Hi, I’m
Ajaz Pasha Mohammed
DevOps Engineer /Cloud Engineer
Carnegie,Pennsylvania
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Summary
Resourceful DevOps Engineer experienced in evaluating and assessing client requirements and implementing infrastructure to solve identified problems. Harnessed code and cloud-native technologies to create scalable and user-centric systems. Strong negotiator with excellent value-driven solutions. Accomplished engineer proffering extensive cloud monitoring, deployment and troubleshooting skills. Defined, built and maintained infrastructure using vendor-neutral and platform-specific tools. Organized and focused person with extraordinary leadership acumen. Detail-oriented Computer Systems Engineer committed to improving system design and operations for reliable workflow management. Researches and implements budget-conscious security and encryption solutions to protect user privacy and increase overall network health. Creates easy-to-follow guidelines and troubleshooting documentation for non-technical staff. Meticulous DevOps Engineer maintaining highly functional digital systems for uninterrupted workflows and consistent productivity. Oversees routine maintenance checks and software update schedules to reduce network downtime and likelihood of security compromises. Loves collaborating with customers and teammates to develop and implement creative technical solutions to challenging problems. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level DevOps Engineer position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Overview
10
years of professional experience
7
years of post-secondary education
1
Certification
Work History
Johnson & JohnsonRaritan, NJ
Sr. Cloud Engineer
05.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
- Identified gaps in market to spot opportunities to create value propositions.
- Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address customer specific requirements.
- Understood client needs and objectives by conducting proactive customer and data analysis.
- Worked with teams of talented software engineers to define, build and maintain cloud infrastructure.
- Collaborated with engineering to report issues, manage project deliverables and provide status reports.
- Managed installation, upgrade and deployment projects and provided on-site direction for network engineers.
- Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
- Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
- Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
- Managed and monitored installed systems for highest level of availability.
- Worked with cloud architect to generate assessments and develop and implement actionable recommendations based on results and reviews.
- Conducted deep-dive hands-on training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
- Worked as technical leader alongside customers and infrastructure team and contributed to business development.
- Applied scripting methodologies to automate IT administrative related tasks.
- Managed use of various types of databases and configured, installed and upgraded new ones.
- Authored or contributed to AWS customer-facing whitepapers and tutorials.
- Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses against business needs.
- Participated in architectural discussions to build confidence and promote customer success when developing new and migrating existing applications, software and services on AWS platform.
- Partnered with sales team to design solutions for customers and drive AWS adoption and revenue.
FEI SystemsColumbia, MD
DevOps System Engineer
03.2020 - 05.2021
Job overview
- Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
- Worked with stakeholders to determine implementation and integration of system-oriented projects.
- Configured, tested and maintained Typical network equipment to achieve maximum performance.
- Streamlined troubleshooting processes to improve system support and enhance communication between support team and end-users.
- Suggested system updates or changes after conduct in-depth technical reviews.
- Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while tackling difficult tasks.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
- Resolved issues related to operational components for LAN, WAN and voice systems.
- Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
- Managed Serverless Application procedure to use of AWS Step Functions to orchestrate an Extract Transfer Load (ETL) workflow with AWS Lambda.
- Experience in migrating on-premises to Windows Azure and build Azure Disaster Recovery Environment and Azure backups from the scratch using PowerShell script.
- Configured three types of blobs, block blobs, page blobs, and append blobs in Azure for storing a large amount of unstructured object data such as text or binary data, that can be accessed from anywhere via HTTP or HTTPS.
- Experience in Designing, Architecting and implementing scalable cloud-based web applications using AWS, Azure and GCP.
Experience in Installing, Upgrading, Maintaining and Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution and other Linux distributions in public cloud - Implementation of cloud services IaaS, PaaS and SaaS which include Openstack, Docker and OpenShift.
- Involved in developing custom images on Cloud using GCP AWS Images and on VMware ESX using Templates and involved in building physical servers.
- Openshift virtualized PaaS provider - useful in automating the provisioning of commodity computing resources for cost and performance efficiency.
- Continuous Deployment and Configuration Management capabilities with Ansible and OpenShift, ArgoCD.
