Ashwin Kumar Kumbam Email & Phone Number

Plano, Tx, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

In my role as a DevOps Technical Architect Lead and Linux Consultant at Southern Company Gas, I led a team in automating application onboarding using GitLab and GitLab Runners, facilitating seamless processes. Additionally, I successfully migrated repositories from GitHub to GitLab, deployed applications with Kubernetes and Docker, and integrated GitLab with AWS Lambda for enhanced data retrieval and analysis, resulting in improved operational efficiency and monitoring capabilities.

• Led a team of 8 Linux resources and 10 Cloud engineers in installations and maintenance of servers, automations, and documentations on GitLab, AWS, and Linux troubleshooting.• Managed public/private cloud infrastructures on AWS including VPC, EC2 instances, Route 53, S3, EBS, and more.• Introduced new Linux OS Rocky Linux on 1200 servers, performed hardening, and facilitated application deployment.

• Led a team of fourteen members in building and maintaining Azure Linux servers, ensuring systems are free from vulnerabilities.• Managed the Azure migration project, successfully transitioning clients from On-premises to Azure cloud.• Implemented CI/CD processes using ADO pipelines for efficient deployment of containers.

• Provide 24*7 system administration support to Linux and Solaris servers Managing the day-to-day operations of the Unix and Linux environment by monitoring system performance, configuration, maintenance, and issues.• Monitoring System Performance of Virtual memory, System events, Swapping.• Disk utilization, CPU utilization using different monitoring tools.• Responsible for application updates and patches deployments. Automated Patching through Ansible.• Managed, monitored and tested individual and group user access privileges and security.• Documented most issues raised during work hours there by reducing the amount of time to resolve the similar issues.• Managed daily activities which include support and system administration tasks.• Overseeing user and group management, including tracking user-related files.• Setting up disk management using Logical Volume Manager (LVM).• Responsible for updating and deploying application patches. Automating patching through Ansible Tower.• Resolving free space issues for all production and development server file system alerts.• Installing various packages using RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) and YUM.• Managing devices, detecting external storage, and creating partitions.• Served as an AWS engineer in a team, building and maintaining infrastructure to store, process, and manage large volumes of data from various sources.• Working experience with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, CloudFront, and CloudFormation.• Administered Jira and documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on Confluence.• Collaborated with various teams and management to understand requirements and design complete systems.• Maintained approximately 600 Cloud servers in my environment.• Utilized IAM to create and manage AWS users and groups, controlling their access to AWS resources.• Possessed hands-on experience with Git for managing and documenting source code changes, with strong expertise in version control concepts.

• Experience with Amazon cloud administration which includes services like IAM, EC2, S3, security groups, VPC and Route 53.• Creation of EC2 machines using EC2 service and assigning and modifying the storage and creating and modifying the security groups.• Good Knowledge of creating the AWS users and groups through IAM and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.• Hands on experience on GIT to help manage and document all the changes to the Source code and having strong experience on source control concepts like branches masters Merge and tags etc.• All basic Unix System Administration tasks including managing users, systems, patches, updates, and upgrades.• Hardware issues• Patching and maintenance of the system security• Scheduling Control -M Batch Jobs and monitoring. • Managing User and Group administration & monitoring the user administration related files. Adding & administering User’s account with SUDO privileges, and AD groups• Scheduling of automatic, repetitive Jobs using commands with Crontab. Managing process control and scheduling system related jobs using AT & CRON.• Fixing the free space issues for all production and development servers file systems alerts.• Installing different packages using RPM (Red hat Package Manager) and YUM (Yellow dog Updater Modified)• Provide 24*7 system administration support to Linux and Solaris servers Managing the day-to-day operations of the Unix and Linux environment by monitoring system performance, configuration, maintenance, and issues.• Device Management, Detection of External storage, and creation of partitions• Configuration and Creation of UNIX File Systems. And maintaining them.

• Monitored System Performance of Virtual memory, System events, Swapping.• Checking the disk utilization, CPU utilization using different monitoring tools and keeping the servers healthy.• Installing the required software Patch, Package as per the customer request. Tuning the kernel parameter as per the customer request.• Extensively involved in the system-related activities. It involves Building the new Servers by using jumpstart technology, Complex project implementation, System administration and System maintenance, Operations and designing activity as per client requirement.• Kernel’s patches installation/up gradation.• Network and interface management and setting network speed settings on network interfaces.• Establishing Disk Management using Logical Volume manager (LVM).• Creating new virtual machines and bringing them in LAN, logging into vSphere and maintaining the virtual machines. • Fixing the free space issues for all production and development servers file systems alerts.• Patching monthly on Dev servers and on production depending on the downtime we get from the client.• Device Management, Detection of External storage, and creation of partitions• Managing User and Groups over Linux server.• Scheduling of automatic, repetitive Jobs using commands with Crontab.• Configuration and Creation of UNIX File Systems. And maintaining them.• Checking System Performance like Virtual memory, System events, Swapping, Disk utilization, CPU utilization and resolving the tickets on these issues.• Server administration of local and remote systems via command line interface monitoring logs. • User administration.

• The project called as production control group (PCG) will have ownership over all scripts which runs on UNIX servers, PCG team is responsible to run monthly production cycle for IMCDB and GEO, the two main applications which runs the payroll and different financials in the project• We support Tivoli Workload Scheduler jobs for CFM team.• I was part of the team to monitor and manage Unix/Linux systems across two data canters. Supporting L1 related tasks. • Managing User and Group administration & monitoring the user administration related files. Adding & administering User’s account with SUDO privileges, and AD groups.• Scheduling of automatic, repetitive Jobs using commands with Crontab. Managing process control and scheduling system related jobs using AT & CRON.• Fixing the free space issues for all production and development servers file systems alerts.• Server patching.• Device Management, Detection of External storage, and creation of partitions using LVM• Monitoring System Performance of Virtual memory, System events, Swapping.• Disk utilization, CPU utilization using different monitoring tools.• Maintain uptime (achieved 95-99% for customer servers.)• Created documents for the project• Managed user and group administration like create, and deletion of user accounts• Supported 100+ servers with RHEL and solaris installed in few physical server

Master Of Computer Applications - Mca, Computer Science, First

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Physical Sciences, First