SUMMARY:

• Around 8 years of experience in remotely handling data centers of Confidential clients for more than 2000+ Confidential & 4000+ virtual hosts by following Confidential .
• Implemented Xen hypervisor with Open stack Juno &Dev stack for PCOIP VDI Setup.
• Hands on experience working with Amazon Aws cloud creating EC2 instances, VPC, ELB, ASG, Security groups, S3, EBS etc...
• Hands - on experience in managing virtual hosts using VMware 5.5 and containers using Docker.
• Hands-on experience in Handling services & applications like DNS Bind, DHCP, SSL, SSH and Apache, Load BalancingHA Proxy, Version Controls like Git & GitHub, Nginx, Jenkins Continuous Integration on Linux machines.
• Good Knowledge in writing automation scripts using Bash shell for automating day today activities using Automation Tools like chef .
• Worked on multiple DevOps and Cloud tools that achieve KPIs. Coordinating with implementation team, to build and engineer services for Linux and Windows OS on cloud (AWS & Azure) platforms. Provisioned Instances, Storages & monitoring Services and CI/CD pipeline through Jenkins.
• Puppet Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX and Windows - Batch, Shell script etc.
• Monitoring, troubleshooting the performance related Events like disk space, volumes, Https, site down, Load Average, free memory, CPU Usage, Processes etc. Alerts generated in monitoring tools like Nagios, Cricket, Ganglia& SCOM 2012, App Dynamics.
• Hands on experience using Logical volume manger (LVM) size extending & reducing the disk space. Installed Raid Software & Configured Raid Level 5 & 10 in Linux centos 6 server in test environment.
• Performing L1 & L2 level full lifecycle Triage for all Events on production Linux servers including incident logging, troubleshooting, finding root cause, updating process Documentation.
• Experience in creating Incident tickets by using ticketing tools like RT, JIRA, Remedy, Service Now, IT guardian for different severity level & priorities .
• Taking care of their CMR (change management release) plan by updating the stakeholders via mail and phone, also assisting the lead engineers for upgrading the operating systems over 100's of physical and virtual servers in the enterprise environment.
• Initial administration and troubleshooting skills on Windows, Storage & Network related events & Strong administration skills in handling Linux Server Events.
• Good Knowledge on networking concepts like ROUTERS, SWITCHES, DHCP, DNS, OSI Layers, TCP/IP PROTOCOLS, Sub netting concepts.
• Working Knowledge on initial troubleshooting the network connectivity between hardware components like UCS Flex pods, Confidential switches & Ethernet interfaces .
• Experience in Install & Configure TFVC, GIT, VSO, TFS, SVN and Continues integration builds.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network Monitoring Tool: Nagios, Cricket, Solar winds, App Dynamics

Ticketing tool: Jira tool, HPSM, Service Now

Protocols & File Systems: DNS Bind, DHCP, FTP, NFS, HTTPS, SSH, SSL

Server Operating System: Red Hat/CentOS 5 & 6, Windows server 2003/08

Virtualization & containerization: VMWARE 5.5, Docker

Web Server: Apache, Nginx

Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Automation Tool: Chef, Puppet, CI/CD pipieline

Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Bamboo, Hudson

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, Ruby DSL for Chef, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Cloud Automation Engineer

Responsibilities: -

• Created Confidential Cloud formation templates applications on AWS
• Worked on in Automation of Crystal Reports and Service Now reports.
• Created AWS S3 buckets with Standard and Glacier configuration for tape backs.
• Configured AWS S3 buckets so as Dev team to perform CRUD operations by using the AWS SDKs
• Develop/capture/document architectural best practices for building systems on AWS.
• Working with technical and non-technical teams across Amazon (AWS).
• Configured AWS EC2 instances in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), S3 Buckets and Cloud Formation Services based on the requirements for different applications.
• Used cloud watch for monitoring the server's (AWS EC2 Instances) CPU utilization and system memory.
• Used Fish-I for code review and to get updates of code changes in Repository.
• Participated in the initiatives associated with the integration of the Release Management process into the Change, Incident, Problem, IT Service Continuity, and Configuration.
• Builds the data requirements for each release cycle and coordinates its delivery.
• Plans future release windows and cycles across the enterprise.
• Measures, monitors and communicates release progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and contains the approved scope.
• Gathers, consolidates and communicates all release-related project plans, including schedules, commitments and changes for QA, delivery timelines and scope changes.
• Conducts Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go re-views.
• Continually works towards making improvements in the release process using service improvement plan.
• Participates in Change Advisory Board meetings to discuss release scope and roadblocks.
• Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
• Automated deployment jobs in Jenkins.
• Experience in coordinating with Application support team and product support to trouble shoot issues.
• Automated setting up server infrastructure for the DevOps services, using puppet/Ansible, shell and python scripts.
• Worked with an agile development team to deliver an end to end continuous integration/continuous delivery product in an open source environment using to get the job done.
• Worked on creation of puppet manifest files to install tomcat instances and to manage configuration files for multiple applications.
• Involved in analysis phase (Identity 2 and 3 tier patterns based on existing infra), writing puppet scripts.
• Worked with Docker for convenient environment setup for development and testing.
• Worked on Docker container snapshots, attaching to a running container, removing images, managing directory structures and managing containers.
• Installed Ansible Registry for local upload and download of Docker images and even from Docker hub.

