A W

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Data Engineer @ Farmers Insurance
Dallas, TX, US
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Dallas, Texas, United States, United States
About A W

About Me🚀 Senior DevOps Engineer | Cloud Solutions Architect | Expert in Site Reliability Engineering 🚀With over a decade of professional experience in IT and DevOps, I specialize in streamlining operations and enhancing system performance through innovative cloud solutions and robust DevOps practices. My career spans significant roles where I have been pivotal in transforming cloud operations and deployment strategies to foster reliability, scalability, and efficiency.Professional Highlights:Expertise in Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience in designing and managing cloud infrastructures across Azure, AWS, and IBM Security, enabling businesses to leverage cloud capabilities for growth and stability.DevOps Leadership: Proven track record in leading the development and operations teams through complex deployments, employing CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, and more to optimize software delivery processes.Site Reliability Engineering: Skilled in implementing SRE frameworks that minimize downtime and improve customer satisfaction through strategic root cause analysis and preventive management.Automation and Integration: Advanced proficiency in Ansible, Terraform, and Jenkins, enhancing operational efficiencies and security through automation of critical deployment and integration processes.Performance Optimization: Adept at using monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana to derive actionable insights, ensuring optimal performance and swift incident resolution.I'm currently open to exploring new opportunities where I can contribute to challenging projects and innovative solutions. Let’s connect!

