Amar Avileli Babu

AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Employer
Pushpendra Dwivedi
734-373-1057
[email protected]

Summary

• AWS Certified Infrastructure Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on AWS cloud architecture and engineering
experience
• Holds Professional-level AWS certifications including Solutions Architect - Associate and DevOps Administrator
• Expertise with core AWS services: EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, ELB, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch.
• Develops secure AWS infrastructure leveraging Docker containers, Kubernetes orchestration, Infrastructure-As-
Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Automates AWS workflows, functions using Python scripts and Lambda serverless technology
• Proficient in managing the source code control of multiple development efforts using, Subversion (SVN), GIT, Bit
bucket and Knowledge on TFS (Team Foundation Server) and CVS.
• Architected centralized AWS cloud management platforms aligned to security, compliance and cost governance
• Deep AWS expertise with experience migrating enterprise workloads onto AWS cloud.
• Monitored and managed the cloud infrastructure within AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure and configured the
AWS DNS to route the traffic between AWS and Azure configured each tenant on the platform.
• Experienced in creating various dashboards, metrics, alarms and notifications for servers using AWS Cloud Watch,
Grafana, Prometheus.
• Experience in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, Cloud Watch,
Autoscaling, Cloud Front, IAM, S3.
• Wrote puppet manifests for deploying, configuring and managing collected for metric collection and monitoring.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins for CI and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments.
• Handled Migration of AWS Infrastructure from the on-prem data center in DFW to AWS.
• Setup AWS Cloud Front, S3, Cloud Watch, EC2 Instances, AWS WAF Shield, CDN in Amazon AWS.
• Worked on AWS Shield and Firewall to prevent DDOS attacks.
• Worked on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and given production support for infrastructure on AWS by
continuous monitoring of infrastructure in New Relic and comparing the performance against goals
• Integration of Maven/Nexus, Jenkins, GIT, Confluence, JIRA and Cloud Foundry.
• Extensively worked on Jenkins, Docker, and Terraform for continuous integration and for End-to-End automation
for all build and deployments.
• Deploying and managing systems on cloud computing platforms primarily focused on Amazon Web Services and
Azure Cloud Services.
• Strong background in implementing and administrating Microsoft based technology, server infrastructure and its
fundamentals, Services, and concepts.
• Responsible for installing Kubernetes and deploying application on containers in Kubernetes.
• Extensive Shell/Bash Scripting and HCL Scripting experience developing, implementing and maintaining
automation scripts to meet business needs in large scale, highly available, online production environments.
Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC etc.), Azure (VMs, Networking, Storage),
Operating Systems: Windows Server, Linux, MacOS
Virtualization: VMware, Hyper-V
Networking: Cisco, Fortinet, TCP/IP, VPN, Firewalls
Security: Compliance audits, policies, encryption, patching
Programming: Python, SQL, Linux scripting
Tools: Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.
Telephony systems: Avaya, Cisco
Cloud Platform Experience
AWS: IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, Cloud Formation, Lambda, Cloud Watch, VPC.
Azure: VMs, networking, storage, App Services, monitoring, automation.
Office 365 administration including Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams

Other Skills

 Support and Administration

 Windows Server installation, configuration, management
 Active Directory, Group Policy administration
 Office 365 deployment and management
 Backup and recovery systems
 End user support and training
 Procurement and licensing
 Core Competencies
 Systems analysis and troubleshooting
 Disaster recovery planning and testing
 Capacity planning and scaling

Working Experience

Comcast Corporation || Cloud Solutions Engineer/DevOps || Denver, Colorado || Jan 2021 to Present

Responsibilities:

