SUMMARY

• Experience in administrating of IAAS&PAAS Virtual Machines and Web/Worker roles on Microsoft Azure Classic, Resource Manager and troubleshooting issues on Azure VMs. Supported technologies, such as Active Directory Federation Services, Azure Active Directory, and PowerShell.
• Experience in enabling advanced cloud networking use cases in OpenStack, such as building multi - tiered Web applications and allowing the migration of applications to the cloud without changing IP addresses.
• Experience in using Chef to continuously deploy pipeline for infrastructure and applications, automated testing for compliance and security, as well as dashboards and reports for troubleshooting, auditing and management.
• Experience in managing Ansible Playbooks with Ansible roles, group variables, inventory files, copy and remove files on remote systems using file module.
• Experience in Implementation of Office365 and Azure Active Directory for single sign-on, authentication, authorization and Azure Role-based Access Control (RBAC) and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, Security policies and routing.
• Extensively used Terraform in AWS Cloud to automatically setup and modify settings by interfacing with control layers to create and compose all the components necessary to run applications.
• Experience in creating Puppet Manifests and modules to automate system operations. Worked on installation and configurations of Puppet Agent, Puppet Master and deployed Puppet Dashboard and Puppet DB for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Deployed Docker containers through Kubernetes to manage the micro services using its nodes, ConfigMaps, selector, Services, Pods.
• Experience in JIRA for ticketing and as well as defect tracking system and configure various workflows, customizations and plug-ins for JIRA bug/issue tracker, integrated Jenkins with JIRA, GitHub, Maven.
• Proficient in Power Shell, JSON, YAML, Bash/Shell, Python. Developed python, and shell scripts for automation of the build and release process.
• Experience in working with SQL database like MySQL, SQL Server and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, DynamoDB and Cassandra.
• Knowledge on SaaS , PaaS and IaaS concepts of cloud computing architecture and Implementation using AWS , OpenStack, OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry(PCF) .
• Expertise in Installation, Support, Configuration with different flavors of LINUX RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux (OEL), Debian, and Ubuntu. Installed and configured Red Hat LINUX Kickstart and Solaris jumpstart Servers.
• Performed Migration of CI/CD processes using Cloud Formation, Terraform Templates& Containerization of Infrastructure using Docker, which was setup in Vagrant, AWS and VPC’s.
• Hands-on experience using MAVEN, ANT and Gradle as build tools for the building of deployable artifacts (jar & war) from the source and static code analysis using SonarQube.
• Experience in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like Git, GitHub, Subversion (SVN), Perforce and TFS on Linux and Windows platforms.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins by installing, configuring and maintaining the purpose of Continuous Integration (CI) and End-to-End automation for all build and deployments implementing CI/CD for database using Jenkins.
• Experience in Monitoring server performance with tools like Nagios, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic and resolved network related issues with manual commands.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services

Container Orchestration Tools: Docker Swarm, EC2 Container Services, Azure Container Services, Kubernetes, OpenShift

Configuration Management: Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Salt Stack

Version Control Tools: GIT, GITHUB, SVN, Perforce, Bitbucket

Web and Application Servers: JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Web Sphere, Web Logic, Nginx

Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Splunk, ELK, Datadog, Grafana, New Relic

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, ServiceNow, Confluence, Rally, IBM ClearQuest

