Results-driven Cloud & DevOps Architect with over 16+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, and IT solutions architecture across diverse industries. Expertise in designing scalable cloud-based solutions, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and driving digital transformation initiatives. Adept at leading teams, optimizing system performance, and managing cloud security to ensure 99.99% uptime and operational efficiency.
- Lead large-scale cloud transformation initiatives across AWS and Azure, ensuring performance, reliability, and security.
- Strong Proficiency in services offered by AWS/Azure including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
- Handling a team of Cloud/DevOps Engineers to design and implement high available Cloud orchestration using automation tools.
- Manage Pre-Sales activities and work on RFP, new proposals, work allocation, and resource estimation.
- Design and implement application deployment and state management using leading industry standard CI/CD and configuration management tools.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps, Jenkins.
- Involved in solution architecture design, project estimation, backlog grooming and sprint planning, and work with open-source tools (terraform) community to track bugs and fix the issues.
- Manage teams to design and develop specific solutions leveraging technologies and design practices that enable a scalable, extensible and flexible solution.
- Provide training and support to subordinates and manage stakeholders' communication.
- Serve as a liaison between multiple entities to facilitate project prioritization roadmap definition, scoping, requirements gathering and solution architecture.
- Responsible for Infrastructure Capacity, Migration Strategy and Solutions in multi-Cloud like AWS and Azure.
- Due diligence and evaluating customer requirements.
- Good interpersonal skills, a teamwork attitude, taking initiative, and being very proactive in solving problems and providing the best solutions.
The primary task in this role is to handle the complex payment system on multiple layers including B2B payment and B2C payment. Guarantee an uptime of over 99.9% and minimize chances of service interruption. The daily mix of tasks includes Linux/Windows, Apache, Nginx, Nagios, and MySQL Databases administration.
- Infrastructure Management across various Datacenters
- Strategic-Planning and Infrastructure designing for application from scratch to achieve vertical and horizontal scaling.
- Automation of daily and repetitive tasks by shell scripts, backup management (application and DB)
- Ensuring High availability of applications (Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Redis, MySql, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kafka, Jboss and postfix mail server)
- Information Security (Server and Application security and hardening) according to PCI-DSS and ISO standards
- Ensuring patching for servers in scope for zero day and other critical bugs
- Ossec hids as FIMS and IDS setup
- APM tool AppDynamics (Setup and configuration)
Platform/technologies used: CentOS, Red Hat, Nagios, MySQL (Master-Master, Master-Slave replication), VSFTP, Tomcat, Apache, NFS, Nagios, Shell Scripting Jenkins etc
Sep 2013 - Feb 2016 (2 years 6 months)
The primary task in this role is to Lead the multiple projects, guarantee an uptime of over 99.5% and minimize chances of service interruption.
- Design, implement and maintain multiple AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment
- Lead development team in designing/migrating AWS cloud-based solutions
- Work with distributed teams to design, proofs of concept, and external customer facing products
- Good knowledge of networking fundamentals
- Create a lift and shift process model clearly defining the individual steps of the lift and shift process
Platform/technologies used: CentOS, Red Hat, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, ELB, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch, Cloudfront), Nagios, MySQL (Master-Master, Master- Slave replication), VSFTP, Samba, Windows 2003/2008, Tomcat, Apache, NFS, Nagios, Shell
The primary task in this role is to support the multiple projects, guarantee an uptime of over
99.5% and minimize chances of service interruption. The daily mix of tasks includes Linux/CentOS system
administration, Amazon Web services and MySQL Databases. As a, we are supporting multiple platforms such as Red Hat, CentOS, and Windows.
- Administration of Linux/CentOS servers running Apache/Tomcat.
- High Availability System Design and Implementation
- MySQL Database Administration.
- User access system, running on the servers.
- Writing basic shell scripting for various schedule and routine tasks.
Platform/technologies used: CentOS 5.x, Red Hat 5.x, ESX, Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, ELB, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch, Cloudfront), Nagios, MySQL, VSFTP, Samba, Windows; , VMware VSphere, vCenter, Tomcat, Apache, NFS, Shell Scripting etc
The primary task in this role was to support the Labara (UK Based Telecom Company). As
a senior member of the team, I was responsible for to configure the testing environment for developer and supported the production environment. Proactively monitored and administered production and development servers remotely.
- Managing servers, software installation, monitoring, troubleshooting, build and deployment, process.
- Reviewing software installation procedures, testing on Development/Staging environment before on Production.
- Providing 24/7 on call availability by means of cell phone, instant messaging and e-mail.
- Configured and administered Apache-Tomcat clusters.
- Implemented monitoring systems using Nagios to determine outages, downtime and track system performance.
- Leading Infra Team, working on all technical issues, taking sole responsibility and provided competent resolution to all problems during the tenure, ensuring 99.99% availability of servers for business units.
- Platform/technologies: Red Hat, Nagios, Tomcat Cluster, Apache, OpenLdap (Master-Slave Replication), Hybris, Hudson, NFS, Sendmail, VSFTP, MSSQL, Shell Scripting
Administrated nearly 2500 portal servers in large Network architecture. I was responsible for Blackboard (US Based Company) Web / DB servers. Possess extensive experience in the supporting and maintenance of Dell Power edge servers running in Linux.
- Responsible for software installation, building startup shell scripts, managing the automation of CRON
jobs and managing file systems.
- Installation, configuration and implementation of Linux service on Linux based systems.
- Troubleshooting the all application issues running on servers.
- Providing 24x7 supports to the production division in a highly demanding environment.
- Troubleshooting in Web Servers and site related issues.
- Power management done through MPS, KVM and DRAC Enterprise software for managing network booting, physical hardware, and virtual machines using Scalent.
- Successfully resolved customer issues ranging from machine failure to operating systems issues.
- Platform/technologies used: Red Hat 5.x, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, Customized Monitoring Tool, Shell Scripting etc
The primary task in this role was to maintain the site (www.123greetings.com) running with
200+ production servers. The goal of the project was to migrate our flagship website from physical hosting to cloud computing infrastructure after proper evaluation and testing of Amazon AWS.
- Administrated 200+ production servers on AWS (Amazon Web Services) running with Red Hat and Centos.
- Troubleshooting Day–to-Day issues with various Servers on different platforms.
- Responsible for software installation, building startup shell scripts, managing the automation of CRON jobs and managing file systems.
- Monitored servers for CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization for performance monitoring
- Configuring administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system / user requirements.
- Installed and configured Apache, Samba, HAProxy, and Squid (Linux Proxy). Platform/technologies used: CentOS 5.x, Red Hat 5.x, Load Balancers ( HaProxy), FreeBSD, AWS (EC2, EBS, S3,), Nagios, Munin, MySQL VSFTP, Shell Scripting, Apache, NFS etc.