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Texas, United States

• Led DevOps migration and automation initiatives for system build and deployment processes, establishing infrastructure across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production environments spanning remote, on-premises, and cloud platforms.• Defined and monitored Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure system reliability aligns with business goals, achieving a 98% compliance rate with established targets.• Led incident response for critical system outages, performed root cause analysis, and conducted postmortems to implement preventive measures, reducing incident recurrence by 75%.• Automated security compliance checks and vulnerability assessments using AWS Config, CloudTrail, and Security Hub, enhancing security posture and reducing manual audit efforts by 60%.• Developed Terraform code to automate AWS infrastructure setup and deployment across various cloud, server, container, and environment configurations.• Configured AWS resources, including EC2, EBS, security groups, auto-scaling instances, load balancers, regions, AZs, and VPCs.• Wrote Terraform scripts to provision AWS resources like EC2, EBS, security groups, S3 buckets for state files, and DynamoDB for backend files.• Implemented CI/CD for web applications on AWS using services like Code Commit, Code Build, Sonar Cloud, S3, Code Artifact, Code Pipeline, Code Deploy, Elastic Beanstalk, and RDS.• Automated setup of cloud stacks with Ansible for services such as Tomcat, Memcached, RabbitMQ, and MySQL.• Utilized Python and Bash scripting for server-related tasks and interfaced with AWS services using the python-boto module.• Developed Jenkins pipelines to support deployment processes and implemented CD with Jenkins and Ansible.• Created Docker-based CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub, automating container builds for new GitHub branches.• Developed scripts using Jenkins, Docker, Maven, and Python for build, deployment, maintenance, and related tasks.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Automated release pipelines for zero-touch deployments using Jenkins, SVN, Nexus, and Nginx.• Managed version control with SVN and Git, handling branches, mergers, and branch cleanup post-release.• Setting up data backup policy, disaster recovery practices on Azure Storage services. • Creating Security groups, Services principles on Azure Active Directory to maintain and secure the environment.• Data Ingestion from various source systems to one or more Azure Data Storages Services using a combination of Azure Data factory. • Worked on Microsoft Azure (Public) Cloud to provide IaaS support to client. Create Virtual Machines through Power Shell Script and Azure Portal.• Moderate and contribute to the support forums specific to Azure Networking, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure AD, Azure Storage.• Developed Python hooks for post-commit and pre-push actions to enforce code quality checks.• Implemented Ansible Registry for local Docker image management and maintained shell scripts for Maven builds and POM.xml modifications.• Utilized Python for GIT repository hooks and Maven for artifact management, deploying artifacts to Nexus.• Orchestrated high-availability proxy infrastructure using Docker containers behind an application load balancer.• Collaborated with development, QA, and other teams for coordinated releases, including production fixes, weekly/monthly releases, and rollbacks.• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Nexus, and Git, optimizing efficiency and ensuring high-quality application delivery.• Built and deployed applications on WebLogic environments, conducted testing in build environments, and released to testing teams according to schedule.• Resolved issues during build, integration, and deployments, managing artifacts in Jenkins and SVN repositories for branching, merging, and tagging.• Implemented and maintained best SCM practices, managing environment configurations, code integrity, and conflict resolution.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Managed deployments across multiple environments, including QA, UAT, Staging, and Production.• Collaborated with Development, Quality Assurance, Publishing, and external teams to coordinate releases.• Led production fix releases, managed weekly/monthly releases, conducted rollbacks, and resolved bug fixes.• Developed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Nexus, Git, and other tools to optimize efficiency and deliver reliable applications.• Automated build and deployments for .NET projects using Jenkins and Maven, storing artifacts in Nexus or JFrog Artifactory.• Created and executed builds on various WebLogic environments, ensuring timely releases to testing teams.• Actively troubleshooted issues during build, integration, and deployments, deploying artifacts to Tomcat and WebLogic servers.• Coordinated with QA teams for release verification, initiating multiple builds concurrently.• Managed build results in Jenkins and orchestrated deployments using defined workflows.• Installed and configured Jenkins on Linux, enabling parallel builds through a build farm setup.• Integrated Subversion (SVN) and Ant with Jenkins for continuous integration processes.• Created deployment tickets in JIRA for tracking and managing production build deployments.• Collaborated closely with developers and managers to troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues promptly.• Converted AWS infrastructure to serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, Kinesis) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.• Managed Subversion (SVN) branches for parallel development and proposed/implemented branching strategies.• Administered SVN users and groups, addressing client spec and user-related issues as they arose.• Automated deployment and server restart processes using WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) and Shell scripts.• Facilitated release management calls, coordinating with developers, testers, and DBA teams to ensure successful releases.