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• Working for DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to Puppet for Cloud Automation.• Excellent configuration management using Puppet.• Implemented Puppet modules to automate configuration of a broad range of services• Worked with Nagios x1 installation and configuration.• Worked with Nagios dashboard to monitor servers and monitor applications,• Actively involved in architecture of DevOps platform and cloud solutions.• Build Automation and Build Pipe Development using Jenkins and Maven• Integration of Automated Build with Deployment Pipeline. Currently installed Puppet Server and clients to pick up the Build from Jenkins repository and deploy in target environments (Integration, QA, and Production).• Implemented scheduled downtime for non-prod servers for optimizing AWS pricing.• Created proper documentation for new server setups and existing servers.• Maintaining a farm of EC2 instances, ELB’s and RDS.• Migrate on premise database to AWS Cloud and also designed, built, and deployed a multitude applications utilizing the AWS stack (Including EC2, R53, S3, RDS, SNS, and IAM), by focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.• Configure EC2 Instances, VPC, Route 53, ELB, Subnets, etc.• Configure and administer Apache and Application layers• Configure HTTP caching properties for static caching.• Experience with shell scripting.• Worked on SIEM for security and audit compliance configuration• Worked on version control using GitHub.• Worked on automating builds using Jenkins. • Experience with AWS SDK and AWS API.• Automate infrastructure in AWS using amazon web services.• Installing and configuring Tomcat and JBOSS.• Deploy puppet to completely provision and manage AWS EC2 instances, volumes, DNS, and S3. • Performed installation, configuration and tuning of Red hat, CentOS, Solaris.

Administration of RHEL 5/6 that includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues. Worked on creating, cloning Linux virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client 3.5 and migrating servers between ESX hosts. Worked in AWS Cloud Environment like EC2 & EBS. Worked with API's like AWS API for Creating and Managing Amazon Cloud Instances using Puppet Code and used puppet for provisioning. Installed and managed Red Hat Linux using Kickstart and applying security policies for hardening the server based on the company policies. Administered package installation, configuration of CentOS 5/6. Created disk groups, volume groups and RAIDs using Veritas Volume Manager. Installed and configured PHP and MySQL on Linux Server for test and development environment.RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management. Created new file systems, monitoring disk usage, checking and backup of log files administration and monitoring the disk based file system. Configured multipath, adding SAN and creating physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes. Installed and configured Apache and supporting them on Linux production servers. Performed Kernel compilation and patch upgradation on Linux servers. Worked on troubleshooting Linux network, security related issues, capturing packets using tools such as iptables, firewall, TCP wrappers and NMAP.

Maintained UNIX (Solaris 8, 9 & 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux4, 5, CentOS4, 5, VMware) on Sun Enterprise servers & Dell Servers.Implemented the Jumpstart servers and Kickstart Servers to automate the server builds for multiple profiles.Worked on adding new Users and groups and give sudo access in test and development servers and central file synchronization via sudoers, authorized_keys, passwd, shadow, group.Worked with DBA team in installing and configuring Oracle 10 g and 11g, Sybase, Db2 client v 8.1 and v9.0.Coordinated with application team in installation, configuration and troubleshoot issues with Apache, Web logic on Linux servers.Used VERITAS Volume manager to create disk groups, volumes, volume groups, and RAID’s.Installed and configured Veritas Storage Foundation Suite, Volume Manager, Cluster Servers & Veritas File systems (Vxfs).Installation and Configuration of SSH, TELNET, FTP, DHCP, DNS.Local and Remote administering of servers, routers and networks using Telnet and SSH.Installed/Configured/Maintained/Administrated the network servers DNS, NFS and application servers Apache and Samba server.Worked on LAN/WAN, firewalls, and routing for Internet and Intranet connectivity using different protocols like TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP/s, FTP, SMTP & SSH.Accomplished Disk Mirrors and RAID 0, 1 and 5 levels on several UNIX/LINUX servers.Involved in back up, firewall rules, LVM configuration, monitoring servers and on call support.Worked on Unix shell scripting for system/application in automating server task, installing and monitoring applications and data feeding file transfer and log files.Created BASH shell scripts to automate cron jobs and system maintenance. Scheduled cron jobs for job automation.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science