Aws Cloud Configuration Management

***********@*****.*** Raja Esudass 914-***-**** LinkedIn

Professional Summary:

AWS Cloud Devops with 15 Years of experience in Configuration Management, Cloud Implementations, Cloud Security with proven success in automating, building, and deploying process for operational excellence.

Hands on experience in AWS Cloud various services such as EC2, VPC, EBS, S3, ELB, ACM, RDS, Route 53, SES, SNS, IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Auto Scaling, Lambda, Code Pipeline, Code Deploy, ECS, ECR, EKS

Automated patch management and updates for EC2 instances, containers, and on-premises infrastructure using Ansible with AWS Systems Manager.

Managing several scripts leveraging Python to aid with deployment and monitoring of the virtualization infrastructure.

Solid experience in building and integrating all parts of the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins. This includes building source control repositories, workflow engines, build environments, testing frameworks, and artifact repositories.

Extensive experience in setting up GitHub Actions to automate CI/CD pipelines, integrating workflows for build, test, and deployment processes across multiple environments.

Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing downtime.

Automated containerized application deployments using Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, Helm, EKS

Ensured high availability of applications by adopting different deployment strategies like blue-green/canary and leveraging tools like Kubernetes for deployments

Installed, configured, and managed monitoring tools such as Datadog, New relic, CloudWatch, Prometheus and Grafana for Network/Log Trace Monitoring.

Understanding of agile and other development processes and methodologies.

Experienced in AWS access management using IAM policies, roles, users, groups, access keys, and MFA, ensuring secure and controlled cloud access.

Technical Skills

Configuration Management : Ansible, Jenkins

IaC Tool : Terraform, CloudFormation

Source Code Management : Git, Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket

Container Orchestration : Docker, Kubernetes EKS, ECS, ECR, Nexus

Cloud Platforms : AWS (EC2, EBS, VPC, ELB, S3, IAM, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, ACM, Auto scaling, Systems manager), OCI, Azure, GCP

Programming Languages : Python, Bash, HCL, Yaml, Groovy

CI/CD Tools : Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Bitrise, CodePipeline, Code Deploy, GitHub actions

Databases : RDS, MYSQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB, Redis

Message Queues : Kafka, RabbitMQ, Celery

Operational delivery : Agile, Scrum, SDLC

Monitoring Tools : Datadog, Splunk, New relic, Nagios, CloudWatch, Prometheus and Grafana

Data & Logfile Analytics : ELK, AWS Athena, Kibana

Web/Application Servers : Apache Tomcat, NGINX, WebLogic, IBM WebSphere

Operating Systems : Linux (Red Hat 5/6), Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows, Mac and Unix

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SAA-C03) - 07a6ec6d161c420cbb31b96cffed7400

Hashi Corp Certified Terraform Associate (HCTA0-003) - b604865d-b345-4ed1-9f0b-68a41db736f3

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) - LF-a7bjeydrsv

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) - LF-arbdyticd1

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) - LF-3sj3zad4dn

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified Foundations Associate (1Z0-1085-24) - 100759827

Professional Experience

Devops Engineer CNET Global Solutions Inc, Richardson TX May’2023 to Till Date

Client: Verizon, Dallas TX

Project Description: Led end-to-end migration of middleware applications (WebLogic, Tomcat, WildFly, Nginx, etc.) from legacy systems to RHEL, including SSL/TLS configuration. Designed and automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Docker, and Terraform to deploy microservices on EC2, ECS Fargate, and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, native). Integrated observability tools like Splunk, New Relic, and Prometheus to monitor containerized workloads, ensuring high availability and performance in production.

Responsibilities:

Led a team in migrating applications from on Prem/OCI1.0 to OCI2.0/AWS in RHEL OS platform resulting in a 30% reduction in hosting costs and enhancing security.

Migrated of middleware applications, including WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, wildfly, Nginx and configure SSL/TLS certs from legacy environments to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Automated CICD pipeline using GitHub Actions for Docker-based applications, automating image builds and pushing to container registries like Docker Hub or Amazon ECR.

Automated containerized application deployments using EC2, ECS Fargate, and EKS, ensuring efficient orchestration, scalability, and infrastructure management.

Implemented IaC using Terraform to provision and manage Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native resources across multi-cloud environments.

Deployed and managed production-grade Kubernetes clusters across AWS (EKS), Azure (AKS), and native Kubernetes environments (kubeadm/kops/minikube).

Designed and implemented multi-cluster Kubernetes management using Rancher, enabling centralized control across on-prem, AWS EKS, and Azure AKS clusters.

Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines integrated with Kubernetes using tools like ArgoCD, Helm, Jenkins, and GitOps principles.

