Andrews Anthonisamy, RHCE, CKAD, AZ-***

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INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIALIST

DEVOPS BUILD AUTOMATION CLOUD MIDDLEWARE

Infrastructure Specialist with strong IT experience, including the design, development, and integration of DevOps tools, build automation, configuration management, build/release and delivery management, and CI/CD, involving cloud infrastructure services (AWS/IBM Cloud), as well as Cloud Migration services using Cloud formation and Terraform templates. Extensive experience on AWS services like ELB, EC2, S3, VPC, NACLs, Cloud Formation, Route 53, Network Connectivity troubleshooting, Hybrid Environments and VPC peering. Hands on experience with Terraform modules to manage infrastructure and publishing module to the Terraform registry and contributed for end-to-end configuration management to deploy products inside AWS environment. Expertise in using Ansible to setup Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Deployed micro services, including provisioning AWS environments using Ansible Playbooks. Expertise in Ansible Playbook, YAML for Maintaining Roles Inventory Files and Groups Variables and extensively worked on Jenkins. Extensively worked with configuring and management tools like Chef, Ansible and expertise in developing Recipes, Manifests and Playbooks in bash and YAML scripts to automate the environment. Expertise in App Containerization technology Docker creating Docker images, Containers, Docker Registry to store images, cloud-based registry Docker Hub, Docker Swarm to manage containers. Experience in managing Kubernetes charts using Helm, created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed manifest files and releases of Helm packages. Created Pods in Kubernetes and monitored the health of pods using Helm charts. Worked with Container Platform for Docker and Kubernetes, used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, ConfigMaps, node-selector, Services, and deployed application containers as Pods. Worked with RedHat OpenShift Container Platform for Docker and Kubernetes. Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, ConfigMaps, node-selector, Services, and deployed application containers as Pods.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux/Windows/IBM AIX

Cloud platforms: AWS IBM Cloud Azure

Container Orchestration Tools: Docker Swarm Kubernetes

Virtualization Platforms: Oracle VM Virtual Box VMware Windows Hyper-V

Application/Web Servers: Apache Tomcat JBoss WebSphere Send Mail

Scripting languages: Python Bash/Shell Scripting PowerShell YAML

Continuous Integration tools: IBM UCB/ UCD Jenkins GitHub

Logging & Monitoring Tools: Nagios Splunk CloudWatch Dynatrace New Relic

Databases: MS SQL Server Oracle MYSQL PostgreSQL IBM DB2

Networking: TCP/IP DHCP DNS SNMP SMTP Ethernet NFS LDAP

Content Delivery Network: AKAMAI, AWS CloudFront

Web Server: IIS Apache IBM Http Server

Application Server: WebSphere Commerce JBOSS Websphere Application Server Tomcat WebSphere eXtreme Scale Sterling OMS

CORE COMPETENCIES

Virtual Firewalls Container-based Deployments Automation

Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PUBLICIS SAPIENT August 2021 – July 2023

Specialist

Building the underlying platform and pipelines needed to support the porting of the data models to the new MGP, and also helping them optimize the platform to deliver on their specific requirements and goals.

Used Groovy scripts for CI/CD pipeline builds, and was actively involved in the entire pipeline setups and Jenkins configurations.

Experience in Infrastructure Development and Operations involving AWS Cloud Services EC2, EBS, VPC, RDS, ELB, IAM, Auto scaling, CloudFront, API Gateway, Route53, Cloud Watch, SNS and Security Groups

Hands-on using OpenShift for container orchestration with Kubernetes, container storage, automation, to enhance container platform multi-tenancy. Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes architecture and design, troubleshooting issues and multi-regional deployment models and patterns for large-scale applications

Working with a strong team of architects, backend developers to gather function and non-functional requirements

Expertise in Architecting and Implementing Azure Service offering such as Azure cloud services, Azure storage, IIS, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Azure VMs, Azure Functions, Azure Monitor

Expertise in Azure Scalability and Azure Availability. Build VMs availability sets using the Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) using Terraform Enterprise to manage network traffic

Involved in source control management with GitHub and GitLab Enterprise level repositories. Regular activities include configure user’s access levels, monitor logs, identifying merge conflicts and managing master repository

Knowledge on Real User Monitoring solutions like Dynatrace, New Relic etc

Worked with different Bug tracking tools like JIRA, Remedy, Azure DevOps

Experience in Linux System Administration, Build Engineering & Release Management process, including end-to-end code configuration, building binaries, deployments and entire life cycle model in Enterprise Applications

In-depth knowledge of DevOps management methodologies and production deployment configurations

. Used Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage docker containers with multiple namespaced versions

Created and managed a Docker deployment pipeline for custom application images in the cloud using Jenkins

Configured JENKINS monitor, List and Build views to displays the status and progress of selected jobs with build version information

Involved in ARTIFACTORY Repository Managers for Docker build in JFrog

Involved in source control management with GitHub and GitLab Enterprise level repositories. Regular activities include configure user’s access levels, monitor logs, identifying merge conflicts and managing master repository

Working with a strong team of architects, backend developers to gather function and non-functional requirements

Expertise in Architecting and Implementing Azure Service offering such as Azure cloud services, Azure storage, IIS, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Azure VMs, Azure Functions, Azure Monitor

Experience in writing Infrastructure as a code (IaC) in Terraform

Set up the SonarQube projects, which corresponded to GitHub projects and provided code analysis of different programming standards.

Worked on CodeQL in GitHub Advances Security.

Built Docker images and wrote Docker files, which could be used to automate all developer tasks.

Implemented strong DM proxy to connect through Remote Desktop for virtual machines to enable password manager authentication.

IBM August 2014 – July 2021

Infrastructure Specialist

Provided support for IBM CIO Cloud (IaaS) on IBM Cloud.

