SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of IT experience which includes 3 years of experience in Cloud Computing (AWS and Azure), Storage administration (HP, EMC and NetApp) and system administration supporting multiple platforms and applications.
• Designed, configured and managed public/private cloud infrastructures using Amazon Web Services (AWS) including but not limited to EC2, Elastic Load - balancers, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), S3, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFront, Elastic Filesystem, RDS, Glacier, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, IAM, EMR, ElasticSearch.
• Strong proficiency in supporting Production Cloud environments (AWS, Azure and VMware) as well as traditional managed hosted environments.
• Hands on Experience with AWS Snowball and Gateway stored volumes.
• Created instances inAWSas well as migrated data toAWSfrom the Data Center.
• Ability to write scripts in Bash, shell, Python scripting languages.
• Experience in administering Linux. Experience in Installation, Configuration, Backup and Recovery
• Experience with setting up Auto scaling policies
• MonitoringAWSand on premise resources using Nagios.
• Experience with continuous integration tools like Jenkins.
• Experience with continuous deployment tools like Chef
• Experience with NetApp filers like 3210/3240/3270, FAS 6040, FAS 6240, Cluster ONTAP.Unified Manager 5.0
• Expertise in storage provisioning, creating and managing CPG’s and LUN’s in HP-3PAR
• Adept experience in EMC Management software’s such as Unisphere, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), Navisphere Manager, Navicli, Symcli, EMC Control Center, Performance Manager.
• Expertise in managing and configuring various file systems through network using NAS, SAN topologies, installed RAID devices, identified, analyzed technical issues and trouble shooting.
• Hands on experience in NetApp software’s such as Filer View, NetApp System Manager, NetApp OnCommand Core and NetApp CLI.
• Hands on experience on Cisco 9500 series and Brocade 8510, 5000, 24000, 48000 series Directors/switches.
• Extensive experience on Cisco Device Manager, Fabric Manger, Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager and Brocade web tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Southlake, TX

AWS/Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience with various AWS services like S3, EC2, VPC, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, etc.
• Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage usingAWSCloudWatch.
• Implemented the AWS Gateway stored volumes for moving on premise data on the cloud
• Experience with AWS Snowball
• Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and GIT.
• Automated LOB applications using Jenkins, Chef and GIT.
• Implemented a GIT mirror for SVN repository, which enables users to use both GIT and SVN.
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment, promoting Enterprise Solutions to target environments.
• Experience with bootstrapping instances using Chef and integrating with auto scaling.
• Managed the configurations of multiple servers using Chef.
• Created and monitored auto scaling policies with CloudWatch
• Experience in creating IAM policies, roles, groups and users.
• Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu) and Configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Experience with copying EC2 AMI’s to different regions and AZ’s
• DefinedAWSSecurity Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or moreAWSEC2 instances.
• Working on MultipleAWSinstances, set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs, Auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
• Configuring and created VPC’s.
• Implemented CloudFormation scripts to automate EC2 instances.
• Created CloudFormation templates and deployedAWSresources using it.
• Creating S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup onAWS.
• Creating CloudWatch alerts for instances and using them in Auto-scaling launch configurations.

Confidential, Warren, PA

Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Creating S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup onAWS.
• Creating Cloud watch alerts for instances and using them in Auto scaling launch configurations.
• Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage usingAWSCloudWatch.
• Installed Jenkins on a Linux machine and created a master and slave configuration through a build farm for implementation of multiple parallel builds.
• Used Chef/Puppet to implement the continuous integration process.
• Created scripts for system administration andAWSusing languages such as BASH and Python.
• Deployed VPC’s in different regions for high availability
• Deployed EC2 instances in different AZ’s
• Experience in designing VPC’s for 3 tier and 2 tier applications
• Experience in deploying SQS for de-coupling applications
• Experience in implementing ElastiCache and ElasticSearch for improving compute speed for various applications using database systems.
• Experience in creating various alerts for different applications and systems using SNS
• Experience in managing Users and Groups in Subversion (SVN) and troubleshoot client spec issues and user issues.
• Maintained all the Linux environments for deployments and Implemented Configuration Management, Change Management policies and procedures.
• Working knowledge of EMR, Redshift, AWS Lambda
• Experience in load balancing traffic using Route53
• Created failover DNS policies and geographical based routing on Route53
• Experience with creating policies that push in frequently accessed files to AWS Glacier
• Experience with working with EFS and ephemeral storage
• Experience in creating VPC peering to span the connectivity of certain applications.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the development and operations organizations to implement the necessary tools and process to support the automation of builds, deployments, testing and infrastructure (infrastructure as code) using Chef.
• Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines.
• Involved in Setup and Configuration of Puppet Configuration Management.
• Installed and configured an automated tool Puppet that included the installation and configuration of the Puppet master, agent nodes and an admin control workstation
• Created and updated Puppet manifests and modules, files, and packages stored in the GIT repository.
• Installed/Configured/Managed Puppet Master/Agent. Wrote custom Modules and Manifests, downloaded pre-written modules.
• Experience working with Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Open Source.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Puppet, Maven & Nexus in Linux environment.
• Using ANT, Puppet Scripts with Ivy to build the application and deploy.
• Worked with Memcache and Proxy configurations using Apache Http.
• Configured Apache webserver with WebSphere application server through proxy plug-in.
• Extensively worked with Version Control Systems CVS, SVN (Subversion), GIT, Perforce, and IBM Rational Team Concert.
• Extensively worked on Hudson, Jenkins and Team City for continuous integration and for end to end automation for all build and deployments.
• Created puppet manifests and modules to automate system operations.
• Used Chef to manage Web Applications, Configuration Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points, and Packages.
• Monitored day to day system administrator's activities which includes performance monitoring and tuning, disk space issues, send mail issues, Tools related issues, FTP, telnet & application oriented issues.

