Aws Cloud Senior Administrator

BIPIN KUMAR

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced senior administrator with a strong track record in effectively designing, building, managing and maintaining messaging and container platforms. Proficient in implementing security measures, optimizing resource allocation, and ensuring high availability for critical workloads. Skilled in troubleshooting and resolving complex issues, while continuously exploring new features and improvements to streamline operations.Extensive years of experience in designing and building resilient non-prod and production Platform, including experience as a lead in designing, building Confluent Kafka platform, automating platform as a service with DevOps culture. Possess deep knowledge of RedHat OpenShift, Confluent Kafka, TIBCO EMS as well as designing, building and automating AWS MSK Clusters, RedHat OpenShift clusters and AWS EKS Clusters using Terraform in AWS Cloud. Able to troubleshoot enterprise applications end-to-end and conduct root cause analysis. Proficient in leading incident management and post-mortems for outage. Experienced in SDLC and Agile.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Environments: RedHat Linux

Software: OpenShift Confluent Kafka AWS MSK AWS EKS TIBCO EMS GIT JIRA Ansible Jenkins Argo-CD Terraform Prometheus Grafana Docker K8s lenses New Relic RabbitMQ Puppet Mule TIBCO BW & ADB WebSphere Service Now Aqua sec.

Scripting: Shell Perl Python.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WALGREENS Deerfield, IL

Linux Administrator/Kafka Admin Aug 2022 – Present

Built Confluent Kafka, RedHat OpenShift, AWS MSK and AWS EKS platform and make it available for application developers through self-service model.

Product: Red Hat OpenShift, Confluent Kafka, Terraform, AWS MSK, AWS EKS, Argo-CD, Ansible, Git, JIRA, Prometheus, Grafana, Lenses, NewRelic, AquaSec.

Experienced OpenShift Platform Administrator with a strong track record in effectively managing and maintaining containerized applications on the platform.

Proficient in implementing security measures, optimizing resource allocation, and ensuring high availability for critical workloads.

Skilled in troubleshooting and resolving complex issues, while continuously exploring new features and improvements to streamline operations.

Migrated the micro services from OpenShift 3.9 to OpenShift 4x.

Automated the OpenShift project provisioning thru Service-Now catalog.

Designed, built and upgraded AWS MSK, AWS EKS and OpenShift clusters using Terraform in AWS Cloud.

AWS MSK was built to support the external partners to reach internal Kafka clusters and AWS OpenShift clusters were built to migrate the micro services from on-prem to AWS Cloud.

Designed and built secure, highly available non-prod and prod Confluent Kafka Platform at on-premises.

This Confluent Kafka platform is heavily used by enterprise applications to support the business which includes bank customers deposit, withdrawal, balance check etc.,

Automated the Kafka topics, acts provisioning thru Service-Now Catalog which helped the users to get their topics and ACLs in self-service model without platform team dependency.

Used Jenkins and DevKit tools for CI/CD. When users face issues, jump into the call and ensure that their issues get resolved and no delay for the deployments.

Used Ansible, bash scripts as required to automate platform related day to day activities.

Automated OpenShift cluster day-2 build activities using gitops/Argo-CD which pulls the code from GIT and apply it in the cluster.

Played as a product manager for Kafka & OpenShift products to deliver the platform for our business.

Trained the team to adopt agile approach.

Built dashboard for our team in JIRA to track our requirements and deliverables.

Periodically analyzed the platform capacity and planned to add more capacity as required.

It’s very important that we don’t run out of the capacity and face any issues for new application getting on-boarded as well as running application.

Created technical documents for our platform support team so that they can support the platform after release.

Created best practices documents for both platform and application teams which helped the teams to avoid technical dept.

As a lead and SME, participated in supporting priority issues and helped team members.

SASKEN INDIA

Senior SRE Mar 2019 – Nov 2021

Designed and built Puppet, Kafka platforms and made it available for the users through self-service model. Re-designed the TIBCO EMS messaging platform and automated Disaster Recovery and Multiple Virtual Datacenter failover solution. Provided on-call support.

Product: Puppet, Confluent Kafka, TIBCO EMS, OpenShift, Git, JIRA, Service-Now, Mule, Layer7

Led Kafka, Open Source Puppet and TIBCO EMS platforms architecture and self-service tool design and implementation.

Confluent Kafka platform was built in a secure manner and heavily used by data platform team and engineering team.

It was designed and built to support hundreds of topics and thousands of partitions.

TIBCO EMS platform was heavily used at enterprise level. Its a critical platform through which all financial transactions happens.

Created many tools(bash scripts) to manage the

Platform services on a safer manner

TIBCO EMS platform Disaster Recovery and Multiple Virtual Datacenter failover activities.

As a product manager, managed product backlog for our platforms.

Periodically analyzed the platform capacity and planned to add more capacity as required.

It’s very important that we don’t run out of the capacity and face any issues for new application getting on-boarded as well as running application.

Created technical documents for our platform support team so that they can support the platform after release.

Created best practices documents for both platform and application teams which helped the teams to avoid technical dept.

As a lead and SME, participated in supporting priority issues and helped team members.

PAYPAL INDIA

Linux System Administrator Jan 2016 – Feb 2019

Handled incoming service desk support requests professionally and efficiently for swift, effective resolution.

Ensured timely delivery of service through meticulous attention to schedules, priorities, and resources.

Performed regular maintenance of the server environment and relate infrastructure for optimized system performance.

Used to perform Windows/Linux server firmware upgrades whenever the planned outages were scheduled on the servers.

Used to schedule nightly backups on all the servers and ensure the backups were successful.

Handy expertise on tools like BMC Incident management tools and Service Now.

Used to figure out the problems from the root cause and analyze them to the core level and fix the issues within the stipulated SLA. Used to assist the onsite technicians over the call for replacing the system boards, hard-disk failures, and the PRI cards.

Performed break/fix issues on over 25,000 UNIX servers worldwide.

Performed successful Maintenance Level Updates & System firmware updates worldwide

24/7 2nd level UNIX support.

AXIS IT SOLUTIONS INDIA

Systems Analyst/Build and Release Engineering May 2014 – Dec 2015

As member of Release Engineering group, redefined processes and implemented tools for software builds,patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting, on UNIX platform.

Worked on Branching, Tagging and Release Activities on Version Control Tools (GIT) and setting up the GIT repos for Bamboo build jobs.

Worked in Agile Project management Process, JIRA for Issue Tracking and monitoring and with the Architects on SDLC process being the owner of post-development environments.

Maintained build related scripts developed in shell for ANT builds. Created and modified build configuration files including Build.xml.

Resolved update, merge and password authentication issues in Bamboo and JIRA.

Configuration Automation and Centralized Management with Ansible and Cobbler. Implemented Ansible to manage existing servers and automate the build/configuration of new servers.

Involved in writing Ant and shell scripts for compilation and deployment process.

Experience with version control tools like Git or SVN, as well as configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.

Worked with development teams to automate the software build, test, and deployment processes, resulting in a 20% increase in efficiency.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve build and deployment issues.

Collaborated with QA engineers to ensure code quality and maintainability.

EDUCATION : Master’s in Information Assurances and Cybersecurity, Gannon University.

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