Devops Engineer Active Directory

Maniteja Neelam

Sr. Azure/DevOps Engineer Mobile: +1-475-***-****

Mail: ****************@*****.***

Professional Summary:

Demonstrated a robust career spanning over 9 years as a DevOps engineer, emphasizing expertise in DevOps practices, proficient Build and Release Management, adept Containerization skills, deep Azure knowledge, and seasoned Linux System Administration.

Proficiently navigated UNIX environments, showcasing mastery in diverse flavors of Linux, including Red Hat, CentOS, and Ubuntu distributions.

Led the design and deployment of numerous applications, leveraging a comprehensive suite of Azure services including Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Network, Azure DNS, Blob Storage, Azure Service Bus, Azure Active Directory, Managed Disks, AKS, Azure Storage, Auto-scaling, Load Balancer) Ensured robustness, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling capabilities.

Possess a profound understanding of Software Configuration Management principles, with a proven track record in aligning with Agile Methodologies for efficient software development and delivery.

Leveraged Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and CloudFormation to automate infrastructure provisioning, including IAM users, groups, roles, and policies.

Engaged with Microsoft Azure elements including Identity Access Management (IAM), encompassing Active Directory and Multi-Factor Authentication, Azure Virtual Machines, Storage Blobs, File Service, Networking, BizTalk, and Scheduler.

Experienced in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible.

Developed Terraform playbooks, roles, cookbooks, and modules to create Azure resources. Administered Terraform infrastructure, performed maintenance, and provided SME-level support.

Developed comprehensive cloud strategies and roadmaps, skillfully architecting innovative cloud solutions and orchestrating the seamless migration of enterprise applications to cloud environments.

Designed, constructed, and managed automated build and release CI/CD pipelines utilizing Jenkins and Ansible for infrastructure, ensuring the reliability, availability, and optimal performance.

Developed JSON Scripts for deploying the Pipeline in Azure Data Factory (ADF) that process the data using the SQL Activity. Developed data processing.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate Terraform into the overall DevOps toolchain.

Managed Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters within the OpenShift platform. Proficient in orchestrating Kubernetes clusters through Ansible playbooks, ensuring optimal performance.

Experience working on several Docker Components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, creating Docker Images,Docker Registry and handling multiple images. Knowledge on Mesos, marathon.

Extensively worked on Hudson and Jenkins for continuous Integration and End - to-End automation.

Proficiently authored multiple Automation Scripts to streamline manual processes, deploy applications, and manage application build scripts using shell and python.

implemented Windows PowerShell scripts to monitor the event logs of critical windows servers in real-time and filter for specific errors.

Excellent hands-on experience on configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, and Docker.

Experience in Administration of source control such as Git Hub, SubversionSVN and Bitbucket.

Created Tags and Branches, fixed the merger issues and administered Software Repositories.

Automated processes with custom built Python and Shell scripts.

Experience in using Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Nagios, IBM monitoring tools (TAM).

Written Chef cookbooks and recipes to Provision Several preproduction environments consisting of Cassandra, DBinstallations and several middleware installations.

Established build automation tools like MAVEN, Bamboo, Gradle and ANT for the building of deployable artifacts such as war and ear from source code.

Technical Skills:

Operating System

Linux (RedHat 4/5/6/7, CENTOS), Unix, Solaris 11/10, Ubuntu 12/13/14, Windows NT, Windows 8, 12, 12R2, MacOS.

Cloud Platforms

Azure, AWS

Automation/Configuration

Management Tools

Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Ansible

Containerization Tools

Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Spinnaker

Application/Web Server

Tomcat, Apache, Application Server, IIS, Oracle WebLogicServer 11g

CI and Build Tools

ANT, Maven, Hudson, Bamboo

SDLC

Agile, Scrum

Monitoring and Logging Tools

Nagios, Splunk, ELK, Datadog, Dynatrace

Version Control Tools

GIT, GitHub, Subversion, Bit-Bucket, Clear Case

Scripting

Python, Shell Scripting, Ruby Scripting, Power Shell, YAML Perl

Database Systems

Oracle 10g/9i, SQL Server, MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra

Networking/Protocol

DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, NIS, NFS, WAN, SMTP,LAN, FTP/TFTP, TCP/IP.

