AKSHAY RAMANI

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Phone: 470-***-****

Mail: ad4r33@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Overall 6+ years of extensive IT experience, particularly focused on DevOps and Cloud Engineering with Azure, AWS Cloud, Configuration Management, and Linux Administrator.

Demonstrated expertise in cloud implementations (AWS, Azure) involving code compilation, packaging, debugging, automation, deployment, and management across multiple environments.

Proficient in architecting and configuring public/private cloud infrastructures utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as EC2, Elastic Load Balancers, Elastic Kubernetes Service, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, Direct-Connect, Route 53, CloudWatch, Kinesis, CloudFormation, IAM, and Lambda.

Responsible for creating infrastructure as code using Terraform to define and provision complete environments, including infrastructure components, modules, and dependencies.

Automated deployment and management of infrastructure using Terraform, creating and maintaining Terraform templates for provisioning servers, databases, and networking resources.

Implemented Azure for securing web applications and deploying them to the platform.

Proficient in managing Kubernetes using Helm charts, ensuring reproducible builds, customizable deployments, and smooth releases of Helm packages.

Experience with building systems using Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Created Jenkins-based CI/CD system on Kubernetes container environment, leveraging Kubernetes and Docker for building, testing, and deploying applications.

Experience in creating and deploying Docker images to Kubernetes clusters, ensuring seamless operation.

Expertise in automating, configuring, and deploying instances on AWS, Azure, and data centers.

Experience in complete software development life cycle (SDLC) with Agile, Scrum, JIRA, and Waterfall methodologies.

Worked with CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, and Terraform for automated deployments of AWS and OpenStack.

Built and configured virtual data centers in AWS, including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), subnets, security groups, route tables, and Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to support enterprise data warehousing.

Worked with Ansible and Terraform to provision resources from multiple cloud service providers, including AWS and Azure.

Managed Amazon Redshift clusters, handling cluster launches and node type specifications.

Utilized various AWS resources and services, including VPC, EC2, RDB, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Groups, Auto Scaling, SES, SNS, RDS, Route53, and Lambda for setting up and building AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation JSON templates.

Proficient in cloud provisioning tools like Terraform and CloudFormation, serving as a champion for their usage.

Deployed and managed EC2 instances on AWS, encompassing various Linux and Windows flavors.

Created and deployed VMs on Microsoft Azure, managing virtual networks, Azure AD, and SQL.

Worked with Atlassian products such as JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket.

Experience in developing and deploying applications using JBoss, IBM WebSphere Application, and Apache Tomcat.

Designed highly available, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant systems using AWS services such as EC2, S3, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), AMIs, and Glacier for QA, UAT environments, and infrastructure servers.

Executed pilot migrations of Dev/Test workloads to Azure using Azure Site Recovery.

Utilized AWS Elastic Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with various technologies.

Proficient in developing and running Shell, Perl, and Python scripts.

Experienced in executing XML, Ant, Shell, Perl, and JavaScript scripts, as well as Java scripts.

Solid understanding of Java, C, and C++.

Proficient in installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of various Linux distributions and Windows Servers.

Skilled in writing automation scripts to support infrastructure as code in AWS/Azure and performing Linux/Windows Administration.

Worked on Azure Synapse Analytics for implementing PySpark Notebooks.

Experience in complete software development life cycle (SDLC) with Agile, Scrum, JIRA, and Waterfall methodologies. TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AWS Services RDS, EC2, EKS, ECR, VPC, IAM, Cloud Formation, EBS, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, Cloud Trial, SQS, SNS, SWF, Cloud Watch, AWS Glue, Secret Manager. Cloud Platforms Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP.

Azure Services Virtual Machines, App Services, Key vault, function app, Blob storage, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Service Bus, Azure Container Registry (ACR) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB. Version Control Tools Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bit Bucket and Azure Repos. CI/CD Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI, Circle CI, Travis CI, Argo CD, GitHub. Configuration/Automation/

Infrastructure Tools

Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager

(ARM).

Container Platforms Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, OpenShift, Helm. Monitoring Tools Nagios, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch Logs, Azure Monitor. Languages/Scripting Java J2EE, Python, Shell scripting, PowerShell, YAML, XML, Go Lang, Groovy Scripts. Build Tools Maven, Ant, Gradle, MS Build.

Artifactory JFrog and Nexus.

Application/Web Servers Nginx, IIS, Httpd, Tomcat, Apache, Web sphere. Documentation Confluence.

Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP/NT Pro 2000, Linux, UNIX, RHEL, CentOS, Solaris, Ubuntu. Tracking Tools Jira, Azure Boards.

