Achyuth Kumar
Summary
Over 8+ years of work experience comprising Software Configuration Management (SCM), DevOps Build/Release Management, Systems Administration, Change/Incident Management, and Cloud Management. Expertise in Amazon Cloud Services and its features AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, snapshots, Autoscaling, Cloud Formation, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, etc. Handled operations and maintenance support for AWS cloud resources which includes launching, maintaining, and troubleshooting EC2 instances, S3 buckets, Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), and Elastic Load Balancers (ELB). Managed GIT repository, code merging, and production deployments. Responsible for merging, tagging, and conflict resolution in GIT and administered GIT Source Code Tool. Written pre-commit, post-commit, and post-receive hooks in GIT. Strong knowledge/experience in creating Jenkins CI pipelines. Experience with Jenkins server - Includes setup of Jenkins Masters, configure builds, and deployment automation. Experience in approaches and tooling for automated build, delivery, and release of the software. Management and design of integrated build pipelines using continuous integration workflows such as Jira, Git, Jenkins, Docker, and Artifactory. Worked on Configuration management tool Ansible for continuous delivery. Configured servers using Ansible playbooks. Experience with Docker Containerization. Collaborated with development support teams to set up a continuous delivery environment with the use of Docker. Used Debian-based Linux servers to install Docker-based services, and monitor and debug the services. Installed, monitored, and supported Web and Application Servers on Linux environments. Used Aws SSM service to patch the Linux servers to remediate vulnerability (CVES). Maintained BitBucket repositories for DevOps environment: automation code and configuration. Experience in managing the release processes, application health check analysis, and keeping track of production metrics.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Bank Of America
Pennington, NJ
12.2022 - Current
- Performing a daily deployment by using an automation tool XLR and Ansible Tower
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and Ansible in a Linux environment
- As a member of the release engineering group, redefined processes and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, release tracking, and reporting on the UNIX platform
- Installed and configured Jenkins for Automating Deployment and provided an automation solution
- Troubleshooting the automation job errors
- Experience in supporting issues that arise in System Builds, Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring, and Fine-tuning on UNIX
- Creating release train templates in XLR and configuring them with Bit Bucket
- Environment: Linux, RHEL, Json, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible Tower, XL Deploy, XL Release
AWS/DevOps Engineer
CalSAWS
Los Angeles, CA
06.2021 - 11.2022
- Performed patching and OS upgrades (rebuilds) and associated hardware break/fix, triage, and software Installations related to the patching Vulnerability and OS upgrade activities
- Provisioned Red Hat Linux 6.1, 7.0, and 8.0 virtual machines on AWS by acting as Cloud/ DevOps/Linux administrator & day-to-day Operations, Vulnerability analysis, installing software, applying patches, managing file systems, monitoring performance, and troubleshooting alerts
- Analyzing vulnerability by using Qualys vulnerability management tool and preparing remediation steps patching process
- Conducted in-depth analysis of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) to understand their potential impact on AWS Linux instances and prioritize patching efforts
- Experience in supporting issues that arise in System Builds, Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, vulnerability, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Performance Monitoring, and Fine-tuning on UNIX
- Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
- Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services and configuring launched instances concerning specific applications
- Created snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI) of the instance for backup and created Access Management (IAM) policies for delegated administration within AWS
- Managed Amazon instances by taking AMIs and performing monitoring of the Amazon instances like EC2 using Amazon CloudWatch Configure ELK stack in conjunction with AWS and use Log Stash to output data to AWS S3 Working on Multiple AWS instances, setting the security groups, AMIs, and Autoscaling to design cost-effective, and highly available systems
- Working with technical and non-technical teams across Amazon (AWS)
- Performed the automation deployments using AWS by creating the IAMs used the code pipeline plugin to integrate Jenkins with AWS and created the EC2 instances to provide the virtual servers
- Performed the automation deployments using AWS by creating the IAMs used the code pipeline plugin to integrate Jenkins with AWS and created the EC2 instances to provide the virtual servers
- Environment: Aws, SSM, Patch Management, RedHat, Amazon Linux, AMI, Snapshots, vulnerability, Qualys.
