Deployment Manager Active Directory
Resume:
Rudra
Raju
OH ***** Tel # 832-762-
9118
Email: ***********@*****.***
SUMMARY
• Experience with Devops tools like Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Git, Concourse, AWS CI/CD pipelines, Docker containers and Kubernetes cluster.
• Experience working as Systems Engineer, with expertise in RHEL/CentOS 5.x, 6.x, & 7.x, Suse10,11,12 and. Windows 2003/2008/2008R2/2012/2012R2/2016, VMWARE, AWS,GCP and Microsoft Azure Cloud
• Experience in Cloud-Cloud migrations, On-premise-Cloud migrations from all the platforms On-Premise, AWS, and GCP
• Experience in Automating new deployments in GCP using Deployment Manager
• Experience in utilizing Google Cloud resources like Compute engine (GCE), Kubernetes(GKE), App engine, Identity and Access Management, Firewalls, Load balancers, Datastore, API’s, Cloud Functions, Gcloud CLI, SQL Databases, VPC, Stack driver etc
• Hands on experience in administration of Azure cloud workloads
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Physical to Cloud (P2C) Migrations
• Experience in Documentations for Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and End-to-End Processes and Reports while managing complex internal and external data analysis responsibilities
• Deep Knowledge in Installations, Configurations, Backups, Upgrades, Patching, Monitoring System Performance, and Troubleshooting of Linux/Unix/Windows Servers
• Experience in Developing, Testing, and Automation of solutions for security related vulnerabilities using Six Sigma Techniques
• Strong Background in gathering Requirements, Defining scope and Implementations.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication skills and a good team player
• Working Knowledge with Agile projects using Waterfall and SCRUM models.
• Identified process improvements and provided recommendations for more effective troubleshooting of complex hardware and software problems
• Proficient with Splunk, Cloud watch, GCP StackDriver monitoring tools,Microsoft Office Tools, MS Visio, Tableau, Splunk, Solar Winds, New Relic, Stack Driver, MS Visual Code etc
• In-Depth knowledge in installing SSL certificates on Load balancers and servers for end to end encrypted traffic
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:
• Project Management and Six Sigma Green Belt joint certificate from University of Houston Clear Lake.
• AWS solution Architect from Amazon
ACHIEVEMENTS:
• University of Houston – Clearlake: Received merit-based Scholarship (DFS) from NASA
• Automation of Disaster Recovery in AWS and GCP application stacks and achieved RTC of minutes versus hours and days.
EXPERIENCE:
Cardinal Health March 21 – Till
Date
Senior Information Security Engineer (AWS/GCP/Onpremises) Responsibilities:
● Lead team of security professionals governing resiliency and security standards of internal/public facing applications.
● Build CI/CD pipelines using Spinnaker to enable applications to deploy Disaster Recovery on Kubernetes, ec2’s, Pivotal cloud foundary and on serverless solutions.
● Deep knowledge in troubleshooting and restoring different RDS flavors likeMSSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB.
● Communication and collaborations across organizations in finding security risks and guiding respective teams to tight the loose ends effectively.
● Experience with designing and implementing network security solutions, including firewalls, encryption, monitoring, and authentication.
● Experience with administering Linux and Windows servers.
● Developed custom Jenkin jobs/pipelines containing python AWS/GCP API to automate the creation/restoration of AWS and GCP resources.
● Serve as a key member of the company’s Information Security Compliance Program by supporting ongoing compliance activities and monitoring efforts across different Regulations and GRC Standards (SOX, HIPAA, PCI, others) as applicable.
● Perform Cyber Risk Assessment and develop response strategies based on current state, develop target state on NIST CyberSecurity Framework (CSF) that ensures business continuity and limits impact of security breach.
● Extensive knowledge in Tanium and Ansible configuration management system to manage fleet of Linux/windows servers configurations.
● Participate in Solution Architecture design reviews to ensure application and system are designed to fit with Resiliency/Security standards.
● Effectively Research, analyze and implement solutions to mitigate data/ infrastructure security risks . for example Ransomware solutions.
● Strong Experience in Python,Golang, Powershell and Bash to automate AWS and GCP Resources using AWS boto3 and GCP API.
● Automated AWS ELB,EC2,RDS,Security Group, GCP Cloud SQL, VM, GCE,Firewall, ILB/GLB.
● Strong Experience in Deployment Manager, Cloud Formation and Terraform for Cloud builds.
