Senior DevOps Engineer and Cloud Automation Expert

Arpitha K

Email id: *****************@*****.***

Ph#: 309-***-****

Professional Summary:

Over 7+ years of IT Industry experience with DevOps Engineering, Configuration Management, Build and Release Management.

In-depth understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in agile and SCRUM methodologies.

Expertise in DevOps, Release Engineering, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure Automation tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, Ansible, Terraform and ELK.

Experience in working within the Cloud platforms like OpenStack and AWS for integration processes.

Good Experience on provisioning different environments using Chef, Puppet and Ansible Configuration management tools.

Extensive experience in setting up the CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, GitHub, Chef, Terraform and AWS.

Experienced with event-driven and scheduled AWS Lambda functions to trigger various AWS resources.

Good working knowledge on AWS IAM service, IAM policies, Roles, Users, Groups, AWS access keys and Multi Factor Authentication. And migrated applications to the AWS Cloud.

Experience in working with Terraform for automating VPC's, ELB's, Security groups, SQS queues, S3 buckets and continuing to replace the infrastructure as a code from scratch.

Expertise in Azure infrastructure, security, DevOps, and automation, ensuring scalable and cost-efficient cloud environments.

Experience with Azure Cloud Services (IaaS & PaaS),Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure IAM, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure SQL Database, Azure storage, App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Even Hubs, Blob Storage, Azure Networking, Azure MySQL, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Monitor.

Good Experience on Hudson/Jenkins for configuring and maintaining continuous integration (CI) and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.

Good understanding and implementation experience of CI/CD pipeline, automation programmatically by creating Jenkins jobs and pipelines and solving various problems with ANT, Maven, Gradle as plugins.

Experience in using Nexus Repository Manager for Maven builds.

Experience in setting up Baselines, Branching, Merging and Automation Processes using Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python and Bash Scripts.

Adept in scripting (PowerShell, Python, Shell) and leveraging DevOps tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.

Experience on working with Docker containers infrastructure and Continuous Integration for building & deploying Docker containers.

Having good experience in AgroCD to deploy applications on Kubernetes.

Good understanding of OpenShift platform in managing Docker containers and Kubernetes Clusters.

Experienced in source code analysis tools like SonarQube.

Skilled in monitoring servers using Splunk, Nagios, Cloud watch and using ELK Stack Elastic

Experience in implementing monitoring solutions with Prometheus & Grafana for real-time insights.

Experience in Configuration Management and source code repository management using tools like GIThub, Subversion (SVN) and BitBucket.

Hands on experience with build tools like, Team City, Sonar. Worked with different Bug tracking tools like JIRA, Rally, Remedy and IBM Clear Quest.

Experience in trouble shooting, Configuring and Deploying Enterprise Applications in application servers such as Tomcat and Jboss.

Experience with Linux/UNIX environment with shell scripting for Build & Release automation and writing Shell scripts to automate the deployments.

Actively involved in all stages of Software development lifecycle methodologies and validations using Waterfall and Agile software development model.

Excellent communicative, interpersonal, intuitive, analysis and leader ship skills with ability to work efficiently in both independent and teamwork environments.

Key Competencies:

Source Code Management Tools

GIT, SVN, Bitbucket

Build Tools

Ant, Maven, Gradle

Continuous Integration Tools

Jenkins/Hudson, Anthill Pro, Bamboo, Cloud Stack

Configuration Management Tools

Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, SonarQube

Web Servers

Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, Web Logic, WebSphere

Scripting Shell Script

Ruby, Perl, Python, Bash

AWS Services

RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, Cloud Formation, EBS, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, SQS, SNS, SWF, Security Groups, Lambda, VPC, SNS, Route 53, Cloud Formation

Azure Services

Azure IAM, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure SQL Database, Azure storage, App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Even Hubs, Blob Storage, Azure Networking, Azure MySQL, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Monitor

Networking Services

FTP, SSH, TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, SNMP, FTP, SMTP, NFS, WinSCP.

Monitoring Tools

Splunk, Nagios, Gafana, Prometheus

Repositories

Nexus, Artifactory

Containerization

Docker, Kubernetes

Operating Systems

Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista/7/8/10, UNIX, Red Hat LINUX, Ubuntu.

