PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of experience in IT industry, out of which 3.2 yrs. in USA and 7.4 years in India.
• He has sound domain expertise in Telecom, DevOps Implementation, System design and administration.
• Demonstrated System administration skills on AIX and Linux, expertise in Azure and AWS cloud technologies
• Proficient in configuring DevOps tools and maintaining them in a large infrastructure hosted on cloud and Virtual environment to support the Micro services Framework, has 6+ years of experience in DevOps/Cloud.
• Working on many DevOps tools including Ansible, Docker & Kubernetes CI/Build & deployment automations managed on the Cloud environments.
• He has gained extensive domain knowledge on the Confidential & Confidential web and application along these years.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEMS: AIX(5.3, 6.1, 7.1), RHEL (5.x, 6.x, 7x), SUSE Linux (9,10,11), Sun Solaris (9,10,11), FreeBSD (7.x, 8.x, 9.x), CentOS 5,6, OEL 5/6, OSXHP - UX,, Windows 2003, 2008, VMware ESX (3.5,4.0)

DEVOPS TECHNOLOGIES: CI/CD stack build, spinnaker, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, service mesh istio Prometheus, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, ApacheNginx+, Microservices, zookeeper, Kafka, borrow Architecture, OpenStack, Git, Codecloud, Monitoring - ELK stack, SplunkGrafanaDynatrace, Strongloop Gateway. PaaS, CaaS. Cloud technologies: Confidential & Confidential Cloud, AWS, Azure Ansible, Chef, Terraform,helm, packer

AUTOMATION VOLUME MANAGEMENT: Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 4x, 5.x, 6.0, Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

HIGH AVAILABILITY: HACMP, nginx load balancing, haproxy, Veritas, Cluster Server 4.x, 5.x

WEB APPLICATION: WebLogic 8.x, 9.0, 10, WebSphere 5.x, 6.x

SERVERS: Netscape/iPlanet Server, Apache Server 1.3.x, 2.2.x, Apache Tomcat 5.x6.x, 7.x

SCRIPTING: Bash, Python

VIRTUALIZATION: VMware, VCenter, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, Virtual Box

SECURITY: Twistlock, Black Duck

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Texas

DevOps/Cloud Infra automation/Cloud architect

Functional Skills: Azure Caas, Paas, Iaas. Terraform, AzureDevOps, helm templating, Aks, Packer, solution designing, infrastructure automation, IAC pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, Design, Engineer and Lead the architecture and implementation of cloud solutions with appropriate technologies and capabilities to meet the business requirements
• Creating the IAC pipeline to deploy the whole infra and other components
• Understand in-depth the cloud technology trends, emerging new ideas, options and solutions available on how to evolve the capabilities and utilization within the firm to address the evolving operating model
• Proactively and continuously investigate, monitor the current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, to identify gaps, limitations and come up with the required solutions and remediation's
• Design and implement mission-critical cloud platform and services that are scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, with multi-region deployment models
• Lead creation of cloud focused standards, building blocks and patterns to ensure deployed solutions are scalable, immutable and resilient
• Lead and collaborate with other enterprise architects, application architects and security architects to deliver a solid and secure IaaS and PaaS platform in Azure
• Ensure cloud solutions are implemented and delivered with best practices, standards, appropriate controls and thorough documentation
• Lead and Provide subject matter experience, thought leadership expertise on cloud solutions as well as knowledge transfer and mentoring other team members

Confidential, Texas

DevOps/Cloud architect

Functional Skills: Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, SVN, ELK, nexus, Jenkins, dynatrace, splunkAWS, Azure, oracle, weblogic, CHEF, ansible, Atlassian, nginx+apache webservers, Ant, Maven, Hazlecast, Prometheus, grafanasonar, ELK, kafka, heketi, gluster, istio-service mess, heapstercassandra, sosta,Twistlock, checkmarks and fortify, RedisinfluxDB.