● Empowered and equipped 100’s of engineers in house with self service python scripts.
● Automation of namespace, PVC creation for stateful pods in Kubernetes clusters.
● Implement/conduct Business Continuity Planning, Risk assessments and Architecture analysis to improve Resiliency and security posture of applications.
● Detailed in-depth application architecture skills and knowledge including presentation, application, messaging, data and network layers
● Support and Lead High Availability, Disaster Recovery designs, and other Resiliency efforts for both existing and new products/applications.
● Collaborate with application teams to document resiliency risks and remediation plans and recommend best cost-effective solutions considering the applications criticality.
● Strive for excellence by learning new technologies and conduct POC’s to master them.
● Be up to date with new threats, technologies, third party vendors and partners.
● Performs High-Availability and Disaster Recovery testing.
● Developed and Implemented Multi thread Python scripts capable to recover App stacks in GCP and AWS cloud Environments. Which reported phenomenal results in tests reducing approximately more than 6 hours RTO of infrastructure to 5 minutes.
● Developed Splunk queries capable of collecting cloud infrastructure metadata weekly and backup to Global storage bucket
● Implement NETAPP CVO/CFS NAS solution in GCP and AWS cloud Environment. Environment: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Services, Jenkins, Concourse, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines,Windows 2003-2016OS and Linux Suse 11,12 Red Hat 6, 7, VMware Virtualization, Bash, Python,Golang, Powershell scripts, Python, AWS VPC, EC2, Lambda, Load balancers, Sophos and Palo alto firewalls, compute engine, Kubernetes, App Engine, IAM, Firewalls, Load balancers, Datastore, API’s,GCP Cloud Functions, gcloud CLI, SQL, VPC,GCP Stack driver, Ansible, Velostrata migration tool,Cloud watch, AWS Cloud Trail, GCP logging. SDH System LLC (Client:Cardinal Health) July’18 – March21 Lead Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Experience in Implementing AWS Environments and GCP Environments from scratch
• Building new app stacks for application teams in AWS/GCP and managing Access, IAM, Firewall, GCP/AWS resources.
• Automate SAP HANA Scale out and scaleup installations with Deployment manager and Python scripts.
• Ansible playbooks to automate day to day activities like package installations, start and stop of applications.
• GCP Functions/ AWS Lambda to automate autostart/autostop of compute engine servers.
• Deploying F5/ GCP Internal/Global/ AWS Elastic load balancers to manage traffic in the cloud.
• Autoscaling of applications based on peak traffic time/ utilization of resources.
• Create Flexible Templates using Google deployment Manager and configuration file to create a variety of cloud platforms, such as Google cloud Storage, Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud SQL, configured to work together.
• Build and innovate to automate large scale manual operating processes with scripts for applications configured in AWS and GCP.
• Driving analysis, design, and development of automation tools for configuration, provisioning, deployment, development, and operational tasks on GCP.
• Working with Identity management tools like Active directory, SAML tokens, LDAP.
• Configuring and troubleshooting siteminder proxy and policy servers for applications that do not support SAML tokens. Configure F5 APM for SAML token to convert as HTTP/HTTPS headers.
• Integrate applications with OKTA for apps that support SAML.
• Deploy Kubernetes clusters for apps that support containers.
• Integrated pub/sub services with cloud functions.
• Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudTrail.
• Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes based on requirement.
• Deploy cloud spanner for Multi region sql based databases.
• Worked on Stack Driver servicers like Monitoring, Logging, Debugging, trace and Error reporting for troubleshooting server/app issues.
• Configured GCP Networks and Subnets for different applications in the cloud.
• Responsible for performing tasks like Branching, Tagging, and Release Activities on Version Control Tools like SVN, GIT.
• Provisioned firewalls between different projects based on Service Accounts and network tags.
• Provisioned IAM users and groups for application teams by following least privilege rules.
• Increased Quotas for GCP and AWS regions based on their utilization.
• Implemented G-cloud commands in bash and python scripts to automate several tasks like vm creation, firewall update, load balancer creation, IAM user creation, G-Suite and AD domain syncing, service accounts, roles etc.
• Netapp experience in GCP cloud, recently setup and launched in us-east4 working with vendors.
• Setup velostrata appliances, installed required VMware plugins and created cloud extensions from on-premises to to AWS and GCP cloud for lift and shift migrations.
• Troubleshooted several networking issues using stack driver and Palo-alto logs.
• Migrated oracle Exadata Databases using AWS DMS service.