Professional Experience:

Client: Huntington National Bank, Cincinnati, OH. Duration: Dec 2024 – Till Date

Title: Azure DevOps Engineer

Accomplishments:

Actively involved in architecture of DevOps platform and cloud solutions.

Built and automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins, enhancing deployment speed and reliability.

Responsible for User Management, Plugin Management and END-END automation of Build and Deploy using Jenkins.

Created Jenkins pipeline jobs using Groovy Jenkins file. Pipeline provides Build as a code option to perform end to end process of source code, building and deployment in different environments.

Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Mount points and packages.

Used Ansible as a configuration management tool to manage the software configuration and created new infrastructure on AZure.

Responsible for developing CI/CD pipelines using available tools in Azure DevOps and Jenkins. Performing deployments using CI/CD pipelines.

Assisted in migrating applications from on-premises Datacenter to the Azure Cloud. Deploy web applications to Azure App services.

Used Azure Kubernetes Service to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure and created an AKS cluster in the Azure portal, with the Azure CLI, also used template driven deployment options such as Azure Resource Manager templates and Terraform.

Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps in Azure cloud with GIT, Docker, Maven along with Jenkins plugins.

Automated Splunk infrastructure for Logging and Monitoring the team through Ansible Playbooks.

Participated in on-call rotation supporting production and non-production Azure environments.

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

Integrated GIT repository with Jenkins and added webhooks and build triggers to automate build and deployment of applications on application server.

Integrated Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes by creating pods, config Maps and deployments.

Used Kubernetes to load balance, scale and manage Docker containers.

Created and Managed Bash/Shell Script for automating build and deployment process for Linux environment and used MAVEN for building the applications.

Integrated Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Prometheus/Grafana for comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting.

Orchestrated containerized microservices deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including Helm charts, YAML manifests, persistent storage provisioning (Persistent Disks, Filestore CSI), ingress controllers, and network policies for secure and scalable workloads.

Provisioned and managed Azure Databricks workspaces using Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines, enabling scalable data processing environments integrated with Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2).

Automated CI/CD process using Jenkins, build-pipeline-plugin, Maven and GIT.

Implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies utilizing BITBUCKET.

Working on GIT for data integrity and managed central repositories: Implemented Atlassian Stash along with GIT to host GIT central repositories for source code across products, facilitate code reviews and login audits for Security Compliance.

Documented important activities and issues during build/deployment for future references.

Documented all build and release process related items and support for all the builds and deploy issues encounter during the build process.

Environment: Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, CI/CD, Docker, kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, SonarQube, Python, Bash, Shell Scripting, GIT, Splunk, SonarQube, Nexus, Windows and LINUX.

Client: NJM Insurance Group, Trenton, NJ. Duration: May 2023 – Nov 2024

Title: AWS DevOps Engineer

Accomplishments:

Developed and implemented Software Configuration Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process.

Designed DevOps workflow for multiple applications by orchestrating Test, Build, Release and Deploy phases through various CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Docker and Ansible.

Implemented Chef Knife and Cookbooks for Deployment on internal Data Centre Servers. Also re-used and modified same Chef Recipes to create a Deployment directly into EC2 instances.

Creating Ansible Playbooks, to Deploy VM and install the Components as per requirements.

Used Jenkins for automating Builds and deployments and implemented CI using Jenkins.

Used Terraform and Ansible, migrate legacy and monolithic systems to Amazon Web Services. Used

Terraform scripts to configure AWS resources.

Created and Configured Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS, Solaris Virtual Machines in AWS using EC2, ElasticIP, VPC, Subnets, Route Tables and NAT Gateway.

Configured SNS, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, Cloud Front and ELB to setup environment ready for cloudification.

Created AWS Infrastructure using VPC, EC2, S3, Route 53, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation and Terraform.

Built and managed Docker images and supported deployment of containerized workloads to Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS).

Utilized AWS Cloud Watch to monitor the performance environment instances for operational and performance metrics during load testing.

Configuring of VPC and Route 53 DNS with networking of subnets containing servers.

Creating alarms in CloudWatch service for monitoring the server's performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage etc.

Used AWS lambda to run servers without managing them and to trigger to run code by S3 and SNS.

Setup and Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI & CD) Process stack using AWS, GITHUB/GIT, Jenkins and Chef.

Developed Networking policies for Docker containers. Worked on open source development tools like Docker Containers, Mesos and Kubernetes.

