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Experienced Cloud Devops consultant

Strategy Plan Implement Monitor

Highly accomplished AWS DevOps consultant with professional experience in the Agile development, DevOps, and related toolset for rapid application development and deployment, Cloud transition, migrations and operations

Drive Devops adoption by recommending and implementing tool sets and best practices for automation, configuration and release management. Strengths include strong interpersonal, facilitation, attention to detail and excellent communication skills.

Energetic, enthusiastic and highly motivated professional with experience and proven track record of success.

Working with Cloud Architects to review and validate understanding of customer requirements and translate initial scope into technical deliverables.

Experience with Agile development, DevOps, AWS, Middleware, SRE and related toolset for rapid application development and deployment

6+ years of experience working with design and implementation of systems and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in well architected Frameworks

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Design, implement, and manage DevOps capabilities in cloud offerings using CI/CD toolsets and automation

Ensure DevOps systems we build are robust in the sense they can scale, handle rapid growth, and limit exposure to single points of failure and security vulnerabilities

Hands-on role that develops and supports build and release automation pipelines and part of one team that will deploy a highly available full software stack in public/ private clouds

Strong experience in database administration and development experience

Manage entire pipelines and working with tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible and Terraform

Remediate gaps and support the automation requirements of continuous integration and continuous deployment

Familiarity with the fundamentals of UNIX/Linux systems administration

Provide guidance and direction to App Dev teams in regards to DevOps processes and technical/pipeline standards

Participated in team wide Change Management process as both implementer and verifier ensuring changes are completed efficiently and correctly

CORE COMPETENCIES/TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud technologies: AWS

CI/CD tools: Cloud Bees Enterprise Jenkins, TeamCity, AWS Code pipeline, Spinnaker, Azure repos

Orchestration Tools: Ansible

BUILD tools: Ant, MAVEN, GRADLE

Version control: Enterprise GitHub, Git, SVN, GitLab, bitbucket, inner source, AWS code commit

Bug Tracking tools: Jira

Artifactory Tools: JFROG Artifactory, Sona type Nexus

Code Analysis: SonarQube

Containerization & Kubernetes: Dockers, EKS

Scripting: Shell, PowerShell and python

Infrastructure Automation: AWS Cloud formation and Terraform

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project: Enterprise AWS Cloud Infrastructure/ Migration Team June 2023 to Till Date

Client : Brixton Group

Role: Cloud Infrastructure Consultant

Sand Tracker platform, you can track the location and movement of sand boxes, monitor a driver's speed and fuel consumption, define project parameters, such as rates and routes, and receive alerts in case of delays or route deviations. platform is designed to be user-friendly and customizable, allowing you to configure alerts, reports, and dashboards to match your specific needs. Cloud migration resource ensures all their customers/partners develop pragmatic cloud strategy and maximize the benefits of AWS. As part of implementation to design and build the foundations of the solution (Cloud, Operating System, Middleware and Operation transition) to bring expertise not only on the cloud deployment but also to ensure that the proposed architecture is aligned with state-of-the-art architecture to minimize the maintenance and cost optimization.

●Planned for cloud migration strategies.

●Implemented ECS and EKS cluster configuration and user authentication for different applications in Liberty for all environments Dev, Test, Stage and Prod.

●Implemented Azure Devops solution to automate CI/CD pipelines, security, build/release management, cloud resource utilization, infrastructure automation and to deploy dockerized applications to EKS or ECS

●Develop build scripts and automation solutions using scripting languages like Python and Shell.

●Develop SNS notifications for application and infra issues, scheduled logs upload to S3 using LAMBDA.

●Work on access management using AWS IAM using Avenue tool, troubleshooting issues related to ELB/ALB, configure SSM agent, SSM parameter store and AWS config.

●Develop application observability, log streaming to Prometheus and Dashboards created in Graphana.

●Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure including backups, patches, and scaling.

●Design and implement new software to streamline manual operations.