Performed configuration, deployment and support of cloud services, including Amazon Webservices (AWS)Creating Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services and configuration of launched instances with respect to specific applications.

Skilled in monitoring servers using Nagios, Datadog, Cloud watch and Elastic Search

Expertise in querying RDBMS such as Oracle, IBM DB2 and SQL Server

Working in implementation team to build and engineer servers on Ubuntu and RHEL. Provisioning virtual servers on VMware and ESX servers using Vcloud

Ability in development and execution of XML, Shell Scripts and Power shell, Batch scripts and Bash also

Deployment and management of many servers via script and chef, utilizing cloud providers as a direct substrate for implementation

Worked with IAM service creating new IAM users and groups defining roles and policies and Identity providers

Creating and Managing Virtual Machines using Xen, KVM to run specific services

Build and deploy release using Urban Code Build and Deploy WebSphere, tomcat,git quick build

Monitor, build and deploy software release and provide support for production deployments

Designing and deploying data center architecture on Linux Platform. Building patching and managing existing data center rack servers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Experience in working with automation tools like CHEF and ANSIBLE

Used ANT and Python scripts to automate the Build and deployment process. Used maven for few modules

Created Custom workflows, custom screens and custom fields on JIRA

Configure and Maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with Ant and Maven to schedule the builds

Hands on experience and good knowledge in AWS Cloud Services EC2, EBS, VPC, RDS, ELB, IAM, Auto scaling, CloudFront, API Gateway, Route53, Cloud Watch, SNS and Security Groups

Defined AWS Security Groups, which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.

Assisted in installing and upgrading Splunk apps and configured them. Guided all the SMEs in using Splunk to create dashboards, reports, and Alerts.

Contributed to Configuration Automation and Centralized Management with Ansible.

Wrote Chef Cookbooks and recipes using Ansible to automate the installation of Middleware Infrastructure like Apache Tomcat, JDK, and configuration tasks for new environments.

Executed the automation from commit to deployment directly into IBM Cloud VM by implementing a CI/CD pipeline with the help of Jenkins and Chef. Set up Chef Infra, bootstrapping nodes, creating, and uploading recipes, node convergence in Chef SCM.

Designing and deploying data center architecture on Linux Platform. Building patching and managing existing data center rack servers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Perform product updates in the infrastructure – install ifix, fixpacks etc.

Expertise in the installation and configuration and design of messaging tools WebSphere MQ

Administration, Deployment of Enterprise Applications, Configuration of Enterprise Environment and supporting applications running on WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Commerce Server.

Installation and configuration of WebSphere Commerce/WebSphere Application Server V7/8/9 on Windows Server Edition and Linux in both horizontal and vertical topologies.

Oversaw the designing, building, installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of RedHat and Windows, IBM AIX.

Worked on network devices and resources, such as switches, routers, gateways, firewalls, and load balancers that are used to host the virtual network resources.

Expertise in compute devices and resources, such as cores, memory, and GPUs used to host the virtual or bare metal servers.

Experience in Storage devices and resources, such as disks and storage devices that are used to host the virtual block, file, or Object Storage buckets.

Implementation and configuration of the Akamai enterprise application across all necessary systems.

Scheduled, deployed, and managed container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes and converted VM-based application to microservices and deployed as a container managed by Kubernetes.

Managed Splunk configuration files, such as inputs, props, transforms, and lookups. Deployed, configured, and maintained Splunk forwarder in different platforms.

Utilized Jenkins master/slave architecture to distribute builds on nodes and trigger Jenkins’s job to build the artifacts using Maven deployed the Terraform templates to create the stack.

Hands on experience in IBM Cloud services like Compute, Databases, Logging and Monitoring, Networking, Storage, IBM Cloud Object, Veeam, eVault, Security

Strong technical knowledge includes WebSphere Application Server implementation, support, workload management and performance tuning. Web server setup, including complex secure sockets layer (SSL) configuration on IBM HTTP Server

SAPIENT CORPORATION INDIA February 2010 – June 2014

Sapient is a Digital Marketing platform, development, consulting company, having prestigious clients like Luxottica, Target, Hardely Davidson, and Chrysler.

Senior Associate Infrastructure

Gained strong technical knowledge, including WebSphere Application Server implementation, support, workload management and performance tuning. Performed web server setup, including complex secure sockets layer (SSL) configuration on IBM HTTP Server.

Supported WebSphere (WAS) clustering and load balancing with F5 and fail over.

Managed the Domain Name Service (DNS) through Mark Monitor.

HCL Technologies India September 2008 – February 2010

Specialist Systems

Worked as Web Administrator for the client Merck&Co, an American pharmaceutical company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

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Defined and executed roadmap to increase team’s expertise in Web services and portal platforms, such as WebLogic, WebSphere.

Server Hang, Deadlock, application-level lock, database level lock by taking thread dump and analyze to get the root cause for the hang.

Provided level 2 and level 3 technical supports for Production applications.

Created a rewrite rules in Akamai and push the contents staging to production

Installed, Configured, and managed various web servers, including Apache Tomcat, Sun ONE iPlanet web server.

Provided 24X7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to WebSphere, BEA WebLogic Server, iPlanet, Apache Web Servers.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS INDIA, Systems Engineer

PRECISION TECHSERVE INDIA, Systems Engineer

BAY SOFT SYSTEMS INC. INDIA, Customer Support Engineer

EDUCATION

Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

MUTHIAH POLYTECHNIC, India

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Technology

RAJASTHAN JRN VIDYAPEETH UNIVERSITY, India

CERTIFICATIONS

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

IBM Certified WebSphere Commerce Server Administrator

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305)

TRAINING

Red Hat Linux at Red Hat Authorized training center

Websphere Commerce Server Administration by IBM authorized partner

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

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