Educational Qualification:

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science.

Professional Experience:

Huntington Bank, Columbus, OH May 2024 - Present Sr. Azure/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Implemented Agile methodologies to streamline development workflows, ensuring collaboration between development, operations, and deployment teams.

Developed and implemented comprehensive cloud migration and modernization strategies, demonstrating expertise in crafting scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures on Azure.

Designed and deployed multiple applications using a wide range of Azure services (Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Network, Azure DNS, Blob Storage, Azure Service Bus, Azure Active Directory, Managed Disks, AKS, Azure Storage, Auto-scaling, Load Balancer) ensuring high availability.

Monitored cloud sec by creating the IAM roles to prevent cloud infrastructure access to the users.

Orchestrated Azure infrastructure using Terraform, defining resources such as Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Network configurations, Managed Disks, AKS clusters, and Blob Storage.

Configured Azure Data Factory for efficient data extraction and transformation.

eployed and managed applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using Helm charts, automating rollouts and updates.

Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform with GCP Provider to manage VPCs, subnets, GKE clusters, and IAM roles.

Configured CI/CD pipelines using Google Cloud Build and Cloud Source Repositories to automate testing and deployment processes.

Implemented cloud-native monitoring and alerting solutions using Google Cloud Monitoring (Stackdriver) and Logging.

Designed fault-tolerant and highly available architecture using GCP services such as Load Balancer, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage.

Managed secrets and sensitive configuration data securely with Secret Manager and IAM policies.

Integrated Artifact Registry for storing Docker container images and Maven artifacts for CI/CD workflows.

Utilized Cloud Functions and Pub/Sub for event-driven automation and microservices communication.

Implemented infrastructure compliance checks and policies using Config Validator and Policy Controller with Anthos.

Utilized Terraform for the dynamic provisioning of resources, ensuring consistent and scalable infrastructure for the installation of open-source packages.

Good experience in writing Spark applications using Java and Scala. Good experience in creating PowerShell scripts for automating cluster creation.

Designed, built, and coordinated an automated build and release CI/CD process using Jenkins and Ansible on the infrastructure to maintain the reliability and performance of Software Delivery.

Developed and deployed multiple LogicApps solutions for automating business processes, integrating seamlessly with other Azure services and on-premises systems.

Worked on the PowerShell Script to automate the Windows patching and created the release in Azure DevOps pipelines. 24/7 monitoring the Azure Resources.

Managed and optimized LogicApps workflows to ensure high availability and performance.

Implemented Jenkins-GitHub integration to enable automated builds triggered by GitHub events, ensuring seamless CI/CD workflows, and using Jenkins Python Plugin,involved in writing shell scripts in the job configuration build steps to automate the build processes.

Created Triggers, PowerShell scripts and the parameter JSON files for the deployments Implemented UNIX scripts to define the use case workflow.

Implemented Key Vault in Azure to store secrets related to Database and app Performance Tuning and Management for Linux/AIX server.

Configured and managed Azure DevOps pipelines (Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines) for continuous integration and deployment, reducing deployment times by 40%.

Implemented automated testing and security scanning in CI/CD pipelines to ensure robust and secure deployments.

Azure Monitoring, Key Vault, Azure Data Lake . Experience in building and Created Azure Data Factory for copying data from Azure BLOB storage to SQL Server

Installing, creating and configuring Kubernetes and troubleshooting kube API, controller, scheduler, ETCD,pods, Deployments, Replication-controllers, kubelet and kube-proxy.

Worked on Kubeflow installation and testing to validate the machine learning models.

Worked on making HA Cluster of pods by using Kubernetes to avoid single point of failure.

Troubleshooting the docker containers and their flannel network authentication inside a pod.

