Data Entry Azure Virtual

Harika P

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Overall, 8+ years of experience in Automating, configuring and deploying instances on cloud environments like Azure and AWS. Experience in popular DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Maven, Gradle, Git, GitHub, SVN, Bit Bucket, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform in Linux & Windows Administration.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experience in dealing with Microsoft Azure IaaS Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VPN, Load Balancing, Azure DSC, Guest Configuration, Cosmos DB, Application, Gateways, Auto Scaling, Runbooks, etc.

Hands on experience in Azure Development, worked on Azure Web Applications, Azure SQL Database, Virtual machines, Azure Active Directory, Azure VPN Gateway, Azure Fabric, Azure search, App services, Notification hub and experienced in using Azure service fabric to package, deploy and manage reliable micro services.

Experience in various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Caching, Azure SQL, NoSQL, Storage, and Network services, API Management, Scheduling, Azure Auto scaling, PowerShell Automation, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), DHCP address blocks, Azure DNS, Azure VPN Gateway.

Extensive involvement in Designing Azure Resource Manager Template and in designing custom builds steps using PowerShell.

Implementing various resources in Azure using azure Portal, PowerShell on Azure Resource Manager deployment models. Experience deploying Infrastructure as Code (IoC) applications using ARM Templates (JSON)

Responsible for build and automation of on-premises applications with TFS, GIT, Jenkins and cloud-based applications with Azure ARM JSON, PowerShell, Azure CLI.

Expertise in working with Terraform template key features such as Infrastructure as a code (IaaS), Execution plans, Resource Graphs, Change Automation and extensively used Auto Scaling launch configuration templates for launching Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) while deploying micro services.

Strong experience on AWS platform and its dimensions of scalability including EC2, S3, Route53, ELB, EBS, VPC, AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM, Auto Scaling, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, OPSWork, Security Groups.

Design roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM). Managed multiple AWS accounts with multiple VPC's for both production and non-production where primary objectives included automation, build out, integration and cost control.

Experienced in setting up cloud watch service for the like Amazon EC2 instance state-change events, Auto Scaling lifecycle events, instance launch, terminate notifications, Scheduled events, AWS API call and console sign-in events reported by AWS Cloud Trail.

Worked with setting up database instances in AWS using RDS, Dynamo DB, and storage using an S3 bucket and configuring instance backups and archives to Amazon Glacier archives and configured AWS Redshift for Data Warehousing.

Experience in Ansible’s configuration, deployment, and orchestration language through which we can describe a policy for the remote systems to enforce, or a set of steps in a general IT process.

Experience in Virtualization technologies like VMWare, Vagrant and Ansible, Chef & Puppet for Configuration Management tool and understanding containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Experienced in writing Ansible playbooks to automatically update system components, saving 30% admin time and increases the productivity.

Automate the Build and deploy of all internal Java &.Net environments using various continuous integration tools and scripting languages (Shell, PowerShell). And builds with Ant, Gradle, Maven, GIT, and Jenkins.

Performed automation tasks on various Docker components like Docker Hub, Docker Engine, Docker Machine, Compose and Docker Registry, Integrated Docker into various tools like AWS, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Bamboo, Vagrant, Jenkins & VMware containers.

Great working experience and understanding of OpenShift (Kubernetes, Docker) Application Platform as a Service in taking microservice applications on pods and containers from dev to prod in an automated pipeline.

Experience in implementing the Docker for wrapping up the final code and setting up development and testing environment using Docker Hub, Docker Swarm, and Docker Container Network.

Developed an opensource project with Kubernetes to manage a cluster of containers, running Docker containers across multiple hosts and utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and deploy.

Extensively used Kubernetes charts using Helm and created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes manifest files and releases of Helm packages.

Extensive experience in installing, configuring, and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines. Used Jenkins Pipeline to drive all Microservices builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.

Automated and ensured the availability of clean environments for the team by using cloud based PAAS (Platform as a service) named OpenShift.

Experience in installing, configuring, managing MYSQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB & Cassandra. Ability to build deployment, build scripts as well as automated solutions using scripting languages such as Bash, Shell, Ruby, and Python.

