Solution Architect System Administrator

Francis John

DevOps and Platform Engineer RHSA CKA SCM

AWS Solution Architect Windows Cloud Engineer BSc

MD, USA

*************@*****.*** 301-***-****

www.linkedin.com/in/francis-john-a76a92283

PROFILE

I am a self-driven and proficient Devops engineer, system engineer, and Cloud engineer with over 6 years extensive hands-on in managing Iaas, Paas, Saas, as well as on-prem infrastructures. I am in pursuit of an environment that encourages continuous learning and professional growth to apply my skills on Linux, Kubernetes administration. IAC with Terraform, CI/CD pipeline configuration with Ansible, Jenkins, SCM tools for end-to-end Automation and Deployment of software.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS

- Kubernetes Administrator

- IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

- Languages; Bash Shell, html, yaml, JSON, and Groovy

- Cloud Engineering (AWS Solution Architect)

- Building Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, Git, Nexus, Docker, AWS ECS.

- Operating Systems (Linux, UNIX, Windows Server 2008/2012/2016).

- DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

- Web/Application Servers (JBOSS, WebSphere, Tomcat, Nginx, HAProxy).

Tool Chain:

- Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Jenkins, Apache httpd, Nginx, HAProxy, Tomcat, Wildfly/JBoss, Nexus, Maven, SonarQube, SCM, Git/GitHub, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, SVN, AWS CloudFormation, AWS EC2, AWS IAM, AWS CloudWatch, AWS ELB, AWS EBS, AWS EKS, AWS VPC.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Etech Consulting May 2020- Current

DevOps Engineer

• Used Jenkins to build and Automated CI/CD pipelines with interconnected tools: Maven, SonarQube, Nexus,

• Work with different Team members for Automation of Release components.

• Installed and configured the monitoring tool Prometheus, Grafana and maintained code quality by using SonarQube

• Created multiple Terraform modules to manage configurations, applications, services and automated installation process for Web Server and AWS Instances.

• Automated build and deployment using Jenkins to reduce human error and speed up production processes.

• Actively manage, improve, and monitor Cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling.

• Installed Docker, created Dockerfile to create containers and integrate Docker with Jenkins to build on Docker containers and to achieve Continuous Delivery goal on high scalable Environment.

• Used Terraform scripts to deploy and configure VPC and setup Kubernetes Clusters in AWS.

• Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using CloudWatch.

• Installed and managed Nexus Repository for Build Artifacts.

• Used New Relic for the infrastructure monitoring. Worked for multiple environments including stage and production Environments.

• Experienced in Infrastructure as Code and using AWS services like: EC2, S3, IAM, ELB, VPC, etc.

• Experienced in Configuration tools like Ansible for transferring and running the modules with the help of SSH based systems.

• Strong experience in enhancing security configuration in Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Used Helm as Package management and installation of Nginx-ingress, Prometheus, and Grafana in Kubernetes Cluster.

• Environment: Windows, shell, Python, Jenkins, Maven, GIT, Web Logic Server, Jenkins Pipeline Project.

LOWES Jan 2016 – April 2020

Linux System Administrator

• Hired as a System Administrator to manage and maintain 100+ mixed server environment (Windows/Linux/Unix), ensuring 99.9% or better uptime. Evaluate, monitor, and enhance IT infrastructure with an emphasis on availability, reliability, scalability, security, data confidentiality and system integrity.

• Built, installed, configured brand new virtual and physical servers, test, deploy RHEL/CentOS 6.4/7 and Windows 8/10 virtual servers on Oracle Virtual box using VMware hosted hypervisor.

• Created mew user accounts and profiles on Windows NOS and Linux systems.

• Collaborated and helped build utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and AWS Engineers to operate safely at high speed and wide scale.

• Troubleshot and resolved OS, application, malware desktop related issues on various Windows NOS.

• Used “dcpromo” tool to configure DNS, Active Directory as well as to promote standard Windows 2008 servers to domain controllers.

• Setup, configured, and troubleshot TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NFS.

• Configured Active directory on Windows 2008 server and Remote Desktop Access on Windows.

• Communication skills including presentations to diverse customer and team audience.

• Worked directly with technical teams from AWS enterprise, customers, and partners to provide unique solutions to our customer’s needs for their application deployment.

EDUCATION

Prince George’s Community College Cybersecurity and Applied Science

University of Maryland Global Campus Computer Networks and Cybersecurity

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Solution Architect

CompTIA Security +

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