Kowshik Sakinala

Cloud/DevOps

Salt Lake City, UT, 84101

+1-435-***-****

adang5@r.postjobfree.com

·Around 7+ years of Professional Experience on Build and Release Engineering, DevOps, Cloud and Automations in automating, Building, Deploying and testing of code on various environments.

·Extensive work experience on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Creating EC2 instances, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, S3 Bucket, RDS, and managing Security Groups in AWS.

·Strong Experience on Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Restful and cloud administration in cloud migration.

·Experience in migrating On-Premise servers to Amazon Cloud Services and Private Clouds, using Cloud Formation templates, AMI's and other AWS resources.

·Experience with EC2, Cloud Watch, Elastic Load Balancing and managing securities on AWS.

·Experience in multitier AWS instances in different subnets in Amazon VPC, attached ACL's and Security Groups to maintain high security.

Experienced in Creating the TERRAFORM templates to launch Network stack and Instances

·Experience in working with version control system such as GIT and used source code management tool GitHub.

Extensive experience using MAVEN, ANT and GRADLE as Build Tools for the building of deployable

Artifacts (jar, war & ear).

Experience in setting up Jenkins and integrating it with different tools to achieve CI/CD.

Proficiency in using with Ansible to automate the various deployments.

Proficiency in using with Chef to automate the various deployments.

Experience in creating Images in Docker using Docker files and deploying the artifacts into that image, which can later store in Docker hub.

Expertise in setting up Kubernetes (k8s) clusters for running micro services and deploying them into

Production environment

Worked on Operation and support of Open shift Enterprise and Docker Cloud Services.

Experience in all aspects of application development on the MS Azure platform.

Experience in setting up and configuring the application servers like Tomcat, WebSphere, and AEM involved in deployment activities

Experience working with Sonar Qube for code quality purpose and also established coding standards.

Experience in setting up and configuring the application servers like Tomcat and involved in deployment activities.

Experience in using JIRA for ticketing and bug reporting for product.

Experienced in working with log monitoring, ELK (Elastic search, Log stash, and Kibana) Stack.

Hands on experience on scripting languages like python and shell scripting.

Experienced with monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Nagios, Splunk.

Experience in Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of WebSphere Application

Server (V7.x, 8.x, 9.0) and also worked on various WebSphere technologies.

Worked on various webservers Apache, IBM HTTP Server, IHS, Sun ONE server on Linux, Solaris, UNIX and

Windows.

Expert at deploying the code to Web application servers like WebSphere/Apache Tomcat.

Experience in installation, configuration, maintenance, development, performance tuning on Linux.

Experience in developing, testing and deploying systems in Virtualized Environments.

Experience as Build and Release/DevOps Engineer in automating, building, deploying and releasing code from one

Environment to another.

Ability in development and execution of XML, Shell Scripts.

Creating and maintaining Users, Profiles, Disk Space, User Permissions, and process monitoring on Linux.

Exposure to Azure Cloud Platforms and virtual machines.

Good Understanding on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodologies like Waterfall model, Agile.

Collaborate with team daily, experienced to work in a professional and in changed controlled environment.

Skills

Cloud: AWS (EC2,ELB,S3,VPC,ELB,Open Shift), Azure,

Containers: Dockers

Versioning Tools: CVS, Subversion, Clear case, GIT, Bit Bucket, Git lab.

Container orchestration: Swarm clusters, Kubernetes

CI/CD Tools/Build Tools: Hudson, Jenkins, Bamboo, Puppet, chef, Cruise Control, Ansible, ANT, MAVEN, Gradle, Sonar, Nexus, Salt Stack.

HTML, Java Script, XML, Servlets, JDBC, JSP, JSON.

Languages: C, C++ and Java/J2EE, Python.

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Rally, Remedy and IBM Clear Quest, Nagios, and Dynatrace.

Network/ Tools: Wire shark for analyzing packets,TCP/UDP, DNS/DHCP,IP

Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, UNIX, LINUX, MAC, Windows

Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, Apache HTTP Server, Ngnix, WebSphere, AEM

Scripting : Shell scripting /Bash, Python, Jython, Terraform

Databases: SQL, MySQL, Couch DB, MongoDB,

Others: MS Outlook, Load Balancing - HA Proxy, SVN, Agile & SCRUM, Nagios, Dynatrace.

