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SAMEENA BEGUM

Dallas,TX

Summary

Around 10 + years of experience in IT-Sector in Linux & Windows, build engineering and release management process, building and deploying applications by adopting DevOps practices such as Continuous development, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) in runtime with Various tools like Git, Maven, VSTS, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes and managing cloud services with Azure & AWS.

Overview

11
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Papa Johns International

DevOps Engineer
06.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Deployed infrastructure on Azure IaaS & PaaS - Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, VPN, Load Balancing, Application gateways, Auto-scaling, Traffic Manager, Azure Web Apps, Web Roles, Worker Roles, Azure SQL and Azure Storage
  • Well Experienced in the design and operation of medium to large scale enterprise infrastructure, databases, and application systems
  • Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure in DR on cloud using Azure Recovery Vault and Azure backups
  • Significant expertise, particularly in the implementation of Unity Catalogs tailored for enterprise clients
  • 6.5 years of MongoDB experience
  • Migrating existing Active Directory and Exchange users to Microsoft Azure AD using Azure AD Connect, Active Directory Federation Service ADFS and DirSync tools
  • Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure in DR on cloud using Azure Recovery Vault and Azure backups
  • Experience in Container management tools like Docker and Kubernetes
  • In addition, creating clusters in Google Cloud and manage the clusters using Kubernetes (k8s)
  • Used Jenkins to deploy code to Google Cloud with new name spaces, create Docker images and push them to container registry of Google Cloud
  • Responsible for monitoring servers using Cloud watch and ELK (Elastic Search Logstash and Kibana) by collecting all the log data from different servers using Logstash and sending that information to Elastic search where the data is structured according to the requirement and being used by Kibana to visualize the data
  • Implemented automated local user provisioning in instances created in terraform
  • Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker HUB and Docker registries, and worked on creation of Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle
  • Executed Kubernetes locally with minikube, Created local clusters and deployable application containers
  • Worked with Scheduling, deploying, managing container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes and experienced in creating Kubernetes clusters work with frameworks running on the same cluster resources
  • Used Kubernetes to deploy, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple namespace versions
  • Imported and managed multiple corporate applications into the GitHub code management repo and Created user level access to GitHub project directories to the code changes
  • Implemented building tools such as Maven to automate and enhance the overall operational environment and managed the Maven Repository using Nexus tool to automate the build process and used the same to share the snapshots and releases of internal projects
  • Worked with Ansible for Orchestration of Deployments for various servers and managed Ansible Playbooks with Ansible modules, implemented CD automation using Ansible, also involved in managing existing Tomcat Web server and automated the configuration of new servers
  • Implemented Ansible vaults to encrypt and decrypt the sensitive information files in order not to expose to outside world when we place it in Git hub
  • Experience developing Splunk queries and dashboards targeted at understanding application performance and capacity analysis
  • Design Open Shift architecture in Cloud/On-Premise
  • Excellent skills in Open Shift platform in Azure cloud and On-Premise
  • Able to guide on high availability architecture
  • Good knowledge in infrastructure sizing
  • Hands on knowledge in creating instances for CP4I, MQ in Open Shift platform
  • Good knowledge in setting up CI/CD pipeline
  • Excellent knowledge in interacting with customer and manage deliverables
  • Well Experienced working within an Agile framework
  • Worked with different Bug tracking tools like JIRA
  • Experience on SonarQube for continuous inspection of code quality
  • Design CDN solutions taking into consideration customers’ requirements, document them, follow-up on their implementation with CDN operational teams and CDN technology vendor(s), and report on progress to Business Unit interlocutors (Service delivery managers, marketing, etc.)
  • Produce engineering documents for use by operational teams in charge of implementation, configuration changes, software upgrades, new CDN components deployments, etc
  • Qualify and assess evolutions over lab and pre-production platforms for subsequent implementation by operational teams on production
  • Contribute to increasing operational efficiency / industrialization.

Vizient

DevOps Engineer
10.2018 - 05.2021

Job overview

  • Installation, Configuration, Maintenance, experience of source code management systems using GIT
  • Experience in Linux server builds and configuration
  • Hands on experience on MongoDB experience
  • 8-10 years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration, and optimization
  • Installation and configuration of Apache web server, dotnet core, dotnet sdk’s
  • Experienced in Creating Virtual hosts and service files for dotnet core & React applications
  • Used Jenkins as continuous integration tool
  • Worked on Amazon Cloud Services and its features
  • Defined branching, labeling, and merge strategies for all applications in Git
  • Worked closely with Developers, QA and project management for smooth scheduled releases
  • Responsible for identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving problems with the build process using Jenkins and ensures that the release has been accepted by all parties
  • Installation and configuration of IIS & its features
  • Hosting of dotnet applications in IIS in windows
  • Experience working within an Agile framework
  • Create and deployed Kubernetes pod definitions, tags, labels, multi pods, container replication
  • Managed multiple Kubernetes pod containers scaling, and auto scaling
  • Configuring with different artifacts to make an image and deploy image to install the application on an instance, maintain and troubleshoot for any user issues or network problems
  • Worked on docker-compose, docker-machine to create docker containers for testing applications in the QA environment and automated the deployments, scaling and management of containerized applications
  • Installed and implemented Ansible configuration management system
  • Used Ansible to manage web applications
  • Environment configurations files, Users, mount points, and packages also worked with automation/configuration management using Ansible and create playbacks in YAML to automate the development process
  • Implemented Infrastructure automation through Ansible for auto-provisioning, code deployments, software installation and configuration updates
  • Developed build and deployed scripts using MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to another environment supporting MAVEN multi-module builds and store artifacts in a remote repository in artifacts
  • Hands on knowledge in creating instances for CP4I, MQ in Open Shift platform
  • Good knowledge in setting up CI/CD pipeline
  • Excellent knowledge in interacting with customer and manage deliverable
  • Worked with development team to generate deployment profiles (jar, war, rar) using ANT scripts and Jenkins.

