Worked on support production issues with Root Cause Analysis.
• Use Gherkin scripts to write Acceptance Criteria for every feature in the application.
• Run Quality Assurance test using the Acceptance Criteria written in Gherkin.
• Implementing Parallel Programming & Multi-Threading to develop the high responsive application.
• Developing web services to communicate to upstream and downstream applications.
• Solid understanding of both Web Technologies and Desktop applications.

Environment: Containers, EC2, Redshift, Dynamo DB, Gherkin, Microservices, Code Build, Code Deploy, S3 .

Confidential, Silver Spring, Maryland

AWS Sys-Ops Administrator/ AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Resolve the Cloud Support Services tickets received from OIMT (Office of Information Management and Technology) and stick to the SLA that addresses all the needs of its centers.
• Stand up new infrastructure in the cloud, or migrate the existing infrastructure from on-premise to cloud and save infrastructure costs to FDA and its centers.
• Minimize its footprint on the on-premise data centers and save money from its operations by migrating it to the cloud.
• Experience in working with monitoring tools like Kibana.
• Provide documentation on how we implement and how to implement all the AWS cloud-related services in the cloud, which would help, centers in the future.
• Harden the Linux and Windows OS in AWS cloud, according to the FISMA Compliance standards.
• Harden the FISMA compliant Linux and Windows OS according to the FDA standards, which can be used throughout FDA and its centers.
• Provide support to the hardening image by continuously checking for any vulnerabilities.
• Run containerized applications and build microservices in AWS.
• Patch the vulnerabilities as per cybersecurity standards of FDA, which protects the critical information of FDA.
• Provide AMI support to OIMT and all its centers.
• Segregate applications and services to FISMA High and FISMA Moderate standards dictated by FDA and migrate to their respective environments.
• Use Cloud Formation Templates from AWS to build any service or infrastructure in AWS cloud.
• Use Terraform Templates, which is, cloud-agnostic to build infrastructure in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, etc.
• Propose new Cost Models to OIMT and centers, which effectively cuts down cost on cloud usage.
• Create new Lambda functions and provide support with the scripts to OIMT and its Centers.
• Experience working with Linux OS, CentOS, RHEL, Solaris, and Ubuntu.
• Address all the cloud-related requests from different centers. Centers include Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN, includes Cosmetics), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), Center for Tobacco Products, National Center for Toxicology Research (NCTR), Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), FDA Division of Dockets Management.

Environment: RedHat (6.x/7.x), Windows, AWS EC2, S3, IAM, AMI, Amazon Cloud Formation, Amazon Cloud Watch, Puppet, Ansible, Lambda.

Confidential, Silver Spring, Maryland

AWS Administrator/ Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in provisioning and de-provisioning AWS resources for internal customers.
• Experience in deploying, managing, and operating cloud resources in AWS environment.
• Experience in estimating AWS costs and implementing cost-saving mechanisms and measures.
• Experience managing tags and creating cost reports.
• Experience in using access control on AWS resources for internal customers.
• Experience in writing process and technical documentation.
• Experience in working with internal customers to troubleshoot AWS related issues.
• Experience working with Linux OS, CentOS, RHEL, Solaris, and Ubuntu.
• Managing UNIX Infrastructure and EMC storage involving maintenance of the servers and troubleshooting problems in the environment.
• Proficient in shell scripting (Ksh/Csh/bash/Sed/Awk), PERL, Java Scripts for Oracle and Java Applications, and XML.
• Experience in working with client-server protocols such as HTTP, TCP/IP, and OSI.
• Working knowledge of Git and networking protocols like HTTPS, LDAP, Proxy, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, and SMTP.
• Deployed the EAR AND WAR archives into Web logic and Apache Servers.
• Monitoring the progression of releases and keep, them on track for delivery on the planned release date.

Environment: RedHat (5.x/6.x), Solaris (10.x/11.x), Veritas, VMware, Apache, ESX, BASH Script, AWS EC2, S3, IAM, AMI, Amazon Cloud Formation, Amazon Cloud Watch, Puppet, Ansible.