• Worked with Google and IBM vendors to get the solution for DB2 cluster floating IP’s in GCP.
• First to launch a HANA based cluster in GCP cloud by working with different SAP and Google vendors.
• Experienced in Deploying and troubleshooting NFS/CIFS Solutions.
• Experienced in maintaining start-stop times of servers by automating them and saving millions of dollars.
• Enabling different API servers using gcloud command line tools.
• Administration of DNS records for the cloud team.
• Provisioned several unbound servers in AWS and GCP cloud. Environment: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Services, Windows 2003-2016OS and Linux Suse11,12 Red Hat6, 7, VMware Virtualization, Bash, Python, Powershell scripts, Python, AWS VPC, EC2, Lambda, Load balancers, Sophos and Palo alto firewalls, compute engine, Kubernetes, App Engine, IAM, Firewalls, Load balancers, Datastore, API’s, Cloud Functions, gcloud CLI, SQL, VPC, Stack driver, Ansible, Velostrata migration tool Magnus System LLC (Client:Cardinal Health) October’16 – June’18
Cloud Migration Lead
• Administration and Troubleshooting of Linux and windows workloads
• Migrate around 10000 Linux/windows servers from on-premises data centers to Amazon web services and
Google cloud Platform using velostrata and cloud endure migration tools
• Deployed GLB (SSL proxy, HTTPS) and ILB (TCP/UDP) load balancers for several applications
• Deployed F5 load balancers in GCP to support few applications that required more functionality than GCP Load balancers has. for ex: Product limitation for health checks on more than one port, SSL offloading for ILB etc
• Administered of Microsoft Azure environment involved in configuring workloads, storage accounts, resource groups using Azure Resource Manager
• Administration of Active Directory and DNS for cloud based workloads
• Build and Installed Microsoft Active Directory application in AWS and GCP and promoted them as Domain controllers.
• Analyze and understand architecture of different applications and recommend the best strategy for moving servers to cloud, without service disruption for critical environments/users
• Build and setup the Sophos/Palo-Alto Firewalls for external inbound or outbound access to servers / Elastic load Balancers
• Patch Linux and windows systems to maintain the security using Automox /Tanium tools and troubleshoot the issues
• Create Lambda functions to automate tasks like start/stop servers, check the health of servers and trigger alarm to send an SNS/email alerts in case of failure
• Support automation solutions for source, deploy, pipeline and configuration management
• Ensure Monitoring and Alerting Standards for AWS cloud are tested in transition and followed in production
• Engage different vendors from Velostrata/ Risc/VMWARE/AWS/GCP and troubleshoot issues in timely manner and document them in team’s SharePoint sites
• Implement different Devops tools like Ansible, Jenkins, Pivotal cloud foundry, Docker for Patching, configuration management, server less computing, and code deployment
• Created AWS Cloud formation templates to automate deployments in AWS and Deployment manager in GCP Participate in incident management and communications, including follow- up with problem resolution postmortem, process improvement.
• Train and educate internal application/shared teams about new technologies in cloud and help in resolving critical issues
• Continually review, document and recommend improvements to operational processes and procedures using Lean six sigma methodology.
• IPTABLES in Linux servers for port forwarding on server level.
• Installed Trend Micros on Linux/windows servers and implemented policies to protect servers hosting external client accessible websites.
• Migration of F5 on-premises load balancers (VIP) to AWS ELB and GCP load balancers.
• Automated DNS record creation/deletion from command line.
• Troubleshooting domain join issues for windows/Linux servers.
• Participate in business meetings to understand the business needs.
• Gathering requirements from Solution architect and coordinating with application teams to document their requirements.
• Analytical, technical and administrative work in the planning, design and installation of new and existing computer systems.
• Estimating infrastructure costs, Labor costs of server team and provide to project Manager.
• Work closely with project management, technical services and support group, external vendor partners, and the client to ensure a smooth implementation and transition of the servers and related products.
• Identify Scope of work, Quote out infrastructure based on Standards and aid various application and infrastructure teams in installation and audit.
• Applying Lean six sigma methodology to improve quality of work
• Identify complex technical environment issues and implement permanent resolutions to mitigate problems.