Work History

Goldman Sachs, Salt Lake City, UT

DevOps Engineer/ AWS Cloud Engineer

Management and Administration of AWS Services EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, LAMBDA, REDSHIFT

Configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Groups and Users for improved login authentication. Provided policies to groups using policy generator and set different permissions based on the requirement along with providing Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Configured AWS Multi Factor Authentication in IAM to implement 2 step authentication of user's access using Google Authenticator and AWS Virtual MFA

Worked on AWS Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Cloud Trail services and Cloud Front to setup and manage cached content delivery

Automate provisioning and repetitive tasks using Terraform and Java, Docker container, Service Orchestration

Written Cloud Formation templates and deployed AWS resources in it

Implemented AWS Code Pipeline and Created Cloud formation JSON templates in Terraform for infrastructure as code.

Automate provisioning and repetitive tasks using Terraform and Python, Docker container, Service Orchestration

Automating backups by using shell scripts for Linux to transfer data in S3 bucket.

Creating AMI images of critical EC2 instances as backup using AWS CLI and GUI.

Written cloud formation templates in Json to create custom VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of the web applications

Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, ELB, Security groups, RDS, IAM through AWS Cloud information templates.

Used Docker for creating images that are deployed on AWS as Micro services.

Implemented cluster services using Docker and Kubernetes.

Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes, Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, on GCP. Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.

Using Kubernetes, I have controlled and automated application deployments and updates and orchestrated deployment.

Used Ansible to document all infrastructures into version control.

Implemented Ansible to manage all existing servers and automate the build/configuration of new servers.

Extensively worked on Ansible deployments, written various Ansible playbooks with multiple roles, tasks with loops, templates, service management, host variables, group variables etc.

Work with AWS Cloud management and Ansible Automation

Used Ansible to manage Web Applications, Configuration Files, Database, Commands, Users, Mount Points, and Packages.

Installed Jenkins and perform troubleshooting during installation to implement the CI process for the Java application builds and used Jenkins to automate most of the build related tasks.

Develop a continuous deployment pipeline using Jenkins, Python/shell scripts.

Working on Deployment procedures using middleware like Apache Tomcat, WebSphere and Web Portal to deploy scripts and setting for the Production Release.

Environment: AWS, Linux, Ansible, Jenkins, GIT, Gradle, Ant, Shell Scripts, Python, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache web servers, Tomcat servers, Apache Spark, Nginx, Nagios.

Volkswagen of America Inc., Auburn Hills, MI

DevOps /Cloud Engineer

Working with Cloud computing such as AWS which includes creating virtual instances (EC2), configuring Auto scaling, building S3 buckets, Glacier for storage and backup, IAM, VPC, Route53, AM ICloud Watch etc.

Creating S3 buckets and utilized S3 bucket managing the policies, used S3 for storage and backup on AWS.

Automating backups by using shell scripts for Linux to transfer data in S3 bucket.

Working exclusively on making applications more scalable and highly available system in AWS with full automation.

Creating AMI images of critical EC2 instances as backup using AWS CLI and GUI.

Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, ELB, Security groups, RDS, IAM through AWS Cloud information templates.

Used Amazon Cloud Watch to monitor the application performance and also used logs to identify any threshold limits.

Set up and built AWS infrastructure with various services available by writing Cloud Formation templates in JSON

Maintaining AWS/AZURE environment for provisioning of Linux and windows serves and the services implemented by the providers.

Experience in all aspects of application development on the MS Azure platform.

Used Ansible to manage Web Application, Configuration files, Database, Users and packages.

Installed and used Chef Server Enterprise on premise, workstation and bootstrapped the nodes using knife and automated by writing ruby scripts in Chef Recipes and Cookbooks with test-kitchen/chef spec.

Written Chef Cookbooks, recipes using ruby to automate installation of Middleware Infrastructure like Apache Tomcat, JDK, and configuration tasks for new environments.

Working exclusively on making applications more scalable and highly available system with full automation.

Work closely with development teams to ensure that solutions are designed with customer user experience, scale/performance and operability in mind.

Build new Jenkins Jobs for the new instances and scheduled the deployment onto QA and Staging environments on Author and Publish instances.

Worked on creating Jenkins CI/CD jobs for around 30 WebSphere applications for WebSphere 9 upgrade project.

Integrating Defect tracking tool JIRA with Confluence and Jenkins CI server for identifying, logging and, tracking and documenting defects/issues in real-time.

Design and Develop the test automation to validate the builds in the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins.

Production support, Content Installation, Dispatcher Flush configuration, Replication Agent Configurations

Working on daily operational tasks in the team.

Define standards, best practices and metrics installing, configuring, monitoring, reporting, auditing.

Created a custom pipeline for continuous integration using Git, Maven and Jenkins.

Installed Code Coverage SONAR on Jenkins server and configured with the build process for the code analysis process for better code quality.

