Sharath Chandra

AWS-DevOps Engineer

510-***-****

ac4j55@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

8+ years of experience in IT industry as a Linux Admin, AWS and DevOps engineer having expert level knowledge in automating, configuring and deploying instances on AWS, Azure and data centers.

Good knowledge of designing, deploying and operating highly available, scalable and fault tolerant systems using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Expertise in DevOps methodologies and involved in design, implementation of CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GIT, Gerrit, Chef, Ansible, Bamboo, Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory.

Hands on experience with an in-depth level of understanding in the strategy and practical implementation of AWS cloud-specific technologies like Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2), Simple Storage Services (S3), Route 53, Cloud Formation, Elastic IPs, Virtual Private Cloud(VPC), RDS, Dynamo DB, Lambda, EMR and Cloud Watch.

Experience with Troubleshooting AWS EC2 instances for Status check through System Status checks and Instance Status checks alerts and rectifying if necessary.

Experience with configuring and managing Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to implement fault tolerance and avoid single point of failure of applications.

Good experience of AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS), different volume types and use of various types of EBS volumes based on requirement.

Good knowledge of customizing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) & deploying these customized images based on requirements.

Granting security and Configured user access and limits using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) by creating new profiles and policies for user management in JSON.

Configured AWS Multi Factor Authentication in IAM to implement 2 step authentication of user's access using Google Authenticator and AWS Virtual MFA.

Implement and maintain the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/costs using Cloud Watch.

Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Solaris and Linux operating system.

Installed & configured Sun Fire 210, V240, V440, V490, V880, 1280 & HP […] L Servers.

Problems & performance issues; deployed latest patches for Sun, Linux and Application servers,

Installation and administration of TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, NTP, Auto mounts, Send mail and print servers as per the client's requirement.

Installed, managed Verities Volume Manager 3.5 (VxVM) on Solaris 9.

Experience with EMC storage devices ClariionFC4700/CXx and Symmetrix DMX)

In-depth knowledge of computer applications and scripting like Shell, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript and XML.

Expertise in Querying RDBMS such as Oracle, MY SQL and SQL Server by using PL/SQL for data integrity.

Experience with designing and configuring secure Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) through private and public networks in AWS and create various subnets, routing table, internet gateways for servers.

Experience with creating alarms in Cloud Watch for monitoring the server performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage etc. to take recommended actions for better performance.

Experience with implementing several Continuous Delivery Pipelines for different products and automated cloud deployments using Chef and Ansible.

Good knowledge of other services in AWS like Cloud front, Glacier, Cloud Trail and Simple Notification Service (SNS).

Strong experience in different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including analysis, design, implementation and testing.

Good interaction with developers, managers, and team members to address and work as a team on the project requirements, tasks and strong commitment to work and achieve the desired goals.

Excellent communication skills, relation management skills, team management skills and have the ability to grasp and implement new technologies quickly.

Experience with ITIL/ITSM processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Technologies

Amazon Web services : Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2), Simple Storage Services(S3), Route 53, Cloud Front, Elastic Bean Stalk, Virtual Private Cloud(VPC), Storage Gateway, RDS, Dynamo DB Lambda, EMR, Cloud Watch, Elastic Load Balancer(ELB), Auto-Scaling, IAM Roles, Elastic IP's, Security Policies, Cloud Formation, SQS, SNS.

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 4/5/6/7, Windows Servers (2003, 2008 R2, 2012), Windows 7/8/10.

Languages/Technologies: C++, HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, SQL, PL-SQL, Ajax, LINQ, JSON, Python, Bootstrap.

Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, Dynamo DB, MSSQL

Software/Tools: My SQL, GIT Hub, Amazon Web Services, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio 2013, Microsoft Visio,.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Harman Connected Services; Novi, MI May 2017 to Present

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Experienced in designing, building, maintaining, and coordinating an automated build/release process using Git, Gerrit, Crucible, Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker, Artifactory, Codesonar

Communicate with different Groups of Dev, QA and Sys Admin and coordinate the build deployment to production environment.