• Experience of CloudFormation and Automation pipelines

• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups.
• Expertise in Linux/UNIX system builds, administration, Installations, Upgrades, Troubleshooting on different
distributions such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat.
• Utilized Jenkins for pipeline setup, Maven for automated builds, and maintained SonarQube for continuous code
quality and security analysis in Java application support.
• Implemented Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, used Ansible for configuration automation, and adopted
Docker for containerization to ensure consistency in Java application environments.
• Integrated Prometheus for monitoring and visualization, and leveraged New Relic or AppDynamics for
comprehensive Java application performance monitoring, facilitating efficient troubleshooting and ongoing
resource optimization.
• Employed Git for version control, managing source code and collaboration, and integrated it seamlessly into the
CI/CD pipelines to ensure traceability and version consistency in Java development processes.
• Implemented new project builds using build tools such as Ant & Maven and Implemented a Continuous Delivery
framework in Linux environment
• Performed installation, configuration, upgrades, Package administration and support for Linux systems on the
client side using RedHat satellite network server and worked on patches installation, patch upgrades on Red Hat
Linux servers by using RPM & YUM.
• Working in streamlining the CloudFormation process and be a resource to a team of technicians
• Working on cloud platform, Cloud computing, Azure and AWS – deployment efforts.
• Involved with software configuration Management and automation with ArgoCD, Docker.
• Worked with containerization tool Docker and running containers and services and utilizing docker swarm.
• Created S3 bucket to host a static website with logging and versioning and customizing the template as per the
client's requirement.
• Used Kubernetes to create Pods, Config Maps, and deployments into the cluster.
• Managed the Cloud Infrastructure using CloudFormation/Terraform templates.
• Involved in security testing, Windows Server Administration (WSUS), Infrastructure Solutions, ADD and DNS.
• 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.
• Responsible for User Management, Plugin Management and new job design and setup in Jenkins.
• Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load
balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection.
• Hands on experience on Kubernetes to automate the deployment, scaling and operations of application
containers across clusters of hosts.
• Worked closely with quality team (QA) for Runbooks creation, smoke and sanity testing of cloud deployment.
• Experienced in industry best practices of DevOps/Site Reliability engineering and software development.
• Setup GCP Firewall rules to allow or deny traffic to and from the VM's instances based on specified configuration
and used GCP cloud CDN (content delivery network) to deliver content from GCP cache locations drastically
improving user experience and latency.
• Authored Custom and Chef super market Runbooks and recipes for different scenarios like install/configuration
for different products.
• Implementing AWS Lambda functions to run scripts in response to event in Amazon Dynamo DB table, S3
buckets, HTTP requests using Amazon API Gateway.
• Experience performing in a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer role supporting a global engineering organization.
• Responsible in designing and implementing Azure Cloud Environment and configured shared access signatures
(SAS) tokens and storage access policies in cloud infrastructure.
• Good experience in converting build.xml into pom.xml to build the applications using Maven.
• Creating Chef Cookbooks and Recipes to maintain and automate various parts of infrastructure.
• Implementing VPC, Auto Scaling, S3, EBS, ELB, CloudFormation templates and CloudWatch services from AWS.
• Used Docker and Kubernetes to manage micro services deployment.
• 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.
• Built and deployed a Chef Server in AWS for infrastructure automation.
• Continuous Integration using Maven, Jenkins, Hudson.
• Involved in migration of Artifactory & GIT server.
• Built and Deployed Java/J2EE to Application server in an Agile environment & automated the whole process.
• Created lambda and wrote lambda function in java script to stream the data from S3 bucket to Elasticsearch.
• Worked with automating, configuring and deploying instance on AWS, OpenStack, Azure, Google cloud and Rack
space
• Responsible for merging, tagging and conflict resolution in GIT and administered version control systems to
create daily backups and checkpoint files.
• Implementation of data and storage management solutions in Azure (SQL Azure, Azure files, Queue storage, Blob
storage). Implementing scripts with PowerShell for Runbooks.
• Implemented Terraform modules for deployment of applications across multiple cloud providers.
• Worked with container-based application deployments using Docker, with Kubernetes and have a good
knowledge on Vagrant.
• Integrated Docker into various tools like AWS, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Bamboo, Vagrant, Jenkins & VMware
containers.

Alyasra Group || Sr. Cloud Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer || Kuwait || Jan 2017 to Nov 2020

Responsibilities:

• Experience with an in-depth level of understanding in the strategy and practical implementation of AWS Cloud-
Specific technologies including EC2, EBS, S3, VPN, VPC, RDS, SQS, SNS, RedShift and Route 53.
• Migrated existing web applications to AWS and re-written some components to align with cloud strategies.
• Hands on experience in configuring classic and application load balancers and security features like WAF
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Auto Scaling Groups, Experience with application deployment
using Elastic Beanstalk.
• Experience in Configuring AWS Networking Infrastructure such as Route Tables, Security Groups, Internet
Gateway, Virtual Gateway, Direct Connect.
• Experience in Designing AZURE Resource Manager (ARM) templates and extensive experience in designing
custom build steps using PowerShell.
• Lead the rewrite of a massive Chef code base to make cookbooks compostable and testable, and to facilitate the
migration from Ubuntu to CentOS. And Implemented Chef best-practices to facilitate a more natural cookbook
development work flow
• Experience in Building S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage
and backup on AWS.
• Expertise in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure
AD Licenses, Office365).
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Designed, Loaded and managed a Redshift cluster of more than 2 terabytes of source system data over billions of
records of fare-system and Tickets sold data.

Alsayer Group || Network Systems Support Engineer || Kuwait || Nov’2013 to Dec’2016

Responsibilities:

• Worked on AWS and related services like EBS, RDS, ELB, Route53, S3, EC2, AMI, IAM through AWS console.
• Expertise in developing templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build
• staging and production environments.
• Proficient in writing AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT, EC2 instances,
ELB’s and Security groups.
• Manage configuration of Web App and Deploy to AWS cloud server through Chef. Used Chef to manage web
applications, configure files, database, users and packages.
• Developed Chef Recipes using Ruby framework to configure, deploy and maintain software components of the
existing infrastructure.
• Created Ansible playbooks to automatically install packages from a repository, to change the configuration of
remotely configured machines and to deploy new builds.
• Configured the Ansible playbooks with Ansible Tower so that other users can run them with just a push of a
button.
• Used Ansible playbooks to setup Continuous Delivery pipeline. This primarily consists of a Jenkins to run
packages and various supporting software components such as Maven.
• Implemented Docker based Continues Integration and Deployment framework. Deploying and maintaining Micro
services using Docker.
• Experience deploying and maintaining multi-container applications through Docker.
Education and Training
• Bachelors in Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2011, INDIA

Certifications
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
• Cisco Certified Network Professional – Security
• Cisco Certified Network Associate – Security
• Cisco Certified Network Associate - Routing and Switching
• MCSA - Windows server 2012