Professional DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer
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Ashish Kumar
Toronto,Ontario
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Summary
Experienced DevOps Engineer with 5+ years to be adept at building effective processes and obtaining reliable, accurate information for business decision-making. Skilled professional hands-on experience in CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment) process, Strong background in Windows Administration, Build and Release Management, and Cloud Implementation all within that suit the needs of an environment under DevOps Culture. Expert in repository tracking and a master at sticking to deadlines for PROD releases. Excellent understanding of SDLC, Traditional, Agile, RUP, and other Methodologies. Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full stack of development tools and technologies. And tracking all stories on JIRA and Version One Expertise in writing Bash Scripts, and Python programming for the deployment of Java applications on bare servers or Middleware tools. Experienced in administration, troubleshooting, tuning, security, backup, recovery, and upgrades. Experience in complete software development life cycle (SDLC) with software development models like Agile, Kanban, Scrum Model, JIRA, and Waterfall models Creating and maintaining Infrastructure for Applications in AWS using Terraform. Building & Automating CI/CD pipelines for different applications. Experience in dealing with AWS IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines (EC2 Instances), Cloud Services, and VPC. Experienced in working on DevOps /Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build; Release automation Environment, Incident and Change Management) including various tools. Integrated Jenkins with various DevOps tools such as Sonar-Qube. Developing an automated process for code builds and deployments using Jenkins, Ant, Maven, Sonar type Nexus, Shell Script, Pearl, and Java. Unique experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Open Shift/Kubernetes architecture and design, troubleshooting issues with platform components (PCF), and developing global/multi- regional deployment models and patterns for large-scale developments/deployments on Cloud Foundry and Open Shift/Kubernetes. Experience in assigning the AWS services to locations specific to integrate with web apps and key-vaults Involved in the analysis and troubleshooting of issues that are tracked through VSTS. Profusely worked on Version control tools GIT, clear case to track changes made by different people in source code involving concepts like Branching, Merging, and tags, yet effective at coming up with creative solutions to problems to ensure that the best products are delivered. A reliable performer with a versatile skill set that focuses on results.
Overview
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Work History
Morgan Stanley
Site Reliability Engineer
01.2020 - 05.2023
Job overview
- Experience in migrating physical Windows servers to the cloud (AWS), implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in Amazon cloud
- Developed shell/python scripts for automation purposes
- Documented the process using Sphinx (python)
- Worked on basic modifications and editing for the Splunk dashboard to have better visualization of metrics using queries
- Worked extensively on configuring and maintaining CI/CD
- Deployed ASP.NET code through the CI/CD to Windows-based web servers
- Deployed and managed AWS resources with terraform templates
- Knowledge on terraform to deploy multiple resources in the cloud with a state file
- Developed XML scripts for CI/CD pipelines to deploy the code
- Developed strong communication, active listening, and interpersonal skills when collaborating with the product development team and other stakeholders
- Was in charge of CI/CD design, architecture, and programming, as well as documentation
- Worked with members of the cross-functional development team to evaluate potential system solutions in light of changing client requirements
- Maintained consistent security to effectively implement best practices and protect GIT resources
- Gathered information from the Service Level Agreement (SLA) and defined SLIndicator to maintain SLObjective
- Defined error budget to maintain SLO
- Focused and keen to reduce toil
- Created ADR and implemented an observability stack using Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana and PagerDuty
- Created dashboards and stored them in a JSON file to manage as code
- Managed user access to dashboards (IAM)
- Wrote and updated documentation for the entire project's technical design
- Followed Agile-Scrum methodology
- Used Jira as a ticket tracking and workflow tool
- Set-up observability to multiple projects
- Was responsible for transitioning and managing multiple Jenkins classic jobs to pipelines (groovy)
- Participated in scrum ceremonies and led as a second point of contact
- As a security champion worked closely with the security team in mitigating the critical system vulnerabilities like log4j, basic linux package vulnerabilities, tls versions etc
- As an employer for a fintech company I adhered to all the company policies and completed the required training to be in compliance with organization and public policies in which a secure code training program certifies me as an clean and secure code writing employee
- Instigated and configured Amazon EC2 Cloud Servers using AMI's (Linux/Ubuntu) and configured the servers for specified applications
- Instigated DNS, Route 53, and AWS Elastic Load balancer (ELB) and assigned AWS SSL Certificates to Servers
- Experience using Identity and Access Management (IAM) to design policies, created roles and managed users and groups
- Perform the automation of infrastructure for the release management activities and develop custom scripts for the automation using Ansible, Python, Bash/Shell, Jenkins DSL and Terraform
- Developed Cron jobs and Shell Scripts (Shell, Python) for automating installations to extract logs and administration tasks like file system management, process management, backup and restore
- Experience in creating namespaces and fargate profile using Terraform for the cluster in AWS
- Created Docker containers using Docker images to test the application
- Experience in managing Private Cloud and Hybrid cloud configurations, patterns, and practices in Windows Azure and SQLAzure and in Azure Web and Database deployments.
Amazon
Development and Operations Engineer
04.2016 - 12.2017
Job overview
- Executed QA services for enhancing the efficiency of technologies and related updates for cloud storage applications
- Created Shell Scripts and SQL scripts for automation of different application and database deployments respectively to different environments like DEV, SIT, UAT, etc
- Experienced in Installing, Upgrading, Patching, Configuring, and Administering Windows
- Installed and configured monitoring tools Nagios for monitoring the network bandwidth and the hard drive status
- Automated the build process using Jenkins and scheduled build jobs daily for the sanity check of the Java code checked in by the developers
- Created jobs in Jenkins to build applications using Ant and Maven
- In addition, developed several scripts to deploy artifacts in different environments
- Created Branches, and performed Merges using Source Tree
- Merged the Branches after the Code Freeze
- Worked efficiently with the applications development team to implement, test, and roll out new patch releases
- Involved in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery
- Worked closely with developers to pinpoint and provide early warnings of common build failures
- Executed user administration and maintenance tasks including creating users and groups, reports, and queries
- Kept track of all the releases and requests of the developers through the infrastructure management tool
- Involved in migrating applications to the AWS cloud
- Monitored system issues/updates for all assigned applications throughout the entire SDLC verified requirements were accurate, functional, and implemented successfully within the timelines specified
- Involved in deploying the content cloud platform on Amazon AWS using EC2, S3, and EBS
- Utilization of the resources Docker, Kubernetes, GIT and Ansible
- Written Jenkins enterprise pipeline scripts to automate and deploy Certificate management
- Developed Gradle and Maven build scripts
- Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, tests deploy
- Used Docker as a new level of simplicity for defining and creating applications or services by encapsulating them in containers.
Education
Centennial CollegeScarborough, Toronto
Post Graduation
12.2019
Osmania UniversityHyderabad, India
Bachelors of Engineering
01.2016
Skills
- Communication skills
- DevOps
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Azure
- Prometheusio
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Grafana
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- Agile Methodologies
- Pipelines
- Documentation
- Security
- Agile
- Technical Documentation
- Technical Reporting
References
References available upon request.
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Timeline
Site Reliability Engineer
Morgan Stanley
01.2020 - 05.2023
Development and Operations Engineer
Amazon
04.2016 - 12.2017
Centennial College
Post Graduation
Osmania University
Bachelors of Engineering