Azure Services as an Azure Cloud Engineer and different domains in technology Implemented Key- Vault in Webapps, Web jobs and Function apps to secure the Pipelines.

Established and configured the Ansible control machine or workstation using SSH protocol, enabling centralized management of configuration for nodes within the infrastructure.

Configuring Secret Scope in Databricks Cluster using Azure Key Vault. Understand the business processes and application functionality relevant to their area.

Creating shell scripts for application automation and bug fixing the bash code.

Experienced in building pipelines for distributed stream processing using Kafka.

Utilized Prometheus and Grafana for comprehensive metrics evaluation, providing valuable insights into system performance and resource utilization.

Developed Spark code using python 3 for Pyspark/Spark-SQL for faster testing and processing of data. Managing secret keys through Azure key vault and Encrypted it.

Environment: Azure (Virtual Machines, Virtual Network, Azure DNS, Blob Storage, Azure Service Bus, Azure Active Directory, Managed Disks, AKS, Azure Storage, Auto-scaling, Load Balancer) IAC, LogicApps Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Vcmts, Docsis, Kafka, bash, shell, CI/CD, Promethius, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Git, Linux, python 2.7, Oracle, Maven, Postman, Rest.

PNC Bank, Pittsburgh, PA Aug 2021 - Apr 2024

Azure/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Azure Service Fabric, Containers, Azure Resource Manager, ARM automation, Azure Key Vault, Encryption and Security.

Led the transition to infrastructure as code using Terraform, improving the efficiency and reliability of infrastructure provisioning.

Developed ARM templates to automate the deployment of complex Azure environments.

Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraforms IaC approach. Built reusable modules for configurations and services, simplifying deployments for web servers and AWS instances.

Implemented a robust CI/CD pipeline using Maven, Jenkins, and Git to automate software builds, testing, and deployments for application. This accelerated development speed and code quality.

Leveraged Blue-Green deployments to minimize risk during software updates. This allowed for seamless rollbacks in case of issues, ensuring minimal disruption to critical healthcare services.

Responsible for tagging and maintaining code on version control GIT.

Automated the creation and management of JAR and WAR files using Gradle. Jenkins pipelines were utilized to manage versioning and deployment of artifacts to Nexus repository.

Automated Static Code Analysis tool PMD to the build process to validate the code against the coding Guidelines with SonarQube and published the reports.

Performed a POC to drive Chef as the core deployment framework for all in-house and cloud-based deployments to Azure Virtual Machines.

Configured NSG rules to allow traffic to external services such as 3M.

Perform Build activities using Gradle and Jenkins tool by creating the build Gradle script.

Automate the build Process Using Jenkins jobs and creating the Jenkisfile for the build process for all branches and pull requests.

Migrated legacy infrastructure to GCP using Migrate for Compute Engine, optimizing cost and performance.

Used GCP’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) to enforce least-privilege access across projects and services.

Performed log analysis and trace debugging using Cloud Trace, Cloud Debugger, and Error Reporting tools.

Created and managed Cloud VPC networks with custom routes, firewall rules, and peering connections.

Orchestrated blue-green and canary deployments with GKE and Cloud Load Balancer for zero-downtime releases.

Developed serverless APIs using Cloud Run and Cloud Functions integrated with API Gateway.

Conducted cost optimization using GCP Pricing Calculator, Committed Use Discounts, and Recommender insights.

Built real-time monitoring dashboards with Cloud Monitoring integrated with Slack and PagerDuty for incident response.

Working on the Jenkins tool to configure Nightly Builds to check the sanity of our java source code and health check to the cloud services.

Experience managing Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters on the OpenShift platform by utilizing Ansible playbooks to create Kubernetes clusters.

Used Spot instances for Kubernetes worker nodes as a further cost cutting measure to decrease cluster costs by approximately 60%. Making sure the product working in AKS.

Troubleshooting application related issues and extracting the error logs from Splunk and Kibana for debugging the log verification.

