PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• About 8 years of experience in IT Industry as a cloud engineer / system administrator specialized in the areas of VMware Server Virtualization, Windows Server Environment Administration, development in J2EE technologies and AWS cloud Computing .
• Worked on AWS Toolkit for Eclipse to develop, deploy, and debug Java applications using Amazon Web Services. Created and deployed Elastic Beanstalk applications in java using AWS Toolkit for Eclipse.
• Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ELB, AMI, IAM, Auto - Scaling, SQS, SNS, Dyanmo DB, Cloud watch through AWS.
• Experience in AWS, which included managing application in the cloud and creating instances.
• Used Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in AWS resources.
• Created Log Event in an activity recorded by the application and resource being monitored.
• Supported development sprints by automating instance provisioning using Cloud Formation and Terraform.
• Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using Ansible.
• Worked with Ansible playbooks for software deployment on cloud.
• Integrated Ansible playbooks with Terraform modules to combine infrastructure creation and configuration.
• Using GIT Hub for version controlling and its daily job of working with GIT commands while working for Ansible.
• CreatedChef Recipes for Infrastructure maintenance on VMWare, AWS EC2 and Physical Servers.
• Good experience on AWS in a DevOps Culture through Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and configuration managementtools such as Ansible, or custom-built designing cloud-hosted solutions, specific AWS productsuiteexperience.
• Deployment/Delivery as a iterative process and Automation of Infrastructure as Code.
• Extensive knowledge and implementation skills in client side technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Jquery and server side frameworks like Servlets, Spring Core, Spring MVC, Struts MVC.
• Project implementation skills using both core and advanced Java technologies such as AWT, Swing, Servlets, JSP and JDBC.
• Build AWS secured solutions by creating VPC with private and public subnets.
• Managed multiple AWS accounts with multiple VPC's for both production and non-prod where primary objectives included automation, build out, integration and costcontrol.
• Configured Amazon cloudwatch for monitoring.
• Experience in System Builds, Server builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on UNIX RedHat Linux Systems.
• Implementation, design, architecture and support of cloud based server and servicesolutions.
• Deployment and support of custom application stack on infrastructure through Agile / CI methodologies, using Jenkins, CHEF and Docker to automatedeployments.
• Worked on AWS Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation and Cloud Trailservices.
• Tested and configured AWS Workspaces (Windows virtual desktop solution) for custom application requirement.
• Implemented Migration from VMWARE to AWS using VMDK Import tools.
• Auto Scaling of Infrastructure using Amazon Cloud Formation and Chef Deployment scripts and also Continuous Integration using Ant, Maven usingJenkins.
• Strong experience with CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies with Jenkins.
• Expertise in writing Bash Scripts, Pearl Scripts (hash and arrays), Python programing for deployment of Java applications on bare servers or Middleware tools.
• Experience on both Windows andLinux.
• Experienced in build tools such as Apache Ant, Maven, Atlassian Bamboo, CruiseControl.
• Expertise in using Version Control Tools VSS, Sub-Version, Git.
• Experienced in using Tomcat,Apache.
• Experience in shell scripting for automation of jobs.
• Involved in 24x7 on-call production support and troubleshooting all types of problems related to OS and Applications.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven strength of troubleshooting and hard working.
• Strong and comfortable with OOPS concepts.
• Self-Starter, HighlyMotivated.
• Willing to learn and adopt TechnicalProcedures.
• Willing to relocate:Anywhere.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AWS Cloud Services: EC2, S3, EBSRoute53, SNS, SQS, RDS,IAM,DynamoDB,CloudFormation,VPC,CloudWatch.

Operating Systems: RHEL/CentOS 5.x/6.x/7, Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora.

Build/Automation Tools: Chef, Ansible, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Hudson& Bambo

Languages: Shell, Bash, Java, Perl, Ruby and Python scripting

Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, SQL Server.

Web/App Server: Apache, IIS, HIS, Tomcat, WebSphere Application Server, JBoss.

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Fisheye, Crucible, Remedy and IBM Clear Quest, Bugzilla, HP Quality Center.

Version Control Tools: Subversion, GIT, Tortoise SVN, Visual SVN.

