Neelakshi Dinesh

Sr. Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Email: ad1dqs@r.postjobfree.com

Contact no:614-***-****

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/neelakshi-d-a67b2122b

Professional Summary

Around 7 Years of experience in IT industry as a Build/Release/Deployment/Operations (DevOps) Engineer, AWS with good understanding of the principles and best practices of SCM in Agile, Scrum, Waterfall methodologies Specialist in Cloud Management.

Experience in Designing, Architecting and implementing scalable cloud - based web applications using AWS and GCP.

Migrated Applications from Bare Metals to AWS using AWS Server Migration Service, AWS Database Migration Service, Direct-Connect, and Snow ball.

Hands-on experience on AWS and its infrastructure including EC2, IAM, ECS, Elastic Cache, Elastic Search, Relational Database Service (RDS), Redshift, VPC implementation, IAM, KMS, WAF, Cloud Trail, CloudWatch, S3, Cloud Front, AWS CLI scripting, ELB, Glacier, Route 53, Lambda, Dynamo DB, Elastic Beanstalk, SQS, SNS and Security group management.

Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed reaching one or more AWS EC2, Lambda instance.

Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.

Implemented Security in Web Applications using Azure and deployed Web Applications to Azure.

Familiar using Dependency Visualization in Azure migrate for deep analysis and identify application dependencies.

Implemented Terraform modules for deployment of various applications across multiple cloud providers and managing infrastructure.

Expertise provisioning AWS Cloud Services EC2, IAM, S3, AMI, EBS, ELB, Auto - Scaling, Config, Secrets, Route 53, KMS, DNS, VPC, VPN, SNS, SQS, RDS, CloudFront, Glacier, Lambda, API Gateway, CDN, CDK & CLI, etc.,

Worked as Linux system administrator on Red hat Enterprise Linux 7, 6.x, 5.x, and Solaris 10, 9, 8, Ubuntu & Centos.

Experience with configuration management using Ansible, Chef and container management with Docker.

Experience with managing containers with Docker & Servers in Ansible with Docker server

Developed Terraform templates to create load balancers (ELB), EC2 instances with auto scaling, monitoring on the fly for different environments such as QA, SIT, stage which will run on different VPCs.

Expert in capturing the entire "Infrastructure as Code" using tools like Terraform, Packer.

Worked with Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, ConfigMaps, selector, Services and deployed application containers as Pods.

Experience in managed Kubernetes services such as Google Kubernetes engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes and AWS Elastic container service.

Expertise in Agile Development to effectively regulate branching and tagging of code within a repository and utilized Git, Bitbucket and Team Foundation Server (TFS) for maintenance. Setup Supply Chain Management (SCM) Polling for intermediate builds with MAVEN and MAVEN Repository by installing Jenkins for Git Repository

Involvement in developing APIs using Kubernetes to manage and specify the copies of the containers to run the actual servers in the cloud environment. Scheduled, deployed and managed container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes and deployed Docker containers through Kubernetes to manage the microservices using its Nodes, Pods, ConfigMaps, Selectors, Services.

Hands-on in 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.

Experience in Configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, and Puppet. Wrote Chef recipes and cookbooks in Ruby scripting.

Experience in Ansible setup, managing hosts file, Using YAML linter, authoring various playbooks and custom modules with Ansible and Ansible Playbooks to automate in AWS services like Launching EC2, Provisioning IAM, Configuring VPC, EBS, Monitoring using Cloud Watch and Cloud Trail.

Expertise in creating DevOps strategy in a various distribution of LINUX and Windows alongside using DevOps tools suites like Subversion (SVN), GIT, CVS, ANT, Maven, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Chef, Puppet, Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Nexus, Artifactory, Nagios and Splunk in traditional environments, as well as cloud

Extensively worked on Jenkins and Hudson by installing, configuring and maintaining the purpose of Continuous Integration (CI) and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments and in implementing CI/CD for database using Jenkins.

Experience in creating Jenkins pipeline jobs for Puppet release process for module deployment, using Kanban agile methodology for puppet development.

Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub, Nexus, Maven and AWS AMI's .

Experienced in authoring pom.xml, build.xml files performing releases with the Maven, ANT release plugin, and managing artifacts in NEXUS, JFrog Artifactory.

Wrote Power Shell scripts to automate the Azure cloud system creation including end-to-end infrastructure, VMs, storage, firewall rules, etc.

Cloud development and automation using Node.js, Python (Boto3), AWS Lambda, AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) and AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model)

Experience in JIRA for ticketing and as well as defect tracking system and configure various workflows, customizations and plug-ins for JIRA bug/issue tracker, integrated Jenkins with JIRA, GitHub, Maven.

Involved in migrating physical Linux/Windows servers to Cloud (AWS) and testing.

