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Sandeep Raj Kasinath

Irving,TX

Summary

Associated with IT industry for 9+ years working as AWS Engineer/DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, and Systems/VMWare Engineer within Linux/Unix/Windows environments to provide solutions to complex issues utilizing most of the resources such as Virtualization, Integration, and Configuration Management tools, different Infrastructures (On-Premises Bare-Metal, privatized or Public Cloud) for Server Provisioning, Configuring, Monitoring, Disaster Recovery. Managed source code repositories and implemented branching strategies to facilitate parallel development and code reviews. Experience in utilizing Amazon AWS cloud includes services like EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, IAM, Cloud Watch, Elastic Beanstalk, Security Groups, EC2 Container Service (ECS), Lambda, Kinesis, Code Commit, Code Pipeline, code deploy, Dynamo DB, Auto Scaling. Built out Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) private cloud OpenStack and managed deployment of Microservices using Kubernetes, Docker and etcd to production environment. Performed server monitoring, Application monitoring, Capacity Planning and log monitoring using Nagios, Cacti, Zabbix and Splunk. Implemented disaster recovery strategies, including replication and failover mechanisms, for critical applications. Developed PowerShell scripts for automating routine tasks, improving operational efficiency by 25%. Collaborated with development teams to optimize application performance in cloud environments. Hands-on on Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, Environment configuration Files, Users, Mount points, Packages and proactively manage change and written Ansible Playbooks using Yaml for Maintaining Roles, Inventory Files and Groups Variables. Utilized Kubernetes as a platform to provide a platform for automating the deployments, scaling, and operation of application containers across a cluster of hosts. Worked closely with development teams and test engineers for EC2 size optimization and Docker build Containers. Container management using Docker by writing Docker file in JSON format and place the automated build in the Docker Hub. Managed deployments using Kubernetes, created local clusters and deployed application container. Converted existing Terraform modules that had version conflicts to utilize Cloud formation templates during deployments, worked with Terraform to create stacks in AWS, and updated the Terraform scripts based on the requirement on regular basis. Experience in creating the Linux AMI from virtual images. Management of servers (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL) running Apache, DNS (bind), Exim, MySQL, FTP servers List (such as Mailman), and Managing VPS nodes. Writing Ansible playbooks to define and upload a base image, which will then get its own AMI ID for usage with the ec2 module or the CloudFormation module. Experienced in troubleshooting, automating various builds and deployments using ANT, MAVEN, Perl, Ruby, MS Build, and Shell Scripts and deploying to web and application servers like WebSphere, WebLogic, and Tomcat.

Work History

DevOps Engineer

CVS
Dallas, TX
09.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance, and Systems Development of Red Hat Linux, and Oracle Enterprise Linux / UNIX Systems
  • Configuration Management and source code repository management using tools like GIT, Subversion (SVN), Perforce, and PVCS
  • Migrated SVN repositories into GIT using Sub GIT
  • Experience in using Nexus, and Artifactory Repository Managers for Maven builds
  • Implemented Maven Release Plug-in through Jenkins Jobs for deploying the artifacts to Nexus, and Artifactory
  • Maintained Nexus for storing artifacts and for searching the dependencies of a project based on GAV coordinates
  • Used Ansible for deployment configuration automation on production servers
  • Created Ansible playbooks which are the entry point for Ansible provisioning, where the automation is defined through tasks using YAML format and run Ansible Scripts depending on provision to Dev servers
  • Converted a slow and manual procedure to dynamic API-generated procedures in Ansible
  • Good understanding of Ansible, for configuring and managing computers, combining multi-node software deployment, ad hoc task execution, and configuration management
  • Experience in creating Docker Containers leveraging existing Linux Containers and AMI's in addition to creating Docker Containers from scratch
  • Worked with Docker swarm manager to maintain worker nodes and orchestration
  • Integrating Docker Swarm with Docker daemon
  • Hands-on experience on JIRA for creating bug tickets, storyboarding, pulling reports from the dashboard, and creating and planning sprints
  • Used Maven dependency management system to deploy snapshots and release artifacts to Nexus to share these artifacts across projects
  • Worked on a variety of Linux platforms Red Hat Linux, and Solaris which included installation, configuring, and maintenance of applications in this environment.

