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Reston, Virginia, Us

• Designed, implemented, and supported CI/CD pipeline using GitHub, Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and Python. Transformed TNS hand-off-based deployments into a fully automated CI/CD solution using Jenkins Pipelines reducing release times by over 60%.• Created and maintained AWS infrastructure by utilizing almost all the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling resulting in a 60% reduction in infrastructure cost.• Implemented AWS security solutions, including IAM, Security Groups, and WAF, resulting in a 70% improvement in infrastructure security.• Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform templates to build staging and production environment.• Written several YAML files to create many services like pods, services, deployments, selectors and labels, health checks, namespaces, config-maps and managed containerized applications. This resulted to prevent environmental differences resulting in over 40% less build failures.• Worked on Container Orchestration with Kubernetes using Minikube, Kubeadm to deploy applications on clusters using Kubernetes objects like deployments, services, replication controllers, sets. Created Kubernetes Pods, clusters, replication controllers, services, labels, health checks, and ingress by writing YAML files and deployed microservices on Docker containers.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Utilized Terraform & Ansible by creating DevOps processes for consistent and reliable deployment methodology. Written Terraform scripts to spin up instances, create security groups, vpc, subnets, IAM roles.• Designed and implemented of cloud-based solutions for enterprise clients using Azure services like Azure VM, Azure Functions, and Azure Storage and DevOps practices. Built and managed Azure infrastructure using ARM templates, PowerShell, and Terraform.• Configured Azure Virtual Networks, Subnets, Load Balancers, and Traffic Manager to provide high availability and scalability.• Configured Azure Security Center and Key Vault to protect sensitive data and applications. Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines, Git, and Docker.• Implemented monitoring and alerting systems using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.• Creating Labs, Virtual Machines in Azure along with setting up policies and using Formulas and Custom Images to deploy the network.• Developed CI/CD pipeline in Azure by developing Git based branching strategies and defining various build tasks that will build the .Net and Java based application and trigger the ARM templates to deploy the Azure VMS with NSG and VNets.• Developed PowerShell scripts and worked on Azure CLI to provision the Azure VMs with custom extension scripts to manage the Azure backups with pre and post action scripts.• Developed Azure Runbooks in Python and PowerShell to perform the migration of the on-premise infrastructure to the cloud and Configured ARM Templates which are triggered from the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.• Configured Azure Virtual Machines, developed custom extension by developing Python scripts, added the VMs to the security center to manage the security recommendations, managed Azure Key vault to manage the encryption keys.• Experience in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, and Office365) With Monitored Azure.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Continuous Delivery is being enabled through Deployment into several environments of Test, QA and Production using Jenkins.• Used Ansible Playbooks to setup Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Deployed micro services, including provisioning AWS environments using Ansible Playbooks.• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/Git/Gitlab Repositories and access control strategies. • Designing and implementing CI (Continuous Integration) system, configuring Jenkins servers, Jenkins nodes, creating required scripts (Perl & Python), and creating/configuring VMs (Windows/Linux).• Wrote several Jenkins jobs using pipeline scripts to automate GITHUB operations through Jenkins, Bash andPython scripts to upgrade Kubernetes infrastructure related tools.• Installation and Upgradation of packages and patches, Configuration management, Version Control, Service packs, troubleshooting connectivity issues and reviewing Security constraints.• Environment provisioning solutions using Docker. Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images and managing Docker volumes. Configured and maintained Jenkins and Docker for Continuous Integration and automation of all build and deployments.• Experience in Building and Managing Hadoop EMR clusters on AWS. Worked on configuring and setting up MWAA environment using EKS, S3 and ECR. Worked on building the golden image for different teams using Packer and Ansible.• Created Elastic Load Balancers to manage and distribute the traffic to servers to make sure the servers are not overburden and are fully operational all the time with no downtimes.• Automated CI/CD using Github Actions. Helped and assisted different teams on different issue related to AWS Services like EMR, IAM, SSO, MWAA.• Integrated Applications and AWS Services with Datadog, Uptime and Opsgenie for monitoring and alerting

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Participated in the release cycle of the product which involve environments like Development QA UAT and Production. • Responsible for configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of various Projects. • Developed utilities for developers to check the checkouts, elements modified based on project and branch. • Used Ansible as Configuration management to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and used Ansible Tower to monitor automation activity and manage infrastructure. • Written Ansible playbooks & modules for Ansible customizations and to configure, deploy and maintain software components of the existing/new infrastructure.• Created and managed Ansible playbooks and roles for automating the provisioning, package installations, and deployed web applications on Apache web servers, Tomcat Servers, and standalone server environments• Designed and created multiple deployment strategies using Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD) Pipelines and configuration management tools with remote execution. • Ensured zero downtime using blue/green deployment strategy and shortened deployment cycles through Jenkins automation.• Written code for adding additional functionalities to the existing system. Part of an Agile team and participated in the Scrum meetings. Used Jira to create, manage user stories and provide estimates for the user stories.• Coordinating build and releases schedule between Engineering and IT team including creating PTN (Patch Transfer Notes). PTN is documents detailing step by step process which the deployment engineer (IT and/or DBA) must follow for deploying updates and hotfixes to staging and production servers.• Worked on Branching, Merging, Tagging, and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GIT and Subversion (SVN) on Linux platforms.• Coordinated with developers, Business Analyst and Mangers to make sure that code is deployed in the Production environment.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Migrated from On-Premises Infrastructure to AWS Cloud focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto scaling. Automated the build process in streamlining the multi-platform, and process of building and eliminating the build errors, developed automated testing each build • Worked on provisioning and managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) services like EC2, EKS, ECS, ELB, IAM, Cloud Trail, Route53, RDS, VPC, SQS, SNS, Lambda, EBS, Elasticache, Elasticsearch focusing on production ready, load balanced, highly available and fault tolerant infrastructure. • Created EC2 instances using AWS AMIs and configured the launched instances concerning the application. Used AWS VPC to design and build infrastructure by configuring NAT gateways, subnets in various areas for high availability and security. • Configured inbound and outbound traffic to the internal network interfaces, subnets, and virtual machines. Designed route tables among servers and Internet Gateway for internal communication to allow public traffic into its private network. • Managed users, groups with specific policies and attached them using IAM accounts and implemented multi-factor authentication to meet security compliance. Created and maintained policies for S3 buckets and used them for backup and storage on AWS. Encrypted S3 buckets for all CloudTrail logs encrypted and policies to access the logs. • Written Lambda functions and implemented various tasks like triggering an action to copy the files in between the S3 buckets and taking EBS snapshots in regular intervals. • Creating Elastic Load Balancers to manage and distribute the traffic to servers to make sure the servers are not over-burden and are fully operational all the time with no downtimes.• Implemented AWS Auto Scaling for providing high availability of applications deployed on EC2 instances by observing the load of applications using AWS Cloud Watch