Sr.

DevOps Engineer

Professional Summary
● Around 11 years of experience as a DevOps/Build/Release Engineer, which includes Software
Configuration Management (SCM), Build/Release Management, Continuous Integration and
Continuous Delivery using different tools.
● Experience in core AWS services (S3, EC2, ELB, EBS, Route53, Lambda, VPC, Auto scaling etc.)
and deployment services (ElasticBeanstalk, OpsWork and Cloud Formation) and security
practices (IAM, CloudWatch and CloudTrail).
● Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, DynamoDB, services in AWS
cloud.
● Dexterous in preparing DevOps Strategy, Cloud Strategy and Migration Strategy for the
organizations and plan the migration from on-prem infrastructure to the cloud reducing costs by
at least 30% and also migrating from one cloud to another.
● Worked on internal and external web/network traffic management solutions such as load
balancers, proxies, firewalls, access control list ACL, CloudFront CDN, AWS WAF.
● Experience with different migration services like AWS SMS to migrate On-premise workloads to
AWS in easier and faster way using AWS DMS, AWS Snowball and Amazon S3 transfer
acceleration.
● Experienced with various services as AWS , Terraform and Packer for building and deploying
applications by adopting DevOps practices such as Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous
Deployment (CD )in runtime with various tools like Git, Maven, VSTS, Jenkins, Docker and EKS.
● Developed infrastructure as code using Terraform combining third-party modules with client-
specific code. Deployed the infrastructure in the Amazon cloud, debugged all issues, and wrote
the deployment documentation.
● Built and updated helm charts used for internal applications as well as external helm charts.
Managed Kustomize code used by Kubeflow.
● Experience on complete software development life cycle (SDLC) with software development
models like Agile, Scrum Model, JIRA, Waterfall models.
● Expertise in Data Integration and Data Conversion ETL development projects, building Business
processes/graphs/mappings using ETL tools Ab Initio 3.x, Informatica Powercenter 9.x.
● Automate the Build and deploy of all internal Java environments using various continuous
integration tools and scripting languages.
● Experienced in containerization all applications - Spring Boot, Java, Angular, and python
applications using Docker and deployed to Kubernetes clusters and ECS Fargate.
● Expertise in DevOps, Release Engineering, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure,
Automation. It includes Amazon Webservices (AWS), Ant, Apache Maven, Jenkins, SVN, GitHub,
Tomcat, JBoss, and Linux.
● Excellent knowledge of Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, ELB and other services of the AWS and hand-
on of Cloud-as a Service varieties PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS.
● Automating AWS resources – Route53, S3, EC2, Cognito, API Gateway, Lambda, IAM roles and
AWS account management
● Familiar with TCP/IP, HTTP, JavaScript, Web Services (RESTful), big data caching mechanism,
Load Balancing, multi-datacenter architecture.
● Expertise in automation of infrastructure using Ansible playbooks and Ansible tower.

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 ● Expertise in writing Ansible playbooks and developing roles for scalability and reusability.
Developed playbooks for provisioning, orchestration, packages, services, configuration and
deployments.
● Established Configuration Management tooling for organization using SaltStack and managed
Windows and Linux VM's across multiple data centers.
● Handled Remote execution on multiple servers through Saltstack. Configured all the Salt
Minionsacross all the dev and production Master servers
● Implemented a complete automated build-release solution using a combination of technologies
like Maven, TFS, Jenkins
● Used JIRA to keep track of all the ongoing tasks and maintain bug resolutions.
● Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources like VPC, EC2, RDB, S3, IAM, EBS, Security
Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.
● Expertise in Amazon AWS Cloud Administration which includes services like EC2, S3, EBS, VPC,
ELB, AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Security
Groups, etc.
● Expertise in developing, deploying, and managing microservice-based containerized applications
on Kubernetes and Docker Swarm Clusters on Reserved Instances (RI) and on cloud services
including AWS Fargate EKS/ECS/ECR.
● Developing CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI to build, test, promote and deploy core services and
docker images used by multiple dev teams
● Experienced in building Docker images using Gitlab-CI build automation runner.
● Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis Tools like JUnit, SonarQube and
find bugs.
● Experienced in deploying the code through web/application servers like Apache http Server Web
Sphere/Web Logic/ Apache Tomcat/JBOSS.
● Experience on SQL, SSIS packages, SSRS Reports, SSAS, Tableau desktop and tableau server.
● Ability to manage all aspects of the software configuration management process including code
compilation, packaging/deployment/ release methodology, and application configurations.
● Worked on Multiple AWS instances, set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs,
Auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
● Efficient in working closely with teams to ensure high quality and timely delivery of builds and
releases.
● Strong scripting experience in Python, YAML, PowerShell, Golang And Bash
● Strong knowledge on revision control concepts like Branching, Merging and Tagging.
● Proficient in tracing complex build problems, release issues and environment issues in a multi-
component environment