Worked closely with android teams to resolve ongoing issues with Git, Gerrit and Artifactory.

Suggested and implemented Gerrit Repository management technics to improve the performance and avoid duplicates in repositories.

Installed and configured PostgreSQL on RHEL 7 servers.

Worked on Artifactory upgradation, server and application configuration for the replication of the artifacts between different datacenters.

Configuring Jenkins jobs with related plugins for testing, Artifactory and Continuous Deployment to accomplish complete CI/CD.

Identified measurable success criteria to pilot the solution to ensure it met the business case, requirements and desired outcomes.

Coordinated activities by change management, business continuation, vendor management and problem management for return to service and problem mitigation and assure 24/7 service availability.

Configured, maintained and administered Linux systems that host build and release engineering apps by constantly monitoring system load and memory consumption.

Support current migration of Data Center to Amazon Cloud.

Worked on Docker platform to develop, ship and run applications.

Worked with Docker file to build Docker images.

Managed Maven project dependencies by creating parent-child relationships between projects.

Experiences with Orion Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor, Network Configuration Manager, Network Traffic Analyzer (NetFlow) and IP Address Manager.

Writing shell scripts to accomplish day to day system administration task.

Send out the relevant reports after the conference bridges and at the end of each incident.

Experienced in configuring and maintaining RHEL 6.x, 7.x physical and virtual server.

Experience in writing shell scripts to perform automated deployments to Tomcat Application Servers.

Scheduling the jobs and analyzing the Cron job status.

Maintained configuration files for each application for the purpose of build and install on different environments.

Written and updated the Technical Documentation for installation, configuration, upgradation and optimization of performance for DevOps tools.

Vizient Inc, Irving, Texas Aug 2016 to Apr 2017

Sr. AWS DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Working on multiple AWS services in integration with Cloud Watch, Lambda, ELB and Auto-Scaling.

Maintenance and Vulnerability Management of Hybrid infrastructure and CI/CD using Chef - Cookbooks.

Worked on AWS ELB and configure the auto scaling as per the application user traffic.

Worked on integrating AWS Dynamo DB using AWS Lambda to store the values the items and backup the Dynamo DB streams.

Worked on MySQL database backup and recovery strategies and Replication and synchronization.

MySQL implementations and performance tuning, clustering, replication and data migration.

Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using chef.

Experience on bootstrapping and maintaining AWS using Chef on complex hybrid IT infrastructure nodes through the VPN and Jump Servers.

Design base role and cookbooks to apply and maintain the nodes/servers on different environments like Dev, QA, Stag and Prod.

Launching and configuring of Amazon EC2 (AWS) Cloud Servers using AMI's (Linux/Ubuntu) and configuring the servers for specified applications.

Developed Cloud Formation template stacks to automate building new VPCs using JSON files.

Designed, built and coordinate an automated build & release [CI/CD] process using Gitlab, Jenkins/Rundeck, Nexus and Chef on hybrid IT infrastructure.

Setup and maintenance of automated environment using Chef Recipes & Cookbooks within AWS environment.

Designed and built a continuous integration and deployment framework for Chef Code using test driven development.

Experience designing, building, maintaining, and coordinating an automated build/release process using Git, Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker, Vagrant.

Having ample experience in load balancing and monitoring with Nagios.

Worked on Redhat5.x and 6.x, SUSE Linux 10.x, Microsoft SCOM hardware platforms and in VMware vSphere client 5.x virtual environment.

Installing, configuring and maintaining RHEL 5.x, 6.x physical and virtual server.

Worked on Puppet, Kick start, Packages, Yum, RPMs, LVM, Boot from SAN, file system configuration.

Building RHEL 5.x, 6.x and SUSE Linux 10 as a 4 node cluster from scratch using HPSA tool.

Installing CAD cluster Oracle 11g and Web logic applications 11.x, 12.x on RHEL 5.x and 6.x.