Environment: s: JIRA, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Jboss, Ruby, AWS, Dockers Container

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

DevOps & Release Engineer

Responsibilities: -

• As a Middleware administrator, I configured, installed, generated SSL certifications for applications like Jboss-EAP, Alfresco.
• Deployed code changes in application as a part of Continuous integration and continuous deployment activity.
• Led a data modelling & Change Management team for our daily SysInt (System Integration) SCRUM meetings to address build & release deployment enhancements & issues
• Responsible for orchestrating CI/CD processes by responding to SVN triggers, human input, and dependency chains and environment setup.
• Build and Deployment CI/CD Pipelines.
• Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for Confidential applications according to the agile process.
• Installed, Configured and Maintained RedHat Linux (RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x, 6.x& 7.x) on SPARC, x86 and Blade Centres.
• Working for DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to Chef for Cloud Automation.
• Experience in using Enterprise Chef for setting up Chef Workstation, Chef Server and nodes.
• Experience writing Chef Cookbooks and recipes to automate the deployment process and to integrating Chef Cookbooks into Jenkins jobs for a continuous delivery framework.
• Provided end-user training for all Subversion (SVN) users to effectively use the tool.
• Installation, configuring of AppDynamics Agent in all middleware applications for Monitoring.
• Enabled automated notification scripts for monitoring of application services.
• Hands on Oracle Identity and Access Management configuration.
• Migrated Jira tool from physical hosts to virtual host.
• Used Fish-I for code review and to get updates of code changes in Repository.
• Participated in the initiatives associated with the integration of the Release Management process into the Change, Incident, Problem, IT Service Continuity, and Configuration.
• Builds the data requirements for each release cycle and coordinates its delivery.
• Plans future release windows and cycles across the enterprise.
• Measures, monitors and communicates release progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and contains the approved scope.
• Gathers, consolidates and communicates all release-related project plans, including schedules, commitments and changes for QA, delivery timelines and scope changes.
• Conducts Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go re-views.
• Continually works towards making improvements in the release process using service improvement plan.
• Participates in Change Advisory Board meetings to discuss release scope and roadblocks.
• Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
• Automated deployment jobs in Jenkins.
• Patching and performance tuning of Alfresco, Jboss.
• Experience in coordinating with Application support team and product support to trouble shoot issues.

Environment: s: JIRA, SVN, Jenkins, Maven, Chef, Alfresco, Jboss, BPMS, Recognos, Perl, Fish-I, OIAM.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Linux System Administrator & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on Cloud Technologies, Virtual Machines, Amazon Web Services .
• Systems Administration for Linux Machines.
• Working on Version Control Management tools like Git & GitHub.
• Working on infrastructure with Docker containerization .
• Implementing Development Operations, Infrastructure as Code ( Chef) .
• Configuration Management and Systems Automation.
• Build automation, automated build and automated deployment.
• Following project handling frameworks like Information Technology Infrastructure Library for IT Service Management.
• Incorporated the Code Quality Tools Find Bugs and Cobertura into Maven Projects.
• Provided 24/7 application support on Production Environment.
• Gathering Information from the Clients and providing consultation by performing POC and setup the Build/Deployment and Release Management
• Collaborated with Development and Support teams to setup a CD (Continuous Delivery) environment with the use of Docker and Wrecker, continuous build and delivery tools.
• Build Multiple Servers for Big Data applications using on Ubuntu, provision of Servers using Docker, Vargrant .
• Setting up the build and deployment automation for Java base project by using JENKINS and Maven
• Responsible for creating and deploying builds on Confidential Web logic environments, testing in build environment and release to test team on scheduled time.
• Creating builds using power shell Scripts, ANT/Maven scripts manually and automated.
• Troubleshooting deployment and installation issues.
• Automated the Build Process using Jenkins .
• Designed scripts to build Regression Database snapshot using Azure Power Shell and Selenium
• Handling complete Build and Release process including code, documentation and supporting testing team along with the server Administration

Environment: s: GIT, GIT-HUB, Open stack, Dev Stack, Jenkins, Artifactory, ClearCase, Aws, Ms Build, Puppet, Chef, Nugget, WebLogic, JIRA, Ant, WIN-SCP, Service Now, Sonar, Putty.

Confidential

System Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Linux Engineer in 24/7 team responsible to Maintain Oversee.net data centre and their Production Servers.
• Strong administration and troubleshooting skills on Linux/UNIX, Windows and LAN .
• Very confident with Apache, DNS, DHCP, HTTPS and samba Servers configurations & Installed on Red Hat Linux.
• Very Good Hands on experience on Monitoring tools like SCOM and NAGIOS tools.
• Perform full lifecycle management for all alerts and production issues (including initial response, triage, troubleshooting, and escalation).
• Monitor the trend of critical server’s disk space and network fluctuation.
• Providing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and creating tickets by using RT ticketing tool and Jira ticketing tool for different severity level.
• Basic knowledge on Creation of Logical volume manger, size extending & reducing.
• Monitoring the health and stability of Linux and Windows System environments.
• Generating weekly reports and sharing with the Management on SLA Compliance, Ticket Volume and Escalation trends .
• Responds to customer requests through Telephone, Internal ticketing system or any other means by which the request originates.
• Configured Nagios Services; performed regular system and network monitor.
• Responsible for the implementation, troubleshooting, and maintaining operations of network systems.
• Maintaining, monitoring and troubleshooting disk space, volumes, Https, site down, Load Average, free memory, Processes etc. Alerts generated in monitoring tools etc.
• Strong administration and troubleshooting skills on Linux/UNIX .
• Good in Configuring Apache, Bind, DNS, DHCP, HTTPS and samba Servers on Linux.
• Provide desktop support including creating images specific to client requirements and deal with issues pertaining to hardware and applications.
• Creating Change Request in case of any changes/maintenance activity for the Existing Network.
• Perform routine network maintenance checks as well as configure and manage printers, copiers, and another miscellaneous network equipment.

Environment: s: Nagios, Jira, SCOM, RCA(root cause analysis).