Professional Experience
Siemens Healthineers, Tarrytown NY (Feb 2018 – Till date)
Position: Sr. DevOps Engineer – Ansible Automation
Responsibilities:

● Created the automated build and deployment process for application, re-engineering setup for
better user experience, and leading up to building a continuous integration system for all our
products.

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 ● Designed and implemented advanced continuous deployment strategies, including blue-green
deployments and canary releases, minimizing production deployment risks.
● Performed the deployment strategies such as blue-green deployments and canary releases in
Jenkins (CI/CD) pipelines, minimizing downtime and risk during software releases.
● Implemented advanced traffic management strategies using Istio, such as canary releases, A/B
testing, and blue-green deployments, to ensure zero-downtime deployments.
● Built S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage
and backup on AWS.
● Involved in migration of infrastructure, data and applications from on-premise to Hybrid cloud
environments
● Created several Test plans and Test Scenarios for Stress Testing of Performance Tuning
of Ab Initio graphs and sessions and improved the performance by calculating Cache
requirements for Transformations/Components and optimizing the component.
● Conducted security assessments and vulnerability scans, identifying and addressing critical
vulnerabilities in the cloud environment, resulting in a 40% reduction in potential security risks.
● Involved in migration of database servers to AWS RDS.
● Created Task definitions and services CloudFormation stacks for ECS Fargate container
Deployments for multiple RESTAPIs and invoked the container from AWS lambda functions.
● Developed a Python script to automate the input value file build and a Terraform module and
workspace initialization.
● Developed Terraform code for a Kubernetes infrastructure build. Managed it using Kops for
Kubernetes. Debugged issues and integrated Kubernetes with ECR and Amazon Route 53.
● Provisioned AWS and Azure services and resources using Terraform: EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, Auto
Scaling, Cloud Formation, Elastic Load Balancing, RDS, Route 53, Memcache, Redis, OpsWorks,
CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Identity and Access Management (IAM).
● Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build staging and
production environments and defined Terraform modules such as compute, network,
operations and users to reuse in different environments.
● Created infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation however deferred mostly to Terraform for
provisioning. Importing and exporting using CloudFormation.
● Created EKS for non-prod and prod infra structure using terraform and eksctl yaml
● Managed python and NodeJS base API with Docker containers and deploy them using Helm
charts in to EKS.
● Develop/Maintain Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes on EKS and on prem VMs,
and Docker Images on ECR and private docker registry. Involved in development of test
environments on Docker containers move them to pre-production and production environments.
● Created auto scaling for EKS and implemented HPA efficiently for the loadbearing services and
building highly-scalable software.
● Worked on deployment automation using python / golang for all the microservices to pull image
from the private docker registry and deploy to EKS.
● Architected and Implemented Grafana and Prometheus from the scratch to the EKS cluster and
used influxDB, Prometheus, CloudWatch as datastores.
● Deployed OpenVPN into EKS with self-service ca certification authority using corporate central
authentication.
● Extensively worked on Jenkins CI/CD pipeline jobs for end-to-end automation to build, test and
deliver artifacts and troubleshoot the build issue during the Jenkins build process.

