AWS Cloud Engineer/Architect/DevOps Engineer

Summary
Associated with IT industry for 10+ years working as AWS Cloud Engineer, Cloud/DevOps Engineer, DevOps/AWS Engineer
and Systems/VMWare Engineer within Linux/Unix/Windows environments to provide solutions to the complex issues
utilizing most of the resources such as Virtualization, Integration and configuration Management tools, different
Infrastructures (On-Premises Bare-Metal, privatized or Public Cloud) for Server Provisioning, Configuring, Monitoring,
Disaster Recovery.
 Experience in utilizing Amazon AWS cloud includes services like EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, IAM, Cloud Watch, Elastic Beanstalk,
Security Groups, EC2 Container Service (ECS), Lambda, Kinesis, Code Commit, Code Pipeline, code deploy, Dynamo DB,
Auto Scaling.
 Experience in migrating from on-premises to Windows Azure and build Azure Disaster Recovery Environment and Azure
backups from the scratch using PowerShell script.
 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication with the help of Endpoints.
Configured Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens and Storage Access Policies in Azure Cloud Infrastructure.
 Experience on Azure Services like VM, App Service, Websites, SQL Azure, Storage, Blob Service, Cosmos DB, Network
Services, VNets, Load Balancer, Resource Manager, Scheduling and Power Shell Automation.
 Built out Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) private cloud OpenStack and managed deployment of Microservices using
Kubernetes, Docker and etcd to production environment. Performed server monitoring, Application monitoring,
Capacity Planning and log monitoring using Nagios, Cacti, Zabbix and Splunk.
 Hands-on on Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy
critical applications, Environment configuration Files, Users, Mount points, Packages and proactively manage change and
written Ansible Playbooks using Yaml for Maintaining Roles, Inventory Files and Groups Variables.
 Experience in Installing Chef Server Enterprise On-premise/workstation/bootstrapped the nodes using knife and
developed Chef Cookbooks, Recipes, Roles and Data Bags to automate the services related to deployment.
 Utilized Kubernetes as a platform to provide a platform for automating the deployments, scaling and operation of
application containers across a cluster of hosts. Worked closely with development teams and test engineers for EC2 size
optimization and Docker build Containers.
 Expertise in assisting with the administration and upgrading from Windows 2003 to 2008 R2/ 2012/2016/2019 active
directory and domains. Familiarity with deployments and integrations patterns in regard to IAM solutions within the
cloud (Azure or AWS)
 Container management using Docker by writing Docker file in JSON format and place the automated build in the Docker
Hub. Managed deployments using Kubernetes, created local clusters and deployed application container.
 Converted existing Terraform modules that had version conflicts to utilize Cloud formation templates during
deployments, worked with Terraform to create stacks in AWS, and updated the Terraform scripts based on the
requirement on regular basis.
 Used Stack Driver and AWS cloud monitoring extensively to monitor and debug the cloud-based AWS EC2 services.
 Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
 Deployed Azure resource manager based resources.
 Implemented Security in Web Applications using Azure and deployed Web Applications to Azure .
 Familiar using Dependency Visualization in Azure migrate for deep analysis and identify application dependencies.
 Worked with Client team to build flow diagram for existing Training environment.
 Did pilot migration of Dev/Test workloads via lift & shift to Azure using Azure Site Recovery.
 Hands on experience in using version control tools like Subversion (SVN), GIT, GitHub and Bitbucket.
 Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous integration and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.
 Created various Terraform scripts to deploy Kubernetes, Dev, QA, and Pre-prod environments in AWS Cloud. 
 Managed Ansible Playbooks with Ansible roles, used different modules to build custom Ansible playbook Service
modules, File modules, Template modules, etc. 
 Responsible for configuring Volume Group using LVM, Logical and Physical Partitions and Importing New Physical
Volumes and Managed file system, created swap, monitored, and extended volume groups.
 Experienced in troubleshooting, automating various builds and deployments using ANT, MAVEN, Perl, Ruby, MS Build,
and Shell Scripts and deploying to web and application servers like WebSphere, WebLogic, and Tomcat.
  Experience in Installing and setting up of RAID hardware/software for data backup and storage. Highly experienced in
creating new file systems, mounting file systems, and unmounting file systems.
 Expertise in implementation and maintenance of Apache Http, SMTP, DHCP, NFS, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS, SAMBA, SQUID,
Postfix, send mail, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management Security trouble shooting skills.
 Experience in working with Linux including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, configuration, and
administration of Red Hat Virtual machines in VMware Environment.
 Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications- verbally or through written documentation using confluence
to various groups in the organization to facilitate new or improved business processes and systems via change log.