Creating and configuring user accounts and DNS entries.

Implementing software deployments on Linux/Solaris servers in a QA environment utilizing tools; IBM UrbanCode Deploy and Weblogic.

Writing shell scripts to accomplish day to day system administration task.

Troubleshooting Hardware and Operating system related issue.

Experience in writing technical documentation for regulatory and compliance procedures, policies and various other activities that involved.

Managed VMware Infrastructure/vSphere5 clusters on Test/Development environments.

Involved in configuring network bonding and troubleshooting networking issues.

Environment: AWS EC2, VPC, Auto scaling, ELB, Red Hat EL 3/4/5/6, CloudWatch, EBS, Directory Services, Route53, MS SQL 2012, SQL Server Mirroring, Active Directory, DFS

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan Jan 2015 to July 2016

AWS DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Perform builds for all products for supported platforms (OSX, Linux, Windows, Android)

Implemented and supported creating EC2 instances, S3 storage, Auto Scaling of instances and CloudWatch Monitoring based on requirements.

Created cloud formation templates to launch stacks.

Coordinate release cycles and maintain active branches.

Support current migration of Data Center to Amazon Cloud.

Enhance and maintain a large-scale Hudson/Jenkins-based build infrastructure.

Established efficient processes and scripts for change management with the aid of Puppet.

Maintained and managed Ansible playbooks responsible for deploying Framework and other cloud tools.

Diagnose issues with Java applications running in Tomcat or JBoss.

Created and maintained Jenkins jobs that execute shell script.

Deployed json template to create a stack in Cloud Formation which include services like Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon VPC, SQS and other services of the AWS infrastructure.

Lead the Code Deploy development team delivering market leading Devops product innovations and customer relationships.

Configured, maintained and administered Linux systems that host build and release engineering apps by constantly monitoring system load and memory consumption.

Experience working with Monitoring tools such as Cloud Watch and creating SNS services.

Setup code review tool Gerrit with GIT and integrated with CI system to help developers do peer code reviews & identified issues in code early in the cycle using code analysis.

Created AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for instance RDP/SSH logon, worked with teams to lock down security groups.

Responsible for creating and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring in Solaris, CentOS and Redhat Linux.

Installed and configured MySQL and oracle database on Linux servers.

Initial troubleshooting and resolution of network connectivity issues. Experience in documenting processes and procedures that are followed in fulfilling a task.

Maintain the build process to support ongoing R&D.

Environment: AWS EC2, S3, VPC, VMware, Windows 2008, IIS, ASP.net, SQL Server, CloudWatch, Cloud formation, JIRA, Git, Ansible, VPC, Puppet. Red Hat Linux 5/6, Bash Scripting, Active Directory, Apache, Tomcat.

Donegal Insurance - Marietta, PA June 2013 to Dec 2014

AWS DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Experience in designing and implementing AWS solutions using EC2, S3, VPC and Cloud Formation.

Developed Cloud Formation template stacks to automate building new VPCs using JSON files.

Build servers using AWS which includes importing necessary volumes, launching the EC2 instance, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers, Route 53 and SNS as per the architecture.

Directed at enhancing volumes and EC2 instances to use these under the created VPC.

Developed Cloud Formation template stacks to automate building new VPCs using JSON files.

Created Elastic Load-Balancer (ELB) for different applications to provide high performance of applications.

Worked with AWS IAM to generate new accounts, assign roles and groups.

Created Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with subnets and groups for servers and created security groups to associate with the networks.

Utilized Amazon Route53 to manage DNS zones and also assign public DNS names to elastic load balancers IP's.

Captured Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 Instance for snapshots and creating clone's instances for their application elsewhere.

Monitoring the server performance, CPU Utilization and disk usage using Cloud Watch and raising alarm in case of emergency

Experience configuring AWS S3 and their lifecycle policies and to backup files and archive files in Amazon Glacier.

