Uday Kumar

ac4abx@r.postjobfree.com

703-***-****

SUMMARY:

Motivated and result driven CI/CD/DevOps expert with 7+ years of experience in IT Industry with ability to accomplish all aspects of the software configuration management (SCM) process, AWS, DevOps and Build/Release management.

Experience in Server infrastructure development on AWS Cloud, extensive usage of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, EC2, RDS, S3, Route53, SNS, SQS, and Cloud Trail.

Expertise in Application Deployments& Environment configuration using Chef, Puppet, Ansible. Experienced in working on DevOps/Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation, Environment, Service, Incident and Change Management).

Extensive experience in Linux/Unix system Administration, System Builds, Server Builds, Installations, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Trouble shooting on RHEL 4.x/5.x/6.x.

Ability to manage SCM processes which include compiling, packaging, deploying and application configurations. Extensive experience in using Version control systems includes Subversion (SVN), GIT, Clear case.

Designed project workflows/pipelines with Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Build forge.

Implemented CI and CD for database using Bamboo and UDeploy. Set up CI (Continuous Integration) for major releases in Jenkins and Bamboo.

Set up DevOps process for continuous integration and deployment, leveraging Jenkins and web-hooks for git/ bitbucket.

Good experience with Mobile App integration & IBM Data Power API platform and have good Healthcare IT experience.

Experience in working on source control tools like Tortoise SVN, TFS, CVS, IBM Clear Case, Perforce, and GIT.

Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.

Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances and setting up security groups. Setting up data in AWS using S3bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket.

Installed, configured multiple operating systems onsite and provisioned similar instances on AWS cloud. Expertise in using build tools like MAVEN and ANT for the building of deployable artifacts such as war & ear from source code.

Inventoried and administered Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), FreeBSD, and VMware ESXi servers, writing several utilities to manage them simultaneously.

Experience in managing the artifacts generated by MAVEN in the Nexus repository. Involved in the functional usage and deployment of applications in Web Logic, Web Sphere and Apache Tomcat Server.

Expert in developing cloud strategies, roadmaps, architecting new cloud solutions or migrating enterprise applications to the cloud.

Good experience in converting build.xml into pom.xml in order to build the applications using MAVEN. Configured Nagios to monitor EC2 Linux instances with Puppet automation. Setting up Puppet Master, Puppet Agents for managing enterprise policies and configurations.

Strong command on source controller concepts such as Branches, Merges and Tags. Source code management is performed using Git from master repository and knowledge on Container management using Docker in creating images.

Efficient experience in using Nexus and Artifactory Repository managers for Maven builds. Monitored the linux servers & applications using Nagios, and Splunk.

Strong ability to troubleshoot any issues generated while building, deploying and in production support. Good Interpersonal Skills, team-working attitude, takes initiatives and very proactive in solving problems and providing best solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems

Windows 2008 - 2012, RHEL 4/5/6, SOLARIS 8/9/10

Source control tools

Subversion, Clear case, SVN, GIT and Perforce

Build Tools

ANT, MAVEN, GRADLE.

CI Tools

Hudson, Jenkins and Build Forge, Cruise control.

CD Tools

Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker

Repositories

Nexus, Artifactory.

Languages

C, Perl scripting, Python, Ruby, Shell scripting, Power Shell, SQL, Java/J2EE.

Cloud Computing

AWS, Azure

Tracking tools

Jira, Remedy, IBM Clear Quest, Tortoise SVN, Visual SVN, TFS.

Web servers

Web logic, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS.

Databases

Oracle, SQL SERVER, MY SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Van Guard, Philadelphia, PA Jan’17 - Till Date

Sr. DevOps & AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

Implemented AWS cloud computing platform, and its many dimensions of scalability - including but not limited to: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), EC2, load-balancing with ELB, messaging with SQS (and scalable non-AWS alternatives), auto scaling architectures, using EBS under high I/O requirements, custom monitoring metrics/analysis/alarms via Cloud Watch, the AWS API and different toolkits for instrumenting it (e.g. boto).

Experience in Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure, and Automation like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Github, Clear Case and Tomcat.

Designing and implementing fully automated server build management, monitoring and deployment by using Technologies like Chef and Ansible.