Experience in Splunk with WebLogic administration Java, Groovy Scripting, XML, JSON Agile & waterfall SDLC experience Custom Application Development.

Provided 24x7 production support and development environments. Ability to communicate requirements effectively to team members and manage applications and a team player with good Communication and Interpersonal Skills, Analytical skills.

Used various bug tracking tools for environments such as JIRA and Confluence for updating and maintaining different release procedures.

Designed, deployed, and managed cloud-based solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) utilizing services such as Compute Engine, App Engine, and Kubernetes Engine. Migrated on-premises workloads to Google Cloud, optimizing performance and reducing costs by leveraging Compute Engine, Big Query, and Cloud Storage.

Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Google Cloud Build and Cloud Source Repositories, automating deployment processes for multiple applications. Optimized cloud resource consumption and costs, reducing monthly billing by configuring auto-scaling, rightsizing instances, and leveraging preemptible instances.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems

RHEL/CentOS 4/5/6/7,8 Ubuntu, Solaris 9/10/11, Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016, AIX, HP-UX

Virtualization/Containers

VMware, virtual box, vSphere, vCenter, Docker, Kubernetes (AKS)

Networking

HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, NFS, NTP, SMB, SMTP

Source control tools

Git, GitHub, SVN, Bit Bucket

Bug Tracking

JIRA, Rally, HP Application Lifecycle Management

Build Release Tools

Jenkins, Ant, Maven, MS Build, Gradle, SonarQube, Nexus, Bamboo

Cloud Platforms

Azure, Amazon Web services, Open stack

Config Management

Guest Configuration, DSC, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet

Application Servers

Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, Web Logic, Web Sphere.

Languages

C, C++, Shell scripting, PowerShell, Python, SQL.

Monitoring tools

Azure Monitor, Nagios, Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, ELK

Web servers

Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP server, JBOSS, NGINX

Databases

Cosmos DB, Oracle, SQL SERVER, MY SQL, DB2, Mongo DB

SDLC

Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employer: Navy Federal Credit Union(Present) May 2023 - Present

Cloud Engineer

Experience in dealing with Microsoft Azure IaaS -Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VPN, Load Balancing, Azure DSC, Guest Configuration, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling, Runbooks, etc.

Author Power Shell Desired State Configuration (DSC) configurations to import DSC Resources and assign configurations to target nodes/servers which consistently deploy, reliably monitor, and automatically update the desired state of all the machines.

Engineer various resources in Azure using azure Portal, Power Shell on Azure Resource Manager deployment models and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) applications using ARM Templates (JSON) and Bicep.

Expertise in Azure compute services such as Azure Web apps, Azure Data Factory & Storage, Azure Networking, Azure Hybrid Integration, Azure Identity & Access Management, Linux and Windows servers, etc.

Involved in backing up and recovering an Azure virtual machine from a Recovery services vault in case of disasters by replacing the existing disks. Proficient in handling production incidents and work on resolving them until fixed.

Configured Azure Automation DSC configuration to assign permissions through RBAC, assign nodes to proper automation accounts and DSC configurations, to get alerted on any changes made to nodes and their configuration.

Author Azure machine configuration (Guest Configuration) scripts to audit or configure operating system settings as code for machines running in Azure and monitor their compliance.

Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web and desktop-based business applications built on Microsoft technologies.

Synchronize and consult with end users, application development, infrastructure, client services, reporting manager, vendors, and team members to meet or exceed user requirements and end-user satisfaction.

Established a private connection between Azure Key Vault and other Azure services by using Azure Private Link. Experience in moving all traffic to the service through private endpoint.

Responsible for creating and managing Azure AD tenants, manage users and groups in Microsoft Entra ID and configure application access using those groups.

Expert in troubleshooting and addressing the host and application vulnerabilities that are reported by Cyber engineering within SLA.

Primary point of contact from cloud Linux engineering team for the application teams who deals with issues at OS and networking level. Remediate the alerts triggered by Azure Monitor and make sure the environment is running smooth without any issues.

Managed the infrastructure and tracked any issues/bugs using the Azure DevOps for creating and writing stories and also updated any documentation for reference using Azure Wiki.

