SUMMARY

• Fast - paced software professional with 6+ years of experience in IT industry comprising of Linux System Administration, DevOps Engineering, and in automating, building, releasing of code from one environment to other environment and deploying to servers. Extensive experience includes SCM, AWS, DevOps, Build/Release Management and Cloud Management and Containerization.
• Hands on experience on Backup and restore Azure services. Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Creating CI/CD pipeline for Azure infrastructure creation, configuration and application deployments & Work with monitoring team to determine baseline monitoring (security, health, etc.) for windows infrastructure
• Experience dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, and Auto-Scaling.
• Experience on AWS IAM service, IAM policies, Roles, Users, Groups, AWS access keys and Multi Factor Authentication and migrated applications to the AWS Cloud.
• Created backup of Amazon machine Images (AMIs) of EC2 instances using Packer, and critical business data for Disaster Recovery (DR) and upgrading to new instance types for better performance.
• Strong experience working on several docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, creating docker images, Compose, Docker Registry and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configurations.
• The architecture included Docker as the container technology with Kubernetes and worked on with REST API. Created Docker images using a Docker file, Worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing Docker volume.
• Knowledge on Microsoft Azure how to install and configure, created scripts on SOAP and PowerShell scripts to automatic daily tasks and tested on private cloud.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins, Hudson, Team city and Bamboo for continuous integration and for End to End automation for all build and deployments. Installed Jenkins, Plugins for GIT Repository, Setup SCM Polling for Immediate Build with Maven Repository and Deployed Apps using custom python modules through Ansible as a CI/CD Process.
• Involved in the development of the automation Open stack infrastructure with management tools Ansible, Customized cloud built application in Azure hosted in the environment for the continuous integration and Puppet.
• Experience in Designing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Template and extensive experience in designing custom build steps using Power Shell.
• Implemented Azure APIM modules for public facing subscription based authentication.
• Good in Manage hosting plans for Azure Infrastructure, implementing & deploying workloads on Azure virtual machines (VMs), Design and implement VM storage & good understanding on Implementing images/disks.
• Worked on Configuration of Internal load balancer, load balanced sets and Azure Traffic manager.
• Hands on experience on Azure VPN-Point to Site, Virtual networks, Azure Custom security, Endpoint security and firewall.
• Hands on experience on Backup and restore Azure services. Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Experience in handling all CI tools like Jenkins, Managing Security, performances, plugin management code integrating analysis and Test to complete CD pipeline with Jenkins.
• Extensive experience on working with the Configuration/Deployment Tools like CHEF (Knife, recipe, cookbook), ANSIBLE (Playbook, Inventory) and PUPPET (Puppet manifests, Factor, catalog).Good knowledge in automation development with SALTSTACK.
• Hands-on experience on Ansibleand Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to configure and to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages changes.
• Configured and installed Chef Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, wrote Cookbooks Recipe and uploaded them to Chef-Server. Testing of cookbooks using Food Critic and Test Kitchen and running recipes on nodes managed by On-premise Chef Server.
• Puppet Manifests to provision complex multi-node applications composed of Nodes, Apache, Nginx and MySQL. Strong experience in creating ANT/MAVEN builds and generated jar, war, ear files stored in Nexus repository and deployed with Ansible and Puppet.
• Experience in using bug tracking tools like JIRA, RALLYand REMEDY. Implementation of JIRA to track all issues pertaining to the SDLC and Integration of JIRA with Git to track all code changes.
• Experience in working with Version Control Systems/ Source Code Repository tools like GIT, CVS, SVN, and GitHub. Defined Branching, Labeling and merge strategies for all Application in GIT.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting VMware and experiences with Linux Virtual Machines using VMware (VSphere, virtual center), Hypervisor, and Virtual Box expert in automation and deploy configuration management to different environments DEV/PROD.
• Experienced on Linux Red Hat 5.0/6.0/7.0 Kickstart installation, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, network issues, RAID levels and implementation of SMTP, NFS, DNS, SAMBA, LDAP, NIS, and Open VPN Certificate based setup for remote user’s connections, Nagios server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux(RHEL/Centos/Ubuntu/AIX), Mac OS, Solaris

Cloud Computing: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure

Virtualization Platforms: Virtual Box, VMware

Containerization Tools: Docker, Kubernetes

Build Tools: ANT, Maven, Gradle

CI Tools: Hudson, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity

PMP/Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Remedy.

