Data Center Web Services

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Over **+ years of professional experience as software professional industry comprising of delivery management, design, development, deployment, and cloud implementation with thorough knowledge in AWS (Amazon Web Services) & GCP.

Working Experience on technical acumen and thought leadership to covering Cloud technologies, including system architecture, infrastructure, security, migration, administration, and automation, DevOps, system integration, and digital services with comprehension of the underlying protocols and standards used in the operation of those technologies.

Expertise in Amazon Cloud Services and its features AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, snapshots, Auto scaling, Cloud Formation, Lambda, SES, SQS, SNS, RDS, ELB, EBS, Cloud Watch, S3 etc.

Designed the future state architecture of various applications which are being migrated from on premise data center to AWS considering the HA and DR of those applications.

Skilled in setting up and orchestrating Kubernetes Clusters from scratch on VMs and on Managed Services like Amazon EKS, Google GKE. Worked on clusters of size with hundreds of nodes and thousands of pods.

Implemented end to end automation with DevOps and CI/CD environment by setting up various build, infrastructure management and deploy configurations and processes.

Experience in migrating on premise infrastructure to cloud platforms like Aws/Azure/GCP/OpenStack and involved in virtualization using (VMware, VMware ESX, Xen) and infrastructure orchestration using containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Working experience on Splunk to monitor products. Reviewed and analyzed metrics performances against programs to determine effectiveness.

Responsibilities included designing and developing new back-end services, maintaining and expanding our AWS & Azure infrastructure, and providing mentorship to others on my team.

Work with multiple clients on different projects with unique priorities and implement the architecture and solution that supports the priority and specific industry requirements.

Responsible for automating the CI/CD tasks through Jenkins Tools.

Designed and developed automated deployment and scaling processes based on Git-hubs, and Jenkins across geographically separated hosting zones in AWS.

Responsible for solution architecture of Oracle Middleware migrations to the AWS cloud. The primary Middleware platform migrated was Oracle 11g applications running on Linux. Migrated applications using cloud migration tools and custom scripts.

Designing cloud infrastructure, planning, and testing new solutions, managing physical and cloud infrastructure, efficiency to work under pressure in critical situations and other in the areas of Windows & Linux.

Define guidelines and recommendations based on leading industry practices tailored to the client's needs and infrastructure. Document Cloud architecture, strategy, governance, processes, and business case analyses.

Contribute to an integrated, dynamic Cyber defense and leverage Cybersecurity solutions to deliver Cybersecurity operational services, including intrusion detection and prevention, situational awareness of network intrusions, security events and data spillage, and incident response actions.

Evaluated Docker to provide standardized environments to developers, QA, Staging to dockerized Production aka apps. Deployed and run Platform app on any infrastructure, quickly and reliably using containerization and Docker Hub utility.

Design End-to-end SOA implementations, involving business process modeling/re-engineering, application redesign, provide app modernization & cloud-migration services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS). Guide Infrastructure teams, application development teams to govern / confirm architecture.

Experience with any industry DevOps tools, open source technologies and cloud services starting from Bit Bucket, Art factory, Jenkins, Docker, XLR, UCD.

Experience in using build automation tools like MAVEN, ANT for the building of deployable artifacts such as WAR, JAR & EAR from source code.

Maintain working knowledge of competitor products (OpenStack, Mesos, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes).

Experienced with Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Azure deployments.

In-depth experience in operations support and meeting the business expectations for projects pertaining to Azure Cloud (PaaS and IaaS) infrastructure.

Experienced in using Tomcat Web Server and JBoss, WebLogic and WebSphere Application Servers for deployment.

Excellent communication skills, good Interpersonal Skills, team-working attitude, takes initiatives and very proactive in solving problems and providing best solutions and has ability to work as a team or individually and ability to learn new technologies quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Amazon Web Services:

EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, SES, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Route 53, Cloud Watch, Autoscaling, IAM, Glacier, Cloud Formation, Elastic Bean Stalk

Google Cloud Platform:

Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud IAM, Cloud DNS, VPC, Load Balancing, Persistent Disk, Cloud Deployment Manager.

