Project Management Devops Engineer

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Key Skills

Profile Summary

DevOps Onboarding & Support

Cloud Infrastructure Design

and Implementation.

Continuous Integration and

Continuous

Delivery/Deployment

Project Management

Middleware Administrator

Team Building & Leadership

IT Skills

OpenShift, Docker,

Kubernetes

GIT, Bitbucket, Jenkins, JFrog

Artifactory, Jira

AWS Cloud, Azure & GCP.

Terraform and Ansible

Dynatrace, Prometheus, ELK

Shell, Python, Groovy

WebLogic, WebSphere, MQ,

JBoss, Apache

Education

Masters in Managing

Information Technology from

University of Salford,

Manchester, UK – 2012.

Bachelor’s in information

technology from Jawaharlal

Nehru Technological

University, Hyderabad – 2007

Certifications

AWS Certified Solution

Architect Associate

Microsoft Certified Azure

Fundamentals

Microsoft Certified Azure

Administrator

Red Hat Certified Specialist in

Open shift Administration

(4.5)

Certified Kubernetes

Administrator

Experienced Infrastructure Middleware Engineer/Cloud/DevOps Engineer with over 12+ years of experience in Banking (UOB & OCBC), Telecom (Starhub) industry with Production/Application Support, Project Management and Team Management.

Certified Cloud Architect and Designed, deployed, and managed hybrid cloud environments integrating on-premises data centres with AWS, Azure, GCP and OpenShift container platform.

Hands on experience on Linux/Unix platforms and Windows. Installed, Configured, Upgraded, fixed issues on Oracle Web Logic, IBM Web Sphere, JBoss and Apache Tomcat application servers.

DevOps Implementation with Kubernetes/OpenShift orchestration on Premises, Private and Public Cloud in software driven datacentre. CICD Framework design for Private Cloud with Jenkins and GitLab and with Public Cloud like using AWS Code Pipeline in AWS cloud.

Designed, implemented, and maintained Infrastructure as Code Automation with Terraform and supported implementation activities in all features in Continuous Integration Platform and managed all operational activities. Hands-on experience with EC2, ECS, ALB, NLB, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch and Autoscaling, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, jFrog Artifactory AWS Code Pipeline

Experience in application support process including release management. Incident management and problem management.

Examined application performance and ensured its maximum availability & reliability; skilled in troubleshooting application, server, system, analysing log/data and performing Root Cause Analysis (RCAs) Collaborate with other platforms Tech leads or Architects to ensure integrated end- to-end design and delivery.

Proven success in exceeding quality of service commitments and in resolving complex & critical system issues within set SLAs.

Career Timeline

Mar’23 -Dec’24: Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey, USA as a Cloud & DevOps Engineer.

Oct’21-Jan’23: NCS Pvt Ltd, Singapore as a Senior Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer Aug’20-Aug ‘21: United Overseas Bank, Singapore as a Senior Cloud

/Middleware Engineer.

June’16- July’20: STARHUB LTD., Singapore as a Senior Systems Analyst. May’14- May ’16: OCBC, Singapore as a Middleware Administrator. Jun’12 – Jan’14: Fint Solutions., Hyderabad as a WebLogic Administrator. ASHOK GUNTUPALLI

DevOps Cloud Architect & Implementation OpenShift Middleware Administrator Current Profile

Mar’23 -Dec’24: Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey, USA as a Cloud & DevOps Engineer. Environment: AWS, EKS, Azure, GCP, CICD, Postgres, Linux, Neptune Planet 9, Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, JFrog Artifactory.

Responsibilities:

Designing and maintaining AWS, and Azure cloud infrastructure and OpenShift containerization. Building and maintaining highly available production systems and Creating documentation pertaining to architecture. Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify API technical and functional needs of system and determine priority of needs.

Collaborate with other platforms tech leads or architects to ensure integrated end-to-end design and delivery. Familiar with SRE Practice Areas such as, self-service automation, SLAs and SLOs, incident management and post-mortems, performance engineering, capacity, and scalability as well as distributed design. Work with application team to onboard Legacy Application to cloud platform. Configured and optimized hybrid cloud security, including encryption at rest and in transit, identity & access management, and network security policies.

Designed and implemented hybrid cloud governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with industry standards and organizational policies.