Possesses knowledge of IaaS/PaaS technologies and cloud computing platforms (Preferably with Openstack/VMWare/Openshift/AWS/ GCP)
Experienced of good understanding of container such as Docker, OpenShift and Virtualization & container technologies: AWS, Azure, Docker, OpenShift - Knowledge of container technologies like architecture, build and execution of Docker images and orchestration Kubernetes (Red Hat OpenShift) with ArgoCD.
Lead engagements with cloud automation and orchestration tools such as OpenShift or other commercial PaaS offerings
Implemented Project Management tool on GCP, AWS Cloud which requires Apache Tomcat application Server, PostgreSQL DB. - Created private cloud using Kubernetes that supports DEV, TEST, and PROD environments Deployed VNETs and Site-Site VPN using PowerShell and deployed VMs into various Subnets and enabled communication between Subnets.
- Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, and security policies and routing.
- Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
- Configured VNets and subnets as per the project requirement and Perform automated snapshots using GCP, CloudWatch rules and create EBS volumes from snapshots.
- Implement and maintain monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 instances using CloudWatch and SNS.
- Good Experience in Plan, implements, installs, operate and maintain systems hardware, software applications and Information Technology infrastructure.
Trimble Transportation - PeopleNet Minnetonka, MN
DevOps Automation Engineer
07.2019 - 03.2020
Job overview
- Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Supervised software life cycle from preliminary needs analysis to enterprise-wide deployment and support.
- Built automation tools and applications to deploy next-generation platforms.
- Generated process models illustrating automation engineering progress, specifications and details.
- Established best practices and innovative solutions to enhance production rates and output quality.
- Updated and maintained project documentation for detailed recordkeeping.
- Maintained, debugged and optimized automation programs.
- Collaborated with systems engineers and customers to determine machine requirements and develop specifications for user interface, machine functions and quality control to deliver reliable automation systems.
- Performed gap analysis procedures and detailed data reviews to optimize implementation.
- Met with quality assurance, developers and project managers to assess scope and sequence of project.
- Tested, automated and whitelisted software to be used in secure environments.
- Supported Engineering and Maintenance departments with training and technical support.
- Assisted maintenance personnel with complex troubleshooting.
- Completed automation of functional and regression testing.
- Troubleshot, fixed and improved electrical controls.
- Reviewed all test cases and test scripts for quality and identified additional areas to review.
- Prepared automation concept and control drawings according to client specifications.
- Trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes.
- Created, updated and maintained Azure security standards and best practices across Azure domain.
- Created, updated and maintained dev-ops scripts to manage, distribute and secure company data.
- Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
- Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
- Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
- Supervised work of programmers, designers and technicians, assigned tasks and monitored performance against targets.
- Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
- Troubleshot software to alleviate obstacles preventing functionality.
ServiceLinkPittsburgh, PA
DevOps Engineer
10.2017 - 06.2019
Job overview
- Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
- Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
- Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
- Developed next generation integration platform for internal applications.
- Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
- Rapidly prototyped new data processing capabilities to confirm integration feasibility into existing systems.
- Built databases and table structures for web applications.
- Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
- Analyzed work to generate logic for new systems, procedures and tests.
- Inspected equipment, assessed functionality and optimized controls.
- Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
- Supervised work of programmers, designers and technicians, assigned tasks and monitored performance against targets.
- Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
- Designed and developed forward-thinking systems that meet user needs and improve productivity.
- Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
- Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend.
- Investigated new and emerging software applications to select and implement administrative information systems.
- Optimized dust, temperature and humidity controls for installed systems.
- Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
- Developed conversion and system implementation plans.
- Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
- Developed IT policies to comply with applicable laws.
- Managed key information technology and compliance programs for proactive risk management.
- Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new system designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical components.
- Developed and maintained policies to control information technology and security for [Type] operations.
- Streamlined troubleshooting processes to improve system support and enhance communication between support team and end-users.
- Created system design models and specifications to support system programmers and development teams.
- Performed cost-benefit and ROI analyses for proposed systems.
- Improved and deployed billing automation, accounting and real-time reporting and analytics capabilities.
- Maintained stability, integrity and efficient operation of information systems supporting organizational functions.
- Verified compliance with applicable performance metrics and compatibility expectations.
- Supported system users, educating employees on troubleshooting and problem-solving protocols.
- Delivered helpdesk service and support to customers.
- Built automation tools and applications to deploy next-generation platforms.
- Implemented best practices to protect data and assets.
- Automated and implemented system backup and recovery procedures.
- Researched and identified new technologies to use in agile development environment.
