Certified Kubernetes DevOps Engineer with AWS, Jenkins, Kafka available. Visa : H1B
Name : Sri Nikhita
Current client : ChangeHealth Care
Location St Louis MO
Looking for Remote and Hybrid
Certifications: -
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA )
Certificate ID number : - LF-lgk6czkgls
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
· Around 9 years of experience in IT industry in Build/Release Management, software configuration Management (SCM), working on large scale applications in building and deploying, Automating, Configuring and Deploying instances on Cloud environments and Data Centers, CI/CD pipeline, Build and Release Engineer, AWS/GCP and Linux/Windows Administration.
· Hands-on experience in DevOps automation development for Linux and Windows Environments. Experience in UNIX environment and expertise in several flavors of Linux including Red Hat, CentOS, and Ubuntu.
· Excellent hands-on experience on configuration management tool like Chef, Puppet and Ansible.
· Experience in Amazon AWS Cloud Administration which includes services like: EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, IAM, Cloud watch, Cloud Formation.
· DevOps experience with Puppet, Ansible, Chef, AWS (OPS Work) and Open stack.
· Experience in using build automation tools like MAVEN, Bamboo, Gradle, and ANT for the building of deployable artifacts such as WAR & EAR from source code
· Experience in understanding the principles of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, Scrum and Kanban.
· Expertise in building Kafka cluster, cluster maintenance, trouble shooting, monitoring, commissioning and decommissioning Data nodes, Troubleshooting, Manage and review data backups, Manage & review log files.
· Designed how to build, set up, and configure Kubernetes clusters for high performance.
· Performed, maintained and managed day to day operations on Kubernetes cluster to avoid any downtime.
· Setup Security on the Kubernetes cluster so that no data breaching is compromised.
· Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes, Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, on GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
· Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.
· Experience with DevOps practices using AWS, Elastic Bean stalk and Docker with Kubernetes.
· Package and deploy Kubernetes into an on premise or cloud environment.
· Design a Kubernetes environment with high availability, and high performance.
· Expertise in writing and understanding the Chef Cookbooks and recipes with several components like attributes, files, resources and templates to automate middleware installations, domain creations and deployment activities.
· Experience in creating Puppet manifests and Modules to automate system operations.
· Administered and implemented CI tools like Hudson/Jenkins for automated builds.
· Exposed to all aspects of software development life cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Planning, Developing, Testing and Implementing and Post-production analysis of the projects
· Extensively worked with Version Control Systems SVN (Subversion), GIT and TFS.
· Mastery of build technologies like Jenkins, Maven, etc., Integration and automation of source control applications like Subversion and GIT.
· Expertise in converting build.xml into pom.xml in order to build the applications using Maven.
Cloud Platform
AWS, (EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, ELB,
IAM, AMI, Auto Scaling). Microsoft Azure and Open stack.
Configuration Management
Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, Maven, Ansible, Docker, Gradle, Splunk, OPS Work.
Database
Oracle, DB2, MySQL, MongoDB 7 SQL Server, MS Sql.
Build Tools
ANT, MAVEN, make file, Hudson, Jenkins, BAMBOO, Code Deploy.
Version Control Tools
Subversion (SVN), Clear case, GIT, GIT Hub, Perforce, Code Commit.
Web Servers
Apache, Tomcat, Web Sphere, Nix, JBOSS, WebSphere.
Virtualization
VMware and Virtual Box
Languages/Scripts
C, .Net, HTML, java, Shell, Bash, PHP, Python, Ruby and Perl.
SDLC
Agile, Scrum& Waterfall.
Web Technologies.
HTML, CSS, Java Script, JQuery, Bootstrap, XML, JSON, XSD, XSL, XPATH.
Operating Systems
Linux (Red Hat 4/5/6), UNIX, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Windows NT/2000/2003, 7,8,10 and iOS
Networking
TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN, SMTP, LAN, FTP/TFTP.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: -
ChangeHealth Care (LYRIC) Feb2023- Present
Full Stack AWS Devops Engineer
Roles and Responsibilities: -
- Managing the Landing Zone and AWS Cloud environment involving the areas of AWS Organizations, Landing Zone, Control Tower, SCP in a Multi Account AWS Environment.