Evaluated third-party tools for build/deployment automation purposes including Docker.

Designed and Showcased CI/CD automation in a containerized environment using docker.

Extensively used Azure Monitor and Azure Alerts to proactively monitor thresholds and trigger notifications or automated actions when predefined limits are breached.

Conducted rigorous smoke and sanity tests for deployed applications, by utilizing Selenium and JUnit to ensure robust functionality.

Writing Shell scripts for doing Deployment, health check status of web app servers, uplifting the testing and production environments and take the Git repository backups.

Client Interaction with high Risk and Doing smoke testing for same and fixed the related Issue Immediately.

Created and maintained documentation related to SCM activities.

Environment: Azure LogicApp, Azure SQL Database, Gradle, Maven, Selenium, Junit, PMD, SonarQube, Terraform, ECS, AKS, Chef Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Splunk, Kibana, CloudWatch, Jenkins (CI/CD Pipeline) Nexus, Shell Scripting

Carelon Healthcare, Fairfax VA Mar 2019 - Jul 2021

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Maintain and improve automation in support of self-service DevOps pipelines for both backend and frontend development teams ensuring secure and efficient deployments.

Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process using SVN, Jenkins, Maven, and Ansible to secure delivery of code, minimizing human error and potential vulnerabilities.

Written deployment scripts in Shell and Ruby.

Automate Build and Deployments on Apache and CQ5 servers using Jenkins and ansible.

Set up Insights (Analytics) related ETLs on Azure Data Factory.

Configured routing in Application Gateway to web apps, including TLS offloading and session persistence/affinity.

Also familiar with writing YAML files with the help of predefined templates which can configure, place and provision applications.

Written Ansible Playbooks to install required packages on cloud machines.

Worked on Build and Release process for various servers like AEM and Apache.

Written Ansible playbooks and ruby scripts to automate stop, start, restart, delete bundles, and deploy packages in the CQ5 server.

Responsible for writing Bash, Shell, Perl, Python scripts to ping servers and adding users to the boxes andproficient in scripting languages to automate daily activities.

Experience in building and deploying Java & SOA applications and troubleshooting failures.

Evaluating code quality by reviewing selected issues through the web interface on SonarQube.

Built end to end CI/CD Pipelines in Jenkins to retrieve code, compile applications, perform tests and push build artifacts to Nexus using Nexus artifactory plugin.

Deployed multiple databases and applications utilizing Kubernetes cluster management, including services such as Redis and Nginx for optimized resource utilization.

Maintained the Kubernetes environment to oversee containerized applications.

Regularly merged code from development branches to the release branch, facilitating integration and testing before deployment. created tags for releases.

Setup pre-commit hooks to remove check in access to developers in the 'tags' folder.

Rolled back buggy code from production release.

Creation of RPM packages required for deployment into DEV, QA, REG and Production environments.

Established automated continuous build pipelines in Jenkins, ensuring code is consistently built and tested upon every commit to SVN. facilitated rapid feedback and minimized the risk of regressions.

Setup shell script in Jenkins jobs to do pre- and post-build operations.

Implemented automated email notifications for build status in Jenkins using Email Extension Plugin.

Created Maven POM files to build Java projects based on their project structure.

Launched Docker containers and used them as Jenkins agents for regular builds.

Staged all the packages on a shared server for SIT, pre-production, and production environments.

Environment: Ansible, Ruby, Shell, Python, YAML, SOA, Apache, CQ5, CI/CD, AWS, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes,SonarQube, Nexus, Java, SVN, SIT, RPM, Redis, Ngnix, Windows and LINUX.

Lexmark, Lexington, Kentucky Oct 2017 – Feb 2019 Azure DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Utilized Agile methodology as a comprehensive framework for managing requirements and optimizing application performance through iterative development processes.

Implemented configuration and setup of virtual and cloud development environments using Azure,

ensuring optimal workflow efficiency and productivity.

