Baljit Singh

***, ***** ****** ****, ********, Ontario-L7A3W8

Phone: +1-416-***-****

E-mail: adl58g@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Seeking a position to utilize my skills and abilities in the Information Technology Industry, a job where growth prospects are unlimited, and individuality are recognized by work, and to achieve professional satisfaction by meeting higher responsibilities and involving incompetent work areas.

Work Experience

1} CDW

Presently working as Site Reliability Engineer and DevOps Engineer. Support Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure.

(JULY 2018 to Till Now)

Roles & Responsibilities

Cloud Administration

Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.

Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.

Designed VNets and subscriptions to confirm Azure Network Limits.

Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the VNets to the Internet using Azure External Load Balancer.

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

Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.

Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.

Remote login to Virtual Machines to troubleshoot, monitor and deploy applications.

Managing Windows 2012 servers, troubleshooting IP issues and working with different support teams.

Using Power shell to write, debug scripts to automate the processes and do the migration of VM, involving copying and creating of VHDS.

Configuration of Microsoft DevTest Labs to migrate the virtual machines from one subscription to another subscription.

Managing day-to-day activity of the cloud environment, supporting development teams with their requirements.

Developing and maintaining software life cycle with CI/CD pipeline.

Installation, configuration and administration of OpenShift 3 on Red Hat and Centos 7.

Build, Deployment, Networks, Services, Routes and Scaling of OpenShift.

Automating various system administration tasks using python and bash like patching, user maintenance, disk usage, performance monitoring, code promotion, reboot and file transfers.

Implemented testing environment for Kubernetes and administrated the Kubernetes Clusters.

Deployed and Orchestrated the applications with Kubernetes.

Good understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Programmable Infrastructure), and how you can achieve that by using tools like Terraform and Ansible etc.

2} AT&T

Worked as a Site Reliability Engineer supported Cloud Services, Web application, and Database.

(Mar 2016 to Jun 2018)

Roles & Responsibilities

Azure/DevOps Support

Extensively worked in operations team to streamline the process of implementing security at Azure cloud environment.

Developed PowerShell scripts and ARM template to automate the provisioning and deployment process.

Developed and Designed Azure DevOps pipelines to manage resources across multiple subscriptions in azure.

Automated various infrastructure activities like Continuous Deployment, Environment configuration Files, Users, Mount points and Packages using Ansible playbooks.

Experience with Azure Cloud Services (Paas and Iaas), Azure virtual Machines Azure Storage, SQL, Azure Active Directory, application insights and logic apps.

Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto-scaling groups, Optimized volumes and EC2 instances.

Configured elastic load balancers with EC2 auto-scaling groups.

Highly involved in configuring and monitoring distributed and multi-platform servers using chef.

Defined chef server and workstation to manage and configure nodes.

Managed the configurations of the instances using OpsCode Chef.

Written and modified various Cookbooks/Recipes for better management of the systems.

Deployment and implementation of Chef for infrastructure as code initiative.

3} IBM INDIA PVT LTD

Worked as System Administrator. Supported and administered Infrastructure and Software development.

(Feb 2012 to July 2015)

Roles & Responsibilities

Cloud Administration

Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.

Design a Management, Monitoring, and Business Continuity Strategy with backup, Availability set, Azure CLI, Azure site recovery.

Extensive use of PowerShell CLI to automate and health check of Azure environment.

Responsible for using AWS Console and AWS CLI for deploying and operating AWS services specifically VPC, EC2. S3. EBS. IAM, ELB, Cloud Formation and Cloud Watch.

Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 Instance for snapshots and creating clone’s instances.

Good understanding of AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS), various volume types and utilization of diverse types of EBS volumes based on the requirement.

Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and back-up on AWS.

Experience in architecting and configuring secure VPC through private and public networks in AWS.

Implemented CICD allowing to deploy to multiple client Kubernetes/AWS environments

Created puppet manifests and modules to automate system operations.

Implemented Docker-based Continues Integration and Deployment framework.

Deploy, configure, maintain compute on the azure cloud.

ITIL Process Management

Change Management:

Planning for change- including communication action plans; change transition plans; post-implementation review plans

Implementing change management actions, including stakeholder engagement; development and delivery of communication material; reviewing and monitoring change uptake.

4} HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD

Worked as a Senior System Specialist in HCL Technologies. We had provided Remote Infrastructure Management support.

(Nov 2009 to Jan 2012)

Roles & Responsibilities

Technical Environment –

Linux, Windows 2008 and Windows 2012 Servers.

Directory services: OpenLDAP, Active Directory

Security services: SELinux, firewall, Iptables, Fail2Ban, ModSecurity, Firewall, OpenSSL, OpenSSH

Responsible for:

Provided System administration support for Red Hat Enterprise ( RHEL ) flavour.

Installed, Updated and configured the RHEL systems.

Worked with the Backup team to install and configure networker client on Linux servers.

Created Logical Volume Management ( LVM ) and NFS.

Configured Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

Utilized YUM to build and patch Linux servers.

5} System Care

Worked as a Technical support engineer, Supported and administered client Data Center.

(Sep 2005 to Oct 2009)

Roles & Responsibilities

VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATION

VMware ESXi 5.5/6.0 Host Server Installation, Configuration Maintenance, vSphere Suite with P2P and P2V,

Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration Maintenance.

Managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development, and Production.

Worked on ESX and VM storage issues and coordinated with the storage admin team.

Extensively worked on VMware Update Manager for Host upgrades and patches.

Configuring High Availability HA and Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS Creation of the template

Worked on Disaster Recovery Exercises for DR Plan for Production Servers.

Deploying virtual servers using template and cloning of virtual server.

Providing and maintaining user access in the vCenter server and maintenance of the vCenter server.

Configuration and Maintenance of Microsoft Windows Cluster Servers.

Academic Qualification/Certifications

Completed three and half years diploma in Computer Engineering.

Completed B.Sc Computer Science from Punjab Technical University.

Completed AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in 2020

Completed ITIL V4 Foundation in 2020.

Completed Azure Infrastructure Associate Az-104 in 2021.

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