Reema T

Email: reemat339@gmail.com

Contact: 910-226-2807

Senior DevOps Engineer/ Cloud Engineer (AWS/Azure)

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/reema-t-699305214

BACKGROUND SUMMARY:

 Over 8+ years of experience in Information Technology industry in various roles with excellent experience
in Software Integration, Linux Administration, Configuration, Production support, Solid Understanding of
Cloud Computing strategies & expertise in the areas of Build and Release management, CI/CD Pipelining,
DevOps Engineer Build & Release Management, Cloud Services like AWS, Microsoft Azure.
 Ability to work closely with teams, to ensure high quality and timely delivery of builds and releases. Strong
ability to troubleshoot any issues generated while building, deploying and in production support.
 Implemented microservices, application development, and migration using AWS/Azure services such
as Azure DevOps, Kubernetes Service (AKS), Container Registry, Cosmos DB, and Grafana,
Azure pipelines, Monitor, RBAC, AWS Kubernetes EKS and Kubernetes API to run workloads on EKS
Clusters.
 Continuous deployment CD using Ant, Maven. Perl, Power shell, Shell, Puppet, Chef, Packer, Terraform on
to prem., AWS and Azure
 Managed the source code control of multiple development efforts using Subversion, GIT and CVS version
control tools.
 Experience using and managing AWS infrastructure resources (EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic IP, EMR, Route53, VPC,
Security Groups and IAM, RDS).
 Good understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in
Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.
 Good knowledge on protocols and REST and SOAP webservices.
 Expertise in using build tools like MAVEN and ANT for the building of deployable Artifacts such as war and
ear from Source Code.
 Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD) using various CI Tools like
Jenkins, Bamboo.
 Worked on several Docker components like Docker Engine, creating Docker images, Compose. Docker
Registry and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration.
 Experienced in Administration of Production, Development and Test environments carrying different
operating system platforms like Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, HTTP, TCP.
 Experienced with Terraform to build Infrastructure as code.
 Worked with automation/configuration management using Ansible create playbooks to automate dev
processes.
 Experience in creating Jenkins Environment and configuring end to end build pipelines.
 Experience with orchestration and configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, as I am
much Passionate about automation.
 Expertise in using and managing AWS infrastructure resources (EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic IP, EMR, Route53, VPC,
Security Groups and IAM, RDS).
 Experience with Bug tracking tool like JIRA. Created and wrote shell scripts (Bash), Ruby, Python and
PowerShell for automating tasks.
 Implemented Chef Cookbooks for OS component configuration to keep AWS server's template minimal.
 Experience with Linux/UNIX environments and scripting for Build &Release automation. Administered and
Implemented CI tools like Jenkins for automated builds.
 Responsible for Operating System maintenance activities like upgrading the OS, updating the services and
third-party software. 
 Extensive networking knowledge - TCP/IP, firewalls, VPNs, Subnetting, DNS, SSL configuration, SSHD,
DHCP, FTP & load balancers.
 Experience Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple
namespace version
 Used Docker and Open Shift to manage micro services for development and testing. 
 Experienced in Querying RDBMS such as Oracle, MY SQL and SQL Server by using SQL for data integrity.
 Experienced in Azure Kubernetes service to produce production-grade Kubernetes that allow enterprises
to reliably deploy and run containerized workloads across private and public clouds.
 Good understanding of Open shift platform in managing Docker containers and Kubernetes Clusters
 Experience in using Tomcat, JBOSS, Web logic and WebSphere Application servers for deployment. Setup
and monitored Apache web server.
 Experience in working on version control systems like Subversion, and GIT, GitLab, Mercurial and used
Source code management client tools like Git Bash, GitHub, Git GUI and other command line applications
etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming /Scripting Shell / Bash Scripting, PERL Scripting, Python, Groovy, YAML
Languages
Hardware / Platforms HP-UX, Solaris, Ubuntu, RedHat Linux and Windows
HP ALM, IBM Rational ClearQuest, BMC Remedy 7, Jira