 Understanding standards and practices in Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile-SCRUM & Waterfall
methodologies. Implemented Change Management for tracking different clients and setup tracking using JIRA/
ServiceNow.
 Experienced in and demonstrated understanding of source control management concepts such as Branching, Merging,
Labeling/Tagging and Integration.
 Experienced in setup and maintained entire Jenkins, Bitbucket and Bamboo for continuous integration and continuous
deployment (CI/CD) for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments.
 Integrated Jenkins with tools like Git (Repository), Maven (Build tool), SonarQube (code verification), Nexus (Artifactory)
and implementing CI/CD automation for creating Jenkins pipelines programmatically.
 Managed servers on AWS platform instances using Ansible and Chef Configuration management and wrote Ansible
playbooks using YAML scripting and created inventory to automate the build and deployment process on servers using
SSH connections and reduced overall processing time.
 Experienced in setting up Puppet Master, Puppet Agents for managing enterprise policies & configurations that makes
applications and systems easier to deploy.
 Deployed & configured Chef Server including bootstrapping of chef-client nodes for provisioning and managed
Cookbooks, Recipes, attributes and templates.
 Installed and worked with Docker containerization to run software packages on the containers to improve Continuous
Delivery framework and Virtualized the servers using Docker for the development, test environment and performed
configuration automation using Docker containers.
 Good experience in several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Compose & Docker Registry and used
Kubernetes to automate deployments, management of applications running on multiple docker containers.
 Designed & deployed container-based production clusters using Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm and
used Kubernetes to deploy, load balance & manage docker containers with multiple namespace versions.
 Hands on experience in JIRA for creating bug-tickets, storyboarding, report generation, ticket management and managed
configuring changes into production environment using the Jira tracking tool.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems RHEL/CentOS 5.x/6.x/7, Linux-Ubuntu/Fedora, Windows 7/8/XP/10, AWS-Linux CLI

Networking
Databases
Source Control
Configuration Management
Virtualization/ Containerization
Web/Application Server
Build/Deploy/Automation Tools
Infrastructure
Software Methodologies
Bug tracking/Monitoring
VPC, Route-53, LDAP, DNS, FTP, DHCP, SSH
MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
GIT, SVN, Bitbucket
Ansible, Puppet, Chef
VMWARE, VSPHERE 5.5/6.0, VCENTER, Docker, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Vagrant
IIS, Tomcat, Apache, Jboss, WebSphere Application Server, Web Logic
ANT, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, TFS, Perl, Python, Shell, bash, Groovy
AWS, OpenStack
Agile-SCRUM, Waterfall
JIRA, Confluence, Rally, Remedy, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, Splunk, Nagios
Professional Experience

Client: Wells Fargo Advisors, Saint Louis, MO, Duration: Sep 2019 – Present
Role: AWS Cloud Engineer/ Architect
Responsibilities:
 Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Optimized volumes
and EC2 instances.
 End to end deployment ownership for projects on Amazon AWS which includes scripting for automation, scalability, build
promotions for staging to production
 Integrated Amazon Cloud Watch with Amazon EC2 instances for monitoring the log files, store them and track metrics,
Automated the dev, QA environments to auto shutdown during off hours and weekends leveraging the AWS Lambda and
CloudWatch Event Rule.
 Working on Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup- Deployed Instances on Azure environments and in Data centers and
migrating to Azure using Azure Site Recovery and collecting data from all Azure Resources using Log Analytics and
analyzed the data to resolve issues.
 Configuring Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) as a part of Azure AD Premium to securely authenticate users and
worked on creating custom Azure templates for quick deployments and advanced PowerShell scripting.
 Working on Serverless services, created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions with application insights
for monitoring and performing load testing on the applications using the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) also called
as Azure DevOps Services.
 Used Docker for setting Azure Container Registry with Docker and Docker-compose and actively involved in deployments
on Docker using Kubernetes.
 Created CI/CD Pipelines in Azure DevOps environments by providing their dependencies and tasks. Also have experience
on implementing and managing continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS and created END-END
Automation with CI Procedures using Jenkins & automated Maven builds by integrating them with Continuous Integration
tools Jenkins
 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 Resource Manager templates and
Terraform.
 Configured servers to host Team Foundation Server ( TFS ) instance to setup and manage Continuous
Integration (CI) using Team Foundation (TF) Build Service.
 Experience with Terraform to build infrastructure as a code, Utilization of Terraform for automated infrastructure
deployments (AWS ELB, AWS EC2, AWS Security Groups, AWS VPC, AWS Key Pairs, AWS IAM)
 Create fully automated CI/CD using Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub.
 Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant, auto scaling, Kubernetes AWS
infrastructure and micro service container orchestration.
 Manage and replicate infrastructure and instance configurations using Terraform and Packer
 Performed GIT/Bit Bucket migration and managed branching strategies using GIT flow workflow 
 Built Jenkins jobs to create AWS infrastructure from GitHub repos containing Terraform code, to help the Dev and QA to
setup the environment to progress the development and testing at faster pace.
 Created inventory in Ansible for automating continuous deployment and wrote Playbooks using YAML scripting
 Involved in Development and Implementation of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
pipeline involving Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform and Docker containers to complete the automation from commit to
deployment
 Worked on creation of multiple Amazon Machine Images (AMI) for multiple regions and different environments using
Packer Scripts and automated in Ansible playbooks
 Built Terr grunt project to manage Terraform configuration file DRY while working with multiple terraforms modules
 Installed Docker Registry for local upload and download of Docker images and even from Docker hub
 Implemented build stage to build the micro service and push the Docker container image to the private Docker registry
Client: Walgreens, Wheeling, IL, Duration: Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Role: Cloud/DevOps & Release Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Hands-on experience with Amazon Web services (AWS) and implemented solutions using EC2, S3, and RDS in cloud
formation Json templates, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, and Auto Scaling Groups.
 Operated on vCloud Director and maintained its configuration; acted as a Post Migration support on the Project of Office
365 from Exchange server 2013/2016, VMs through template and created troubleshooting virtual networks, standard
switches, and distributed switches. Worked on configuring Cross-Account deployments using AWS Code Pipeline, Code
Build and Code Deploy by creating Cross-Account Policies & Roles on IAM.
 Developed and managed cloud VM’s with AWS EC2command line clients and management console. Created AWS
Route53 to route traffic between different regions and alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
 Build new CI pipeline, Testing and deployment automation with Docker, Jenkins and Ansible. Integrating SonarQube in
the CI pipeline to analyze code quality and obtain combined code coverage reports after performing static and dynamic
analysis.
 Used Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK stack) for centralized logging and analytics in the continuous delivery
pipeline to store logs and metrics into S3 bucket using lambda function.
 Worked with Application Performance Monitoring tools like AppDynamics for monitoring JAVA, .NET and PHP applications
along with NewRelic for monitoring performance like browser and for tracking issues in SQL statements.
 Created and maintained various DevOps related tools for the team such as provisioning scripts, deployment tools and
staged virtual environments using Docker and Vagrant.
 Managed Nexus and Maven repositories to download artifacts during the build and wrote Ansible Playbooks, which is
entry point for Server Provisioning, where the automation identified through the tasks using YAML format.
 Experience using Ansible Tower, which provides an easy-to-use dashboard, and role-based access control, so that it is
easier to allow individual teams access to use Ansible for their deployments.
 Managed Microservices using Docker to quickly spin up into reproducible dev environment and scaling them and
orchestration using Amazon EC2 container service (ECS) and deploy it to an Amazon EC2 instance.
 Created Docker compose file using YAML for deploying MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node JS) applications
onto Docker containers before deploying them into production environment.
 Created Docker Images using a docker file, worked on Docker Container Snapshots, removing images and managing
Docker Volumes deployed using Kubernetes.
 Migrated Windows Active Directories and .net applications from AWS to Azure cloud by implementing POC’s in the
organization and Performing POT’s in Azure implementation.
 Used Terraform for managing the infrastructure through the terminal sessions and executing scripts in creating alarms
and notifications for EC2 instances using AWS Cloud Watch. Wrote Ansible Playbooks for various applications and
deploying them in AWS using Terraform.
 Used bash and python with Boto3 to supplement automation provided by Ansible and Terraform for tasks such as
encrypting EBS volumes backing AMI’s and scheduling lambda functions for routine AWS tasks.
 Deployed java applications into web application servers like Apache Tomcat servers to host the applications. Involved in
configuring Nginx as a web server.
 Experienced in maintaining containers running on cluster node are managed by OpenShift Kubernetes.
 Maintained Single and Multi-container pods storage inside a node of OpenShift (Kubernetes) cluster.
 Used OpenShift for Docker file to build the image and then upload the created images to the Docker registry.
 Automated the deployment and replication of containers and scale in of the containers in the fly and worked on
the docker swarm for the build-in orchestration.
 Configured Operators on Kubernetes applications and all of its components, such as Deployments, Config Maps, Secrets
and Services Experience in containerizing and migrating application to Kubernetes.
 Created Jenkins on top of Kubernetes in team environment to remove dependencies on other teams.