Confidential, Spring Valley, NY

Storage Engineer (HP-3PAR)

Responsibilities:

• Managed HP-3PAR, NetApp, Violin Storage environments. Lead storage projects such as new capacity requests, Implementations and Data center requests
• Decommissioned over 5TB of physical servers, VM’s and reclaimed storage
• Provisioned storage, administered and created LUN’s on T400 and F400 HP-3PAR’s
• Worked at the datacenter level by performing HBA installations, FC and Ethernet cabling and hardware replacements.
• Installed, configured and monitored HP server blades and enclosures and performed firmware upgrades
• Experience with managing replication and disaster recovery policies on EMC Data Domain
• Performed zoning/unzoning and monitored several hosts on the Brocade Switches
• Experience with performing host updates on switch and storage arrays
• Managed and administered NetApp FAS 2040 and 3040 on the NAS level
• Managed and administered the volumes, quotas and Qtrees on the NetApp’s for Linux and Windows hosts
• Implemented advanced configurations of clustered and 7-mode systems.
• Upgraded Data ONTAP from 7.3.4 to 7.3.6 in order to remediate newly discovered bugs.
• Worked with provisioning team to create Aggregates, Volumes, Vserver, LIF, Qtrees and Quota using Filer view and CLI.
• Experience with administering, monitoring and troubleshooting the Violin Storage Array for SAN hosts.
• Worked on Open System SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation in Netapp NAS Environment.
• Worked with provisioning team to create VIFs/VServers in Netapp 7-mode and Cluster Mode NetApp Devices.
• Configured and scheduled snapshots and determined the data growth using delta option
• Storage Provisioning and Administering multi-vendor operating systems which includes Solaris, IBM AIX, RedHat Linux, and Windows
• Monitored and administered hosts in environments like VMware, windows and linux on Nagios
• Gained knowledge on VMware tools like Vsphere, Vmotion and administration of Windows and Linux VM’s in Vsphere.
• Hands on experience on creating zoning, troubleshooting and monitoring on Brocade DCX Fabric using Brocade CLI and Webtools.
• Performed remediation during switch migration for production, non- production and critical servers.
• Configured VPLEX in local and metro configurations with VMAX and CLARiiON CX4-960 as backend storage arrays.
• Managed Celerra using Celerra manager and Unisphere software’s. Created CIFS shares and NFS exports on Celerra.
• Performed storage allocation and reclamation activities in multi-vender OS environment like Windows, AIX, Linux and VMware.
• Obtained performance statistics using Performance Manager (ECC) and NetApp Operations manager.
• Provisioned and maintained storage from EMC VMAX 10K/DMX-3/CX4-960 and NetApp FAS 6200/3200 series arrays.
• Integrated LDAP with Celerra and VNX.

Zila Pharmaceutical

inux/Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured & maintained Redhat ES, SLES 9, 10 servers.
• Installed, configured & maintained Apache and Tomcat servers.
• Performed Nessus Scan on quarterly basis to scan for vulnerabilities in Web and Application servers.
• Applied patches to fix the holes that are found during the quarterly scan basis using Nessus scan.
• Upgraded and maintained servers, operating Systems and patches.
• Installed, configured & maintained Solaris / Linux servers, NIS, DNS, NFS, Mailing List, Send mail, apache, ftp, sshd.
• Configured and optimized open-iSCSI in RHES for SAN using iOmega technology.
• Installed host firewall IP Tables for Redhat Linux and Centos.
• Performed TCP/IP, DNS and DHCP administration.
• Setting up Oracle 10g server in Linux/Unix environment.
• Installed and monitored administering and monitoring tools such as Webmin and Nagios.
• Maintained and monitored all of company's servers’ operating system and application patch level, disk space and memory usage, user activities on day-to-day basis.
• Administered Backup and Restore operations using Veritas NetBackup 5.1.
• Monitored and fine tuning system and network performance for server environments running Solaris, Redhat Linux.
• Troubleshot various systems problems such as application related issues, network related issues, hardware related issues etc.
• Experience in managing various file systems using LVM and SVM and also configured file systems through network using NFS, NAS, SAN methodologies and installed RAID devices.
• Worked along with Monitoring teams to identify and troubleshoot issues on servers using tools like Nagios, Munin and Cacti.