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AMBICA SONI MOTA

AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT | AWS LEAD

Ambica has over 14+ years in IT industry providing highly available business application for enterprise
customers through Change/Release/Build Management, System Administration, Support and Maintenance in
environments Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and expertise in automating builds and deployment process
with focus on DevOps tools and AWS and Azure Cloud Architecture.

Distinguished CLIENTS: Sony Pictures, Optum / UHG, 3M, Medtronic, UHG / Equian, Netapp and other
Fortune 500 companies.

CORE COMPETENCIES
CI/CD Microservices Infrastructure as a Code
 Automated building testing and Built and deployed a Leveraged services like AWS
deploying software with AWS microservices architecture with CloudFormation, AWS
CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild and AWS containers or serverless OpsWorks and AWS Config to
CodeDeploy compute by using Amazon EC2 provision, configure and govern
Container Service or AWS your AWS infrastructure.
Lambda

SUMMARY:
 Partnered with Enterprise Architecture team, provided guidance and recommendations on Devops
playbook supporting AWS, Azure and GCP Platform infrastructure enablement
 Led key Center of Excellence (COE) meetings to recommend solutions and options for effective Devops
Engineering in Azure and GCP multi cloud environments
 Solid Understanding of Devops Architecture Best Practices and Guidelines to support Client Infrastructure
Processes (AWS, Azure, GCP)
 Experienced in using Docker for automating the deployment of applications inside software containers and
virtualized deployments using Docker, Docker images, Docker Hub, Docker registries.
 Experienced configuring Amazon EC2 instances that launch behind a load balancer, monitor the health of
Amazon EC2 instances, deploy Amazon EC2 instances using command line calls and troubleshoot the most
common problems with instances.
 Designed and implemented CI &CD Pipelines achieving end to end automation from code check in to
artifacts deployment.
 Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, RDB, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto
Scaling, SES, SNS and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.
 Strong experience in DevOps environment by enhancing Continuous Delivery and infrastructure change by
using Chef, Ansible, Kubernetes and Docker to deploy code with GIT, Jenkins.
 Hands on experience and administrating Continuous Integration (CI) tools like Jenkins.
 Experienced in setting up Product level builds in Jenkins and responsible for running integration tests, box
and system tests before product deployment.
 Deployed API Gateway, Microservices, Azure Container Apps, AWS Fargate. Implemented Middleware,
orchestration solutions.
 Build and maintain SQL scripts and execute different scripts for Dev and Prod environments.
 Expertise in setting up ELB (Elastic load balancers) to distribute traffic to multiple availability zones and
configured stickiness (instance affinity) using cookies to bind a user’s session to a specific instance.
 Managing / Creating Azure Cloud Environments (such as App services, Keyvault, VMs, Vnet, NSGs,
Application Gateway).
 Experience in building various containers using Docker engine and Docker Machine environments, to deploy
the microservices oriented environments for scalable applications.
 Expertise in Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool and to automate repetitive tasks,
quick deploys, well versed with Ansible Playbooks, modules, and roles.

 As a part of the Enterprise Architecture team, provided guidance and recommendations on Devops playbook
supporting AWS, Azure and GCP Platform infrastructure enablement.

 Led key Center of Excellent (COE) meetings to recommend solutions and options for effective Devops
Engineering in Azure and GCP multi cloud environments.
 Solid Understanding of Devops Architecture Best Practices and Guidelines to support Client Infrastructure
Processes (AWS, Azure, GCP).

 Deployed Kubernetes cluster in production using Terraform scripts and Troubleshooted networking related
issue.
 Experienced with the AWS Step Functions implementation.

 Good familiarity in setting up SNS notifications to track the status of resources.