 Worked on open source development tools like Docker Containers, Mesos and Kubernetes.
 Schedule and perform process audits and recommend process improvements. Continuously work towards optimization of
process and workflow to improve turnaround and resolution time.
Client: Costco Corporation, Issaquah, WA, Duration: Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
Role: DevOps/AWS Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Designing and deploying large number of applications utilizing most of the AWS stack includes not limited to EC2,
Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS and IAM focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance and auto-scaling in AWS
cloud formation.
 Involved in working with cloud/storage systems along with few SaaS applications. Worked in deployment of content
delivery networks (CDN) and system development in cloud environments.
 Designed AWS cloud formation templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of
web-applications and database templates. Configuring and networking of virtual private cloud (VPC), written cloud
formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.
 Expertise in configuring and deploying instances on Cloud environments and On-Premise Data centers. Experience in the
areas of DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline, Build & release management, AWS, and Linux/Windows Administration.
 Storage on AWS EBS, S3 and Glacier and automate sync data to Glacier. Database services on AWS like RDS, Dynamo DB,
Elastic Transcoder, Cloud front, Elastic Beanstalk.
 Configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) groups and users for improved login authentication. Designed
Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and
subnets.
 Writing Terraform templates, Chef Cookbooks and push them onto Chef Server for configuring EC2 Instances and
Bamboo AWS Code Deploy plugin to deploy applications. Configured/Integrated Bamboo with Bitbucket to pull codes,
ANT to generate builds and push artifacts to AWS S3.
 Configured Chef to manage AWS environments and automate the build process for core AMIs used by all application
deployments including Auto scaling, and incorporating Chef using AWS OpsWorks on the JSON Cloud Formation scripts
for the configuration deployment onto the nodes.
 Created EBS snapshots, rebuilt new EBS volumes from snapshots to migrate applications, and storing these snapshots into
S3 buckets for backup.
 Managing GIT version control system in creating branches, tags, merge, resolving conflicts. Developed CI/CD system with
Jenkins on Docker for the run-time environment to build, test and deploy.
 Experience in working with several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Compose, and Docker Registry for
storing Dockerimages and files, running multiple containers in staging and production environments.
 Worked to setup Jenkins as a service inside the Docker Swarm cluster to reduce the failover downtime to minutes and to
automate the Docker containers deployment without using configuration management tool.
 Used AppDynamics for administrative activities like user management, application management and monitoring
controller performance.
 Worked on deployment automation of all micro-services to pull image from the private docker registry and deploy to
Docker Swarm cluster using Ansible.
 Experience in working with Docker service rolling updates and involved in implementation of BLUE GREEN DEPLOYMENT
to attain zero downtime.

Client: American Express, New York City, NY, Duration: Jun 2011- May 2015
Role: Systems/VMWare Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Experience in Installing, upgrading, configuring Red Hat Linux 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7 using kickstart servers and interactive
installation.
 Expertise in package management using Red Hat RPM, YUM used in several Linux distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and configuring different servers (FTP, WEB, NFS, SAMBA, Send mail & Autofs).
 Experience in installing and configuring SELinux using command line interface and setting up permissions to the files and
directories according to the requirement.
 Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging,
network logging of servers for maintenance, Performance tuning and testing using.
 Configuration and maintenance of WebLogic 8.1 with JDBC, JNMS, JNMI, SNMP and J2EE services, deploying applications
in (WAR, JAR, and EAR) in domain and clustered environments. Performed WebLogic Server 8.x administration tasks such
as installing, configuring, monitoring and performance tuning.
 Worked extensively on large variety of integration technologies Mule soft, Apache Camel, Jboss Fuse, Fuse Fabric8 and
creating Active MQ with different topologies in Enterprise Integration.
 Experience in installing, configuring, and maintaining application Server like WebSphere and Web Servers like Web Logic,
Apache HTTP and Tomcat on UNIX and Linux.
 Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and implemented MFA to provide additional security to the AWS account and
its resources.
 Experience in installation, configuration, performance tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrade/patches of Linux
and UNIX servers using Crontab.
 Installation and administration of VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5 environment Evaluated and implemented new hardware and
software solutions that benefited architecture and operations implemented VMware SRM and troubleshot performance
issues.
 Worked on VMware for Virtual server builds, increasing memory, CPU, adding disks, Maintenance on ESX hosts VM and
server/storage migrations.
 Installing and upgrading virtual machine hardware version using VMware tools. Provisioning virtual machines and
Deploying virtual machines from Templates by cloning. Creating and deleting of VM's snapshots.
 Assigning LUNs to ESX/ ESXi servers and creating data stores. Adding virtual machine memory and vcpu.