DevOps /SRE Engineer

Charles Schwab
Austin, TX.
11.2020 - 08.2022
  • Involved in developing applications using Agile/Scrum methodology
  • Creating CI/CD pipeline and automated rollback plans for all 12 Services in Harness
  • Migrated all Services into the new Data Center through CI/CD pipeline in Harness and Bamboo
  • Working on Creating Dashboards and alerts for all 12 services using Splunk and AppDynamics
  • Working on Cloud PCF migration from Java
  • Working knowledge of email and email services such as Mailman and Postfix
  • Installation of third-party software like Mailman on Red Hat Linux
  • Working on Blue Green deployments and Load Balancer deployments
  • Implemented 24/7 monitoring and joined everyday market open call
  • Troubleshoot the critical issues in prod environment and create RCA to find the root cause
  • Configure Xmatter for critical alerts, participating in on-call duty and performing after hours work as needed to support business needs
  • Provide Tier 3 Incident Support for Applications as required to assist internal Support Teams
  • Collaborating with developers to properly automate software build, test and deployments
  • Training junior system and DevOps engineers as needed
  • Performed 2X, 4X and 7X load Stress test on login impacted applications
  • Perform application health check and created alert for failed Harness deployments and certification
  • Handled weekly deployment and trouble shooting
  • Worked on building pipelines for Java based Applications
  • Worked on Jenkins by installing, configuring, and maintaining for continuous integration (CI) and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments
  • Setup full CI/CD pipelines to commit code changes through standard process of software lifecycle and gets tested well enough before it can make it to the production
  • Managed postfix MTA, Apache, Tomcat, CVS, and printers in production systems
  • Experience in using Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus Repository Managers of Maven builds.

AWS/DevOps Engineer

US Bank
Charlotte, NC.
12.2019 - 10.2020
  • Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Optimized volumes and EC2 instances
  • End-to-end deployment ownership for projects on Amazon AWS which includes scripting for automation, scalability, build promotions for staging to production
  • Integrated Amazon Cloud Watch with Amazon EC2 instances for monitoring the log files, storing them and track metrics, Automated the dev, QA environments to auto shutdown during off hours and weekends leveraging the AWS Lambda and CloudWatch Event Rule
  • Experience with Terraform to build infrastructure as a code, Utilization of Terraform for automated infrastructure deployments (AWS ELB, AWS EC2, AWS Security Groups, AWS VPC, AWS Key Pairs, AWS IAM)
  • Implemented and managed AWS Secrets Manager for over 50+ applications, enhancing security and reducing secret exposure risks by 80%
  • Automated the rotation of database credentials and API keys using AWS Lambda, reducing manual intervention by 90% and ensuring compliance with security policies
  • Designed and executed a strategy for secure storage and access to sensitive information, leading to a 30% decrease in data breach incidents
  • Create fully automated CI/CD using Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub
  • Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant, auto scaling, Kubernetes AWS infrastructure and micro service container orchestration
  • Manage and replicate infrastructure and instance configurations using Terraform and Packer
  • Performed GIT/Bit Bucket migration and managed branching strategies using GIT flow workflow
  • Built Jenkins jobs to create AWS infrastructure from GitHub repos containing Terraform code, to help the Dev and QA to setup the environment to progress the development and testing at faster pace
  • Created various Terraform scripts to deploy Kubernetes, Dev, QA, and Pre-prod environments in AWS Cloud
  • Managed Ansible Playbooks with Ansible roles, used different modules to build custom Ansible playbook Service modules, File modules, Template modules, etc
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to migrate legacy secret management systems to AWS Secrets Manager, reducing operational costs by 25%
  • Implemented monitoring and alerting mechanisms for secret usage, enhancing visibility and response times to potential security threats by 70%
  • Created inventory in Ansible for automating continuous deployment and wrote Playbooks using YAML scripting
  • Involved in Development and Implementation of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline involving Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform and Docker containers to complete the automation from commit to deployment
  • Worked on creation of multiple Amazon Machine Images (AMI) for multiple regions and different environments using Packer Scripts and automated in Ansible playbooks
  • Assist in designing, automating, implementing and sustainment of Amazon machine images (AMI) across the AWS Cloud environment
  • Created the required AMIs and guided the DevOps personnel in building and running servers
  • Built Terr grunt project to manage Terraform configuration file DRY while working with multiple terraforms modules
  • Installed Docker Registry for local upload and download of Docker images and even from Docker hub
  • Implemented build stage to build the micro service and push the Docker container image to the private Docker registry
  • Migrate existing databases from on premise to AWS using various tools including but not limited to AWS Data Migration Services and AWS Schema Conversion Tool
  • AWS Migration: Optimization of applications to scalable cloud designs, rearchitecting applications to modern cloud patterns, and database migration (including cross-platform)
  • Experience in building Docker images using GitLab-ci build automation runner
  • Experienced in branching, tagging, and maintaining the version across the Environments using SCM tools like Git, GitLab, GitHub and Subversion (SVN) on Linux and windows platforms
  • Creation of gitlab-ci.yml file for kicking build process in stages that run in docker container
  • Experience in working on version control like Subversion, and GIT, BIT BUCKET and used Source code management client tools like Git Bash, GitHub, Git GUI, GitLab, Visual SVN, Tortoise SVN, Stash, etc
  • Experience in converting AWS existing infrastructure to server less architecture (AWS Lambda, Kinesis) and deployed via Terraform or AWS Cloud formation
  • Used the AWS-CLI to suspend an AWS Lambda function processing an Amazon Kinesis stream, then to resume it again
  • Implemented AWS Kinesis streams, Lambdas and configured ECS, Bean Stalk, Docker, Jenkins for provisioning and deployment
  • Created and managed Kinesis streams configured logs in Splunk from AWS cloud watch
  • Managing the OpenShift cluster that includes scaling up and down the AWS app nodes
  • Worked on ansible automation in replacing the different components of OpenShift like ECTD, MASTER, APP, INFRA, Gluster
  • OpenShift virtualized PaaS provider - useful in automating the provisioning of commodity computing resources for cost and performance efficiency
  • Implement continuous integration pipelines with OpenShift’s Jenkins capability
  • Wrote Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of AWS nodes and Tested Playbooks on AWS instances using Python
  • Experience working with AWS/RedHat OpenShift Infrastructure design, deployment, and operational support
  • Manage automation playbooks and documentation related to OpenShift.

