Roja P

AWS/ Devops Engineer

Atlanta, GA - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Roja-P/45c963aedd71171e

9 Years of extensive work experience on Build Engineering, Release Management process, including end-
to- end code configuration, deployments of artifacts for entire life cycle model in Enterprise Applications.
Experience in Automating, Configuring and deploying instances on AWS, Open stack, Azure and Cloud
environments and Data centers.
Experience in Implementing Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Maven, Ant, Sonar, Jenkins, GitHub
and AWS AMI's and also Nexus in Linux environment.
Extensive experience in Automation of scripting using BASH/Shell, Perl scripting, Building, Deploying, and
Releasing of code from one environment to other environments and also implementation of Continuous
Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment and DevOps processes for Agile projects.
Experience in using AWS including EC2, Auto-Scaling in launching EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancer,
Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Glacier, Cloud Front, RDS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, IAM, SNS.
Experience on Cloud technologies including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software
as a Service provider (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS).
Experience in using configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet and Ansible.
Experience in developing Cookbooks and recipes for automating deployments using Chef.
Built multiple cookbooks in Chef. Implemented environments, roles, data bags in Chef for better environment
management.
Experience running LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) systems in agile quick scale cloud
environment.
Perform Capacity planning for the Cloud and Experience on Compute, Networking & Storage infrastructure.
Experience in Monitoring tools like Nagios, Splunk and Cloud watch.
Experience in working on version control systems like Subversion, and GIT and used Source code
management client tools like GitBash, GitHub, Clear Case, Git GUI and other command line applications in
terms of branching, tagging and maintenance on UNIX and Windows environment.
Efficient experience in using Nexus and Artifactory Repository managers for Maven builds.
Integrated the Code Quality Analysis Tools like Find Bugs and Cobertura in ANT Projects.
Ability in managing all aspects of the software configuration management process including code compilation,
packaging / deployment / release methodology, and application configurations.
Good understanding of Waterfall methodology & Agile Methodologies (Scrum/Sprint/Iterations) in Agile
SDLC.
Extensive working with the release and deployment in Java/J2EE Web applications environment.
Experience in using Tomcat and Apache web servers for deployments and for hosting tools.
Very quick in learning new technologies and a good team player.
Good in communicating and coordinating with Project Managers, Architects, Team Leads, Developers,
Business Analysts, Testers.
Willing to relocate: Anywhere

WORK EXPERIENCE

AWS/ Devops Engineer

General Electric - Atlanta, GA - October 2015 to Present
Responsibilities:
 Involving in debugging issues, resolving functional issues and provide bug free software releases to end
customers.
Designed and built highly available, private AWS clouds.
Created and managed cloud VMs with AWS EC2 command line clients and AWS management console.
Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch.
Setup Elastic load-balancers for different applications to ensure high availability of applications.
Used Amazon Route53 to manage DNS zones and also give public DNS names to elastic load balancers ip.
Used Amazon S3 to backup database instances periodically to save snapshots of data.
Created repositories, branches, tags and involved in merging process.
Build and configured Jenkins slaves for parallel job execution.
Maintain automation & network simulators; develop Python test scripts, run regression/sanity test release
binaries.
Established processes and tools to maintain code base integrity, including check-in validation rules and
branch/merge processes.
Involved in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery.
Creating from scratch a new continuous integration stack based on Docker and Jenkins, allowing transition
from dev stations to test servers easily and seamlessly.
Created local, virtual repositories in Jfrog Artifactory and integrated with Jenkins.
Developed Chef Recipes to configure, deploy and maintain software components of the existing Infrastructure
Used Chef Automation tools for configuration management in different systems.
Reduced build & deployment times by designing and implementing Docker workflow.
Configured Docker container for branching purposes.
Worked with JIRA for issue tracking and monitoring.
Build and administrate Continuous Delivery pipelines using Git, Vagrant, Jenkins and Groovy DSL.
Compiling software from source such as Linux distributions or other open-source software.
Converting the ANT Build projects to Maven Build projects.
Attending SCRUM meetings from Feature complete until Technical acceptance phases of project.
Presented reports to the Project manager about the progress and issues tracking key project Milestones,
plans and resources.
Developed Shell Scripts for the purpose of manual deployment of the code to the different environments and
E-mail the team when the build is completed.
Take part in code peer review of the test cases, Bug review and QA weekly status meetings.
Reporting defects for the failed test cases and tracking the status on the daily basis.
UNIX administration and strong software debugging skills. Flexibility to learn new things. The ability to adapt
to using new tools.
Environment: GIT, ANT, Vagrant, SQL, Jenkins, Chef, AWS, Maven, Make, JIRA, Artifactory, Shell, UNIX and
Linux.