Configured monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, ELK, AppDynamics, and CloudWatch for real-time insights into hybrid cloud performance. Knowledge in writing the infrastructure as a code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and cloud formation. Experience in Spinning up EC2 instances using MI’s as per the business needs and creating and maintaining the AWS PostgreSQL RDS instances in Single AZ and multi-AZ mode. Installing and upgrading the Planet 9 instances to deploy Node JS applications across EC2 instances. Strong knowledge and experience in AWS services like EC2, ECS, EKS, VPC, S3, ALB, DMS, Lambda, EBS, CloudWatch, etc… Setting up HA and DR for business-critical applications and creating multi-AZ and read replica for RDS instances. Monitoring the CPU/memory/disk utilization for EC2 and RDS instances to provide constant performance to the application. Experience in creating the DMS tasks and troubleshooting the syncing issues. Create and maintain the Alarms in CloudWatch to monitor the health of the various AWS service like EC2 and RDS instances. Proficient in building and managing GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) clusters for containerized applications. Strong knowledge of GCP networking services, including VPC design, Subnetworks, Cloud NAT, and Cloud Load Balancer. Proficient in securing GCP environments using IAM, Cloud Identity, VPC Service Controls, and Shielded VMs. Installed, configured, and administered of various middleware products like Oracle Web Logic Server, JBoss Server, Tomcat application servers and OpenShift in various environments. Installed Apache web server and integrate with various application servers like web logic and JBoss. Experience in Installation of WebLogic server by using both GUI and Silent Modes. Extensive working experience in setting up multiple domains, including Administration Servers, Managed Servers, Machines, Node managers in different cluster environments. Configure Data sources, JMS Servers, JMS modules, connection factories, queues and topics and Managing Security Realms: creating new users, groups and configuring SSL certificates to Web & Application Server. Worked with different teams like UNIX team/VMware team/Storage team/Network team/DBA team to architect, build and maintain hybrid cloud solutions.

Good knowledge with service now incident management, release management, service requests and change management, Monitoring the infrastructure and application performance by using the tools like Prometheus, APM dyna trace. Day to Day Dev Operations including solving issues/troubleshooting/Code Transportation. Support and coordinating the AWS Linux server’s maintenance activities with support team to perform patching, upgrades. Experience in providing the Production/Non-Production support for business-critical applications and monitor the system performance.

Previous Experience

Oct ’21- Jan’23: NCS Pvt Ltd, Singapore as a Senior Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer. Environment: AWS, Azure. Office 365, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, JFrog Artifactory, Linux, WebLogic, JBoss EAP, JWS, Apache, JDK, Oracle. Responsibilities:

Ability to plan the activities of configuration, configure the product as per the design, conduct conference room pilots and will assist in resolving any queries related to requirements and solution design. Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify API technical and functional needs of system and determine priority of needs.

Responsible for key system design and integration decisions and for communicating decisions to individuals implementing the system.

Responsible for designing, building, and supporting a secure cloud DevOps platform based on industry standards, best practices, and guidelines.

Hands-on experience in creating, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS and On-Premises, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes. Strong knowledge and experience in AWS services like EC2, ECS, VPC, S3, NLB, ALB, Lambda, EBS., etc… Experience in working with Azure administration, Azure AD and Office 365 by implementing the user requests. Experience with AWS configuration and management - EC2, S3, ELB, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudFront etc. Collaborate with other platforms tech leads or architects to ensure integrated end-to-end design and delivery. Familiar with SRE Practice Areas such as, self-service automation, SLAs and SLOs, incident management and post-mortems, performance engineering, capacity and scalability as well as distributed design. Expertise in Middleware and J2EE three tier architecture design and planning. Coordinate with project management team and application team for the design and resources required for the projects and subsystems integration.

Collaborate with different teams like UNIX team/VMware team/Storage team/Network team/DBA team to provide the complete infrastructure required for the project.

Installed, configured, and administered of various middleware products like Oracle Web Logic Server, JBoss Server, Tomcat application servers and OpenShift in various environments. Installed Apache web server and integrate with various application servers like web logic and JBoss. Experience in Installation of WebLogic server by using both GUI and Silent Modes. Extensive working experience in setting up multiple domains, including Administration Servers, Managed Servers, Machines, Node managers in different cluster environments. Configure Data sources, JMS Servers, JMS modules, connection factories, queues and topics and Managing Security Realms: creating new users, groups and configuring SSL certificates to Web & Application Server Installed and Configured APM Dyna Trace agent on Application servers & Webservers. Hands on Experience in fail-over support, workload management (WLM) using horizontal scaling and vertical scaling, Web server setup and complex secure sockets layer (SSL) configuration on Apache Web Server. Generate and configure SSL Certificate.

Provided load/stress, architecture validation testing and troubleshooting on issues such as Out of Memory, 100% CPU Usage, hung Thread sessions, session replication, JVM Crashes. Experience in providing 24*7 application support for Production, Staging, Testing and Development environments. Aug ’20-Aug ‘21: United Overseas Bank (Optimum Solutions), Singapore as a Senior Cloud/Middleware Engineer.

