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Ashna George - Data Engineer

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ASHNA GEORGE GREEN CARD HOLDER [email protected] | +1773-290-9706 | Des Plaines, IL 60016 | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashnageorge/ SUMMARY Cloud Platform/DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience in designing and maintaining IT Cloud Infrastructure. Design highly available, cost effective, fault tolerant, secure private/public infrastructures on AWS. Proficient in Jenkins, Bitbucket, IAM and AWS. Acted as a Solutions Architect performed critical deployments and accelerating release time by 25%, also performed a RedHat to Amazon Linux 2 Migration for 400+ servers and reduced Choice costs by 70% hence renewed less licenses for upcoming year. Expertise in cloud administration, user management, application development, Virtualization. Worked on Windows Server Administration, Analytics, IT Service Management and built across Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Hospitality Industry. EXPERIENCE Sr. DevOps Engineer American Express | Phoenix, AZ| July 2021 - Current Developed automation scripts in Python for production support bugs, improving the efficiency and reliability of the system and reducing the manual effort required. Support the deployment of numerous micro services into production using a stack of Kubernetes, Istio, and Grafana on AWS. Experience in Virtualization technologies like VMware, Vagrant and worked with containerizing applications like Docker, Kubernetes. Worked with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub, Docker registries and Kubernetes. Reduced monthly costs by $5000 by shutting down unnecessary servers from RedHat and databases and updating EBS Volumes in EC2 instances by migrating apps and data to new servers in amazon Linux 2 Managed Ansible Playbooks with Ansible roles. Used file module in Ansible playbook to copy and remove files on remote systems. Created inventory in Ansible for automating the continuous deployment and written playbooks using YAML scripting. Experience on bash shell scripts to automate the AWS cloud system creation including end-to-end. Fortified robust security protocols, SSO, Security Groups, NACLs, and encryption mechanisms. infrastructure, VMs, storage, firewall security groups rules. Designing and implementing RESTful APIs using the Flask framework and Python. Applied auto scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to create fault tolerant applications. Implemented cloud-based disaster recovery strategies, resulting in 60% faster recovery times during disasters. Acquaintance with installation, configuration of Kubernetes and setting up a Kubernetes cluster, managing clusters, creating, and managing pods. Experienced in Agile methodologies, Scrum stories and Sprint experience. Enhanced cloud-based applications and services for peak performance and scalability through vigilant monitoring and logging solutions, yielding 40% surge in application uptime and 15% decrease in downtime. Experience in system administration, system builds, server builds, installs, upgrades, patches, migration, troubleshooting, security, backup, disaster recovery, performance monitoring and fine tuning on Red Hat Linux systems. Experience in developing and implementing Infrastructure as Code, automated provisioning and configuring using Terraform and Ansible. Experience in core AWS services (S3, EC2, ELB, EBS, Route53, ECS, VPC, Auto scaling etc.) and deployment services (Elastic Beanstalk, Ops Works, and Cloud Formation) and security practices (IAM, Cloud watch and Cloud trail). Using Ansible to Setup/teardown of ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). Maintained 99% uptime of a network on 15+ Unix servers. Used AWS KMS to manage cryptographic keys to control user access. Deployed VPC s by creating private and public sub-nets, creating security groups, target groups, network access control list, route tables and internet gateways. Migrated client systems from legacy Squid web proxy service to AWS Palo Alto firewall. Created AWS Transfer family accounts via Jenkins job and verify in AWS console for both external and internal accounts in Dev, LT and Prod accounts. Environment: AWS (IAM, EC2, S3, EBS, Glacier, ELB, Cloud Formation, AWS Lambda, Cloud Watch, DynamoDB, VPC, CloudTrail, SNS, SQS, Route53, RDS), Python, PostgreSQL, Security Groups, Visual Studio Code, JIRA, Jenkins, NGINX, IIS, F5, HashiCorp, CyberArk, Datadog, Nexus, Splunk, RHEL 4/5/6,7,8, CentOS, Apache Tomcat Cloud Platform Engineer USAA | Reston, VA | Jan 2020 - June 2021 Written Ansible modules to Create, terminate, start, and stop AWS EC2 instances. Written Ansible playbooks to install Grafana and tested using Kitchen CI before pushing into different environments. Develop CI/CD system with Jenkins on Google s Kubernetes container environment, utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment for the CI/CD system to build and test and deploy. Written Ansible playbooks for deployment of WAR, JAR, and EAR files across all the environments & for restarting applications. Proactively monitor resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, SNS, and configured notifications for the alarms generated based on events defined. Create and implement the PowerShell script to support deployment of the product. Practiced Agile methodologies, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives to ensure efficient project execution. Worked on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD) tools like Jenkins, Docker, and Bamboo. Wrote Terraform Scripts to create infrastructure for App Dynamics. Successfully configured Ansible control server (Linux) to manage Windows servers and installed application using Ansible. Designed and implemented a robust system architecture in the Cloud environment using VPC, RDS, EC2, and Load Balancing, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of the applications. Experience working with AWS container service (ECS) and Azure container services. Wrote Ansible playbook to installed Splunk forwarders. Design and Implement RESTful APIs using the Flask framework and Python. Architected and designed Rapid deployment method using Ansible to auto deploy servers as needed. Managed GitHub repositories and permissions including branching and tagging. Adept at automating repetitive work through Shell scripts and Python. Generated Python Django Forms to record data of online users. Utilized GitHub to deploy code in Staging and Development environments, ensuring efficient and smooth deployment of changes. Deployed scalable infrastructure on AWS and configuration management using Docker and Kubernetes Created new AWS Accounts and managed roles & permission sets for different accounts in AWS Organization. Created s3 buckets to store files required to serve static content for a web application, to replicate cross accounts, also to sync and copy data cross AWS accounts using s3 batch operations or Datasync. Performed installation and configuration of secret management on AWS KMS Migrated user accounts from legacy SFTP JSCAPE to AWS Transfer Family, validated with app owners and retired SFTP and decommissioned. Gitlab CI/CD Automations such Auto-merge between branches and automating releases. Solid understanding and Experience in cloud computing-based services architecture, technical design and implementations including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Understanding of Cloud services, DevOps including compute, storage, CI/CD as well as logging technologies. Performed AMI backup for production instances with critical workloads with monitoring heap utilization. Understanding of database architecture and design including scalability, backups, performance Environment: VS Code, Linux, Python, GitHub, Puppet, Ansible, Open Shift, Terraform, Chef, Agile methodology, RESTful web services, microservices, MVC, JUnit Microsoft Azure - Azure Storage Service, SQL Databases, Logic Apps, App Services, Application Insights, Azure Key vaults, Function App, Azure DevOps, DevOps Projects, Service Fabric Clusters. Site Reliability Cloud Engineer CVS Health | Chicago, IL | Aug 2017 Dec 2019 Increased productivity of division by 15% and contributed to 20% reduction in turnover rates. Used Jenkins to automate build and deploy to reduce human error and speed up production. Created CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins, GitHub, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild and CodePipeline resulting in eliminating 50% of manual work. Built servers using AWS Cloud Formation scripts i.e., Importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, assigning roles and policies via IAM, implementing Auto-Scaling, load balancers, Security groups in the defined VPC. Pioneered CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy, accelerating application deployment. Used GIT as source code repositories and managed GIT repositories for branching, merging, and tagging. Assist customers in simplifying the Architecture by Automation using JSON Templates and PowerShell Used Git (Git Bash & GitLab) as the version control tool and Maven as the build tool. Built containerized webapps with Amazon ECR, ECS and EKS Built web applications using Terraform and CloudFormation Integrate security tools with application and manage password vaults like HashiCorp and CyberArk. Automated AWS infrastructure builds by utilizing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) by coding. Developed AWS CloudFormation Templates for application launches across AWS services using JSON or YAML. Cloud Based Migrations: Migrate Exchange to Office Online (O365), Active Directory to Azure Active Directory, workloads, and applications to Microsoft Azure. Develop architectural standards that promote DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and Continuous Delivery. Secured the cloud environment using security groups, network ACL s, internet gateway, WAF, and route tables to ensure a secure zone for organization in AWS public cloud. Patched Kafka, ActiveMQ, Zookeeper, Jenkins, IO/R3 instances for Prod, LT, Dev and Non-Prod environments Monitored AWS Resources with