Devops Engineer
Zions Bancorporation - Salt Lake City, UT - July 2013 to September 2015
Responsibilities:
Developed and implemented an automated Linux infrastructure using Puppet.
Wrote Puppet models for installing and managing java versions.
Performed the automation deployments using AWS by creating the IAMs and used the code pipeline plugin
to integrate Jenkins with AWS and also created the EC2 instances to provide the virtual servers.
Assisted in Creating and maintaining various DevOps related tools for the team such as provisioning scripts,
deployment tools, and development and staging environments on AWS.
Involved in Designing and deploying AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto
scaling groups.
 Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups.
Used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups.
Regular Build jobs are initiated using the Continuous Integration tool with Jenkins.
Assisted developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using
GIT source control.
Handled Jira tickets for SCM Support activities.
Performed build, deployment & validation of the code into different development environments using ANT
Hill Pro.
Creating user level of access for related GitHub project directories to the code changes.
Performed all necessary day-to-day Subversion/GIT support for different projects.
Used Artifactory repository tool for maintaining the Java based release code packages.
Provided the assistance for the smooth phase of Release for the Emergency and Expedite.
Releases by getting the Director Level Approval and coordinating with different teams.
Responsible for creating work items on TFS.
Written Shell scripts to apply the Integration label to all the files which needs manual labelling of files.
Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard and PuppetDB for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
Owner of Jenkins, GitHub, Puppet, Artifactory, and all internal build systems for the core development team
on an enterprise-level Java-based cloud orchestration/automation tool.
Configured the user's accounts for Continuous Integration - Jenkins, Nexus and Sonar.
Gathered all the stakeholder approvals, necessary signoffs while acting as a release manager for two
development teams.
Environment: Java/J2ee, Puppet, AWS instances, Git, Ant, Maven, TFS 2010, UNIX, SVN, Bamboo, Nexus
Sonar, Jira, Chef, Remedy, Python, Ruby, Shell Scripts, Tomcat, Jenkins.

Devops Engineer
United Health Group - Boston, MA - August 2012 to June 2013
Responsibilities:
Worked as Devops engineer for automation of infrastructure operation and support in day to day operation.
Installed and administered nexus repository and created roles and privileges to restrict access to the users.
Working for DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to Chef for Cloud Automation.
Installed and administered nexus repository and created roles and privileges to restrict access to the users.
Using Ceph as SDDC created block and object storage.
Performed svn to git migration with careful analysis and migrated all branches, tags, along with commit history
using git - svn utility.
Developed build scripts using MAVEN as the build tool for the creation of the build artifacts like war or ear files.
Automated all Builds using Jenkins.
Designed and implemented Chef, including the internal best practices, cookbooks, automated cookbook CI
and CD system
Developed Cookbooks and recipes for automating deployments using Chef.
Familiar and experienced with Agile Scrum development.
Used JIRA to track bug issues and change management
Assisted release managers and change management coordinators by communicating and coordinating the
release activities.
Prepared weekly productivity reports and submitted test metrics to the management.
Environment: SVN, GIT, ANT, Maven, Jenkins, Agile, Jira, Nexus, Apache Tomcat, Chef.

