Piyush Saxena
San Antonio,TX
Summary
I am a highly accomplished professional with over 15+ years of hands-on experience
in the field of IT and cloud computing. My expertise extends across a wide range of
technical skills, including AWS, Terraform, Docker, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Linux,
Windows, Apache, and Tomcat. I have a proven track record of successfully
architecting, implementing, and managing complex infrastructure solutions, ensuring
optimal performance, security, and scalability. My ability to bridge the gap between
traditional on-premises systems and modern cloud environments has led to
significant cost savings and operational efficiencies for the organizations I've worked
with. I am a dedicated and detail-oriented problem solver, capable of delivering
innovative solutions and driving projects to successful completion. My extensive
experience in cloud technologies and automation, combined with my strong
analytical and troubleshooting skills, make me a valuable asset in any organization
seeking to harness the power of the cloud and streamline their IT operations.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Lead System Administrator
Y&L Consulting
03.2020 - 12.2024
- Installation and configuration of OpenLDAP servers on Ubuntu.
- Creating and managing user and group entries in Slapd.
- Managing replication between OpenLDAP servers.
- Configure FreeIPA for centrally managed identity, policy and audit system for Linux Servers.
- Troubleshooting LDAP connectivity issues.
- LDAP authentication integration with applications.
- LDAP setup for IBM db2.
- Designed and implemented a highly available and fault-tolerant AWS architecture using VPC, Auto Scaling, and multi-AZ RDS.
- Installed important security and functionality patches to maintain optimal protections against intrusion and system reliability.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and management processes using IaaC such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Written various TF file for creating EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, CloudFront etc.
- Utilized AWS to architect and deploy highly available and fault-tolerant solutions, resulting in significant cost savings and improved operational efficiency for the organizations I've worked with. These solutions involved custom-designed VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds), security groups, and IAM (Identity and Access Management) policies to ensure the highest level of security.
- I am proficient in HashiCorp's Terraform, a powerful infrastructure as code (IaC) tool. I have a proven track record of designing, coding, and maintaining infrastructure using Terraform's declarative configuration language. My expertise extends to defining and deploying resources on AWS. This allows for the consistent and automated provisioning of infrastructure resources, making deployment and scaling efficient and repeatable.
- Successfully implemented Terraform to manage infrastructure at scale, resulting in improved resource management, enhanced version control, and reduced manual provisioning errors. My Terraform skills have streamlined development and deployment pipelines, ensuring consistency in complex and dynamic environments.
- I have in-depth knowledge of Docker, a containerization platform that enables the packaging of applications and their dependencies into lightweight, portable containers. My skills encompass creating Docker images, orchestrating container deployment with tools like Docker Compose, and utilizing container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes. This ensures the consistent deployment, scalability, and maintainability of containerized applications.
- My proficiency in Ansible, an open-source automation tool, includes writing automation scripts in YAML format. These scripts automate configuration management, application deployment, and various tasks across multiple systems.
- Created CloudWatch dashboard with SSO authentication
- Enabled Hybrid DNS between Amazon VPC and on-premises.
- Setup SFTP with S3 backend
- Migrated existing AWS resources to another AWS account.
- Taking care of all AWS application deployment
- Setup Transit GW with Site-Site VPN and enabled VPC peering with the same account.
- Created SSH tunnel to access RDS database using PgAdmin.
- Participate in on-call rotation for 24/7 support of cloud infrastructure and DevOps processes
- Handling more than 100 AWS account, using control tower
- Configured Site-Site VPN with Transit Gateway.
- Created a single exit point from multiple VPCs(AWS Account) Using AWS Transit Gateway.
- Deployed Application in ECS using CloudFormation
- Configure Plausible Analytics installation with Nginx as reserve Proxy with SSL.
- Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
- Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX and Windows-Shell, Perl Script and Developed applications in Python for multiple platforms.