- Wrote code and supported architecture in high-throughput systems.
- Teamed with business analysts to deliver high-availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
- Managed testing cycles and coordination of user acceptance testing for software and applications.
- Drove project lifespan from concept to final rollout in development and deployment.
- Collaborated with team to analyze system solutions based on client requirements.
- Documented project design for reference and future use cases.
DCI ArtformMilwaukee, WI
Cloud Support Engineer
05.2015 - 09.2017
Job overview
- Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address customer specific requirements.
- Understood client needs and objectives by conducting proactive customer and data analysis.
- Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
- Analyzed work to generate logic for new systems, procedures and tests.
- Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
- Developed conversion and system implementation plans.
- Tested functional compliance of company products.
- Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
- Built databases and table structures for web applications.
- Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
- Provided input on hardware and software purchasing, prioritizing return on investment to optimize IT spending.
- Installed system-wide hardware components, confirming interoperation and compatibility with Linux-based software distros.
- Coordinated cross-site installation of networked systems, confirming post-install connectivity.
- Implemented Security groups for inbound/outbound access, network ACLs for controlling traffic through subnets, Internet Gateways, NAT instances and Route Tables to direct the network traffic and ensure secure zones for organizations in AWS.
- Managed the services and resources for the users and managed the permissions for allowing and denying the services using IAM roles and assigned individual policies to each group.
- Created Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Auto scaling groups in multiple available zones to achieve fault-tolerance and high availability. Implemented alarm notifications for EC2 hosts with CloudWatch.
- Configured Puppet as a Configuration management tool, to automate configurations of broad range of services, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage changes and to monitor scalable infrastructure on AWS.
- Developed micro service onboarding/self-service tools leveraging Python and Jenkins allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deploy and services.
- Configured and managed Puppet master server and experience in updating and creating modules and delivering them to puppet clients and managing SSL certificate.
- Creating and versioning Docker files to create different versions of Docker images stored in Docker registry to be later consumed by the Kubernetes to perform rolling deployments And Implemented Docker to provision Jenkins slaves dynamically as needed.
- Automated deployments, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts, provided container-centric infrastructure by Kubernetes. Developed Multi Master hosts to increase the availability and scalability.
- Wrote custom Modules and Manifests for creating LAMP stacks on AWS instances. Performed upgradation of Puppet community and Puppet Enterprise.
Save MartModesto, CA
Manager - Build and Release
04.2014 - 04.2014
Job overview
- Reviewed proposed releases for functionality and compatibility with existing software and systems.
- Handled change management for production releases, orchestrating frameworks according to customer goals and prescribed timeframes.
- Enforced internal code-branching policies on internal releases with forked development paths.
- Drafted comprehensible and comprehensive patch notes, informing technical and non-technical readers of changes included in new releases.
- Implemented Security groups for inbound/outbound access, network ACLs for controlling traffic through subnets, Internet Gateways, NAT instances and Route Tables to direct the network traffic and ensure secure zones for organizations in AWS.
- Managed the services and resources for the users and managed the permissions for allowing and denying the services using IAM roles and assigned individual policies to each group.
- Created Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Auto scaling groups in multiple available zones to achieve fault-tolerance and high availability. Implemented alarm notifications for EC2 hosts with CloudWatch.
- Configured Puppet as a Configuration management tool, to automate configurations of broad range of services, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage changes and to monitor scalable infrastructure on AWS.
- Developed micro service onboarding/self-service tools leveraging Python and Jenkins allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deploy and services.
- Configured and managed Puppet master server and experience in updating and creating modules and delivering them to puppet clients and managing SSL certificate.
- Creating and versioning Docker files to create different versions of Docker images stored in Docker registry to be later consumed by the Kubernetes to perform rolling deployments And Implemented Docker to provision Jenkins slaves dynamically as needed.
- Automated deployments, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts, provided container-centric infrastructure by Kubernetes. Developed Multi Master hosts to increase the availability and scalability.
- Wrote custom Modules and Manifests for creating LAMP stacks on AWS instances. Performed upgradation of Puppet community and Puppet Enterprise.
- Wrote Python scripts for building custom utilities, custom data visualization for web apps and for managing files and networks.
- Worked with bug tracking tool Jira and configured various workflows, configurations and plugins for setting up Jira. Experience with all phases of software development life-cycle (SDLC) and agile development methodology.