Devops Engineer
Quicken Loans - Detroit, MI - November 2011 to July 2012
Responsibilities:
 Utilize the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP/Perl) to meet customer needs.
Build and deploy J2EE application in web servers.
Used SVN as our cookbook repository and Bamboo to build and deploy the cookbooks.
Installing, configuring and managing Jenkins Continuous Integration tool on Linux machines along with
adding/updating plugins such as GIT, Maven, ANT, and Puppet.
As a part of Cloud team fixed issues related to OpenStack components Nova, Glance, Neutron, Keystone,
PerconaDB, RabbitMQ, Ceph, Repose, HAProxy and Horizon.
Configured plugins on Bamboo server to automate the deployments onto app servers and Artifactory.
Configured Bamboo for doing the build in all the non-production and production environments.
Written Python and Power shell scripts for the automation of deployments and integrating with the CI tool
Used Artifactory to configure and manage infrastructure.
Environment: Maven, Nova, puppet, Keystone, Horizon, Neutron, Keystone, Openstack, Bamboo, Artifactory,
Bash Scripting, Ruby Scripting, Shell Scripting, Apache, Linux

Build and Release Engineer

Teradata - IN - April 2010 to September 2011
Responsibilities:
Implement, maintain and support reliable, timely and reproducible builds for project teams.
Maintained build related scripts developed in ANT, Python and shell. Modified build configuration files
including Ant's build.xml.
Worked with development team to migrate Ant scripts to Maven.
Experienced in authoring pom.xml files, performing releases with the Maven release plugin, Mavenization of
Java projects and managing Maven repositories.
Researched and implemented code coverage and unit test plug-ins with Maven/Hudson.
Used TortoiseSVN version control system to manage different builds for the system. Involved in writing Shell
scripts for compilation and deployment process.
Used Maven dependency management system to deploy snapshot and release artifacts to Nexus to share
artifacts across projects.
Configured and maintained Hudson to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with Ant and Maven
to schedule the builds.
Work with development/testing, deployment, systems/infrastructure and project teams to ensure continuous
operation of build and test systems.
Environment: Ant, Java/J2EE, Maven, Hudson, Linux, Solaris, Python, WebSphere, Shell scripting, Nexus.

Linux Admin
3Edge Software Solutions - IN - May 2008 to March 2010
Responsibilities:
Installation, configuration and maintenance Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Installed Operating System and configured kernel parameters for Linux/Unix servers.
Worked on creating, maintaining and troubleshooting Disk partitioning, LVM and file management.
Worked on configuring TCP/IP, network interface, assigning static routes and hostnames.
Created shell scripts for automating the daily maintenance and update processes in the production
environment.
Archive management for files and directories employing the TAR tool and compression of files using the
gzip and bzip2.
Administered local and remote servers using SSH (secure shell) tool on daily basis.
Supported data management through on-site & off-site storage and retrieval service.
Installed, updated, and configured the necessary packages using the RPM and YUM software/package
management.
 Monitored user and group administration, password management, file accessing and advanced file
permission privileges.
Automated some jobs by deploying the CRON tool for job scheduling processes.
Deployed and installed new servers and their appropriate services for various applications in Linux.
Ensured the health and security of the Linux boxes which were in use.
Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, EMC Servers, BASH shell.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

TECHNICAL SKILL SET

Databases Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and DB2.

Operating System Windows (XP, 7, 8), Redhat, UNIX, centos, Ubuntu, and Fedora.
Version Control CVS, Tortoise SVN, IBM Rational Clear Case, and GIT.
Languages C, C++, and Java/J2EE.
Scripting Language Shell scripting, Perl scripting, PHP, Groovy, Python, Ruby, SQL, and Bash.
Web Servers WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, and JBoss.
Web Technologies Servlets, JDBC, JSP, HTML, Java Script, and XML.
Build Tools Ant, Maven, Gradle, and Nant.
Repositories Nexus, Artifactory, and Jfrog.
Monitoring Tools Nagios, Splunk, Graphite, and Zabbix.
CI/CD Tools GitHub, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Bamboo, Vagrant, Hudson, Cruise Control, Puppet, Chef, Docker,
AWS, Ansible, and Salt.
Bug Tracking Tools JIRA, Remedy, Clear Quest, and Rally.
Cloud Services AWS, Open Stack, and Microsoft Azure.