- Identifying, Streamlining, and automating the configuration across the AWS accounts and AWS organization with Terraform, CloudFormation, ongoing audits and management operations with Python and Lambda.
- Aiding in large scale application migration from on-premises and AWS to AWS Cloud migrations of Applications.
- Participated in design and implementation of 50 AWS accounts in Landing Zone using AWS account vending machine and AFT management and automated infrastructure deployment tools.
- Assisted teams to implement transit gateways and cloud security guidelines.
- Implemented AWS Core services like VPC, Landing Zone, EC2, Route 53, cloud watch, cloud formation etc.
- Created migration run book and trained platform teams on migration activities.
- Planned and executed strategy in partnership with the AWS pro-serve account management team.
- Created and configured VPC’s, designed and implemented multi-VPC peering for different vertical app groups.
- Designed high availability and disaster recovery solutions by implementing multi-AZ compute, storage, and Database solutions.
- Implemented robust and auditable identity and access management (IAM) solutions in AWS for VPC’s.
- Followed AWS best practices to implement IAM role-based access control for AWS compute, storage, database and big data solutions.
- Experience in building infrastructure as a code using AWS cloud formation, terraform or similar automated techniques.
- Ability to work within an agile project management methodology.
- AWS – built VPC from scratch and also worked on creating public and private subnets, creating security groups and configuring internet gateways.
- Assisted in migrating applications from customer on-premises datacenter to the cloud (AWS).
- Defined a migration strategy by understanding the application architecture in working with the development team.
- Used Chef to reduce management complexity by developing cookbooks and recipes for installation, file management and continuous application deployment on various remote nodes
- Defined and Implemented CM and Release Management Processes, Policies and Procedures.
- Participated in configuring and monitoring distributed and multiple platform servers using Puppet. Used Puppet server and workstation to manage and configure nodes.
- Managed AWS EC2 virtual instances using Puppet.
- Generated and executed software configuration management plans.
Environment: - AWS, terraform, cloudwatch, okta,crowdstrike,VPC, Vpc peering, route53, aft management, cloud formation.
Cummins July 2022- Jan 2023
Devops Engineer
Roles and Responsibilities: -
- Build and maintain infrastructure and used to automate the deployment and upgrade processes for workloads.
- Review and contribute to ongoing improvements in the implementation of standards and procedures for DevOps best practices.
- Drive troubleshooting efforts around incidents and outages related to DevOps platforms.
- Engineer the DevOps CI CD tooling and platform road map for the team.
- Work closely with software development and IT operations groups to ensure that teams are successful, and software is deployed efficiently.
- Design automated pipelines to continuously deliver value to clients.
- Work to provide guidance and recommendations to business stakeholders.
- Recently worked on the updating of security breaches, which helped to cut security risks by 40%.
- Supported client’s implementation of AWS products through design and architecture guidance and adherence to best practices.
- Provided clients with guidance on how to design their cloud applications for optimal scaling and performance.
- Worked tirelessly to resolve complex AWS Infrastructure and DevOps challenges.
- Developed reporting and monitoring tools for teams.
- Raised code quality standards through manual and automated processes.
- Kubernetes is being used to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of docker containers.
- Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all the microservices builds out to the docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, created pods and managed using Kubernetes.
- Configuring and CNI plugins like cilium, calico, flannel etc. to wire docker containers for networking and connected CNI plugins using external etcd datastore, etcd-operator and CRD for Network policies.
- Created IAM roles for the Kubernetes cloud setup.
- Created Kubernetes deployment, stateful sets, Network policy etc.
- Created Kubernetes dashboard, Network policies.
- Created metrics and monitoring reports using Prometheus and Grafana dashboards.
