FAYAZ ABDUL

+447*********•adcimf@r.postjobfree.com•London, UK•British Citizen•Security Cleared•MTECH,IIITB INDIA Certified Agile DevOps, SysAdmin, CI/CD, Monitoring and Atlassian Specialist Linux, Jenkins, Git, Atlassian, Architect & Dev Background, Specialist in DevOps, Cloud and Atlassian 13 Years’ experience (Banking, Public, Media)

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Atlassian Service Desk Administrator

• Atlassian System Administrator

• Atlassian JIRA Administrator

• Atlassian Confluence Administrator

• Certified Jenkins Engineer

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Professional

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, AZURE Cloud (Developing, Implementing and Architecting)

• Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE Programmer

• Python IKM assessment 93%

• Scrum Master, ISTQB, Prince2 Agile Practitioner and Foundation, ITIL Foundation TECHNICAL PROFILE:

Programming Languages

Python, Java, Ruby, C++, Perl, C#, Bash/Shell scripting, Powershell, Groovy, Golang, HTML, Javascript, JSON, YAML UNIX RedHat/Centos till 7, Ubuntu, Alpine, Rancher OS Atlassian Suite

JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket/Stash, Bamboo, Hipchat, Crowd, HipChat, Jira Service Desk, Fisheye, Crucible, Add-ons, JIRA Service Desk, ScriptRunner, Migrations, Upgrades, AD/LDAP, Macros, JQL, Workflows, Projects, Permissions, Notification Schemes, Issue Types, Custom Fields, Screens, Post functions, Plugins, SSO, Rest API, Groovy, Backups & Restore(including per project/space), Scrum/Kanban Boards, Dashboards, Jmeter load testing, ab(apache bench), Filters, Gadgets, Users/Groups/Roles, Re-indexing, Reports, JMX monitoring, Licenses etc.., JIRA Service Desk

Customer Portal, Settings, Reports, Queues, Projects, SLA metrics, Confluence knowledge base, Global help desk, email account, agents, customers, Several plugins like Email This Issue, JIRA Toolkit plugin etc users, automation rules, request types JIRA

Projects (software, service desk and business), workflows

(workflows, workflow schemes), Jira Misc Workflow

Extensions(JMWE), screens (screens, screen schemes, issue type screen types), issues ( issue types, issue type schemes, sub- tasks), fields (custom fields, field configurations, field configuration schemes), priorities (priorities, priority schemes), issue features ( time tracking, issues tracking), issue attributes ( statuses, resolutions), issue security schemes ( notification schemes, permission schemes), configuration, user management

(users, groups), permissions (access), integrations, post functions, triggers, validators, listeners, events, Installations, upgrades, migration, backups, automation, Dashboards, reports

(eazy BI, Smart Reports, Eclipse Birt) custom groovy, apps/add- ons/plugins, project configuratior, configuration manager, bobswift jira cli, logging and profiling, JMX monitoring, integrity checker, auditlog, issue collectors, project import, global mail settings etc..,

Confluence

Spaces(Personal/Documentation/Knowledge

Base/Software/Team/Blank), Pages(How-to/Troubleshooting/ Blog/Content Formatting/Decision/Experience/FileList/Health monitor/Jira report/Meeting notes/Product

requirements/Project poster/Retrospective/Task Report/Share a link), Configuration, User Management(users, groups), Structure, Apps/Add-ons/Plugins, Permissions(access), Integrations, Upgrades, Backups, Confluence cli, Automation, Rest APIs, Exporters, Reports, FAQ templates,, Managing apps/Licenses, Archiving, Profiles, Audit Log, Scheduled Jobs, bobswift confluence cli etc..,

Configuration Management Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt Containers

Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Micro services, Control Centre, Openshift, Mesos, Docker Swarm, Azure

SCM

GitHub Enterprise, Gitlab, Subversion, AWS CodeCommit, Mercurial, CVS, Dimensions

CI/CD/Build/Repository

Jenkins, Hudson, Buildbot, AWS Codebuild, TeamCity, Bamboo, GoCD, UrbanCode, Ant, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube, Nexus, Artifactory,Yum, NPM, Apt, Bower, DockerHub, Blue green deployment

Automation Testing TDD(PyUnit, Junit), BDD(Cucumber, JBehave, Fitnesse), Selenium Visualization and Analytics Tools Grafana, ELK(ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), Tableau, Splunk Hashicorp Suite Terraform, Packer, Consul, Vault, Vagrant, IAC Monitoring Tools

Zenoss, Zabbix, Nagios, ITRS Geneos, Graphite, Sysdig, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, OpsView, HpInsight, IBM Tivoli, CA Nimsoft, Prometheus

