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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

• Created Build and Release pipelines in Azure DevOps Pipelines for.NetCore,.Net Framework and Desktop Applications and done deployments using SPN for implementing CI/CD.
• Implemented automation for deployments by using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines for massive builds and releases and worked with task groups, variable groups, Agent pools, Deployment Groups, Pipeline templates.
• Experienced in working with On-Prem to Azure Cloud Migration using Terraform and Ansible.
• Created various Terraform Modules for VNETs, VMs, Storage Accounts Service Bus, App Services, Functions, Key vaults, Frontdoor and Application gateways.
• Managed Azure Infrastructure Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, VM Role, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Virtual Machine Backup and Recover from a Recovery Services Vault using Azure PowerShell and Azure Portal.
• Hands on experience on Backup and restore Azure services and in Design and configure Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, Network Security Group (NSG).

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Experienced in working with Azure DevOps and created various Build/Release definitions to set up the complete CICD process of C#/.NET Application Deployments.
• Written custom DSC Modules for some complex requirements where DSC Resource is not available
• Implemented, supported & customized Configuration Management using PowerShell DSC, and ARM Templates
• Created various Agent pools and deployment groups in VSTS and installed build/deployment agents on On-Premise servers.
• Maintained continuous improvement of Vulnerability management process, initiatives, and technical assessments.
• Set up Code Coverage reports tool like Sonar and Cobertura to help in managing the quality of source code and track the security vulnerabilities in the code.

Sunnyvale, California, United States

• Coordinate with the Development, Database Administration, QA, and IT Operations teams to ensure there are no resource conflicts.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub and AWS AMI's, whenever a new GitHub branch gets started, Jenkins, our Continuous Integration server, automatically attempts to build a new.
• Automated Weekly releases with Maven scripting for Compiling Java Code, Debugging and Placing Builds into Maven Repository.
• Defined dependencies and plug-ins in Maven pom.xml for various activities and integrated Maven with GIT to manage and deploy project related tags.
• Supported the QA teams to implement the full automation suites using automation frameworks like Selenium and Cucumber.
• Experienced in integrating Selenium and Cucumber with Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Regression Tests.

India

• Installation, configuration and upgrade of RHEL and CentOS operating systems.
• Red Hat Linux server administrator, including security patching, kernel tuning, RAID disk array management, software packaging and installation using RPMs.
• Worked with a variety of File system management software such as Veritas Volume Manager, LVM, ZFS, SVM.
• Responsible for automating the process of setting up the Linux clients for AD authentication.
• Monitor the performance and availability of key middleware components in production and test environments.
• Configured kick start servers to install Red Hat Linux and VMware ESX on multiple machines.

Master'S Degree

Bachelor'S Degree