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Deploy, configure and maintain computation on Azure cloud.Troubleshoot issues and engage with teams and vendors for issue resolutions.Automate deployment and troubleshoot mechanism for quick service.Develop and implement new process and provide documentation of it.Handled work assignment through the ticketing system or form lead administrators.Performed software installation and maintenance task for cloud infrastructure.Conducted technical evaluation and proof of concept programs evaluating and implementing new technologies and tools.Configured Service Connections in Azure DevOps to connect to Azure Subscriptions using the App registration (Service Principle), PowerShell, SOC, Helm chart creation and Common library.Managed deployment to different environments using Jenkins and helped team by unblocking them resolving the pipeline issues.Involved in creating the CD/CI pipelines to execute the functional tests as part of the build process using Jenkins.Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.Create, maintain and administrating GitHub and Subversion repositories as source code managements.Implement patching solutions using a configuration management tool as well as leveraged update management feature in Azure and documented the end-to-end process to provide as a service.Resolving network issues, Provisioning Vnets, python and running test scripts and preparing network documentation.Developed Test Cases for ETL/ Data warehouse changes based on technical specifications and Mapping documentsWorked extensively with Helm chart creation, PowerShell, Chef, python, groovy, SOC, GCP, C#, Puppet, Salt & Ansible in production environments.Worked on CI/CD pipelines Automation leveraging Jenkins as well quality analysis using SonarQube.Used Azure Monitoring for monitoring the daily activities performed in AZ cloud and setup alerts

Configured Site to Site VPN Connectivity. Configured Window Failover Cluster by creating Quorum for File sharing in Azure Cloud.Designed AZURE Resource Manager (ARM) templates and custom build steps using PowerShell. Identified and logged defects in VSTS and interacted with developers to prioritize the issues.Defined resources and specified deployment parameters to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to create resource group of virtual machines.Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using groovy.Generated Docker files to build Docker images, python, groovy, PowerShell, GCP, Helm chart creation, C#and leveraged Docker containers in Kubernetes.Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.Reduced deployment time for critical agile project infrastructure from ~1 month to 2 days.Provided production and pre-prod support for multiple applications involving Java, python, Golang involving tools like Jenkins, Helm chart creation, Kubernetes etc.Created YAML templates and updated packages of various applications using Ansible Playbooks.Tested procedures to unify streamline and automate applications development and deployment. Procedures with Red Hat Linux container technology using Kubernetes and C#.Used spring config server for centralized configuration and Splunk for centralized logging. Used Concourse and Jenkins for Microservices deployment.Consumed REST services in UI service layer with the help of http and resource providers.Regularly participated in Technical and Used Case review meetings for various functionalities in the application for python.Involved in Interface Testing (API testing) for Helm chart creation and ensured data and control are working properly between middleware and backend systems using complex Application Programming Interface (API).

Implemented a Continuous Delivery framework using Azure pipelines, Azure DevOps.Analyzed on premise applications infrastructure and designed VM sizing and disk sizes in Azure cloud.Configured Service Connections in Azure DevOps to connect to Azure Subscriptions using the App registration (Service Principle) and Common library.Designed, developed and built medium to large-scale pipelines using multiple DevOps tools like groovy, JIRA and Selenium is required.Involved in creating the CD/CI pipelines to execute the functional tests as part of the build process using Jenkins.Worked on configuration and deployment of instances on AWS environment and familiar with EC2, Cloud watch, Elastic Search and managing security groups on AWS.Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, GoLang, python NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.Designing and implementing for fully automated server build management, monitoring and deployment By Using DevOps Technologies like Chef.Responsible to develop and execute the functional test cases using groovy and cucumber.Consumed REST services in UI service layer with the help of http and resource providers.Regularly participated in Technical and Used Case review meetings for various functionalities in the application.Managed deployment to different environments using Jenkins and helped team by unblocking them resolving the pipeline issues.Involved in creating the CD/CI pipelines to execute the functional tests as part of the build process using Jenkins.Worked on container orchestration tool Docker and deployment tool as Kubernetes. Defined Docker File for application image and YAML files for deployment.Involved in Interface Testing (API testing) and ensured data and control are working properly between middleware and backend systems using complex Application Programming Interface (API).

In-depth knowledge on Jenkins to set up all the stages of CI/CD Pipeline such as version control, build, unit test, deploy, auto test, and deployment to production.Experience in AWS, Tomcat, MySQL, Oracle, and tool like Prometheus.Experience in maintaining code quality and code security tool like SonarQube, Selenium.Experience in containerized technology like Docker, Kubernetes.Integrated Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes by creating pods, config Maps, deployments using JenkinsTested various UNIX Load Scripts and Informatica ETL data Validation.Building Docker images and fetch/promote and deploy to Production.Setup and maintain a Docker repository, nexus repo, Linux package manager.Good Expertise and Experience with Infrastructure as a Code using Ansible.Good Experience in writing Yaml script to automate the process.Knowledge in writing scripting languages like Python, Shell Scripting, and PowerShell.Responds constructively and quickly to shifting goalposts or changing requirementsCope effectively with rapid change or increased demandsAnalytical and problem-solving skillsExcellent communication skillsTeam Player & organizational and leadership skills.Environment: Ansible, SonarQube, Selenium, Python, Nexus Repo, Shell Scripting, PowerShell.