FEROZKHAN A
Chennai
Summary
Skilled Linux and DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience in support & deployment of Linux servers& implementing DevOps methodologies for managing infrastructure to handle several applications.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
Financial Software Systems
11.2023 - Current
- Setting up an infrastructure in AWS to handle several applications
- Configured custom Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks with appropriate subnets, route tables, and security groups to isolate and secure resources
- Implemented AWS high availability using AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), which performed balance across instances in multiple availability zones
- Jenkins integrates with Docker to build, test, and deploy Docker images as part of the CI/CD pipeline
- Jenkins can also orchestrate the deployment of containers to Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
- Experience with database provisioning configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting in Amazon RDS
- Implemented k6 for load testing and performance monitoring
- Managing and maintaining Docker registries, such as Docker Hub, Amazon ECR
- Create and manage Kubernetes objects such as Pods, Deployments, Services, and Ingress controller using YAML manifest files
- Set up monitoring and alerting systems Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk to track
- Provision, configure, and manage AWS infrastructure such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPCs, IAM roles, Security Groups, RDS, and others
- Monitor and optimize the usage of cloud resources to ensure cost efficiency, recommending changes where needed (e.g., scaling EC2 instances based on demand)
- Kubernetes Scheduling and configuring PODs, dealing with Namespaces, Daemon sets, Replica sets and configuring Kubernetes Scheduler
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment pipelines, testing, and monitoring using AWS services like Terraform, or Ansible
- Performed regular builds and deployment of the packages for testing in different environments (Dev, QA, & UAT)
- Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and management.
- Reduced system downtime for critical applications by implementing robust monitoring and alerting tools.
System Administrator
EBIX CASH
09.2021 - 11.2023
- Setting up an infrastructure in AWS to handle several applications
- Configured custom Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks with appropriate subnets, route tables, and security groups to isolate and secure resources
- Implemented security measures like IAM roles, policies, and multi-factor authentication to enforce least privilege access and safeguard AWS resources
- Utilized Amazon Route 53 to manage domain names, configure DNS records, and ensure reliable and low-latency routing for applications
- Implemented Elastic Load Balancers to dynamically manage traffic distribution and scale resources based on demand, enhancing application reliability and availability
- Managing AMI/snapshots/Volumes, upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (EBS)
- Used CloudWatch and SNS for monitoring AWS cloud resources and the application that were deployed and enabling notification
- Integrated CI/CD pipelines with AWS services, enabling automated deployment of applications using tools like Jenkins
- Experience on implementing CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins (GitHub, SonarQube, Nexus)
- Experience in Linux, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps processes, AWS Cloud and following Agile practices
- Created Docker images for applications, optimizing them for size and performance while adhering to best practices
- Creating a docker file to containerize an application and deploying it in Kubernetes
- Implemented Prometheus for monitoring infrastructure and applications, creating custom metrics and alerting rules for proactive issue identification
- Monitoring and alerting of resources using Grafana and Prometheus
- Configuring and Designing dashboards in Splunk to monitor application logs
- Implemented infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform to ensure consistent, repeatable, and version-controlled infrastructure deployments
- Strong insight and understanding of Ansible concepts and experienced in writing playbooks to provision resources in different platforms
- Used Terraform to write infrastructure as code and created terraform scripts for EC2 instances and Elastic Load balancers and S3 buckets
Linux Administrator
SBA INFO SOLUTIONS
10.2019 - 08.2021
- Responsible for installation, administration and maintenance of Linux Servers (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu) in VMware ESXi
- Managed AWS EC2 instances along with EBS and S3 services
- Creating a EC2 instances to build, test and deploy the applications
- Managing the credentials used to connect to your instances
- Created and Managing buckets on S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Mount to Server, hosting S3 static website hosting, then used to data migrated from on-premises to S3 bucket
- Involved in pipeline setups and Jenkins configuration
- Static website hosting, then used to data migrated from on-premises to S3 bucket
- Experience in working on Logical Volume Management (LVM) administration on Linux
- Scheduling downtimes of the servers for patching, memory upgrades, reboot and various admin activities in coordination with appropriate teams
- Using our internal portal patches and deployments are performed
- Setup, Manage and Deploying the Middleware like Web server (Apache) and Application server (JBOSS/WildFly and Tomcat)
- Patching and application deployment in prod & non prod environment
- Configuration of LVM and disk partition
- Creation and installation of SSL for secure websites (https)
- Configuring highly available monitoring using Nagios from ansible playbook
- Installation of ESXi operating system using ILO remotely in physical machine and created the New Virtual Machine
- Experience on configuring yum repository and Installing packages using yum and rpm and scheduling the jobs using crontab
Sr. Customer Associate
FIRSTSOURCE SOLUTIONS
02.2015 - 12.2018
- Project Title: UNITED HEALHCARE GROUP (UHG)
Education
B.E - ECE
MAR College of Engineering
Trichy, Tamil Nadu01.2015
Skills
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Nexus
- Git
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- Python
- Shell
- Linux
- Windows
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- VPC
- EC2
- EKS
- S3
- IAM
- EBS
- ELB Auto Scaling
- Cloud watch
- Apache Tomcat
- Nginx
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Monitoring and logging
- Linux administration
- JIRA
Education - Undergraduate
MAR College of Engineering, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, B.E/ECE, 05/01/15
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Financial Software Systems
11.2023 - Current
System Administrator
EBIX CASH
09.2021 - 11.2023
Linux Administrator
SBA INFO SOLUTIONS
10.2019 - 08.2021
Sr. Customer Associate
FIRSTSOURCE SOLUTIONS
02.2015 - 12.2018
B.E - ECE
MAR College of Engineering
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