DevOps Tools:

Jenkins, Logstash, Griddle, SVN, Gitlab, Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, DNS, Nginx, Splunk, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus

Scripting Languages:

Python, Shell, Java, Golang, SOAP, ANT, SQL, Apache

Operating systems:

RHEL 8/7/6, CENTOS 8/7, Solaris 9/8, HP-UX 11.x/10.x, Unix, Windows NT/XP

Web Application Server:

Apache, Tomcat, Web Logic Server, JBOSS, Tomcat Server, IBM WebSphere, Apache web server

TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS:

Amazon Web Services Certified Developer – Associate

Google Cloud Architect - Professional

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Citizens Bank Claymont, DE

Feb 2024 – Current

Sr Cloud Devops Consultant

Responsibilities:

Deploying infrastructure on AWS utilizing services such as EC2, RDS, VPC and Managed Network and Security, Route 53, Direct Connect, IAM, Cloud Formation, AWS Ops Works (Automate operations), Elastic Beanstalk, AWS S3, Glacier, (Storage in the cloud) and Cloud Watch Monitoring Management.

Experienced in creating AWS IAM and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in VPC. Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.

Worked closely with cross-functional teams to integrate observability tools into CI/CD pipelines, enhancing the overall development workflow and ensuring continuous monitoring.

Worked on google cloud platform (GCP) services like compute engine, cloud load balancing, cloud storage, cloud SQL, stack driver monitoring and cloud deployment manager.

Set up GCP Firewall rules to allow or deny traffic to and from the VM's instances based on specified configuration and used GCP cloud CDN (content delivery network) to deliver content from GCP cache locations drastically improving user experience and latency.

Championed cloud security and scalability best practices, implementing robust TLS measures and constructing zero-trust network architectures. Enhanced microservices communication efficiency through advanced RBAC strategies, leveraging Istio and Linkerd.

Deployed infrastructure resources in AWS & GCP to support application migrations using Terraform and built application specific images using Packer.

Designed and integrated Hashi Corp Vault to secure API encryption keys, passwords, or certificates and configured Hashi Corp Vault used to protect and encrypt data as well as manage, automate TLS certificate creation/renewal.

Developed native web applications and provide guidance for the application/database teams to integrate with Hashi Corp Vault for storing and retrieving secrets.

Written Python scripts and PowerShell for setting up baselines, branching, merging, and automation processes across the environment using SCM tools like GIT on Linux and Windows platforms.

Involved in checking the quality of the code by using SonarQube and Responsible for Installing, administering, repository management, User management in Nexus.

Involved in security testing, Windows Server Administration (WSUS), Infrastructure Solutions, ADD and DNS.

Worked on Performance Monitoring, resolving network issues & tuning the system using tools.

Developing plans for problem and incident response & management process based on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

Improved team performance and accelerated release cycle accelerated delivery of new features and increased overall product qualities.

Maintaining and developing Docker images for a tech stack including Cassandra, Kafka, Apache, and several in house written in both OpenStack and AWS cloud on Kubernetes.

Worked Docker and Kubernetes to manage micro services deployment and managed Kubernetes to create Pods, Config Maps, and deployments into the cluster.

Experience on Kubernetes to automate the deployment, scaling and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts.

Worked on Helm to manage the Kubernetes charts and then created builds for Kubernetes application and managed Kubernetes manifest files and managed Helm packages releases.

Worked with containerization tool Docker and running containers and services and utilizing Docker swarm.

API to provide lightweight containers that run processes isolation and worked on creation of customized Docker container images, tagged, and pushed the images to the Docker Hub repository.

Developed a comprehensive Observability platform utilizing Prometheus and Grafana, enabling real-time monitoring and visualization of system metrics, which improved incident response times.

Built and deployed an Ansible Server in GCP & AWS for infrastructure automation.

Responsible for configuration changes, code building, code staging, build automation and deployment using tools like Octopus which also includes scripting in command line, Python, PowerShell, Perl.

Involved in migration of Artifactory & GIT server.

Experienced in various GCP services including Bigtable, Big Query, Stack Driver, Pub/Sub.

Created S3 bucket to host a static website with logging and versioning and customizing the template as per the client's requirement.

