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SUMMARY:

  • Hands - on Architect on Infrastructure, Cloud, Container Orchestration, Serverless, CI/CD, DevOps, Automation, Enterprise Systems, Security
  • 24 years of rich IT hands on experience in a broad range of technologies.
  • Experienced in leading and delivering large projects on -time/on-budget, achieving operational efficiencies, reducing costs, and turning around failing projects.
  • Studied and worked in India and US (MBA) .
  • Possess deep understanding of their cultures, work and business environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Currently consulting as Hands-On Architect delivery end to end projects on IT infrastructure, Container Orchestration, Cloud, Automation and CI-CD DevOps leveraging Docker Enterprise (Swarm & Kubernetes), deep expertise in Gloud Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud, Chef, Puppet, Sensu Monitoring, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Python, Ruby, Awk Shell Scripting, Splunk, Apache, Tomcat, Git, Hadoop, Jenkins, Maven, Squid, Aspera File Transfer Suite, Loggly, Sumo Logic
  • End to end architecture, build out of highly scalable and resilient automation clusters spanning data centers -
  • Docker Enterprise - Docker Enterprise Engine, Swarm - UCP, Docker Trusted Registry, External Service Discovery with Interlock. Kubernetes Clusters with Ingress. Built large, highly scalable, disaster resistant across multiple datacenters/cloud providers running thousands of applications and containers.
  • Extensively worked on all 3 major cloud providers using majority of their popular offerings - AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud and also OpenStack.
  • Deep expertise in all major configuration management tools - Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef and CFEngine
  • System Administration of various Unix & Linux variants - RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, AIX
  • Extensive Enterprise Monitoring Skils - Sensu Graphite Uchiwa, New Relic, IBM Tivoli, CA APM/Wily, HP BSM,
  • Continuous Integration & Delivery Platform on Bamboo, Jenkins
  • Enterprise Logging - Splunk, Loggly, SumoLogic
  • Scripting and Programming - Unix Shell, Awk, Python, Ruby, Java

Confidential

Executive Director

Responsibilities:

  • Provision & customization of ~1200 Windows and 800 Linux servers/month - Virtual, Physical, Database as a Service Servers with great deal of automation using Puppet, Chef, Apache, Tomcat, Tivoli, Oracle & SQL Server, Powershell, Microsoft SCCM. Extensive use of AWS EC2 for POCs, priority projects DEV & QA
  • Integration with enterprise ecosystem e.g. Netbackup, Enterprise Security Manager, Enterprise Password Vault installation and configuration with automation
  • Application deployment support into production environments - DevOps, ITPAM automation
  • Infrastructure & production readiness activities, Project customizations, Operations and production support

Technologies: IaaS (RedHat Linux, Windows Server), PaaS (WebSphere, MQ, Apache, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB,), Chef, J2EE, Ruby, .Net, SOA/Web Services, XML, HTML5, Mule, CFEngine, Puppet, Git, Hadoop, VMWare, EMC & Netapp Storage Systems, Shell, JavaScript, PowerShell, Perl, Tivoli Monitoring, Netbackup, Enterprise Security systems, Password Vaults

Confidential

UNIX Leader

Responsibilities:

  • Senior Unix System Administrator in a demanding Finance/Retail/Credit card environment with 18000+ Midrange Servers with large HPC Clusters (Sun E25K)
  • Responsible for delivery and operations for 7x24 critical operations for retail consumer finance including provisioning, project support and operations
  • Enterprise eco system with Netbackup, EMC and NetApp storage systems, HP Openview Monitoring suite, LDAP, Oracle databases, Opsware

Technologies: Solaris, Linux, Sun E25K, Veritas Cluster File System VCS/VFS Suite, EMC Storage DMX, VMAX, Powerpath, Opsware, HP Openview monitoring, LDAP, Oracle, Enterprise Incident, Change and Problem Management - HP Kintana/Portfolio Management Systems, Netbackup, Disaster Recovery, Oracle

Confidential

Technical Leader

Responsibilities:

  • End-to-end automated event monitoring infrastructure of systems, networks, databases and applications using Tivoli Framework, IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) (heavily customized), ITM-DB for Oracle (heavily customized), SQL Server, MQ Series, WebLogic, ITM-BI for IBM MQSeries monitoring, ITM Resource Model Builder, Tivoli Distributed Monitoring, Tivoli NetView, Tivoli Enterprise Console (heavily customized prolog rules), Tivoli Inventory, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Mercury Sitescope, Wily Introscope and OMNI, all feeding incident and asset management systems.
  • Customize and integrate the software products from different vendors in our environment. Developed solutions to remediate single point of failures that are also Disaster Recovery safe for all above technologies

Senior System Administration/Application Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Solaris 8 & 6, AIX 5. x, Windows 2000 & NT Server, SNA, DCE/Encina, IBM HACMP, Sun Cluster, DNS, Sendmail, Veritas Netbackup & Volume Management, Secure Shell (SSH), license servers, Terminal Servers for remote Management of Unix servers, disaster recovery exercises, Software POCs, hardware and system management needs for new projects.
  • Application monitoring, enhancements and support. E.g. Instant Credit, DynApp and AOL-RMG.
  • Developed custom monitoring scripts in Perl, AWK and Shell

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