SUMMARY

• Around 7+ years of IT experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS, Azure), Redhat OpenShift, Unix/Linux System Administration (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu), Build and Release Management, DevOps Engineer, Virtualization(VMware), CI (Continuous Integration), CD (Continuous Delivery) with good expertise in Building, Automating, Managing and Releasing codes in different environments.
• Experience in designing, building and deploying in a multitude application utilizing almost all the AWS services like EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing (Classic/Application), Auto Scaling, RDS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, IAM, Lambda, Code commit, Code deploy, focusing on high - availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling with Cloud watch monitoring.
• Experience in various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Azure Websites, Caching, SQL Azure, NoSQL, Storage, Network services, Azure Active Directory, API Management, Scheduling, Auto Scaling, PowerShell Automation.
• Expertise in automating various build and deployments by using ANT, MAVEN, Perl, Ruby, MS Build, and Shell Scripts, Jenkins.
• Experience in branching, tagging and maintaining the version control and source code management tools like GIT, SVN (subversion) on Linux.
• Experience on WebLogic 8.x, 9.x, 10.x,11 Server, Apache, Apache Tomcat Server as administrator for Server Installations, Configuration, Application components deployment, performance tuning including troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Developed an opensource project with Kubernetes to manage a cluster of containers, running Docker containers across multiple hosts.
• Expertise in Ansible Playbook, Yaml for maintaining roles, inventory files and groups variables and extensively worked on Jenkins and Hudson.
• Experience in Installing Chef Server enterprise on-premise/workstation/bootstrapped the nodes using knife and automated by testing Chef Recipes/Cookbooks with Test-kitchen.
• Deployed servers using Puppet, and Puppet DB for configuration management to existing infrastructure and Implemented Puppet 3.8 manifests and Modules to deploy the builds for Dev, QA and production.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting VMware ESX & ESXi 4.x/ 5.x/ 6.x. and managed the virtual machines, installed VMware Tools, Templates, Cloning and deployed Virtual machines.
• Installing and Configuring Red Hat Linux locally or over the Network-Kick Start- (NFS, FTP, HTTP), PXE Booting and bootstrapping.
• Expertise in implementation and maintenance of Apache Http, SMTP, DHCP, NFS, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS, SAMBA, SQUID, Postfix, send mail, FTP, remote access, security management security trouble shooting skills. Deep understanding of Protocols like HTTP, DHCP, DNS, SSL/TLS.
• Experience in F5 Load Balancers for creation of VIP and configured load balancing policies for the load balanced members.
• Experience in creation of BIG IP F5 Load balancer to provide high scalability, availability and reliability.
• Expertise in performance resource monitoring tools with Splunk, Nagios core and XI, tuned with the services like ssh, disk space, check memory, ftp.
• Understanding with the standards and great practices in Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.
• Expertise in scripting for automation, and monitoring using Shell, PHP, Python, Ruby & Perl scripts.
• Excellent Knowledge in workflow of JIRA / Service now BMC Remedy, and Working with Agile SDLC under these tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x, Centos 5.x/6.x/7.x, Windows server 2003/2008/2012 ,2016, Centos, Debian and Ubuntu

Services: FTP, YUM, SSH, TELNET, NFS, RPM, SFTP

Virtualization: VMware, vCenter and vSphere

Networking: DNS, TCP/IP, LAN, SAN, WAN, NAS, F5, NIS, SMTP

Programming: Bash, Shell Scripting, Perl, Ruby and Python

Web/App Servers: WebSphere Application Server 7.x/8.x, JBOSS

Tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Splunk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI, Jenkins/Hudson Ant, Maven, Gradle, Datacenter, TFS

Database: ADF(v1 &v2),SQL Server 2008/2012/2014 , MySQL, DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Cassandra

