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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) policies for Inbound, Outbound and routing. Azure cloud services, Blob storage, Active directory, Azure Service Bus, Cosmos DB.• Expertise in Azure Scalability and Azure Availability - Build VMs availability sets using the Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and Virtual Machine Scale Sets using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to manage network traffic.• Deploying windows Kubernetes (K8s) cluster with Azure Container Service (ACS) from Azure CLI and Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and Octopus Deploy.• Using Ansible created multiple playbooks for Nginx LB, ELK, Influx DB, Grafana, Postgres and Redis.• Used Ansible to Setup ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Log stash, Kibana) and troubleshoot the Application Connectivity issues with logs in Kibana.

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.• Experienced in migrating Server Configurations from windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2016 with help of PowerShell DSC and Azure Automation as a Pull Server• Written PowerShell DSC automation scripts for Servers configuration and implemented CICD pipeline to deploy configuration to windows 2016 Servers through Azure Automation. • Used Kubernetes during debugging. Leading up to production when multiple application build must be tested for stability.• Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle. • Developing Docker images to support Development and Testing Teams and their pipeline • Created build Pipeline using Jenkins for continuous integration and automating the job configuration and Jenkins management using Groovy Scripts.• Created and maintained fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins, VSTS/Azure DevOps to decrease end-to-end deployment times, reduce downtime, and increase reliability.• Experienced in migration of entire project code base from TFS 2015 TFVC to VSTS Git repositories and implementing Git workflows, Branching, Tagging and Release strategies

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 Docker container from it.• 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.• Built additional Docker Slave nodes for Jenkins using custom built Docker images and instances. • Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing Docker volumes.• Promoting the artifacts into the Artifacts Repository Managers like JFROG Artifactory and Nexus.

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.● Implemented VMware design performing migration tasks such as physical machines to Virtual machines (P2V), Virtual to Virtual (V2V) using VMware converter. ● Have been the on-call person for the application, worked with the appropriate team members to bring the issue and get a resolution. ● Worked on customer tickets which are related to our application and helped the application team for the configuration changes and the file drops on the different servers. ● Troubleshooting and configuration of Local and Network based printers. ● User, Group Administration and Advanced File Permissions. ● Maintain security for the networked environment while allowing users to access all data and software remotely. ● Involved in supporting Apache, Tomcat and generated SSL keys for renewing SSL certs on web servers. ● Involved in developing custom scripts using Python, Perl & Shell (bash, ksh) to automate jobs. ● Resolving production issues/tickets by using ticketing tools.

Master'S Degree

Bachelor'S Degree