Build Management Tools Make, GMake, Maven, Ant and MS Build

CI/CD Tools Jenkins, Hudson, Team City, CircleCI and Bamboo
DevOps Tools Ansible, Artifactory , Jenkins, Docker, Docker Swarm, Chef, Nagios, Git,
GitHub, Splunk, Gradle, Vagrant, Puppet, Kubernetes, Open Source
Tripwire & Bamboo
Version Control Tools GIT-STASH, Subversion, UCM Clear Case and TFS
Application Server Apache Tomcat, Apache Geronimo, JBoss Enterprise & IBM WebSphere
Cloud Platforms Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, MS Azure

WORK EXPEREINCE:

Client: Toyota, Houston, TX Jan’2019-Till Date

Role: Senior DevOps/ AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

 Designed highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) to connect user’s requests to
AWS resources using AWS Route53.
 Automated promotional entitlements script by creating cron job on Openshift using Docker manage that
runs script every week.
 Implemented continuous deployment pipeline involving Jenkins and Chef to complete the automation
from commit to deployment. Performed static code analysis for code quality using SonarQube.
 Monitored the state of Docker containers, memory, restarts and uptime using Nagios.
 Used Splunk on AWS to monitor workloads on-premises and gained critical insights into AWS services.
Generated dashboards to detect problems and alerts that delivered real time visibility of the environment.
 Built scalable cloud infrastructure by employing workload placement optimizers in cloud orchestration
platforms.
 Focused on Test Driven Development (TDD) thereby creating detailed JUnit tests for every single piece of
functionality before writing the functionality
 Established monitoring and automation process using ELK stack and Ansible.
 Built Docker images from Ansible Playbooks and deployed Docker container images with Ansible modules.
Reduced deployment rate to less than 1 hour. Deployed applications with Zero downtime.
 Written bash and python scripts integrating Boto3 to supplement automation provided by Ansible and
Terraform for tasks such as encrypting EBS volumes backing AMI's and scheduling lambda functions for
routine AWS tasks.
 Good knowledge and experience in using Elasticsearch, CloudWatch, Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana for
logging and monitoring.
 Reduced ElasticSearch solutions cost & simplified the process by employing Terraform with Packer for
creating images & deployed them on cluster of EC2 instances. Designed a scaling system using Terraform
configuration file.
 Provisioned Kubernetes clusters such as Magnum with Terraform on OpenStack built-ins.
 Deployed Kubernetes clusters to manage Docker containers in the production environment and configured
Docker containers for branching purpose. Managed Docker container life cycle through Ansible module.
 Performed Docker container management, LDAP and Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
 Orchestrated various AWS services including EC2, S3, SNS, CloudWatch and ELB using AWS Elastic
BeanStalk.
 Manage Amazon Redshift clusters such as launching the cluster.
 Created and modified AWS CloudFormation templates to provision and configure stack resources.
 Established reliable data transfer between AWS Compute EC2 and storage services (S3, RDS) using AWS
Pipeline.
 Developed build & deployment scripts using ANT & MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins. Troubleshoot the build
issues during Jenkins build process. Performed many pipeline jobs using Jenkins. Configured Git
parameterized builds.
 Automated AWS infrastructure & code deployments on EC2 instances using Ansible Playbooks. Deployed &
hosted application on AWS using Ops Works, automated single click deployment using Ansible.
 Launched AWS resources in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to control security groups and distributed traffic
across multiples EC2’s using ELB. Created subnets and configure route tables and network gateways.
 Implemented Micro services on OpenShift based on Docker to achieve Continuous Delivery.
 Built ElasticSearch cluster in AWS with Terraform and Packer. Built AMI with Packer and Ansible. Terraform
templates to roll out infrastructure. Created servers and IP’s and deployed nodes into VPC and private
subnets.
 Extract Transform and Load data from sources Systems to Azure Data Storage services using a
combination of Azure Data factory, T-SQL, Spark SQL, and U-SQL Azure Data Lake Analytics. Data ingestion
to one or more Azure services (Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Azure DW) and processing the
data in Azure Databricks.
 Responsible for estimating the cluster size, monitoring, and troubleshooting of the Spark databricks
cluster
 Experience in setting up the build and deployment automation for Terraform scripts using Jenkins.
 Provisioned the highly available EC2 Instances using Terraform and cloud formation and wrote new plugins
to support new functionality in Terraform.
 Automated package installations and config file set up using Ansible playbooks. Enabled complex
deployment methodologies like blue/green. Created Kubernetes deployments using Ansible, Terraform
and OpenStack.
 Managed Kubernetes charts using helm and shared applications as Kubernetes charts. Installed, upgraded
Kubernetes applications. Monitored applications deployed to Kubernetes using Prometheus.
 Worked on the monitoring tools and visualization tools like Prometheus and Grafana and monitoring the
Kubernetes pod metrics in regular intervals of time.
 Configured the Kubernetes cluster monitoring mechanism using Prometheus monitoring tool.
 Configuring the Prometheus alerts from the Kubernetes cluster via email-notifications and web-hook
mechanisms.
 Used Ansible to Setup/teardown of ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Log stash, Kibana) and troubleshoot the build
issues with ELK and work towards the solution.
 Used micro-services architecture with Spring based services to integrate user libraries in the application
 Performed Orchestration using Ansible to run tasks in sequence & produced chain of events which can
work on different servers. Used Jenkins Pipeline (Pipeline as code) with Jenkins file for many CI/CD
Deployments.
 Developed Python scripts to automate the Build and deployment process for deploying the web services
and created Bash, shell and python scripts for various Systems Administration tasks to automate repeated
processes.
 Integrated AWS CloudFormation with SQL to automate entire deployment and management process from
AWS resources to application artifacts. Automated build process and published build artifacts to Jfrog
Artifactory.

