Muhammad Fahad

Sr. AWS DevOps Engineer Email: adjkk3@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 630-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly enthusiastic and energetic software professional with 8+ years of experience in IT industry comprising of delivery management, design, development, release & deployment, and AWS cloud implementation.

4+ years of experience in working with Public Cloud Platform like Amazon Web Services and good knowledge in using various services like AWS EC2, VPC, CLI, Cloud Trail.

Designed and maintained AWS infrastructure highly available, scalable, secured, monitored and alerting network infrastructure.

Performed Continuous Delivery in a microservice infrastructure with Amazon cloud, Kubernetes and Amazon ECS

Achieved High Availability by deploying the application by spanning across multiple Availability Zones.

Experience in routing Production traffic for High availability multi-site using Route 53 using Failover and Weighted Routing Policies.

Experience in designing a Terraform and deploying it in cloud deployment manager to spin up resources like cloud virtual networks, Compute Engines in public and private subnets along with AutoScaler in Google Cloud Platform.

Experience in providing highly available and fault tolerant applications utilizing orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Apache Mesos on Google Cloud Platform.

Worked on google cloud platform (GCP) services like compute engine, cloud load balancing, cloud storage, cloud SQL, stack driver monitoring and cloud deployment manager.

Experienced in triggering CloudWatch alarms and specified thresholds with metrics and notified by creating subscribers by using SNS.

Experienced in Managed AWS infrastructure with automation and configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Kubernetes, CloudFormation and Terraform.

Strong experience in DevOps Environment by enhancing Continuous Delivery and infrastructure change by using Chef, Ansible, Kubernetes to deploy code with GIT, Jenkins.

Bootstrapped and managed multi-tier AWS infrastructure by using custom Json CloudFormation Templates.

Build infrastructure with custom Terraform templates and maintained them as a part of Disaster Recovery

Hands on experience with Amazon different EC2 instance families spanning across Test, Dev and production and Cloud Automation through DevOps tools like Chef, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes.

Proficient in scripting AWS AMIs deployment, bootstrapping and pre-baking AMIs with Packer.

Optimized Infrastructure by making using resources effectively and decreased cost of maintenance by Docker

Experience using Kubernetes for container management that runs Docker containerized applications in a cluster of EC2 instances in Linux Environment.

Experience in writing Chef Cookbooks, Recipes in Ruby for Provisioning Dev, Test, Pre-prod, Production environments consisting of DB installations, Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, Windows IIS

Done Orchestration and Configuration Management of middleware and applications deployment by writing Ansible Playbooks and pushing them into Environments

Expertise in all areas of Jenkins like Plugin Management, Securing and scaling Jenkins, integrating Code Analysis, Performance issues, Analytics and Test Phases to complete the CI/CD pipelines within Jenkins.

Deep Experience in several areas of Jenkins like master/slave administrations, access controls, report generations, parameterized/triggered build setups etc.

Experienced in Scaling Amazon RDS, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Instances Vertically and Horizontally for High Availability

Bootstrapped and managed Ubuntu, RHEL, Centos and Windows virtual servers on AMAZON EC2 and VMware

Strong Scripting skills in Bash, PowerShell, Perl, YAML, Json, Ruby and Python scripts to automate the deployments and for environmental changes.

Experience working in Agile, Scrum SDLC with respect to Resource Planning, Functional and Technical Specifications, delivering Operations, Development, Testing, and Maintenance.

Strong experience with using a broad range of AWS services (EC2, RDS, ELB, S3, AWS CLI, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, CloudTrail, Route 53, DynamoDB, SNS) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution

Building Fault-Tolerant and High Availability applications on the AWS infrastructure by configuring Auto Scaling behind Elastic Load Balancers.

Hands on Experience on GIT and SVN to help manage and document all the changes to Application code and Configuration Management Code and having strong experience on source control concepts like Branches, Masters, Merges and Tags.

Managed and distributed builds generated by Maven and ANT by using binary repos like Nexus and Artifactory

Used MAVEN and ANT as build tools on PHP and Java applications for the development of build artifacts on the source code.

