Arun Teja

Professional Summary

Ø  About 8 years of experience in designing Build process, Software Product Development, Process Automation, Build and Deployment Automation, Release Management, Packaging Quality Control, Source Code repository & Environment management.

Ø  Administration various environments in software development life cycle (SDLC) Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux and CentOS. Experience supporting Chef Environment with multi servers and involved in developing manifests.

Ø  Expertise in DevOps, Release Engineering, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Automation. It includes Amazon Web Services (AWS),Ant, Maven,Hudson, Jenkins, Chef, SVN,SaltStack, GitHub, SerenaProducts,TFS, Clear Case, Build Forge, SerenaPVCS, CVS, Tomcat, JBoss, LINUX etc.

Ø  Linux administration, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery setup using GIT, Jenkins and Docker for build.

Ø  Managed environments DEV, SIT, UAT, PFIX and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies.

Ø  Used JENKINS to perform automated Builds and Deployments.

Ø  Worked with Vagrant for local development setup. Moved vagrant setup to Docker based environment. And also experience in writing Vagrant file and Docker file.

Ø  Worked with DOCKERand Vagrant for different infrastructure setup and testing of code.

Ø  Strong Knowledge/experience in creating Jenkins CI pipe lines. Experience in JENKINS to automate most of the build related tasks.

Ø  Experience in administration and maintenance of source control management systems such as GIT and sub version created tags and branches fixed merge issues and administration software repositories.

Ø  Good knowledge in automation development with SALTSTACK.

Ø  Experience using MAVENand ANT as build tools for the building of deployable artifacts (jar, war & ear) from source code.

Ø  Hands on experience with build tools like, Team City, Sonar.

Ø  Installed, Configured, Managed Monitoring Tools such as Splunk, Nagios.

Ø  Strong Hands On development and configuration experience with software provision tools like CHEF and PUPPET.

Ø  Well versed with deploying/Configuring/tuning Enterprise Applications in WAS 6.1 and Web Sphere MQ Series.

Ø  Expertise in designing, configuring and implementing SCM standards and procedures using StarTeam, Subversion,CVS and IBM Rational ClearCase. Experienced in design and implementation of defect tracking system using Test Director, JIRA, Bugzilla and Rational ClearQuest.

Ø  Developed advanced JIRA workflows based on user requirements.

Ø  Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.

Ø  Having experience on installations, Configurations & Administration. Worked extensively on WebSphere application server and involved for manage, Troubleshoot, migrate applications running on various Middleware versions (WAS, JBoss, WebLogic), performance tuning and given production support.

Ø  Good working knowledge AWS IAM Service: IAM Policies, Roles, Users, Groups, AWS Access Keys and Multi Factor Authentication.And Migrated applications to the AWS cloud.

Ø  Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, and IIS.

Ø  Good Experience in Builds using Final Builder with TFS 2010, PVCSVersion Manager and Serena Dimensions 9.1 with Serena Mashup team track and Virtual machine (VM).

Ø  Experience in Creation and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space, quotas and process monitoring in Red hat Linux.

Ø  Explicit approach in understanding of source control management concepts such as Branching, Merging, Labeling/Tagging and Integration.

Ø  Expertise in Shell, Bash, Ruby, Python scripting.

Ø  Good Knowledge on programming using C, C++, and JAVA.

Ø  Strong working knowledge of Database Administration and Windows server Administration.

Ø  Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances, virtual private cloud (VPCs), and security groups.

Ø  Have experience in Web logic Server 10g and 11g, WebLogic Platform.

Ø  Worked with VMWare tools like vCenter & vSphere to manage VM's running on ESX cluster nodes and also experience working vMotion.

Ø  Performed IBM WebSphere Administrative tasks like installing WAS, Configuring ND, Cell, Nodes, Cluster and aided in usage of High Availability Mgr.

Ø  Excellent communicative, interpersonal, intuitive, analysis and leadership skills with ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

Ø  Experience with in working in an Agile / Scrum environment and daily standup meetings.

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems: / Red Hat Linux4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, CentOS 6 & 7, Ubuntu12.x, 13.x, 14.x, SUSE, VIOS 2.1/2.2, HP-UX 11, IBM AIX 5.x, Windows 98, ME, XP, Vista, 07, 08, Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2, 2012 R2, VMware ESX and Mac OS.
Languages: / XML, HTML, C, C++,JAVA,JEE, PHP, Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2005, 2008,Power Shell, Ruby, Python Scripting.
Application software’s: / GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, Saltstack, Vagrant, Docker Apache, Tomcat, JBOSS, Zabbix, Adobe Illustrator FileZilla,WINSCP,AWS,Chef,Ansible, Splunk,AWS, TFS, JIRA.
Source Control Tool: / GIT, Subversion (SVN), CVS, Clear Case.
Web/Application Server: / Jboss 5.x/6.x/7.x,Apache/ Tomcat 7.0.x/8.0.x, Web ServerAdministration,WebLogic9.x/10.x/11g/12c, Webserver, Oracle Application Server, IIS.
Database: / Oracle 9i/10g, SQL SERVER, MySQL.
Virtualization: / VMware, VSphere, VcenterServer Appliance, VMware ESXi, Oracle Virtual box.
Networking Protocols / DHCP, Ethernet, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering.