Arbonne

DevOps Engineer
09.2015 - 07.2018

Job overview

  • Installation, Configuration, Maintenance, experience of source code management systems using GIT
  • Installation and configuration of IIS web server on windows Server
  • Creating and managing Multiple agent pools
  • Hands on experience of MongoDB
  • Creating CI/CD Pipeline Using Azure YAML
  • Defining gates to evaluate before the deployment
  • Deploying the artifacts to IIS
  • Implementing of SSL on multiple websites
  • Installation and configuration of MSSQL in On-Premise servers
  • Experience in troubleshooting the SQL-server connection issues on incremental deployments
  • Installing and configuring Windows Service for Web applications
  • Experience in configuring connection strings in app config files
  • Performed all necessary day-to-day GIT support for different projects
  • Responsible for design and maintenance of the GIT Repositories, views, and the access control strategies
  • Managed Docker orchestration and docker containerization using Kubernetes
  • Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of docker containers
  • Create and deployed Kubernetes pod definitions, tags, labels, multi-pods, container, replication and Managed multiple Kubernetes pod containers scaling, and auto scaling
  • Involved in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery
  • Experienced in Software Development Life-Cycle, Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management practices
  • Worked closely with developers to pinpoint and provide early warnings of common build failures
  • Used MAVEN as build tools on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code and deploy
  • Provisioned the highly available EC2 instances using Terraform and cloud formation and wrote new python scripts to support new functionality in Terraform.

Vertical Focus

DevOps Engineer
05.2013 - 08.2015

Job overview

  • Receive and acknowledge all automated alerts creating tickets as needed
  • Report false alters to L1/L2 for review/refinement of monitoring parameters
  • Execute and monitor routine service health checks for all Contact Center sites
  • Address any issues reported by Contact Center agents impacting productivity
  • Accurately capture required ticket detail for all reported issues/Incidents – including agent impact and ticket priority
  • Provide first level triage and resolution using knowledge base objects
  • Ensure those issues that cannot be resolved are escalated to L1/L2
  • Review/update knowledge base objects to reflect learning/experience from the Contact Center issues
  • Review and approve changes affecting in-scope Contact Center application services – ensure accurate and complete impact assessment, change process and back out plan
  • Execute post change verification scripts to confirm service availability for the Contact Center sites
  • Build and maintain knowledge objects to support first-point of-contact resolution for reoccurring events - engage L1/L2 as required to support
  • Build and maintain knowledge objects for any issues impacting the productivity of the agents in Contact Center sites
  • Proactively identify new knowledge object requirements based on issues resolved, planned change and release activities
  • Provide support to evaluate and communicate the Contact Center impacts during the major incidents
  • Communicate any unplanned outages and recovery plan which has potential to impact Contact Center agents.

Education

University Overview

Bachelor’s from Osmania University, Hyderabad

Skills

  • RHEL/CentOS 5x/6x/7
  • Ubuntu
  • Windows
  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • Apache-Tomcat
  • IIS
  • Azure Web Apps
  • YAML
  • Ruby
  • Groovy
  • Shell Scripting
  • Python
  • Nagios
  • Cloud Watch

Certification

AZ-400 (Designing and Implementing DevOps Certification)

Technical Summary

Technical Summary
  • Experienced in branching, tagging, and maintaining the version control across the environments using SCM tools like GIT & also with TFVC.
  • Experience on complete software development life cycle (DLC) with software development models like Agile, Scrum Model, Waterfall models
  • Experienced in Continuous deployment using Jenkins on Tomcat server.
  • Well experienced in implementation of Unity Catalogs and Databricks
  • Experienced in using Nexus and Artifactory Repository Managers for Maven builds.
  • Experienced in AWS & Azure Cloud platform.
  • Experienced in scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, Ruby, Bash, YAML.
  • Experienced in writing Docker files to build the micro-service applications.
  • Experience working on several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, creating Docker images, Compose, Docker Swarm.
  • Experienced in writing Docker & Kubernetes YAML files.
  • Creating and maintaining Infrastructure for Applications in AWS using Terraform. Building & Automating CICD pipelines for different applications.
  • 8 to10 years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration, and optimization.
  • Hands on experience working within an Agile framework.
  • Hands on experience in EC2, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch AWS using infrastructure as a code Terraform.
  • Knowledge on DevOps Cloud infrastructure Automation which includes Terraform, Packer and Jenkins.
  • Working experience in Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure Automation using Ansible, Puppet.
  • Experience in writing Ansible playbooks.
  • Well experienced in the design and operation of medium to large scale enterprise infrastructure, databases, and application systems
  • 6.5 years of Kafka & MongoDB experience.
  • Experience in Managing & Deploying on-premises infrastructure.
  • Have performed daily builds to the respective environments (Dev, Test, Stage, Pre-prod)
  • Strong experience in System Administration. Installation, Upgrading Patches, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance.
  • Ability to learn new technologies and to deliver outputs in short deadlines.
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Timeline

DevOps Engineer
Papa Johns International
06.2021 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Vizient
10.2018 - 05.2021
DevOps Engineer
Arbonne
09.2015 - 07.2018
DevOps Engineer
Vertical Focus
05.2013 - 08.2015
SAMEENA BEGUM