Aws Cloud Services

Ashok S

***************@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashok-s-5311511aa/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

●An AWS professional having around 5+ years of experience in the IT industry with ability to accomplish all aspects of the Software Configuration Management (SCM), DevOps, Amazon Web Services(AWS) and System Administration.

●Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services like IAM, S3, Glacier, EC2, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Domain Name Service, Snowball, Route 53, DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda.

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

●Experience with setting up Chef Infra, bootstrapping nodes, creating, uploading recipes and cookbooks.

●Developed and maintained OpenShift 4.x clusters for deploying and managing containerized applications.

●Implemented Infrastructure automation through Ansible for auto-provisioning, code deployments, software installation and configuration updates

●Experience in working on Docker container snapshots, attaching to a running container, removing images, Managing directory structures and Docker containers.

●Experience in configuring and maintaining Jenkins to implement the CI process for major releases and in integrating the tool with Ant and Maven to schedule the builds.

●Experienced in using build tools like Maven for building the deployable artifacts from the source code and pushing the generated artifacts into the Nexus repository.

●Experienced in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using tools like GIT, Subversion (SVN) on Linux and Windows platforms.

●Experience in monitoring infrastructure to identify and troubleshoot issues on servers using tools like Nagios and JIRA.

●Familiar with the Kubernetes architecture like creating pods, kubelet, kubectl, Kubernetes API.

●Familiar with Linux based database management systems like RDBMS, MySQL, MongoDB and NoSQL.

●Experienced in deployment of applications on Apache Web Server, Nginx, and Application Servers such as Tomcat, JBoss.

●Experience with TCP/IP, SSH, DNS, DHCP, FTP, TFTP, SNMP, SMTP.

●Experience working in a highly dynamic environment using Agile SCRUM methodology.

●Closely worked with Developers and Analysts to address project requirements.

●Proficient in communicating effectively with good project management skills.

●Positive attitude, strong work ethic, and ability to work in a highly collaborative team environment.

●Automated application onboarding process to OpenShift.

Swift identification and resolution of technical issues through root cause analysis, ensuring minimal downtime and increased system reliability.

Designed and implemented scalable solutions to support growing infrastructure, enabling high availability for critical applications.

Ensured hardware reliability by proactively monitoring and maintaining systems, reducing hardware failures and optimizing performance.

Utilized root cause analysis techniques to troubleshoot recurring issues, improving overall system stability and performance.

Spearheaded initiatives to enhance system scalability and high availability, resulting in improved uptime and better user experience.

Applied strong analytical skills to evaluate system performance and identify opportunities for optimization, leading to enhanced reliability and efficiency.

Deployed scalable architectures that support business growth while maintaining high availability and fault tolerance.

Managed hardware provisioning and infrastructure upgrades to ensure reliability and high availability in critical environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Monitoring

New Relic

Scripting

Python, Bash, YAML

Deployment Tools

Terraform, GitHub Actions

Database

SQL, BigQuery

Continuous Integration Tools

GitHub, Jenkins

Cloud Environment

AWS, Google Cloud platform (GCP)

AWS services

EC2, ELB, VPC, RDS, AMI, IAM,

S3, Cloudwatch, SNS, SQS, EBS, Route53

Containerization Tools

Docker

Bug Tracking Tools

Jira

Network Services

FTP, SSH, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP.

Build Tools

Maven, Ant, Gradle Version control tool Subversion (SVN), GIT, GIT Hub, Git Lab,

EDUCATION:

Masters in Computer Science - South East Missouri State University

Bachelor’s in Computer Science – QIS College of Engineering and Technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Employer: Suthra Technologies

Client: Equifax Inc

Role: AWS DevOps Engineer/Cloud Engineer May 2024 – Present

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented various AWS services such as EC2, S3, Glacier, ELB, RDS, SNS, SWF, CloudWatch, Route53, and Lambda to enhance cloud infrastructure and application performance.

AWS cloud services like EC2, auto-scaling, and VPC to build secure, highly scalable systems capable of handling variable loads, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.

Launched and configured Amazon EC2 instances using Amazon Images (Linux/Ubuntu) for specific applications, ensuring proper setup and integration.

Managed AWS Cloud services including EC2, S3, SES, and SNS, ensuring efficient operation and maintenance of cloud resources.

Automated server infrastructure setup using Ansible and Python scripts, and implemented monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch to maintain system health and performance.

Migrated source control from TFVC to Git and from Hudson to Jenkins, creating CI/CD pipelines to automate the code release process using GitHub, Jenkins, and other integration tools.

Designed CloudFormation templates for launching AWS infrastructure, configured IAM roles and policies, and used Route53 for DNS failover and health checks.

Configured S3 Buckets for EBS-backed snapshots and data versioning, and implemented VPN connections to extend corporate data centers to AWS VPCs.

Built and maintained Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes, designed microservice architecture, and used Helm charts for Kubernetes application deployments.

Implemented monitoring solutions using Nagios, Splunk, ELK stack, New Relic, Grafana, and Kibana, ensuring comprehensive visibility and performance tracking of infrastructure and applications.