 Deploying phase monitoring Nagios, Splunk code deploying phase puppet, chef, ansible, testing, debugging.
 Continuously deployed, administered Linux servers using Chef, automated product installation & configuration.
 Strong command on SCM concepts such as Branching, Merging and Tagging.
 Worked with GIT to checkout and update the codebase changes.
 Good knowledge in Relational, NoSQL databases: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DynamoDB, MongoDB.
 Successfully migrated multiple repositories from Gitlab and GitHub to Onprem Git using tools such as Gitlab
Importer and Gitlab Migration Tool.
 Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes and experience deploying Go
applications in production environments.
 Developed and deployed Chef based Cookbooks, Recipes, Attributes and Roles.
 Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using various scripting languages such as
Bash, PowerShell, XML. exposure to Python, Ruby, Perl, JSON, YAML
 Good familiarity in working closely with Project Management and Development Team to ensure testing is
comprehensive. Expertise in implementation of Automation Tests and Manual Tests.
 Excellent Analytical and Communication skills, Quick Learner, Versatile Team player, Organized, Self-
Motivated and ability to pick up new technologies and solve complex technical problems.
 Experienced with SDLC practices and have a good command on Agile Methodology.
 Experienced in working on round the clock (24/7), on call support, working in team environments and
possess high level of analytical, critical thinking skills.

Technical Skills

Configuration Management: Ansible, chef, puppet

Continuous Integration: Jenkins and Octopus
Version Control Tools: Git, SVN, Code Commit, TFS

Build Tools: ANT, MAVEN, MS Build, Urban Code, Code Build, TFS

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix, RHEL

SDLC Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall

AWS Service Stack: EC2, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), CloudWatch, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation,
Route53, ElastiCache, Lambda, Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, Security
Groups.

Cloud Platforms: AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure

Package Management: Artifactory, Nexus
Issue Tracking: JIRA, Junit, ServiceNow, Rally
Virtualization: Vagrant, VMware vSphere, Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Workstation
 Container Orchestration Tools: Docker, Kubernetes
Databases: MySQL, SQLServer, MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Programming Languages: JavaScript, XML, HTML, Shell script, Python

Web &Application servers: IIS, Tomcat, Ngnix and Apache.

Network Topologies: LAN, WAN, VPN and Firewalls

Monitoring Tools: Cloud Watch, Nagios, Splunk, SolarWinds, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana,
Portainer.

Education

 Master’s in Business Administration.

Certifications

 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate

 AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional
 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
 Certified Scrum Master

Professional Experience:

Sony Pictures. Allen, TX Mar 2024 – Till date

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:
 Involved in migration from On-Premise infrastructure to AWS Cloud
 Proactively monitored resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch including creating alarms to
monitor metrics for services like EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3.
 Provisioned cloud networking architecture in Dev/Stg/Prod environment, Utilizing virtual networks, VPN,
Network security groups and Load balancers.
 Performed test and deployment using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.
 Worked on source code version control applications (esp. Git): setting up repos, branching, merging, code
reviews etc.
 Incident management, Requests, Projects pertaining to system upgrade/migrate/data move.
 Performing root cause analysis and implement remediation plan.
 OS patching/Package management/System Monitoring.
 Configuration Management using Ansible playbooks.

 Developed, Test, and Implement the automation for various vulnerability fixes in the AWS infrastructure.
 Involved working with AWS SAM (AWS Serverless Application Model).

 Involved in implementing Autoscaling (Auto and Custom Managed scaling).

 Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, Upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (CPU, Memory, EBS)
 Implemented Event driven architecture in AWS using SQS, SNS and Lambda with & deployed using pipelines
& CI/CD.
 Performed routine checks and performed patching activities according to the schedule based on approved
change record.
 Worked on regular backing up of critical data and restoring backed up data.
 Implemented a Middleware using Amazon API Gateway, which connects multiple devices and systems.
 Created end-to-end workflows using step-functions and lambdas for interim processing and validations
integrated with databricks triggers for cluster and compute.
 Created various data driven pipelines through lambdas and spark along with Step functions and storing the
data on S3.
 Provided expert technical directions to the Application team and external vendors on integration
requirements and technical issues related to system rollouts
 Worked in solving tickets issued on day-to-day activities and problems related to development and test
servers.
 Developed and deployed AWS Lambda functions to execute backend processes during Amazon Connect
interactions, streamlining customer service automation.

 Worked with Jira dashboard, Story Creation, and work on Sprint.

 Created custom IAM policies, Roles, and user management for delegated users within AWS specified region.
 Implemented containerization strategy using tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
 Performed routing database migrations to support database refreshes from production to staging
environments.
 Configure and ensure connection to RDS database running on MySQL engines and responsible for Plugin
Manage.

 Worked on source code version control applications (esp. Git): setting up repos, branching, merging, code
reviews etc.