Web Technologies/Programming Languages: Servlets, JDBC, JSP, XML, HTML, .Net, Java Script, Java/J2EE, C, C++, Ruby, Perl scripting, Python, Shell scripting.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

AWS Consultant

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Himex Telematics solution cloud infrastructure.
• Implementation, design, architecture and support of cloud based server and servicesolutions.
• Worked on AWS Toolkit for Eclipse to develop, deploy, and debug Java applications using Amazon Web Services.
• Created and deployed elastic beanstalk applications in java using AWS Toolkit for Eclipse.
• Worked with Ansible playbooks for software deployment on cloud.
• Integrated Ansible playbooks with Terraform modules to combine infrastructure creation and configuration.
• Writing AWS Terraform templates for any automation requirements in AWS services.
• Using GIT Hub for version controlling and its daily job of working with GIT commands while working for Ansible.
• Deploying Chef to completely provision and manage EC2 instances, volumes, DNS & S3.
• Managed multiple AWS accounts with multiple VPC's for both production and non-prod where primary Objectives included automation, build out, integration and costcontrol.
• Supported development sprints by automating instance provisioning using CloudFormation.
• Working with Jenkins for any automation builds which are integrated with GIT as part of infra automation under continuous integration.
• Worked on AWS SDK for Android and used Amazon services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and Amazon Kinesis. Knowledge and experience using Amazon Cognito and Amazon Mobile Analytics.
• Worked with QA regarding functional testing and regression testing requirements and test data.
• Deployment and support of custom application stack on infrastructure through Agile / CI methodologies, using Jenkins, CHEF and Docker to automatedeployments.
• Worked on AWS Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation and Cloud Trailservices.
• Worked closely with EC2 infrastructure teams to troubleshoot complexissues.
• Managed and supported AWS Security related issues, such IAM and S3 policies for useraccess.
• Support for all other AWS products such as S3, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, Route53(DNS).
• Tested and configured AWS Workspaces (Windows virtual desktop solution) for custom application requirement.
• CreatedinternalKBdocsfortroubleshootingWindowsissuesinEC2relatedtonetworkdrivers,RDP,firewalland performanceissues.
• Planning of future road maps, coordination of day-to-day operations and mentoring of junior engineering staff.
• Installed, configured multiple operating systems onsite and provisioned similar instances on AWScloud.
• Wrote shell scripts for automation and error handling scripts to catch errors and maintain log files.
• Tuning the kernel parameters based on the application/databaserequirement.
• Used Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in AWS resources.
• Monitor ticket queue to attend user and system calls, attend team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes inenvironment
• Created change order request and ecxeption request for hardening production servers and resolved it once hardening is completed.

Environment: - AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail and Route 53), VDI, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Docker, Linux, Windows, Authentication server, Account web server and LDAPserver.

Cloud Engineer

Confidential, Winston Salem, NC

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Architecture recommendation.
• Provisioned infrastructure components matching the architecture, which includes VPC, EC2 instances, EBS, S3 buckets, VPN, Load Balancers etc.
• Present the benefits of introducing Auto Scaling into the System architecture.
• Identify the Critical and Non-critical applications.
• Assessment of all the major components of the system architecture, EC2, Storage (S3/EBS), VPC, VPN Gateway.
• Created and deployed elastic beanstalk applications in java using AWS Toolkit for Eclipse.
• Determine the sizing, instance types, network bandwidth etc. Additionally, evaluate the need for DNS, Load balancers, Security, Internal and External integrations, Monitors, Backup, Deployment and Background programs.
• Identify the down time SLA, Recovery Time Objective, Recovery Point objective for the Critical and Non critical applications.
• Analyze the fitment of using AWS inherent fault tolerant building blocks in application architecture.
• Categorize the recommendations in priority and roadmaps.
• Recommend Best practices in architecting solutions.
• Configured a VPC and provisioned EC2 instances, EBS in different availability zones.
• Configured Amazon Elastic Load Balancer.
• Configure the Cloud Watch Monitoring for EC2 instances .
• Configure CloudWatch monitoring/CloudWatch Alarms/Alerts for all the applicable tiers of the proposed architecture.
• Configured Amazon CloudWatch for Monitoring.
• Configured Relational Database Service (MS SQL).
• Creation of users in the database, creation of certain master data, creation of dependent data in the database as needed.
• Configured ElasticBeanstalk.
• Monitor Alerts and take necessary action as part of Managed Services.

Environment: AWS VPC, EC2, EBS, ElasticBeanStalk, RDS, ELB, CloudWatch, Stackdriver.

