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Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.• Worked on AZURE (laaS) migrating like creating AZURE VMs, storage accounts, VHDs, storage pools, migrating on premise servers to AZURE and creating availability sets in AZURE and performed Hardening of the VM's and disk encryption using the KEK key in MS Azure.• Involved in source control management with GitHub and GitLab Enterprise level repositories. Regular activities include configure user's access levels, monitor logs, identifying merge conflicts and managing master repository.• Experience in setup for CI/CD pipeline (Continuous-Integration & Continuous-Deployment) using various tools. Automating build and Release pipeline from scratch and maintenance of existing builds.• Worked on end-to-end setup of the Artifactory pro as a Docker container with a secure private Docker registry and local Docker repositories for storing the built Docker images.• Successfully created Kubernetes pipeline of deployment & operation activities where all code is written in java, python & stored into bitbucket, for staging & testing purpose.• Configured the Kubernetes provider with Terraform which is used to interact with resources supported by Kubernetes to create several services such as Config Map, Namespace, Volume, Auto scaler, etc.• Created K8s Clusters using Helm Charts and worked on creating multiple pods, replication controllers, replica sets, services, deployments, labels, health checks and ingress/egress by writing YAML files.• Used Ansible Playbooks to setup Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Deployed micro services, including provisioning AWS environments using Ansible Playbooks.• Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Experience in Architecting and Implementing Azure Service Offering such as IIS, Azure active directory, Azure resource management, Azure VM, Blob Storage, SQL Database, Azure Files, Azure Functions, etc.• Written Infrastructure as a code (IAC) in Terraform, Azure resource management. Created reusable Terraform modules in Azure.• Integrated automated tests in continuous integration like GitHub Actions for nightly consignment run of scripts.• Extensively worked with Jenkins APIs to know various things like build status, count of builds, GIT commit version used by Jenkins builds etc. using Groovy.• Worked on Container management by using Docker and by writing Docker files and set up the automated build on Docker HUB and installed and configured Kubernetes.• Managed local deployments in Kubernetes, created local clusters and deployed application containers. Building/maintaining docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes and deployed Kubernetes using helm charts.• Developed Python, Perl, and shell/bash scripts for automation of the build and release process and to automate certain processes for the smooth process of a build tool like Maven. Created and wrote shell scripts (Ksh, Bash), Ruby, Python and Power Shell for setting up baselines.• Developed an automated deployment for dev, QA and production environments using Ansible allows new services to be deployed and released simply by developers including an Ansible playbook.• Implemented Ansible Tower for managing complex network deployments by adding control, knowledge, and delegation to Ansible powered environments.• Involved in Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic using Node.js.• Used both Splunk for monitoring and analyzing log information. Experienced in Troubleshooting, Splunk search, quotas, monitor Inputs, WMI Issues, Splunk crash logs and Alert scripts.

Montgomery, Alabama, United States

• Created develop and test environments of different applications by provisioning Kubernetes clusters on AWS using Docker, Ansible, and Terraform.• Worked on google cloud platform (GCP) services like compute engine, cloud load balancing, cloud storage, cloud SQL, stack driver monitoring and cloud deployment manager.• Implemented CI and CD for application using Jenkins as CI tool for integrating different tools like GitHub, Maven, JUnit, and Nexus Artifactory and used Ansible as configuration management tool for continuous deployment into testing, staging and Production Environment.• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins, and GitHub, whenever there is a change in GITHUB, our Continuous Integration server automatically attempts to build a new Docker container from it.• Designed and implemented Continuous Integration (CI) process using tools like Hudson with approval from development and other affected teams. Defined processes to build and deliver software baselines for internal as well as external customers.• Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images, and managing Docker volumes.• Configured the Kubernetes provider with Terraform which is used to interact with resources supported by Kubernetes to create several services such as Deployments, services, ingress rules, Config Map, secrets etc., in different Namespaces.• Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes, Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker. Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.• Worked extensively on automation engine Ansible that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.• Having experience on creating deployment scripts using PowerShell and automated multiple daily maintenance tasks using PowerShell.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

• Worked on Serverless services, created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions with application insights for monitoring and performing load testing on the applications using the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) also called as Azure DevOps Services.• Working as Kubernetes Administrator, involved in configuration for web apps, Azure App services, Azure Application insights, Azure Application gateway, Azure DNS, App services.• Created Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for continuous build & deployment and integrated JUnit and SonarQube plugins in Jenkins for automated testing and for Code quality check.• Worked on the creation of custom Docker container, tagging, and pushing the images and Docker consoles for maintaining the application of life cycle.• As an SRE worked on setting up New Relic Monitoring on various application servers like Java, python, PSQL database on Kubernetes, on-prem servers, and EKS clusters.• Worked on Rancher for orchestrating Kubernetes pods, containers, and automated deployment process for various environments Dev, QA, Beta, Prod through GitLab.• Involved in working closely with Developers to find SLI's and SLO's for monitoring applications and gathered Events for Triggers for infrastructure, APM, Synthetics, and Alerts to maintain 99.99 service reliability index.• Worked on setting up infrastructure agents, APM agents on applications in EKS cluster, on-prem servers, and creating dashboards for infrastructure monitoring, APM, synthetics, browser-related data using NRQL language.• Experience in automation of CICD process using Jenkins, GitLab and maintained Images in docker registry in JFrog Artifactory, continuous delivery with rolling updated, blue-green deployments on applications on EKS cluster.• Installing, configuring, and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines and implemented the setup for master slave architecture to improve the Performance of Jenkins.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Used IAM to create new accounts, roles, groups, polices and developed critical modules like generating amazon resource numbers and integration points with S3, Dynamo DB, RDS, Lambda and SQS Queue.• Used Python libraries such as Paramiko, PyCrypto, XML Parser and logging libraries to develop automatic storage, networking deployment tool on scale out environment with Linux and Troposphere libraries to create AWS Cloud Formation descriptions.• Wrote Chef Cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize product configuration, converting production support scripts to Chef Recipes and AWS server provisioning using Chef Recipes.• Used Configuration management tool Puppet to automate the management of servers in test and Upgraded Puppet Masters, Agents, and Databases.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Installed Jenkins/Plug-in for GIT Repository, Setup SCM Polling for Immediate Build with Maven and Maven Repository (Nexus Art factory) and Deployed Apps using custom ruby modules through Chef as a CI/CD Process. Created and configured jobs, script for custom command builder, agents in Bamboo.• Installed and configured Red Hat Linux, established and schedule activities in test and production environments. Experience in working with GIT for branching, tagging, and merging.• Performed software configuration/release management activities for three different Java applications.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Involved in Management of user accounts, files and directory permissions, and securing Unix systems to match industry best practices. Wrote shell scripts for automation of daily tasks and created jobs as per performance of the client’s network statistics(/var/log/messages).• Built backup scripts to store VM images on local machine and mirrored the images on to webserver, with Rsync.• Worked to develop this Web based application entitled EMR in J2EE framework which uses Hibernate for persistence, Spring for Dependency Injection and JUnit for testing. Used JSP to develop the front-end Apps.• Designed and developed several SQL Scripts, Stored Procedures, Packages and Triggers for the Database.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree