Devops Engineer Azure
Resume:
Aliyar Azure DevOps Engineer
Summary:
·11+ years of experience in IT industry with comprehensive experience in Azure Cloud Services and Middleware /Infrastructure Management Administrator.
·Good experience with principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.
·As Middleware Administrator, experience in managing, configuring, and troubleshooting middleware systems to ensure seamless application integration and optimized communication.
·Experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps processes.
·Experienced in a wide range of DevOps tools, including Azure DevOps, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins.
·Responsible for code review and maintaining the project Git repositories in Azure DevOps.
·Integrated Azure Repos for version control, ensuring seamless collaboration and efficient code management.
·Automated deployment processes for applications on Azure App Services and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Utilized Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure on Azure, ensuring reproducibility and scalability.
·Set up and maintained Azure Pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and monitoring of software applications. Collaborated with development teams to define best practices for CI/CD, source control, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
·Managed and maintained cloud resources using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and terraform. Developed custom scripts using PowerShell and Bash to automate server provisioning and deployment processes.
·Implemented automated testing in Azure Pipelines to reduce manual testing efforts and improve deployment efficiency. Leveraged Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to deploy containerized applications, improving scalability and reliability.
·Led the migration of legacy applications to Azure, streamlining the deployment process and reducing operational costs. Collaborated with DevOps engineers to ensure applications were optimized for cloud environments.
·Monitored application health and performance through Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
·Participated in daily Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning and stand-ups, as part of a Scrum team.
·Ensured infrastructure was versioned and reproducible across environments.
·Strong experience in working in Linux, Aix, Solaris and Windows environments.
·Created pipelines using Jenkins for featured based playbooks.
·Conducted Knowledge Transfer sessions for Operation and Offshore teams.
·Experienced with Tomcat, Apache, Logstash.
·Experienced with system operation and observabilities solutions.
·Knowledge of the best practices of IT operations.
·Involved in writing PowerShell and shell scripts for compilation and deployment process.
·As Senior Middleware Administrator expertise in administering middleware solutions like Oracle Fusion Middleware, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Oracle Http Server (OHS)and Apache.
·Administered and optimized WebLogic Server environments and IBM WebSphere Application Server, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for mission-critical enterprise applications.
·Configured and managed OHS & Apache webservers for processing and supporting the real-time data needs of applications across various environments.
·Implemented JMS (Java Message Service) queues and topics for asynchronous messaging, enabling seamless communication between distributed applications.
·Worked with cross-functional teams to deploy Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions, including Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle WebLogic, for enterprise-level application integration and service orchestration.
·Performed patch management and software updates for middleware products, ensuring compliance with security policies and best practices.
·Troubleshot and resolved complex issues related to application performance, connectivity, and data flow across middleware systems.
·Automated middleware configuration management and deployment using Jenkins, reducing manual intervention and increasing efficiency.
·Administered Red Hat JBoss EAP and WildFly for multiple enterprise applications, ensuring optimal configuration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
·Developed and maintained middleware solutions for integration, messaging, and service-oriented architectures (SOA), supporting business-critical operations.
·Worked closely with development teams to optimize middleware configurations, identify performance bottlenecks, and implement capacity planning for high-traffic applications.
·Implemented SSL/TLS encryption for secure communication between middleware systems and end-user applications. Collaborated with infrastructure teams to deploy middleware components across private and public cloud environments (Azure).
·Understand where automation can be applied to various aspects of the development process and lead projects to implement these solutions to gain organizational savings.
·Provided on-call support for critical middleware systems, ensuring quick resolution of incidents and minimal downtime.
·Documented and maintained best practices, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and troubleshooting guides for middleware platforms. Administered Linux-based and Windows-based server environments for middleware and web applications
·Provided system monitoring and troubleshooting services, reducing system downtime and ensuring optimal performance.
·Optimized Oracle WebLogic environments for high-traffic applications, reducing response times and improving system reliability. Configured and tuned connection pools, JMS, and other middleware components to enhance application performance.
Good Interpersonal Skills, team-work attitude, takes initiatives and very proactive in solving problems and providing best solutions.
EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS:
·Completed bachelor’s degree from JNTU Hyderabad, India.
Client: AT&T, MBIZ Nov 2021 – Till Date
Role: Cloud Engineer
Designed, implemented, and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to automate the build, test, and release processes for multiple applications.
Integrated Azure Repos for version control, ensuring seamless collaboration and efficient code management.
Automated deployment processes for applications on Azure App Services and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Utilized Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure on Azure, ensuring reproducibility and scalability.
Set up and maintained Azure Pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and monitoring of software applications.
Collaborated with development teams to define best practices for CI/CD, source control, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
Managed and maintained cloud resources using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and terraform. Developed custom scripts using PowerShell and Bash to automate server provisioning and deployment processes.
Hands on experience in developing the PowerShell scripts to collect the required details of multiple resources like Log analytics, EventHub, PaaS Services, Storage Account in Azure cloud.
Populate details of the Log Analytics workspace, including retention days, cost, associated metrics, agents, usage, and capacity.