Environment: OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, XRay, JFrog Artifactory, Rocket Aldon, Linux, WebLogic, JBoss EAP, JWS, Apache, JDK, Oracle, MQ, Ctrl-M. Responsibilities:

Provided technical expertise and guidance to clients on enterprise architecture approaches, design and planning related to Middleware and J2EE.

Worked with PM team & Developers for the architecture, resources required for the projects and integration of the sub systems.

Written Jenkins Pipelines from the scratch, Automated Manual build and Deployments using Continuous Integration Tool such as Jenkins.

Created and configured number of Jenkins jobs, Working in Administration tasks for tools Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket and Monitoring Build and Deployment Jobs

Managing CI/CD pipelines for multiple customer/application engagements using DevOps tools Docker, Bitbucket, Jfrog Artifactory, Jenkins, Xray, SonarQube, Ansible, Maven, Git, Aldon etc. Micro Service containerization of applications in on premises and cloud Infrastructure such as AWS Cloud Services Experience in implementing primary AWS services like (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 &S3) in variety of distributed computing environments and in designing the overall virtual private cloud VPC environment including server instance, storage instances, subnets, availability zones, etc.

Installed, configured, and administered of various middleware products like Oracle Web Logic Server, JBoss Server, JWS, Tomcat application servers and OpenShift in various environments. Installed Apache web server and integrate with various application servers like web logic and JWS. Created Jira project and assign workflows to Projects and used Confluence for documented Process. Prepare and schedule Control-m jobs for the required job executions and supporting the testers & Developers for maintaining the testing environments.

By using Key tool utility, creating key stores, trust stores and import/export the certificates. Create SSL KeyStore certificates, JBoss Vault, Oracle Wallet and generating the CSR. Memory arguments modification and log file redirection to specific location if necessary and file system monitoring on regular basis.

Inspect, review and comment on any documentation produced in relation to releases and perform the necessary action. June ’16- July’20: STARHUB LTD., Singapore as a Senior Systems Analyst. Environment: OpenShift, GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub, GitBash, Terraform, AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, IAM), Linux, WebLogic, Jboss, Apache, JDK, Oracle.

Responsibilities:

Installed, configured and administered of Oracle WebLogic Server 11g/12c in various environments. WebLogic Domain configuration in Non-Prod & PROD Environments, Setup and configure the cluster environment for load balancing and high availability.

Work with different teams to provide complete infrastructure required for the project and integration of subsystems. Data source, Multisource and JMS configuration like JMS servers, stores, modules, sub-deployments, Topics and Queue in Non-Prod & Prod environments.

Worked on deploying and managing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) for enterprise-scale applications in highly regulated environments, including the banking sector. Implementing CI/CD pipelines integrated with OCP using Jenkins and GitLab. Automated cluster scaling and application deployments on OCP, improving resource efficiency. Hands-on experience with OpenShift Logging and Monitoring (ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana) for operational insights. Working on several Docker components like Docker Engine, Swarm, creating Docker images, Docker Private Registry, Kubernetes cluster and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installation domain configuration. Experienced knowledge of any CI/CD Pipeline tools - Worked on creating pipeline and automating task via Jenkins. Install Amazon EC2, setting up instances and security groups. Setting up data in AWS using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket. Knowledge in implementing primary AWS services like (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 &S3) in variety of distributed computing environments and in designing the overall virtual private cloud VPC environment including server instance, storage instances, subnets, availability zones, etc.

Cloning domain from one environment to another environment. Memory arguments modification and log file redirection to specific location if necessary. Configured LDAP using directory Server for user authentication. Installed patches and troubleshooting application and post- installation issues. Installed and Configured Dynatrace and to monitor WebLogic servers. Inspect, review and comment on any documentation produced in relation to releases and perform the necessary action. Handling the production alerts and Maintained the Applications and supported 24x7 on the issues & On call support. May ’14- May ’16: OCBC (Comtel Solutions Pvt. Ltd), Singapore as a Middleware Administrator. Environment: WebLogic, WebSphere, MQ, Jboss, Apache, JDK, IHS, Linux, Oracle. Responsibilities:

Deploying Applications in WebLogic Server and UAT, SIT & PROD Environments. Configuration of WebLogic domains Cluster configuration for UAT & PROD environment. Data source, Multisource and JMS configuration like JMS servers, stores, modules, sub-deployments, Topics and Queue for Development, IT, ST, UAT & SIT environments.

Installed, configured, and administered of WebLogic & WebSphere server in various environments. Setup and configure the Clusters on cluster environment for load balancing and high availability. Daily monitoring the Servers health check.

Applying fixes/patches to WAS and MQ environment.

Administrating and troubleshooting WAS and WebSphere MQ related issues Redirected log files to a specific location and modified memory arguments. Providing Support to the UAT/SIT testing Environment on daily releases. Inspect, review and comment on any documentation produced in relation to releases.

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