Monitoring and Reporting Tools: Azure, AWS Cloud Watch, Nagios, AppDynamics, Splunk

Configuration Management: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack

Version Controllers: SVN, GIT, Bitbucket, CVS,TFS

Scripting Languages: Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash

Web Servers: Tomcat, Apache HTTP, WebLogic

Relational and NoSQL database: MSSQL, MySQL, Dynamo DB, MongoDB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing Azure DevOps account and creating projects and managing projects adding and managing licenses
• Creating build and release pipelines, creating and managing custom tasks and extensions for Azure DevOps
• Created builds and release pipelines in VSTS and deployments using SPN (secure endpoint connection) for implementing
• Hands on experience with creating build and release pipelines using VSTS. Experience in creating new and existing environments in VSTS deployment groups.
• Created CI/CD Pipelines on Azure DevOps environments by providing their dependencies and tasks.
• Implemented and managed continuous delivery systems and methodologies using Azure DevOps(VSTS)
• Created Azure DevOps(VSTS) Jobs for automation of build and deployment processes as part of Continuous Integration.
• PS Scripting managing permissions for users as part of a project/team
• Administered and Monitored Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), for taking backups and consolidating collections at the time of migration from one version of VSTS to another.
• Develop Build and Release Pipeline in Bamboo for Various Applications and provide Production Support.
• Troubles hoot, debug and upgrade Applications.
• Develop Chef -Cookbooks for Platform Automation and Application Deployments.
• Worked on different concepts of Chef like Roles, Environments, Data Bags, Knife, and Chef Server Admin/Organizations and used Amazon Linux AMI packages and configurations for tight integration with Chef.
• Provide assistance for solving complex defects/issues for the Applications which are currently in production. Execution of Pilot Application using Docker
• Having good knowledge on SSH connections and password less authentications between servers.
• Write Flow Charts, Design Document, Technical Specification Document, for various applications on our internal wiki(Confluence).
• Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures for the code. Document and maintain software functionality.
• Experience in using vagrant to automate provisioning of development and production environment on Linux with CentOS, Ubuntu instances, Apache, and MySQL.
• Comply with project plans and industry standards. Deploy programs in development server and application server.
• Acted as build and release engineer, deployed the services by VSTS (Azure DevOps) pipeline. Created and Maintained pipelines to manage the IAC for all the applications
• Ensure that Object Oriented programming is implemented throughout the consumer applications so that all the properties of code Abstraction, Inheritance, Overloading and Overriding concepts are used to simplify the coding techniques and identify the error codes.
• Proven track record of knowing what it takes to provide a consistently first class customer service internally and/or externally.
• Worked on configuring Linux machines through Kickstart (Red Hat Linux ) program for Host and network based Installations. Worked on Package management using RPM, YUM and UPTODATE in Red Hat Linux.
• Ability to build effective working relationships (Internally/Externally), establishing credibility amongst a wide and demanding client group.
• Comfortable taking ownership for own work, identifying the need for action (using initiative) whilst working effectively within a team.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in setting up the infrastructure using AWS services including ELB, EC2, Elastic container services(ECS), Auto-scaling, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, Cloud Trail, Cloud Watch, Elastic Cache, Lambda, SNS, Glacier, Cloud Formation, Storage Gateway, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline.
• Experiences increating AWS Launch configurations based on customized AMI and use this launch configuration to configure auto scaling groups with Lifecycle Hooks and Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Route53, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups.
