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Rochester, Minnesota, Us

• Involved in AWS EC2/VPC/S3/SQS/SNS based automation through Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash Scripts.• Adopted new features as they were released by Amazon, including ELB & EBS.• 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.• Managed Linux server environments, ensuring optimal performance and security through regular updates and patches.• Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines integrating Terraform with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI for automated deployments. • Design, build, configure, test, install software, manage and support all aspects and components of the application development environments in AWS. • Designed and implemented scalable cloud architectures, optimizing resource allocation and reducing costs through effective Cloud management.• Developed shell scripts in Linux to automate routine tasks, improving efficiency and reducing manual errors.• Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes. • Written Cloud Formation Templates (CFT) in JSON and YAML format to build the AWS services with the paradigm of Infrastructure as a Code.• Implemented AWS EC2 instances to run scalable applications and manage server resources efficiently.• Leveraged Cloud services to migrate on-premises applications, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transitions to the Cloud environment.• Deployed Datadog's security monitoring features to detect and respond to potential threats, ensuring compliance with security standards.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Worked with Windows, Linux, Azure, and AWS teams to resolve issues and plan for infrastructure changes.• Provided documentation of solutions for VMware, Windows, Linux, Azure, and AWS teams.• Set up preconfigured RHEL5.x and 6.x on local and in the cloud on AWS EC2 and Azure VMs.• defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances• Conducted regular assessments of cloud computing environments to identify potential security vulnerabilities and implemented best practices to mitigate risks.• Implemented and managed Azure Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, and Azure Firewall for secure network architecture.• Launching EC2 instances and involved in AWS RDS, S3, Load Balancing, IAM, VPC, Cloud Formation, Lambda, and Cloud Watch.• Facilitated cross-team collaboration by creating shared notebooks and reports in Datadog, enhancing transparency and communication across development and operations teams.• Managed and optimized cloud computing resources, achieving a 40% improvement in application performance and a 20% cost reduction.• Utilized Azure Active Directory for identity and access management across cloud resources.• Deployed and managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for container orchestration and application scaling.• Implemented Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines, integrating with Azure services for automated deployments.• Utilized Azure Monitor and Log Analytics for comprehensive monitoring and logging of Azure resources.• Implemented Azure Backup and Site Recovery for data protection and disaster recovery strategies.• Worked on NoSQL databases including Azure Cosmos DB and AWS DynamoDB to process large data documents.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Involved in DevOps migration/automation processes for build and deploy systems. • Consulted and recommended client in Build and Release Management Implementation. • Worked with Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, Configuration management and patching through Ansible. • Automated using Ansible, Python, or shell scripting with attention to detail, standardization, processes and policies. • Worked in an agile development team to deliver an end-to-end continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) product in an open-source environment using tools like Puppet, Jenkins. • Conducted performance tuning on AWS EC2 instances to enhance application response times and resource utilization.• Experience in writing Puppet manifests and modules to automate the deployment process and to integrating Puppet manifests into Jenkins jobs for a continuous delivery (CD) framework. • Led the migration of on-premises applications and databases to cloud computing platforms, ensuring minimal downtime and data loss.• Configured and monitored distributed and multi-platform servers. • Setup and build AWS infrastructure using various resources, VPC EC2, RDB, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, SES, SNS and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates, Route53, Lambda. • Worked on AWS for deploying EC2 instances consisting of various flavors viz., Oracle Linux, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu and Solaris in both Linux and Windows. • Developed build and deployment scripts using Gradle and Ant, Maven as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments. • Developed scripts and automation tools to monitor cloud computing environments, ensuring high availability and reliability of services.• Created a fully CI/CD process. Automated Build and Deployment Platform and coordinating code build promotions and orchestrated deployments using Jenkins/Hudson and GitHub. • Build Java code on to different Jenkins servers as per the schedule.

• Defined and Implemented CI and Release Management Processes, Policies, and Procedure. • Automated the release pipeline to achieve zero touch deployments using Jenkins, SVN, Nexus, and Nolio. • Worked with SVN and GIT version controlling • Creation and management of branches, merging branches, deletion of obsolete branches after every release. • Writing the post-commit and pre-push hooks in Python for code checks. • Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using Subversion (SVN) source control. • Analyze and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for SVN. • Developed Scripts for AWS Orchestration using EC2, EBS, S3, Cloud Formation and IAM. • Develop/capture/document architectural best practices for building systems on AWS. • Goal is to build a HA proxy Infrastructure so that two Docker containers are running behind Application load balancer. • Installed Ansible Registry for local upload and download of Docker images and even from Docker hub. • Implement, maintain, and support reliable, timely and reproducible builds for project teams. • Utilized Perl and Python for GIT for creating repository hooks • Used Maven dependency management system to deploy snapshot and release artefacts to Nexus to share artefacts across projects and environments. • Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with ANT and Maven to schedule the builds. Took the sole responsibility to maintain the CI Hudson server. • Used Ansible for configuration management and deployed all the services on to the cloud using Ansible. • Used Ansible playbooks to setup Continuous Delivery pipeline. This primarily consists of a Jenkins and Sonar server, the infrastructure to run these packages and various supporting software components such as Maven, etc. • Implemented Kickstart/PXE Boot Servers that Resync between multiple locations.

• Created and maintained user accounts in Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)and other operating systems • Troubleshooting and maintaining of TCP/IP, Apache HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP and DNS applications. • Configuration of NIS, DNS, NFS, SENDMAIL, LDAP, TCP/IP, Send Mail, FTP, Remote access Apache Services on Linux &UNIX Environment. • Migrated different projects from Perforce to SVN • Implemented AWS CloudWatch to monitor system performance and set up alerts for critical metrics.• Performing NIC bonding on Linux Systems for redundancy. • Diagnosed and resolved problems associated with DNS, DHCP, VPN, NFS, and Apache. • Created Bash/shell scripts to monitor system resources and system maintenance. • Create and Update Documentation for current Patching process. Coordinate with Lines of Business to schedule patching. Create Change request for Patching in Production environment. • Installed, tested and deployed monitoring solutions with Splunk services. • Managed and automated infrastructure provisioning with AWS CloudFormation for consistent environments.• Resolved configuration-based issues in coordination with infrastructure support teams. • Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators. • Skilled in deploying, configuring and administering Splunk clusters. • Responsible for the basic administration tasks related to LDAP and WebSphere Portal. • Installed and configured servers using Redhat Linux Kickstart method. • Created Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual Center, creating VM Templates, and troubleshooting all Virtualization related issues. • Expertise in remote access and application virtualization technologies such as XEN, VMware, ESX, ESXi, etc on Linux. • Coordinating with 24 x 7 on-call support personnel in debugging.