Environment: - AWS,EKS, Jenkins, Ansible, JFrog, Kubernetes.
Verizon (Working Remotely) October 2021 – July 2022
Linux Administration/Kubernetes Engineer
Roles and Responsibilities: -
- Hands-on experience on working with Windows, Linux and Unix Administration with orchestration platforms such as EKS.
- Experience in developing vbscript, powershell script, windows batch programming and C#.NET to create monitoring programs and utilities
- Experience with microservices architectures and good Knowledge of SQL databases and basic coding skills in Java, JavaScript, PHP etc.
- Good experience with use of GIT, Jenkins, Artifactory etc.
- Experience in creating and managing production scale Kubernetes clusters, Deep understanding of Kubernetes networking and core concepts of a Kubernetes cluster.
- Supporting our Kubernetes based projects to resolve critical and complex technical issues.
- Performing application deployments on Kubernetes cluster.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes core concepts such as Deployment, ReplicaSet, DaemonSet, Statefulsets, and Jobs.
- Managing Kubernetes storages (PV, PVC, Storage Classes, Provisioners)
- Kubernetes Networking (Services, Endpoints, DNS, LoadBalancers)
- Experience in setting up monitoring and alerting for Kubernetes cluster.
- Deeply getting engaged with our stakeholders to understand their architecture and operations, and work to continuously improve their overall Kubernetes support experience.
Environment: - AWS,EKS, Jenkins, Ansible, JFrog, Kubernetes.
Price WaterHouse Coopers (PWC), Tampa, FL. May 2021 – September 2021
DevOps Engineer.
- Hands-on Experience on working with Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Services, building multiple AKS clusters, deploying and managing multiple clusters across the organization.
- Provide operational support and fully maintain and manage the clusters for teams to be able to use the working AKS clusters.
- Work closely with development teams to plan, deploy, and fully support multiple applications across our working environments.
- Participating in industry leading practices to assure smooth application integration across the team’s entire architecture, as well as research, design and prototype new solutions to facilitate application growth.
- Worked on CI/CD toolchains centered around tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Spinnaker etc.
- Worked on operations and logging tools such as Splunk, New-Relic, Data-Dog to get the application insights.
- Daily activities include configuring continuous integration within a development environment using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Puppet etc.
- Documenting systems and networks, refining requirements, self-identity solutions and communicating it to the team.
- Utilizing enterprise tools for orchestration of services and workflows, as well as messaging queues such as RabbitMQ.
Environment: - Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, AKS, GIT, New-Relic, Data-Dog, Kubernetes, Vault, Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins, Ansible.
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI. December 2019 – April 2021.
SRE / Kubernetes Admin.
Roles and Responsibilities: -
- Hands-on Experience on working with RedHat OpenShift Infrastructure design, deployment and Operational support to the organization for cloud and as well as virtualization end-to-end architecture and IAAS and on on-Prem.
- Fully support and maintain a production cluster with more than 1600 namespaces in it and all the applications that are hosted on the platform.
- Extensive knowledge of Linux Containers, Docker, Kubernetes and deployment of containerized applications.
- Developed a Centralized Documentation website from the scratch for our customers which is a static framework web server environment based on Hugo that executes CD via a Github Web hook when updated in a particular repo by using Openshift build process.
- Published several documents to this website for customers better understanding of the Container-as-a-service (CAAS) platform.
- Experience on Redhat Quay image registry solution for storing, building and deploying container images.
- Experience with Portworx, a Container based storage provider for persistant storage needs in Openshift 4.x. Supports dynamic provisioning of PVCs, and can be either ReadWriteOnce (used by a single pod) or ReadWriteMany (shared by multiple pods).
- Administration experience on OpenShift Platform, maintain and enhance automation to support provisioning of new projects in OCP and OpenShift upgrades.
- Perform health checks on all the environments regularly.
- Experience in GCP for deploying and also scaling web applications and services deployed with python.
- Built docker images, tagging and pulling/pushing images to Quay Organizations and repositories.
