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MohammedTousif Jamadar

MohammedTousif Jamadar

Bangalore

Summary

• A Vibrant IT Professional with over 15 years of versatile experience in different domains such as Linux, Solaris, AWS-Cloud, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Unix/Linux Cyber Security & Compliance Hardening AWS-Cloud, DevOps, GIT-GITHUB, CICD Pipeline, Service-Now, JIRA, ITIL, BMC-Remedy, Ozone
• Strong experience in Administering Managing On-Premises and AWS-Cloud Infrastructure.
• Strong Troubleshooting and Problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in HYBRID Model involving multiple Teams and also working independently on the assigned tasks for achieving the Delivery.
• Infrastructure Management, Vulnerability Management, Security & Compliance, Configuration Management, Application Deployment.
• Deployment for On-Premises and AWS-Cloud Platforms through different DevOps Tools such as Terraform, Puppet and Ansible.
• Vulnerability Management & troubleshooting for On-Premises and AWS-Cloud platforms using Puppet as a DevOps Tool.
• Experienced in working on AWS-Cloud services like IAM, EC2, Storages, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, CloudWatch, ASG, ELB, Regions, AZ's, VPC and
many other AWS services.
• Expert in DevOps/Scrum methodologies for managing CICD using Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Code-Commit, Code-Build, Code-Deploy, Code-Pipeine and JENKINS for Orchestration.
• Proficient in GIT/GITHUB technologies.
• Automation of Routine Tasks using Linux BASH Scripting.
• Experienced in Unix/Linux Security Operations by Ensuring Compliance for Vulnerabilities using QualysGuard Tool across the Enterprise configured as per the cyber-security defined standards.
• Experienced in Unix/Linux Security Controls by Testing/Deploying into Lower & Production environments through QualysGuard Tool as per the Cyber Security standards including Hardening interacting with clients
across Globe helping in troubleshooting when needed.
• Storage Migration from EMC to Hitachi(Array) and MD-Devices to LVM.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Technical Lead

tcs
Bengaluru
04.2024 - Current

DevOps Technical Lead (Client: Shared Support for multiple Clients)


Environment: AWS, Terraform, Linux, Windows:
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Responsibilities:
* Managing AWS-Cloud Infrastructure for Multiple Clients.
* Managing DevOps area via Terraform as IAC for Provisioning and managing Infrastructure.
* Provisioning EC2-Instances as per request and tweaking IOPS, Throughput, Disk-Space based on
requirement.
* Provisioning & Managing AWS resources via Terraform as the IAC tool.
* Handling CICD Pipeline on AWS-Native tools like Code-Commit, Code-Build, Terraform (3rdParty) and
Orchestrating all these stages using AWS-Code-Pipeline.
* Patching of servers on AWS-Infrastructure based on their Maintenance window.
* Provisioning S3-Buckets and managing Lifecycle policies for cost optimizations.
* Working on Route-53 based on addition/deletion requests for Values and tweaking configurations.
* Solid understanding and Hands-On AWS-Networking services such as VPC, Subnets, Route-Tables, SG,
NACL, IGW, NAT, Transit-Gateway and Direct-Connect.
* Solid understanding on various AWS-Services like CloudFront, WAF, ASG, ALB, NLB, CLB, GLB, Storages,
CloudWatch, Cloud-Trail, ELK, AWS-Organization, SCP and many other AWS Services.

DevOps Technical Lead

TCS
Bangalore
05.2020 - 03.2024

DevOps Technical Lead (Client: CBA-Commonwealth Bank of Australia)

Environment: AWS, Linux, Puppet, Terraform
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Responsibilities:
* Managing Multiple AWS-Clients and their AWS-Infrastructure and DevOps area.
* Managing Technical Teams, Roster and team conflicts.
* Provisioning EC2-Instances and Storage plus managing disk-space, IOPS and Throughput On-Demand.
* Deploying of Applications & Infrastructure resources using TERRAFORM.
* Configuring & Managing CI/CD pipelines using AWS-Native tools such as AWS's Code-Commit, Code-* * Build, Code-Deploy and Orchestrating these stages using Code-Build.
* Performing monthly Patching for clients based on their Change-Window and Strategy by involving
application teams for performing Sanity checks.
* Patching of Linux Servers using PUPPET tool and end to end troubleshooting of Kernel-Panic/Boot
related issues.
* Storage management of VM's hosted VMWare Infrastructure via LVM utility and end to end
troubleshooting of issues while configuring storage.
* Storage migration from MD-Device to LVM by involving Application-Team.

DevOps Engineer

TCS
Bangalore
11.2016 - 04.2020

DevOps Engineer (Client: BMO-Bank of Montreal-Canada)


Environment: AWS, Ansible, Linux & Solaris.
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Responsibilities:
* Managing Users through IAM and adding them to respective Groups & Roles as needed.
* Vulnerability Patching including Security, Updates & Kernel for Linux EC2-Instances.
* Provisioning/Spinning up EC2-Instances and managing Storage like Upgrading space, IOPS,
Throughput based On-Demand.
* Vulnerability Patching including Updates, Security, Kernel of Linux Servers via Ansible including
troubleshooting.
* Deploying Applications via Ansible.
* Working in a Hybrid Model by Coordinating with Multiple Technical teams such as Application,
Database, Storage and Stake-Holders for achieving desired delivery.
* Expert in Linux Infra area and strong in Troubleshooting and Problem Solving Skills.
* Accessing & Attaching LUN's assigned by storage team to OS by formatting and On Demand size
Increase.
* Involved in Migration of Storage from EMC to HITACHI and Array Migration for cost-saving.
* Troubleshooting storage issues that arises on LVM, MULTIPATH and VCS setups
* Managing and Troubleshooting user accounts and Jailed user environment including LDAP user
accounts
* Expertise in Renewal and Troubleshooting SSL/TLS Public certificates using Ikeyman, ikeycmd and
keytool utilities for Linux and Solaris servers
* Configuration and troubleshooting SSH Public key based authentications.
* Upgrading CPU, RAM on both Physical Servers and VM's hosted VMWare Infrastructure.
* Working on physical servers (HP) & VM's ( vCenter environment)
* Change management using BMC-REMEDY, MYSERVICE and SERVICENOW