Strong experience in deploying the code through Application, Static and Dynamic on servers Apache Tomcat, Apache, NGINX, Windows IIS, Web Sphere, Web Logic.

Experience in Spinning up complete Test environments on-demand and tear them down when testing is done.

Experience using Splunk Cloud and Enterprise for analyzing and visualize the data, automate log search and analysis

Installed, Configured and Managed Monitoring Tools such as Splunk, Nagios for Resource Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Log Trace Monitoring

Experience in JIRA to capture, organize and prioritize issues and partially administered JIRA for issue management.

TECHICAL SKILLS

DevOps Tools

Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, Maven, Ansible, Docker, Gradle, Splunk, OPS Work.

Cloud Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, Simple Storage Service (S3), RDS, VPC, Cloud Front, Cloud Trail, SES, Cloud Watch, Route53, Elastic Bean Stalk, Elastic Load Balancer, Google Cloud, Azure.

Operating Systems

Linux - Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, Debi, Ubuntu, CentOS, Unix

Languages/Scripts

Bash Shell, Perl, Python Scripts, Cobol, C, C++, Visual Basic, Java, J2EE

Databases

MySQL (phpMyAdmin), PostgreSQL (phpPgAdmin)

Build Tools

ANT, MAVEN, Make file, Hudson, Jenkins, BA

Mail Servers

Postfix, PostgreSQL (Virtual mailbox)

Web Servers

Apache2/Tomcat, JBoss, IBM-Web Sphere, WebSphere, JBoss

Virtual Server

VMware ESX 3.5.0 Server, VMware Infrastructure Client 2.5 &Xen 3.2

Version Control Tools

Subversion (SVN), Clear case, GIT, GIT Hub, Perforce, Code Commit

Other Tools

JIRA Project Management Tool, Eclipse, CUPS, DNS(BIND), DHCP, Samba, Firewall (Squid, IPTables), FTP, NFS, NIS,

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science in 2010 – University of Punjab

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Devops Engineer

Zephyr Health, San Francisco Sept 2017 – Present

Responsibilities:

Worked with managing open stack infrastructure upgrades, expansion, scaling and troubleshooting on the most challenging, complex environments.

Responsible for documenting the Future State Architecture of application and getting them approved from ARB (Architecture Review Board).

Involved in Architect, Build and maintain Highly Available secure multi-zone AWS cloud infrastructure utilizing Chef with AWS Cloud Formation and the Jenkins& Hudson for continuous integration. Responsible for CI environments (Jenkins, Nexus, Sonar).

Worked with Go language to build simple reliable and efficient software programs.

Architecting high available, auto scalable platforms in AWS cloud on Windows & Linux, Designing database high availability solutions on MS SQL & My SQL multi AZ RDS.

Responsible for creating AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) groups and Users for improved login authentication and providing security Group in both Public and Private Subnets in VPC.

Experienced in Branching, labeling and Analyzing and resolving conflicts related to merging of source code in GIT and implemented a Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline using Docker, Jenkins, and GIT. And also used Jenkins pipeline plugin to analyze the Maven dependencies and the SCM changes.

Experience in designing a Terraform and deploying it in cloud deployment manager to spin up resources like cloud virtual networks, Compute Engines in public and private subnets along with AutoScaler in Google Cloud Platform

Worked on google cloud platform (GCP) services like compute engine, cloud load balancing, cloud storage, cloud SQL, stack driver monitoring and cloud deployment manager.

Worked on Inbound and Outbound services with automation CHEF. Deployed multiple resources simultaneously, using Cloud Formation templates in AWS.

Setting up the build and deployment automation for Terraform scripts using Jenkins and Used HCL scripts for writing terraform Scripts.

Configured a virtual data center in the Amazon Web Services cloud to support Enterprise data warehouse hosting including Virtual Private Cloud(VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups, Route Table, Elastic Load Balancer.

Leveraged Aws cloud services such as EC2, Auto scaling, and VPC to build secure, highly Scalable, high available and flexible systems that can be handled expected and unexpected load bursts.

Created Aws Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT instances to ensure successful deployment of web applications and data base templates.