• Applies proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issues in order to maximize the benefit of IT systems investments Environment: Windows 2012 OS and Linux Red Hat 7, VMware virtualization, Bash, Python, Powershell scripts, Six sigma Technologies, AWS VPC, EC2, Lambda, Load balancers, Sophos and Palo-alto firewalls, Ansible, Velostrata Migration tool. Dizer Corp, OH March’16 –
October’16
Computer Systems Engineer
• Gathering requirements from different teams and document it to use while deploying project tasks
• Build servers based on the designs developed by working closely with the project team to gather and interpret specifications for Server Hardware and Software
• Plan, Build and Deliver server infrastructure to internal customers on a project to project basis
• Analytical, technical and administrative work in the planning, design and installation of new and existing computer systems
• Serves as an expert within a technical area and educates others on technical issues
• Identify complex technical environment issues and implement permanent resolutions to mitigate problems.
• Work closely with project management, technical services and support group, external vendor partners, and the client to ensure a smooth implementation and transition of the servers and related products.
• Apply lean six sigma skills to improve the work quality.
• Installing Apache/Siteminder on web servers.
• Closely working with the project manager and holding up meetings to make sure the team is aligned on track.
• Installation of Redhat, Ubuntu and SUSE Linux on HP and Dell Rack and Blade servers.
• Created Linux VM’s and involved in tuning the operating system for installation of applications
• Extensive experience working with HP hardware like HP Proliant servers DL 360, 580 G4, G5, G6servers and also Blade Centers like C3000, C7000.
• Implementing Software and Hardware RAID at HW and OE level.
• Tracking the JIRA tickets and assigning/escalating them based on the nature of the task
• Identifying gaps in the process using Six Sigma techniques and notifying to higher management
• Worked on resolving production issues and documenting Root Cause Analysis and updating the tickets using BMC Remedy.
• On call support 24X7 on a weekly rotation.
• Log, port monitoring using Splunk, directing logs to a central host.
• Trouble-shooting the system and end user issues. Environment: Linux (RHEL,5,6,7/CentOS 5.x/6.x), Suse 11,12, Windows 2012R2,2008,2003, Agile- Scrum, MS office, Ansible, Puppet, MS Visio, MySQL, MS Project, Tableau, CF-Engine, VMware, SAN, NFS, Netbackup.
Squires Solutions, INDIA July’13 – July’14
Systems Engineer
• Building, Installing, Configuring servers from scratch with OS of Red Hat Linux
• Configuration and Administration of VERITAS Volume Manager and High Availability
• Installing Patches to the current version, Packages related to hardware, and system customization
• Configuration of MySQL, Oracle PL/SQL database
• Experience virtualizing Physical Red hat Linux servers by migrating them to VMware ESX and VSphere
• Experience performing migrations of Applications from different UNIX servers like Solaris, HP- UX to Red hat Linux
• Participated in Installation and configuration of Citrix command center on windows server
• Configured LDAP authentication on Citrix command center
• Experience installing Linux servers using Kick start and Cloning on ESX servers Configured Volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Red hat Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands
• Experience supporting applications installation and configurations like Apache, I planet, Web logic, Web sphere and Databases like Oracle, Sybase &, DB2
• Ensuring that all production changes are processed according to Change Management policies and procedures. Ensuring Change Requests are fully completed and validated
• Participated in configuring Microsoft SQL database and other requirements for installation of Citrix command center
• Experience migrations and Virtualization from P2P &, P2V. Environment: RHEL Linux 5.x, AIX, OEL, SAN, NAS, VERITAS Volume Manager, VCS, VERITAS NetBackup, VMware ESX, SAN, NFS, Shell Scripting Citrix command center. TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Platforms: Nteapp, Kubernetes, Docker, Pivotal cloud Foundry, Akamai, Apigee,Windows (2008, 2012,2016) RHEL (6 & 7), Suse11,12, VMware (ESX 5.5 & 6), Amazon web services, Bash, Python, PowerShell scripts, Six sigma Technologies, Microsoft Suite, AWS VPC, EC2, Lambda, F5 Load balancers, Sophos and Palo alto firewalls, Direct connect, Google cloud platform, Ansible, CF- Engine, Pivotal cloud foundry, CPM backups.
Scripting Languages: C, C++, Shell, Bash, Python, PowerShell, YML, XML, JSON formats. Reporting Tools: Tableau, IBM SPSS, JIRA
Project Methodologies: Agile Methodology - Scrum and Waterfall Model Day to Day Tools: Microsoft Office Suite, MS-PROJECT, Notepad ++, VS Code Certifications: AWS Solution Architect, GCP Cloud Engineer, PMP, Six Sigma.
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