SUMMARY

• Extensive experience in IT industry, which includes experience with DevOps, Cloud Technologies (AWS & Azure), Kubernetes, Network Automation, Linux Administration.
• Extensive experience in automating DevOps processes using software configuration management tools like chef and ansible.
• Good at designing, building and deploying applications in Cloud (Public and Private Cloud) by utilizing the AWS, Azure, GCP, Open stack, VMware stacks to achieve high - availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Have got good experience in automating infrastructure as a code using Terraform and Cloud Formation to launch stacks on on-premise and public cloud environments.
• Have got hands on experience with continuous integration tools like Jenkins and Travis CI. Created pipelines for automating deployments from development to production using continuous Integration and delivery.
• Well versed in working with version control management tools like git, bit bucket and SVN to manage source code and collaborate with team.
• Hands on experience in cutting edge technologies like Kubernetes and docker containers.
• Extensive experience with Virtualization technologies (VMWare / Virtual box).
• Extensive experience in writing scripts (Bash, python) to automate routine tasks.
• Hands on Experience in using project-tracking tools like JIRA, Service Now and Team Dynamix.
• Have got good experience in creating Splunk reports and Dashboards.
• Well versed in Linux / UNIX System Administration.
• Excellent knowledge of load balancing and clustering techniques to ensure high availability.
• Experienced with Oracle, MYSQL administration, performance tuning and troubleshooting issues.
• Hands-on experience Crystal reports, Oracle BI publisher,
• Familiarity with various monitoring tools for monitoring large-scale enterprise networks.
• Extensive Experience in writing complex SQL Queries.
• Experienced in documenting various maintenance activities, upgrades and changes in the network architecture.
• Solid analytical & functional skills, ability to effectively communicate with technical & business users.
• Extensive ability in writing specifications and gathering requirements as per the needs of the client and maintain documentation for future reference.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• UNIX, Linux (Red hat, Ubuntu, Fedora).
• Subversion, GIT, Perforce.
• Jenkins, Azure devops, Chef, Ansible, Github.
• JIRA, Service now, Team Dynamix.
• HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, java script.
• Bash, Python, Powershell
• AWS, Azure, Kubernetes
• Orchestration:
• AWS Cloud formation, ARM template, Terraform

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cloud Solutions Architect

Confidential, Minneapolis-MN

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements from Business Users. Analyzing the feasibility, effort estimation, planning, and designing, developing, testing, implementation and handling post maintenance.
• Architecting and guiding in formulating a Multi-Cloud Governance, Policy, and Security Architecture to support the Organizations need to mature existing High-Level Infrastructure setup.
• Responsible for critical Architectural decisions and deeply coordinated with Microsoft and AWS and Google technical representatives.
• Provided support to the Azure and AWS Engineers in Operational issues that required API and scripting expertise.
• Architected and Implemented AWS direct connect via Transit gateway, Azure Express route (vnet peering) and Site to site vpn (transit gateway and vnet peering) connections from public clouds to on-premise data centers.
• Responsible for Designing and implementing AWS and Azure cloud Network architecture.
• Required to Participate in technical research and development for continuous innovation within the infrastructure.
• Participated in site reliability engineering discussions and enforced best practices.
• Worked with Azure private link to reach Azure services on private network.
• Worked on storage services like S3, EBS, EFS, Azure Storage account etc.
• Have got good experience in writing IAM policies and granting role-based access controls.
• Leveraged billing and cost management Rest Apis from cloud providers and automate the billing process.
• Responsible for security the Cloud environment. Also need to collaborate with other security and platform teams on identifying suspicious activities in the environment while improving visibility and implementing cloud security best practices.
• Built several Kubernetes clusters for various applications.
• Developed visualization dashboards for costs analysis.
• Developed chef recipes and cookbooks and Ansible playbooks to install required software components and networking components to manage configuration state on various servers.
• Worked in safe agile methodology.

Network Automation Engineer

Confidential, Minneapolis-MN

Responsibilities:

• Worked on extending on-premise network to AWS cloud using IPsec VPN connection and Direct connect and automated the same with cloud formation template.
• Automated host-based firewalls using chef configuration management tools.
• Extensively worked with Infoblox API to manage DNS, DHCP, IP address management.
• Involved in writing code for automating DNS, IP address Management using python.
• Worked with F5 and ELB load balancers to achieve high availability.
• Worked in Writing and maintaining the code for infrastructure automation using Chef, Ansible, Python, bash.
• Designed and built entire Chef automation stack for the organization to streamline installation and configuration management with devops principles.
• Managed chef central server with high availability and implemented upgrades whenever needed with zero impact on applications.
• Provide network and host-based security, incident response, firewall & VPN management and administration.
• Installed upgraded packages for Red hat 6 and 7 servers using Yum, Rpm and third-party application software. Continuously working on patching the servers to fix recent vulnerabilities found.
• Worked on routine Linux duties like user management, log management, system monitoring etc.
• Automated creation and deletion of virtual machines in VMware using python and bash.
• Troubleshooting and resolving system errors, disk space problems and other issues.
• Worked on setting up and configuring multiple network interface card (NIC) on servers
• Created pipelines for automating deployments from development to production using continuous Integration and delivery.
• Automated switching and Routing configuration using Ansible and Jinja2 templates.

DevOps Engineer

Confidential, Minneapolis-MN

Responsibilities:

• Worked on setup up and maintenance of automated environment using Chef Recipes & cookbooks within VMware and AWS environment.
• Designed and built a continuous integration and deployment framework for Chef Code using test driven development.
• Designed and developed the Chef Private supermarket for storing and sharing the cookbooks.
• Launched and configured Amazon EC2 (AWS) Cloud Servers using AMI's(Linux/Ubuntu) servers for specified applications.
• Designed highly available, cost effective and fault tolerant systems using multiple EC2 instances, auto scaling, elastic load balancers and AMIs.
• Used Amazon RDS to manage, create snapshots, and automate backup of database. Integrated and Configured Elastic Load Balancers with auto scaling group.
• Provided highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup.
• Utilized Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB services, Dynamo DB tables, EBS volumes; to set alarms for notification or automated actions; and to monitor logs for a better understanding and operation of the system.
• Administered and monitored instances using Cloud watch.
• Written AWS cloud formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of applications.
• Created and maintained continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) environments to facilitate an agile development process which is automated and repeatable enabling teams to safely deploy code many times a day while ensuring operational best practices are supported.
• Experienced in designing, building, maintaining, and coordinating an automated build/release process using Git, Jenkins, Docker and Vagrant.
• Experienced in writing technical documentation for regulatory and compliance procedures, policies and various other activities that involved.