CHANDRA CHALAM

email: ac0cq5@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY :

6+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, Experience in LINUX environment and expertise in several flavors of Linux including Red Hat, CentOS, and Ubuntu.

Experience in cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation Templates.

Expertise in Amazon AWS Cloud Administration which includes services like: EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto scaling, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Ops Work, Security Groups.

Experience in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments working on Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools like Subversion (SVN) and GIT.

Excellent hands on experience on configuration management tool like Chef, Puppet and Ansible.

Configured and monitored distributed and multi-platform servers using chef. Defined Chef Server and workstation to manage and configure nodes.

Maintained Chef Cookbooks and Recipes to manage systems configuration.

Extensively worked on Jenkins for Continuous Integration and End -to-End automation for all builds and deployments.

Good Exposure on Virtualization and Containers (Docker) and Hypervisors ESXI, ESX.

Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using scripting languages such as Shell, Python scripting.

Worked on web servers like Apache and application servers like Web logic, Tomcat, Websphere, JBOSS to deploy code.

Extensively worked on Jenkins by installing, configuring and maintaining for the purpose of continuous integration (CI) and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.

High exposure to JIRA defect tracking tools for tracking defects and changes for Change management.

Expertise in using Splunk tool for monitoring of logs.

Strong ability to troubleshoot any issues generated while building, deploying and in production support.

Extensively worked on Chef Server in AWS using OpsWorks.

Used Jenkins through AWS and deployed git, maven and chef in it.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Platform : AWS.

Configuration Management : Chef, Puppet, Ansible

Database : Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server,

Build Tools : ANT, MAVEN

Version Control Tools : Subversion (SVN), GIT, GIT Hub

Web Servers : Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, JBOSS.

Languages/Scripts : HTML, Shell, Python, Ruby, JSON.

SDLC : Agile, Scrum.

Operating Systems : Red hat, Ubuntu, Linux and WINDOWS, CentOS.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level.

Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Level.

Certified Sysops Administrator – Associate Level.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT

SPARTA SYSTEMS January 2016 – Present

Key Responsibilities:

Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu/RHEL) and Configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.

Installed application on AWS EC2 instances and also configured the storage on S3 buckets.

Performed S3 buckets creation, policies and also on the IAM role based polices and customizing the JSON template.

Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS Cloud watch.

Managed servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform instances using Puppet, Chef Configuration management. Installed Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, Wrote Recipes and Cookbooks and uploaded them to Chefserver,

Managed On-site OS/Applications/Services/ Packages using Chef as well as AWS for EC2/S3&ELB with Chef Cookbooks.

Create Chef Automation tools and builds, and do an overall process improvement to any manual processes.

Written Chef Cookbooks for various DB configurations to modularize and optimize end product configuration.

Converting production support scripts to chef recipes. And AWS server provisioning using Chef Recipes.

Experience with Build Management tools Ant and Maven for writing build.xmls and Pom.xmls.

Experienced in build and deployment of Java applications on to different environments such as QA, UAT and Production.

Branching, Tagging, Release Activities on Version Control Tools: SVN, GitHub.

Extensive usage of Tortoise SVN in windows environment for version control activities.

Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and Hudson.

Deployed the java application into web application servers like Apache Tomcat.

Experienced in deployment of applications on Apache Web server and Application Servers such as Tomcat, JBoss.

Implemented unit testing framework driven using Junit and Cucumber.

Virtualized the servers using the Docker for the test environments and dev-environments needs. And also configuration automation using Docker containers.

Environment: Amazon Web Services, IAM, S3, cloud watch, Nix, ANT, Maven, Tortoise SVN, GitHub, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Java, Agile, Apache HTTPD, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Junit, Cucumber, Json, Bash,Shell, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby.

AWS DEVOPS ENGINEER

NUVITEK April 2014 – January 2016

Key Achievements:

Provided Configuration Management and Build support for more than 5 different applications, built and deployed to the production and lower environments.

Defined and Implemented Configuration Management and Release Management Processes, Policies and Procedures.

Created Development Environments in Amazon Web Services using services like VPC, ELB, EC2 and RDS instances..

Worked with Engineers on providing the configuration details of the DEV environments and assisting in Creating CHEF recipes for a Proof of Concept.

Analyze and resolve compilation and deployment errors related to code development, branching, merging and building of source code.

Created and maintained Subversion repositories, branches and tags and Experience in Administering SVN.

Enforced development policies using Subversion hooks and other metadata.

Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using Subversion source control.

Developed build and deployment script using ANT, Shell to Setup development and QA environments.

Troubleshoot the automation of installing and configuring Java applications in the testing and production environments.

Maintained build related scripts developed in ANT and Shell. Modified build configuration files including Ant build.xml.

Deployed code on WebSphere application servers for Production, QA, and Development environments.

Performance tuning of WebSphere application server including JVM, Garbage Collection, JDBC along with its server logs.

Involved in sprints and planned releases with the team using JIRA and Confluence.

Used JIRA tool to track all the defects and changes related to Build and Release Team.

Environment: Amazon Web Services, Chef, Vagrant, Scrum, Subversion (SVN), ANT, UDeploy, DB2, JIRA,Confluence, Shell Scripts, WebSphere Server.

BUILD AND RELEASE ENGINEER

BOLSTERS February 2013 – March 2014

Responsibilities:

Provided application build coordination to development teams while working closely with development team and Release Coordinator to define build and deployment requirements.

Managed all phases of build and release activities as well as developed scripts to implement them.

Served as conduit between the development teams and SCM team for tool related questions and process improvement

Implemented Jenkins for continuous integration builds and deployment and bridging the code to Harvest.

Extensive use of Jenkins for build and deployment to various DEV, QA, SIT, prep-prod and production environments.

Worked on CVS and Git version control systems and various branching and merging strategies suitable for applications.

Participated in Daily Scrum, Release Review meetings and deployment process documents for various advanced applications.

Worked on Reference Guides to train other team members.

Used Jenkins to automate the delivery process and created Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.

Used Chef in Jenkins to deploy the applications.

Create job aids for GIT and helped development team to trouble shoot various problems.

Environments: Jenkins, Harvest, CVS, Git, Apache Tomcat, Linux, Windows, Chef.

LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

HLINE SOFT January 2011 – February 2012

Responsibilities:

Experienced in the use of Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Logical volumes, disk mirroring and creating Volume Groups in AIX, HP-UX, and Linux.

Configuring Software and Hardware RAID on Digital & Sun Servers. Configuring and administering LDAP, DNS, NFS, NIS+, NIS, and Sendmail on RedHat Linux.

Use of Disk Management Utility for file system management and file system creation.

Managed Patching and used Firmware Updates for Enclosures and Blades.

Package management with the use of YUM, RPM and UP2DATE on Red Hat Linux.

Experience in OS installations and BIOS UPGRADE and Maintenance and Configuration.

Experience in tuning/maintaining/upgrading Web sphere/Web logic/JBoss and Web based applications such as Java & Tomcat/Apache.

Performed tasks on F5 load balancer such as installation and renewing of SSL certificates and bouncing of servers that possess performance issues after removing them from the server pools.

Group, user management for UNIX servers.

Writing and modifying scripts in Perl and Shell for optimization of day to day administration.

Experienced in writing of shell scripts for automating the administrative tasks and managing using Cron.

EDUCATION :

Bachelors in Information Technology at JNTUH.

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