CloudWatch, CloudTrail and SNS Launched and configured RDS instances and DynamoDB tables for applications Install, configure, and maintain virtual hosts, operating systems, applications, and databases. Environment: Python, Docker, JIRA, JSON, GitLab, Ansible, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Puppet, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Visual Studio Code, Continuous Delivery and Deployment, Configuration Management, Linux Scripting in PowerShell and Bash, Unix Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Liberty Mutual Insurance | New Haven, CT | Jun 2015-Jul 2017 Designing and implementing RESTful APIs using the Flask framework and Python. Implemented domain name service (DNS) through route 53 to have highly available and scalable applications. Designed and implemented multiple deployment strategies using CI/CD Pipeline through automation with enterprise GitHub, Jenkins, Docker on a Linux environment. Writing documentation, performed unit tests, and examples for APIs and services. Created unit tests using Log4j logging framework and developed unit and integration test cases using using Junit Maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins. Experience in developing and implementing infrastructure such as code, automated provisioning and configuring using Terraform and Ansible. Decommissioned servers, created DB, data replication, troubleshooting infrastructure issues etc. Created and configured elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic evenly. Install, Configure, Monitor and Maintain cloud servers to ensure required availability within the cloud ExpressRoute/Networking including DNS, Public/Private peering, NAT Gateway via firewall & Active Directory Performed installing and upgrading software, file backups, and configuring systems and applications. Understanding of multi-tenant and hybrid cloud architectures, ability to design both. Deployed and managed solutions efficiently on private or public cloud, and ensure they meet SLAs. Assist development team in migrating data from one environment to another. Working closely with client operational resources in updating their on-premises practices to include cloud. Orchestrated Change request Creation, Approval and Scheduling along with sending patching notifications to make aware of network outages in advance. Developed and supported key pieces of the company's AWS cloud infrastructure. Built and managed a large deployment of Ubuntu Linux instances systems with Op s code Chef. Environment: GitHub, JDK 1.8, Visual Studio, NuGet, SQL Server, JSON, Maven, C#, Jira, Jenkin, Octopus, NGINX, IIS, F5, HashiCorp, CyberArk, Datadog, Apica, Jenkin, Octopus, Nexus, Ansible, Docker, Anguar, Spring SKILLS AWS Services: EC2, S3, ELB, AutoScaling, SNS, SQS, Glacier, EBS, VPC, IAM, Route 53, CloudFormation, Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, CloudFront, RedShift, CloudTrail, Lambda, ElasticCache, Data Sync, EFS CloudWatch, GitHub, BitBucket, O365, SSM Patch Manager, Config Rules, Control Tower, Code Pipeline, CodeCommit, WAF, Key Management, Security Hub, AWS Migration Hub, Certificate Manager, CloudShell, Trusted Advisor, AWS Lift & Shift migrations Containerization: Terraform, Kubernetes, ECR, Docker, EKS, ECS, MicroServices Databases: PostgreSQL, RDS(MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server) & DynamoDB Automation: Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Nexus, Maven Operating Systems: Windows RedHat, Linux/Unix Scripting: Bash, Python, shell Cloud Migration/Active Directory DevOps: Ansible, CI/CD , SDLC, Git, Powershell Networking: Hashicorp, Tomcat, Generate SSH auth keys, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTPs Virtualization: Citrix, VMware, ESXi, DRS, Snapshots BI Tools: Tableau, Power BI, QuickSight Agile frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, SAFE Others: Putty, WinSCP, SDLC, ServiceNow, LDAP, Active Directory, PCI, SOX, PII standards, Security orchestration, SharePoint, Visual Studio Code, NFS CERTIFICATES & COURSES AWS Certified Solution Architect Project Management - JIRA, Confluence, Trello SQL Hands-on Certified on LinkedIn Burberry Town-hall Certificate for 'Business Builder' and given 'Brown-bag' session to employees. Project Star Award for leading a shift on client location on high priority sales event. SOFT SKILLS Disaster Recovery Planning Program Roadmap creation, Capture Timeline, Scope and Milestones, Story prioritization Skilled in troubleshooting QA, development, LT and production issues. Ability to collaborate, communicate and work with other engineering teams and stakeholders across multiple groups. Extensive and Proficient Communication and Collaboration Skills Requirements Gathering & Documenting Facilitate every Scrum Ceremonies Technical Program Management EDUCATION Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science at Karunya University, India graduated in June 2015 Keywords: csharp continuous integration continuous deployment quality analyst business intelligence sthree database information technology ffive Arizona Connecticut Illinois Virginia