AWS DevOps Engineer

The Vanguard Group
, Pennsylvania
05.2019 - 12.2019
  • Hands-on experience with Amazon Web services (AWS) and implemented solutions using EC2, S3, and RDS in cloud formation Json templates, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, and Auto Scaling Groups
  • Developed and managed cloud VM’s with AWS EC2 command line clients and management console
  • Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions and alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch
  • Build new CI pipeline, Testing and deployment automation with Docker, Jenkins and Ansible
  • Integrating SonarQube in the CI pipeline to analyze code quality and obtain combined code coverage reports after performing static and dynamic analysis
  • Used Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK stack) for centralized logging and analytics in the continuous delivery pipeline to store logs and metrics into S3 bucket using the lambda function
  • Worked with Application Performance Monitoring tools like AppDynamics for monitoring JAVA, .NET and PHP applications along with NewRelic for monitoring performance like browser and for tracking issues in SQL statements
  • Created and maintained various DevOps related tools for the team such as provisioning scripts, deployment tools and staged virtual environments using Docker and Vagrant
  • Managed Nexus and Maven repositories to download artifacts during the build and wrote Ansible Playbooks, which is entry point for Server Provisioning, where the automation identified through the tasks using YAML format
  • Experience using Ansible Tower, which provides an easy-to-use dashboard, and role-based access control, so that it is easier to allow individual teams access to use Ansible for their deployments
  • Managed Microservices using Docker to quickly spin up into reproducible dev environment and scaling them and orchestration using Amazon EC2 container service (ECS) and deploy it to an Amazon EC2 instance
  • Created Docker compose file using YAML for deploying MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node JS) applications onto Docker containers before deploying them into production environment
  • Created Docker Images using a docker file, worked on Docker Container Snapshots, removing images and managing Docker Volumes deployed using Kubernetes
  • Used Terraform for managing the infrastructure through the terminal sessions and executing scripts in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using AWS Cloud Watch
  • Wrote Ansible Playbooks for various applications and deployed them in AWS using Terraform
  • Used bash and python with Boto3 to supplement automation provided by Ansible and Terraform for tasks such as encrypting EBS volumes backing AMI’s and scheduling lambda functions for routine AWS tasks
  • Integrated AWS Secrets Manager with CI/CD pipelines, streamlining secret management processes and reducing deployment times by 40%
  • Conducted regular security audits and compliance checks, achieving 100% compliance with industry standards and internal policies
  • Developed and deployed IAM policies and roles for granular access control to secrets, resulting in a 50% improvement in access control management
  • Responsible for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process implementation using Jenkins along with Python scripts to automate routine jobs
  • Deployed Java applications into web application servers like Apache Tomcat servers to host the applications
  • Involved in configuring Nginx as a web server
  • Schedule and perform process audits and recommend process improvements
  • Continuously work towards optimization of process and workflow to improve turnaround and resolution time
  • Experienced in Gitlab CI and Jenkins for CI and for End - to-End automation for all build and CD
  • Proficient in documenting and implementing procedures related to build deployment and release
  • Experience on OpenShift platform in managing Docker containers Kubernetes Clusters.