Created and maintained Helm charts for deploying microservices, ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments across dev, staging, and prod clusters.

Integrated Splunk and New Relic to capture real-time logs, metrics, and APM data across microservices running in Kubernetes clusters (AKS, EKS).

Managed EKS cluster provisioning and lifecycle via Terraform and eksctl, including VPC, node groups, IAM roles, and security groups.

Automating infrastructure provisioning and application delivery, driving operational efficiency and reducing downtime using Infrastructure as code (IAC) tools like Terraform/CloudFormation, or Ansible

Automated patch management and regular updates of EC2 instances, containers, and on-premises infrastructure using Ansible with AWS Systems Manager

Planned data assessment, data migration strategy and data transfer to ensure that all the data is transferred with minimum downtime.

Collaborated with the application team for dry runs and Go-live by executing the migration plan and switching over the new cloud environment.

Providing in support post migration to address any issues or concerns from stakeholders

Experienced in implementing and managing monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana to ensure system performance, availability, and proactive issue resolution.

Environment: AWS Cloud (EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, VPC, Route53, Systems Manager, EKS) Oracle Cloud, Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Ansible, WebLogic, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitHub Actions

Principal Software Engineer Photon Infotech Inc, Dallas, TX Aug’2022 to Apr’2023

Client: Fidelity Investments, Dallas, TX

Project Description: Led end-to-end DevOps automation using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Terraform to streamline CI/CD pipelines across multi-environment infrastructure (Dev, QA, Prod, DR). Built and managed EKS deployments using Helm and custom pipelines integrated with CPS APIs and MCADS templates, enhancing reliability and scalability. Enabled observability and security by integrating Datadog for Kubernetes monitoring, managing SSL with Venafi APIs, and provisioning secrets and Docker images via JFrog Artifactory.

Responsibilities:

Created and optimized GitHub Actions workflows for continuous integration and delivery, integrating with tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform to ensure smooth deployments.

Collaborated with development teams to implement GitHub Actions for automating infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and improving code quality through automated testing and linting

Wrote Terraform scripts and modules from scratch to spin up infrastructure for Dev, Staging, Prod and DR environments and configure the jobs in Jenkins Environment.

Wrote Ansible Playbooks to Manage Configurations of AWS Nodes and test Playbooks on AWS instances using Python. Run Ansible Scripts to provision Dev servers.

•Setup and managed Jenkins pipeline for Docker registry secrets to connect Docker registry and pull the Spring boot applications Docker images from JFrog artifactory.

Generate SSL certificate by using Venafi API and upload into ACM

Setup Jenkins pipeline for EKS deployment which using MCADS template internally call to CPS API for the Build/Deploy/Delete process.

Using CPS API will execute Helm prepare and Helm deploy for EKS deployment.

Initiated Datadog integration for logs and Pods Monitoring

Environment: AWS Cloud, Linux, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Jira, Confluence, EKS, Helm, Docker, JFrog, Datadog

Devops Engineer Photon Interactive Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Oct’2021 to Aug’2022

Client: MCW (Mister carwash), USA

Project Description: Designed and implemented highly available and scalable infrastructures for WordPress and Node.js applications on AWS, leveraging services like EC2, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, and S3. Automated CI/CD pipelines, containerized applications using Docker, and optimized performance with CloudFront, ElastiCache, and Kubernetes orchestration for efficient deployment and resource utilization.

Responsibilities:

Designed and deployed highly available, scalable infrastructures for WordPress and Node.js applications using AWS EC2, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, and S3

Built and managed automated CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy, enabling seamless code deployment for WordPress websites and Node.js microservices.

Containerized Node.js applications using Docker and managed container orchestration with Amazon ECS, Fargate, and EKS, ensuring efficient resource utilization and scalability.

Generated reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications and managed Kubernetes manifest files and managed releases of Helm packages.

Automated deployment of infrastructure using Terraform and Heat templates.

Improved WordPress website performance by integrating CloudFront CDN and leveraging ElastiCache (Redis) for caching, reducing latency and load times.

Performed root cause analysis (RCA) post-incident, documenting findings and implementing preventive measures.