Orchestrated the design and execution of Azure Site Recovery, facilitating seamless transitions both in disaster recovery scenarios and during the migration of workloads from On-Premises to Azure.

Managed the migration of data from on-premises SQL Database servers to Azure SQL Database servers by orchestrating Azure Data Factory Pipelines, leveraging the Azure Data Factory copy tool, and utilizing Self-Hosted Runtimes effectively and efficiently.

Customized existing Yaml files for creating deployments and volumes (pvc) In open shift platform.

Worked on groovy scripts in Jenkins to execute jobs for a continuous integration pipeline where Groovy Jenkins Plugin and Groovy Post Build Plug-in are used as a build step and post buildactions.

Developed Microservices on boarding tools leveraging Python and Jenkins allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deploy and services.

Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube.

Worked on systems and supported DEV, TEST and QA team in all product suite validations.

Involved in configuring and managing Chef Master Server, updating and creating modules and pushing them to Chef Clients and make the implementations reusable.

Implemented automated backup and disaster recovery strategies using Cloud SQL automated backups and cross-region replication.

Used GCP Deployment Manager for infrastructure-as-code to automate resource provisioning across environments.

Set up VPN and Interconnect for secure hybrid connectivity between on-premise infrastructure and GCP.

Managed container lifecycle with Google Artifact Registry, including vulnerability scanning and image promotion policies.

Automated environment creation and teardown for QA and staging using Terraform and Cloud Build triggers.

Integrated Jenkins with GCP services for scalable CI/CD pipelines deploying to GKE and Cloud Functions.

Managed multiple GCP projects and billing accounts using Resource Hierarchy and Labels for governance and cost tracking.

Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall process improvements..

Worked on Chef Configuration management spanning several environments in VMware and Azure cloud. Created Chef Cookbooks using recipes to automate system operations.

Written Chef Cookbooks and recipes in Ruby to Provision several pre-prod environments consisting of Cassandra DB installations, Web logic domain creations and middleware installations.

Worked on Create/Enhance/automate build and deployment process as DevOps engineer for each release and backup, restore and upgrade.

Developed build and deployment scripts using MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.

Environment: Agile, Microsoft Azure (Site Recovery, Data Factory, Data Factory Copy Tool, SQL Database) OpenShift, Jenkins, Powershell, Groovy, Docker, Chef, Chef Server, Chef Clients, Hiera, Splunk, YAML, Groovy, Python, Ruby, Maven, Nexus (Artifact Repository), SonarQube, Nagios, VMware.

Data Factz, India Sep 2015 – Jun 2017

Build/Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

In-depth knowledge on Jenkins to set up all the stages of CI/CD Pipeline such as version control, build, unittest, deploy, auto test, and deployment to production.

Experience in AWS, Tomcat, MySQL, Oracle, and maintained code quality and code security using SonarQube, Selenium.

Experience in containerized technology like Docker, Kubernetes. Integrated Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes by creating pods, config Maps using Jenkins.

Building Docker images and fetch/promote and deploy to Production. Setup and maintain a Docker repository, nexus repo, Linux package manager.

Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Ansible, writing YAML scripts to automate processes.

Knowledge in writing scripting languages like Python, Shell Scripting, and PowerShell. Responds constructively and quickly to shifting goalposts or changing requirements.

Team Player & organizational and leadership skills.

Maintained Git repositories for DevOps environment: Version control and build automation integration git intoJenkins.

Worked as a Subversion and TFS Admin and handled multiple repository backup. Worked and Configure CI/CD tools like Hudson to automate the build process.

Hands on Experience with Iac like Terraform and Ansible.

Worked on AWS services like EC2, Lambda, S3. Worked and managed dashboard Jira, and Confluence.

Troubleshooting Network, memory CPU, swap and file system issues, TCP/IP, DNS and SMTP in Linux servers. Experience in using Nagios monitoring system.

Environment: Ansible, YAML, SonarQube, Selenium, Python, Nexus Repo, TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP Shell Scripting, PowerShell, Tomcat, MySQL, Oracle.

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