Created Python scripts to totally automate Aws Services which includes ELB, Cloud front distribution, database, EC2 and database security, S3 bucket and application configuration, this script creates stacks, single servers or join web servers to stacks.

Utilize AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS and create nightly AMI’s for mission critical production servers as backups.

Focused on containerization and immutable infrastructure, Docker has been core to this experience, along with Mesos, Marathon, and Kubernetes.

Automated deployment activities in a middleware environment which includes portal applications running on Java using Puppet Master and Agent Nodes, Puppet manifests to automate the installations and deployment tasks in service oriented architecture (SOA).

Experienced in Troubleshooting. Splunk search, quotas, monitor Inputs, WMI Issues, Splunk crash logs, and Alert scripts.

Involved in using Terraform migrate legacy and monolithic systems to Amazon Web Services.

Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.

Creation and Maintenance of MS Azure Cloud Infrastructure and Virtual Network between MS Azure Cloud and On-premise network for backend communication.

Wrote Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the wrapper to manage the configuration of AWS nodes and test playbooks on AWS instance using Python. Ran Ansible scripts to provision Dev Servers.

Utilized Jira for Bug Tracking, Nagios & Graphite for System monitoring, Cloud Watch and Cloud Trial for monitoring the cloud environment.

Environment: AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Trail and Route 53), VDI, Linux, Ansible, Git version Control, VPC, AWS EC2, S3, Route53, EBS, IAM, ELB, Cloud watch, Cloud Trial, Cloud Formation, AWS CLI, AWS Auto Scaling, Google Cloud, Azure, Maven, Jira, Nagios, Subversion, Jenkins, Ansible, Mesos, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Ruby.

DevOps Engineer

SunTrust, Atlanta, GA June 2015 – Aug 2017

Responsibilities:

Worked on CICD pipeline tools like GoCd, Jenkins enterprise applications.

Configured and maintained agents in GoCd and Jenkins CICD tools.

Migrated puppet scripts to ansible playbooks.

Configured ansible playbooks to use hashicorp vault.

Wrote python scripts to retrieve key/value pairs from hashicorp vault.

Developed various ansible playbooks for automating the GoCd Configuration and ssh communication.

Worked on docker images to install SonarQube.

Created images stored in the Docker container and uploaded to Docker hub.

Worked on configuring SonarQube for code quality reports.

Worked on EC2, S3, ELB, Auto scaling Servers, Glacier, Storage Lifecycle rules, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, RDS, VPC, Route 53, Cloud watch, IAM Roles, SNS subscription service.

Experience using Identity and Access Management (IAM) to design policies, create roles and manage users and groups.

Migrated service from a managed hosting environment to AWS including overall plan, cost analysis, service design, network layout, data migration, automation, deployments and cutover, monitoring, documentation, and timeline.

Launched and configured Amazon EC2 Cloud Servers using AMI's (Linux/Ubuntu) and configured the servers for specified applications.

Launched DNS, Route 53 and AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and assigned AWS SSL Certificates to Servers.

Configured the Auto scaling and ELB groups in AWS to main high scalable and secure environment.

Deployed Docker application by using Service Release Automation (SRA) in AWS Infrastructure.

Converted and automated builds using Maven and scheduled automated nightly builds using Jenkins.

Deployed Docker Engines in Virtualized Platforms for containerization of multiple applications.

Implemented nightly builds on Jenkins and automated various scopes of testing on Jenkins.

Developed CI/CD system with Jenkins on Docker for the runtime environment for the CI/CD system to build, test and deploy.

Experience in deployment Automation using multiple tools Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, GIT, TFS, SonarQube ANT Scripts.

Experience on OpenShift platform in managing Docker containers and Kubernetes Clusters.

Automated and performed smoke testing of products before promoting to QA.

Wrote Perl & Shell Script for automation of Build & Release of Product

Deployed and released multiple builds on different Environments and products.

Worked with VI Editor to create and modify the Unix scripts and text files.

Managed Fast Apps (FE/ME/BE/BRMS/TC) by installing/upgrading, deploying war files, configuring/updating Data source connections and config property files on all non-prod servers.

Improve availability and timeliness of test environments.

Created docker containers using docker images to test the application.