●Provide support to manage Amazon Web Services like VPC, VPC endpoints, Route53, EC2, RDS, S3, EFS, EBS,SNS, SQS, ECS, EKS and Certificate Manager, WAF, CloudTrail, Api gateway etc.,

Project: Maryland Dept of Human Services Duration :Aug 2022 to May 2023

Client : Maryland Gov

Role – Cloud Devops Infrastructure - Migration- Operations Lead

The cloud migration team is dedicated to the success of customers/partners and their cloud adoption

strategies. The current team ensures all of our customers/partners develop a pragmatic cloud strategy and

execute a proven cloud roadmap to maximize the benefits of Cloud. Our focus includes building

Implementation/Architecture Services best practices, Partner Enablement

●Assist with creating cloud migration strategies

●Defining delivery architecture, creating the migration plans, designing the orchestration plans, and

●more. Assist in creating and executing of migration run books

●Determine source cloud (Physical, Virtual and Cloud) and target Workloads

●Participate in architecture review board and other technology governance efforts

●Configure Cloud migration platform. Migrate workloads using the UAM SaaS Platform

●Maintain inventory

●Design and implement new software to streamline manual operations

●Provide support to manage Amazon Web Services like Api Gateway, VPC, VPC endpoint, IAM, Route53, ALB, NLB, LAMBDA, storage gateway, EC2, S3, EFS, EBS, SNS Certificate Manager, WAF, Shield etc.,

●Work across multi-disciplined teams to ensure a well integrated set of solutions adhere to enterprise standards

●Act as liaison to support teams and client during migration

●Use troubleshooting skills and work closely with operations, support, engineering and/or other functions to ensure successful migrations

Project: Enterprise TechOps – Banking cards domain Duration: Mar 2021 to July2022

Client : Capital One

Role – Cloud Devops Technical Lead

Collaborate with and across lean/Agile teams closely with other automation engineers, operations and developers to port our pipeline to Jenkins and then further mature the pipeline. Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment

●Working in Enterprise Devops engineering team will expose varieties of challenges and will provide CI/CD platform for large numbers of applications by building, tuning and supporting highly available system and empowered to work across multiple tools to improve and expand the capabilities

●Responsible for build and release, application deployments in Agile operations using DevOps methodologies like blue-green, failover and canary deployment models

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

●Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure including backups, patches, and scaling.

●Design and implement new software to streamline manual operations

●Provide support to manage Amazon Web Services like Route53, EC2, RDS, S3, EFS, EBS,SNS, SQS, ECS, EKS and Certificate Manager, WAF, Shield etc.,

●Implement Cloudbees jenkins enterprise software delivery solution to automate configuration management (Ansible/puppet), CI/CD pipelines, security, build/release management, cloud resource utilization, infrastructure automation, enhancement of existing pipelines on fully enabled CapitalOne’s Managed pipeline ecosystem

●Participate in various phases of SDLC including design, code reviews, testing and application security vulnerability verifications.

●Implement infrastructure as code (IAC) by designing, developing, enhancing and executing Terraform configuration files, AWS development kit (SDK) and Cloud Formation Templates to provision AWS Services.

●Create Ansible playbooks to automate operational and server provisioning workflows. Develop AWS software development kit (SDK) to deploy dockerized applications to EKS or ECS.

●Develop build scripts and automation solutions using scripting languages like Python and Shell.

●Work on access management using AWS IAM using Avenue tool, troubleshooting issues related to ELB/ALB, configure SSM agent, SSM parameter store and AWS config

●Provide L2 support to Managed pipelines in slack support channels based on roaster

●Prepare technical qualification, Operational qualification documents for a validated environment, SOPs and Runbooks for rehydration, cloud custodian and high availability are additional responsibilities.

Project: France Manufacture Automobile - Insurance Domain Oct 2018 – Nov 2019

Cleint : PSA Group

Role – Cloud Devops Technical Lead

Company – Accenture

Client was looking for vendor to provide a bundled solution that will help the 'associated' car maintainers and resellers to provide guaranteed vehicles to customers. The current solution deployed will allow PSA to provide extended guarantees via its dealership network. The work has been distributed among several teams. As part of mobilization team to design and build the foundations of the solution (Cloud, Operating System, Middleware and Operation transition); mobilized to bring expertise not only on the cloud deployment but also to ensure that the proposed architecture is aligned with state of the art architecture to minimize the maintenance effort and thus decrease the costs for Accenture. As proposed SAAS solution, application roll out and additional development for client customization

●Working with Cloud Architects to review and validate understanding of customer requirements and translate initial scope into technical deliverables;