Environment: AWS Cloud (EC2, ELB, Auto-scaling, S3 Bucket, RDS, Cloud watch, VPC), Linux, GIT, GIT

Migration ServiceNow, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Terraform, Tomcat, Jenkins, Virtualization, SQL Database

and Monitoring Tools Grafana, Elk, New relic, Nagios, Nexus, Maven, RDS, Python, Docker, Jira, Bit Bucket,

OpenShift, Kubernetes

Employer: Magnibot Technology Solutions.

Client: Accenture

Role: AWS DevOps Engineer/Cloud Engineer

Sep 2020 – June 2022

Responsibilities:

●Manage DevOps and Infrastructure Teams supporting tools and infrastructure for developers.

●Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.

●Working with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53 etc.

●Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

●Built Continuous Integration environment Jenkins and Continuous delivery environment.

●Implementing and managing Jenkins DSL job to automate the new job creation.

●Automation of new job creation by implementing and managing Jenkins DSL.

●Writing Helm Charts, Kubernetes YAML files for deployment of Microservices into Kubernetes clusters.

●Creating CloudWatch alerts for instances and using them in Auto scaling launch configurations.

●Automating Cloud infrastructure setup via Cloud formation, terraform and AWS Code Deploy.

●Experienced in Managing Jenkins and Cloud bees, ELK.

●Worked with Jenkins for automating builds.

●Implemented a new ELK cluster for enterprise logging and Maintained Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.

●Written Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML.

●Updated the existing scripts to Ansible playbooks to install configurations on multiple servers in AWS.

●Proficient in using Ansible Tower, which provides an easy-to-use dashboard and role-based access control, so that it is easier to allow individual teams access to use Ansible for their deployments.

●Created S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS by implementing life cycle management to use S3 efficiently.

●Used AWS IAM to grant permissions to users and groups for accessing AWS resources.

●Worked with AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) and Glacier for storage and backup.

●Used AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) to create users, groups.

●Launched Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances on different Linux flavors and configured AWS IAM roles for EC2 instances.

●Used Amazon Cloud Watch for monitoring the performance of the EC2 instances.

●Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and Configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.

●Working with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53 etc.

●Provisioned the highly available EC2 Instances using Terraform and Cloud Formation Templates and written new plugins to support new functionality in Terraform.

●Used Docker to virtualize the servers for the Dev and Test environment needs and Docker Swarm to maintain the cluster of containers.

●Designed, installed, and implemented Ansible configuration management system, written Ansible playbooks and deployed applications

●Created, tested and deployed an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline for various applications using Jenkins.

●Integrated Jenkins with various DevOps tools such as GIT, Maven, JUnit, and Nexus and developed Jenkins jobs to automatically manage, test and deploy code and applications.

●Used Maven as a build tool for the building of the deployable artifacts from the source code.

●Coordinated developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, naming conventions using GIT.

●Used JIRA to capture, organize and prioritize issues and partially administer issue management.

●Designed and Developed automation test scripts using Python.

●Used monitoring tool JIRA and also triaged the issues and maintained bugs using the JIRA

Environment: AWS, AWS CLI, EC2, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53, OpenShift, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, IAM, Ansible Tower, AWX, Linux CLI, TFS, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Windows Hyper-V, Power VM, Virtual box, Jenkins, Ansible, YAML, JSON, GitHub, SVN, Git, Redhat Linux 7.x/6.x, Jenkins, Junit, Nexus, Maven, Python. PowerShell

, innovation, GitLab, gcp, continuous learning, circleci, azure, analytical, site reliability product problem solving.

Employer: Magnibot Technology Solutions.

Client: Tech Mahindra (June 2017 – Aug 2020)

Role: DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

●Working in Build Automation, deployment and release engineering, process development, continuous integration, continuous deployment. Also, with experience in tools support including code compilation, packaging, version control, branching and tagging, etc.

●Experience and deep understanding of all the phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

●Experience includes SCM, Build/Release Management, Change/Incident Management.

●Experience in Agile Development methodologies.

●Working knowledge in Build/Release Management.

●Hands on experience in installation and administration of different build and continuous integration, Production environments – Openshift, TFS, Git, Jenkins, Nexus.

●Implemented continuous integration with Jenkins.

●Experience in OpenShift Container platform and Administer, Monitor, Create Pods, Containers on infrastructure level and support for Development, Stress and Production.

●Working experience in Ansible scripting and ability to automate software provisioning, Configuration management, and application deployment by scripting and customizing Ansible playbooks.

●Hands on experience in Jenkins to automate the software development process by integrating with Continuous integration and Continuous delivery.

●Hands on experience in Ansible Tower Setup, Installation and Playbook configuration.

●Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

●Efficient in working as an individual and as outstanding as a team player.

●Deploying application services in AWS using CI/CD methods.

●Deploying AWS instances like EC2, VPN, S3, Cloudwatch using terraform templates.

●Setting up Jenkins based CI / CD pipeline to automate the application build, test and deployment process from DEV to PROD using AWS Infrastructure.

Environment: AWS, AWS CLI, OpenShift, Ansible Tower, AWX, Linux CLI, TFS, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Windows Hyper-V, Power VM, Virtual box, Jenkins, Ansible, YAML, JSON, GitHub, SVN, Git, Redhat Linux 7.x/6.x. Problem Solving, Gcp, crossFunctional.

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