Prem Kumar

DevOps Engineer

Carrollton, Texas, United States

+1-937-***-****

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SUMMARY

With over 3+ years of experience, as a DevOps Engineer with solid understanding infrastructure, DevOps principles, and software development lifecycle processes. Working with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Platform as well as Azure Cloud is my area of expertise, and I place a lot of emphasis on application monitoring and CI/CD processes to ensure the smooth delivery of highly available applications.

*Extensive experience configuring resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure proficient in various AWS cloud- specific services for providing high level applications.

*Experience managing AWS infrastructure using automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.

*Proficient in Source Code Management tools like Git (GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket), and SVN for version control.

*Experienced in installing, configuring, and administering various DevOps tools on Windows and Linux platforms, including Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, and ServiceNow.

*Hands-on experience writing Ansible scripts for installing and upgrading DevOps tools in AWS using Tower.

*Skilled in installing, configuring, supporting, and troubleshooting Unix/Linux networking services and protocols like TCP, SMTP, LAN, HTTP, DNS and SSH

*Proficient in Infrastructure Monitoring using tools like Nagios, Prometheus, and Grafana and Application Monitoring utilizing tools like New Relic, Datadog, and Dynatrace.

*Familiar with AWS Trusted Advisor and its cost optimization capabilities, with the ability to use its recommendations to find possible cost-saving opportunities and improve overall cost efficiency in cloud infrastructure management. WORK EXPERIENCE

January 2023-Current

DevOps Engineer

Tek Ninjas LLC Texas

Carrollton, Texas, United States

Roles and Responsibilities:

*Worked on detailed project analysis, planning, development, testing, implementation, and postproduction analysis throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

*Significant experience with cloud systems such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a focus on application scalability and robustness.

*Experienced in Linux administration, networking, and scripting.

*Implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in AWS cloud.

*Experience in migrating physical Linux servers to cloud (AWS).

*Created Cloud Formation templates for deploying AWS resources though Jenkins.

*Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3 bucket, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto - Scaling, AMI, IAM through AWS Console and API

*Responsible for creating multi-region, multi-zone AWS cloud infrastructure.

*Implemented cluster services using Kubernetes and Docker to manage local deployments in Kubernetes by building a self -hosted Kubernetes cluster using Terraform and Ansible and deploying application containers.

*Written automation scripts for creating resources in OpenStack cloud using Python and terraform modules.

*Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full stack of development tools and technologies. And tracking all stories on JIRA and Version One.

*Expertise in writing Bash Scripts, Python programming for deployment of Java applications on bare servers or Middleware tools.

*Experience in Installing, upgrading, and configuring RedHat Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.x using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.

*Worked in an agile development team to deliver an end-to-end continuous integration/continuous delivery product in an open-source environment using tools like Puppet & Jenkins.

*Automated Weekly releases with ANT/Maven scripting for Compiling Java Code, Debugging and Placing Builds into Maven Repository.

*Used JFrog artifactory for storing all the docker images, used X-ray for scanning the docker images across all the client servers.

*Installed and Configured the Nexus repository manager for sharing the artifacts within the company.

*Design and sustain highly scalable and fault-tolerant multi-tier environments in both AWS and Azure, extending across multiple availability zones. Achieve this by leveraging Terraform and CloudFormation.

*Develop Terraform scripts from the ground up to construct Dev, Staging, Production, and Disaster Recovery (DR) environments.

*Proficient in utilizing Grafana for advanced monitoring and visualization of system metrics, providing valuable insights for proactive troubleshooting and performance optimization.

*Experienced in effectively monitoring infrastructure and applications using industry-leading tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk.

*Proficiently configured and established roles, groups, users, and group memberships within the organization, catering to diverse business units, and possessed a deep understanding of Splunk access control mechanisms.

*Demonstrated expertise in constructing client Splunk searches, employing well-structured query practices to minimize performance impact.

*Familiar with AWS Trusted Advisor and its cost optimization capabilities, with the ability to use its recommendations to find possible cost-saving opportunities and improve overall cost efficiency in cloud infrastructure management. August 2020-July 2022

DevOps Engineer

Innosoft Datalinks

Bangalore, India

Roles & Responsibilities:

*Implemented Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) virtual machines (VMs) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) role instances within secure Virtual Networks (VNets) and subnets.