SQL & NOSQL MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Sybase, MongoDB Cloud

AWS Full stack, Azure, UKCloud(Skyscape), Openstack, GCP, Lambda, VPC, SG, NACL, EC2, S3 etc..,

Azure

Azure Resource Manager, ARM templates, Service Fabric, AKS, Microservices, Site Recovery, Application Gateways, Resource Groups, App Services, Load Balancers, Storage Accounts, Active Directory, ADFS, Virtual Networks, SQL databases and warehouses etc..,

AWS

VPC, Route53, NACL, Security Groups, IAM, Direct Connect, ACM, KMS, S3, SQS, SNS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, Cloud formation, Code build, commit, deploy, pipeline, CLI, EBS, RDS, Dynamo DB, API Gateway, ELB, Kinesis, EMR, Autoscaling, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, etc..,

Cloud Computing Services and Others PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, Vmware, Virtualization, Heroku, CloudFoundry Frameworks/Modules

Django, Twisted, CQRS, Qt, Pandas, Numpy, Pscipy, D3.js, Jython, PyPi, Virtualenv, Rabbitmq, Activemq, LAMP

BigData

HDFS, ZooKeeper, Hadoop ecosystem, Data Science, Machine Learning,

Methodologies

Agile, Scrum, Sprint Planning/Retrospective, Kanban, Six Sigma, Waterfall, Follow the sun support model, Matrix Management ITSM/ITIL Tools

BMC Remedy, Service Now, Service, Problem, Change, Incident, Capacity management

Others

Design Patterns, Data Structures & Algorithms, Service dashboard, 247 Video wall & Network Operations Centre, OOPS, Infrastructure, Operations (L 1-4), OWASP, BCP, DR EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

COMPANY ROLE PERIOD

Kubix Senior DevOps and Atlassian Specialist Aug 2016 - Till Date Bank of America Merrill Lynch, UK

Senior Atlassian/SysAdmin/DevOps,

Python May 2015 – Jul 2016

BBC, UK

Team Lead (DevOps, Linux Admin,

Atlassian,Python, Java) Jan 2011 – May 2015

NOKIA, UK

Senior Software Engineer and

SysAdmin

June 2009 – Dec 2010

SERENA, UK Software Engineer(Java) Jun 2008 – May 2009 PAYPAL, INDIA Software Engineer July 2006 – May 2008 SIEMENS,DELPHI, EMC, GE INDIA Intern/Software Engineer June 2004 – July 2006 WORK EXPERIENCE

Kubix:

Description: Kubix is a niche DevOps/Atlassian boutique consultancy. As part of Kubix worked for many public sector and private sector clients including but not limited to Home Office( IPT/Border Force), NHS HEE, Thomson Reuters, Auto Desk, ECMWF etc..,

• Atlassian admin covering all tools, development, maintenance and upgrades.

• JIRA service desk administrator(end to end configuration)

• Atlassian plugin development using JAVA and macro development using velocity.

• Build the Jenkins pipelines to automate the deployment of micro services.

• Design & Manage complex Confluence/Jira queries, rest apis, dashboards for operational/performance reporting metrics and eazyBI reports using MDX scripts based on departmental needs including MDX s

• Upgraded, migrated and merged several JIRAs with the help of process, add ons(project configurator, configuration manager, CSV export/imports), scripting etc..,

• Managing the infrastructure, core applications such as Atlassian suite(JIRA/Confluence), GIT, JENKINS including several upgrades and migrations.

• Used Azure cloud and migrated from AWS to Azure.

• Used IAC, Terraform to deploy to AZURE instead of cloud formation.

• Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Registry, acs-engine POC etc..,

• Used Ansible for orchestrating the servers. Sysadmin tasks for the legacy servers.

• Build solutions such as docker registry, promethes, grafana, ELK, Sonarqube, pipelines, servers on demand, Github, Active Directory and many.

• Deployment of Kubernetes container and Pods using KOPS.

• TeamCity: continuous integration & DevOps with Java

• Using best practices of Kubernetes in terms of security, volumes management, Daemon sets, Resource Usage Monitoring

• Deployment of private AWS based Jira/Confluence stack.

• Migration of existing Jira Projects.

• Creation of new Projects/User permission schemas from legacy on premise Jira to AWS based Atlassian stack.

• Migration of Gitlab to Bitbucket for SCM

• Administering Jenkins, Github, Keycloak, Jira, legacy applications.

• Used IAC, Packer for AMIs and Terraform for IAC instead of cloud formation.

• Ambari deployment of the whole Hadoop Eco system.

• For service discovery used consul, vault and other tools in hashicorp suite.

• Build the Jenkins pipelines to automate the creation of amis and deployment of application stack on AWS and used Puppet, Ansible for configuring the servers.

