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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.
• 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.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.