Confidential, Dublin, Ohio

Linux Administrator/ AWS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of RHEL 5, 6 that includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting server issues.
• Installation, administration, the configuration of RHEL 5/6 including package management, patch management, and regular system administration tasks.
• Performed automated installations of Operating systems using Jumpstart for Solaris and Kickstart for Linux .
• Maintained and executed build scripts by coordinating with development and QA teams.
• Extensively worked on hard disk mirroring and stripe with parity using RAID controllers .
• Configured various services, devices as well as applications of UNIX servers and worked with the application team to customize the environment. Worked with Apache and developed several UNIX scripts to automate web tasks.
• Configure firewall based on Red hat Linux and FreeBSD 6.x that has three network interfaces.
• Managed existing documentation for systems and created new procedures to support new products, Created documentation for a disaster recovery project.
• Network troubleshooting using Traceroute, net stat, IPconfig, and snoop .
• Experience in provisioning and de-provisioning AWS resources for internal customers.
• Experience in deploying, managing, and operating cloud resources in AWS environment.
• Experience in estimating AWS costs and implementing cost-saving mechanisms and measures.
• Experience managing tags and creating cost reports.
• Experience in using access control on AWS resources for internal customers.
• Experience in writing process and technical documentation.

Environment: Redhat (5.x/6.x), Solaris (10.x/11.x), Perl, Bash, FreeBSD.

Confidential, New York

AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing and supporting a multi-cloud environment, which includes AWS.
• DNS management in Route53.
• Design AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of WEB applications and database templates, security product templates.
• Experience in working with Continuous Integration and Deployment CI/CD.
• Created and maintained built wrapper scripts like PERL.
• Research and development on scalable Linux deployments on AWS via Docker.
• Worked closely with EC2 infrastructure teams to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Used Chef to manage VM configuration within AWS.
• Worked on AWS Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, and Cloud Trail services.
• MS SQL Server 2008, 2012 & 2012R2 Administration: setting up, administering, backing up, and restoring SQL Server databases, troubleshooting SQL issues, configuring SQL Server for optimal performance.
• Design roles and groups of users and resources using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM).
• Design AWS account in such a way that, the user has minimum privileges and still be able to do what engineers need to do for their project.
• Creating NAT and Proxy instances in AWS and manage route tables, EIP’s and NACLs.
• Creating S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets.
• Creating Cloudwatch alerts for instances and using them in Autoscaling launch configurations.
• Bootstrapping instances using Chef and integrating with auto-scaling.

Environment: AWS EC2, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SQL.

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided 24/7 on-call supports in debugging and fixing issues related to Linux, Solaris, HP-UX Installation/Maintenance of Hardware/Software in Production, Development & Test Environment as an integral part of the Unix/Linux (RHEL/SUSE/SOLARIS/HP-UX/AIX) Support team.
• Installed/Configured/Maintained/Administrated the network servers DNS, NIS, NFS, SENDMAIL, Involved in Adding new disks, formatting, partitioning, disk space allocation, monitoring system performance, system tuning, server hardening, and crash recovery issues.
• Implemented security in systems and network for all Sun Enterprise Servers & Desktop Servers, Implemented the skills of Load balancing for edge components using F5’s Big-IP load sprayer.
• Responsible for change management, troubleshooting, and resolution of server issues for end-user support.
• Tuning Kernel parameters for optimum performance.
• Configuring Synchronization and file servers, Monitoring and managing content stores.
• Maintained Load balancing, High availability, Failover functionality, and Disaster recovery included changing the IP address of the web and app server machines, which caused a change in the virtual host and HTTP transport configurations.
• Monitoring of space available on each filesystem using Shell Scripts.
• Administered file system and volumes using VERITAS storage Foundation, Solaris Volume Manager on Solaris, and Logical Volume Manager on Linux.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Satellite server for package transfer across servers, to store client’s system profile, and to control other servers in the network.
• Worked in an environment containing Solaris zones/containers and involved extensively in troubleshooting the issues by finding out root causes, analyzing core dumps, and resolved system crashes.

Environment: Redhat (5.x/6.x), Solaris (10.x/11.x), SUSE, HP-UX, HTTP, Veritas,