Architected a multi-cloud database infrastructure using SQL Server, AWS RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) ensuring seamless high-availability and scalability for critical applications.

Optimized AWS RDS & Aurora PostgreSQL performance through Terraform-based provisioning and automated backup workflows, integrating Redshift to enhance data ingestion and transformation across financial platforms.

Responsible for merging, tagging and conflict resolution in GIT and administered version control systems to create daily backups and checkpoint files.

Responsible for User Management, Plugin Management and new job design and setup in Jenkins.

Implemented Automation scripts in python, jinja and bash to deploy and manage GCP services like Custom VPC, VPN, Subnets, Stack driver etc.

Configured lifecycle configuration rules on S3 buckets to move data between storage classes for easy accessibility, archiving and cost optimization.

Environment: AWS EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Route53, CloudWatch, IAM, Cloud Storage, Cloud IAM, Cloud DNS, Cloud Deployment Manager, Log Analytics, Auto Scaling groups, VPC, IAM, Postgres SQL, OpenStack, shell/Python scripts, GIT, Jenkins, Nexus, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, JIRA, Python.

USS Pittsburgh, PA

Jul 2015 – Jan 2024

Sr Devops Consultant

Responsibilities:

Implemented and managed DevOps operations (Configuration Management, Build, Deploy and Continuous integration) over cloud and on-premises utilizing JIRA, Ansible, Docker).

Provide highly durable and available data by using Cloud Storage, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AWS EC2 Images for mission critical production servers for backup.

Responsible for Splunk agent installation to 50+ on premise servers and AWS and Azure on-boarded complete visibility of logs, error, exceptions, and act based on priority, setup central log repository in S3 for application logs, ELB, VPC flow logs, CloudTrail logs etc. that can be monitored by Management and IPO for assessing any threats. CloudWatch, SNS used frequently for alerting app teams as well.

Produced ARM templates for all the resources in Azure to automate the end-to-end infrastructure in Azure

Configure, maintain, and develop procedures to automate various systems and tasks (e.g., automating code builds and deployments) using Jenkins, GIT, Docker, Terraform, Chef or Ansible.

Worked with Terraform key features such as Infrastructure as code, Execution plans, Resource Graphs, Change Automation and extensively used Auto scaling for launching Cloud instances while deploying microservices.

Worked with Docker and Kubernetes on multiple cloud providers, from helping developers build and containerize their application (CI/CD) to deploying either on public or private cloud.

Deploying CI/CD pipelines for GKE cluster creation including VPC, Node pools and required plugins, creating Generic Application deployment pipelines on GKE clusters, created pipelines for GKE deployment using Terraform, Helm and Kubernetes providers.

Deployment to AWS with Chef, Ansible and Terraform towards AWS, and using Terraform for building, updating, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently, as well as creating custom in-house solutions with Ansible configurations.

Set up build pipelines in Jenkins by using various plug-ins like Maven plug-in, EC2 plug-in, Docker, Terraform and JDK.

Extensively used Google stack driver for monitoring the logs of both GKE and GCP instances and configured alerts from Stack driver for some scenarios.

Automated CI/CD process using Jenkins, build-pipeline-plug-in, Maven, GIT and involved in Software Configuration Management (SCM) Build and Deployment Management.

Configured Jenkins jobs with the Maven scripts for various deployments of JAVA/J2EE enterprise applications.

Developed Bash, Java, Python scripts using Lambda functions for automation of the build and release process, developed custom scripts to monitor repositories, server storage.

Spearheaded effort to modernize Grafana monitoring solutions on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Experienced with Linux systems, virtualization in a large-scale environment, experience with Linux Containers (LXC) and Docker.

Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions Using GIT and Subversion (SVN) source control.

Administered Linux servers for several functions including managing WebSphere, Apace/Tomcat server, Mail server, Weblogic, SVN, build and firewalls in both development and production.

Creation of SSL and Digital Certificates for requesting, generating and implementation for communication between clients and web servers.

Experience in migrating applications (deployed on K8S) from On Premise to Cloud platform, had experience in Software Configuration Management of WebLogic Server, Tomcat, K8S cluster using Ansible.

Experience in deploying applications by using WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat Application Server.