• Experience in Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so we can get timely insights and react quickly to new information.
• Streamlined installation of OpenShift(PaaS) on partner cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Azure.Applying company security policies using Security groups and Network ACLs for instance and subnet level security as per project requirements.
• Responsible for the creation of S3 buckets and policies and for the creation of IAM role based policies. Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier.
• Using Python, included Boto3 to supplement automation provided by Ansible and Terraform for tasks such as encrypting EBS volumes backing AMIs and scheduling Lambda functions for routine AWS tasks.
• Designed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Experience in Elastic Load Balancing endpoint in front of a microservices that is deployed on AWS ECS and Amazon API Gateway can make proxy calls to any publicly accessible endpoint.
• Create Jenkins job to build the artifacts using maven, deploy the Terraform templates to create the stack and experience in Installing and configuring basic High Availability Web Platforms using Terraform.
• Used Jenkins and pipelines to drive all microservices builds using Maven/Gradle for Artifacts and Dockerfile Builds toDocker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes by building Production Grade Kube Clusters with KOPS.
• Handled migration of on premises applications to cloud, and created resources in cloud to enable this. Used all critical AWStools, used ELBs and Auto-Scaling policies for scalability, elasticity and availability. Expert in deploying of PivotalCloudFoundry (PCF) on Azureplatform. Solving issues related to RDP of Azureinfrastructure.
• Deployed AzureIaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Experienced on creating AzureVM, CloudServices and Storages by using AzurePower-ShellScript.
• Expertise to orchestrate the data to and from Data Lake Store using Azure Data factory.
• Used AzureBLOB to access required files and Azure Storage Queues to communicate between related processes.
• Expertise in Azureinfrastructuremanagement (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, AzureStorage, Azure AD Licenses, Office365). Virtual Machine Backup and Recover from a Recovery Services Vault using Azure PowerShell and Portal.
• Handle escalated Support tickets till closure for MS Azure PaaS platform.
• Automated various infrastructure activities like Continuous Deployment, Application Server setup, Stack monitoring using Ansible playbooks and has Integrated Ansible with Jenkins.
• Implemented BLUE/GREEN deployment to maintain zero downtime(ZDT) to deploy process in Tomcat, WebLogic and JBoss using Python and shell scripts to automate log rotation of multiple logs from web servers and automating administration tasks.
• Monitored builds and deployments to ensure that failed builds or deployments are addressed in a timely manner using AppDynamics. Controlling administrative activities like user management, application management with AppDynamicsand experience in network monitoring tool like CA Wily, PRTG, Nagios.
• Built and managed a highly available monitoring infrastructure to monitor different application servers and its components using Nagios with puppet automation. Worked on Deployment and monitoring of scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services AWS & configuration management using puppet.
• Coordinating the resources by working closely with Project Manager's for the release and Project Manager for all the Operational Projects. Coordinate with the Development, QA and IT Operations teams during deployments to ensure there are no Conflicts.
• Worked as Microsoft TFS Management and TFS Admin and perform following activities. TFS Configuration, Branching and Merging, Resolve conflict, Push changes toMicrosoftTFS branches etc.
• Managed systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling Cronjobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, testing.
• Involved in troubleshooting Production Server Problems related to web applications, Send mail, disk space, file-system, DNS and network connectivity,SAN/NAS.

