SUMMARY:

Experienced for more than 8 Years across IT Industries in Building, Scaling and Managing Hybrid Infrastructure through Automation, cloud native PaaS & IaaS, Application Support & Solutions Engineering. Improving Site Reliability, DevSecOps Best Practices, Test Driven Development, Containerization, Monitoring & Security.

SKILLS:

• 8 Years of Linux/Unix - RedHat, CentOS system automated installation, Configurations, Backups, Recovery management, Maintenance, Support and Troubleshooting, Kernel performance tuning, filesystem management, bash scripts for scheduled tasks and repeatable administration.
• 5 Years of Windows Server Configuration, PowerShell Automation, Configured Active Directory, DNS, IIS, Flex Volumes, NFS.
• 4 years on AWS as a SysOps and Associate Architect to Design Cloud Native Solutions using Infra as a code library for IaaS, PaaS such as Snowflake, Fargate, EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, EMR, Route53, ALB, API Gateway, Auto Scaling, VPC Design, Lambda Functions, Cloud Trail, Guard Duty, Cloud Watch, IAM, KMS, SAML SSO and more.
• 2 Years on Azure with automation using ARM Templates, Azure VNETS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure App Services, Azure SQL Database, Azure AD Federation.
• 4 years of Vsphere & Vcenter with administering, ESXi Hosts, Unattended Installs, HA, DRS, FC, SAN Distributed Switches, VMotion, Storage Migration, Fault Tolerance and Veeam Backups.
• Coordinate with vmware architect in Capacity planning implementation of new server build maintenance to minimize outages.
• 3 years of Docker writing Docker Files, Smoke Tests, Security Scanning, Networking, & Automating Deployment.
• 3 years of Kubernetes Creation of Clusters On-Prem with KUBEADM & Cloud with KOPS, Administered Worker Nodes, Storage Classes, RBAC, Namespaces, HA Masters, Ingress Controller, StateFull-Sets, Config-Map, Secrets, Service Discovery & Mesh with Instio/Envoy, Monitoring using Prometheus & Grafanna. Pod Autoscaling with Metrics Persistent Volumes and Claims, EndPoint Protection with CrowdStrike Falcon.
• 4 years of experience in Terraform, Cloud Formation Template & Azure RM Customized Modules, Nested Stacks, State Management, Loops Conditionals Handlers, and Automating the needed provisioning of all IaaS & PaaS Services among Cloud and On-Prem.
• 5 Years of Experience with Ansible managing hosts files, authoring various playbooks and custom modules, working with Dynamic inventory, configuration of Ansible Tower and Integrating with Ci/Cd platforms for Pipeline deployment.
• Automated virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment with Ansible playbooks written using YAML
• 2 years of Chef writing recipes, cookbooks, working with knife, inspec, rspec, chef client bootstrap, chef server HA maintenance.
• 5 years of experience with Jenkins, GIT CI, Bamboo writing Pipeline as a code using Groovy or Scripted best practices or YAML with Azure DevOps Pipelines & GIT CI, Extension Shared Libraries, Plugins, Agents, Dynamic Scaling of Executions, Transitive project dependencies, webhook triggers and complete end to end installation of tool on linux.
• Integrated with Major CI and Cd Tools like: GitLab, Bitbucket, Github, Gradle, Maven, Jfrog Artifactory, Nexus, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, CrowdStrike, Twistlock, X-Ray, Junit, Cucumber, Nugget, Selenium, Ansible, Terraform, Spinnaker and more.
• 4 years of experience with BASH & Powershell in writing scheduled tasks, loops, system automation, data processing, list comprehension, remote system configuration.
• 2 years with python creating nested loops and lambda functions and using boto3 and various modules to test REST API calls and validation and worked on serverless functions of data streaming, map-reduce and triggered event tasks.
• 5 years of experience with MySql, SQL Server configuration and Server Tuning, creation of DDl/DML, SQL Queries, InnoDB Caching Tuning, IOPS for Disk Optimization, Cross Region Replication with RDS and Azure Databases.
• 2 years of experience with No-Sql Databases like Mongo, ElastiCache, Cassandra, DynamoDB.
• Configured SnowFlake for ETL Workloads with Data Streaming pipeline using Kenesis streams, Apache Kafka, Elastic Search.
• 5 + years of Networking experience and Security Best Practices with Juniper, Cisco, AWS VPC, Azure VNETS, VPN, Express Route, Direct Connect Private Link, RouteTables, UDR, IPSEC, Firewall Zoning and more.
• 8 years of experience in monitoring with configuration of Splunk HEC and Forwarders, DataDog, Appdynamics, Kafka, Signal FX, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafanna, Cloud Watch.