Hardened WordPress and Node.js environments with AWS WAF, Shield, IAM Policies, SSL Certificates (via ACM), and Secrets Manager for securing sensitive data

Implemented end-to-end monitoring and logging using CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and Elasticsearch (ELK) to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

Environment: AWS Cloud, Linux, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

Devops & Release Engineer Photon Interactive pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Apr’2020 to Oct’2021

Client: M.H. Alshaya Co W.L.L, Kuwait

Project Description: Generated iOS and Android builds through Bitrise for various Alshaya brands and managed releases on the App Store and Google Play. Automated build scripts using Shell scripting, handled VAPT fixes, and utilized GitLab CI/CD for MAS deployment across different environments, while setting up SonarQube for code analysis and monitoring performance via AWS Athena

Responsibilities:

•Generate iOS and Android build through Bitrise tool for several Alshaya Brands (Boots, BBW, Catapult, Mother Care, Victoria Secret, Footlocker, HM) and release through Appstore and Google Play store.

Mobile applications are built through Bitrise tool and handling build issues.

Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using Shell scripting.

Post VAPT (Vulnerability penetration test) fixes the need to generate IPA & APK file for validation.

MAS (Mobile Application Server) setup configured for Dev, QA, UAT environment.

Integrated Ansible with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/GitLab CI, automating application delivery and infrastructure changes for faster, more reliable deployments.

Using Gitlab CICD automation for MAS deployment on Dev, QA, UAT, Preprod & Prod.

Setup SonarQube for IOS & Android Mobile applications JavaScript code analysis and coverage.

Log file analysis using AWS Athena service from masapp logs to generate API performance report.

Upload dSYMs files for Crashlytics issue for QA analysis.

Installing and Managing SSL certificate implementation for mobile sites

Environment: AWS Cloud, Linux, Jenkins, GitLab, Bitrise, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Docker, Firebase, Appstore, Google Play store, Postman, VSCode, Xcode

Devops Engineer Photon Interactive pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Jan’2020 to Apr’2020

Client: Purple Innovation LLC, USA

Project Description: Set up automated CI/CD Jenkins pipelines for building and deploying microservices, integrating Maven for continuous integration and managing deployments on AWS using Terraform. Worked extensively with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, and ECS Fargate, while collaborating on serverless resources, managing GitHub repositories, and administering tools like SonarQube for code analysis and coverage.

Responsibilities:

•Experience in setting up CI/CD automated Jenkins pipelines for build and deployment of several microservices.

Integrated maven with Jenkins for the builds as the Continuous Integration process.

Extensive experience with SCM tool such as Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform

Wrote Terraform modules from scratch to automate deployment on AWS, integrated S3 bucket for state managements.

Designed idempotent Ansible playbooks for managing system configurations, ensuring consistency across environments and reducing configuration drift.

AWS experience: EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, AWS Fargate, CloudFront, Route53 and others

Experience working collaboratively with multiple teams for serverless resources such as lambda, api-gateway, CloudFront.

Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.

Managing and providing support for Microservices/Drupal/Acquia cloud deployment and issues

Installing SSL certificate by using Let’s Encrypt for Jenkins and SonarQube Prod URLs

Managing administration SonarQube tool code analysis and code coverage

POC for Behat tool for testing automation setup

Environment: AWS Cloud, Linux, Jenkins, GitHub, Drupal, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Ansible, Terraform, Docker

Devops Engineer Photon Interactive pvt Ltd, Chennai, India July’2019 to Jan’2020

Client: Yapstone, USA

Project Description: Deployed microservices across multiple environments (Prod, PreProd) in EU/US regions, utilizing AWS CloudFormation and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning. Managed Jenkins pipelines for ECS services, supported non-prod environments via Slack, monitored application logs with ELK Kibana, and provided production support through PagerDuty for incident resolution.

Responsibilities:

•Worked on different microservices vertical deployment for Regular/Catchup, Prod, PreProd environment on EU/US region.

Solid experience in infrastructure provisioning methods, such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform

Configured Automation with Centralized Management using Ansible. Implemented Ansible to manage existing servers to automate the build/configuration of new servers.

Solid experience to support developers for different queries related to non-prod environment by using slack channel.

Created automated pipelines in AWS Code Pipeline to deploy Docker containers in AWS ECS using services like CloudFormation, Code Build, Code Deploy and S3.

Handled Jenkins pipeline to scripts to restart NonProd ECS clusters and ECS services.

Using ELK Kibana tool to analysis the log for different applications errors.

Managing experience with Apache Kafka

Handled Pager duty calls for Prodops support.

Environment: AWS Cloud, Linux, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, Nexus, Puppet, Jira, Confluence, ELK, Slack, Kibana, Terraform, CloudFormation, ECS, Kafka, AWS Code Pipeline

E-com Consultant Samsung E-com team, Chennai, TN, India Sep’2018 to Jan’2019

Project Description: Set up automated Jenkins pipelines for CSBI application deployments and semi-automated pipelines for global projects, while using Ansible playbooks to maintain parity across various environments. Deployed Python Flask applications on Nginx servers and wrote Shell scripts for server automation tasks, leveraging Ansible for efficient deployment and task automation.