Environment: Kubernetes, Jenkins, JIRA, Nagios, Linux, Docker, Chef, Ansible, Git version Control, Cloud Formation, AWS CLI, AWS Auto Scaling, Maven, Nagios, Subversion, Jenkins, Unix/Linux, Shell scripting, AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Trail and Route 53),

DevOps Engineer

ACT, Iowa City, IA Oct 2014 - May 2015

Responsibilities:

Experienced in Amazon Cloud (EC2) Hosting and AWS Administration including S3 and IAM Services.

Created and design the AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, NAT subnets, for deployment of Web applications and database templates.

Extensive knowledge on Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.

Utilized kubernetes and docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.

Used Docker as a new level of simplicity for defining and creating applications or services by encapsulating them in containers.

Extensive knowledge in File & Print Server, IIS, FTP, Terminal Server.

Responsible for configuring networking concepts like NIS, NFS, SAMBA, LDAP, SSH, FTP, SFTP, SNMP, DNS, DHCP, troubleshooting network problems such as TCP/IP, supporting users in solving their problems.

Maintained high availability clustered and standalone server environments and refined automation components with scripting and configuration management using Ansible.

Involved in deploying the content cloud platform on Amazon AWS using EC2, S3, and EBS.

Setting up Live Environment on IIS/Apache Web Servers with various AWS Services EC2, VPC, LB, S3, RDS and Route53 including Reverse Proxy, Load Balancing, Monitoring, Backup and Migration tasks.

Proficient in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation AWS Configuration, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, IAM, S3, and R53.

Set-up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket.

Wrote Jenkins enterprise pipeline scripts to automate and deploy Certificate management.

Developed Gradle and Maven build scripts.

Pruned Artifactory repository on weekly basis.

Create, build Ansible playbooks including automation scripts with Python and Bash.

Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon Web Services.

Created Cloud formation stacks to easily provision resources in the AWS cloud.

Create and maintain custom IAM policies for the groups to allow access to specific portions of the AWS resources.

Worked with various AWS EC2, S3, CloudFront, VPC, IAM, SQS, Lambda, Kinesis, and Route53 CLI tools.

Worked on a migration project of moving current applications in the traditional datacenter to AWS by using AWS services.

Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, SES and SNS services in AWS cloud.

Launched AmazonEC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configured the launched instances with respect to specific applications.

Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.

Monitored system issues/updates for all assigned applications throughout the entire SDLC verified requirements were accurate, functional and implemented successfully within the timelines specified.

Environment: GIT, Ansible, Jenkins, Tomcat, Apache, Python, JIRA, Maven, Nexus, Puppet, RedHat Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Linux, JAVA, AWS EC2, AWS SQS, AWS S3, AWS Cloud Formation Templates, AWS RDS, AWS Cloud Watch

Linux Admin

Engagepoint, St. Paul, MN Nov 2013 - Oct 2014

Responsibilities:

Performed installation, configuration and maintenance of Redhat Linux 5.3..

Handling HP and DELL servers running on Redhat Linux and SUSE Linux 9 and GNU.

Linux kernel, memory upgrades and swap area. Redhat Linux Kickstart Installation. Configuring DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS in Redhat Linux other Network Services.

Performed daily backups, restoration of data as per requests from developers using VeritasNetbackup.

Experience in Servers consolidation and virtualization using HPSA Vsphere virtual infrastructure, HPSA Vsphere ESX.

WroteShell Scripts as cron jobs and deployment scripts for various reasons in VIM editor.

Audited the servers after the installation and prepared documents.

Worked on EMC disk storage to allocate disk space.

Network trouble shooting using 'ndd', 'traceroute', 'netstat', 'ifconfig' and 'snoop' etc

Provided Security and troubleshoot the network issues in environment with 2500 users with VPN.

Installed of all the required Software, patches, documentation, licensing trouble shooting.

Network Monitoring Using Nagios tool.

Setup various user profiles, environment variables/security to ensure smooth operation.

Monitoring servers using BMC patrol Express.

Good understanding of web services software architectural and design issues.

Monitored overall system performance, performed user management, system updates and disk storage management.

Created users, manage user permissions, maintain User File System quota on Redhat Linux and AIX.

