Management Information Technology

Sandeep Reddy Nimmala

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EDUCATION

Masters of Science, information Assurance January 2017

Wilmington University, Delaware. GPA: 3.31/4

Bachelors of Technology, information technology May 2014

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University – India. GPA: 3.7/4

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DevOps/AWS Engineer Oct 2016 – Till now

GRMC INC – New York

Involved in setting up EC2s & RDS, Installing & Configuring them with required software's like Sensu, Nagios, Graphite, Grafana etc., Creating VPCs, modifying route tables accordingly, VPC peering, Creating ELB's and configuring them to work on the service ports as per the application's need.

Maintaing High Availability, Scalability and Security of applications.

Setting up auto-scaling on AWS for Production, Pre-Production Environments.

Involved in creating Infra on Release Branches & creating new services (Infra) in Pre-Production & Production Environments.

Setting up Automated backups (Amazon Machine Image/AMIs) for all the environments in the project.

Setting up Grafana to monitor Java based application metrics.

Setting up Nagios, Sensu and Postfix mail Server for monitoring.

Setting up ELK Server for log management.

Setting up IPSec tunnel for secure communication between two different data centres.

Setting up Openvpn Server for communication between a client and a server.

Setting up Fail2ban for intrusion prevention from brute-force attacks.

Involved in Pre-Production and Production deployment.

Involved in writing recipes and cookbooks for configuration management to manage EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances running on "Amazon Web Services" (AWS), part of the project “Deployment Automation Using Opscode Chef”.

DevOps - An integral part of Cloud Platform Track which includes setting up, configuring & maintaining a stack of Continuous Integration & Continuous Development (CI/CD) Tools - Jenkins, Bitbucket, Chef, Rundeck.

Linux/Unix Administrator June 2013 – Dec’ 2014

CGI Information Systems & Management - India

Performed Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu and Windows Server deployment to build new environment by using Kickstart and jumpstart.

Preformed Installation, adding and replacement of resources like Disks, CPU’s, and Memory, NIC Cards, increasing the swap and Maintenance of Linux/UNIX and Windows Servers.

Managing Users and Groups Accounts assigned permission to users.

Knowledge of Shell scripting (Bash) and Scheduling CRON jobs.

Monitor Linux Server for CPU utilization, Memory Utilization and Disk Utilization for Performance monitoring.

TCP/IP Configuration Assigning IP's, Gateways, Name servers, net masks, host names, domain Names etc for individual machines and setting up the network.

Implemented NFS, SAMBA file servers and SQUID caching proxy servers.

Implemented centralized user authentication using OpenLDAP and Active Directory.

Worked with VMware ESX Server Configured for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Install and configure Ubuntu, Centos on remote servers and Desktop servers.

Performed tune-up kernel parameter, added/removed/administered hosts, and users.

Created and Administered User Accounts using native tools and managing access using sudo.

Actively participated and supported in the migration of 60+ production servers from old data center to New Data Center.

Involved in using RPM for package management and Patching.

Creating documentation for datacenter hardware setups, standard operational procedures, and security policies.

Create and maintain technical documentation for new installations and systems changes as required.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AWS

Elastic Load Balancing(with SSL enabled), Autoscaling, EC2, EBS, RDS, VPC, Route 53, S3, IAM, Opsworks, Glacier, CloudWatch

Configuration Management tools

Opscode Chef

CI (Continuous Integration)

Jenkins

Monitoring & Alerting

Sensu, Nagios, Pagerduty, Postfix Mail Server

Logging & Graphing frameworks

ELK(Elasticsearch logstash kibana), Graphite, Grafana

Databases / RDBMS

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo dB

Scripting Language

DSL Ruby, Bash, Python

Operating Systems/ Platform

Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Centos, Fedora, Debain)

ACADAMIC EXPERIENCE

Associate Instructor, Wilmington University Spring 2016 – Fall 2016

Assisted students in the laboratories and office hours with their linux lab work for two courses: Introduction to Linux and Linux System Administration.

COURSE WORK

Software Engineering-I, Advanced Database Concepts, Cloud Computing, Security for Networked Systems, Information Architecture for Web, Object-Oriented Software Management, Computer Networks.

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