DevOps Engineer

Symplr
Houston, TX
03.2017 - 04.2019
  • Designing and deploying large number of applications utilizing most of the AWS stack includes not limited to EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS and IAM focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance and auto-scaling in AWS cloud formation
  • Involved in working with cloud/storage systems along with few SaaS applications
  • Worked in deployment of content delivery networks (CDN) and system development in cloud environments
  • Designed AWS cloud formation templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of web-applications and database templates
  • Configuring and networking of virtual private cloud (VPC), written cloud formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it
  • Expertise in configuring and deploying instances on Cloud environments and On-Premise Data centers
  • Experience in the areas of DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline, Build & release management, AWS, and Linux/Windows Administration
  • Storage on AWS EBS, S3 and Glacier and automate sync data to Glacier
  • Database services on AWS like RDS, Dynamo DB, Elastic Transcoder, Cloud front, Elastic Beanstalk
  • Configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) groups and users for improved login authentication
  • Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets
  • Writing Terraform templates, Chef Cookbooks and push them onto Chef Server for configuring EC2 Instances and Bamboo AWS Code Deploy plugin to deploy applications
  • Configured/Integrated Bamboo with Bitbucket to pull codes, ANT to generate builds and push artifacts to AWS S3
  • Configured Chef to manage AWS environments and automate the build process for core AMIs used by all application deployments including Auto scaling and incorporating Chef using AWS OpsWorks on the JSON Cloud Formation scripts for the configuration deployment onto the nodes
  • Created EBS snapshots, rebuilt new EBS volumes from snapshots to migrate applications, and storing these snapshots into S3 buckets for backup
  • Managing GIT version control system in creating branches, tags, merge, resolving conflicts
  • Developed CI/CD system with Jenkins on Docker for the run-time environment to build, test and deploy
  • Experience in working with several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Compose, and Docker Registry for storing Docker images and files, running multiple containers in staging and production environments
  • Worked to setup Jenkins as a service inside the Docker Swarm cluster to reduce the failover downtime to minutes and to automate the Docker containers deployment without using configuration management tool
  • Used AppDynamics for administrative activities like user management, application management and monitoring controller performance
  • Worked on deployment automation of all micro-services to pull image from the private docker registry and deploy to Docker Swarm cluster using Ansible
  • Experience in working with Docker service rolling updates and involved in implementation of BLUE GREEN DEPLOYMENT to attain zero downtime.

