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Azam Uddin Sr. DevOps Engineer +1630-870-8625 Gmail: [email protected] Visa: Green Card; https://www.linkedin.com/in/azam-uddin-72177022/ Professional Summary: Over a decade of IT industry experience in Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Chef and Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Build and Release, Linux, System Administration with cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, OpenStack, GCP, Cloud Solution Architecture Implementation. Hands on experience in utilizing AWS services like AWS code Deploy, Route53, EBS, S3, EC2, Cloud Formation, ECS, SNS, Lambda, SQS, CloudFront and Auto Scaling for deploying Java applications to the cloud. Worked on Splunk, ELK (Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana) for centralized logging and then store logs and metrics into an S3 bucket using Lambda function and Used AWS Lambda to manage the servers and run the code in the AWS. Built and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket, Glacier for storage and backup on AWS. Involved in designing and deploying a large application utilizing almost all the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Beanstalk, SNS, SQS, IAM, ELB, VPC, Cloud Trail, Cloud Watch, Lambda, Cloud Formation) focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud Formation. Worked on setting up the Chef Workstation, Chef Repo as well as Chef Nodes from the scratch. Implemented Ansible roles and Ansible Playbooks for the server configuration and Deployment activities. Experience in designing AWS cloud models for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS). Used monitoring tool like Dynatrace, Splunk, Nagios, Configured, and Managed Monitoring Tools such as Nagios for Resources Monitoring/Network Monitoring/Log Trace Monitoring. Hands on experience in writing Terraform API modules to manage infrastructure, for automatic creation of RDS instances, VPCs, Auto scaling groups, Load balancers, SQS, S3 buckets. Experience in Infrastructure on AWS using IAM, API Gateway, Cloud Trail, Cloud Watch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), AWS Kinesis, Lambda, NACL, Elastic Beanstalk, Redshift, and Cloud Formation. Experience in Building and deploying the application code using CLI of Kubernetes called Kubectl, Kubelet, Kubeadm, and Kubespray and Schedule the jobs using KubeScheduler. Managed K8s charts using Helm and created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications. Created a CI/CD for building and deployingJava and .net applications in aMicro services Architecture Environment using Jenkins.Used Jenkins with SonarQube to get the better quality of the Source code. Experience in working with Jenkins CI tool with build automation tools like ANT, Maven, and Gradle & for thebuilding of deployable artifacts (JAR, WAR&EAR, and EXE) from source code. Experience in working with the ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, and Kibana) stack &Splunkto analyze & visualize large volumes of log data obtained from servers. Good interaction with developers, managers, and team members to coordinate job tasks and strong commitment to work. Technical Skills: Cloud AWS, OpenStack, Azure, GCP. Configuration Management Tools Chef, Puppet, Ansible CI/CD tools Jenkins, Bamboo Build Tools Ant, Bamboo, Gradle Container Tools Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos Version Control Tools GIT, TFS, BitBucket Monitoring Tools Nagios,Splunk, Dynatrace, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana&Graylog,ELK Databases My SQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB), Cassandra IAAC Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM Templates Application Servers Web Logic Application Server 9.x, 10.x, Apache Tomcat 5.x/7.x, Red Hat JBOSS 4.22.GA, WebSphere 7.x/8.x Networking/Protocol TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, WAN, SMTP, LAN, FTP/TFTP Operating Systems Linux (RedHat, CENTOS), Unix,Ubuntu 13/14 Windows 8, 10 MacOS. Virtualization Tech VMware ESXi, Windows Hyper-V, Power VM, VirtualBox, KVM Scripting Perl, Python, YAML, Ruby, Bash, Shell, PowerShell, JSON Education: Bachelors in Computer Science Certified - AWS cloud Practitioner Certified - Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Professional Experience: TIAA Bank, Charlotte, NC July 2021 - Present Sr. SRE Engineer Responsibilities: Responsible for Implementation, design, architecture, and support of cloud-based server and service solutions. Managed multiple AWS accounts with multiple VPC s for both production and non-prod where primary objectives included automation, build out, integration and cost control. Responsible for using AWS Console and AWS CLI for deploying and operating AWS services specifically VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, ELB, Cloud Formation and Cloud Watch. Configured a VPC and provisioned EC2 instances, EBS in different availability zones. Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS Cloud Watch. Backing up the instances by taking snapshots of the required servers regularly. Setting up and administering DNS system in AWS using Route53. Integrated OpenShift cloud platform with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment tools like Jenkins, GIT SCM, and Udeploy. Used MAVEN as build tools on Java, PHP projects for the development of build artifacts and deploy to Application Servers. Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Mount points and Packages. Worked with Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment on AWS environments through automated tools, Ansible / custom pipeline. Experience in setting up CI/CD pipeline integrating various tools with Jenkins to build and run Terraform jobs to create infrastructure in AWS. Involved in complete Data migration testing from SAP BW to Snowflake in AWS cloud using Query surge, Informatica, AWS (Big Data platform), Airflow scheduler, Teradata SQL and Python scripting. Integrated Splunk Enterprise with Dynatrace to monitor the performance of the application, managing Splunk Forwarder on centralized deployment server. Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation-using Jenkins along with Python and Shell scripts to automate routine jobs. Expertise in writing new plugins in order to support new functionality in Terraform. Installed and configured Kubernetes to manage Docker containers. Used Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance and manage docker containers with multiple name spaced versions. Helped convert VM based application to Micro Services and deployed as a container managed by Kubernetes. Installed and Configured the Nexus repository manager for sharing the artifacts within the company. Reviewed OpenShift PaaS product architecture and suggested improvement features after conducting research on Competitors products. Maintained JIRA for tracking and updating project defects and tasks. Customized migrated JIRA projects as requested by users, including optimizing workflows, creating custom calculated fields to support reporting needs, and managing gadgets/widgets. Involved in troubleshooting SQL Server related CPU, memory, I/O, disk space and other resource contention. Configuring network services such as DNS/NFS/NIS/NTP for UNIX/Linux Servers and setting up UNIX/Linux environments for various applications. Environment: AWS, AWS IAM, AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS cloud watch, Route 53, Nginx, ANT, Maven, SVN, GIT, GitHub, Chef, Docker, Nagios, Jenkins, Bamboo, OpenShift Apache HTTPD, Apache Tomcat, Web Sphere, JBoss, JSON, Bash, Dynatrace, Shell, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby. Best Buy - Minneapolis, MN Nov 2020- June 2021 Sr. SRE Engineer Responsibilities: Perform root cause analysis of production impacting issues, including opening problem cases with vendors, and driving them to conclusion. Maintaining and bug-fixing existing applications and infrastructure Solid understanding and Experience in cloud computing-based services architecture, technical design and implementations including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Maintain JIRA projects, workflows, permissions, and users while working in a JIRA 6.x & 7.x environment. Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its node, Config Maps, selector, services, and deployed application container as Pods. Document cloud architecture design & analysis work, including project postmortem & metric collection. Providing Hands-on technical sessions with clients on new technologies in Azure or its Implementation. Assist development team in migrating data from one environment to another. Implemented HTTPS Ingress controller and used TLS certificate on AKS to provide reverse proxy, configurable traffic routing for individual Kubernetes services. Working experience on User management, disk quota and Job Scheduling using Crontab, at jobs. Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub, and Kubernetes. Migrated Jira across environments and worked on Jira database MYSQL dumps Worked on Jira Cloud Experience in Virtualization technologies like VMware, Vagrant and worked with containerizing applications like Docker, Kubernetes. Created events, email notification schemes and assigned project roles on Jira. Installed various Jira plugins such as Jira client, Jira importer plugin, Jira Charting Plugin, the connector for Microsoft project and Jira Misc. Custom fields. Using Ansible to Setup/teardown of ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). Install, configure, and maintain ELK stack systems. Experience in deploying to Service Fabric Clusters through Azure DevOps. Experience setting up Application Insights for various Azure resources. Experience creating various resource groups along with storage accounts and Key vault. Deployed windows Kubernetes cluster with Azure Container Service (ACS) from Azure CLI and Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and deploy. Improve JIRA security. Set access permissions for JIRA projects and Confluence spaces. Work with JIRA filters, reporting, dashboards, workflows, fields, and JIRA administration. Creating, validating, and reviewing solutions and effort estimate for migration to the Azure Cloud environment conducting proof of concept for latest Azure cloud-based services. Automated infrastructure provisioning on Azure using Terraform. Designed and provided best practices from managing OpenID Connect, 2FA/ MFA, Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos. Support synchronization of identities between on-premises directories and cloud directories on Azure Active Directory and Office 365 using Azure AD connect. Support of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Role Based Access Control issues. Configuration and troubleshooting of application performance issues such as memory, servers, CPU, AD, Docker, Databases. Environment: Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure function Apps, Azure App Services, Service Fabric Clusters, Azure Container Instances, Azure VMs, Azure SQL Servers, Azure Key Vaults, Application Insights, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Storage services, Kubernetes, Network Security Groups, Azure DevOps Service, Open Shift, ELK Stack, AWS Lambda, AWS services. Ascension - St. Louis, MO Jul 2019 - Oct 2020 Cloud/DevOps Engineer Responsibilities: Created and Managed AWS environment with HA and used the features EC2, VPC, IAM, ELB, EBS, SNS, cloud watch, S3, creating AMIs and snapshots, RDS, creating security groups, Subnets and Storage Gateway. Migrated an On-premise VMware DC to AWS using Lift and shift methods. Worked as a DevOps Engineer for a team that mainly worked closely with many proprietary tools and Open source tools like Jenkins, Gerrit, AWS, JIRA, etc. Used for development and deployment of internal tools and programs. Monitored and maintained the AWSS3buckets, which contained all the packets of each build. Each packet had metadata files, which were extracted to proceed with the flash testing. Configured and maintained the AWS Lambda function to trigger when there is a Jenkins build kicked off, which internally gets stored on AWS S3 bucket for everybody to access. Created Route53 to route traffic between different regions. Worked withSecurity groups&Network ACLs. Managed data warehouse using Amazon Redshift to analyze all data using SQL& existing business intelligence tools. Converted existing AWS infrastructure to serverless architecture (AWSLambda, Kinesis) deployed via Terraform&AWSCloud formation. Builds, migrations and integrations of Kubernetes, Jenkins, spinnaker, Istio. To trigger changes made in AWSDynamo DB integrated it with Lambda, created Cron jobs for initiating our daily batch data pulls, executing our continuous integration tests done under Jenkins& backup the Dynamo DB streams. Designed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications. Used Cloud Front to deliver content from AWS edge locations to users, allowing for further reduction of load on front-end servers. Hands-on experience on implementing Cloud Solutions using various AWS Services including EC2, VPC, S3, Glacier, EFS, AWSKinesis, Lambda, Directory Services, CloudFormation, Ops works, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, DataPipeline, DynamoDB, Redshift. Worked with Scheduling, deploying, and managing Container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes and workedwith building Kubernetes run time environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and deploy in our open source platform. Worked on setting up Jenkins as a service inside the Kubernetes cluster to reduce the failover downtime to minutes and to automate the Dockercontainers deployment without using configuration management tool. Written Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall process improvement to any manual process. Setup and maintained automated environment using Chef Recipes within AWS environment. Good understanding of Knife, Chef Bootstrap process etc. Implemented ChefRecipes for Deployment to build an internal Data Centre Servers. Also re-used and modified the same Chef Recipes to create a Deployment directly into Amazon EC2 instances. Installed and used Chef Server enterprise on premise, workstation and bootstrapped the nodes using Knife command. Created various Roles& Environments& used Chef Handlers for auto kick-off requirement jobs. Involved in Setting up Elastic Search, Log stash and Kibana (ELK)Created AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for instance RDP/SSH logon, worked with teams to lock down security groups. Used Kibana and Elastic search to identify the Kafka message failure scenarios and Implemented reprocessing of failure messages in Kafka using offset id. Designed an ELK (Elastic Logstash Kibana) system to monitor and search enterprise alerts and configured ELK stack in conjunction with AWS and using Logstash to output data to AWSS3. Terminated SSL on to Nginx to remove overhead on API servers. Developed AWS lambda functions in Python to automate AWS Cloud watch scheduled events between services like AWS SNS and AWS SES to deliver notifications regarding AWS EC2 instances to the team. Implemented JIRA to track all issues pertaining to the software development lifecycle &integrated JIRA with repositories of GIT to track all code changes. Developed PowerShell scripts to automate the project creation, setting permissions for users, groups in TFS. Developed automation scripting in Python using Chef to deploy & manage Java .Net applications across Linux/Windows servers. Worked with Red Hat Linux kernel, memory upgrades, and swaps area. Installed RedHat Linux using Kick-start & SunSolaris with JumpStart. Configured DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS in Sun Solaris 8, 9& other Network Services. Environment: Amazon Web Servers (AWS), OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven/ANT,GIT, Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK), Java, .Net, JIRA, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, MongoDB, Linux/RHEL, Vagrant, Active Directory, LDAP, VMWare Servers, Windows, PowerShell, Ruby, YAML, Kafka, Shell, Bash, Python, terraform. One Trust Atlanta, GA Dec 2017 June 2019 DevOps Engineer Responsibilities: Worked closely with the development and operations organizations to implement the necessary tools and process to support the automation of builds, deployments, testing and infrastructure (infrastructure as code) using Chef. As member of Release Engineering group, redefined processes and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting. Active member in the release cycle of the product which involved environments like Development, QA, UAT and Production. Implemented Platform as a Service (PAAS) infrastructure for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) project. Worked on Installation and Configuration of different versions of PCF on VMware Cloud for Production, Non-Prod and Sandbox environments. Responsible for CI/CD pipeline implementation using Jenkins. Designed and implemented fully automated server build with Jenkins, chef. Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with ANT to schedule the builds. Setting up Jenkins master, adding the necessary Plugins and adding more slaves to support scalability and agility. Designed the project workflows/pipelines using Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into different Web/Application Servers. Worked on ANT and MAVEN Scripts to automate the build process and used Nexus as artifact repository to publish build related artifacts. Branching, Tagging, Release Activities on Version Control Tools: SVN, Gitlab Auto deployment and troubleshooting of JAR, WAR, and EAR files in clustered environment Performed all necessary day-to-day Gitlab support for various projects. Responsible for design and maintenance of the Gitlab Repositories, views, and the access control strategies. Troubleshoot existing MAVEN file in case of error or change in the project requirements Performed integrating, JUNIT and code quality Tests as a part of build process. Worked on various components of Chef including chef server, workstations, Nodes, configurations of chef-client and writing cookbooks and recipes for Chef and assigning roles to nodes. Configured and integrated the servers for different environments to automatically provision and configuration management using Chef. Developed Shell/Bash Scripts for automation purpose. Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall models. Worked on AZURE (IaaS) migrating like creating AZURE VMs, storage accounts, VHDs, storage pools, migrating on premise servers to AZURE and creating availability sets in AZURE and performed Hardening of the VM's and disk encryption using the KEK key in MS Azure. Orchestration of Docker images and Containers using Kubernetes by creating whole master and node. Hands-on experience on using Terraform along with packer to create custom machine images and automation tools like Chef/Ansible to install software after the infrastructure is provisioned. Worked with Terraform for automating VPCs, ELBs, security groups, SQS queues, S3 buckets, and continuing to replace the rest of our infrastructure. Created Ansible roles in YAML and defined tasks, variables, files, handlers, and templates. configured the Ansible files for parallel deployment in Ansible for automating the Continuous delivery process and used Ansible for configuring and managing multi-node configuration management over SSH and PowerShell. Experience using Ansible Tower dashboard, role base access control, access to Ansible for deployments and worked with Ansible Playbooks to automate various deployment tasks and working knowledge on Ansible. Roles, Ansible inventory files and Ansible Galaxy. Worked on active integration effort for building out PaaS with RedHat OpenShift, Dockers and working with developers on application containerization effort. Worked with Docker and Kubernetes on multiple cloud providers, from helping developers build and containerize their application (CI/CD) to deploying either on public or private cloud. Expertise in administering and automating operations across multiple platforms and Windows servers, Performed numerous server migrations on both Linux/Unix. Environment: AWS (IAM, EC2, S3, EBS, Glacier, ELB, Cloud Formation, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, SNS, SQS, Route53, RDS), Git, Chef, Splunk, Bash, Shell, DynamoDB, RHEL 4/5/6, CentOS, Open SUSE, Apache Tomcat. Oncore Electric, Dallas, TX Nov 2015 - Nov 2017 SRE Engineer. Responsibilities: Involved in migrating physical Linux/Windows servers to cloud platform AWS and testing it. Responsible for designing architectural diagrams for various apps. Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS. Worked on and run Agile projects for a DevOps team to help deliver critical functionality to a cloud-based service. Deployed java applications to application servers in agile continuous integration environment and automated the whole process. Managing Users and Groups in Subversion (SVN) and troubleshooting client specific issues and user issues. Examine and clear conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT. Installed Jenkins instances and configured Master and Slave and ran jobs in different slave platforms. Created different jobs in Jenkins like commit jobs, deployment jobs, release jobs and nightly build jobs to enforce Continuous Integration of our codebase. Configured applications within Fidelity Pricing & Cash Management business unit for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using Jenkins and Udeploy. Extensively used Chef Configuration management to deploy packages with the required build artifacts from Artifactory and facilitate a stable and scalable build and deploy infrastructure. Deployed and