 Implemented business continuity / disaster recovery, runbook documentation

 Automated daily backup/restore processes as well as implemented batch jobs to automate DBA
maintenance tasks.
 Designed and implemented custom contact flows within Amazon Connect to automate customer
interactions and enhance user experience
 Utilized Terraform for managing the infrastructure through the terminal sessions and executed scripts in
creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using AWS CloudWatch.
 Enabled access logging for Cloud trial S3 Bucket so that you can track access requests and identify
potentially unauthorized or unwarranted access attempts.

Environment: AWS, EC2, S3, ELB (Elastic Loadbalancer), EBS, GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Jira, RHEL, Windows,
Unix/Linux, Bash Shell Script, Terraform, SQL, GIT.

Optum / UHG. Minneapolis, MN Aug 2023 – Feb 2024

Lead Cloud Developer
Responsibilities:
 Involved in migration from On-Premise infrastructure to AWS Cloud.
 Performed test and deployment using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.
 Worked on source code version control applications (esp. Git): setting up repos, branching, merging, code
reviews etc.
 Worked on Volume management, Disk Management for storage allocation and Disk Dynamic Multi path.
 Implemented Event driven architecture in AWS using SQS, SNS and Lambda with & deployed using pipelines
& CI/CD.
 Performed routine checks and performed patching activities according to the schedule based on approved
change record.
 creating use level of access for related GitHub project directories to the code changes
 Created various data driven pipelines through lambdas and spark along with Step functions and storing the
data on S3.

 Worked with Rally dashboard, Story Creation, and work on Sprint.

 Developed custom APIs to extend the functionality of Amazon Connect, enabling seamless data exchange
between contact center systems and backend databases.

 Created custom IAM policies, Roles, and user management for delegated users within AWS specified region.
 Administration of JFrog Artifactory, which includes uploading the artifacts, third party binaries, creating
repository and maintain the Artifactory.
 Setup the Configuration for projects to publish snapshot and release artifacts to JFrog Artifactory to share
artifacts across projects and environments.
 Automated daily backup/restore processes as well as implemented batch jobs to automate DBA
maintenance tasks.
 Utilized Terraform for managing the infrastructure through the terminal sessions and executed scripts in
creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using AWS CloudWatch.
 Enabled access logging for Cloud trial S3 Bucket so that you can track access requests and identify
potentially unauthorized or unwarranted access attempts.

Environment: AWS, EC2, S3, ELB (Elastic Loadbalancer), EBS, GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Jira, RHEL, Windows,
GitHub, Unix/Linux, Bash Shell Script, Terraform, SQL, GIT.

3M. Minneapolis, MN July 2021 – July 2023

Lead Cloud Developer/Engineer

Responsibilities:
 Researching and adopting latest cloud-based data to migrate an on-prem computer assisted coding solution
to AWS.
 Developing and maintaining scalable AWS resources utilizing Infrastructure as code paradigm.
 Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements
gathering meetings.
 Implement existing architecture goal and define roadmap of how to get to the goal.
 Involved in creating build definitions, Branches, and branch merging methodologies in AWS DevOps.
 Maintaining source control branches and performing integrations with merge conflicts
 Develop and Manage the Continuous Improvement Plans for the Configuration Management Process.
Replace, delete, or modify codes to correct errors.
 Automate deployment of Docker stacks
 Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, on AWS
Platform. Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test
deploy.
 Designing project workflows/pipelines using Jenkins as CI tool and worked on building Jenkins jobs to
create AWS infrastructure from GitHub repositories containing Terraform code.
 Developed monitoring and notification tools using Python and responsible for writing/modifying scripts
using BASH & Shell.
 Configuring the monitoring and alerting tools according to the requirement like Prometheus and Grafana,
setting up alerts and deployed multiple dashboards for individual applications in Kubernetes.
 Involved in setting up automated infrastructure creation/deployment in Azure using VSTS and Jenkins.
 Involved in creating a new repository in the Onprem Git and then cloning the repository from either Gitlab
or GitHub.
 Worked on GIT to maintain source code in Git repositories.
 Worked on deploying Docker containers with AWS CI/CD pipeline.
 Created CI/CD pipeline to automate Load tests on different environments to evaluate website performance.
 Apache/Tomcat web server configuration and Java deployment support including SSL certificate
renewal/register.
 Configure and ensure connection to RDS database running on MySQL engines and responsible for Plugin
Manage.
 Hands-on experience in creating change and incident tickets with JIRA. Also, familiar with Change
Management workflows.

