SUMMARY

• Proficient in Devops processes to achieve more frequent code deployments, significant improvement in lead time from commit to deploy and faster mean time to recover from downtime
• Spearheaded the process of transitioning workflows to CI/CD model
• Extensive experience with SCM, DevOps Build/Release Management, GitOps, DevSecOps, Change/Incident Management, Cloud Management and CI/CD Tools
• Expertise in improving proficiency, productivity and profitability through automation (DevOps, CI/CD) and process improvement (Lean, Kanban, Scrum).
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, comfortable working with people at any level in the organization. Strong background in collaborating with all major stakeholders including development, product management, support, sales and customers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile, Devops, CI/ CD, Microservices, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps

Infrastructure Automation: Terraform, Ansible

Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure, Softlayer, Skytap

Scripting: Python, Bash, Groovy

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes

Source Code Management: Maven, Ant, Gradle, SVN, Atlassian BitBucket, GIT, Perforce, SVN, Jenkins

Monitoring: ELK Stack, Splunk, CloudWatch

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres, DB2, MongoDB, Amazon RDS

Middleware: Apache, Tomcat, Nginx

Project Management: JIRA, Bugzilla, Asana

QA Testing: TestNG, Robot, Selenium WebDriver, QTP, JMeter, Postman, LoadRunner, Appium, Cucumber

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Platform & Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained Infrastructure as code (IaC) Ansible scripts for middleware deployments such as IBM W AS, Portal, MQ , Http Server (HIS) , Axway, Oracle Access Manager, Webgate, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and F5
• Performed s etup, configuration, troubleshooting and implementation of Web platforms to deploy, manage and support the Web application components in both non - production and production data centers and cloud environments like IBM Softlayer, Skytap and Azure
• Created and maintained Jenkins multi branch pipelines for deployment of server components in different environments
• Integrated security using DevSecOps best practices. Extensively used Hashi corp Vault and Consul into Jenkins pipelines
• Introduced GitOps to the team implementing proof of concept using Bitbucket, JenkinsX and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Confidential

Devops Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• The microservices based reporting applications were developed and deployed on AWS and GCP platforms. The data intensive applications were written for Salesforce platform.
• Integrated automation test scripts with Jenkins pipelines for continuous integration deployed using Docker and Kubernetes
• Used EC2 Container Service (ECS) to support Docker containers to deploy applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
• Hands on experience with Ansible and Ansible Tower creating Ansible playbooks to automate development, quickly deploy critical applications and proactively manage change
• Maintained and managed Consul key value storage for microservices architecture using Docker for services. Deployed front end application on Amazon S3 as a static website.
• Manage 50+ AWS, Jenkins, and Chef accounts to more effectively control access to resources and increase security
• Create Log Aggregation system with Lambda function and ELK stack
• Collaborated with development to substantially increase effectiveness and efficiency and decrease maintenance costs of existing automation through code reuse and performance improvements.

Confidential

Build/ QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the automation of cloud based IoT platform. The platform uses Mbed/ CoAP protocols to connect to and from the platform using various Android based Zebra devices
• Monitor build health, troubleshoot build problems and perform build branching using AWS Opsworks.
• Used Jenkins for continuous integration; creating and configuring Jenkins jobs, build and delivery pipelines for Chef and Docker based deployments
• Used Terraform for infrastructure development of AWS based environments
• Automated deployments for 200+ cloud servers using Python and Bash
• Performed end to end testing from devices all the way to Kafka topics and MongoDB
• Reported progress to all stakeholders in distributed team iteration wise using various D evops metrics
• Used Jenkins for continuous integration using Chef, Docker and Terraform based deployments
• Continuously tested platform’s exposed REST API endpoints using Postman and Python scripts
• Performed end to end testing from devices all the way to kafka topics and MongoDB

Confidential

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded POS-FLEX enhancement project for Canada region that provided a framework to innovate and drive sales by delivering state of the art POS capability locally using IBM Toshiba Commerce.
• Implemented CI/CD process using Jenkins for global development team, allowing for dozens of code updates per hour with zero downtime
• Reduced mean time to recover ~ 30% by facilitating continuous integration using Jenkins and Chef .
• Automated deployments for 200+ cloud servers using Python and Bash
• Performed system testing for Apache Camel integrated with the legacy Java systems.
• Oversaw design and implementation of devops automation strategies.
• Manage 50+ total Jenkins, and Chef accounts to more effectively control access to resources and increase security