Environment: AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, JBoss, Jira, JSON, Chef, Maven, Git, Nagios,
Splunk, Scala, CloudFormation, Open stack, Jenkins, PHP, Node.js, Unix/Linux, Shell, Ceph, Cinder, Grafana,
Prometheus, Neutron, Nova.

Client: Freeman, Dallas TX June’2017-Dec’2018

Role: Senior DevOps/ Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

 Configured and deployed Azure Automation Scripts for a multitude of applications utilizing the Azure

stack for Compute, Web and Mobile, Blobs, Resource Groups, Azure Data Lake, HDInsight Clusters, Azure
Data Factory, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, and ARM Services and utilities focusing on Automation.
 Used Terraform to map more complex dependencies and identify network issues and worked with
Terraform key features such as infrastructure as code, execution plans, resource graphs and change
automation.
 Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant, and auto
scaling Kubernetes Infrastructure and Micro Service Container Orchestration.
 Managed and deployed GitLab and Sentry services into Kubernetes. Configured their Kubernetes cluster
and supported it running on the top of the CoreOS.
 Created Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts, and Dashboards.
 Configured Splunk for all the mission critical applications and using Splunk effectively for Application
troubleshooting and monitoring post go lives.
 Performed provisioning of IAAS, PAAS Virtual Machines and Web, Worker roles on Microsoft AZURE
Classic and Azure Resource Manager. Deployed Web applications on Azure using PowerShell Workflow.
 Expertise in migrating the existing Azure infrastructure into v2 (ARM), scripting and templating the whole
end to end process as possible. Configuring the Azure Load Balancer to Load balance incoming traffic
to saa's.
 Hands on Experience in designing and implementing Service Oriented Architecture underlined with Ingress
and Egress using Azure Data Lake Store & Azure Data Factory by adding storage blobs to lakes for analytic
results and so pull data from Azure data lake to the Storage Blobs.
 Hands-on experience in Configuration management tool Ansible and developing modules in Ansible to
automate infrastructure provisioning.
 Implementing and administration Active Directory services, replication, Trust Relationship and enforcing
Domain wide Group Policies.
 Working experience with senior administrator supporting data center operations, deployments,
monitoring, and problem resolution.
 Responsible for configured two node cluster and administrating Microsoft cluster with 2003 server for web
server and SQL server for high availability.
 Installed, configured, administered Windows 2003 Servers, SMS 2003 primary server sites and clients to
800+ systems
 Implemented a Kubernetes Container Orchestration solution within OpenStack allowing for easy
management, creation & recovery of OpenStack assets.
 Created Ansible playbooks to automatically install packages from a repository, to change the configuration
of remotely configured machines and to deploy new builds.
 Created Docker images using a Docker file worked on Docker container snapshots, managed Docker
volume and implemented Docker automation solution for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
model.
 Administered users, groups, passwords, and other aspects of security.
 Extensively worked on Jenkins by installing, configuring and maintaining the purpose of CI and End-to-End
automation for all build and deployments implementing CI/CD for the database using Jenkins. Used Jenkins
API to query the Jenkins server state and change configuration and automate jobs on nodes.