Experience in Configuring and Managing logging and monitoring tools such as Nagios, AppDynamics, Prometheus, SumoLogic, Splunk, ELK.

Installed configured Managed Monitoring tools, such as Nagios for Resource Monitoring/Network Monitoring/log Trace Monitoring.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Environments

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)

Configuration Management Tools

Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Container Tools

Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift

Containerization Tools

Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS)

Virtualization

Windows Hyper-V, Virtual box, VMware, Power VM

Operating Systems

Redhat Linux, Unix, Ubuntu, Windows, Mac OS X.

Automation Tools

ANT, Maven, Jenkins, Terraform, Gradle

Database

MongoDB, MySQL, Amazon AurorDB, DynamoDB

Scripting languages

Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Bash shell, Power shell, JSON

Networking/Protocol

DNS, DHCP, SMTP, LAN, HTTP, SNMP

Version Control Tools

GIT, Bitbucket, SVN, GITLAB, GITHUB

Monitoring Tools

SonarQube, Splunk, Nagios, CloudWatch, ELK, New Relic, JIRA

Application and Web Servers

Oracle Web Logic, IBM Web Sphere, JBOSS, Apache HTTP, Nginx, IIS, Apache Tomcat

Programming Languages

C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, HTML, CSS, AJAX, JQuery.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Guardian Life insurance, New York Oct 2020 - Present

Created AWS cloud formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB, security groups. Managed other AWS Services like S3, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, RDS, Kinesis, Redshift Cluster, Route53, SNS, SQS, Cloud Trail.

Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Written CloudFormation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.

Expertise in Auto Scaling using AWS command line tools and AWS cloud environment for Dev/QA environments.

Managed AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT environments as well as infrastructure servers for GIT and Chef and experienced in automating CI and CD pipeline with AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins and AWS Code Deploy.

Worked on Public clouds security implementation with security appliance for Azure, AWS

Incorporated AWS native DevOps services to support development and deployment: Git, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipleline and Cloudformation/Cloud Development Kit (CDK).

Involved in designing and deploying multi - tier applications using all the AWS services like (EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud Formation.

Deploy Openstack environments through automated tools, Ansible / custom pipeline and Terraform for Infrastructure Automation

Built and managed a large deployment of Red Hat Linux instances systems with Ansible, Terraform Automation and provision virtual servers using vagrant and kitchen in Oracle VM virtual box, provisioned servers in Amazon EC2.

Created development and test environments for different micro services by provisioning Kubernetes clusters on AWS using Docker, Ansible, and Terraform.

Developed single page applications using AWS CDk’s, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML & CSS for styling

Created private cloud using Kubernetes that supports development, test and production environments.

Used Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple names spaced versions.

Prototype CI/CD system with GitLab utilizing Kubernetes and docker for the runtime environment for the CI/CD systems to build and test and deploy.

Experience in Docker, Kubernetes for the Container Security Engineer implementing monitoring/auditing security events on container and implement container network security detection.

Enhanced Accenture Private Cloud blueprint by mapping OpenStack components to functional blocks

Used OpenStack server to build a private cloud. Assisting developers in integrating their code with the main stream

Implemented Blue/Green pattern deployment using Ansible Playbooks & YAML Scripting proving zero downtime during deploying the JAVA application to Apache Tomcat servers.

Setup and Implement CI/CD Process stack using AWS, CloudFoundary, GITHUB, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Docker, and Ansible.

Customized Ansible modules for finding facts about AWS Cloudwatch alarms and taking actions to pause/unpause those alarms during deployments. Used Ansible Tower Dashboard to view complete status of my plays & tasks, each success & failure of Playbooks.

Implementing a continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Ansible and Maven in Centos and ubuntu environment

Implemented Maven Release Plug-in through Jenkins Jobs for deploying the artifacts to GIT repository.

Implemented and Enhanced the Existing Scripts which are developed in Shell, Perl, Ruby and Python.

Performed Cloning, modifying, updating the GIT repos and push back to the Bitbucket. Imported and managed multiple corporate applications into GIT repositories and give access rights to the authorized developers.

Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub. Whenever a new GitHub branch gets started, Jenkins automatically builds a new Docker container from it.

Worked on monitoring tools to configure Nagios, Splunk, Zabbix.

Experience using or supporting centralized logging infrastructure Splunk and Plan, deploy and document architecture components, monitoring & alerting setup, troubleshooting guides.

Maintained Artifacts in binary repositories using JFrog Artifactory and pushed new Artifacts by configuring the Jenkins project Jenkins Artifactory plugin.

Environment: AWS EC2, Cloud Front, cloud watch, RDS, S3, VPC, SNS, SQS, Cloud Trail, Route 53, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Maven, Jenkins, GIT, SVN, JIRA, Oracle SQL, Data Flow, Ansible, Nagios, Shell scripting, Python Scripting and Perl scripting, Deployment.