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 ● Designed Jenkins pipelines involving several Downstream/Upstream job configurations based on
dependencies from other applications based on release methodologies.
● Set up Jenkins server and built jobs to provide continuous automated builds based on polling the
Git source control system during the day and periodic scheduled builds overnight to support
development needs using Jenkins, Git, and Maven.
● Developed scripts in Groovy to automate and collect analysis of Cassandra. Also, used groovy
scripts for setting up LDAP configuration for Jenkins using security matrix.
● Built Docker images with built-in configuration initialization at startup, EGM Nexus docker image
with Groovy scripts to fully initialize configuration upon the first startup and retain it on
subsequent starts of the same container.
● Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the Docker registry and then
deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.
● Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all microservices Docker builds out to the jfrog Artifactory
repository and then deployed ECR repo and ECS cluster for container deployments
● Used ANT and MAVEN as a build tool on java projects for the development of build artifacts on
the source code.
● Created pipelines to build Java and .NET code on to different Jenkins servers as per the schedule.
● Deployed Java/J2EE applications on to Apache Tomcat application servers and configured it to
host the websites.
● Configured application servers (Tomcat) using Ansible to deploy the code. Created and
configured multiple instances on Tomcat Server for different teams.
● Made use of ELK stack for logging all the activity and create indexes which can be queried by
Kibana.
● Created reusable Terraform modules in AWS cloud environments.
● Design AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC , subnets , NAT to ensure
successful deployment of Web applications and database templates
● Good understanding of OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (LAN, WAN, TCP, UDP, BGP, FTP, SMTP,
HTTP, HTTPS, DHCP, DNS, TFIP, SIP, SSH, NTP, TLS, LLDP, BBDP)
● Application Networking experience with AWS API Gateway, NLB/ALB.
● Architected the API management Gateway between Ansible and other Shared Services of the
project.
● Pioneered the use of serverless architectures with AWS Lambda and API Gateway, cutting down
operational overhead for clients by 25%
● Worked on AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS and
create nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups.
● Used Ansible Playbooks to automate in AWS services like Launching EC2, Provisioning IAM,
Configuring VPC, EBS, Monitoring using CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
● Orchestrated blue-green deployments using CloudFormation, minimizing downtime and
improving the overall availability of critical applications.
● Installing/configuring/administration of vSphere 5.5 Virtual Infrastructure and Windows servers,
Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS web Server.
● Using Ansible created multiple playbooks for spinning out machines, configure software
and automate the process of deploying and patching SQL Always On clusters.
● Automate dashboards with the stack through Terraform Scripts.

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 ● Used Terraform scripts to simulate the hardware and software in cloud, which reduced
turnaround time for teams to spin up a VM with specific image and build from 2.5 Hrs to approx.
35 minutes.
● Write terraform scripts from scratch for building Dev, Staging, Prod and DR environments.
● Created Docker images using a Docker file. Worked on Docker container snapshots, removing
images and managing docker volumes and experienced with Docker container service.
● Designing and implementing container orchestration systems with Docker Swarm and
Kubernetes.
● Developed and implemented Kubernetes manifests, helm charts for deployment of
microservices into k8s clusters.
● Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm. Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes
applications, managed Kubernetes manifest files and managed releases of Helm packages.
● Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the Docker registry and then
deployed to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.
● Deployed production-ready Kubernetes Clusters on top of Amazon EC2 instances using KOPS.
● Building Docker image with Packer and provisioning with Kubernetes by using Docker Packer
Builder.
● Experience with Kubernetes to manage the containerized applications, creating configMaps,
deployments, secrets, services and deploying application containers as pods.
● Experience working on several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, Compose
and Docker Registry.
● Integrated Kubernetes with network, storage, and security to provide comprehensive
infrastructure and orchestrated container across multiple hosts.
● Involved in implementation of Elastic search to visualize the data in different customer locations
on Kibana Dashboard.
● Developed the helm chart unit test while utilizing test hooks for automated helm deployment
testing.
● Troubleshot and upgraded system-level applications and their respective helm charts – Istio,
ingress controller, external DNS, and certificate manager.

Environment: AWS, EC2, EKS, S3, Docker Containers, Kubernetes, SaltStack, Helm, Tableau, Ab Initio,
Git, Gitlab CI, Shell scripting, PowerShell, Groovy, SQL Server 2017, MDT, XAML, Jenkins, packer,
Tomcat9, Terraform, LDAP, Elastic Search, Kibana, Ansible, Ansible Tower.

Dell EMC - Dallas, Texas (Jan 2017 – Feb 2018)

Position: DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities:

● Implementing a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment framework for applications

using Jenkins, Maven & Artifactory in Linux environment
● Developed Ansible playbooks to install and configure Apache, Tomcat, Jenkins, WebLogic, and
deployment automation.
● Implemented Jenkins as a continuous delivery tool using Groovy, DSL, pipelines, and Kubernetes
running Jenkins slaves on demand.
● Used Ansible Playbooks to automate in AWS services like Launching EC2, Provisioning IAM,
Configuring VPC, EBS, Monitoring using CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
● Handled Migration of AWS Infrastructure from the on-prem data center in DFW to AWS
● Worked with Flux9 vendor in setting up landing zones for the infrastructure in AWS in Gold and
Platinum Plans for migration. This includes both lift and shift and incremental shift type of