 Involved working with AWS SAM (AWS Serverless Application Model).

 Investigating tools and processes and integrating them so that they can improve the reliability, stability, and
efficiency with which we release our services.
 Worked with the development team for resolving the issues after remediation. Also resolved all the
incremental deployment issues.
 Created various data driven pipelines through lambdas and spark along with Step functions and storing the
data on S3.
 Performed System/Application monitoring with granulated data collection system utilization, daily data
collection including java memory.
 Knowledge on creating and automating Power BI reports by integrating with Azure Devops.
 Knowledge on creating CName, A records and TXT records on 123 domains during website go-live.
 Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant
deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline).

Environment: GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Jira, RHEL, Windows, Unix/Linux, Microsoft SQL Server, Bash Shell
Script, Python, SQL, Teams, MySQL, GIT, Rally, Oracle DB.

UHG / Equian. Minneapolis, MN June 2020 - June 2021

Sr. DevOps Consultant / Docker System Engineer
Equian is a Payment Integrity company that was acquired by UHG. UHG has a large group called OPI (Optum
Payment Integrity) that typically operates under PEDS (Produce Engineering Data Solutions).

Responsibilities:
 Involved in the Design of different Release Environments for new projects and monitoring.
 Involved in Review/Merge/ Remove Git Pull Requests to bit bucket.
 Hands on with Git / GitHub for code check - ins/checkouts, branching etc.
 Involved in application deployment using CI/CD (Jenkins/Hudson).
 Experience with monitoring tools like SolarWinds, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.
 Analyzed, defining and implementing containerization technology strategies.
 Involved in Build and maintain highly available systems on Docker EE (Enterprise Edition) and Docker CE
(community edition).
 Implemented an auto-scaling system for our Docker EE nodes.
 Implemented a disaster recovery strategy
 Experience with container networking on Docker.
 Involved in development of test environment on Docker containers and configuring the Docker containers
using Kubernetes.
 Automated deployment of Docker stacks
 Involved in container management using Docker by writing Docker files and set up the automated build on
Docker HUB.
 Expertise in Installing, configuring & administering Jenkins on Linux machines along with adding/updating
plugins like GIT, ANT, Sonar Deploy to Container, Build Pipeline etc.
 Used Ticketing tool service now, Jira to track defects and changes for change management,
 Build and Release software baselines, code merges, branch and label creation in Subversion and GIT, worked
on migration from Subversion to Git.
 Designed and developed business logic processing services in AWS Lambda using python.
 Building, scaling, and monitoring various distributed applications and making container orchestration cluster
highly available.
 Created Clusters using Kubernetes and worked on creating many pods, replication controllers, replica sets,
services, deployments, labels, health checks and ingress by writing Yaml files.
 Performed troubleshooting on Java applications using WAS logs, traces, Log Analyzer, Resource
Analyzer/Tivoli Performance Viewer in production environment.
 Administered and maintained production systems running on multiple environments.
 Implemented and improved monitoring and alerting.
 To achieve Continuous Delivery goal on high scalable environment, used Docker coupled with load-balancing
tool Nginx.
 Virtualized the servers using Docker for the test environments and dev-environments needs, also
configuration automation using Docker containers.
 Experience in creating Docker Containers leveraging existing Linux Containers and AMI's in addition to
creating Docker Containers from scratch.
 Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to
the Agile process.

Environment: GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Service now, RHEL, Windows, Unix/Linux CentOS 7, Bash Shell Script,
SQL, Nginx, Jenkins, Teams, GIT, Rally, Oracle DB.

Medtronic Inc, Mounds View, MN Nov 2017 – May 2020

Sr. AWS DevOps Engineer
Project: Altair R1 Carelink Lift & shift
CareLink software transforms raw data into personalized insights that improve diabetes management by helping
you make confident decisions about your patient's therapy. Migrate and set up CareLink on AWS cloud in terms
of data security and HIPAA guidelines.