- Managed release activity planning, designing patching processes to minimize service disruptions and potential user difficulties.
- Published detailed deployment schedules to help clients and internal personnel prepare for potential disruptions in software and system availability.
- Designed holistic release lifecycles for consumer-facing software titles to drive continued usership and maintain customer satisfaction.
Seluxis India Pvt. LtdHyderabad, India
Linux Administrator
01.2013 - 03.2014
Job overview
- Developed organization-wide administration policies to encourage continuity across multiple systems and facilities.
- Installed system-wide hardware components, confirming interoperation and compatibility with Linux-based software distros.
- Created and serviced administrator and user accounts on Linux-based systems, managing deployments.
- Installed and allocated mass storage deployments, maintaining integrity of terabytes.
- Resolved vulnerabilities by making improvements to network security.
- Designed disaster recovery systems, enabling continuity in event of power outages.
- Installation, configuration and administering RedHat Enterprise Linux server 6.x, VMware ESXi host 4.x and configured vCenter 4.x and vSphere 4.x.
- Managed the physical and virtual environments using Virtual Center Server with a mixture of ESXi 4.x and ESXi 3.x hosts, consists of multiple physical hosts. Created templates for cloning of virtual machines using VMware Virtual Client and migrating servers between ESXi hosts. Created Snapshots and Snapshot chains to preserve the state and data of virtual machines at a specific point.
- Remote logins with Open SSH, managed DHCP, firewalls, users and groups. Managed the firewall rules for new servers to enable communications with new applications.
- Created the filesystem using RedHat Volume Manager and performed the health checks on a regular basis. Created volume groups, logical volumes and Filesystems. Configured RAID 1 and RAID 5 Storage using Volume Manager. Worked on logical volume management creating VG, LV and mounting the file systems and extended file systems size in production servers.
- Added storage to the cluster disks and increase/decreasing the disks in the Linux server. Build the RPM packages and updated the RedHat package manager as well as YUM repository.
- Installed and configured SAMBA server in Linux for accessing the shared files from the windows environment. Configured HTTPS, NTP, Installed and configured FTP to download and upload the files for clients. Configured and manage Network filesystem(NFS) and auto mount in the network.
- Monitored networks and network devices to resolve technical problems quickly.
- Implemented and maintained virtual private networks.
- Installed and configured network printers and other peripheral devices.
Education
University of PotomacTysons Corner
Master of Science from Information Technology
01.2016 - 05.2018
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University - HydHyderabad, India
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science And Programming
07.2011 - 09.2015
Additional Information
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems
RHEL/CentOS 5.x/6.x/7.x, Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora, Solaris 7/8/9/10, Windows Server 2003/2008/2010
Cloud
Azure, AWS, Red Hat, Red Hat Satellite/Capsule, GCP
Scripting
Bash, Shell, Ruby, PowerShell, Python, Perl, YAML, JSON
Build/Automation Tools
Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Terraform, Buildkite, Docker, Kubernetes
Monitoring Tools
Solarwind, Datadog, VictorOps, logicmonitor
Databases
MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Cassandra
Bug Tracking Tools
JIRA, Remedy
Version Control Tools
GIT, Subversion, TFS, Terraform, Ansible Tower, Satellite Server, JFrog Artifactory
Web/App Server
Apache, IIS, TFS, Tomcat, WebSphere Application Server
Web/Programming
Servlets, JDBC, JSP, XML, HTML, .Net, Java Script, Java/J2EE, C, C++, Perl, Python, Shell, Ruby, YAML
Certification
AWS
Timeline
AWS
01-2023
Sr. Cloud Engineer
Johnson & Johnson
05.2021 - Current
DevOps System Engineer
FEI Systems
03.2020 - 05.2021
DevOps Automation Engineer
Trimble Transportation - PeopleNet
07.2019 - 03.2020
DevOps Engineer
ServiceLink
10.2017 - 06.2019
University of Potomac
Master of Science from Information Technology
01.2016 - 05.2018
Cloud Support Engineer
DCI Artform
05.2015 - 09.2017
Manager - Build and Release
Save Mart
04.2014 - 04.2014
Linux Administrator
Seluxis India Pvt. Ltd
01.2013 - 03.2014
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University - Hyd
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science And Programming
07.2011 - 09.2015
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