Systems/VMWare Engineer

Locuz Enterprise Solutions Ltd
Hyderabad
08.2013 - 02.2016
  • Experience in Installing, upgrading, configuring Red Hat Linux 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7 using kickstart servers and interactive installation
  • Expertise in package management using Red Hat RPM, YUM used in several Linux distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and configuring different servers (FTP, WEB, NFS, SAMBA, Send mail & Autofs)
  • Experience in installing and configuring SELinux using command line interface and setting up permissions to the files and directories according to the requirement
  • Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, Performance tuning and testing using
  • Configuration and maintenance of WebLogic 8.1 with JDBC, JNMS, JNMI, SNMP and J2EE services, deploying applications in (WAR, JAR, and EAR) in domain and clustered environments
  • Performed WebLogic Server 8.x administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and performance tuning
  • Worked extensively on large variety of integration technologies Mule soft, Apache Camel, Jboss Fuse, Fuse Fabric8 and creating Active MQ with different topologies in Enterprise Integration
  • Experience in installing, configuring, and maintaining application Server like WebSphere and Web Servers like Web Logic, Apache HTTP and Tomcat on UNIX and Linux
  • Experience in installation, configuration, performance tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrade/patches of Linux and UNIX servers using Crontab
  • Installation and administration of VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5 environment Evaluated and implemented new hardware and software solutions that benefited architecture and operations implemented VMware SRM and troubleshot performance issues
  • Worked on VMware for Virtual server builds, increasing memory, CPU, adding disks, Maintenance on ESX hosts VM and server/storage migrations
  • Installing and upgrading virtual machine hardware version using VMware tools
  • Provisioning virtual machines and deploying virtual machines from Templates by cloning
  • Creating and deleting of VM's snapshots
  • Assigning LUNs to ESX/ ESXi servers and creating data stores
  • Adding virtual machine memory and vcpu.

Education

Bachelor’s - computer science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
2012

Master’s - computer information science

Bellevue University
2017

Skills

  • TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • Operating Systems
  • RHEL/CentOS 5x/6x/7, Linux-Ubuntu/Fedora, Windows 7/8/XP/10, AWS-Linux CLI
  • Networking
  • VPC, Route-53, LDAP, DNS, FTP, DHCP, SSH
  • Cloud Technologies
  • AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, Cloud Watch, RDS, Elasticache, IAM, Cloud Formation) &, OpenShift
  • Databases
  • MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
  • Source Control
  • GIT, SVN, Bitbucket
  • Configuration Management
  • Ansible, Puppet, Chef
  • Virtualization/ Containerization
  • VMWARE, VSPHERE 55/60, VCENTER, Docker, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Vagrant
  • Web/Application Server
  • IIS, Tomcat, Apache, Jboss, WebSphere Application Server, Web Logic
  • Build/Deploy/Automation Tools
  • ANT, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, TFS, Perl, Python, Shell, bash, Groovy
  • Software Methodologies
  • Agile-SCRUM, Waterfall
  • Bug tracking/Monitoring
  • JIRA, Confluence, Rally, Remedy, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, Splunk, Nagios
  • DevOps Systems
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Configuration and Management
  • Maintenance and Troubleshooting
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Linux Environments
  • Software System Maintenance

Additional Information

  • Experience in Installing and setting up of RAID hardware/software for data backup and storage. Highly experienced in creating new file systems, mounting file systems, and unmounting file systems. Expertise in implementation and maintenance of Apache Http, SMTP, DHCP, NFS, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS, SAMBA, SQUID, Postfix, send mail, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management Security trouble shooting skills. Used the AWS-CLI to suspend an AWS Lambda function processing an Amazon Kinesis stream, then to resume it again. Experience on OpenShift platform in managing Docker containers Kubernetes Clusters Experience in working with Linux including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, configuration, and administration of Red Hat Virtual machines in VMware Environment. Performed routine account maintenance upon customer request, including DNS updates httpd changes and mailman list setup and maintenance on Linux systems. Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications- verbally or through written documentation using confluence to various groups in the organization to facilitate new or improved business processes and systems via change log. Update Jenkins pipelines and OpenShift templates to make use of the new environment. Continuous Deployment and Configuration Mgmt. capabilities with Ansible and Open shift Troubleshooting everyday problems in Web Logic Application Server and issues by interacting with developer and testing teams and provided 24x7 On Call Production support on rotation basis. Worked on Git, Apache, ngnix, postfix, OpenSSH server software and git/Gerrit source code control/review. Having expertise on Virtualization, Zimbra Postfix Server, FreeNAS, LTSP Server, Nagios Monitoring tool.

Work Preference

Work Type

Contract Work

Location Preference

RemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Career advancement

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

CVS
09.2022 - Current

DevOps /SRE Engineer

Charles Schwab
11.2020 - 08.2022

AWS/DevOps Engineer

US Bank
12.2019 - 10.2020

AWS DevOps Engineer

The Vanguard Group
05.2019 - 12.2019

DevOps Engineer

Symplr
03.2017 - 04.2019

Systems/VMWare Engineer

Locuz Enterprise Solutions Ltd
08.2013 - 02.2016

Bachelor’s - computer science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Master’s - computer information science

Bellevue University

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