SUMMARY:

• Around 8+ Years of experience and 5+ years of US experience with Devops admin with Installing, configuring and maintaining Redhat Linux operating environments.
• Highly motivated Systems/Devops administrator offering hands - on experience in various Infrastructure environments.
• Experience as a Cloud DevOps engineer.
• Extensively involved in DevOps, Release Engineering, Configuration Management, Cloud infrastructure.
• Involved in version control systems like GIT and GIT hub.
• Monitoring on premise resources using Nagios.
• Experience with Docker container service.
• Experience in Writing Python modules for Chef customizations.
• Experience in AWS related technologies like EC2 instances, S3, VPC, RDS, AMI, SNS, IAM, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, OPS Work, Security Groups etc.
• Configuring and Installing cloud Openstack on Redhat Linux.
• Experience in Server monitoring, capacity planning, application monitoring with the help of Nagios, Tivoli, HP insight, Cacti.1
• Using Jenkins AWS Code Deploy plug-in to deploy to AWS.
• Installed, configured and Administrated of all UNIX/LINUX servers, includes the design and selection of relevant hardware to support the installation/upgrades of Red Hat.
• Experience supporting IT security system, performing security related tasks, network monitoring, installing and maintenance.
• Strong analytical skills; able to work with technicians from various engineering disciplines to troubleshoot complex system-level issues.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also performed as part of a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operation Systems: Redhat Linux (v6.2,7.2, Enterprise Linux), IBM AIX (v4.2, 4.3, v5.2, v5.3, v6.1), Oracle Solaris.

Hardware: IBM p520, p550, p560, p570, p575, IBM P670, IBM, P650, IBM RS/6000 F50, JS20 IBM Blade server, HMC.

DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Maven, Make, ANT.

Application Server and Technologies: Apache, DNS, NIS, NFS, WebSphere Application Server 6.x/5.x, Websphere Portal server, Microsoft IIS Server4/5, SSL, Oracle Iplanet. AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch).

SCM Tools: Subversion (SVN), Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Git, GitHub.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience working on DevOps tools like Chef, Docker, Python, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Nagios etc.
• Extensive experience on Chef and Docker for deployment of servers.
• Experience in creating chef cookbooks from scratch and coding in chef.
• Used Chef to manage web applications, config Files, database, users, mount points, and packages.
• Developed Chef Recipes to configure, deploy and maintain software components of the existing infrastructure.
• Designed and developed automation test scripts using Python.
• Managed and supported AWS Cloud instances both from the GUI and the amazon command line interface.
• Jenkins was used for implementing automated CI/CD for daily deployments and for creating the end to end build and deployment process.
• Managed Ubuntu, Linux and Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2 instance by creating Chef Nodes through Open-Source Chef Server.
• Provisioning Web Servers in AWS and DNS route53 records.
• Used simple storage services (S3) for snapshot and configured S3 lifecycle of applications logs, including deleting old logs, archiving logs based on retention policy of Apps.
• Using bitbuckets for migration from SVN to GIT.
• Provided technical support for users by troubleshooting system related issues and track issues with OS Ticketing system.
• Installing and configuring RedHat/CentOS 6.X using kick start servers in physical and virtual server environment.
• Managing software release activities and generating/maintaining a release performance and progress reports, release status, and release risk deliverables.
• Deployed Redhat enterprise OpenStack platform using packstack and manually.
• Responsible for creating branches and resolving the conflicts while merging in Git.
• Implemented branching strategies using git Installation, administration, maintenance, and support of Jenkins.
• Experience in package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in RedHat Linux.
• Creation of Logical volumes (LVM) for Linux operating systems.
• Forwarding any unsolved problems to the appropriate support team for resolution.
• Able to thrive in a rapid changing environment and quickly learn new technologies with total attention to details.

Environment: AWS EC2, DNS, Route53, S3 bucket, RDS, CloudFormation, VPC, SVN, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Python, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Nagios, Ubuntu, RedHat, OpenStack, LVM, Linux.