Code Scanning SonarQube, JFrog, Veracode, X ray, ECR Inspector. Databases RDS, Cosmos DB, Postgres, MS SQL, Cassandra, My SQL DB, Mongo DB, Data Lake. Logging Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Azure App Insights, Azure Monitor. Deployment Tools Azure DevOps Server, Octopus.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Healthgrades Oct 2022 to till date

Role: Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer / SRE

Responsibilities:

Migrated over 50 applications, including 100 sub-applications, to DEVOPS standards.

Developing an application tailored for individuals seeking treatment options and facilitating the search for doctors or hospitals. Utilized the Angular framework for front-end development and Java for back-end.

Extensive experience designing and implementing architectures for EC2 instances on AWS, ensuring high availability and security compliance.

Installed monitoring and alerting systems for CI/CD components, utilizing tools like Nagios, CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Azure Monitor.

Worked with NAGIOS for hands-on monitoring and alerting services for servers.

expertise with source code management tools like Tortoise SVN and GitHub as well as version control systems like Subversion, circase Perforce, and GIT.

Managed S3 buckets on both platforms, implementing policies, lifecycle management, and ensuring data storage optimization.

Provisioned and configured various environments, including Hadoop EMR clusters, OpenShift platforms, and Kubernetes deployments.

Leveraged Docker for container-based deployments, managing images, registries, and integration with Kubernetes.

Designed event-driven architectures utilizing AWS EventBridge and similar services for seamless communication between services.

Developed PowerShell scripts for system automation and administration tasks, including managing Active Directory and system configurations.

Installed and configured servers across different environments, including RHEL, Unix, and Windows, utilizing various management tools like WinRM and SSH.

Implemented and managed TCP/IP networks in diverse environments, ensuring connectivity and security.

Utilized AWS Secret Manager and similar tools for managing sensitive credentials securely.

Developed and maintained ETL jobs using AWS Glue, Azure Synapse Analytics, and other similar services for efficient data processing.

Managed and optimized data pipelines using tools like Apache Airflow, Cribl, Vector, and Azure Databricks.

Proficient in front-end technologies and Core Java programming, integrating with platforms like AEM for web experiences.

Developed Ansible playbooks for software configuration, deployment, and maintenance tasks.

Automated build and deployment processes using tools like Maven, Jenkins, Harness, and Octopus Deploy.

Managed CI/CD pipelines using tools like Concourse CI, Jenkins, and Azure Pipelines for web applications and microservices.

Implemented VM automation pipelines and infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform and Azure Bicep.

Managed artifact repositories like Artifactory for building artifacts and integrated them with CI/CD pipelines.

Assisted in setting up Bitbucket repositories and configuring CI/CD workflows for teams.

Managed accounts, VPCs, Virtual Networks, and other infrastructure components, emphasizing automation and cost control.

Developed automation scripts in Bash, Python, and PowerShell for encryption, scheduling, and configuration tasks.

Proficient in SQL, PL/SQL, and database optimization techniques, working with various database systems.

Designed cost-effective solutions leveraging serverless services and cloud cost optimization tools.

Deployed and managed Splunk instances for log aggregation and analysis.

Acted as an SME on security testing methodologies, including SAST and DAST, providing expertise on code security analysis.

Developed tools and scripts for automation using languages like Python and PowerShell to enhance operational efficiency.

Configured and managed various Azure IaaS components and services alongside AWS deployments.

Proficient in Node.js for building server-side applications and APIs, leveraging its event-driven, non-blocking I/O model effectively. Environment: AWS Cloud (EC2/EMR), Azure, Splunk, Spark, Control plane, Opsin sight, Kibana, PostgreSQL, Azure CLI, Docker, Cloud Watch, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CICD Pipelines, Snowflake, GIT, Bash, Linux. Terraform, Ansible, YAML, AKS, Maven, Nagios, Python Scripts, Java/J2EE, Azure Databricks.

Client: City Bank July 2019 to Aug 2021

Role: Sr. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Written Ansible Playbooks to automate build/deployment process and data bags in Ansible for better environment management.

Written Ansible playbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize product configuration, converting production support scripts to Ansible roles and AWS server provisioning using Ansible Playbooks.

Used SonarQube for continuous inspection of code quality and to perform automatic reviews of code to detect bugs.

Automated Nagios alerts and email notifications using Python script and executed them through Ansible.

Installed, configured, and maintained web servers like Apache Web Server and WebSphere Application Server on Red Hat Linux.

Experience with Red Hat Linux kernel, memory upgrades and swaps area.

Red Hat Linux Kickstart. Installation Sun Solaris Jumpstart Installation. Configuring DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS in Sun Solaris 8/9 & other Network Services.

Used multiple EC2 instances at the same time and provided highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, & create AMIs for mission-critical production server’s backup.

Provided highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies.

Performed the automation deployments using AWS by creating the IAMs and used the code pipeline plugin to integrate Jenkins with AWS and created the EC2 instances to provide the virtual servers.