Responsibilities:

• Implementing DevOps supporting tools, configuring Build, Release and Configuration Management on Unix/Linux platforms.
• Deploying application on the AWS cloud and configuring various services like ELK, EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, VPC, Route53, Cloud Formation, OpsWorks, RDS, Dynamo DB, ELB, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, etc.
• Physical Kafka deployment of infrastructure across multiple environments
• Kafka Optimization and tuning
• Involved in DevOps migration/automation processes for build and deploy systems.
• Creating infrastructure on Google cloud platform which includes configuring Computing, Networking, storage and Database.
• Cost evaluation of different cloud platforms to select which provider is cost efficient and fits for our infrastructure and meets the requirements.
• Providing design for the new infrastructure.
• Evaluating and deploying new open-source tools to enhance the infrastructure functionality
• Participation on all IT Architectural & Design calls for new project requirements and projects estimations
• Build and configured the deployable artifacts using Maven, Ant, Gradle, SBT and stored them on the Nexus, SVN and GIT repositories
• Working on Jenkins as part of continuous integration and used it as an automation tool for builds and deployment.
• Running security scans and fixing the vulnerabilities and the compliances
• Managing all Phases of Software Life Cycle with emphasis on Designing, Developing, Implementation, Deployment and Support of Distributed Enterprise Scalable, Secure and Transactional Applications.
• Branching, Merging, Tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like Subversion (SVN), Codecloud
• Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins (Hudson) Continuous Delivery/provisioning tools like Puppet, chef, Ansible and Atlassian Tools Confluence and Jira.
• Deploying Kubernetes on AWS environment and deploying applications on it and providing the whole design for it taking care of the application requirements and configuring resources on AWS
• Managing Users and Groups through Identity and Access Management (IAM) and set Roles, Policies and Permissions to access AWS resources.
• Tracking bugs on Jira.
• Hazelcast upgrade (3.9) for Store-by- in near cache and dynamic Data Structure Configuration and hardware expansion for Common Online Solution for Caching
• Extensively working on Docker and container orchestration platform tools like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm.
• Working closely with teams, to ensure high quality and timely delivery of builds and releases.
• Utilize Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment for the CI/CD system to build, test, and deploy.
• Work closely with the API team in unifying authentication methods and providing proper transaction tracing throughout the entirety of the stack. For infrastructure, investigated and deployed Kibana, Grafana & Prometheus.
• Monitoring and Setup notification of the Microservices to send notifications via Email and alert manager.
• Configuring Prometheus and influx DB for persistence of the data.
• Provide solutions for the persistent storage of the applications by providing estimate of the storage and creating appropriate PV for it.
• Maintaining application logs and using splunk and logstash
• Configuring heketi to use host volume for the applications.
• Glusterfs configuration on the Kubernetes cluster.

Confidential

DevOps - Associate Tech Specialist

Functional Skills: IoT, Kafka, zookeeper, ELK stack, RabbitMQ, Open stack, Google cloudAWS, Ubuntu, Linux, centos, BOSH, MySQL, Cloud foundry, DockerKubernetes, GIT, SVN, Jenkins, dynatrace, splunk, aws, oracle, weblogicCHEF, ansible, Atlassian, apache webservers, Ant and Mavendynatrace

Responsibilities:

• Helping the Development team building IoT (Internet of things)
• Responsible for the installation, setup and configuration of cloud environment for development
• Responsible for the installation, setup and configuration of multiple non-cloud servers for the Cloud development promotion cadence
• Tomcat administration
• Responsible for the installation and setup of 3 party software desiring to be certified with application software
• Responsible for build and deployment automation using VM Ware, Docker containers and Chef.
• Setting up Change Management process and standardizing the policies for various applications
• Installing the application software in a multiple server cloud environment Setup the Chef Workstation, Chef Server and chef nodes.
• Installing, configuring and integrating Kafka, Zookeeper as per the application requirements.
• Worked on scheduling the Chef Nodes convergence using Linux Cron jobs.
• Manage configuration of Web App and Deploy to AWS cloud server through Chef.
• Integrating the Bosh deployment with chef.
• Responsible for troubleshooting complex infrastructure environment issues as related to the application software
• Good understanding of relational database table structure and dependencies.
• Responsible for deploying the infrastructure using Chef
• Responsible for continuous integration of projects using Jenkins.
• Responsible for shipping the VM’s using Docker
• Responsible for administration of the AWS and Openstack environment.
• Defining Release Process & Policy for projects
• Refined automation components with scripting and Ansible.
• Setup the Jenkins jobs for Continuous integration (CI) process and to execute test cases

