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M. A. Rana

Frankfort,KY

Summary

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
  • Environments: Windows, VMWare, RHEL, CentOS, Apache, Apache Tomcat/HTTP, Shell
  • Scripting, Firewalls.

DevOps Engineer

Sanquest Inc
02.2019 - 09.2019
  • 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
  • Maintained GIT, GIT repositories, handling branching, merging, tagging, and release activities
  • 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
  • Environments: AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB/ALB, S3, RDS, IAM, Cloud Trail, and Route 53, Elastic
  • Beanstalk, Dynamo-DB, SNS, SQS, Cloud Watch), Git, JIRA, Tomcat, Perl, Shell scripts
  • Windows, Linux, Chef, Jenkins, Maven, JSON

Education

B.A. - Business Administration

KSU
Frankfort, KY

Skills

  • AWS EC2, S3, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, Glacier, Cloud Formation templates, Elastic Beanstalk
  • Cloud Watch, IAM, Route 53, VPC
  • Configuration Management
  • Tools CHEF, Ansible, and Puppet
  • 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
M. A. Rana