Technical Specialist, Over 14+ years of DevOps experience in build and deployment automation through tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Nexus artifact OSS GIT and various DevOps tools. Extensive experience includes Build/Release support and Change/Incident Management support. RESPONSIBILITIES 14+ Years of IT experience in Cloud and On - Prem Environments with Build and release Management, Systems Admin and Continuous Integration/ Automated Deployment including end-to-end code configuration using different Third-party tools and Cloud Services like AWS, Azure. Reduced costs by ~$3,000 each month by eliminating unnecessary servers and consolidating databases, EC2 instance and EBS volumes. Support both cloud infrastructure deployments and on-premise deployments. Developed from scratch the Rancher K3s based fully self-contained deployment kit. solution made on-premise installations a breeze, fully automating the installation of the Kubernetes (K3s) platform, helm chart based image pulls from our registry or from a local docker image registry. Experienced in authoring pom.xml, build.xml files performing releases with the Maven plugin, and managing artifacts in sonatype NEXUS, JFrog Artifactory. Experience in integrating Jenkins with Docker container using Cloud bees Docker, Kubernetes pipeline plugin and provisioned the EC2 instance using Amazon EC2 plugin. Experience with Jenkins administration, backups and plugins. Using master slave configuration maintained various jobs in Jenkins and supported development teams. Acted on Designing and implementing CI (Continuous Integration) system: configuring Jenkins servers, Jenkins nodes, creating required scripts ( Perl & Python ), and creating/configuring VMs ( Windows / Linux ). Experience in installing, configuring, supporting, and troubleshooting Unix/Linux Networking services and protocols like TCP, SMTP, HTTP, LDAP, DNS, NFS, DHCP, NAS, FTP, SSH, and SAMBA. Experience in code deployment, Orchestration and Scheduling using tools such as Kubernetes, Azure kubernetes services(AKS), RancherK3s. Experience in Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance and manage Docker containers with multiple name spaced versions and good understanding of Open Shift Platform in managing Docker Containers and Kubernetes Clusters. Experienced in application configurations, code compilation, packaging, building, automating, managing and releasing from one environment to other environments and deploying to servers. Experienced in Linux environment. Good knowledge and understanding of database and application servers’ administration in a global production environment. Thorough knowledge and experience in AWS technologies like EC2, S3 buckets, etc. Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches. Experienced in Jenkins for CI and for End-to-End automation for all build and CD. Experienced in working with version control systems like TFS, GIT and used Source code management clients. Experience in using MAVEN as build tools for the building of deployable artifacts. Knowledge of using Routed Protocols: FTP, SFTP, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS. Having work experience in support of multi-platform like UNIX, Linux, Ubuntu. Managed multiple environments for both production and non-production where primary objectives included automation, build out, integration and cost control. Expertise in trouble shooting the problems generated while building, deploying and production support. Good understanding of creating and managing the various development and build platforms and deployment strategies. Excellent Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management, Change & Release Management and ITIL process. Good interaction with developers, managers, and team members to coordinate job tasks and strong commitment to work. Documented daily meetings, build reports, release notes and many other day-to-day documentation and status reports. Excellent communicative, interpersonal, intuitive and analytic and leadership skills with ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments. Enjoy working on all types of planned and unplanned issues/tasks. Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.