Professional Experience

DSW Shoes, Columbus, OH July2014 -Present date

Devops Engineer

Project Description:

DSW Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a footwear retailer. Segments The company operates in two segments, DSW stores and dsw.com and Affiliated Business Group.As of today, this segment operated a total of 468 stores located in 42 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Responsibilities:

Ø  Launching Amazon EC2 cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services(Linux/Ubuntu/RHEL) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific application.

Ø  Worked in Cloud Automation using AWS cloud formation templates. And also implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in AWS cloud.

Ø  Responsible for provisioning, maintaining and improving upon server infrastructure, split between physical data centers and AWS.

Ø  Plan, deploy, monitor, and maintain Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple EC2 nodes and VMWare Vm's as required in the environment.

Ø  Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.

Ø  Manage AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT environments as well as infrastructure servers for GIT and Chef.

Ø  Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.

Ø  Experienced with working on Puppet Master and Puppet Agents. Defined Puppet Master and Puppet Agents to manage and configure nodes.

Ø  Deploy and manage servers through Puppet and scripts, use cloud providers as uninterrupted substrate for implementation.

Ø  Experience in setting up the CHEFworkstation, chefrepo as well as CHEFnodes.

Ø  Involved in CHEFinfra maintenance including backup/monitoring/security fix.

Ø  Worked on User administration setup, maintaining account, monitor system performance using Nagios.And alsoManage and monitor the server and network infrastructure using Nagios.

Ø  Assisted internal users of SPLUNKin designing and maintaining production-quality dashboard. and Prepared, arranged and tested SPLUNKsearch strings and operational strings.

Ø  Installing and configuring Jenkins, installing plug-in, configuring security, creating a master and slaves for implementation of multiple parallel builds.

Ø  Experienced in installing, configuring, administrating Jenkins on Linux machines alongside updating plugins like GIT, Maven, SVN and Puppet.

Ø  Administered and Engineered Jenkins/Hudson for managingBuilds Test and Deploy chain as a CI/CDfor next Gen Applications.

Ø  Installed and Configured Jenkins for Continuous Integration. And expert in User Management and Plugin Management for JENKINS.

Ø  Defined branching, labeling, and merge strategies for all applications in Git.

Ø  Ensured the reliability of applications by creating release branches and development branches using GIT Branching.Andproficient deploying and administering GitHub.

Ø  Experience on SaltStackplatform is a open-source configuration management software and remote execution engine.

Ø  Used Ansible server and workstation to manage and configure nodes. And wrote ANSIBLE roles for continuous deployment.

Ø  Used ANSIBLE for provisioning and automating configuration of new servers.

Ø  Worked on Installation/Configuration/AdministratedVMware ESXi 5.1/5.5 & 6.0 and migrated existing servers into VMware Infrastructure.

Ø  Installed, Configured and Maintained, APACHE, TOMCAT and JBOSS servers in Red Hat LINUX environment.

Ø  Experience in Configuring and deploying to Application servers WebLogic and WebSphere.

Ø  Configuring, maintaining network and troubleshooting such as LDAP, DNS, NIS, NFS, Web, Mail, FTP and SNMP.

Ø  Created, maintained and automated the scripts by usingANT, PYTHON and RUBY.

Ø  Installing and configuring default and third-party packages on Solaris 10 and RHEL 6/7 servers using YUM and RPM utilities.

Ø  Administrated a large-scale distributed application environment, deployed artifacts, used JIRA as the ticketing tool.

Ø  Experience in providing day-to-day user administration like adding/deleting users and managing user's queries and maintained Servers.

Ø  Management of Red Hat LINUX user accounts, groups, directories, file permissions and Sudo rules.

Environment: Linux (RHEL 5.x/6.x), VMware Workstation 10, Jenkins 1.x, Shell Scripting,JBOSS, Apache Tomcat 6.x/7.x, Hudson, Puppet Masters, Puppet Agents, Chef, Saltstack, Subversion (SVN), Nagios 4.x/5.x, GIT,Docker,Vagrant,Splunk,AWS,MAVEN,JIRA, UNIX, Linux and Windows. AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Cloud Trail and Route 53, Cloud watch, cloud formation.

Anthem Inc, Norfolk,VA November2012-June2014

Build and Release/Devops Engineer

Project Description:

Anthem, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Commercial and Specialty Business, Government Business.