Employer: Food Lion, Charlotte, NC Dec 2022 - Apr 2023

DevOps Engineer

Installation and Upgradation of packages and patches, Configuration management, Version Control, Service packs, troubleshooting connectivity issues and reviewing Security constraints. Performed AWS Cloud administration managing EC2 instances, S3, SES and SNS services.

Handled migration of on premises applications to cloud and created resources in cloud to enable this. Used all critical AWS tools, used ELBs and Auto-Scaling policies for scalability, elasticity and availability.

Configured an AWS (VPC) and Database Subnet Group for isolation of resources within the Amazon RDS MySQL DB cluster. Created Buckets in AWS and stored files, Enabled Versioning and security for files stored in S3 bucket.

Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources such as VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation by using JSON templates.

Configured and managed Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), to avoid single point of failure applications, thus providing high availability and network load balancing.

Launching EC2 Linux instances in AWS using AMI and installing, configuring Apache HTTP Server and Apache Tomcat in highly available and scalable environment.

Handled the development of reporting metrics and to provide reports to Management on different levels of statistics. Worked with Source Control Tools such as GIT, GIT Stash.

Deployed JAVA/J2EE applications to Application servers in an agile continuous integration environment and automated the whole process using Jenkins in Dev, QA, staging and prod and created and maintained Python scripts for Automating Build and Deployment Process and Creating Web Based Application by Using Django Framework.

Deployed and configured Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo for both hosting and issue tracking for local instances, workflow collaboration, and tool-chain automation and Installed, Configured and Managed Monitoring Tools such as Nagios and Zabbix for Resource Monitoring/ Network Monitoring/ Log Trace Monitoring.

Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Managing Docker Containers, Docker Images for Web Servers and Applications servers such as Apache Tomcat using Docker and integrated with Amazon MySQL RDS database.

Researched and implemented new tools such as AKS (Kubernetes) with Docker to assist with auto-scaling, continuous integration, rolling updates with no downtime.

Created private cloud using Kubernetes that supports DEV, TEST, and PROD environments and implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant, auto scaling Kubernetes AWS infrastructure and microservice container orchestration.

Integrated Jenkins with various DevOps tools such as Nexus, SonarQube and used CI/CD system of Jenkins on Kubernetes container environment, utilizing and Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment for the CI/CD system build and test and deploy.

Worked on setting up Kubernetes dashboards with AAF and solved issues with terminated Pods which are stuck with Master Control Configuration and Created Kubernetes Clusters and worked on creating many pods, replication controllers, services, deployments, labels, health checks and ingress by writing YAML files.

Application Deployments & Environment configuration using Chef and Terraform and Implemented Auto Scaling with Chef and Assign chef roles to EC2 instances.

Designed and implemented load balancing solutions using Google Cloud Load Balancing for high-availability architecture and improved application performance. Created and managed virtual networks and subnets, using Google VPC to ensure secure and optimized networking architecture across GCP services.

Set up and managed NoSQL databases using Firestore and Cloud Datastore for scalable, low-latency application data needs. Integrated BigQuery with other GCP services for advanced analytics and business intelligence reporting, improving decision-making processes.

Employer: Bollinger Insurance, Short Hills, NJ Sep 2021 – Oct 2022

DevOps Engineer

Installed and configured Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing a complete automation solution for a fast and effective release.

Extensively worked on Hudson and Jenkins for continuous integration and for End-to-End automation for all Build and deployments.

Worked in an agile development team to deliver an end-to-end continuous integration/continuous delivery product in an open-source environment using tools like puppet & Jenkins.

Administered and Engineered Jenkins for managing weekly Build, Test and Deploy chain, SVN/GIT with Dev/Test/Prod Branching Model for weekly releases.

Created and maintained continuous integration (CI) using tools Jenkins/Maven over diff environments to facilitate an agile development process which is automated and repeatable enabling teams to safely deploy code many times a day while ensuring operational best practices are supported.

Integrated GIT into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process, Defining Release Process & Policy for projects early in SDLC and configured webhooks in GitHub to inform changes to Jenkins to start the job automatically.

Created, Configured and Administered Jenkins servers with Master-slave configurations as needed to maintain high availability of servers to run Jenkins jobs.

Configured Jenkins to implement nightly builds on daily basis and generated change log that includes changes that occurred in last 24 hours.

Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Ant and Maven in Linux environment. Build Automation and Build Pipe Development using Jenkins and Maven.

Monitored software, hardware, and/or middleware updates and utilizing technologies like Jenkins/Hudson, ANT, MS Build, TFS Team Explorer, and Subversion (SVN).

Installed Jenkins in standalone mode as a windows service and integrated Jenkins with different tools for continuous smooth development and release process and used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into WebSphere Application servers.

Automated the Build Process using Jenkins and handled complete Build/Release process including code documentation/management with GitHub and supporting testing team in resolving the issues.

Experienced and proficient deploying and administering the version across the environments using SCM tools like GitHub, Subversion (SVN) and TFS on Linux and windows platform and implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies using GIT CLI.

Expertise in the Jenkins plugin management areas and implemented several CI / CD plugins like build pipeline, GIT, JUnit and pipeline plugins.

Created and maintained Ant build. xmls and Maven Pom.xmls for performing the builds and managed Artifactory repository like nexus, and for the current project created a new repository and provisioned it.

Deployed J2EE applications to Application servers in an agile continuous integration environment and automated the whole process. Build scripts using ANT and MAVEN build tools in Jenkins, Sonar to move from one environment to other environments.

Experience managing multiple Project Object Model (POM) files using Maven, in the multi-tier environment with parent and child POM dependencies.

Deployment of applications on Apache Web server, Nginx and Application Servers like Tomcat, JBoss and integrated them with database servers to create end-end three tier architecture.

Deployed code on WebSphere application servers for Production, QA, and Development environments and did Performance tuning of WebSphere application server including JVM, Garbage Collection, and JDBC along with its server logs.

Employer: Finoit Technologies Jun 2014 – Aug 2019

Systems/VMWare Administrator

Handling the day-to-day Operations, install software, apply patches using RPM and YUM, manage file systems, monitoring performance and troubleshoot alerts, Solve Server Problems in LINUX.

Responsible for Building & configuring RedHat Linux systems over the network, implementing automated tasks through crontab, resolving tickets according to the priority basis.

Configuration and administration of DNS, LDAP, NFS, NIS, NIS+ and Sendmail on Red Hat Linux servers and troubleshooted the issues related to HTTP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Nmap, trace route, ping, remote access, and security.

Creating and updating Test Plan documentation in our data store, and work from a Jump Linux Server and worked on Planning, scheduling and implementing OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance.

Cloning, Deploying VM's to Templates, Templates to VM's, vMotion, Storage vMotion etc. Configured the NTP server in ESX Server for the time synchronization between ESX and the VM's.

Involved in troubleshooting the issues related to Server, Local Services, Data Centers and Server Configuration for Microsoft Windows Systems in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.

Involved in Building and configuring Red Hat Linux Servers using Kickstart server as required for the project. Maintained maximum uptime and maximum performance capacity for Enterprise Production, QA, and UAT/Staging.

Monitoring CPU, memory, iSCSI disks, disk controllers, physical disk, HW and SW RAID, multipath, file systems, network using the tool NAGIOS.

Extensive experience in installing, integrating, tuning and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere and WebLogic application server and Implemented SSH to login and trouble shoot the issues if any.

Regular disk management like adding / replacing hot swappable drives on existing servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.

Managed VMWARE vSphere HOSTS in a HA/DRS Environment with vMotion/ Site Recovery Manager, Replication Manager vRealize Automation Center and Fiber SAN.

Troubleshooting network and connectivity issues, remote support to the critical users, higher officials, field staff, branches, remote sites, update their active directory accounts manage their Microsoft outlook emails, network drives, VMware and Citrix and support their connectivity.

Worked on set up, configure and trouble shoot WINDSCP, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS; NFS, CIFS, FTP, TELNET, SSH, NTP, UDP protocols.

Developed automated processes that run daily to check disk usage and perform clean-up of temporary file systems on Linux environments using shell scripting and CRON jobs.

Working on Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume manager & Volume Manager. File system Tuning and growing using VERITAS File System (VxFS), coordinated with SAN Team for storage allocation and Disk Dynamic Multi path.

Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving permissions issues, user and group quota and created and maintained user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.

Education:

Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Satyabhama University (2014)

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