• Used many patterns in AWS involving ELB, ASG, SG and many other components such as EC2, RDS, S3, EBS, VPC, NACL, Peering etc..,

• Build solutions such as YUM repository, Monitoring solution Zabbix, ELK(Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana with Shield), OpenLDAP and many.

• Written many containers using Docker(Squid, NTP, Ansible and many more) and deployed using Kubernetes in rancher/coreos/kops.

Languages and tools: Atlassian, JIRA, Confluence, Service Desk, Emai This Issue, JIRA Toolkit, market place plugins, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Crowd, Python,Packer, Terraform, Consul, Vault, Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Zabbix, Squid, ELK, AWS, Cloudformation, Lambda, Java, Python, Groovy, Jenkins, Git, Maven, Sonarqube, Artifactory, Mesos, Bitbucket, Nexus, Powershell, ARM templates, Puppet, Ansible, Postgres, Azure, Docker Swarm, Ambari, Bigdata, Hadoop Operating System: Centos, Redhat, Alpine, Ubuntu, Rancher, Windows BAML:

Description: Delivering Atlassian/Linux Admin and DevOps support in an open source environment for the banks agile development teams using Quartz. Develop tools and applications for operations team. Core Infrastructure and application support for trading systems. Role/Responsibilities: Solution Architect, Developer for implementing various enhancements and new functionalities on various environments leveraging existing tools. Communicating with LOBs, ASDs, TI and Management. Production and application support specialist for all the components.

(Team Size – 20, Global – > 50)

• Developed ILM to be compatible with Dodd-Frank and developed a grid utilization tool to save

£10M in infrastructure spending.

• Managed the whole set of atlassian suites with more than 10k and 2k users.

• Worked on POC on Ansible Tower, ELK stack (Elastic search, Logstash, Kibana), Heroku, CloudFoundry and many others including but not limited to graphite, grafana etc..,

• Working on migration of monitoring tool from Valkyrie to ITRS Geneos

• Used Buildbot, Kerberos, ITSM, QzTracker and introduced configuration management tools.

• Promoting the code using QzRelease, involved in change, incident, problem, capacity management.

• TeamCity: continuous integration & DevOps with .NET

• Generated MI stats using in-house tools, Tableau and worked with other quartz developers, traders and quant members.

• Involved in maintenance of the servers including hardware, DC visits, system administration of databases, BCP, Power down tests, testing the changes and coordinating the deployment by working together with Global team.

Languages and tools: Python, Django, JIRA, Confluence, Openshift, IBM Bluemix, Cloudfoundry, Valkyrie, ITRS Geneos, Sandra(DB), System Administration, Hugs(grid node scheduler), Bob(jobs scheduler), AMPS, Graphite Monitoring, Grafana, Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, buildpacks, Pandas, Numpy, Mercurial, CVS, Javascript, d3.js,HTML, buildbot, Teamquest, DNT, SAR, Operating System: Redhat, Windows

BBC:

Description: Zenoss is a Unified monitoring tool that monitors the entire BBC IT infrastructure(2500 servers on the Platform and 3000+ on AWSCloud).

Role/Responsibilities: Architect, Developer, Atlassian Admin, SysAdmin, tester. Coordinator covering all the SDLC activities, including Devops activities (deployment, automation and monitoring) communicating with 24/7, live site and operation teams (Team Size - 8)

• Architected the solution to fit for BCP and DR requirements.

• Atlassian admin covering upgrades, migrations.

• Built and maintained 60+ monitoring servers. Used puppet and introduced ansible.

• Monitored various applications by generating graphs and involved in logging data.

• Hands on experience using Amazon Web Services, EC2, SNS, SQS

• As part of procurement analyzed many monitoring tools including but not limited to AppDynamics, OpsView, HpInsight, IBM Tivoli, CA Nimsoft, Sumo Logic, Promotheus etc..,

• Active involvement in documenting issues and communicating with the Business, 24/7, Live site, various application and operation teams.

Languages and tools: Python, Java, Zenoss, Zabbix, Nagios, Atlassian tools, JIRA, Confluence, UnitTest, Twisted, AWS, Centos, MySql, Postgres, Eclipse PyDev, SVN, HUDSON, JIRA, Jenkins, Maven, confluence, putty, SSH, pageant, Virtual Box, Puppet, Memcache, Varnish, Nginx,Splunk, Sumo Logic, Loadbalancers, Network weathermaps, VMware, Apache, HBase, docker, opentsdb, rabbitmq, redis, CDN, streaming, Javascript, Jaspersoft, JSON, Yaml, Many monitoring tools . Operating System: Centos, Redhat, Windows

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