Responsibilities:

Configured AWS stack to AMI management, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, EC2, EBS, IAM, Route53, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation.

Generated Shell scripts in Jenkins CI/CD pipeline to be fully automated from development to CSBI applications deployment.

Setup semis automate deployment pipeline for global project.

Implementing Ansible playbooks to maintain the parity between USAS/C360/Global (OS packages, pip packages) projects.

Wrote Ansible playbooks, inventories created custom playbooks written in YAML language, encrypted the data using Ansible Vault

Experience with writing Shell script for disk usage and other server automation requirements.

Deployed python flash applications on Nginx web server.

Experience with Ansible to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications and well versed with Ansible Playbooks, modules, and roles.

Environment: AWS Cloud, Linux, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab, BigData portal, Splunk, Jira, Confluence, Cloud Formation, python

Lead Technical support (AWS Devops) Harman connected services Dec’2014 to Apr’2018

Project Description: Extensive experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, deploying Dockerized applications to EC2, and managing server infrastructure using CloudFormation and Terraform across various environments. Managed AWS services including EC2, VPC, and S3, while using Ansible for configuration management, and implementing monitoring solutions with AWS CloudWatch and New Relic for application performance.

Responsibilities:

•Extensive experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and handling different projects deployment.

•Using Ansible to manage software/server configuration.

Extensive experience to build various applications Docker images and deploy into EC2

Provisioning and maintaining the server Infrastructure for various environment such as Prod, Dev, UAT and Sandbox by using Cloud Formation/Terraform.

Installing and maintaining web servers and web-based applications (LAMP) services.

Setup Spacewalk tool for servers’ application patching and AWS Inspector and Alert logic tool to ensure Vulnerability security scanning.

Managed AWS cloud services: EC2, VPC, EBS, S3, ELB, Route53, SES, SNS Cloud watch, Cloud formation, Cloud trail, IAM, Lambda

Handling CMS application (Content management) service such as WordPress, Drupal, Magento

Managing caching system such as Elastic cache, Memcached, Varnish, APC cache, php-fpm

Implementing load balancing and HA proxy on Apache and NFS server.

Provided 24x7production support for mission-critical applications hosted on AWS, ensuring high availability and SLA compliance.

Proactively monitored application and platform health using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk, reducing incident detection time by 40%.

Led incident triage and root cause analysis (RCA) for production issues, identifying and resolving memory leaks and config drift, reducing repeat incidents.

Handling different queuing service such as RabbitMQ, Celery

Setting up AWS CloudWatch for resources monitoring and New Relic tool for Applications performance monitoring

Environment: AWS cloud services, JIRA, Alert Logic, AWS Inspector, Summit, GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, Spacewalk, ServiceNow, GIT, New Relic, Nagios

System Engineer (AWS Cloud) CSS Corp Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Nov’2012 to Dec’2014

Project Description: Provisioned and managed 500+ LAMP servers across multiple AWS regions using the SAT tool, automating backups and deployments via Jenkins. Utilized Ansible for application deployment, handled LVM disk management, and managed AWS resources like EC2, EBS, RDS, and Route53 while ensuring server patching through Spacewalk and monitoring using Nagios, and New Relic.

Responsibilities:

•Provisioning 500+ LAMP servers in AWS Cloud multiple region and hosting websites by using SAT tool.

Handling automatic backup and multiple projects deployment using Jenkins.

Handling Ansible playbook to deploy software applications.

LVM disk Management for Adding, extending disk volumes size, Creating File systems etc.

Maintaining servers and applications patch using SPACEWALK tool.

Managing the SG’s, NACL, ELB, SSL certificate installation, EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Auto scaling, VPC

Installing and managing for LDAP, Apache, WebSphere, Postfix, NFS services

Provision/Deprovision of Nagios tool for several projects’ customer websites and services.

Handling BMC tool to resolve incident, Change, Work order (Service request) tickets.

Manage, review, and prioritize all RFC’s according to release management processes, policies and procedures using release management tool SharePoint and SVN.

Collaborate with CAB and Change Management regarding business changes, impact and procedures ensuring that project requirements are implemented in compliance with change.

Logs file Analyze using AWStats, Using New relic tool to fix CPU, Load, Memory, and processes.

Environment: Linux, Windows, AWS Cloud, LAMP, Jenkins, Ansible, WebSphere, BMC Remedy, SAT, Spacewalk, AWstats, New relic, SVN, LDAP, Nagios

Education:

•Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics (BE), Apr’2006 from Anna University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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