Ali Abbass Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Experienced in AWS Cloud Infrastructure Management | Automation Specialist | DevOps Engineer• Proficient in Ansible for workstation installation, node bootstrapping, and playbook creation, integrated with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, and more.• Led migration of 80% VMWARE VMs to AWS, managing services via Ansible Playbooks, setting up VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, and more using CloudFormation.• Maintained IAM, RDS, Route 53, VPC, DynamoDB, SES, SQS, SNS services; automated deployment of relational/NoSQL DBs and web apps.• Created Microservices apps with Amazon EKS, managed Kubernetes charts with Helm, supported AWS products like RDS, Lambda, Kinesis.• Designed, monitored, and secured AWS infrastructure, implemented CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube.• Managed Docker container clusters with Kubernetes on GCP, planned, deployed, and monitored AWS cloud infrastructure.• Utilized Ansible Tower for configuration management, automated deployment with playbooks integrated into Jenkins.• Proficient in AWS IAM, bash scripting, Python, Boto3 for user management, security, and automation.• Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub, and Container Service, developed build and deployment scripts with Apache Maven.• Defined AWS Security Groups, designed virtual servers using Ansible roles for web application deployments

Chicago, Illinois, United States

New York, United States

New York, United States

Architected automated build and deployment pipelines for applications, significantly enhancing efficiency.Designed tailored release environments for new projects, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.Implemented cutting-edge frameworks using Jenkins, Maven, and Artifactory for continuous integration and deployment in Linux environments.Deployed and managed AWS infrastructure, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, RDS databases, and VPCs, leveraging security best practices.Proficient in AWS services such as Glacier, ELB, RDS, SNS, and IAM, with hands-on experience in provisioning and management.Expertise in configuration management using Puppet, streamlining deployment processes and ensuring consistency across environments.Integrated Maven/Nexus, Jenkins, Urban Code Deploy, Git, Confluence, Jira, and Cloud Foundry, fostering seamless collaboration and deployment.Experienced in Agile methodologies, utilizing tools like Rally for efficient project tracking and management.Leveraged ServiceNow for incident management, ensuring prompt resolution and minimal disruptions.Developed Perl and shell scripts to automate build and release processes, enhancing productivity and reliabilityTechnical Proficiencies:AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, etc.)Jenkins, Maven, ArtifactoryPuppet, RubyGit, Confluence, JiraAgile Methodologies, RallyServiceNowPerl, Shell ScriptingOrchestrated nightly and weekly builds for various modules, ensuring timely delivery and quality assurance.Streamlined database build, release, and configuration processes, minimizing downtime and enhancing scalability.Successfully migrated applications to the AWS cloud, optimizing performance and reducing operational costs.Collaborated with cross-functional teams to automate release components, fostering a culture of efficiency and innovation.

Phoenix, Az

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Phoenix

Proficient in Git, CVS, Perforce, Subversion for efficient code management across distributed teams.Designed fully automated server build, monitoring, deployment using Chef, ensuring rapid infrastructure provisioning.Leveraged Chef in AWS for scalable, reliable automated environments.Orchestrated deployment, management of servers with scripting, Chef, AWS for optimized resource utilization.Managed EC2 instances, auto-scaling, Load Balancing, Glacier for QA, UAT, and infrastructure servers.Hands-on with load balancers, security groups, Route53 for robust security, high availability.Used AWS CloudFormation for EC2 deployment, security group management, role configuration.Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Hudson for end-to-end automation.Developed Python scripts for EC2 instance management via Amazon API.Proficient in Apache Maven, Ant, ensuring efficient build processes.Solid understanding of Linux, UNIX, Windows for cross-platform compatibility.Experienced in Oracle, MySQL querying using SQL for data integrity.Skilled in bash/shell scripting for automation and optimization.Familiar with JIRA, ServiceNow for efficient issue resolution.Installed, configured Nexus for artifact management, version control.Directed operations personnel for maximum efficiency in build, release processes

Pakistan

Islamabad

Managed build and release processes, code merges, and branch creation, facilitating collaboration between development and infrastructure teams across multiple projects.Developed Software Release Management strategies aligned with Agile principles, ensuring efficient and predictable software delivery.Implemented Cloud Infrastructure as a Service using OpenStack, enabling cloud service portability across hybrid environments.Proficient in Version Control Management, Project Management, Work Item Customization, and Reporting using TFS.Utilized ANT and Maven build tools in Jenkins for automated build and deployment scripts, ensuring smooth environment transitions.Implemented continuous integration with Jenkins, facilitating seamless project monitoring and deployment.Deployed business processes to IBM WebLogic servers, ensuring reliable application deployment.Integrated Jenkins with ServiceNow via API, enabling seamless build information tracking and management.Installed and configured Nagios monitoring tool for infrastructure management, ensuring system stability.Wrote Python and Shell scripts for Jenkins to push build and commit information to ServiceNow, enhancing automation.Integrated GitHub with ServiceNow using webhooks and Scripted Rest API, streamlining information storage and retrieval.Configured SonarQube code quality tool and integrated it with Jenkins, ensuring code quality across projects.Documented software release management procedures and build/deploy documentation in Confluence, fostering collaboration.Implemented Puppet manifests for configuration management and service deployment, ensuring consistency.Configured Jenkins backups and Jenkins Build Pipeline plugin for efficient project management and automation.Deployed Java applications to web application servers like Apache Tomcat, ensuring reliable deployment.