Responsibilities:

Ø  Worked on Administration of the network servers DNS, NIS, NFS, and SENDMAIL.

Ø  Troubleshooting Network, memory, CPU, swap and File system issues, TCP/IP, NFS, DNS and SMTP in Linux Servers.

Ø  Experienced in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using GIT.

Ø  Installed and administered GIT source code tool and ensured the reliability of the application as well as designed the branching strategies for GIT.

Ø  Efficiently worked on building the data centers using Amazon Web Service, installed images on Amazon web services using Jenkins/Hudson, GIT and SVN.

Ø  Deployed applications using Jenkins server and Troubleshoot build & release job failures, resolve, work with developers on resolution.

Ø  Deployed all content cloud platforms on Amazon web services using EC2 instances, S3, EBS, SQS and SNS services.

Ø  Worked on Deployment and monitoring of scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using puppet.

Ø  Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances, virtual private cloud (VPCs), and security groups.

Ø  Integrated PUPPET deployment with GIT and Gerritt with automated Jenkins.

Ø  Managed Ubuntu Linux and Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2 using Puppet.

Ø  Having production experience supporting and deploying to web application servers such as WebLogic, JBOSS, Apache, Tomcat, and Apache HTTPD servers.

Ø  Develop and implement an automated Linux infrastructure using Puppet.

Ø  Installed, configured, upgraded and managed PUPPETMaster, Agents & Databases.

Ø  Adding packages in Linux using rpm, yum, apt-get, etc.

Ø  Developed advanced JIRA workflows based on user requirements.

Ø  Managing CRON jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.

Ø  Managed Amazonredshiftclusters such as launching the cluster and specifying the node type as well.

Ø  Designed and deployed AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Opsworks.

Ø  Created, maintained and automated the scripts by using BASH, PYTHON and RUBY.

Ø  Monitoring of web servers using NAGIOS monitoring tool.

Ø  Created and deployed web interfaces reporting on multi-platform automated builds and test suites (TFS build reporting, SharePoint Server, Cruise Control and IIS).

Ø  Worked on installation/configuration/administrated VMware ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 and migrated existing servers into VMware Infrastructure.

Ø  Installation, Configuration and Administration of WebSphere Servers.

Ø  Automated testing and continuous integration using TEAM CITY.

Ø  Configured the user accounts for Continuous Integration – Jenkins.

Ø  Setup and configured TCP/IP network on LINUX.

Ø  Working with JIRA tool to track all the defects and changes released to all environments.

Ø  Developed Perl and shell scripts for automation of the build and release process.

Ø  Experience using Agile Scrum methodology.

Environment:GIT,Puppet,Nagios,Jira,VMware,Hudson,Jenkins,TFS,WebSphere,Amazon,WebLogic,JBOSS,Apache,TOMCATweb services, EC2, S3, RDS, EBS,auto scaling, Opsworks, Bash, Python and Ruby, Unix/Linux, Windows, RHEL 4/5/6, CentOS.

The Hartford - Hartford, CT October2010 - October2012

Devops Engineer

Project Description:

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., usually known asThe Hartford, is a United States-based investment andinsurancecompany that is part of theFortune 500list. The Hartford sells its products primarily through a network of agents and brokers, and has been the direct auto and home insurance.

Responsibilities:

Ø  Installed/configured/managed/Administrated of all UNIX/LINUXservers, includes the design and selection of relevant hardware to Support the installation/upgrades of Red Hat (4/5), CentOS 4/5, Fedora core operating systems.

Ø  Worked on taking regular backups for amazon cloud instances and setting up of environments for the application launching.

Ø  Performed physical to virtual, Virtual to Virtual migration of servers to support the Data center migration project.

Ø  Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins Continuous Integration tool on Linux machines along with adding/updating plugins such as SVN, GIT, Maven, ANT and Puppet.

Ø  Researched and implemented an Agile work flow for continuous integration and testing of applications using Jenkins.

Ø  Installed and configured SSH & SSL for secured access on Linux Systems.

Ø  Wrote Shell scripts and Perl scripts for day-to-day administration and create Perl scripts to automate the deployment.

Ø  Maintained and administered GIT source code tool. And Created Branches, Labels and performed Merges in Stash and GIT.

Ø  Responsible for installing and maintaining SQL 2008 R2 Cluster environment and Performed migrations from SQL server 2005 to SQL server 2008R2/2012.

Ø  Familiar and experienced with AgileScrum development.

Ø  Network troubleshooting in complex environments, VLAN configurations.

Ø  Used Node.JS built–in library to allow application to perform as a web server. Thus, eliminating the use of Apache HTTP server and IIS.

Ø  Migrated applications to the AWS cloud.

Ø  Managed Chef Cookbooks to automate system operations.

Ø  AWS Cloud management and Chef Automation.