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 migrations
● Created AWS Cloud formation templates on creating IAM Roles & total architecture deployment
end to end.
● Automated application deployments using Argo CD, leveraging blue/green deployment strategies
and canary releases to minimize downtime and ensure smooth rollouts.
● Executed smooth deployments to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) utilizing effective
deployment strategies like blue-green deployments and canary releases, ensuring high
application availability in Kubernetes environment.
● Analyze and resolve compilation and deployment errors related to code development,
branching, merging, building of source code.
● Implement, maintain, and support reliable, timely and reproducible builds for project teams.
● Used Maven dependency management system to deploy snapshot and release artifacts to
Nexus to share artifacts across projects.
● Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with
Ant and Maven to schedule the builds.
● Written groovy scripts to use multi branch pipeline projects in Jenkins to configure it as per
client’s requirements.
● Own full lifecycle of build system - from analysis, development, implementation and support of
builds, unit testing and deployments
● Created and maintained the python deployment scripts for Web Sphere web application server.
● Collaborated with AWS security team to develop build your own certificate device
authentication alternative API for AWS IoT MQTT service.
● Involved in installing and configuring enterprise integration tools like ESB, message brokers, API
gateways, databases and any automation tools
● Worked with RedHat OpenShift Container Platform for Docker and Kubernetes. Used
Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, ConfigMaps, selector, Services
and deployed application containers as Pods.
● Created a Continuous Delivery process to include support building of Docker Images and publish
into a private repository- Nexus v3.
● Managed local deployments in Kubernetes, creating local cluster and deploying application
containers.
● Container management using Docker by writing Docker files and set up the automated build on
Docker HUB and installed and configured Kubernetes.
● Created and managed cloud VMs with AWS EC2 command line clients and AWS management
console.
● Implemented AWS solutions using E2C, S3, RDS, EBS, and Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling
groups and optimized volumes, EC2 instances.
● Integrated AWS Dynamo DB using AWS Lambda to store the values the items and backup the
Dynamo DB streams.
● Experienced in AWS Elastic Beanstalk for app deployments and worked on AWS Lambda with
Amazon kinesis.
● Used IAM to create new accounts, roles, and groups.
● Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to backup files and archive files in Glacier.
● Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups.
● Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure
successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
● Installed configured and administered App Dynamics Controller, Data Base Controller, Web and
Mobile End User

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 ● REST API Design using Swagger and API Management AWS API Gateway
● Setup profiles, thresholds, alerts based on thresholds and created various dashboards in
Dynatrace and App Dynamics. By using Application Performance Management in App Dynamics,
monitored Micro Services deployed in elastic infrastructure, spotting thread contention issues,
and their root cause and integrated alerting system with Jira.
● Coordinate with Release Management regarding appropriate system releases among other
development platforms

Environment: RedHat RHEL 5.x & 6.x, Java, Spring boot, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, Dockers, Kubernetes,
OpenShift Linux, Solaris, AWS, EC2, S3, API Gateways, Swagger, Cloud Forms, WebLogic, Ant, Git, Shell
scripting, WLST, Python scripting, App Dynamics, VMware Vcenter, Oracle, BMC Remedy

FactSet Research Systems, Norwalk, CT (Jan 2016 – Jan 2017)

Position: DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities:

● Worked with AWS cloud computing and involved in creating AWS EC2instances and deployed
Linux and Ubuntu on AWS environment. Worked on migrating applications onto AWS.
● Worked in Chef Cookbooks for OS component configuration to keep AWS server’s template
minimal.
● Worked in environments in AWS platforms for the cloud deployments.
● Wrote recipes and cookbooks for configuring server side through Chef and the Chef server used
bash to automate the deployment process.
● Set up Jenkins server and built jobs to provide continuous automated builds based on polling the
Git source control system during the day and periodic scheduled builds overnight to support
development needs using Jenkins, Git, and Maven. Developed Maven scripts to automate the
compilation, deployment and testing of Web applications.
● Supported engineering plans and schedules by providing CM/Release Engineering services to
build, deploy, develop scripts, oversee branch, and merge strategies, and build automated tools
as necessary to offer services to the engineering team.
● Automating Server Builds using Chef, Installed and configured Splunk on Linux servers for log
analysis, Installed Altiris agent for patching on Windows servers.
● Configured Jenkins for developers to bounce the application container, to get the application
container, and access logs by using ANT scripts.
● Used the continuous integration tool Jenkins to automate the daily processes.
● Migrated J2EE applications to UNIX and Windows environments by configuring applications via
IDE Eclipse, Subversion, and Jenkins.
● Integrated Cloud front with S3 storage for content delivery (CDN).
● Setup Docker to automate container deployment through Jenkins and Dealt with Docker Hub,
making Docker Images and taking care of various Images essentially for middleware
establishments.
● Configured Kubernetes Replication controllers to allow multiple pods such as Jenkins master
server in multiple minions. Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm.
● Configured Jenkins slaves and achieved the load balancing on Jenkins.
● Worked on Multi project jobs in Jenkins and used a pipeline plugin to manage them.
● Configured and maintained Apache Web servers for release management team’s internal use.