Experience of Jenkins, Git, VSS, ClearCase, BuildForge, TeamBuild, Python, Shell script, Power Shell, Install Shield, Install Anywhere, VSN, SQL Server, Unix, Linux, Windows Server, Citrix Server.

Build servers using AWS, Importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, Elastic load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection in Amazon CLI.

Experienced in setting up all Amazon Web Services Components through Cloud Formation Templates (JSON).

Worked with Security team to install SSL certificates on DataPower appliances, API cloud manager & F5-load balancer VIPs.

Analyzing the incidents and provide the solutions to the application team. Worked very closely with IBM to open PMR to resolve critical issues during migration.

Enabled API Analytics to capture the usage metrics to support the SLA's and capacity planning of the integration environment.

Created user roles for dev, QA and Operations teams for viewing and working with the API Manager & API Connect portals. Registered Applications and Subscribed API plans, Generated Client IDs & Secret Key's. Using Postman to test backend API calls

Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 Instance for snapshots and creating clones instances.

Written Python script for AWS AMI backups in east and west region. This script will create AMI with current date and time. It will delete old version and will keep latest AMI versions in both regions

Utilized AWS Cloud watch to monitor environment for operational & performance metrics during load testing.

Creation of Cloud formation templates for different environments(DEV/stage/prod) to automate Infrastructure(ELB, Cloud watch alarms, ASGs, SNS topics, RDS etc.,) on click of a button

Written various Python workers and integrated with AWS Lambda to automate the AWS infrastructure including scheduled automatic backups, Stopping and starting the instances as part of cost-saving

Installed, configured and managed the ELK (Elastic Search, Log stash and Kibana) for Log management within EC2 / Elastic Load balancer for Elastic Search.

Setup Log Analysis AWS Logs to Elastic Search and Kibana and Manage Searches, Dashboards, custom mapping and Automation of data.

Designing and configuring the AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Secure Email Service (SES) architecture of the solution and working with a client.

Used MySQL, DynamoDB and Elasti cache to perform basic database administration. Have built Elasticsearch, Logstash for centralized logging and then store logs and metrics into S3 bucket using Lambda function. Installed and configured configuration tool such as Chef Server / workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AWS nodes.

Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.

Manage Amazon Redshift clusters such as launching the cluster and specifying the node type. Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Python, Ruby, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, and IIS.

Wrote Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of AWS nodes and Tested Playbooks on AWS instances using Python.

Scripting in multiple languages on Linux and Windows using PowerShell, Shell and Python scripts. Managed highly available and fault tolerant systems in AWS, through various API's, console operations and Amazon CLI.

ENVIRONMENT: CHEF, Jenkins, Maven, AWS, EC2, Linux/Unix, Java, ITIL/ITSM, Web Logic, RHEL, Docker, python, ruby.

American Express, Portland, OR Aug’14 - Dec’16

Role: DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Plan, deploy, monitor, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple EC2 nodes and VMware Vm's as required in the environment.

Design roles and groups using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Implement & maintain monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using Cloud Watch.

Document system configurations, Instance, OS, and AMI build practices, backup procedures, troubleshooting guides, and keep infrastructure and architecture drawings current with changes.

Provide oversight and guidance for the architecture, development best practices for application hosting, and infrastructure deployment for each application.

Utilize AWSCLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS and create nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups.

Utilized Cloud watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon to design high availability applications on AWS across availability zones.

Hands on experience Configuring Access Lists for inbound and outbound traffic RDS DB services, Dynamo DB tables, EBS volumes; to set alarms for notification or automated actions; and to monitor logs for a better understanding and operation of the system availability regions.

Installed and configured an automated tool Puppet that included the installation and configuration of the Puppet master, agent nodes and an admin control workstation.

Developed configuration hiera data, node classifications, external node classifiers and parameterization for puppet modules.

Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard and Puppet DB for configuration management to existing infrastructure.

Installed and configured monitoring tools Nagios for monitoring the network bandwidth and the hard drives status. Experience with analysis of logs and performing root cause analysis for various issues coming up on daily basis.

Responsible for Plugin Management, User Management, creating Jobs, Build/Release Pipelines in Jenkins. Responsible to setup Jenkins server and build jobs to provide continuous automated builds based on polling and post-hook scripts in source control systems (GIT and SVN) during the day and periodic

Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation–using Jenkins along with Python and Shell scripts to automate routine jobs.

