Akhil Kumar Email & Phone Number

Remote

• Design, Plan and Migrate deployments of customer on-premises data center/applications to Microsoft Azure.• Involved with planning, designing, and transforming environments from on-premises to cloud-based Work as Cloud Administrator on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups.• Develop cloud automation tailored to customer’s needs Gather, review, and validate network requirements, VNETs, and network security groups and configure network and firewall configurations.• Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.• Designed User Defined Routes with custom route tables for specific cases to force tunneling to the Internet via On-premises network and control use of virtual appliances in the customer's Azure environment.• Managed IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.• Create detailed project plans and present for customer approval configure and deploy Microsoft System Center into the environment• Troubleshoot VMware ESX, Windows Server, Active Directory, and physical infrastructure issues that may occur.• Involved in design, implementation and modifying the python code.• Developed python and shell scripts for automation of build and release process• Ability to deliver presentations, discuss Microsoft Azure and complimentary products at a solutions level using PowerShell and other scripting languages to complete day to day tasks• Worked on continuous integration and continuous delivery jobs for several teams in dev and test environments using shell, Groovy.• Worked on automating cron jobs which aid in scheduling dev, model, and prod jobs and disables the job after execution, as self-service to developers.

• Implement required AWS services to High Performance Computing Experience. Especially, experience in leveraging AWS services including EC2, S3 storage, EFS (Elastic File System), IAM (Identity and Access Management) Cloud Formation, Cloud watch, DynamoDB.• Automate AWS Backup for applications like Confluence to maintain backup by supported AWS services (EFS, RDS etc.) and migrate Confluence Data from source to destination by using AWS DataSync agent.• Responsible for administration of GIT version control and Perform activities branching, tagging, backup, restore.• Automated the process of deployment to Apache Tomcat Application Servers by developing Unix/Python Scripts.• Worked extensively on AWS broad range of services such as provisioning EC2, VPC, ELB, Security Groups, IAM, EBS, S3, SNS, SQS, Route53, ELB, CloudWatch, Cloud Front, Cloud trial, RDS• Worked on container-based deployments using the Docker images and Docker registries, pulled the required images from Docker Hub, Nexus. Used Docker to avoid the environment difficulties between Developers and Production.• Involved in setting CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Github, Docker, and Nexus.• Created and developed deployments, namespaces, Pods, Services, Health checks, and persistent volumes etc., for Kubernetes in YAML Language.• Design and implement the CICD architecture and automation solutions using GITHUB, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Bamboo, and Ansible Tower. Deploying to production environment in AWS using Terraform• Implemented Fortify and Black Duck Scans for Security and deploying the binary files like zipping, jar, dll’s files to JFrog Artifactory using Jenkins, Bamboo• Automation of Data transfer between on-premises and Cloud platforms leveraging HPC scripts.• Design and deploy the infrastructure and services for new applications by tools such as SonarQube, Blackduck and Jenkins etc.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

• Experience in Software Integration, Configuration, building, automating, managing, and releasing code from one environment to another environment and deploying to servers.• Worked in AWS environment, instrumental in utilizing Compute Services (EC2, ELB), Storage Services (S3, Glacier, Block Storage, Lifecycle Management policies), CloudFormation, Lambda, VPC, RDS and Cloud Watch.• Migrated Linux environment to AWS by creating and executing a migration plan, deployed EC2 instances in VPC, configured security groups &NACL's, attached profiles and roles using AWS Cloud Formation templates • Used Amazon Route53 to manage DNS zones globally & to give public DNS names to ELB's and CloudFront for Content Delivery• Experience in implementing AWS lambda to run servers without managing them and to trigger run code by S3 and SNS.• Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation using Jenkins along with PowerShell to automate routine jobs. • Developed shell scripts for automation of the build and release process, developed Custom Scripts to monitor repositories, Server storage.• Created Ansible playbooks to automatically install packages from a repository, to change the configuration of remotely configured machines and to deploy new builds and various automation purpose, file copy, permission changes, configuration changes, path specific folder creation.• Experience in working in .Net application and branching, Tagging, Release Activities on Version Control Tool like GIT and Subversion (SVN). • Experience in resolving issues of merge conflicts and develop Custom Scripts to monitor repositories and Server storage. • Installed Nexus repository tool to maintain the artifacts/dependencies jars. • Involved in development of test environment on Docker containers and configuring the Docker containers using Kubernetes. • Deploy code updates into test and production environments and work to roll environments forward

• Installation, configuration, backup, recovery, maintenance and support of RedHat Linux and Solaris.• User account management worked with shell scripting (bash) to automate administration tasks.• Responsible for installing, upgrading and managing packages via RPM and YUM.• Logged events from forced crash dumps and troubleshoot server issues. • Configured Yum repository server for installing packages from centralized server. • Installed Fuse to mount the keys on every Debian Production Server for Password-less authentication. • Installed and Configured DCHP server to give IP leases to production servers. • Applied the clustering Topology that meets High Availability and Failover requirements for performance and functionality. • Installation, Configuration and administration of DNS, LDAP, NFS, NIS and send mail on Red hat Linux/Debian severs. • Troubleshooting Day-to-Day issues with various Servers on different platforms.• File system Administration, Setting up Disk Quota, solutions on SAN/NAS storage.• Configuration and administration of Clustered servers on SUSE Linux environment.• Configuring backups on newly built servers and monitoring failed backups.• Install and configure Ubuntu, Centos on remote servers and Desktop servers. • Installation of patches and packages using RPM and YUM in Red hat Linux. • Installed and configured Apache/Tomcat web server. • Created and modified users and groups with SUDO permission. • Working with developers to load software onto Linux Enterprise servers and debugging Scripts. • Set up and administer user and groups accounts, setting permissions for users. • Diagnosed and resolved problems associated with DNS, DHCP, VPN, NFS, and Apache. • Creation and administration of Virtual Machines using VMware and virtual box. • Maintaining the Linux Firewall for network and implement to the network security. • Resolving TCP/IP network access problems for the clients. Develop, Maintain, update various scripts for service

Clearwater, Florida, United States

• General Linux administration, operating system, upgrades, security patching, troubleshooting, and ensuring maximum performance and availability. • Perform daily maintenance tasks on Linux severs, monitoring system access, managing disk space and tuning the system for optimum performance. • Responsible for writing and modifying scripts for day-to-day administration.• Installed and configured and administration of RedHat Linux servers and support.• Responsible for setting up Cron Jobs scripts on production server. • Monitored system activities like CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space usage to avoid any performance issues. • Setup Linux workstations with hardware and software RAID and implement LVM. Configure and maintain clustered RAID subsystems. • Wrote technical documentation for various projects.• Performed OS upgrades and patching when required. • Wrote bash shell scripts to automate various Linux servers.• Environment: Red hat Linux, Shell, Bash, VMWare, Networking.