maintained Chef role-based application servers, including Apache, Nginx and Tomcat and wrote Cookbooks and Recipes. Developed build and deployment scripts using MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments and used AGILE MVN method to develop a build. Responsible for managing the Maven Repository using Nexus tool and used the same to share the snapshots and releases of internal projects. Performing and supporting the daily build process and publishing the artifacts in the Nexus Repository. Involved in monitoring and metering for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for Open Stack Cloud. Involved in moving many locally hosted apps to cloud and hybrid cloud platforms on AWS and Open Stack. Experience installing and administrating monitoring tools such as Nagios, New Relic and Sensu. Hands on experience on Automation of configuration and management through Puppet and implemented Puppet dashboard. Developed and maintained Python and Shell scripts for build and release tasks. Responsible for writing Hooks and Triggers using Python. Built Java application using ANT. Performed system administration and operation tasks using Chef, Nagios, Splunk Used Chef to automate the deployment process. Performed Branching, Tagging, and Release Activities on Version Control Tool: GIT. Implemented rapid provisioning and life-cycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Amazon Web Services, Chef, and scripts. Designed and implemented custom workflows using Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer incorporate various business processes. Worked on the installation and configuration of the monitoring tool Nagios. Managed Clusters using AWS Spark. Managing continuous delivery by using cloud foundry. Wrote Recipes, Cookbooks and uploaded them to Chef-server. Managed library versions and deprecated code, design and sequencing of automated builds & test runs and troubleshooting expertise - build failures due to dependencies, tests, etc. Wrote shell scripts to automate the system management functions and system backup. Performed tasks on F5 load balancer like ordering new certs, installing and renewing SSL certificates, bouncing servers with performance issues after taking them out of the server pools, ID maintenance, User, Group management for all the UNIX servers Troubleshooting issues with builds and compiler tools. Drive the resolution of build failures. Performed re-starts, xml, and environment properties, configuration changes. Environment: AWS, Openstack, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Nagios, Maven, ANT, Nexus GIT, SVN, Python, Shell, Java/J2EE, JIRA, Clear case. Nielsen, New York, NY Jun 2012 - Oct 2015 Linux system administrator Responsibilities: Violin Array Performance comparison with Pure Storage and XtremIO based on IDC Standards. Worked with various networking protocols such as TCP/IP, SNMP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SSH, Telnet and UNIX operating systems, utilities, tools and applications is required. Experience operating a Scientific Atlanta DNCS system and Video on Demand systems in an ISA environment is desirable. Part of Unix administration team managing Solaris/Linux suse enterprise edition 9,10 with SUN/IBM/HP/DELL hardware in 600+ server environment in fast paced busy production environment Responsible for System Administration Linux/UNIX, Migration, VMware Administration and maintenance of Red Hat Linux servers. installing and configuring of apache web server, iplanet, web server. Backend scripting/parsing using Perl and Python. Assist with the planning Data center migration projects and SAN migration. Worked as System admin with distributed database systems, Oracle and SQL, file systems and disks, database structures Worked on enterprise systems monitoring solutions including LANDesk, Foglight, Solar Winds, SCOM, Nagios, Cacti, Zabbix, Hp site scope, RTview, Autosys Specific applications and devices support and maintained include: Scientific Atlanta DNCS, Application Server, TED Server, XOD Server, BIG QAM Modulator, QPSK Modulator/Demodulater, Explorer set top box, CableCARD devices, Tandberg/Mystro BMS, Tandberg AMS, Storage Array and all associated devices and components Participate in project planning sessions, execute project tasks, troubleshoot and resolve problems. Actively working with the Vendors in replacing the server hardware like DIMMS, Array Battery, Power supply cords and faulted disk arrays. Actively involved in Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 9 and 10 on sun Servers using jump start and involved in installation of kick start in Red Hat Linux ES 4.x. Expert knowledge of Pure Storage and EMC Storage products (VNX, XIO, Isilon, Recover Point, Cisco and Brocade switches) in both traditional and converged environments. Worked with Boerne scripting and added the entries in the crontab for taking differential and full backups of UNIX file system into and from tape to disk, restored it when the system corrupted. Performs software upgrades to applications running on the above devices in a manner consistent with Time Warner Cable s change-management procedures. Interface with various departments with various technical levels to coordinate service activation and troubleshoot product performance issues, including Billing/IT, Marketing, Corporate, Customer Service, Technical Operations, Engineering/Maintenance, equipment vendors and contractors. 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