Set up build environment within ClearCase and ClearQuest for multiple products and platforms and Integrated ClearCase for automating builds with Jenkins.

Developed Cron jobs and Shell and Python Scripts for automating administration tasks like file system management, process management, backup and restore.

Monitored package versions, temp and variable directory sizes, bash versions, processors using monitoring and reporting tools across several Linux systems in the organization.

Worked with ELK (Elastic Search, Log stash and Kibana) stack to develop an end-to-end transaction processing system.

Monitored CPU, memory, physical disk, Hardware, and Software RAID, multipath, file systems, network using the tools NAGIOS monitoring.

Python, Terraform, Django, AngularJS, Jenkins used for creating workflows to auto provision / de-provision of instances, volume management, LDAP management, security, vault credentials management.

Environment: AWS EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Route53, CloudWatch, IAM, Cloud Storage, Cloud IAM, Cloud DNS, Cloud Deployment Manager, Azure Resource Manager, Log Analytics, Azure Devops, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, Jenkins, Terraform, Python, GIT, Red Hat LINUX, Windows 2016, F5 Load balancer, JMX, Oracle 12c, JDBC, LDAP, subversion, EJB, JSP, Servlets, XML, MS Office, OpenSSL, Secure SSH

First Niagara Bank, NY

Oct 2013 – Jun 2015

Middleware Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

Implemented automated build and deployment process for applications and re-engineering set up for better user experience and leading up to building a continuous integration system.

Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation using Jenkins along with Shell scripts to automate routine jobs.

Used Python Scripting in DevOps users to model and manage the entire application from load balancers to database.

Worked on Batch-Scripting for automating and reducing the time taken for daily tasks.

Developed processes, tools, automation for Jenkins and DevOps based software for building system and delivering SW Builds and deployed scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.

Deployed various J2EE and enterprise applications (WAR, JAR, RAR, EAR) on managed servers and cluster environment, maintained Load Balancing, High Availability and Failover.

Configured JNDI as repository for EJB Home stubs, JDBC data source, JMS connection factories, queues and topics and configured and administered JDBC Connection pools/multi pools/ data sources on WebLogic server.

Automated the Build Process using Jenkins and created bash and shell scripts to monitor domains, recycle clusters, monitor disk space, and ran them as cronjobs for timely running programs.

Worked with Atlassian tools like Bamboo & Jira. Used ANT, Puppet/ Chef Scripts with Ivy to build the application and deploy.

Implemented security by configuring Secured Socket Layer (SSL) for client authentication and data encryption and configured LDAP server for user authentication.

Performed migration and upgraded WebLogic server WebLogic 10.x/11x to the recent version12c.

Configure F5load balancer with Web servers. Used F5 to capacity, performance, and reliability of the applications.

Performed tasks related to Red hat system administration DNS, DHCP, NFS, NIS, LDAP, user account maintenance, backup & recovery, Auto-mounting, License Management.

Develop and run UNIX shell scripts and implement auto deployment process.

Solved server hang issues such as Deadlock, Application and Database level lock by taking thread dump and analyzed to get the root cause of the hang.

Installed and configured WebLogic Application server 11x/12c using graphic and silent mode and configured WebLogic domain

Installed and configured plug-ins for Apache HTTP server and Sun One Web server to proxy the request for WebLogic server.

Performance monitoring and JVM Heap size and EJB monitoring using Wily Introscope and Load testing using Mercury Load Runner and JMeter with Thread and Heap analysis.

Used Subversion (SVN) to maintain present and historical source code versions and documentation.

Implemented standard backup procedures for both application and WebLogic server.

Environment: AWS EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Route53, CloudWatch, IAM, Cloud Storage, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud IAM, Cloud DNS, Cloud Deployment Manager, Azure Devops, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Terraform, Python, GIT, Red Hat LINUX, Windows 2003, F5 Load balancer, JMX, Oracle 12c, JDBC, LDAP, subversion, EJB, JSP, Servlets, XML, MS Office, OpenSSL, Secure SSH.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s in Computer science engineering, ANU India - 2010

Master’s in Computer science, FIT, Florida USA - 2013

SAI SANDEEP D

Sr Cloud DevOps Consultant

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