Cloud Engineer Linux Server

Nabeel Ahmed

Aubrey, TX

SUMMARY

During my job experience, I had practical skills with interesting technologies, tasks, and people. In the whole role of my IT practice include building and supporting web SaaS solutions based on Linux/Unix platform in a cloud (AWS) and on premises, experience on server infrastructure migration, monitoring and securing, LAMP, and Linux Server setup/administration. Takes the form part in automating, supporting and to ensure CI/CD in product developing.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

6 + years of total IT experience in administration, analysis, design and maintenance of client/server and web applications 5+ years in practicing DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure automation, quality engineering and release management.

Strong exposure to creating Docker images and docker containers.

Extremely experienced with encryption and password protection using Hashi Corp and CyberArk.

Experience in various roles as DevOps, Cloud Engineer, Build and Release Engineer with excellent experience in Software Integration, Configuration, Packaging, Building, Automating, managing, and releasing code from one environment to other environment and deploy to servers, support, and maintenance under Unix/Linux/VM's Platforms.

Excellent understanding of SCM tools such as SVN, Git, Bitbucket and GitHub.

Strong exposure to both AWS and Azure cloud platforms.

Strong hands-on experience in scripting languages such as .Net, JSON, YML, Shell scripting

Extensive experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Maven, Nexus, Slack, and VSTS.

Experience in integrating code quality tools such as SonarQube, JaCoCo, Veracode in CI/CD pipelines.

Strong exposure to configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform and Docker.

Strong knowledge on practicing TDD, automating Junit tests using Maven in Jenkins.

Strong knowledge in Tomcat, WebLogic servers on different OSs like Windows, Linux VMware, UNIX and Solaris platforms.

Participated in the release cycle of the product which involved environments like Development, QA UAT, and Production.

Worked with project documentation and documented other application related issues, bugs on internal wiki website.

A highly motivated, energetic individual, a team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills with availability for most weekends and holidays.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Wells Fargo - Charlotte, NC

September 2019-May 2024

Wells Fargo is one of the "Big Four Banks" in United Sates with the employee rating of 3.6+. As a Sr. Operation Engineer, I am part of 6 members Build Engineer team. My role has different areas to assist and work which includes tracking Jira for daily encryption routine, handling Change Tasks, updating records and maintaining numbers, deployments, troubleshooting, updating/ maintaining internal tools for the bank IT operations.

Responsibilities:

Using U Deploy (current tool), Azure, PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) and Antilipo (in the past) for production deployments for the ODS and Java Applications.

Service Now for managing and tracking the change task related to Deployments.

Diligently Encrypting for dot net connection strings using internal procedure for Bank applications and used tools to store passwords in the vaults.

Pulling codes from the GIT and SVN repositories to work on encryptions.

Used Jenkins to run the Supplemental builds for the respective application.

Helped teams to configure the automated deployments using SSP tool.

Setting up Jenkins master, adding the necessary plugins and adding more slaves to support scalability and agility.

Running the supplemental build to test the environment.

Worked on integrating GIT into the continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Jenkins.

Decommissioning servers, manual staging using WIN SCP tool, installing/ renewing certificates, manual deployments.

BCP (Business Continuity Planning), serving as the main BRC for our application to represent in the procedure to perform in the disaster recovery.

Used HashiCorp, CyberArk and Jfrog to gain passwords for the .net application.

Managing upgrades of Windows and Linux servers. Creatin NDM bin and key file for the windows and Linux server.

Firewall requests, proxy requests, adding CNAMEs for external and internal servers, managing and facilitating new hardware and software installations.

Great Understanding with all the framework tools and concept.

Jira to track our daily routine work and create tickets for respective teams.

Manage/mentor both onsite/offshore teams, creating folder structure, troubleshooting, reviewing logs.

Bringing offline servers online if the agents are down, running the SQL commands for testing the connection.

Enforced Test Driven development for the DEV teams for every sprint.

24/7 availability by remaining on call for most weekends and holidays, password keepers for the lower and Prod environments.

DevOps Consultant

JC Penny - Waxahachie, TX

July 2016-August 2019

I was responsible for managing Azure resources in cloud and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for fast paced robust application development environment. As a team member, my responsibility was to implement DevOps transformation by working with Agile teams to migrate applications to Azure platform.

Responsibilities:

Setup repos on VSTS Git, merging code from develop branch to master branch and make it ready for deployment.

Migrated legacy applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud PaaS by setting up CI/CD pipelines on VSTS.

Created WebApps on Azure portal for deploying web applications using VSTS pipelines.

Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube, Veracode.

Helped teams to reduce defects rate by 30% by introducing TDD in the first 3 months.

Created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions were not met.

Set up the SonarLint plug-ins in developer's workstation for detecting defects early during development.

Dockerized Springboot app by creating Docker file and automated docker image creation, image push into docker registry.

Implemented Release management workflow for QA, UAT and Prod environments.

Prepared and presented SCM best practices for implementing continuous integration for the team.

EDUCATION

Navarro College - Corsicana, TX

Associate of Applied Science

Applied Science

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified in DevOps

HONORS & AWARDS

Wells Fargo 5 years’ service certificates

SKILLS

Continuous Integration

Git

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

Disaster Recovery

Cryptography

Firewalls

Java

Jenkins

Atlassian

JIRA

Linux Operating System

SQL (Structured Query Language)

Test Driven Development (TDD)

Microsoft Windows Operating System

Agile

Programming Methodologies

Software Development

Microsoft Windows

Azure

Cloud Computing

Continuous Deployment/Delivery

Reporting Dashboards

DevOps

Docker

Platform as a Service (PaaS) & Software as a Service (SaaS)

Quality Assurance

Release Management/Engineering

Acceptance Testing

Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) (fka Visual Studio Team System / VSTS )

Microsoft .NET

Ansible

Apache

Automation

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Bash Scripting

Configuration Management

Gradle

JBoss Application Server

JSON

JUnit

LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Perl/Python)

Maven

MSBuild

MySQL

Oil and Gas

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Puppet (Configuration Management)

Unix Shell Programming

Oracle Solaris (fka Sun Microsystems Solaris)

Tomcat

VMWare

Web Server

Oracle WebLogic Server

Build Management

Team Lead/Manager

Hardware Installation

ServiceNow

Systems Administration/Management

Linux Administration

Server Support

Software Configuration Management

Test Automation

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