Responsibilities:
 Involved in three different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases.
 Configured and monitored Amazon Web Services resources as well as involved in deploying the content
cloud platform to Amazon Web Services using EC2, S3 and EBS.
 Migrated an existing on-premises application to AWS using AWS Snowball, Ansible, cloud formation
template.
 Communication between components and DB is also made secure by enabling SSL in the SQL server.
 Launched and configured of Amazon EC2 Cloud Servers using AMI's and Configured S3 versioning and
lifecycle policies to backup files and archive files in Glacier. Configured AWS IAM and Security Group in
Public and Private Subnets in VPC.
 Used TFS as a build tool on C# projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
 Created AWS server build Specs.
 Created Load Balancer sheet to which describes the number of listeners, target groups, targets for a load
balancer. Including ports, protocols, site certificates and DNS friendly names.
 Provided Firewall rules and security groups for the load balancers to components.
 Managed the deployment and implementation of deliverables into DEV, QA, UAT and production
environments.
 Implemented a Middleware using Amazon API Gateway, which connects multiple devices and systems.
 Deployed LAMP based applications in AWS environment, including provisioning MYSQL- RDS and Establish
connectivity between EC2 instance and MySQL-RDS via security groups.
 Secured APIs by implementing policies, which can protect the underlying code microservices.
 Involved in migrating high-visibility project from GitHub to Onprem Git, resulting in improved security and
control over the codebase.
 Used Amazon Web Service's S3 (Simple storage service) datastore for storing the records, prescriptions, bills
etc. and accessed them using AWS SDK for Java utilizing NoSQL queries.
 Solid understanding of Project Life Cycle Management and strong experience on working of AGILE
Methodologies. Good understanding on Agile Tools Rally, tracking status and setting up velocities for the
projects.
 Used Kubernetes during debugging. Leading up to production when multiple application build must be
tested for stability. Hands-on experience with hashicorp tool chains like consul, vault and terraform
 Proficient in writing Cloud Formation Templates (CFT) in YAML and JSON format to build the AWS with the
paradigm of Infrastructure as a Code.
 Created ARM Template for deploying the resources into Azure using the PowerShell and continuous
integration by VSTS.
 Generated API documentation using Swagger, which helped integration teams to speedup.
 Build Customized Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) & deployed these customized images based on
requirements.
 Provided security and managed user access and quota using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM),
including creating new Policies for user management.
 Created and maintained cloud application migrated on premises application servers to AWS.
 Design AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, S3 to ensure successful
deployment of Web applications and database templates.
 Involved in installation, configuration and maintenance of Octopus for compilation and packaging of new
code releases.
 Worked with Azure Monitoring tools such as Azure Log Analytics, Azure Network Watcher, and Azure Service
Health to diagnose and minimize service degradation.

 Involved in check of Splunk feeds and analyze Java engine’s performance and take necessary action.
 Automated SQL installation using PowerShell Script in Octopus deploys.
 Configured WSFC (Windows Server Failover cluster).
 Performed DB restoration in DB servers.
 In order to secure the communication for caching, we proposed to use the AWS elastic cache for Redis. It is
HIPAA eligible and offers encryption in transit and at rest.
 Configured Redis Cache service and File share server in AWS.
 Developed, maintained and distributed release notes for each scheduled release.
 Responsible for daily build and working closely with development and database teams to resolve any build
issues.
 Interacted with Business Users for gathering business requirements and involved in analyzing, documenting
business requirements, functional requirements for developing Forms, Documents, and Reports.

Environment: AWS, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), Auto Scaling groups, C#. Net, MS Visual Studio 2012,
IIS 6.0, Microsoft SQL Server, AWS Cloud Server, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, TFS, Octopus, Power
Shell scripting, MySQL, Windows, and Linux environment.

Netapp, NYC Dec 2015 – Oct 2017

DevOps Engineer / Site reliability Engineer (SRE)