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning IAAS, SAAS and PAAS on Azure cloud through automated scripts using ARM templates, Power shell ISE and Azure CLI.
• Created Infra as a Code(IAAC) using ARM templates, Azure Cloud Shell(CLI) and deployed from Azure DevOps Pipelines to create azure resources like Cosmos DB (Collections and Databases), Microservices, AKS Cluster (Nodes and Pods), virtual network, subnets (public & Private), Route Tables, Load Balancer, NSG rules, Virtual Machines, Application insights, App services, SQL DB, Key Vaults, Storages, Metrics and Log Analytic Alerts.
• Configured SMARTS for AKS Engine rules for business logics rules and configured RabbitMQ for messages and Queues for Vendor and partner communications. Created RabbitMQ Host, Users and Queues to import and export from one host to other host in Agile Environments.
• Provisioned Azure SQL servers, Elastic Pools, Azure SQL DB, Azure Data Factories (v1 & v2), Data lake store, Blob and Storage account through ARM template as IAAC.
• Automated Azure virtual machines OS hardening and patch management with Ansible and Azure Automation account.
• Created CI/CD Azure DevOps pipelines to Build and deploy to azure services, Configured SonarQube, Aqua Scanner, Maven for enabling all security, code bugs, Image scans and Image Vulnerabilities.
• Configured Azure Container registries (ACR) for storing the build Images. Maintaining ACR Registries for various applications using Service Principal Id’s.
• Created Azure Data Lake storages (ADLS)accounts for different environment and applications. Configured ADLS Folders and granting access for Application users, SP’s to access the Folders and Child Folders in ADLS accounts.
• Managed SP -Service principal id', SQL tech users, Linux users, app registrations in Azure Key Vaults.
• Created and Configured Ingress controllers, SSL certs, Action group roles, Resource Tags, Kubernetes Name Spaces, API keys, SNOW Groups, Azure AD Groups, SQL AD Groups and Agile Groups.
• Configured Data Factories (ADF) of v1 and v2 for copy activities like cosmos dB collections, file transfer, ETL process. Created alerts and automation schedulers for daily copy activity to run through all ADF v1 and v2.
• Supported Day to Day Production data load activities and maintaining communications between internal teams and external distributors and partners.
• Day to day internal regular activities like loading the data from SFTP to Storage, ADLS and SQL DB using Data Factories(ADF v1 and v2) pipelines and supported for business activities like pulling XMLS and Raw files for business users using Data Science VM.
• Installed External Dell Boomi Atom & Molecules in Azure Linux servers to operate the API’ between Microservices and External sources.
• Configured Dell Boomi Atom/Molecule in multiple environments like DEV, QA, UAT, PREPROD and Production. Maintaining Atom/ Molecules and deploying processes to higher environment like UAT, Preprod, Prod.
• Configured and deployed the adhoc, SQL scripts and ADF pipelines using VSTS, configured Artifactories and repositories using VSTS and used git for merging, pulling and pushing with different branches like DEV, QA and Master.
• Configured Palo Alto firewall rules to allow traffic and deny traffic. Monitoring traffic in Palo Alto Management console and maintaining Palo Alto firewall in multiple environments.
• Configured azure backup and site recovery for minimal downtime of application. Configured the authentication broker and authentication source with OpenID authentication for the REST API's using the IDP as Okta.
• Configured Prometheus and Grafana for Microservices like PODS and Nodes CPU utilizations and Pods deployments and performances.
• Created Action groups for Classic alerts, Metrics alerts and custom alerts to enable the alerts for Azure Services like Kubernetes pods, Nodes, App Insights, SQL Servers, SQL Data Bases, API end points, VM performances, App services, Key vaults secrets.
• Creating Tables and controlling access management for azure sql database. Used Azure Data Factory and Batch Service to invoke SQL and .Net scripts on Azure SQL DB.

Confidential - Chester, NY

DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Admin

Responsibilities:

• Perform day-to-day administration of over 300+ systems running on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and UNIX/Linux operating systems. Deployed and implemented the key infrastructure hardware, proactively monitor/troubleshoot system failures, and modify shell scripts. Work with Software Development, Database and other departments/support groups to meet business and technical demands. Design, architect, document, and implement new IT Solutions.
• Involved in Amazon Web Services (AWS) provisioning and AWS administrations like EC2, Elastic Load-balancers, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), S3, CloudFront, Elastic File system, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Cloud Formation, IAM, Elasticsearch and maintained the user accounts IAM Roles, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
• Worked on creation of Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle and managed Docker container snapshots, attaching to a running container, removing images, managing director structures and managing containers in AWS.
• Managed the hosting of cloud applications on IaaS platforms like Amazon Web Services and OpenShift. Implemented of cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platform clusters using Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible by Red Hat, and OpenShift by Red Hat.
• Worked as an OpenShift SME for migration of various applications from OpenShift 3.4 to 3.5 platform for some few existing applications and managed OpenShift master, nodes with upgrades, decommission them from active participation by evacuating the nodes and upgrading them.
• Deploy OpenShift Enterprise v3.x on RedHat 7 environment and integration with private Docker Registry Cluster, OpsWorks and in Cloud Security.
• Involved in Red hat OpenShift Enterprise development lifecycle platform like containers, Images, Pods, Routes, Templates and Image Streams.
• Installing, configuring OpenShift and maintain high availability solution in configuring your masters and maintaining the nodes.
• Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant Kubernetes infrastructure and worked on Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, Config Maps, selector services and deployed application containers as Pods.
• Used Ansible Playbooks to setup continuous delivery pipeline deployed micro services, including provisioning AWS environments using Ansible Playbooks.
• Used Chef Cookbooks, recipes, roles, data bags, run list to deploy web applications, applications server and vendor applications.
• Created Source code management with Git hub and GitLab to add, commit, push codes to various branches and setup Jenkins and implemented a continuous delivery framework using Jenkins, Chef, Maven in Linux environment.
• Configured Jenkins with Git for appropriate release builds. Scheduled automated nightly builds using Subversion. Maintained continuous integration effort with Subversion along with scheduled builds.
• Established full CI/CD lifecycle for API build, test and deploy within multiple markets and worked on best practices for API design, governance and implementation in production environment.
• Worked on Building the gap between API developers and the Operations Teams responsible for deployment and maintenance and worked on Analytics process needed for visibility into integrations and APIs.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion migrations between ESX Servers. design, implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESXI 6.0 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center and upgraded of ESXi from version 5.5 to version 6.0 while keeping the VM's in maintenance mode.
• Created and maintained the Shell deployment scripts for Tomcat web application servers and work closely with the patches to the middleware of Oracle WebLogic, JBOSS and Apache Web Server in the production Environment.
• Worked with RHEL 5, 6, 7, CentOS, and Solaris system administration in an enterprise environment and supported infrastructure servers in an ISP (Internet Service Protocol) environment with advanced enterprise levels of DNS and DHCP technical troubleshooting skills with NFS, Kickstart procedures, performance tuning, mail, security.
• Performed SAN/NAS storage solutions (NetApp) and worked with LDAP/ OpenLDAP configuration and monitoring of customer facing issues enterprise email systems like INBOUND, OUTBOUND, Spam, and login. worked with Active Directory Services, Broadband Access, Triage, IIS Servers, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP and Terminal Services
• Participate in on-call rotation and work to resolve critical issues 24/7.
• Managed Amazon EC-2 instances by taking AMIs and performing administration and monitoring of the Amazon instances like EC2 using Nagios Core, NagiosXi and Splunk.
• Worked on python based test frameworks and test driven development with automation tools.
• Responsible for selective Zimbra mailbox restores & Exchange mailbox reconnects due to missing or deleted email and successfully migrated and created users to Zimbra and cloud mark for the Customer Email.

Confidential - Chicago, IL

DevOps / Cloud Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created EC2 Instances on AWS Cloud, EBS (Elastic Storage Block), EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing (Classic/Application), Auto Scaling, RDS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, IAM, Lambda, Code commit, Code deploy.
• Used IAM to create and manage AWS users and groups and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.
• Performed s3 buckets creation, policies and on the IAM role based polices and customizing the JSON template.
• Deployed and configured Azure websites, configure diagnostics, monitoring and analytics on Azure Platform along with scale and resilience for Azure Web sites and migration of existing infrastructure on Azure Service Manager(ASM) to Azure Resource Manager(ARM).
• Worked on configuring cloud platform such as virtual networks multi-site, cross-site, VMs, Azure AD, Load Balancers, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, etc.
• Implemented CI/CD using multiple Jenkins Master and slaves and configured with pipeline using GIT/SVN, Maven Plugins, nexus or Artifactory, deployments tools with UDEPLOY and Puppet.
• Administration and support of homogeneous production and development server infrastructure of multiple flavors of Linux and setup with SVN Server & GIT on a Linux environment, configured the users with LDAP, created the repository and ranching structure for all the applications
• Installed and configured an automated tool Puppet that included the installation and configuration of the Puppet master, agent nodes and an admin control workstation.
• Implemented Puppet modules to install configure and maintain web servers like Apache Web Server, Nginx. Involved in User Management and support for local and remote users, manage system access across groups to ensure compliance, and maintained best practices.
• Worked on Puppet modules for TOMCAT and WEBSPHERE and Automated multiple applications through puppet Manifests. created Docker containers with the help of Docker images. Virtualized the images by using the Docker files.
• Creation of BIG IP F5 Load balancer to provide high scalability, availability and reliability.
• Installed, configured and Administrated of all UNIX/LINUX servers, includes the design and selection of relevant hardware to Support the installation/upgrades of Red Hat (6/7), CentOS 6/7, Ubuntu operating systems.
• Strong hands on experience in scripting languages like Perl, Bash, Shell, Ruby and Python and worked with MySQL, MS SQL Server, and their feature set and created database in MySQL as per the requirement.
• Developed automation and deployment utilities using Ruby, Bash, PowerShell and Python.
• Involved in an Agile/ Scrum environment and daily standup meetings and installed, configured and administer Splunk Enterprise Server 6.x.x and Splunk Forwarder 6.x.x on Redhat Linux.
• Maintenance of existing Splunk infrastructure on Solaris platforms and setting up new environment on Linux VM's in development and testing the existing apps after migrated from existing Splunk infrastructure.