Linux Administrator

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and upgrade of Redhat Enterprise Linux 5/6 and Solaris 9/10 operating systems.
• Configured and installed Redhat Linux Servers using kickstart.
• Performed package and patches management and debugging in different flavors of UNIX & Linux.
• Implemented file sharing on the network by configuring NFS on the system to share essential resources.
• Building and supporting Solaris 9 & 10 on Sun Midrange platforms.
• Performance tuning in Solaris, Linux.
• Extensively worked in database migration from older machine to latest configurations and good experience in server migration.
• Managed physical and Logical volumes, Volume Groups using Logical Volume Manager and created/extended file systems in Linux.
• Worked on monitoring of VMware virtual environments with ESXi 4 servers and Virtual Center.
• Experience in troubleshooting and analyzing hardware issues.
• Supported NFS, DHCP, FTP, LDAP and Web servers (Apache, tomcat).
• Managed of Zettabyte File System (ZFS) in Solaris.
• Installed and Managed Veritas Volume Manager (VXVM), Veritas file system (VFS).
• Planned for, tested, and then managed the upgrade of our puppet infrastructure from 0.25.4 to 2.6.6. After the upgrade was complete, refactored many of our existing manifests to take advantage of parameterized classes to simply the management of our configurations. Implemented a custom run-stage to ensure all yum repository configuration was done before proceeding with any application installation or configuration.
• Tied together disparate pieces to build a fully automated bare-metal to production server build system using Request Tracker (RT) with the Asset Tracker plugin as the system of record. DNS, DHCP, kickstart, and puppet tied into the system.
• Refactored DNS infrastructure; replaced a djbdns implementation with Bind. Wrote a script to generate zone files based on the data in RT.
• Extensively worked With VMware ESXi vCenter Server, Host Clustering with HA, DRS, Replication Manager
• 5.x/6.0, Site Recovery Manager, vMotion, Physical to Virtual Migration and Managing SAN Datastores with, iSCSI, NFS & FC.
• Deployed Puppet for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Helped to design and deploy a CloudStack and VMWare based private cloud.
• Designed and built a cloud based, auto-scaling, video transcoding application wrapped around ffmpeg to demonstrate how to leverage the capabilities of our private cloud. Web front end was built in PHP. Backend processes were built in Python. Utilized RabbitMQ as the messaging middleware.
• Experience in creating and loading images on Solaris, and Linux servers using SystemImager tool.
• Experience in supporting of Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) servers.
• Expertise on Yum configuration and RPM package management.
• Knowledge of NAS and SAN concepts and technology.
• Configured and maintained Network Multipathing and bonding in Solaris and Linux respectively.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support on rotation basis.

Environment: Solaris 9/10, Redhat Linux 4/5/6, HP-UX 11i, AIX, Sun Enterprise Servers E5500/E4500, Sun Fire V 1280/480/440 , Sun SPARC 1000, HP 9000K, L, Puppet, Cloud, AWS, Jenkins, GIT, VMware ESX Server, Oracle.

Linux Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Linux, Solaris, AIX and Windows operating system.
• Experience in creation of environments on virtual machines to be handed over to development and QA teams.
• Installed, configured and maintainedWeb and Application Serversincluding Apache, tomcat and jboss.
• Creating new file system, managing & checking data consistency of the file system.
• Performed backup management through regular ufsdump, ufsrestore, fbackup, F-Recovery and DLT tape drives.
• Good experience in installation/up gradation of VMware ESXi 4.1
• Experience in implementing load balancing using mod jk.
• Maintaining the CPU & Memory utilization of Servers reports on the WEB.
• Prepared documentation of understanding, deployment instructions for production releases and updated operation procedures.
• Periodic checks of production and development systems; CPU utilization, memory profiles, disk utilization, network connectivity, system log files, etc.
• Experience in performance monitoring and performance tuning using top, prstat, sar, vmstat, ps, iostat etc.
• Experience in user and group administration, management and archiving.
• Trouble shooting the system and end user issues.
• Responsible for configuring real time backup of web servers.
• Maintenance on systems by timely upgrading Patches to the systems and Scheduling of batch jobs and cron jobs.
• Configuring NFS, Auto-mount and disk space management on SUN servers.
• Involved in 24/7 high availability on pager rotation basis and coordinated efforts with the offshore team.

Environment: Solaris 9/10, Linux RHEL 4/5, Sun Enterprise Server, SunFire 6800/ E6500/ E4500 & E3500, Blade Servers. JBoss, Apache 2.x,3.x .