Confidential

Associate Team Lead

Functional Skills AIX, Power servers, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Vmware, ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, HACMP, LVM, Veritas Volume ManagerEMC VMAX, VNX, Net App SAN/FAS Solutions, VMware, VCenter server, VMWare web client, KVM, Xen, Solaris, HMC

Responsibilities:

• Automated the client infrastructure to reduce the number of ticket counts.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining AIX Servers.
• Power 5/6/7 Pseries configuration, LPAR, DLPAR, VIO and implementation.
• Configuration and administration of Logical volume manager.
• Working on EMC SAN environment.
• Performance issues
• O.S patching and O.S Migration.
• Troubleshooting Hardware and Operating system related issue.
• Working with Logical Partitions LPAR, Hardware Management Console HMC, Dynamic Logical Partitioning DLPAR, Micro-Partitioning and System Management Services menu SMS
• Providing professional consultancy services for AIX, VIOS, HMC, and pSeries hardware
• AIX user management
• AIX system security management
• OS Level backup and restore Operations includes mksysb/VG backup or file systems using netbackup
• Working on NPIV and SEA
• Configuring HACMP cluster
• Veritas Cluster Server Storage EMC Hitachi.
• Working with the client to set up and implement the change requests and the plans for the activities
• Working with the vendor support and client to resolve the chronic issues
• Installed, configured ESX as well as patched ESX 5/6. Performed Physical to Virtual
• (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) server migration using VMware Converter Configure and troubleshoot TCP/IP, SSH, DHCP, DNS, AD, NFS, LDAP and NIS.
• Monitoring hypervisor resources, Upgrades, OS Backups, Migrations, User Account Maintenance, Patch Management and other daily system administration functions.
• Monitoring Multiple Tasks of Networking with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers (SLES), Windows Servers, using tools of Nagios, SPLUNK
• Building, installing, and managing KVM virtualization on SUSE 11/12 on HP ProLiant BL490c G6/G7, Colfax.
• Configured KSM for memory de-duplication and over commitment
• Writing shell script to deploy vm’s on KVM.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager and scanning the disks and bring the LUNS into Veritas Volume Manager Control.
• Root disk Mirroring and replacing failed disk by using Veritas Volume Manager and troubleshoot on different type of plex issues and recovers the plexes.
• Configure and maintain High availability clustering using Veritas Cluster server on RHEL
• Created cron job and scripted a process to create flash archives on monthly basis.

Confidential

Lead Tech Serv - Ops

Responsibilities:

• Provided server administration to support business objectives in IT infrastructure environment.
• Analyzing multiple errors reporting on servers P4/P5/P6/P7 including software and hardware.
• Supported for IBM p5-p6-p7, servers running IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1 in virtualized environment.
• Extensively hands on experience for troubleshooting LVM and system management.
• Install and upgrade AIX 5x 6x systems via NIM and troubleshooting networks.
• TCP/IP Configuration like assigning IP addresses, configuring network interfaces, assigning static routes.
• Applied software maintenance, program fixes and keeping the system software releases.
• Utilize HMC to create redundant virtual I/O servers and assign shared resources to logical partitions (LPARs).
• Provided on call support for IBM SSR (Onsite tech) in installing different power servers and, Fixing hardware issues by providing parts replacement procedure.
• Update Firmware/Microcode for Fiber Channel Adapter and Ethernet Adapters.
• Update and Upgrade firmware level of P4/P5/P6/P7 servers, HMC and VIO servers & clients.
• Performed migration of AIX to versions 5.3, 6.1 from lower versions of AIX to current level.
• Security, users, groups’ administration and daily backup and restore operations,
• Extensive experience in installing, upgrading, removing, verifying packages and APARS using insta llp utility on AIX.
• Worked in fast paced 24*7 supports for production/development environment through Retain and Maximo Service Desk ticketing system. micro Partitioning (LPAR, DLPAR)
• Configuring and troubleshooting TCPIP network.
• Set up and configure virtual recourses (virtual scsi, virtual Ethernet, virtual FC) Good communication skills & well versed with group work.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills; flexibility; ability to plan and organize; responsiveness and creativity.