Confidential, Plano,TX

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience in amazon web services which includes Cloud Formation, Elastic Load Balancer, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, IAM, Server Migration, Route 53, SQS, VPC, S3, Dynamo DB, SNS, Glacier, RDS, EC2 Container Service, Lambda.
• Experienced in setting up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket by creating snapshots.
• Involved in Migration from Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment which is used to auto scaling. Extensively managed Network ACL's, EC2 and Security Groups in migrating physical servers to Cloud (AWS). Implemented multiple high-performances MongoDB sets on EC2 with robust reliability.
• Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling, and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
• Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.
• Created AWS cloud formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB, security groups. Implementation AWS VPC peering connection to establish communication across multiple EC2 instances in separate VPCs.
• Deployed Microservices using pivotal Cloud Foundry, and deploying applications into Cloud Foundry as part of Continuous Integration.
• Experience in writing Terraform templates, Chef Cookbooks, recipes and pushed them onto Chef Server for configuring EC2 Instances . That Auto Scaling fired up new resources those will by default bootstrapped with the using Knife and Chef-Client on Instances.
• Containerized all the Ticketing related applications- Spring Boot Java and Node.Js applications using Docker and automated applications and MySQL container deployment in Docker.
• Experience in Bamboo to setup CI/CD build for projects in PROD/DEV environments. Using bamboo as CI and installed maven plugins and chef as configuration tools deployed many web applications in web server.
• Configured and installed workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, wrote Recipes and cookbooks and uploaded to Chef-Server. Written Cookbooks, modules, roles, environments Recipe and Ruby Scripts to Customize the Chef as per our environment.
• Worked on different concepts of Chef like Roles, Environments, Data Bags, Knife, and Chef Server Admin/Organizations and used Amazon Linux AMI packages and configurations for tight integration with Chef.
• Established Chef Best practices approaches to system deployment with tools with Vagrant and managing Chef Cookbook as a unit of software deployment and independently version controlled.
• Worked on using Chef Attributes, Chef Templates, Chef Recipes, and Chef Files for managing the configurations across various nodes using Ruby.
• Worked on build tasks using Ant, MAVEN Make files and worked with development team to create scripts using groovy. Gradle and ANT as build tools for the building of deployable artifacts from source code.
• Worked with automation of OS builds and application installations through Chef, Nagios for application and hardware resource monitoring, worked with plug-ins in Nagios for monitoring resources.
• Experience in using vagrant to automate provisioning of development and production environment on Linux with CentOS, Ubuntu instances, Apache, and MySQL.
• Worked on different features in Visual Studio: Code labeling, Upgrade TFS to newer version, Backup Restore of TFS, Enforcing policies, Microsoft TFS Health Monitoring, Code deployment to environments, Build script modification, Server Monitoring(CA Wily).
• Used VMware VCenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX/ESXi hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS. Performed periodical updates of VMware hosts and guest patch updates, as well as perform parallel upgrade from ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6.0/6.5.
• Developed Shell Scripts for automation of the build and release process, developed Custom Scripts to monitor repositories, Server storage.
• Worked with Atlassian tools like Confluence, Jira and Skilled in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Agile Development. Experience customizing JIRA projects with various schemas, complex workflows, screen schemes, permission schemes, and notification schemes.
• Worked on configuring Linux machines through Kickstart (Red Hat Linux ) program for Host and network based Installations. Worked on Package management using RPM, YUM and UPTODATE in Red Hat Linux.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided 24x7 on-call supports in debugging and fixing issues related to Linux, Solaris, HP-U Installation/Maintenance of Hardware/Software in Production, Development & Test Environment as an integral part of the Unix/Linux ( RHEL/SUSE/SOLARIS/HP-UX/AIX ) Support team.
• Configured and installed Red Hat and Centos Linux Servers on both virtual machine and bare metal Installation.
• Involved in configured servers to provide networking services, including HTTP/HTTPS, File Transfer Protocol ( FTP ), network file system ( NFS ) and server message block ( SMB ), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP ), secure shell ( SSH ) and Network Time Protocol ( NTP ).
• Worked efficiently on managing the RAID, File system through LVM and creating and managing Logical Volume Manager in Red hat Linux.
• Integrate and implement server solutions and server components such as proxy servers, web servers, Application servers, database servers, directory servers, core infrastructure services (Proxy, DNS, SSH, SMTP, etc.)
• Involved in troubleshooting Production Server Problems related to web applications, Send mail, disk space, File system, DNS and network connectivity.
• Experience in administrating of DEV/TEST/PROD environment on different platform like Windows, Linux, and Solaris. Experiences on monitoring tools like Datadog, New Relic and Cacti.
• Administered Network File Systems using Auto mount and administering user and OS data files in NIS and NFS environment on both Redhat Linux and Solaris environments.
• Responsible for Installation, configuration and administration of middleware like Web Logic 9.0, JBoss 3.2, CA Web Access Manager (WAM) and MQ Series v 7.0.
• Monitored server and application performance & tuning via various stat commands (vmstat, NFS-stat, iostat) and tuned I/O, memory, etc.
• Managed systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling Cronjobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, testing.
• Login to the remote system using Sudo, putty, and telnet. Transfer files across the systems on the network using FTP, Scp and Rsync commands.
• Performed automated installations of Operating System using kickstart for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
• Configured Network Concepts NFS, DNS, NIS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems such as TCP/IP, providing support for users in solving their problem.
• Performed administrative tasks such as system start-up/shutdown, backups, Printing, Documentation, User Management, Security, Network management.