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Affie Evans

Stafford,VA

Summary

  • Experienced in Administrating Azure IaaS/PaaS services - Azure Virtual Machines, Azure DevOps, SQL Databases, Storages, Azure Active Directory, Monitoring, Autoscaling, PowerShell Automation, DNS, VPN.
  • Hands-on experience in writing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to deploy, update, and delete multiple resources in Azure
  • Experienced in Azure IaaS - Virtual machines, VM Scale Sets, Load Balancer, Traffic Manager, Virtual Networks, SQL, Resource Groups and Cloud Services.
  • Hands-on experience in coding and scripting skills (bash, python, and PowerShell) for implementing high-scale container platforms
  • Experienced in Azure Platform Development, Deployment Concepts., hosted Cloud Services, platform services, and close interface with Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentications.
  • Experienced in CI/CD tools like Bamboo, SFDX, Azure DevOps, Bit bucket, and Sonar code scan validations
  • Good working experience in DevOps, establishing E2E pipeline.

Detail-oriented, organized and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

DevSecOps Engineer

Rtx
06.2019 - Current


  • Worked on Microservices for Continuous Delivery environment using Azure, Docker. Involved in setting up a Microservice architecture for application development and Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
  • Extensively worked on Building and Installing servers, creating multiple resources in Azure through Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM) or Azure Portal and provisioned them using Terraform templates. Also worked on Virtual networks, Azure Custom security, endpoint security and firewall.
  • Constructed and Installed servers through Azure Resource Manager(ARM) Templates or Azure Portal.
  • Developed and designed Azure DevOps pipeline to manage the resources across multiple subscription in Azure.
  • Worked with Version Control, Build & Release Management and Deployments of the Solutions to the DEV, QA & PROD Environments leveraging Azure DevOps/VSTS principles/process (CI/CD) and toolsets of Visual Studio, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Application Insights, Log Analytics.
  • Provisioning servers/instances using infrastructure as code such as Terraform and CloudFormation. Code is stored in a private repository and constantly updated.
  • Worked on Terraform templates also for provisioning virtual networks, subnets, VM Scale sets, Load balancers, and NAT rules and used terraform graph to visualize execution plan using the graph command. Configured BGP routes to enable ExpressRoute connections between on-premises data centers and Azure cloud.
  • Developed build and deploy scripts using MAVEN and initiated them using Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments. Used Maven to build java-based web applications and integrated it with Nexus repository.
  • Integrated Ansible with Jenkins to provide automation, continuous integration & Continuous Deployment through Jenkins and wrote Playbooks to automate Ansible servers using YAML scripting. Implemented Jenkins Workflow and Plugins for repeatable deployments of multi-tier applications, artifacts, and services to Docker.
  • Integrated Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes by creating pods, Config Maps, and deployments. Development of automation of Kubernetes clusters with Ansible, writing playbooks.
  • Deployed Kubernetes Clusters on cloud/on-premises environments with master/minion architecture and wrote many YAML files to create many services like pods, deployments, auto scaling, load balancers, labels, health checks etc.
  • Developed GIT hooks for the local repository, code commit and remote repository, code push functionality and on GitHub.
  • Used Splunk APM for log aggregation and analysis on different application servers and integrating the Splunk with Single Sign-On authentication and Service now ticketing tool.
  • Experience in JIRA for ticketing and as well as defect tracking system and configure various workflows, customizations and plug-ins for JIRA bug/issue tracker, integrated Jenkins with JIRA, GitHub, Maven.

Build and Release Engineer

Compulink Management Center, Inc
  • Design and implementation of a Puppet-based configuration management system for all new Linux machines.
  • Configured Jenkins masters and slaves on multiple machines and administer all the instances. Integrated Stash/Bitbucket with Jenkins to start automated builds on Jenkins using various triggers such as pull request, tags and commits.
  • Integrated Docker with Jenkins to automatically build containers and then auto deployment of containers using Kubernetes.
  • Developed build and deployment scripts using Maven and ANT as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
  • Integrated GIT into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process.

Azure DevOps Engineer

Motion Recruitment
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Experience in using ARM templates (JSON) to create Azure services ,while ensuring no changes were made to the existing infrastructure.
  • Experience implementing Azure services such as Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure storage, Azure cloud services, IIS, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Blob Storage, Azure VM, SQL Database, Azure Functions, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Service Bus.
  • Working knowledge in deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps on Kubernetes container environment, and for the runtime environment of CI/CD system to build, test and Deployment we have utilized Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Designed and automated AZURE Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), SaaS capabilities which includes virtual machine, container services, virtual network and cloud services.
  • Working experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to deploy, update, and delete multiple Azure resources, as well as migrating on-premise resources to Azure with Azure site recovery (ASR), and Azure backups.
  • Used Azure DevOps services such as Azure Repos, Azure Boards, and Azure Test Plans to plan work and collaborate on code development, built and deployed application.
  • Developed, maintained and provided the team with Various Azure DevOps-related tools like deployment tools, staged virtual environments, and provisioning scripts.
  • Used Shared Image Gallery to store the created images and built Azure pipelines in Azure DevOps to implement all these services in Azure.
  • Structured cluster AutoScaler for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by using Terraform and worked with scheduling, deploying, and managing pods and replicas in AKS.
  • Terraform was used along with Packer to create custom machine images, and Ansible was used to install the software dependencies once the infrastructure was provisioned.
  • Developed and maintained Continuous Integration (CI) using tools in Azure DevOps (VSTS) spanning multiple environments, enabling teams to safely deploy code in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) using YAML scripts.
  • Managing the Azure Kubernetes Services( AKS) policies, providing access to different Azure resources and developing and improving the workflows that govern access.
  • Experience with version control tools such as GIT and Bitbucket. Comprehensive knowledge of source controller concepts including branches, tags, and merges.
  • Developed build and deploy scripts using MAVEN and activated them using Jenkins to migrate from one environment to another.
  • Worked with Azure Monitoring tools such as Azure Log Analytics, Azure Network Watcher, and Azure Service Health to diagnose and minimize service degradation.
  • Experience in using the monitoring tools like Azure monitoring, Dynatrace to setup the desired alerts to avoid disruption.
  • Created ARM Template for deploying the resources into Azure using the PowerShell and continuous integration by VSTS.
  • Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets using PowerShell.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Andhra University
India

Skills

Cloud Platforms

Azure

Infrastructure Provisioning Tools

Azure Resource Manager

Configuration Management Tools

Ansible

CI /CD Tools

Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure Pipelines, Gitlab Pipelines

Build Tools

Maven, ANT

Containerization Tools

Docker, Kubernetes

Source Code Management

GIT, GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos

Logging & Monitoring Tools

Splunk, ELK, Data Dog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic

Azure Service Health, Azure Network Monitor

Scripting & Programming Languages

Python, PowerShell, Bash/Shell, JavaScript, Ruby, C, C

Databases

Oracle 10g/11g/12c, MySQL, SQL Server

Application/Web Servers

Apache Tomcat, NGINX, IIS, JBoss41, WebSphere, Web Logic 9x/10x

Operating Systems

UNIX, Linux, Windows, Solaris

Virtualization Platforms

Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, Vagrant, VMware vSphere ESXi 5x/4X, ESX /3x, Hyper-V

Bug Tracking Tools

JIRA, Bugzilla, Remedy, HP Quality Center

Timeline

DevSecOps Engineer

Rtx
06.2019 - Current

Azure DevOps Engineer

Motion Recruitment
01.2019 - 01.2020

Build and Release Engineer

Compulink Management Center, Inc

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Andhra University

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