- Worked on moving several SandBox clusters from Pre-Production Datacenter (ECC) to Production Datacenter.
- Support infrastructure, security, Platform as a Service and other updates involving DevOps environments.
- Experience on working with migrating application workloads from lower environment clusters (OCP 3.x) to upper environments (OCP 4.x ).
- Participated in all on-call rotations and giving production support to our customers and handling general requests ( Workorders ) and also Incident tickets as soon as they come into the queue.
- Extensive knowledge on working with SysDig which is a monitoring tool which we use to monitor our platform and any high- loads on any nodes and have set up alerts for the same.
Environment: - Redhat Openshift, Google cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Azure, Bash Scripting, Vault, Sysdig, Jenkins, Grafana, Rally, Portworx, VMWare, Tigera.
Hyatt Corporation, Chicago, IL
Senior. Kafka/DevOps Platform Engineer. May 2019- November 2019
Roles and responsibilities: -
- Designed Kafka set up architecture and took the responsibility for designing, operationalizing, maintaining and scaling production and non-production clusters.
- Built Kafka clusters for our non-production and production environments.
- Developed strategies to improve scalability, service reliability, capacity, and performance of the kafka cluster.
- Implemented security on all kafka clusters with SSL and SASL/SCRAM mechanism and managed users by ACLs.
- Performed high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka Cluster.
- Developed strategies for Kafka tuning, capacity planning, replication strategies and deep dived to troubleshoot any issues that create development road blocks.
- Participated in the occasional on-call rotation supporting the entire infrastructure.
- Rolled up the sleeves to troubleshoot incidents, formulate theories, test the hypothesis and narrow down possibilities to find out the root cause.
- Handled all Kafka environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring.
- Implemented many Spring boot micro services to process the messages into the Kafka cluster setup.
- Developed and implemented Kafka producer and consumer applications on Kafka cluster setup with the help of Zookeeper.
- Hands on experience in standing up and administrating Kafka platform which includes creating a backup & mirroring of Kafka Cluster brokers, broker sizing, topic sizing, h/w sizing, performance monitoring, broker security, topic security, consumer/producer access management(ACL).
- Expertise in strategies on partition of kafka messages and setting up the replication factors in kafka cluster.
- Experience with SDLC, Web Application Development Concepts, Application Technical Release, Complex Scripting, Version Control, Environment Management, Software Configuration Management, Technical Release Management, Enterprise Network Concepts
- Hands on experience on working with CI/CD tools and automation: Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, Rundeck, Splunk.
- In-depth understanding of strong development/automation skills and very comfortable with reading and writing Python.
- Very good grasp of monitoring and metrics collection via monitoring tools such as New-relic and Datadog, performance tuning, and troubleshooting complicated situations with distributed systems.
- Proactively monitor and setup alerting mechanism for Kafka Cluster and supporting hardware to ensure system health and maximum availability.
- Tools-first mindset- built tools for the team and others to increase efficiency and to make hard
or repetitive tasks easy and quick.
- Organized, focused on building, improving, resolving and delivering.
- Possess good communication in and across teams, great teamwork, and a character of taking ownership.
- Hands on experience with managing production Kafka
- In-depth understanding of the internals of Kafka cluster management, Zookeeper, partitioning,
schema registry, topic replication and mirroring.
- Familiarity with both cloud native Kafka and on-premise architectures. Understanding of Kafka security, limiting bandwidth usage, enforcing client quotas, backup and restoration.
- Experience with open source Kafka distributions as well as enterprise Kafka products.
Environment: Kafka, Splunk, Rundeck, Confluence, Lucidchart, Mongo Db, New-Relic, Data Dog, Confluent, Bit Bucket, CI/CD, SVN, CVS, ANT, Maven, AWS EC2, Puppet, Shell, Perl, GIT, Jenkins, Tomcat, Shell, Nagios, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, GCP, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Apache Lib Cloud, Jenkins, Maven, GIT, ELK, Selenium, Nagios and JIRA.
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