Build Tools: Maven, Ant, Gradle

Continuous Integration: Jenkins

Scripting Languages: Shell, Ruby, Terraform, PowerShell, JSON, YAML

Database: MySQL, Oracle, Mongo DB, Cassandra

Repository Management: Nexus, JFrog, Artifactory

Virtualization: VMware, Windows Hyper-V, Power VM

Operating System: Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, ICMP, SMTP, DHCP, BGP, UDP and RIP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Azure/Cloud Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in migrated Rackspace VM’S to Azure Cloud and was responsible for setting up Backups and Site Recovery as part of Disaster Recovery Strategy.
• Involved in implementing Power Broker Password Safe Password Management to Stored passwords can be sectioned into groups and subgroups and tracked changes to entries can be including a history of previous passwords, the creation time, modification time, last access time, and expiration time of each password stored
• Involved in Build Management, Version Control, Release Management and Deployments of the Solutions to the DEV, QA, Staging and Production Environment .
• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Associated routes with VNets via the route table per relationship constraints. Managed IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.
• Manage users and groups to create, modify and delete users/groups and troubleshooting user related issues and involved in Troubleshooting hardware, software (both OS and Application level) and networking issues.
• Configured VM's, availability sets using Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic
• Created Azure automated assets, Graphical runbooks, PowerShell run books that will automate specific tasks.
• . Involved in building and deployment automation of the various applications and tools within the organization.
• Administered security and configured user access and limits using Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM) by creating new profiles and policies for user management in JSON.
• Planned and configured network infrastructure within the VPN with public and private subnets and configured routing tables and internet gateway, Security Groups.

ENVIRONMENT: Azure, Windows, Shell, Active Directory, XML, GIT, Jira, SQL, UNIX, Windows NT/2000 and WebSphere.

Confidential

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in Build Management, Version Control, Release Management and Deployments of the Solutions to the DEV, QA, Staging and Production Environment
• Building and deployment of automation tools to support azure migration efforts and troubleshoot application deployment errors for azure migration leveraging Azure Devops principles/process (CI/CD) and toolsets of VSTS, Visual Studio, AKS (Azure Kubernetes) , Application Insights, Log Analytics.
• Setup and Evaluated extensively open source DevOps toolsets - Jenkins (CI) , Dockers (Containers) , Kubernetes (Container Orchestration) , Jira and Datadog (Monitoring tools) .
• Have created two different AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters for Dev and Production and created different namespaces in both clusters.
• Deployment and maintenance of cloud infrastructure to support development and QA needs.
• Involved in building and deployment automation of the various applications and tools within the organization
• Worked with Jenkins setting up CI for new branches, build automation, plugin management and securing Jenkins and setting up master/slave configurations.
• Configured VM's, availability sets using Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic.
• Leveraged Microsoft Flow to replace SharePoint Workflows .
• Involved in setting up new users with MFA and password less single sign on using OKTA.
• Actively Involved in Administration, Maintenance and End User Support of the SharePoint Portals (Internal-BRNET), External and Cloud (Hyper-V, Azure, Rackspace).
• Responsible for TFS Administration , Linux Administration and Azure Cloud Administration .
• Support the code builds by integrating with continuous integration tool (Jenkins).
• Involved in implementing change management process while fixing the existing code to enhance the code or bug fixing.
• Experience on installation of Apache Tomcat, MySQL and Nginx. Written playbooks to install and configure these packages.

ENVIRONMENT: Azure, Windows, Hyper-V, Shell, Python, Active Directory, XML, Jenkins, GIT, Jira, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, Puppet, Shell, Perl, UNIFX, Windows NT/2000 and WebSphere.