Enabled Continuous Delivery through Nexus and Jenkins by Deploying into several environments of Test, QA, Stress and Production.

Proficiency in deploying n-tier Enterprise / Web applications using AEM, IBM WebSphere 7.0,8.5.5,9.0, Web logic 8.1 and Apache Tomcat.

Deploying codebase in multiple environments utilizing GIT, Jenkins, and Maven.

Worked on setting up Dynatrace agent to ensure proper monitoring and alerting is in place for all the applications we support.

Working on JIRA for creating Projects, assigning permissions to users and groups for the projects and also created mail handlers and notification schemes for JIRA.

Environment: EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, EBS, Auto Scaling, Cloud Watch, AWS CLI, Azure, Maven, GIT, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernates, SonarQube, Linux, Shell, Python, Dynatrace.

The Hershey Company, Hershey, USA, PA

DevOps Engineer

Worked on installation, configuration and deployment of servers running Linux based OS like Centos, VMware Environments.

Performed installation, customized configuration and update of software packages on Linux using tools like Yum and manual execution.

Automating The Build process using Subversion (SVN), and ANT.

Configured GIT with Jenkins and schedule jobs using Poll SCM option.

Work with various agile development teams to standardize branching and tagging of code in our TFS repository and maintain code base integrity.

Installation and Configuration of SAMBA Server and APACHE Server

Have used Confluence to create, share and discuss content and projects.

Familiar and experienced with Agile Scrum development

Performed installation, Configuration and maintenance of Tomcat, Web Sphere servers in Linux environment.

Involved in Build server setup, installation of tools, patches, fixing build issues and transition to product support.

Setup and maintain MySQL and configuration or replication across multiple machines.

Response to Linux Systems problems and resolving them on the timely basis.

Experienced in tasks like managing User Accounts and Groups, managing disks and Filesystems.

Diagnosed problems and escalated issues with vendors and sought part replacement.

Developed scripts using Shell, BASH and Batch files for Automation of Activities and builds.

Performance Tuning and Management for Linux/AIX server and working with the application/database team to resolve issues

Configuring and Maintaining of Network File Systems like (N.F.S) and Auto mount in networks

Installing and updating Kernel. Created and modified swap files and added swap space

24/7 on call supports for emergency site maintenance and immediate build and install requirements.

Automating the building and deployments of servers and developer's workstations.

Creating and disabling user accounts, passwords and permissions in Active Directory

Performs daily operational checks, reviews event management alerts and e-mails, and assists with audits of inventory and processes.

Monitored all the error logs, remediated and coordinated with end users using Request Tracking (RT) ticketing system.

Created the build instructions docs and deploy instructions docs for each application for different environments.

Performed server backup and recovery operations.

Worked in solving tickets issued on day to day activities and problems related to development/test servers.

Environment: Linux, CentOS, MySQL, System Configuration, SVN, Maven, BASH, Python, Git, Shell Scripts, WebSphere.

GENISYS - General Insurance System

Build & Release Engineer/Java Developer

Worked on Yum configuration and package installation through YUM

Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Worked on configuration and troubleshooting for Red Hat Linux.

Migrated from Ant to Maven.

Worked on Unified change management to combine clear case and clear quest.

Used Clear case for configuration management and build management.

Experience in Group Policy Management by adding client standard group policies to the newly created Organization Units in Active Directory.

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

Migrated to Jenkins from Hudson for Continuous Integration and deployment into Team foundation servers (TFS)

Hosting and securing webpages using Apache (httpd) webserver and SSL.

Monitored all the error logs, remediated and coordinated with end users using Request Tracking (RT) ticketing system.

Performances, CPU and Memory monitoring of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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

Supported and developed tools for integration, automated testing and release management.

Verified if the methods used to create and recreate software builds are consistent and repeatable.

Experience in Installation, administration and maintenance of Virtual Machines and taking their back up's.

Worked and configured the networking and server utilities and worked on configuring TCP / IP.

Install and implement new programs, modules, servers, hardware, and network equipment when necessary to upgrade, improve resources or increase compatibility.

Performed all systems administration duties, including configuration and maintenance of network services such as Web servers, WINS, DHCP, DNS, and FTP on both Windows and Linux-based environments.

Configured new system hardware peripherals and settings for new employee systems.

Environment: UNIX, Java/J2ee, Eclipse, Java, Clear case, Hudson / Jenkins, Maven, ANT, Maven, SVN, WebSphere, BASH.

Education

Bachelors: computer science and Engineering

PVP Siddhartha Institution of technology.

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2019-03 - Current

2016-06 - 2019-03

2013-12 - 2016-05

2012-06 - 2013-07

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