Confidential - Ashburn, VA

Build & Release / VMWare Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities include Build and Deployment of the java applications into different environments like Dev, INT and QA.
• Knowledge and expertise in every phase of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and using Agile (SCRUM) Methodology.
• Worked as a Build and Release Engineer in Automating, Building, Deploying, and Releasing of code from one environment to another environment.
• Worked on source controller tools like Subversion (SVN) and extensively worked on continuous integration and for End to End automation for all build and release.
• Worked on installation of local yum repository and package administration using YUM and RPM.
• Followed Agile Methodology toolset including tools for maintaining user stories and deployment solutions for Scrum and worked for Agile as Continuous Integration Environment and automated the whole process.
• Configured and maintaining various Webservers like Apache and App servers like Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss.
• Worked on Installation/Configuration/Administrated VMware ESXi 5.5 & 6.0 and migrated existing servers into VMware Infrastructure.
• Installed Patches and upgraded ESXi hosts using VMware Update Manager and through CLI. Monitored VM & ESXi server components like CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization and Configured VMotion / Creating resource pools and configuring the VM’s based on priority.
• Team role included working in VMware Orchestrator, VMware, Vrealize, Automation Center 6.0 (vRA) catalog management creating cloud server provisioning entitlements, creating and defining business groups, creating catalog items, creating services for the catalog items, creating Windows 2008/2012) and Linux (Red Hat6) blueprints.
• Writing shell scripts for Automated Back-ups and Cron Jobs using ssh and bash and managed user accounts and groups for corporate Linux users and supported corporate Linux Development servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Management of NFS, HTTP, FTP, SAMBA, DHCP, DNS Servers.
• Updated Maven build configurations and created integration tests and performance tests Managed SVN branching and merging for older projects in multiple simultaneous releases.
• Extensively worked on Installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux 5 /6, IBM AIX 5.X and Windows 03/08 Servers on large distributed environment.

Confidential - Boca Raton, FL

Linux Administrator / VMWare Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed with VMware products including vSphere 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 VMware Horizon View VDI, VMware SRM, VMware Lab Manager, vCloud Suite, vCAC, vRealize, Automation, Orchestrator and vShield.
• Creating, cloning Linux virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client 3.5 and migrating servers between ESX hosts.
• Migrated about 500 servers from Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) in both VMware and Hyper - V environments using plate spin and VMware convertor.
• Worked on specs for new infrastructure and VMware servers, disk storage, and network switches, routers, firewalls, and VPN's.
• Involved on Networking in analyzing, designing, implementing Switches, Routers, Firewalls, DNS client, DHCP client, NFS client and SAMBA client.
• Expertise Experience and Knowledge on Logical volume manager (LVM), creating disk partitions, setting up file systems and mounting the file systems and unmounting them.
• Installed, updated and removing different packages using RPM and used YUM to update specific packages. Wrote scripts for automation, and monitoring using Shell (bash, C and Ksh), Python and Perl scripts
• Experienced in configuration and maintenance of common Linux services such as Tomcat, Apache, MySQL, NFS, FTP, Postfix, LDAP, DHCP, DNS BIND, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, IP Tables and Firewalld.
• Daily monitoring and response for Linux servers, including application processes, file system alerts, system faults.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi 5.x, 6.x servers, vCenter Server, using vSphere Update Manager and VM Tools through manual updates and managed ESXi hosts using VCenter Server/ vSphere Client and VMware Web Client.
• Performed VMotion and Storage VMotion of Virtual Machines across different cluster with respect to security policies and application development requirements
• Created and maintained File system, user accounts, removed users, lock/unlock users in Linux.
• Completed work on LVM. Created volume groups, extended volume groups, reduce volume groups, mirrored Volume Groups.
• Perform server updates, patching, upgrades, and package installation using RPM and supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers and configurations plus reporting and monitoring.
• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux on new server builds as well as during the upgrade.