Implemented Docker-Maven plugin and Maven POM to build Docker Images for all microservices and later used Docker file to build the Docker Images from the java jar files.

Installed external functions like EBS CSI Driver, Elastic Load Balancer, VPA Controller to create a fully functioning cluster.

Installed Istio Controller on the EKS cluster for Service Mesh Networking to control the flow of traffic.

Installed and configured ELK stack on Kubernetes cluster.

Designed and configured manifest files to deploy Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash to the EKS cluster.

Configuring CloudWatch to monitor the performance and health of AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, RDS databases, and Lambda functions.

Used Git for source code version control and integrated with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline, code quality tracking and user management with build tools Maven and Ant and written Maven pom.xml build script.

Worked on NoSQL database MongoDB to replica setup and sharing. Also experienced in managing replica set.

Installed, Configured, and Managed Monitoring Tools such as Nagios for Resource Monitoring/ Network Monitoring. Environment: AWS (EKS, ECR, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS), GIT, Ansible, Docker, SonarQube, Maven, Jenkins, Python, Nagios.

Client: AXA Group Operations Aug 2018 to July 2019 Role: DevOps Engineer/ SRE

Responsibilities:

Defined and Implemented CI and Release Management Processes, Policies, and Procedure.

Configured and automated the Jenkins Pipelines/Build jobs for Continuous Integration and Deployments Dev to Production environments for Tomcat applications using Jenkins Groovy Scripting.

Implemented proactive monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana for high availability.

Designing, deploying, and maintaining the application servers on AWS infrastructure, using services like AWS EC2, S3, Glacier, VPC, Lambda, Route53, SQS, IAM, Cloud Front, RDS, and AWS CloudFormation etc.

Involved in deploying and managing applications using Elastic Beanstalk, including setting up environments, configuring deployments.

Conducted Chaos Engineering experiments to enhance system resilience.

Integrated Access Gateway with identity providers, such as AWS SSO to manage access to AWS resources and designed policies to control and secure AWS resources and services.

Analyzed post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement.

Designing and configuring VPCs by defining IP address ranges, subnets, network ACLs and configuring security groups.

Wrote Terraform scripts to deploy different AWS Infrastructure components related to the respective services, managed various resources and data elements defined in the scripts.

Designed and Implemented AWS EKS Cluster using Terraform from Scratch to implement a fully working EKS Multi Node Cluster.

Developed CI/CD system with Jenkins on Kubernetes container environment, utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for the CI/CD system to build, test, deploy and configured Kubernetes (EKS) to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple names spaced versions.

Defined service level objectives (SLOs) for data-driven decision-making.

Participated in on-call rotations, ensuring SLA compliance.

Configured the Jenkins pipeline for creation of Images, pushing them to ECR and deploying the containerized applications on to Elastic Kubernetes Cluster (EKS).

Wrote Docker files for microservice applications and good understanding of volumes and Networking for containers.

Experience in writing YAML files for Microservices applications.

Conducted capacity planning for scalable infrastructure.

Contributed to runbook development for efficient operations.

Configured ansible along with terraform on Jenkins pipeline to deploy certain application-level dependencies on the Worker Nodes of the EKS Cluster.

Responsible for identifying and troubleshooting performance issues with EC2 instances, RDS databases, and Lambda functions.

Creating and managing S3 buckets and implemented access controls for S3 buckets, like bucket policies, ACLs, and IAM roles. Environment: SVN, Jenkins, Nexus, GIT, ANT, MAVEN, Ansible, Python Scripts, Shell Scripts, Sonar, Red Hat Kickstart server, Splunk, EKS.

Client: GE Capital Sep 2017 to Aug 2018

Role: Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Provided Installed, configured, maintained, and supported RedHat Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX systems.

Automated tasks via bash scripting and managed user accounts, permissions, and packages using RPM and YUM.

Troubleshot server issues, configured Yum repository server, implemented Fuse for password-less authentication, and deployed DHCP servers.

Designed clustering solutions for high availability, administered DNS, LDAP, NFS, NIS, Sendmail, and managed SAN/NAS storage.

Provided 24x7 support, managed source control systems (Subversion and GIT), and configured SSH servers and application servers.

Managed build definitions deployed continuous integration tools (Jenkins/Bamboo), and utilized Ant, Maven for software builds.

Assisted with environment setup and replicated Jenkins build server to a test VM.

Installed and configured Apache/Tomcat web server. Environment: Linux Ubuntu, CentOS, Shell scripting, Apache, Nginx, Virtualization (VMware, VirtualBox), Automation (Bash scripting), Monitoring tools (Nagios), Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP), Security (Firewalls, SELinux). EDUCATION:

Bachelors in Computer Science, Gujarat Technological University (GTU), Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India.

Master of Science in Business Analytics from Trine University, Angola, IN, USA.

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