*Implemented robust security measures for web applications using Azure and seamlessly.

*Proficient in utilizing Dependency Visualization within Azure Migrate for in-depth analysis and the identification of application dependencies. Collaborated with the client team to construct a comprehensive flow diagram for their existing training environment.

*Experience in both the installation and management of various critical systems, including NFS (Network File System), SSH

(Secure Shell), DNS (Domain Name System).

*Experiences in managing infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Chef.

*Installation and configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Centos, Ubuntu.

*Proficient in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and CircleCI.

*Skilled in the core principles of GitOps, advocating for the use of version-controlled Git repositories to manage infrastructure and applications declaratively. Illustrated the advantages of GitOps through the harmonization of development, operations, and infrastructure groups, cultivating teamwork and uniformity.

*Experienced in containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, and proficient in microservices architecture.

*Extensive experience with Maven and ANT as builds tools for generating artifacts (jar, war, and ear) from source code.

*Proficient in configuring Docker containers and utilizing Docker Swarm for orchestration to create scalable and resilient containerized environments across multiple nodes.

*Has experience using Docker compose to build Docker containers, automating the creation of Docker Images, and pushing those artifacts to Nexus using Jenkins.

*Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its node, Config Maps, selector, services, and application container as Pods.

*Experience with load balancing technologies such as HAProxy, and Nginx for optimizing application performance and scalability.

*Experienced in configuring JIRA as a defect tracking tool and configuring various plugins, workflows, and customizations for the JIRA bug tracker.

EDUCATION

-2024

Master of Science in Business Analytics

Trine University

Angola, Indiana, United States

Master of Science in Business Analytics

Trine University * Angola, IN * 2024

• Business

-2020

Bachelor of Science in Statistics

Osmania University

United States

Bachelor of Science in Statistics

Osmania University * India * 2020

• Statistics

SKILLS

Application Programming Interface (API) Continuous Integration Ansible Continuous Deployment/Delivery Git Gradle JavaScript Jenkins Middleware Python Programming/Scripting Language Scripting (Scripting Languages) Unix Shell Programming Bash Scripting Software Development Subversion Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Web Services (AWS) Docker Load Balancing Cook Dishes DevOps DNS (Domain Name System) GitHub Nagios Monitoring Tool Puppet (Configuration Management) Apache Ant Build Tool Change Management Configuration Management Maven Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Microservices Platform as a Service (PaaS) Linux Operating System Red Hat Linux Operating System Ubuntu Unix Operating Systems Agile Programming Methodologies Atlassian JIRA ServiceNow Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM) NFS (Network File System) HTML (HyperText Markup Language) nginx Web Server Access Control Disaster Recovery Identity Data Management TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Apache JMeter Selenium Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) VMS Operating System Data Mining Data Visualization IBM DB2 Splunk Java Microsoft SQL Server Oracle HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol) SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Operations Metrics Statistics Radiography Catering Services Performance Tuning/Optimization Telemetry Test Tools Local Area Network (LAN) Systems Administration/Management Server-Side Java Open Source Autoscaling Cost Control Technical Support Programming Tools Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Project Evaluation Linux Administration Java Deployment Theater Production Hardware Installation System Migration Test Plan/Schedule Debugging Skills Cloud Computing Analysis Skills Microsoft Windows Azure Identify Issues SSH (Secure Shell) Internet Application Bug Tracking/Defect Management Virtual Machine (VM) Internet Security Chef (Configuration Management) Web Client Plug-ins CentOS Team Player Subnet High Availability Software Network Protocols Linux Networks Microsoft Windows Operating System Automation Web Programming MSBuild Operating Systems Oracle Database Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) (fka Visual Studio Team System / VSTS ) CERTIFICATIONS

Full Stack Observability New Relic

*Data Mining and Data Visualization

Trine University

LANGUAGES

English - Intermediate

WORK AUTHORIZATION

I am authorized to work in the following countries:

• United States

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