Confidential, Summit, NJ

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Continuous Integration(CI) and Continuous Delivery(CD) process implementation from Dev to Eval, Eval to Pre Prod/ Pre Prod to Production systems using Jenkins, GIT, SVN, Chef automation tool.
• Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux/Windows/Mac machines.
• Build, test and run the code continuously and integrating changes to the project using Continuous integration tool Jenkins.
• Analyse and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT.
• Designed and implemented Subversion and GIT metadata including elements, labels, attributes, triggers and hyperlinks.
• Used Chef to manage web applications, config Files, database, users, mount points, and packages.
• Used existing cookbooks from Chef Marketplace and customizing the recipes with respect to each virtual machine.
• Written/Developed Chef Cookbooks to automate the entire deployment process as well as infrastructure admin tasks.
• Wrote Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall process improvement to any manual processes.
• Worked extensively on automating task using bash script and Ruby. Deployed application and scripts to different node.
• Widely worked on Disk and File system management through Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Linux and Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) on Solaris.
• Installing and configuring RedHat/CentOS 6.X using kick start servers in physical and virtual server environment.
• Good experience in creating physical volume, logical volume, volume groups using LVM's in Linux
• Advance level of experience in researching OS Issues, applying Patches and opening the Vendor Tickets using Remedy.
• Technical professional with management skills, excellent business understanding and strong communication skills.

Environment: GIT, SVN, Jenkins, Chef, LVM, SVM, Bash, Ruby, MySQL, SQL Server, Jboss, RedHat Linux.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, administration of RHEL 5, 6 and Solaris 9, 10 using Kickstart, Jumpstart, custom configuration like package management, volume management of servers.
• Performed application installation and management on Linux servers for applications like WebLogic with Apache Modules, MySQL and Jboss.
• Installation of patches and packages using RPM and YUM in Red Hat Linux and Suse Linux and also, using patch add and pkgadd in Solaris 10 Operating System.
• Creating Disk Volumes, Installed and Configured RAID controllers RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
• Perform security patching of Linux servers and AIX servers.
• Initiating Backups on daily basis and monitoring the scheduled Jobs backups, Clarify Ticket based problem management.
• Experience in developing Bash, Python shell scripts to automate cron jobs and system maintenance. Scheduled cron jobs for job automation.
• Preparing servers for Oracle RAC installation which includes tuning the kernel, agent installation, adding NAS storage.
• Experienced in performing on going monitoring using Nagios and SolarWinds.
• Creating maintaining user profiles, security, rights, Backups of data and Disaster Recovery.
• Maintained system security and ensured systems are up to date with current patches and backups/restores were completed without flaw.
• Configured services such as DNS, DHCP, NFS, Sendmail, Postfix, Apache Web Server, Tomcat, LAMP (Linux+Apache+Mysql+PHP), Samba, SSH, Telnet, http, RPM and YUM.
• Experience in adding disks and creating slices and file system administration.
• Monitored Linux server for CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization for performance monitoring.
• Installation of database servers and user's management such as Oracle, MYSQL, SQL Server.

Environment: RHEL, Solaris, WebLogic, Apache, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Jboss, RedHat Linux, Bash, Python, Nagios, SolarWinds, Samba, Tomcat, Lamp.

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed/configured/managed/administrated all Unix/Linux servers, includes the design and selection of relevant hardware to support the installation/upgrades of Redhat (5/6/7) Solaris 8/9/10 operating systems.
• Working on volume management, disk management, and software raid solutions using Logical Volume Manager.
• Experience setting up and managing Solaris and MySQL infrastructure.
• Perform user account management, data backups and user's logon support.
• Monitored system activities like CPU, memory, disk and swap space usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Experience in configuring and managing virtual disks, disk mirrors & RAID 0, 1 & 5 levels.
• Installed, configured and managed Redhat cluster suite in Linux servers.
• Configured and maintained network multipathing in Solaris and Linux.
• Performed configuration and troubleshooting of services like NFS, NIS, NIS+, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, Web servers, Samba server, Apache server.
• Update the systems using Redhat Enterprise Network (RHN), managing and monitoring through RHN.
• Setup and configured network TCP/IP on Linux.
• Responsible for installation, troubleshooting and maintenance of 1800 Redhat/centos servers and 1000 servers running Solaris 10/11 on x86 and SPARC.
• Extensive experience in installation, configuration and troubleshooting of various web server issues including Apache Web Server 2.x/1.x, Tomcat 5.x/4.x/3. x.
• Experience with working in production, development and testing environment.

Environment: RedHat, LVM, Solaris, MySQL, Samba Servers, Apache Servers.