Utilized EBS to store repeated data and overcome failure by using Snapshots.

Checking the health and utilization of AWS resources using AWS Cloud Watch.

Initiated and implemented required changes and make sure they are completed successfully on time.

Managed functioning of the IT architecture using Nagios and reported during failures.

Involved in hosting applications as well as building and testing the applications using Chef.

Used Cloud Front to deliver data from AWS edge locations to users, allowing for further reduction of load on front-end servers.

Environment: Redhat Linux, SUN Solaris 2.x, Windows 2003 server, Web logic Application Server, iPlanet 4.1, Sun One6.1, IIS 6.0, SVN/Git, Jenkins/Hudson, Shell Scripting, Ruby, Python, Oracle 9i.

Capital One Bank, Richmond, VA Feb 2012 to May 2013

AWS/Linux System engineer

Responsibilities:

Performed AWS Cloud administration managing EC2 instances, S3, SES and SNS services.

Created Buckets in AWS and stored files. Enabled Versioning and security for files stored.

Implemented and maintained monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/costs using Cloud Watch.

Designing and implementing CI (Continuous Integration) system: configuring Jenkins servers, Jenkins nodes, creating required scripts (Perl & Python), and creating/configuring VMs (Windows/Linux)

Provisioning Jenkins environment for continuous integration re by easing build and testing tasks for developers.

Configured security and system in Jenkins. Added multiple nodes to Jenkins and configured SSH for continuous deployments.

Configured SSH, SMTP, Build Tools, and Source Control repositories in Jenkins. Installed multiple plugins to Jenkins. Configured Proxy to get auto updates.

Designing and implementing for fully automated server build management, monitoring and deployment using Chef.

Maintain Chef and Puppet servers and management application that can use Service Now (CI) data to bring computers into a desired state by managing files, services, or packages installed on physical or virtual machines.

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

Worked with Puppet and Chef which is used to manage Linux but later versions support Microsoft Windows.

Deployed various Unix Servers which includes Red Hat, Open SUSE and Solaris distribution and provided administration and support.

Installed, managed Verities Volume Manager 3.5 (VxVM) on Solaris 9.

Environment: Puppet, GIT, Jenkins, AWS, EC2, EBS, IAM, S3, ELB, Environment: Puppet, GIT, Jenkins, AWS, EC2, EBS, IAM, S3, ELB, Unix, Debian, Linux, Windows, VMware ESXi, Apache Web servers, Postgre SQL Debian, Linux, Windows, VMware ESXi, Apache Web servers, Postgre SQL.

Sun Microsystems - Bangalore, Karnataka Sept 2009 to Dec 2011

Linux Admin

Responsibilities:

Managing UNIX Infrastructure and EMC storage involving maintenance of the servers and troubleshooting problems in the environment.

Installing operating systems Solaris, Linux and HP according to business requirements.

Planning and implementing the configuration changes to the servers adhering with ITIL change management process.

Trouble shooting the issues ranging from Solaris, Linux and SAN environments.

Managing configuration of VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS Cluster.

Worked on cron in Linux servers for managing the logs of the web servers.

Created and maintained built wrapper scripts using PERL.

Maintained and executed build scripts by coordinating with development and QA teams.

Worked on different VMware products like VMware workstation, GSX/VMware server, VMware player, and VMware Converter and ESX server 3.X.

Responsible in doing build and deploying on different environments simultaneously.

Provided assistance to developers in resolving problems.

Deployed the EAR and WAR archives into Web logic and Apache Servers.

Monitor progression of releases and keep them on track for delivery on planned release date

Submit request for implementation to various groups who participate in release.

Assemble Release Kit and complete all paperwork, including implementation/back out plans.

Established end-to-end software development process using shell on top of BO, including automated builds of Rhapsody models.

Environment: Sun Solaris 2.6/7, SUN Ultra Enterprise 6000/450, SUN Ultra 10/5/2/1, Windows NT 4.0, RHEL 3.x

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