A W's Current Company Details
Farmers Insurance

Farmers Insurance

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Data Engineer
Dallas, TX, US
Website:
farmers.com
Employees:
44243
A W Work Experience Details
  • Farmers Insurance
    Farmers Insurance
    Dallas, Tx, Us
  • Farmers Insurance
    Lead Devops Engineer/ Site Reliability Engineer
    Farmers Insurance Oct 2021 - Present
    Los Angeles, California, United States
    • Deployed web applications on Azure, utilizing Azure App Service for scalable hosting; converted .Net Legacy to Core on Azure.• Managed servers with Azure Virtual Machines; implemented Azure Automation and Policy for compliance.• Ensured high availability with Azure Availability Sets; hardened VMs and encrypted disks using Azure Key Vault.• Established a hosted Build Agent in a Virtual Network for secure CI/CD in Azure DevOps Pipelines.• Proficient in managing Git branches using Gitflow for feature, hotfix, release, and support branches.• Designed Azure solutions across SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, integrating on-premises and cloud workloads.• Developed Microservice architecture using Azure and Docker, ensured high availability with Azure deployment models.• Implemented Jenkins pipeline best practices; integrated Jenkins with Azure Web Apps, Functions, VMs, Storage.• Automated provisioning of Azure VMs, scale sets, databases using ARM templates for microservices.• Configured availability sets and health probes for microservices; used Docker, Azure Container Instances for deployment.• Integrated GitLab into Jenkins for automated code management.• Integrated monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, and Datadog with AKS.• Developed, deployed Kubernetes apps on AKS using Azure CLI; integrated seamlessly with Azure services.• Built and provisioned Azure resources using ARM and Terraform; managed virtual networks and security.• Conducted regular tests on Kubernetes clusters to ensure code quality, security, compliance.• Used JIRA for ticketing, defect tracking; integrated Jenkins, GitHub, Maven.• Managed Azure Key Vault for securing keys, secrets, certificates.• Developed Azure DevOps pipelines; monitored development, debugged, built, and installed servers via ARM.• Configured AKS clusters using Azure CLI for optimal performance; conducted code reviews for YAML.• Optimized AKS for cost efficiency using right-sizing, spot instances, auto-scaling.
  • T-Mobile
    Cloud Security Architect / Devops Engineer
    T-Mobile Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
    Overland Park, Kansas, United States
    Streamlined DevOps pipelines to enhance automation, efficiency, security, stability, and quality of applications.Configured Jenkins for automating iOS, Android, and Java application builds using Groovy and Maven; deployed artifacts to Artifactory.Managed AWS features such as EC2, VPC, S3, AMI for infrastructure as a service (IaaS).Developed AWS CloudFormation scripts to create custom-sized VPCs, subnets, and NAT gateways for web application deployments.Utilized Ansible for cloud provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments; maintained AWS services like IAM, RDS, and Route 53.Employed AWS CloudWatch for monitoring performance and operational metrics.Implemented CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for deploying microservices on Kubernetes via Ansible in DEV, UAT, and PROD environments.Managed AWS infrastructure using Terraform and deployed Docker on AWS.Transitioned from YAML to Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments; maintained helm charts in repositories.Monitored server performance and network traffic using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/EFK stacks to reduce bottlenecks.Analyzed cloud usage and cost metrics with Datadog to optimize resource utilization and costs.Used Groovy scripts for querying metrics and interacting with systems like the ELK stack.Built a development workflow from scratch, including continuous integration and deployment pipelines using AWS Code services, Terraform, and Docker.Consistently upgraded and supported various environments like DEV, TEST, UAT, and STAGE following release cycles.
  • Flagship Bank Florida
    Devops Engineer
    Flagship Bank Florida Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
    Clearwater, Florida, United States
    • As a DevOps Engineer continuously working on the CI/CD pipeline with automation from Azure DevOps for the project in Build & Release areas.• Used agile methodology and scrum for the development. Worked on integrating with SQL Database, Jira Ticketing system,Jenkins CI tool, and Artifactory.• Deployed micro service applications on Azure Kubernetes by using Azure Kubernetes service (AKS), Kubernetes Cluster for cluster management, Virtual Network, Ingress API Gateway, and Cosmo DB.• Skillfully migrated .Net apps and DevOps to Azure CI/CD using ARM templates, Azure DevOps, and App Services.• Implemented Azure Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for Managing Access Control for backup & recovery.• Designed application environment in different Azure regions using CDN, Azure Traffic Manager, App Services-Web Apps, Active Directory, Storage Queues, Cognitive Services, Azure Search, Storage Blobs and SQL Database.• Migrated all projects’ data, including project backlog items, tasks, queries, and linkages, to Azure DevOps Services.• Managed Jenkins credentials and secrets on Azure Key Vault for security.• Triggered Jenkins jobs using Azure Event Grid for events like source code commits.• Working knowledge in deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps on Kubernetes container environment. and for the runtime environment of CI/CD system to build, test and Deployment we have utilized Kubernetes and Docker.• Efficiently integrated Jenkins with tools like Maven, Git, SonarQube, Nexus, and implemented Azure Log Analytics to monitor Azure resources.• Support application projects and create new applications using python, Maven build tools for application layer modules.• Involved in creating tables, writing queries, stored Procedures, and Database triggers.• Intermediate data persistent in XML files and used EXCEL for exporting data from the application.• Written test cases for the code and tested and debugged applications; resolved client issues.
  • Cardinal Health
    Site Reliability Engineer
    Cardinal Health Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
    Dublin, Ohio, United States
    • Orchestrated the CI/CD process employing tools such as GIT, Nexus, SonarQube, Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins for job creation.• Executed Maven builds, managed Elk, Splunk, Nagios, Nginx, Tomcat, and created Docker images deployed in clusters.• Architected, developed, and deployed microservices to Kubernetes and Docker Swarm through CI/CD automation.• Monitoring resource and application monitoring on AWS Cloud Watch, establishing alarms for EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3metrics, with configured notifications for events.• Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management utilizing Terraform, Ansible, and Git.• Implemented an observability stack, including monitoring, logging, and analytics using ELK, Splunk, and Nagios.• Utilized Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert manager for end-to-end monitoring of infrastructure, applications, and services.• Designed custom Grafana dashboards to track crucial application and business KPIs for early problem detection.• Worked on configuration management tool using Chef, for automating server configurations and deployments across Amazon EC2 instances. Created custom dashboards in Datadog with aggregated metrics and automated emails with Datadog reports using the Datadog REST API/web hooks. • Created and maintained Docker images, managed Docker Hub repositories, and wrote Docker files.• Established and administered Kubernetes clusters, deploying applications using YAML.• Developed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Groovy, and plugins.• Proficient in infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.• Expertise in Nginx, JBoss, MongoDB, and microservices architecture.• Demonstrated proficiency in Python for analytics, automation, and microservices development.
  • Edward Jones
    Linux Engineer
    Edward Jones Oct 2013 - Jun 2015
    St Louis, Missouri, United States
    • Installed, Upgraded, and configured Solaris, Red Hat Linux RHEL 3.x, 4.x and Windows server.• Created users, Groups and setup their home directories and appropriate access restrictions to software in the Active Directoryenvironment and NIS domains.• Managed performance of the server and resolved issues with Virtual Memory and swap space on operating environments and configured & monitored DHCP server.• Configured and administered DNS (Bind on Linux), Web (Apache), Mail (Exchange 2003), DHCP and FTP Servers.• Upgraded Memory, CPU and Disk size on the existing VMware Sessions on ESX Servers.• Strong Experience in creating user, Computer and auto logon accounts.• Assigned folder permissions to the users by gathering approval from the group owners.• Managed system installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, performance tuning, managing storage resources, network configuration to fit application and database requirements.• Aided in TCP/IP Networking troubleshooting and Linux Network Administration.• Implemented and maintained server virtualization using VMware and Oracle Virtual Manager.• Created virtual machine using Oracle Virtual Manager, creating server pool, VM cloning. Conceived, Designed, Installed and Implemented CI/CD automation system.
  • Amway India Enterprises Private Limited
    Unix Linux Administrator
    Amway India Enterprises Private Limited Jan 2013 - Oct 2013
    New Delhi, Delhi, India
    • Involved in design, configuration, installation, implementation, management, maintenance and support for the Corporate Linuxservers RHEL 4.x, 5.x, SLES 9, CENTOS 5.x.• Installation, integration and management of data backup/recovery solutions. Management and configuration of VMWare virtual machines running Oracle/Sun Solaris X86/64, Red Hat Enterprise.• Installed, configured, and administered Web Servers like Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat and Sun One Web Server for WebLogic plug-ins.• Created repositories, branches, and tags aligned with specified structures and managed permissions on GIT branches.• Developed and deployed effective Software Configuration Management (SCM) processes and procedures.• Installed and configured SSH server on RedHat/CentOS Linux environments to ensure secure access.• Developed and maintained multiple build definitions and published profiles for automated builds in an Agile/SCRUMenvironment.• Installed, administered, and configured Jenkins/Bamboo Continuous Integration tools.• Leveraged Ant and Maven for daily and weekly software builds.• Assisted developers and project teams in setting views and environments.

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