●Build and maintain the backbone of the PSA infrastructure based on interconnected AWS and on premise components

●Establishing a stable, reliable secure and high performing data platform;

●Building, maintaining and controlling stage and production environments;

●Troubleshooting complex incidents in stage and production environments;

●Establishing proactive monitoring and alerting capabilities exist for all components of the platform;

●Establishing system health and capacity is reviewed and enhanced as needed;

●Documenting SOPs, and perform knowledge transfer to others;

●Creating architectural documentation and artifacts to support cloud journey;

●Maintaining required level of knowledge on company-offered solutions including the completion of assigned courses and relevant certification exams when applicable

●Developing enterprise architecture for cloud services and cloud patterns for use/reuse by Solution Architects;

●Developed Cloud formation templates to build AWS infrastructure

●Applied orchestration tools to automate repetitive tasks and quickly deploys critical applications

●Developed Ansible Playbooks to automate Continuous Delivery/deployment Pipeline for Guidewire modules, Installation and configuration of Oracle Instant client, Application and web servers, SSL configuration etc.,

●Participate in construction and automation activities ensuring successful implementation while meeting architectural and operational requirements.

●Keeper and enforcer or the technical and tools standards

●Participate in security reviews for application security groups

Project Domain: Insurance Domain Jan 2018 – Oct 2018

Client : Zurich

Role : Devops Technical Lead

Company : Accenture

●Lead the effort to architect, design and build DevOps solutions acting as the primary point of contact

●Development of roadmap for the evolution of the architecture for customers: planning and integration of legacy environments into a transformed environment

●Understand the requirements for CI/CD to design a comprehensive solution for Clients in discussion with Customers business stakeholders, Product Managers, IT team, Operations team and other business requirement owners

●Building and managing CI/CD workflows and complex system integrations and prepared Ansible playbooks to automate our build/deployment process

●Develop automation to quickly and rapidly deploy instances from hardened images to IAAS environment

●Ansible playbooks prepared for Oracle PS2 components (OUD, OHS, OIA, OIM and BI) for installation and configuration.

●Implemented DevOps frame work & tools like Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube, Whitesouce, checkmarx, Jira, nexus and GitLab in security domain

●Operate the platform within the security and privacy guidelines

Project: American e-travel Feb 2017 – Jan 2018

Client : Expedia

Role : Cloud Delivery Lead

Company : Accenture

Client is an American online travel shopping company for consumer which is primarily travel fare aggregations and travel Meta search engines. The website and mobile app can be used to book airline tickets, hotel reservations, vehicle rentals and vacation plans. The on premise environment has migrated to AWS cloud by lift and shift technique and immutable architecture

●Off-shore delivery leads for Cloud migration planning, Application deployment and testing.

●Responsibilities includes to Design, configure, manage, and maintain the deployment and operations in AWS services

●Implemented Beanstalk configuration and setup

●Worked on Dockers with ECR integration and deployment on Beanstalk including debugging.

●Integration of Beanstalk with CI/CD pipelines using beanstalk AWS Java SDK, configuration files etc.

●Configuration of AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, Route53 and Cloud watch, ELB, Security Groups, AutoScaling etc.

●Jenkins Pipeline created for Blue-Green deployment for Test, UAT, stage and prod environments

●Configuration of Devops tools like Jenkins, STASH, SONARQUBE, elk and nexus

Project: European E-commerce Company Sep 2016 – Feb 2017

Client: Carrefour

Role: Devops Associate Delivery Manager

Company: Accenture

●Tech Arch team for Devops Micro services and Monitoring

●Responsibilities includes to create Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery pipeline and DevOps Tools Platform

●Build automated deployment through Ansible, Jenkins console

●Source code/ repository and version management using GIT

●Cross-functional collaboration through shared, real-time KPIs and log metrics

●Deploys new modules, upgrades and fixes to the production environment.