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 ● Sized acquired and supported the QA environment used to test the deployment and
functionality of existing and new applications in parallel across Web sphere, JBoss, and Tomcat
servers.
● JIRA Administrated, maintained documentation, and provided training to the users.
● Created SVN Hooks which triggers builds in Jenkins for the legacy products.
● Deployed production packages to web servers and application servers according to business
needs.
● Environment: AWS, Linux/Unix, Jenkins, Chef, Ant, Git, Maven, JBOSS, Helm, Java, Apache
Tomcat, Splunk, Docker, Kubernetes

Environment: Centos , Debian, Chef V12, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, Shell Scripts, Ruby, Helm,
Apache, Elastic Path, GIT, Power shell, JIRA

FactSet Research Systems, India (Sept 2011 – Dec 2014)

Position: Build Engineer
Responsibilities:

● Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/GIT Repositories, views, and the
access control strategies.
● Support Microsoft IIS, and Solaris web infrastructure.
● Designed and implemented Subversion and GIT metadata including elements, labels, attributes,
triggers and hyperlinks.
● Work on production support of Linux/Unix servers.
● Installed RedHat Linux using kick start and applying security polices for hardening the server
based on company's policies.
● Deployed System Centre Operation Manager (SCOM) 2005
● Implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies utilizing Subversion/GIT
● Involved in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery.
● Built a comprehensive PERL script which would call the required Make files and notify the build
distribution team in case of Build errors or Completion of the builds.
● Worked closely with developers to pinpoint and provide early warnings of common build
failures.
● Setup Jenkins to run regular regression tests using Maven configuration.
● Used ANT and MAVEN as a build tool on java projects for the development of build artifacts on
the source code.
● Created puppet manifests and modules to automate system operations.
● Worked on installation and configurations of Puppet agent and Puppet Master.
● Actively Involved in Building and configuring of red hat Linux and Solaris 9/10 servers remotely
using Jump Start /Kick Start Servers.
● Automated build and release management process including monitoring changes between
releases.
● Deployed the Java applications into web application servers like Web logic.
● Executed user administration and maintenance tasks including creating users and groups,
reports and queries.
● Instituted centrally managed Linux configurations for application deployments, disaster
recovery.
● Worked as a system administrator for the build and deployments process on the enterprise

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● Documented project's software release management procedures with input decisions.
● Track of all the releases and request of the developers through Infrastructure management tool.
● Created views and appropriate meta-data, performed merges, and executed builds on a pool of
dedicated build machines.
● Involved in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery.

Environment: Subversion, GIT, Anthill pro, Java/J2EE, ANT, Bash, MAVEN, JIRA, RedHat LINUX, XML,
Python, Windows XP, IIS, Windows Server 2003, Web logic, Bugzilla, SCOM, MY SQL, Perl Scripts, Shell
scripts/Ruby.

Education
· Masters in Computer Science , University of Central Missouri, Jan 2015 to May 2016
· Bachelors in Electronics and Communication, JNTU Hyderabad, India, Aug 2007 to May 2011
Technical skills
● Operating Systems: LINUX (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu), UNIX, Windows
● Versioning Tools: Git, Azure Repo, Gitlab, GitHub
● Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, Docker Swarm
● Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, HP Quality Center
● Build Tools: Maven, MS build
● CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps
● Automation Tools: Terraform, Ansible, Ansible Tower
● Languages/Scripting: Python, Golang, Shell, PowerShell scripting
● Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, Java Script, XML, YAML
● Monitoring Tools : Splunk, Elastic Search
● Application Servers : Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, JBOSS, WebLogic
● Database: SQL SERVER, MYSQL
● Cloud Environments: AWS, Azure

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