Responsibilities:
 Deploying infrastructure on AWS utilizing services such as EC2, RDS, VPC and Managed Network and
Security, Route 53, Direct Connect, IAM, Cloud Formation, AWS Ops Works (Automate operations), Elastic
Beanstalk, AWS S3, Glacier, (Storage in the cloud) and Cloud Watch Monitoring Management.
 Managed Docker orchestration and Docker containerization using Kubernetes.
 Used AKS from GitHub to Azure using GitHub actions yaml deployment with Docker container worked in
Azure.
 Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling, and management of Docker Containers Extensively
worked with Azure Devops.
 Deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps on Kubernetes container environment, and for the runtime
environment of CI/CD system to build, test and Deployment we have utilized Kubernetes and Docker
Designed and automated AZURE Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), SaaS
capabilities which includes virtual Machine, container services, virtual network and cloud services.
 Structured cluster Auto Scaler for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by using Terraform templates and worked
with scheduling, deploying, and managing pods and replicas in AKS.
 Managing the Azure Kubernetes Services( AKS) policies, providing access to different resources and
developing and improving the workflows that govern access.
 Deploying windows Kubernetes (K8s) cluster with Azure Container Service (ACS) from Azure CLI and
Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and Octopus
Deploy.
 Working with monitoring tool such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Monitoring,.
 Automated the AWS cloud infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation & Terraform Templates.
 Managed AWS, Jenkins, and Chef Accounts to more effectively control access to resources and increase
security.
 Configured AWS ECS clusters for deploying and orchestrating containers by defining tasks and Services.
 Worked on AWS services EC2, IAM, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, Redshift, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, EKS, ECR,
EMR, Elastic Bean stalk, VPC, ELB, RDS, EBS and Route 53.
 Troubleshooting the AWS and On-prem Jira Queue/support tickets that in turn helps the end clients to
resolve the issues they experience.
 Design and develop serverless applications using AWS Lambda functions and AWS API Gateway, reducing
infrastructure management overhead and improving scalability.
 Web application development using Web forms, C#, VB.net, JCL, Jscript and AJAX control.
 Used SVN for source code repository, code integration, Defect tracking in JIRA.
 Deploy application code using CI/CD pipeline with Azure DevOps in Azure cloud, scale VM build automation
using Azure DevOps in Azure VM agent plug-ins.
 API to provide lightweight containers that run processes isolation and worked on creation of customized
Docker container images, tagged and pushed the images to the Docker Hub repository.
 Create a custom image of an Azure VM with Azure PowerShell and create a VM scale set and deploy a high
available app on Windows with Azure PowerShell.
 Handling and maintaining Azure DevOps Pipeline with ADO and Terraform.
 Provisioned Azure resources including AKS clusters, virtual networks, public IP addresses, and storage
accounts through Azure Portal, Azure CLI, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or ARM
templates.
 Implementing Azure Services such as Azure Active Directory (AAD), Azure Storage, Azure Cloud Services,
Azure Resource Manager (ARM),Azure Blob Storage, Azure VM, Azure Functions, Azure Application Insights,
and Azure Service Bus.
 Working knowledge in deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps on Kubernetes container environment,
and for the runtime environment of CI/CD system to build, test and Deployment we have utilized
Kubernetes and Docker Designed and automated AZURE Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a
Service (PaaS), SaaS capabilities which includes virtual Machine, container services, virtual network and
cloud services.
 Experience in using the monitoring tools like Azure monitoring , Dynatrace to setup the desired alerts to
avoid disruption.
 Improved team performance and accelerated release cycle accelerate delivery of new features and increase
overall product qualities.
 Worked with containerization tool Docker and running containers and services and utilizing docker swarm.
 Responsible for configuration changes, code building, code staging, build automation and deployment using
tools like Octopus which also includes scripting in command line, Python, PowerShell, Perl.

Environment: Terraform, AWS,S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), Auto Scaling groups, Azure, VPC, IAM,
Cloud Watch, Glacier, DynamoDB, OpenStack, shell/Python scripts, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Ansible,
Docker, Kubernetes, JIRA, Splunk.