DevOps Engineer

Trexis Insurance, Atlanta Jan 2020-Oct 2020

Configured Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) as a part of Azure AD Premium to securely authenticate users and worked on creating custom Azure templates for quick deployments and advanced PowerShell scripting. Deployed Azure SQL DB with GEO Replication, Azure SQL DB Sync to standby database in another region & fail over configuration.

Created Azure Automation Assets, Graphical runbook, PowerShell runbook that will automate specific tasks, deployed Azure AD Connect, configuring Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) authentication flow, ADFS installation using Azure AD Connect, and involved in administrative tasks that include Build, Design, Deploy of Azure environment.

Implemented Azure Operations dealing with IAAS infrastructure (Azure VMs, Virtual Networking, Azure services, Website Deployments) and deployed application as PaaS (Websites, Web Roles, and Worker Roles).

Created Azure automated assets, Graphical runbooks, PowerShell run books that will automate specific tasks. Expertise in deploying Azure AD connect, configuring ADFS installation using Azure AD connect

Involved in migrating SQL server database to SQL Azure database using SQL Azure migration wizard and used Python API to upload agent logs into Azure blob storage.

Extracted and loaded data into Azure Blob Storage and Snow Flake databases using Azure Data Factory and Data bricks.

Developed CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to deploy Snow SQL's, data factory components, and python scripts to their respective destinations.

Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub and Docker-registries and Kubernetes.

Used Terraform to reliably version and create infrastructure on Azure. Created resources, using AZURE Terraform modules, and automated infrastructure management.

Similar infrastructure is deployed to Azure and additional cloud providers or on-premises datacentres using Terraform and managed infrastructure on multiple cloud providers.

Used AZURE Kubernetes Service to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure and created an AKS cluster in the Azure portal, with the Azure CLI, also used template driven deployment options such as Resource Manager templates and terraform.

Installed Data Dog Agent in all Service for monitoring the resources.

Containerizing the application using docker via creating Docker file.

Using Docker swarm to orchestrating the containerized environment.

Storing Docker images in nexus antifactory and provide limited access to pull the images

Extensively used file module in Ansible playbook to copy and remove files on remote systems. Created inventory in Ansible for automating the continuous deployment.

Fully responsible for DevOps infrastructure architecture, Jenkins, Puppet & Ansible implementation, Responsible for CI infrastructure and CD infrastructure and process and deployment strategy.

Creating new build jobs, Integration testing jobs and deploy jobs in Jenkins to automate the process.

Maintained Artifacts in binary repositories using JFrog Artifactory and pushed new Artifacts by configuring the Jenkins project Jenkins Artifactory plugin.

Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using Python, Perl.

Performed Cloning, modifying, updating the GIT repos and push back to the Bitbucket. Imported and managed multiple corporate applications into GIT repositories and give access rights to the authorized developers.

Configure ELK stack in conjunction with AWS and using LogStash to output data to AWS S3.

Using Chef deployed and configured Elastic Search Log stash and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring in integration with AWS Lambda and Cloud Watch

Environment: Environment: ANT, MAVEN, Subversion (SVN), CHEF, Docker, Vagrant, EC2, Ansible, JIRA, LINUX, RHEL, SNS, SQS, Kubernetes, Shell/Perl Scripts, Bitbucket, Python, TFS, SCM, API, GIT, Jenkins, TomCat, Java, Azure TFS, Azure VSTS, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, GitBash, Python

DevOps Engineer

Hexaware technologies, Pune, Maharashtra Sept 2017-Nov 2019

●Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.

●Designed roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) and built server deployment on Amazon Cloud (EC2) servers with the help of DevOps tool like Chef.

●Extensively involved in infrastructure as code, execution plans, resource graph and change automation using Terraform.

Used Terraform to transform the infrastructure from on - premise to cloud.

Improved NGINX performance of 3Scale API Gateway. Blue / Green Deployment of Apps using Jenkins, AWS Cloud formation, Terraform,2, Chef Scripts. Created DEVOps Tools using Docker Utility Programs. Developed NodeJS Program, Performance Testing using Artillery for testing NodeJS / Other REST APIs.

Involved in provisioning and Automation servers on Public Cloud like AWS, AWS and Kubernetes.

Created private cloud using Kubernetes that supports DEV, TEST, and PROD environments

Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.

Responsible for creation and management of CHEF cookbooks.

Built Chef Manifests and bootstrap scripts to allow us to bootstrap instances to various roles without having to maintain AMIs.

Build scripts using MAVEN build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.

Deployed J2EE applications to Application servers in an Agile continuous integration environment and also automated the whole process. Build scripts using MAVEN build tools in Jenkins, Sonar to move from one environment to other environments.

Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with Artifactory and Maven to schedule the builds. Took the sole responsibility to maintain the CI Jenkins server.

