6+ years of experience in the IT industry comprising delivery management, design, development, release, deployment, and cloud implementation.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr DevOps Engineer
NextEra Energy
09.2019 - 09.2024
Developed and implemented CI/CD services for the internal department
Developed and optimized CI build jobs utilizing Jenkins
Transitioned from Jenkins to Github Actions
Deployed new features to streamline all manual operations
Worked closely with development teams to integrate their projects into the production environment and ensured their ongoing support
Perform root-cause analysis of all critical issues
Worked on CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies by creating the master-slave architecture and integrating Jenkins with various tools such as GIT
SonarQube, by utilizing various plugins within Jenkins
Improved product environment and practices used by the software developers
Managed the continuous integration services maintenance and configuration, ensuring the build environment met the needs of the software developers
Developed scripts for the purpose of manual deployment of the code to the different environments and e-mail the team the build is completed
Used Shell scripting for building and deploying java applications to target environments
Used JIRA as a bug tracking tool to review and fix bugs, along with Scrum Agile tool
Involved in designing and deploying multitude of applications utilizing almost the AWS
stack (Including EC2, VPC, Route 53, S3, RDS, Dynamo-DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on
high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud Formation
Configured AWS IAM and Security Groups in public and private subnets in VPC
Created AWS Route 53 to route traffic between different regions
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
Implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in AWS cloud
Setup and build AWS infrastructure utilizing various resources including VPC, EC2, S3
IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud-Formation JSON templates
Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), written cloud formation
templates and deployed AWS resources using it
Automated deployment of builds to different environments using Jenkins
Utilized Jenkins for enterprise scale infrastructure configuration and application
deployments, including checking out code from Git and used Maven to build war/jar artifacts
Built continuous integration environment in Jenkins and continuous delivery
environments
Defined branching, labeling, and merge strategies for all applications in Git
Utilized Configuration Management Tool Chef by creating Chef cookbooks using recipes
to automate system operations
Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security
groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ALBs) in the defined virtual private connection
Designed and implemented Platform as Service architecture for middleware by
automating application and web server’s installation/configuration/deployment and configuration
through Che
Deployed applications on AWS by using Elastic Beanstalk
Configured plugins for integration tools from version control tools
Used Maven as a build tool on java projects for the development of build artifacts on the
source code
Created monitors, alarms, and SNS notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch
Responded to production incidents, worked to restore services, and performed root
cause analysis
Application Servers Apache Tomcat, Web Sphere, Web Logic, JBoss
Source Control Tools GIT, SVN, GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab
CI/CD and Build Tools Jenkins, Bamboo, Maven, and Github Actions
Containerization Tools Docker, Kubernetes
Microservices Architecture
Containerization Technologies
Cloud Computing Expertise
Scripting Languages
Security best practices
Monitoring and Logging
API Development
Software Development
Technical solutions
Solution building
Release management
Linux administration
Virtualization
Software Development Tools: JIRA, Confluence
Amazon Web Services
JIRA
Software Applications
Linux Environments
Build releases
Technical Analysis
Source and Version Control: Git, Github
Web Programming
Code validation
System Administration
Programming
Software Architecture
Javascript
Code reviews
Additional Information
on AWS platform and its dimensions of scalability including EC2, S3, EBS,
VPC, ELB/ALB, AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling, CloudFront, Cloud Watch, Cloud
Trail, Cloud Formation, OPS Work, and Security Groups.
Experience in setting up databases in AWS using RDS, and storage using S3 bucket.
Involved in configuring and integrating servers with different environments automatically,
including provisioning and creation of new machines using CM provisioning tools like Ansible,
Chef, and Puppet.
Implemented Chef Recipes for deployment on build using internal Data Center Servers,
used Chef Recipes as templates to create a deployment directly to EC2 instances.
Experience in installing and administering CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, and
involved in setting up Continuous Integration (CI) for major releases in Jenkins.
Built end-to-end CI/CD Pipelines in Jenkins & Github Actions by utilizing groovy scripting, compiled
applications, performed tests, and pushed build artifacts to Nexus.
Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous integration, and for end-to-end automation
for all build deployments, and created Jenkins Pipelines.
Experienced in branching, tagging, and maintaining the versions across the
environments using SCM tools like GitHub, Bit Bucket, GitLab, and Subversion (SVN) on Linux
and Windows platforms.
Experience in source control management concepts such as Branching, Merging,
Labeling/Tagging, and Integration.
Used Docker as a new level of simplicity for defining, creating applications, and services
by encapsulating them in containers.
Used Docker containers for eliminating a source of conflict between development and
operations.
Worked on Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, Config
Maps, selector, services, and deployed application containers as Pods.
Expert in deploying code on web applications servers like Web Sphere, Web Logic,
Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, and built microservices using API gateway.
Wrote Python scripts in DAGS for scheduling the jobs using Shell, PowerShell scripts in
Linux and Windows operating systems for housekeeping the local accounts.
Experience in maintaining and executing build scripts to automate development and
production builds.
Experience in Administration of Production, Development, Test, UAT environments
carrying Windows and Linux.
Extensive experience in Linux/Unix system administration, System Builds, Servers
Builds, Installations, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, and Troubleshooting.
Timeline
Sr DevOps Engineer
NextEra Energy
09.2019 - 09.2024
DevOps Engineer
Sanquest Inc
02.2019 - 09.2019
B.A. - Business Administration
KSU
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