 Used GIT as source code management tool, created local repo, cloned the repo and performed add,
commit, push, stash, branching, created tags operations. Defined branching, labeling and merge strategies
for all applications in GIT.
 Maintenance of JIRA Cloud running with Amazon Web Services. Integrating Jira and Service Now using
Task top plug-in.
 Automated Docker image deployment to a dev and production environment using Jenkins and Ansible.
 Automated MySQL container deployment in Docker using Python. Involved in creating and working
through Docker images, containers and Docker Consoles for managing Application Life cycle.
 Collaborated with development support teams to setup a continuous delivery environment with the use of
build platform tool Docker.
 Integrated Jenkins with Docker container using Cloud Bees Docker pipeline plugin to drive all microservices
builds out to the Docker Registry and then deployed to Kubernetes. Integrated Selenium automation
regression test suite in Jenkins build pipeline.
 Created, Configured and managed a cluster of VMs that are preconfigured to run containerized
applications using Azure Container services and also designed and integrated pivotal cloud
foundry on Microsoft Azure.
 Excellent experience with VMware updates manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and
virtual machines.
 Hands on exposure on VMware Data Protection, vCenter Operation Manager, vSphere Multi-Hypervisor
Manager, vSphere Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager.
 Worked on integrating Ansible Tower with cloud environment, provided role-based access control, setup
job monitoring, email notifications, scheduled jobs, multi-playbook workflow to chain playbooks.
 Managed build and deployment scripts using Ansible, triggered the jobs using Jenkins to move from one
environment to across all the environments.
 Administering Active Directory and User & Group administration. Provisioned Azure resources like SQL
Database, Web App, Storage Account, Redis Cache, Virtual Machine, and HDInsight using Azure Resource
Manager (ARM).
 Used Docker coupled with load-balancing tool Nginx, to achieve Continuous Delivery goal on high scalable
environment.
 Configured Apache tomcat server using Ansible and Performed Deployment of War files in Tomcat
application servers using Shell script and Ansible.
 Hands-on experience in using OpenShift for container orchestration with Kubernetes, container storage,
automation, to enhance container platform multi-tenancy. Experience with Kubernetes architecture and
design, troubleshooting issues and multi-regional deployment models and patterns for large-scale
applications.
 Developed DevOps Scripts in Groovy to automate and collection analysis of Cassandra.
 Written some Groovy scripts for setting up LDAP configuration for Jenkins using security matrix.
 Experienced with Python programming and Python libraries for data science included in the Anaconda
distribution including NumPy, pandas, SciPy.
 Wrote python modules using Matplotlib, pandas, etc. to embed graphics.
 Excellent experience with Python development under Linux OS (Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, RedHat
Linux, Fedora).
 Used PyUnit for Python unit test framework, for all Python applications.
 Experienced in using Python libraries like Beautiful Soup, NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Python-twitter, urllib2,
and MySQL for database connectivity.
 Worked on ElementTree XML API in python to parse XML documents and load the data in database.
 Responsible for writing the Design specifications for the generic and application specific web services in
Groovy Grails.
 Conducted detailed research on Mesos-Marathon and Kubernetes for container orchestration.