NPD, Port Washington, NY Nov 2012 – Nov 2015

Build &Release Engineer

Responsibilities:
 Developed installer scripts using Ant and UNIX for various products to be hosted on Application Servers.
 Troubleshoot Build and Deploy Issues, with little downtime.
 Designed Puppet Modules to manage configurations and automate installation process.
 Worked on creation of puppet manifest files to install tomcat instances and to manage configuration files for
multiple applications.
 Involved in building web applications using Go, with proficiency in Go-specific libraries and frameworks like
Gorilla, Gin, and Beego.
 Performed troubleshooting on Java applications using WAS logs, traces, Log Analyzer, Resource
Analyzer/Tivoli Performance Viewer in production environment.
 Good experience in using Puppet, which helps in site-redundancy and Release Management activities for
large Enterprise Applications.
 Organize and Co-ordinate Product Releases work closely with product development, QA, Support across
global locations to ensure successful releases.
 Implemented Chef to deploy the builds for Dev, QA and Production.
 Install, Configure and Administer Jenkins Continuous Integration Tool.
 Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment using various CI Tools like Jenkins.
 Parse the Application and System logs using PowerShell for all business applications to proactively monitor
and trace errors with automated email alerts to various teams internally.
 Automated Continuous Build and Deploy Scripts for Jenkins Continuous Integration tool.
 Extensively used Maven tool to do the builds, integrated Maven to Eclipse and did local builds.
 Developed build and deployment scripts using MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one
environment to other environments.
 Work with application development and operation teams using a variety of automated testing and build,
and deploy tools (Maven, Ant, Nexus, Jenkins, SVN, and JUnit) to resolve issues with transition to new
DevOps solution.
 Installed/Configured and Managed Nexus Repository Manager and all the Repositories.
 Branching, Tagging, Release Activities on Version Control Tools like SVN and GIT.
 Member of the Technical Design team, Build and Release Module for Development of new products.
 Documented release metrics, software configuration process.
 Manage and administrating the release closeout process.
 Ensures coordination of build and test environments teams and release teams.
 Ensures teams follow the organization's established policies and procedures.
 Provides management reports on release progress.

Environment: Git, Maven, Jenkins, Tomcat, Apache, Chef, Selenium, Artifactory Chef-solo/server.

Adecco, Bethpage, NY Jan 2011 – Oct 2012

Build &Release Engineer
The Adecco Group is the world's leading provider of HR solutions. The services it offers fall into the broad
categories of temporary staffing, permanent placement, career transition and talent development, as well as
outsourcing and consulting. The Adecco Group is based in Zurich-Glattbrugg, Switzerland and is a Fortune Global
500 company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Responsibilities:
• Supporting engineering plans and schedules by providing CM/Release Engineering services to build, deploy,
develop scripts, oversee branch and merge strategies, and build automated tools as necessary to offer
services to engineering team in Linux environment.
• Managed and maintained ongoing changes to configuration in Puppet.
• Designed and implemented Puppet to configure, install, manage, and deploy releases across all
environments.
• Created and implemented custom Nagios monitoring and managed with Puppet.
• Integrated Chef, Rundeck and Azure and configured several jobs on Rundeck like bootstrapping nodes,
spinning of instances and running Chef Recipes on target nodes for push button deployment.
• Involved heavily in setting up the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, GitHub, CHEF, and AWS.
• Developed and designed Azure Devops pipelines to manage the resources across multiple subscriptions in
Azure.
• Configuring Jenkins for developers to bounce the application container, to get the application, container,
and access logs by using ANT scripts.
• Used the continuous integration tool Jenkins to automate the daily processes.
• Integrated automated build in Jenkins.
• Knowledge on creating and automating Power BI reports by integrating with Azure Devops.
• Update Maven scripts to use Artifactory repo instead of local repositories.
• Worked on the latest roll out of the Affinity program using SAML authentication.
• Responsible for managing the code in Subversion (version controlling).
• Hands on migration from Team forge to Clear case, and SCM tools to Perforce
• Strong knowledge of Sub Version (SVN) and experience utilizing source control such as Perforce, TFS,
GIT, Team forge and knowledge of Clear Case.
• JIRA Administrated, maintained documentation and provided training to the users.
• By using Team City Efficient, Effective Build Management.
• Yum and subversion repositories.
• Transformation converts PVCS branches to SVN branches.
• Documented SAML server configuration and management in Confluence.
• Created SVN Hooks which triggers builds in Jenkins for the legacy products.
• Deploy production packages to web servers and application servers per business needs.
• Packaged Rue code in RPM format and developed automation scripting in Bash and Perl.
• By using XL deploy improve collaboration between teams.
• Developed Release Engineer dashboards to monitor release versions across the various environments.
• Build notifications are automatically enabled when you link a build plan to a Stash repository.
• Notifications are sent to all linked Stash servers.
Environment: Linux, AWS, Chef, Puppet, Urban code, Subversion, Jenkins, Ant, Maven, SVN, GIT, Teamcity,
PowerShell, Bash, Perl, PHP, HA Proxy, Apache TomcatJ2EE, Python, PHP, Selenium WebDriver.