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San Jose, California, Us

- Successfully transformed and led teams in implementing DevOps practices, resulting in increased efficiency and reliability.- Established and enforced best practices in security, compliance, and performance optimization. - Contributed to the successful migration of workloads to public clouds, achieving cost savings and improved scalability. - Led cross-functional teams with a focus on collaboration and effective communication. - Provided organizational alignment for CXO level engagements, showcasing roadmaps, architectural designs, and MVPs/PoCs. - Mentored and developed high-performing DevOps teams. - Developed and executed DevOps strategies, roadmaps, and architectural designs. - Led a team of DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance and fostering a culture of innovation. - Architected and implemented scalable infrastructure solutions using AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. - Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for automated software build, testing, and deployment. - Established and enforced DevOps best practices, including configuration management and version control. - Evaluated and integrated new tools and technologies to enhance the DevOps toolchain.

San Jose, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual effort and enabling reliable software releases. • Developed infrastructure as code (IaC) templates using Terraform for cloud resource provisioning.• Collaborated with development teams to implement application monitoring and logging solutions.• Implemented containerization using Docker and orchestrated containerized applications using Kubernetes.• Conducted performance and scalability testing to identify and address infrastructure bottlenecks. • Provided technical guidance and support to junior team members, facilitating their professional growth.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

• Led and supervised a team of two system admin professionals, ensuring smooth and efficient operation of AWS systems and services.• Deployed, managed, and operated scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS, supporting over 30K concurrent users per second and achieving 99.9% uptime.• Reduced AWS costs by 15% by configuring bill SNS alert to send mail if usage crosses defined threshold, preventing overspending and improving budget management.• Designed and implemented a highly available, scalable AWS architecture, using best practices such as VPC, ELB, Auto Scaling, and CloudFormation, enhancing the performance and reliability of the web application.• Managed and maintained EC2 instances hosted on AWS, including EBS snapshot, security group, IAM roles, and backup and recovery, ensuring data protection and compliance.• Created and managed users using IAM and enabled log tracing using CloudTrail for audit, improving security and accountability.• Managed and optimised RDS instances, including MySQL and Aurora, ensuring high-performance and availability of the database.• Implemented continuous data replication between MySQL and Redshift using AWS DMS, enabling real-time data analysis and reporting.• Configured and managed CloudFront endpoints and caching rules, improving the speed and delivery of the web content.• Utilised various AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Redshift, Data Pipeline, DMS, IAM, ELB, SES, SNS, and S3, demonstrating proficiency and versatility in cloud computing.• Monitored production systems for expected performance, performed root cause analysis on production issues and determined action items for prevention and resolution, ensuring high-quality and customer satisfaction.• Used Ansible as a configuration management tool, automating and streamlining the deployment and configuration of AWS resources, saving time and reducing errors.

Iselin, New Jersey, Us

Assist Pre-sales team with RFP response and architecture validations.Monitor and drive customer POC to completion.Participate in COE efforts with development team.Design Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWSDesign and deploy highly scalable AWS solution based on given requirements.System Administration on AWS Cloud Computing and various services like - EC2, EBS, S3, CloudFront, Elastic IP, DNS and etc.Launch Instance, Creating Security Groups, Key Pairs, Network Interface.Perform S3 task such as Creating Buckets ,Uploading & Downloading from s3 , Granting Rights to specific users, AWS Database services. Creating and managing RDS instancesHandling Instance Lifecycle Terminate and Reboot.Depth knowledge on AWS virtual machines and various services like - EC2, EBS, S3, CloudFront, Elastic IP and etc.Configure Jobs in Jenkins. Help Dev team with Continuous Integration.Managing Client Vmware Infrastructure.P2V and V2V Migration.Creating VMs, vSwitches, Port Groups, RDM Mapping of RAW Devices.Configuring vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, DPM, HA, FT.Managing related storage technologies, e.g. SAN and NFSConfiguring VMware High-Availability, VMware Vmotion, VMware DRS, Vmware vCenter and vCenter Update Manager etc. Vcenter Administration.Installation and Configuration of MySQL Database and implement its Replication.Installation, configuration and management of MongoDB replica set.Installation and Configuration Open Source Monitoring System i.e. Nagios and Zenoss for critical applicationsConfiguration of Apache/ HAProxy load balancer for various critical applicationsInstallation and configuration of Varnish caching server (Frontend) for Apache web serverInstallation and configuration of Memcached caching server (Backend) for various open source web applications.Installation and configuration of open source cluster suit like Pacemaker/ Corosync

In

VMwareCreating VMs, vSwitches, Port Groups, RDM Mapping of RAW Devices.Configuring vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, DPM, HA, FT.Storage related issues (SAN, NFS).Resource MonitoringManaging VMs, Virtual Switches, VLAN, Network Connections and Ports.Trouble shooting VMware issue using vClient and SSH.Organizing team building, trainings and knowledge sharing for VMware products.Interactions with end user to fine tune/build the system.AchievementsSuccessfully upgraded MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.6.Successful Migration of physical Machines to Virtualized environment.P2V, V2V Using vConvertor.Consolidated Physical Machines to VM resulting huge saving to exchequer (GOI).Successfully implemented Oracle 11g RAC & grid on VMware VMs with Database team.Implementation of vSphere5, vCentre 5 and other VMware products in test labs. WindowsProviding IT Solutions and Guidelines to all units of IAF across India.Lead and Manage the IT Team with a strong business focus.Managing Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TFTP, WSUS, Terminal Servers.Updating virus definition, installing/troubleshooting client of F-secure Antivirus server. Trouble shooting escalated Server related queries of Windows 2003, Windows 2008 Server in AD, DNS, DHCP, IIS/Apache/Tomcat, TFTP, Terminal Servers, Antivirus and Firewalls and various in-house developed softwares etc.Backup and Recovery.LinuxManaging MySQL, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Samba Servers, Moodle, Apache HTTP and Tomcat Application servers.Configuring YUM servers, adding RPM, creating repositories for RHEL Versions configured in organisation.ClearCase Administration. Creating VOBs, Views, Backups and jobs related to ClearCase admins.Backup and Recovery.SAN STORAGEWorked on IBM DS 3000 SAN which include creating array, configuring RAID, creating LUN, Host MappingWorked on Cisco Fabric switch MDS 9000 which include Creating VSAN, Creating Zones, Configuring Host Access.

Education record

Msc, It

Mba, It

Msc, Information Technology

Vcp, Vmware Certified Professional

Certification, Oracle 9I Dba

Mcse, Mcse

Msc(It), Computers

Aws Certified Solution Architect