Unix/Linux Security & Compliance Specialist

Accenture
Bangalore
03.2014 - 11.2016

Linux/Unix Security & Compliance Specialist (Client: Accenture Global Clients)

Environment: Linux,Solaris,HP-UX, AIX & QualysGuard
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  • Performing Qualys-Guard Scanning for Vulnerabilities & Security Controls Compliance on Linux/Solaris/AIX/HP-UX servers based on CyberSecurity standards for Accenture global clients
  • Generating Vulnerability and Controls reports and and sending across to LOB-heads (global clients) for fixing
  • Helping LOB POC's in troubleshooting vulnerability and controls related issues
  • Configuring and troubleshooting Public-key based Authentication between Qualys-Guard tool and all Unix/Linux servers
  • Ensuring SSH and other services and secured and troubleshooting SSH related configurations issues and ACL issues
  • Working on latest security controls released by cyber-security standards by deploying & testing on lower environments and finally deploying on production setup
  • Working on False-Positives requests across LOB's and providing exception for vulnerability/control items if it's required for meeting business requirement.

Unix/Linux Security Specialist

MindTree
Bangalore
03.2013 - 02.2014

Senior Linux Engineer (Client: KPN-Netherlands)

Environment: Linux and VMWare.
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Responsibilities:

  • Managing Patching for around 15k Linux servers using RPM utility
  • Local User Management on Linux users and troubleshooting access denied and other ACL issues
  • Managing storage using LVM utility on Linux virtual machines hosted on VMWare environment.
  • Managing storage coming from SAN-Storage by attaching the scanned LUNs as per the request
  • Preparing Technical SOP for Linux Patching and related troubleshooting.

Operations Engineer

OnMobile Global Limited
Bangalore
12.2008 - 03.2013

TecOps Engineer (Client: Airte, Vodafone, Reliance, Touchtel)

Environment: Windows, Linux, Ozone
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Responsibilities:

  • Deployment, Management & troubleshooting of VAS applications for various clients like Airtel, Vodafone, Touchtel & Vodafone & Reliance
  • Configuring servers from scratch including OS, Packages, Applications installation, configuring ILO/RAID features using HP-Smart Start Utility and RACKING the server in Data-Centers
  • Worked on HP G1/5/6 and IBM Tower Servers
  • Visiting Data centers upon receiving tickets from NOC team for Routine checking
  • Visiting Data centers for upgradation of RAM, New Server Racking and faulty hardware replacement through RFC's
  • Deploying Weekly/Monthly Application updates that includes replacement of .JAR and .WAR files received from Engineering team
  • Troubleshooting various OS issues such as Server-Down, SWAP, LVM, Memory and CPU-Utilization
  • Working on L2 tickets forwarded by internal L1-team and fixing based on defined SLA
  • Taking various backups of configuration files & logs daily/weekly/monthly using GZIP and BZIP utilities
  • Managing Storage coming from SAN-Storage by scanning and attaching using LVM utility
  • User Management and ACL including troubleshooting.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

G S S College
Belgaum
05.2007

Skills

Skill-Sets:

  • Linux, Solaris, AWS, DevOps, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, CICD Pipeline, GITHUB,Linux/Unix Cyber Security/Hardening & Compliance, QuaysGuard, JENKINS, Bash-Scripting,Windows, Storage-Migrations, Scrum

Certifications:

  • AWS: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Associate Professional
  • Microsoft: MCP and MCSA
  • ITIL V3 Foundation

Skillsets

  • DevOps Engineer | Linux | Solaris | AWS | Terraform | Puppet | Ansible | Jenkins | CICD Pipeline | GITHUB | Linux/Unix Cyber Security & Compliance | SSL/TLS-Certificates | QualysGuard | ServiceNow | DevSecOps | JIRA |

Accomplishments

  • Received Star of the Month thrice.
  • On the Spot Award.
  • Awesome performer for outstanding performance during 2 quarters.
  • Pat on the Back Award.
  • Security Champion Award.
  • Milestone Award.
  • Special Initiative Award.
  • Learning Smiles Award.
  • Contextual Master Award

Languages

English
First Language
kannda
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2

Certification

  • AWS-Certified Solutions Architect-Professional
  • ITIL-Foundation-V3
  • MCP and MCSA
  • QualysGuard Certified Compliance Specilaist

Timeline

DevOps Technical Lead

tcs
04.2024 - Current

DevOps Technical Lead

TCS
05.2020 - 03.2024

DevOps Engineer

TCS
11.2016 - 04.2020

Unix/Linux Security & Compliance Specialist

Accenture
03.2014 - 11.2016

Unix/Linux Security Specialist

MindTree
03.2013 - 02.2014

Operations Engineer

OnMobile Global Limited
12.2008 - 03.2013

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

G S S College
MohammedTousif Jamadar