Experience in working on version control systems like Subversion and GIT and used Source Code Management client tools like GitBash, GitHub, Git GUI and other command line applications.

Develop methods to automate routine infrastructure tasks such as deployment and maintenance duties using orchestration tools and scripting languages such as Ansible, Puppet, Bash and Python.

Automated operation processes using the python scripts. Lambda functions are developed to facilitate automated triggers and monitor these triggers using CloudWatch Events and Schedules.

Configured secure HTTP for SVN source control, and back-end communication with SQLDatabase and manage user access to SVN repositories. Build and Release software baselines, code merges, branch and label creation in Subversion and GIT, worked as migration lead to perform migration from Subversion to Git via Bit Bucket (DVCS).

Involved in design, configuration, installation, implementation, management, maintain and support for the corporate Linux servers RHEL, CENTOS, Ubuntu

Expertise in configuring the monitoring and alerting tools according to the requirement like AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Dynatrace, Nagios, Splunk Enterprise for the VPN connections.

Environment: Amazon Web Services, Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, Python, Jira, Web logic, UNIX, VMware, Artifactory, Shell, Perl, JSON, Docker, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, ELK.

Build & release engineer

N Technologies, Pune, Maharashtra Jan 2017-Sept 2017

●Worked as a Build Engineer for a team that involves different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases for QA, UAT and Prod environments.

●Worked on integrating GIT into the continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Anthill-Pro, Jenkins.

●Jenkins continuous integration server installation and configuration for all GIT Repositories.

●Created the naming strategy for branches and labels and involved continuous integration system with GIT version control repository and continually build as the check-in's come from the developer.

●Used the continuous integration tool Jenkins to automate the daily processes in Agile development.

●Automating the test cases to run on scheduled basis by integrating the job on Jenkins pipeline.

●Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server.

●Implemented the setup for Master slave architecture to improve the Performance of Jenkins.

●Integrated Junit tests in Ant and configured Jenkins to send the Unit test report to the development team.

●Configuring Jenkins set up, defining, scheduling jobs, invoking external scripts and external executables triggered from Jenkins at defined intervals.

●Involved in Architect, Build and maintain Highly Available secure environment utilizing Chef with Jenkins & Hudson for continuous integration.

●Used Chef to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Database Commands and Packages.

●Wrote and modified various Cookbooks and Recipes for better management of the systems.

●Built and managed a large deployment of Ubuntu Linux instances systems with Chef Automation and written recipes, tools, shell scripts, and monitoring checks.

●Supported API development team in creating Ansible playbooks for deploying, integrating and monitoring their continuous integration environment.

●Extensively used Ruby scripting on Chef Automation for creating cookbooks comprising all resources, Data bags, templates, attributes.

●Work station setup for Knife plugin and establish connectivity between Chef server and workstation.

●Worked on Jenkins for continuous integration and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments, Implement CI/CD tools Upgrade, Backup, Restore, DNS and SSL setup.

●Maintained networks via TCP/IP to enhance security and allow businesses to offer managed Wireless Hotspot services and also Involved in daily Scrum meetings and Sprint development.

●Involved partially in deploying WARs/EARs through WebLogic

●Attended Project Status Review Meetings and Casual Analysis Meeting for release activities.

Environment: GIT, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Chef, Jira, Vagrant, RedHat, Ruby, TCP/IP Hudson, Unix/Linux environment, LDAP.

Linux admin

Just Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra Jan 2015-Jan 2017

●Configured and installed Red Hat and Centos Linux Servers on both virtual machine and bare metal Installation.

●Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 /6 and Solaris 9/10 systems. Troubleshooting Network, memory, CPU, swap and File system issues, TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, and SMTP in Linux.

●Solid network and systems troubleshooting experience with HTTP\HTTPS, SFTP, FTP, NFS, SMB, SMTP, SSH, NTP and TCP/IP, Internet Security, encryption.

●Performed Administrative and Management tasks using shell Scripts written in Bash, Python, C Shell and CRONtab in

Linux to automate the tasks. Install, configure and manage LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySql/PHP) stacks.

●Troubleshooting Production Server Problems related to web applications, Sendmail, disk space, file system, DNS and network connectivity.

●Developed Cron jobs and Shell Scripts (Perl, Python ) for automating administration tasks like file system management, process management, Server reboots.

●Utilized Shells for scripting changes and improvements. Installed and maintained Red Hat 5.2 Linux and installed Ubuntu

10.0Linux. Installed Operating Systems using Kickstart .

●Deployed JAVA/J2EE applications through WebLogic/WebSphere Application servers. Involved in front-end programming using C on both Unix and Window.

●Experience in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Linux, Power Systems. Performed patching, backups on multiple environments of Solaris, Linux and VMware.

Environment: PowerShell, C, Java, Python, CRONtab, UNIX, Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, CentOS Linux, Powershell

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