Worked on Docker container snapshots, attaching to a running container, removing images, managing directory structures and managing containers.

Experience working on Docker Hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configurations.

Triggering the SIT environment build of client remotely through Jenkins. Deployed and configured Git repositories with branching, forks, tagging, and notifications. Experienced and proficient deploying and administering GitHub. Kept track of all the releases and request of the developers through Infrastructure management tool

ENVIRONMENT: Jenkins, GIT, ANT, MAVEN, Python, Aws, JAVA/J2EE, Web Sphere, Nagios, Unix/Linux, Windows, Ruby, Shell, Apache Tomcat, XML, Java/J2EE.

Comcast, Washington, DC May’12 – June’14

Unix/Linux System Admin

Responsibilities:

Installation, configuration and upgrade of Redhat Linux 5.X, Cent OS &Solaris Operating systems. Installation, configuration and upgrade of Apache HTTP server, Tomcat, Jboss on Linux and windows servers.

Created backend shell scripts for error log checking and backups. Involved in health check of servers after patching/rebooting and checked all the services of Linux servers.

Manage and Configure Apache web server. Install, configure and run NTP across operating systems and distributions

Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Red Hat Linux. Associated with DBAs for installation of Oracle database on Linux servers & for tuning, backup and restore.

Scheduling the jobs by creating Crontabs on Linux. Perform operational tasks and activities e.g. monitoring log files, performance tuning and migration between environments.

Monitor the performance and availability of key middleware components in production and test environments. Installed and configured Jenkins, Installed plug-in, configured security, created a master and slaves for implementation of multiple parallel builds.

Installed Urban Code Deploy server, agents and doing deployments in various environments. Manage access control lists (ACLs), and given permissions to different users, groups by using recipes.

Involved in supporting Apache, Apache Tomcat and generated SSL keys for renewing SSL on web servers. Responsible for monitoring and working on problem tickets (BMC Remedy). Following it up with business and technical teams, and ensuring the problem is successfully resolved.

Administrated and worked with multiple project teams to develop shared processes, optimize the usage and configuration of JIRA and provide technical leadership and tool development.

Responsible for documenting the issue, cause and resolution. Have been the on-call person for the application, worked with the appropriate team members to bring the issue and get a resolution.

ENVIRONMENT: Linux, UNIX, HTTP, tomcat, Mysql, Oracle

Matrix Network Solutions, Hyderabad, India Jan’11 - Mar’12

Unix/Linux System Admin

Responsibilities:

Install, configure, monitor, manage and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/Centos physical servers, virtual servers using VMware Infrastructure Client and workstations.

Installation, configuration, and customization of services Send mail, Apache, FTP servers to meet the user needs and requirements.

Build Servers using kickStart, RedHat Satellite Server and Jumpstart. Storage setups, RAID, Logical Volume Manager, system backup design and disaster recovery.

Administration responsibilities include user, group, disk, and security management, File sharing Permissions. Working with Operations team in creating Unix Control M jobs for users and creating doc libraries information for Jobs.

Issues related to NFS, NIS, and LVM, Grub corruption, configuration & maintenance of RAID (level 0, 1, and 5). Created Bash, shell scripts for various Systems Administration tasks to automate repeated processes.

Production Support & Systems engineering duties related to Red hat system administration DNS, DHCP, NFS, NIS, LDAP, user account maintenance, backup & recovery, Auto-mounting, License Management, Printer configuration.

Dealt with Linux Utilities: KICKSTART, SSH, FTP, AUTOFS, Quota Management, wrappers. Configured FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP and SAMBA

Installation of Firewall checkpoint. Installed and configured IP Filter, to protect Linux system that was placed on the Internet.

Working on Linux Kernel for improving performance. Administered and worked on Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

Troubleshoot cron, send mail in Solaris and Linux. Installed packages and patches in Linux and Solaris.

Working on NFS, Managing DNS in Linux and Solaris. Performed daily system monitoring by creating health scripts.

Configured backups and restored data using Networker Backup tool. Coordinated with SUN, HP vendors related to the problems at hardware/OS level.

ENVIRONMENT: Linux, UNIX, HTTP, tomcat, Mysql, Oracle

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