- Creating the CI/CD setup for the application hosted in the Dockers with the Code analysis, Code Coverage and creating and maintaining Quality gates using SonarQube, building the application, managing the build in the Nexus artifactory using Jenkins
- Deployed legacy applications into JBOSS application server
- Creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle
- Stay up-to-date with emerging cloud technologies and best practices
- Manage and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines
- Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, availability, and cost
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools for deployment and configuration management
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and DevOps processes
- Manage and optimize cloud costs and usage
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for software delivery.
Sr. Technical Lead
Donyati
03.2017 - 02.2020
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in middleware and related fields.
- Used CirceCI and Jenkins to automate application deployment processes.
- Implemented and automated solutions on AWS cloud via Jenkins Pipeline, Terraform, Cloud formation, Ansible and Shell.
- Employed IAM to create & control AWS users and groups access to AWS services and resources Stakeholder Management.
- Configured CloudTrail for all the AWS accounts and shared t he S3 bucket.
- Migrated existing VM On-Premise images to EC2.
- Participating in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for critical middleware systems
- Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing to ensure business continuity
- Automate middleware deployment and configuration processes to improve efficiency and reduce errors
- Develop and maintain middleware documentation, including installation procedures, configuration guides, and troubleshooting guides.
- Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX and Windows-Shell, Perl Script and Developed applications in Python for multiple platforms.
- Deployed legacy applications into JBOSS application server.
- Creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
Middleware Engineer
QLC
10.2013 - 03.2017
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure middleware solutions meet application requirements
- Design, install, configure, and maintain middleware infrastructure components such as application servers, web servers, messaging systems, and databases
- Implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Ansible, and Maven in Linux environment
- Application like tomcat, Glassfish, Fuse, IIS & Couchbase
- Migrated all the windows-based application which was running into 2003,2005,2008 to window 2016
- Migrated Glassfish application to JBoss
- Worked on using a GIT branching strategy that included develops branches, feature branches, staging branches and master
- Pull requests and code reviews were performed
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in Linux system administration
- Maintain and update system documentation
- Deploy and manage virtual machines and containers
- Automate system tasks using scripting languages such as Bash or Python
- Backup and restore data as needed
- Member of a system administration team that is responsible for a farm of servers in 3 data centre's that run Postfix, MySQL, Linux and Apache
- Handle a database for 400 clients
- Our Team used to Handle Multiple Mail-Server's which was responsible for delivering millions of mails in a day
- Tuning Postfix and taking appropriate action under heavy load and queue
- Running multiple Postfix instances on Round Robin
- Write various shell script to reduce the manual work
- Repair tables and optimize the database
- Have configured SPF and DKIM
- Configuring and Maintaining application such as Postfix (MTA), Dovecot(MDA), Apache, Nagios, OpenVZ, MySQL, Bind.
Linux System Administrator
Health Management Associates, Inc
03.2009 - 10.2013
- The profile involved dealing with user and group permission and mounting
- Have configured Samba, Squid proxy, DHCP and Apache server during the tenure
- Have configured NFS server with Raid-5
- Have configured Mysql Replication Server
- Troubleshooting of issues related to day-to-day usage
- Have written various shell scripts that are useful in our network
- Groomed the new recruits
- Have conducted a 5-day training programme for a group TISS employees which involved basic concepts of Linux and applications.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering
India06-2009
Skills
- Server management
- Open Ldap
- FreeIPA
- AWS
- Azure
- Linux and Windows Administrator
- Mysql
- Oracle
- Apache
- Tomcat
- Scripting languages
- Incident management
- Stakeholder communication
- System optimization
- Security protocols
- IT infrastructure planning
- Hardware configuration
- Software installation
- Database administration
- Infrastructure upgrading
- Server improvements
- Active directory
- Nagios monitoring software
- Linux administration
- Patch management
Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- RHEL 5
Timeline
Sr. Lead System Administrator
Y&L Consulting
03.2020 - 12.2024
Sr. Technical Lead
Donyati
03.2017 - 02.2020
Middleware Engineer
QLC
10.2013 - 03.2017
Linux System Administrator
Health Management Associates, Inc
03.2009 - 10.2013
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering
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