Confidential

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used OpenStack and provided framework and plugins for additional network services, such as Load Balancing-as-a-Service, Firewalls-as-a-Service and Virtual Private Networks-as-a-Service to be deployed and managed.
• Involved in the functional usage and deployment of applications in WebLogic, WebSphere, IIS and Apache Tomcat Server.
• Written Chef Cookbooks and recipes to Provision several pre-production environments consisting of Cassandra database installations and several proprietary middleware installations.
• Used Chef to automate workflow and ensure all changes are tested and approved with the same rigor and speed and to ensure changes are only deployed once properly approved.
• Worked on Ansible Tower to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications and proactively manage changes.
• Written Ansible handlers with multiple tasks to trigger multiple handlers and to decouple handlers from their names, making it easier to share handlers among Playbooks and Roles.
• Managed Docker networking subsystem by using User-defined bridge networks, Host networks, Ove and third-party network plugins.
• Created Azure automated assets, Graphical runbooks, PowerShell run books that will automate specific tasks. Expertise in deploying Azure AD connect, configuring ADFS installation using Azure AD connect.
• Deployed Cloud services (PaaS role instances) and Azure IaaS Virtual machines (VMs) into secure subnets and VNets and designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network Interfaces (NICs), subnets and VMs.
• Created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions with Application insights for monitoring and performing load testing on the applications using the VSTS.
• Setting up elastic search clusters on Microsoft Azure using Terraform scripts primarily.
• Handled migration of on-premises applications to cloud and created resources in cloud to enable this on Azure platform and handling issues related to RDP of Azure Infrastructure.
• Provisioned Sql and Neo4j servers in RDS and on-prem and created connectivity with kubernetes clusters.
• Set up build environment integrating with Git and Jira to trigger builds using Web Hooks and Slave Machines by integrating Docker container-based test infrastructure to Jenkins CI test flow.
• Setup SCM Polling for Immediate Builds with Maven and Maven Repository (Nexus Artifactory) by installing Jenkins Plugins for GIT Repository.
• Implemented Chef recipes for automated orchestration of clusters and worked on upgrading Cassandra from old 2.x to 3.0 version.
• Configuring and managing an ELK stack, setup the elastic search ELK Stack to collect search and analyze log files from across the servers and integration of Application with monitoring tool New Relic for complete insight and proactive monitoring.
• Generated reports using JIRA for creating projects, assigning permissions to users and groups for the project and created mail handlers and notifications schemes for JIRA.

ENVIRONMENT: Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD, Office365, OpenStack, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Maven, Jenkins, GIT, Cassandra, AEM, Python, Jira.

Confidential

Cloud/ DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Terraform scripts to automate AWS services which include Web servers, ELB, Cloud Front distribution, Database, EC2, database security groups and S3 bucket.
• Managed multiple AWS accounts with multiple VPC's for both production and non-prod where primary objectives included automation, build out, integration and cost control.
• Managed all cloud and on-premises environments at once under the Chef umbrella, including servers running the Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, and Solaris operating systems.
• Deployed and managed many servers utilizing both traditional and cloud-oriented providers (AWS) with the Chef Platform and written cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize & optimize project configuration.
• Created Ansible Playbooks to provision Apache Web servers, Tomcat servers, Nginx, Apache Spark and other applications.
• Worked in all areas of Jenkins setting up CI for new branches, build automation, plugin management and securing Jenkins and setting up master/slave configurations.
• Integrated Ansible with Jenkins to provide automation, continuous integration through Jenkins and Implemented Jenkins Workflow and Plugins for repeatable deployments of multi-tier applications, artifacts and services to Docker.
• Use of Docker , Kubernetes and OpenShift to manage micro services for development of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Created additional Docker Slave Nodes for Jenkins using custom Docker Images and pulled them to Cloud. Worked on all major components of Docker like Docker Daemon, Hub, Images, Registry, Swarm.
• Provisioned the highly available EC2 instances using Terraform and Cloud Formation and wrote new plugins to support new functionality in Terraform.
• Designed an ELK (Elastic Logstash Kibana) system to monitor and search enterprise alerts and configured ELK stack in conjunction with AWS and using Logstash to output data to AWS S3. Terminated SSL on to Nginx to remove overhead on API servers.
• Automated Datadog Dashboards with the stack through Terraform Scripts and assisted internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production quality dashboards.
• Developed Perl, PowerShell, Shell scripts, used Maven scripts to build the source code.
• Built and configured a virtual data center in the AWS cloud to support Enterprise Data Warehouse hosting including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups, Route Tables and Elastic Load Balancer.
• Utilized Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, Amazon RDS DB services, Dynamo DB tables, EBS volumes, to set alarms for notifications or automated actions, and to monitor logs for a better understanding and operation of the system.

ENVIRONMENT: AWS, Maven, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GIT, Python, Datadog, Jira.