• 5 Years + with JBOSS, Tomcat, Websphere, configure JVM tuning, JDBC, High Availability, Metrics Monitoring, Automated Deployments of services in Blue/Green or Canary.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on development of Custom Modules for Terraform to be re-usable with Multiple AWS Accounts of the application stacks.
• Terratest & Terragrunt used for Test framework for dry runs before applying any change sets in environments of different AWS-accounts.
• Jenkins for integrating maven to generate builds, conduct unit tests with Junit Plugin, Regression tests with Selenium, Nexus Artifactory for storing jar, war and ear files, AppDynamics & ELK Stack for monitoring, SonarQube for code coverage reports and JIRA for document generation.
• Wrote Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML. Installing, setting up & Troubleshooting Ansible created and automated platform environment setup.
• Used Ansible to run ad-hoc commands and playbooks to automate tasks and written playbooks and managed Ansible Playbooks with Ansible roles. Used file module in Ansible playbook to copy and remove files on remote systems.
• Used Kubernetes as an open source platform for automating deployment, scaling and operations of applications containers across clusters of hosts, providing container centric infrastructure.
• Developed container support for cloud environments and Docker. Deployed the applications in Docker containers and managed the containers in enterprise level.
• Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm, and Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes manifest files and managed releases of Helm packages.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Cloud SysOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed AZURE Services like VNETS, App Services, Azure Functions, ARM Templates, Azure Kubernetes Service, API Gateway, Scale Sets, Traffic Manager, Express Route and more.
• Worked with Chef Enterprise Hosted & On-Premise, Installed Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, Wrote Recipes & Cookbooks and uploaded to Chef-server.
• Used AppDynamics for administrative activities like user management, application management and monitoring controller performance. Splunk used for monitoring system logs essential to finding problems and halting deployment pipelines. Implemented POC for AppDynamics monitoring along with Splunk to enhance the performance of Applications.
• Continuous Integration, automated deployment and management using TeamCity, Gradle, JIRA, Testing Frameworks, Code quality tools like SonarQube and many other comparable tools based on the requirements.
• Deployed code on WebSphere application servers for Production, QA, and Development environments.
• Closely worked with development, QA and other teams to ensure automated test efforts and integrated with the build system and in fixing the error while doing the deployment and building.
• Implemented a Kubernetes Container Orchestration solution within AWS leveraging KOPS, which allows easy management, creation and recovery of AWS assets.
• Worked on Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple names spaced versions using Helm charts.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SRE, Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with VMWARE tools like vCenter & vSphere to manage VM’s running on ESX cluster nodes and experience working on V-Motion.
• Experience in adding servers to vCenter servers and managed hosts from vSphere client. Analyzing the VM-Support logs for ESX servers and vCenter logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem and troubleshooting them.
• Implement CI/CD tools Upgrade, Backup, Restore, API call, DNS, LDAP and SSL setup.
• In-depth knowledge of computer applications and shell scripts (Bash), Python, and PowerShell for automating tasks.
• Worked with Vagrant for local development setup. Moved Vagrant setup to Docker based environment and experience in writing Vagrant file and Docker file.
• Experience in creating and managing user accounts, Security policies, Rights, Disk spaces, Disk quotas and Process monitoring in CentOS and Red Hat Linux.
• Extensive working experience in setting up WebLogic cluster environment, including WebLogic Domains, Admin Servers, Managed Servers and Node Manager. Cluster Configuration on single Cluster, Multiple Clusters and Deployment over clusters.
• Experience in configuring NIS, DNS, DHCP, NFS, SAMBA, FTP, Remote Access Protocol, Security Management, Security trouble shoots and SOA-based applications. Expertise in installations of SQL server, MYSQL server and PostgreSQL.