Participate in daily scrum meetings to discuss and understand events logging for various applications.
Provide knowledge transfer sessions and prepare documentation on the workflow and process of collecting, ingesting, and viewing logs using Kibana.
Extract EventHub namespaces to log analytics and define log flow processes.
Create and manage security groups specific to applications, assigning roles to provide the necessary read and write access to team members in various environments such as Non-Prod and Prod.
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Jenkins, Kubernetes, docker, Terraform, PowerShell, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Logstash, ServiceNow, vs code, Change Management, Linux, Incident Management, SQL, Shell Scripting
Client: AT&T, ROME Jan 2017 – Nov 2021 Role: Azure DevOps/Middleware Admin
Managed and optimized CI/CD workflows using Azure Pipelines to ensure efficient delivery of applications to production environments.
Implemented automated testing in Azure Pipelines to reduce manual testing efforts and improve deployment efficiency.
Leveraged Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to deploy containerized applications, improving scalability and reliability.
Configured and managed Azure Artifacts to create and share NuGet, npm, and Maven packages between teams.
Led the migration of legacy applications to Azure, streamlining the deployment process and reducing operational costs.
Monitored application health and performance through Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
As WebLogic middleware related support work. Participate in customizing applications as per client requirements.
Assist in coding, testing, deploying and supporting client/server and web-based applications to ensure to meet the business requirements.
Help in solving problems such as system failures and performance issues.
Provision, configure, and monitor Azure virtual machines, storage accounts, and networking components.
Implement security measures and manage access controls in Azure.
Troubleshooting of all issues within SLA and doing Root cause analysis of the issues.
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Jenkins, Kubernetes, docker, Terraform, PowerShell, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Logstash, ServiceNow, vs code, Change Management, Linux, Incident Management, SQL, Shell Scripting.
Client: AT&T, (Granite, True Source Bandit & PED) Mar 2016 – Aug 2017
Role: Middleware Administrator
Provide support to Client Enterprise Midrange mission critical and non-critical issues on applications support.
Maintain IT business applications to ensure a reliable and secure service for clients and users.
Coordinate with various Client personnel ensuring all process steps are completed in a timely fashion to meet the turn-around time.
Participate in outage call to provide quick resolution within the SLA.
Participate in RCA Call with Outage Management Group.
Respond to client inquiries, conduct investigations, and communicate back to client on the incident status.
Develop methodology to ensure health of applications, servers & create/maintain technical documentations (Creating system Appreciation Documents & Methods and Procedures).
Coordinates work activities with resolver-groups/fix-it agents in complex recovery situations tracks exceptions until they are completed.
Participate in review meetings of various deliverables for releases/projects.
Implement CR’s that has been approved by the Change Management group
and validate them.
Working on database of Application servers on UNIX platform.
Getting all inputs from users to identify the issue and reach out to technical or develop team and resolve.
Working on RCA and close by confirming with user and Identify monitoring gaps and assist in implementation.
Creating runbooks for future resources.
Working on defect tickets with clients on USH.
Providing real time application support for analyzing and troubleshooting issues on the orders flow in production environment and creating scripts to keep a low volume of tickets data.
Reactive tracking the order flows from AOTS Ticket Resolutions - Analyze, resolve application related issues (T3).
Interacting with the users to help to resolve issues arise in the order journey and finding out new processes which will reduce ticket volumes.
Client: Verizon, EMEA & ESP Mar 2015 – Feb 2016
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Maintain IT business applications to ensure a reliable and secure service for clients and users.
Coordinate with various Client personnel ensuring all process steps are completed in a timely fashion to meet the turn-around time.
Getting all inputs from users to identify the issue and reach out to technical or develop team and resolve.
Working on RCA and closing by confirming with user. Creating runbooks for future resources.
Working on defect tickets with clients on USH.
Participate in outage call to provide quick resolution within the SLA.
Coordinates work activities with resolver-groups/fix-it agents in complex recovery situations tracks exceptions until they are completed.
Participate in review meetings of various deliverables for releases/projects.
Providing real time application support for analyzing and troubleshooting issues on the orders flow in production environment.
Strong knowledge on analyzing and understanding the application details and planning for the migration and Prepared data pipelines.
Solid understanding of PowerShell and python scripting, LINUX/UNIX, Windows, build and release engineering principles.
Creating clone objects to maintain zero-copy cloning.
Managed environments DEV, SIT, QA, UAT and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies.
April 2014 – Mar 2015
Client: PHH Mortgage
Software Engineer
Participated in application design meetings and preparing Architecture Design and documenting the migration plan and preparing Deployment Design Documents.
Expertise in various types of testing including unit, integration, functional, system, performance and UAT testing, ETL, regression testing (Risk and Impact analyses).
Involved in the process of discovery phase to gather the application related details.
Collaborate closely in planning, design, development, deployment of applications and enhancements.
Creates and manages source code branches as per our branching strategy.
Testing the product in real scenarios before going live and preparing test reports.
Supporting the development team in all development related operations, including source code maintenance, system level troubleshooting and guidance on processes and procedures.
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