Production support of Apache and JBoss including installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting

Implementing RAID 1 and RAID 5 on mission critical servers such as domain controllers and file servers.

Setup of full networking services and protocols on UNIX, including NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, ARP, applications, kickstart and print servers to insure optimal networking, application, and printing functionality.

Installed and configured Sudo for users to access the root privileges

Performed troubleshooting of CPU bottle necks, memory bottle necks and gave suggestions on performance improvements. Analyzed performance issues through PERFPMR.

WroteTechnical documentation for various projects and worked with Technical writer to finalize the documents.

Environment: Redhat Linux 4.0,5.0, HPSA Vsphere ESX Server 3.5.0, JBOSS, Remedy, EMC Power Path, windows 2000/2003, Sun Solaris 8,9,10, Solstice Disk Suite, AIX 5.3, Veritas Cluster Server, Enterprise Security Manager, Opsware, Weblogic 8.1, Oracle 9i/10g.

Linux Admin

ProQuest, Ann Arbor, MI Aug 2012 – Oct 2013

Responsibilities:

figuration and Operating System upgrade on Red Hat Linux AS 4.0 Servers.

Installation, configuration administration of RHEL 4.8/4.9/5.5/5.6 and AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3 servers.

Installation of guest OS, configuration and patch application on hosts using Tivoli Provisioning Manager TPM .

Implemented day-to-day tasks in RHEL that include upgrading RPM's, kernel, HBA driver, configuring LVM filesystems, printing issues, connection/network issues etc.

Performed server consolidation and virtualization using HPSA Vsphere ESX 3.5/4/4.1

Created VM's on Virtual Center server and installed guest OS using Tivoli Provisioning Manager TPM for OS deployment.

Migration of HPSA VsphereESXi 4.0 environment to vSphereESXi 4.1

Built vCenter 4.1 and vCenter Update Manager VUM 4.1 servers. Configured vCenter Update Manager VUM server to do host upgrades and patch applications.

Worked as Red Hat Linux Administrator in IT infrastructure environment providing server administration, application administration and automation solutions to support business objectives.

Rebuilt servers and installed guest OS on zLinux servers.

Performed system administration of UNIX servers. Managing Compaq and Linux workstations and servers.

Created users, manage user permissions, maintain user and file system quota on RHEL servers.

Disk and File system management through Red Hat GFS and other logical volume manager for other flavor of UNIX.

Configuration of Hardware and Software RAID on Digital Servers

Installation of Oracle Patches and Troubleshooting, Creating and modifying application related objects, Creating Profiles, Users, Roles and maintaining system security.

Performed installation, periodic maintenance updates and applied APAR fixes on Linux and AIX servers.

Installed RPM packages and LPP on Linux servers and IBM P-series AIX servers.

Analyze system performance, client-to-server traffic, and server-to- server traffic.

Monitored file system space using simple shell scripts resize file systems as and when required.

Configured clustering by using Veritas Cluster Server VCS .

Created users, manage user permissions, maintain User File system quota on Solaris and Linux servers.

Experience in LVM, Kernel and performance tuning on IBM AIX and Red Hat Linux.

Written Shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks using cron and at in AIX and Linux.

Defined and setup Network/Local printers, and install client/server applications.

Define/setup network protocols, Network File Services NFS and Network Information Services NIS on Linux servers.

Security, users, groups administration and daily backup and restore operations, networking service, performance, and resource monitoring.

Managed nodes running under SAN environment through HACMP.

Document and maintain the inventory using asset management techniques.

Responsible for backup of all servers and recovery of all servers.

Environment: RHEL 4.x, 5.x, AIX 5.3/6.1, TPM, X86, IBM P570, P590,HACMP 4.3.1 and 4.5, VeritasNetbackup 4.5, VCS, WebSphere Application Server 3.5/4.0.x, JBOSS, LDAP, DNS, NIM, NFS,TCP/IP, SAN, NAS, Nagios 2.x, Web Logic 8.1, Oracle 9i/10g, Tivoli Storage Manager 5.x, HPSA Vsphere 3.5/4.x, Shell Scripting.

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