SUMMARY:

• Overall 8 years of IT experience with strong technical background. Expert setting - up the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform, and its many dimensions of scalability - including but not limited to: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), EC2, load-balancing with ELB, messaging with SQS, Auto Scaling architectures, using EBS under high I/O requirements, custom monitoring metrics/analysis/alarms via Cloud Watch etc.
• Implemented fully automated Cloud Formation (JSON Scripts) for creating/administrating the instances with Auto Scaling, ElasticLoadBalancers across different Availability Zones.
• Expertise in Unix in Cloud Provision and Migrations using IaaS Openstack in OS as RHEL & OEL, CentOS, SUSE, Ubuntu, Oracle SOLARIS & SVM, SYMANTEC-VERITAS, VxVM, VCS, VMware.
• Expertise in design & build cloud infrastructure to in-house customers and external business clients.
• Built Virtualization and Cloud Computing stacks in IaaS & PaaS (Private, Public and Hybrid) using Open Stack dashboard (Savvis Clouds VPDC, Symphony & centurylinkcloud.com) and AWS (EC2 and S3)
• Expertise in DevOps Engineering in automating, building, deploying, and releasing of code from one environment to other environment.
• Setup code repositories Like GIT, SVN, Visual SVN and managed plug-in for Jenkins for scheduled automatic checkout of code and Load balancing with F5.
• Involved in setting up JIRA and NEWRELIC as defect tracking system and configured various workflows, customizations and plugins for the JIRA bug/issue tracker
• Proficient in Unix/Linux Administration and Architecture: KICKSTART, SSH, FTP, wrappers, User Management, Process Management, Memory Management, and Text processing tools, Log Management, Package Management, Disk Management and Swap Partition/Files Management and Automation of all Admin daily tasks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Linux (Red Hat 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x), UNIX, WINDOWS NT/2000/2003

Cloud: AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation AWS Config, S3, Cloud Trail, IAM, Docker, VMware.

Version Control Tools: CVS, SVN, Confidential Rational Clear Case, Perforce, RTC,GIT, Source Tree

Databases: MySQL, MS Access, Oracle 9i/10g/11g,DB2

Tools: ANT,MAVEN, HUDSON/JENKINS, CHEFF, PUPPET, BUILD FORGE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience with building and deploying multi applications utilizing Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, SNS, focusing on High-availability, fault tolerance and auto scaling.
• Build environment within AWS using EC2 instance creation, Route 53 DNS routing, Cloud Watch alarming, Virtual Private Cloud setups, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling groups.
• Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 Instance for snapshots and creating clone instances.
• Created and monitored alarms, notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
• Good experience in implementing and managing Amazon Web Services using AWS Command Line Interface.
• Setting up private networks and sub-networks using Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and creating security groups to associate with the networks.
• Managed users and groups using the Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Provided support for Development, QA and Staging environments.
• IaaS AWS using cloud formation scripts.
• Configured SUMO logic for logging and configured NEWRELIC for APM.
• Configured cloud front with S3 and ELB as origins.
• Configured API gateways, LAMDA functions, and SNS and Dynamo DB tables for PUSH notifications.
• Migrated servers on to AWS cloud using Racemi Software.
• Migrated storage from Hitachi AMS to EMC VMAX frame using Open replicator
• Migrated storage from DMX to VMAX, VMAX to VMAX frames using Piper.
• Worked on Cisco Fabric switches.
• Involved in DR and Data center power down tests.
• Creating S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and backup on AWS.
• Configured Barracuda WAF.

Confidential, Concord, CA

Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience with AWS deployments
• AWS VMs instance build, creating VPC, Elastic network and S3
• Deep working and understanding of services such as Security Groups, IAM, EC2, S3, ELB, EBS and RDS
• Creating Cloud services, network subnets and patch management of azure VMs
• Launch and configure MySQL and Mongo DB server instances on both EC2 classic and RDS
• Deploy SAP HANA on AWS.
• Develop suitable AWS-based and Hybrid solutions based on customer requirements
• Generating AWS migration roadmaps and driving buy-in across complex organization structures
• Demonstrate the capacity to deploy complex infrastructure using Cloud Formation
• Demonstrate experience in creating complex IAM policies for delegated administration within AWS.
• Connecting vCloud Air and Data Center
• Rebuilt Hyper-V environment and transitioned into a cluster, providing High Availability and Failover
• Migration of production Server from 2003 to 200 8 to Server 2012 R2
• Provision and Administer Hyper-V hosts, Guest OS with SCVMM 2012 SP1 admin console.
• Planned, designed and implemented enterprise solutions involving VMware, Storage, and Microsoft Technologies, Hyper-v2008 Experience with the design, architecture and implementation of Virtual Infrastructure environments using VMware VI, vCenter, Lab Manager, DRS and HA.
• Upgrade of Hyper-V 2008 to 201 2 and configured cluster hosts
• Managed over 330 ESX and ESXi host servers, hosting windows servers and Linux.
• P2V using VMware converter and Plate spin converted around 250 physical servers to VMs
• Recognize best practices for maintaining a healthy HA environment
• Recognize how FT impacts datastore components
• Managing users and assigning permissions to users using AWS IAM
• DRS (Distributed Recourse scheduler) Cluster configuration for High availability.
• Experience using and creating custom scripts and applications using the AWS SDK and/or CLI Tools.
• Experience in developing scripts using RESTful API models for the purposes of integrating workflows with AWS.
• Use HP SIM for hardware monitoring

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Build and Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with developers, Business Analyst and Mangers to make sure that code is deployed in the Production environment.
• Deployed legacy applications into JBoss application server.
• Created shell scripts to automate the server bounce activities for JBoss application server.
• Documented the deployment process (Migration Doc) of code to production on an Excel Sheet.
• Installed Jira and confluence on Tomcat server.
• Processed all the requests from the Developers through Remedy which is an IT process management tool and responsible for managing the code in Subversion (version controlling).
• Provided Build Scripts for Database Projects to Deploy DB and populate Test data in DB for various environments.
• Responsible for the development and support of processes and associated scripts/tools for automated build, testing and deployment of the products to various developments.
• Experience in setting Maven repository and pom.xml, Ant build.xml and managed the maven artifacts using Nexus repository.
• Provided level one support for build troubleshooting and production issues.
• Edited and Modified POM.xml for a few applications that used Maven.
• Used Ant scripts to perform the builds and wrote a few build.xmls for application development teams.

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Event Monitoring and Detection of Hardware and operating system errors and failures and working on them.
• Daily alert management for solaris, Linux and AIX machines which typically include root, var, /home and other Application FS issues.
• Alerts on hardware problems which involve replacements memory, PS, etc replacements on Linux, Solaris, Disk replacements on Solaris, Solaris SVM, Linux, Linux LVM environments.
• User/Group Account Management Create, Modify, Delete, Disable, Password Reset, File Permissions Handling with Scripting
• Ensuring Systems are updated with all recent patches with RHEL 4.x and older version with up2date command, for Linux version 5.x or above with yum update and for Solaris with patchadd command and patch cluster, install cluster by downloading from SUN.
• Ensuring all server data backups are successful and restore data on the need basis with tar, Legato backup & restore process.
• Create maintain and execute all (ITSM) process management incident management & Change management with all business approvals. To ensure the service delivery under the ITSM framework Incident/ problem/ change management.
• Running health scripts, patches, updates, Installations on all hosts, with jobs module
• Install new and/or rebuild and maintain existing servers and configure VMware guests, clones, Guest moves and settings ON hardware, peripherals, services, disks, NICs, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements on VMware Clients.