Setting up of Kubernetes cluster and deploying containers on K8S. Developed Helm charts for Kubernetes deployment. Created docker repository at customer location using Ansible.

Used SonarQube for continuous inspection of code quality, code coverage and unit tests.

Worked with shell and Python scripting with focus on DevOps tools, CI/CD and AWS Cloud Architecture and hands-on Engineering.

Used GIT for source code version control and integrated with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline, code quality tracking and user management with build tools Maven.

Configured Cloud Watch and Nagios to monitor real-time granular metrics of all the AWS Services and configured individual dashboards for each resource Agents.

Followed Agile methodologies and implemented them on various projects by setting up Sprint for daily stand-up meetings.

Maintaining integrity of security with the use of group policies across domains supporting users through email, on call and troubleshooting.

Environment: CI/CD, Jenkins, GIt, Maven, Chef, Ansible, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarQube, Nexus, Nagios, Shell, Python, Bash, Agile, Windows and Linux.

Client: Grange Insurance, Columbus, OH Duration: Jan 2022 – Apr 2023

Title: DevOps/Build/Release Engineer

Accomplishments:

Worked as Release Engineer in a team that involved different development teams and multiple software releases.

Managed SVN repositories for branching, merging, and tagging.

Shell/Perl Scripts are developed for automation purpose.

Build and Administered Nexus for Maven builds to share the artifacts within the company.

Setup Git-repo server to keep the source code for code management. Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Amazon EC2, Puppet, and custom Ruby/Bash scripts.

Involved in Setting up the backup server for Jenkins and prepared disaster recovery plans for Jenkins and Bamboo.

Architected and implemented automated cloud infrastructure using Puppet.

Used Puppet to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points, and Packages.

Converting production support scripts to Puppet Manifests.

Closely worked in Research of the project application architecture to support/resolve build, compile and test issues/problems.

Merged release branches to the trunk after the production release and resolved the conflicts rose during the merge in Subversion.

Used JavaScript for front-end validations.

Deployed Java/J2EE applications to Application servers in an agile continuous integration environment and also automated the whole process.

Required to provide root cause analysis of any business impacting issues as well as a plan to prevent its recurrence.

Gathered all the stakeholder approvals, necessary signoffs while acting as a release manager for two development teams.

Involved with the developers in troubleshooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications.

Environment: Java/J2EE, SVN, Ant, Maven, GIT, Shell, Perl, Bash, JIRA, WebLogic, Nexus, AWS, Cloud, Jenkins, Python, Puppet, Windows, LINUX.

Client: State Farm, Bloomington, IL Duration: Nov 2018 – Dec 2021

Title: DevOps/Build/Releases Engineer

Accomplishments:

Developed build and deployment processes.

Used AWS lambda to run servers without managing them and to trigger to run code by S3 and SNS.

Setup and Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI & CD) Process stack using AWS, GITHUB/GIT, Jenkins and Chef.

Developed Networking policies for Docker containers. Worked on open source development tools like Docker Containers, Mesos and Kubernetes.

Designed DevOps workflow for multiple applications by orchestrating Test, Build, Release and Deploy phases through various CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Docker and Ansible.

Perform software builds using SVN as version control.

Creating the build script using the ANT as build tool, for Java and .NET web applications.

Managed SVN repositories for branching, merging, and tagging.

Developed Shell/Batch/Perl Scripts for automation purpose.

Resolving merging issues during build and release by conducting meetings with developers and managers.

Responsible for designing and deploying best SCM processes and procedures.

Implement and Enhance the Existing Scripts which are developed in Shell, Perl, Ruby and Python.

Developed and maintained integration and release processes.

Maintained and coordinated environment configuration, controls, code integrity, and code conflict resolution.

Implemented Maven builds to automate JAR and WAR.

Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server.

Supported and developed tools for integration, automated testing and release management.

Verified if the methods used to create and recreate software builds are consistent and repeatable.

Involved in Research of the project application architecture to support/resolve build, compile, and test issues/problems.

Releasing code to testing regions or staging areas according to the schedule published.

Environment: Subversion (SVN), Jenkins, Perl Scripts, Shell Scripts, Maven, Perl, Python, XML, Tomcat.

Education:

Masters Degree in Management in Information Systems From University of Illinois at Springfield 2018

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science From APS College of Engineering, Bangalore India 2013 .

Certification:

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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