●Serve as enforcer for DevOps practices to prevent "technical drift"

●Maintain key service level agreements

●Onboarding of new applications into standardized release pipeline

●Work closely and collaborate with technical peers, business operations and enterprise testing teams

●Provide guidance and direction to App Dev teams in regards to DevOps processes and technical/pipeline standards

●Participated in team wide Change Management process as both implementer and verifier ensuring changes are completed efficiently and correctly

Project: Anglo Australian Multinational Mining, Metals and Petroleum – BHP-NGO Jan 2015 – Jun 2016

Client: BHP Billiton

Role: Cloud Transition & Operations Delivery Lead

Company: Infosys

●Preparation of Transition and understanding documents for AWS

●Analysed the AWS environment and prepared RACI Matrix, RAID and Service Improvement Plans

●Participated in Knowledge transfer and preparing HLA, LLA and Runbooks for daily Operations

●ORT, SRT implementation and Cut-Over plan preparation

●Automated routine tasks using shell or power shell and shell scripts

●Responsibilities includes to Design, configure, manage, and maintain the deployment and operations in Amazon EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, Workspaces, RDS restoration and redshift

●Participated in team wide Change Management process as both implementer and verifier ensuring changes are completed efficiently and correctly

●Lead the offshore delivery team management for cloud operations

Project: RBC – Financial domain Mar 2014 – Dec 2014

Role: Technical Manager

Company: iGATE, India

RBC is the largest financial institution in Canada, as measured by deposits, revenues, and market capitalization.

IGATE team empowers IT teams to enable customer success by providing release planning, delivery and performance excellence using a consistent set of tools, processes and methodologies.

●Leading 3 portfolio’s (Payments, US and Canadian Wealth Management teams) for both application and functional teams

●Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.

●Develop comprehensive project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals and coordinate various managers and technical personnel during all project phases, from initial development through implementation.

●Monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.

Prepare project budget and finance reports send to higher management on monthly basis

Project: Cisco - Middleware & Platform support Sep 2006 – Feb 2014

Role: L2/L3 Engineer

Company: Wipro Technologies, India

Middleware & Platform team which empowers business and IT teams to enable customer success by providing release planning, delivery and performance excellence using a consistent set of tools, processes and methodologies.

●Middleware administration and operational support for DEV/QA/PPD/PRD environments for multiple projects using WebSphere, WebLogic, and Tomcat Application Server, application packaging and software upgrades

●Deploy new modules, upgrades, fixes to the production environment

●Creation of JDBC providers, Data sources, Shared libraries and connection pool etc

●Design and Developed automation scripts for Infrastructure provisioning, configuration, & change management

●Participated in P1 troubleshooting calls in case SLA violation

●Conduct and Publish the RCA for Business impacting incidents as part of problem management

●Prepared and reviewed Runbooks for tool administration, SOP (software operational procedures), technical qualification documents for validated environment

●Monitored systems capacity and performance, plans and executes recovery procedures, and provides Tier 2 technical support.

●Work closely with Dev, QA and production support team members to align and orchestrate resolutions on open issues/defects.

●Participated in the development of contingency plans including reliable backups and restore procedures

●Participated in design/artefacts walkthroughs, highlighting and discussing any apparent errors,omissions or deviations from standards with team members

●Configuration and monitoring tools like CA Wily, Dynatrace and ITCAM. Monitoring and analyze the JVM performance of application by collecting JVM heap dumps, GC logs, JDBC pool, Thread analysis. Monitored level 1 and level2 sampling.

●Troubleshooting various issues with middleware servers and done RCA of the issues

●Client side optimization like css/JavaScript minification

●Work among cross-functional teams, providing required support and technical assistance to persons of varying technical background and knowledge.

●Worked on onshore and offshore model and provided 24/7 support based on the roaster plan.

Satyam technologies Inc, India Feb 2005 – Mar 2006

Systems Engineer

Project Name: Cisco – OS Administration

Project Description:

OS administration of Unix and Linux. Application requirement gathering for build team and prepare automation scripts for regular and repeated OS tasks.

Responsibilities:

●Unix/Linux OS patch management, storage provisioning, backup configuration and OS/application installation etc.,

●Tuning Unix/Linux OS performance parameters and server capacity planning according to various application requirements.

●Provide the results to respective teams to analyze the application performance and tune the performance parameters according to given suggestions by client.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

●M.Sc., Computer Science

●AWS Developer – Associate

●AWS Devops – Professional

●Kubernetes administration - CKA

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

●“Outstanding Performance” award received couple of times from CISCO systems

●“Certificate of Appreciation” received from Zurich – Accenture security Team

●“Infrastructure services Encore” award received from Accenture Infrastructure Team

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