DevOps Engineer
Bank of America
Charlotte, NC
01.2020 - 06.2021
- Experienced in all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) with a specific focus on building and releasing quality software
- Experienced in Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, and most recently Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) practices
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and Ansible Tower in a Linux environment
- Installed and configured Jenkins for Automating Deployment and provided an automation solution
- Used CloudBees Jenkins for automating Builds and Automating Deployments
- Creating and maintained High- availability on CloudBees Jenkins
- Maintain and track inventory using Jenkins Controllers and set alerts when the server is full and needs attention
- Continuously deployed and administered Linux services using Ansible Tower and automated product installation and configuration
- Worked on Linux systems including hardware, software, and applications
- Installed, configured, and Administered Jenkins continuous Integration Tool
- Created Jobs in Jenkins & set up permissions and scheduled jobs in pole SCM
- Configured multiple Windows and Linux Slaves/controllers for Jenkins Master to distribute the load across all the machines
- Experience in configuring XL Deploy and XL Release Tools from scratch to the applications
- Build and Deploy releases using Tomcat, Git, Bitbucket, XL Deploy, XL Release Installed the Ear, war files using XL Deploy and XL Release and integrated Jenkins with XL Deploy and XL Release
- Used XL Release Orchestration tools for continuous integration & management of several tasks in the deployment process
- Experience with Configuration Management automation tool Ansible and has worked on integrating Ansible YAML Scripts
- Configuration setup towards continuous integration and continuous delivery using Jenkins and Ansible
- Environment: Linux, RHEL, JSon, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible Tower, XL Deploy, XL Release.
AWS/ DevOps Engineer
Verizon
Atlanta, GA
10.2018 - 11.2019
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of automation tools used in the management of our infrastructure
- Redefined processes and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting, on the Unix platform
- Build, administer, and troubleshoot all mission-critical environments (Production, Stage, Dev, Test, QA) Coordinate changes with application owners to ensure coordination and minimal user impact
- Created and maintained a highly scalable and multi-tier AWS environment spanning multiple availability zones using Terraform and CloudFormation
- Provisioned AWS resources using Terraform Automate Continuous Build and Deploy Scripts for the Hudson/Jenkins Continuous Integration tool Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using the Cloud Watch service
- Configured their Kubernetes cluster and supported it running on top of the CoreOS Created AWS S3 buckets, performed folder management in each bucket, and managed cloud trail logs and objects within each bucket
- Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, and test deploy
- Environment: AWS, Docker, Git, Jenkins, Virtualization, Ansible, New Relic, ELK stack, F5, PCF, Linux, Python, Ruby, Chef, Splunk, Jira
DevOps Engineer
Aeries Technology
Hyderabad, IN
01.2015 - 12.2016
- Focus on continuous integration and deployment, promoting Enterprise Solutions to target environments
- Implementation of Docker and various Docker orchestration tools such as docker-compose, docker swarm, and various other management tools
- Automate provisioning and other repetitive tasks using Terraform and Python
- Perform application server builds in an EC2 environment and monitor them using cloud watch
- Design roles and groups using AWS identity and access management (IAM) Jenkins implementation and configuration resulting in full CI/CD to integration environment on commit
- Jenkins, job setup, maintenance used for build, test, compile, package, deploy pipeline
- Created multiple Terraform modules to manage configurations, applications, services, and installation processes for Web Server and AWS instances
- Environment: AWS EC2, VPC, Autoscaling, RHEL 5,6,7, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, Zones, Active Directory.
Linux System Engineer
Avon Technologies
Hyderabad, IN
01.2014 - 12.2014
- Developed shell script to build parameterized Jenkins jobs from Windows CLI
- Developed custom scripts to check website access and port access on the servers used for the application
- Implemented master-slave architecture on Jenkins to automate builds for the team
- Monitored system performance of virtual memory, swap space management, disk, and CPU utilization using the Nagios tool
- Upgradation and update of OS and Kernel patching of Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS Linux servers using the local repository and Red Hat satellite servers
- Administration and monitoring of application servers like Jenkins, and Web servers (Apache, Nginx)
- Managed backups and Jenkins jobs and administered the Master-slave architecture of Jenkins
- User account management in Red Hat Linux servers
- Configuration, and maintenance of Red Hat and CentOS Virtual machines
- Environment: Git, Jenkins, Java, Scripting, Apache, Tomcat Server, Red Hat Linux, CentOS, VMWare, AWS.
Education
Skills
- Linux Operating System
- Continuous Integration
- Performance Optimization
- Software Development
- Incident Management
- System Administration
- Continuous Deployment
- Effective Communication
- Performance Management
- Configuration Management
- Version Control Systems
- Containerization Technologies
- Infrastructure Deployment
- System Maintenance
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Bank Of America
12.2022 - Current
AWS/DevOps Engineer
CalSAWS
06.2021 - 11.2022
DevOps Engineer
Bank of America
01.2020 - 06.2021
AWS/ DevOps Engineer
Verizon
10.2018 - 11.2019
DevOps Engineer
Aeries Technology
01.2015 - 12.2016
Linux System Engineer
Avon Technologies
01.2014 - 12.2014