Environment: Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, ARM Services,
GIT, Ansible, Terraform, JIRA, Jenkins, Troubleshooting, Java, Python, Shell Scripting, Windows server.

Client: Ditech home loans, Washington,PA Nov’2015-May’2017

Role: DevOps/ Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

 Automated ELK stack deployment with Ansible and Terraform to deploy to GCP, AWS and Openstack.
Automated ELK ILM with Ansible. Experience with ELK day to day operations and back up’s.
 Scripted ansible playbooks for automating the infrastructure using AWS resources.
 Guided development teams on design of web interfaces and infrastructure that efficiently power the cloud
environment.
 Advocated design of release environments for new projects.
 Extensively used S3, Glacier for storage purpose [for storing archives and production related dumps] and
RDS for launching an Oracle Database 11g EE.
 Migrated applications to the AWS cloud platform.
 Responsible for Creating EC2 instances for various app support and DB teams across the board.
 Trouble shooting any performance and network/access related EC2 Instance issues.
 Experienced with SCT (Schema Conversion Tool) for cross database migrations.
 Designing and configuring cloud formation templates to quickly deploy AWS resources.
 Used IAM for controlling the access to AWS resources for our users.
 Installed and configured Docker. Created Docker Image and Push/Pull to/from Docker hub.
 Deployed builds to production and worked with the teams to identify and troubleshoot any issues. 
 Configured Linux environments in public and private domains
 Experience in assisting clients with setting up of AWS user accounts and consolidated billing.
 Experienced in setting up AWS Directory Service for Microsoft AD Integration.
 Administer OpenShift Enterprise v2 and v3 for cloud operational services.
 Worked on All Jenkins deployments with OpenShift and testing the Builds after implementation using
Postman test scripts.
 Performed the daily system administration tasks like managing system resources, and end users support,
operations and security.
 Created volume groups/logical volumes, file systems etc.
 Installed OS, software, patched, and maintained system performance by performing system monitoring
and troubleshooting system hardware, software, networks and operating systems.
 Responsible for configuring cross region replication, encryption, versioning, logging for Amazon S3 buckets.
 Access restriction on databases using access control lists and security groups.
 Created TOPICS for publishing and subscribing using SNS (Simple Notification Service), SES (Simple Email
Service), SQS (Simple Queue Service).
 Deployed and configured Chef Server that includes bootstrapping of chef nodes for provisioning using
AWS OPS work.
 Installing Chef Server, Workstation & Node - Creating & Uploading Chef Cookbooks.
 Coordinated with geographically distributed teams and provided support during build/merge issues.
 Installed and configured Nagios monitoring tool for disk usage, CPU utilization.
 Documented daily work, important activities & issues during build/deployment for future references.

Environment: AWS EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, ELB, EBS, VPC, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, Docker, ANT, Maven, Chef,
Shell, Ansible, Chef, Apache, GIT, Oracle 11g, Jenkins.

Client: JP Morgan Chase, Wilmington, DE Oct’2014-Oct’2015

Role: Build and Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

 Implementing new projects builds the framework using Jenkins, maven as build framework tools.
 Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Puppet, maven& Nexus in Linux
environment.
 Responsible for Database build, release, and configuration AWS Cloud management and Puppet
automation.
 Designed & developed workflows to automate Database Patching & Rollback using Python.
 Managed the execution of the deployment plan, Release Notes, perform and manage Go/No Go checklists,
resource and deployment coverage, and communications to stakeholders using the SDLC model.
 Integration of ANT/Nexus, Jenkins, Urban Code Deploy with Patterns/Release, Git, Confluence, Jira and
Cloud Foundry.
 Defining Release Process & Policy for projects early in SDLC
 Configured servers to host Team Foundation Server (TFS) instance, build controllers and build agents
 Proficient in designing and implementing Declare Pages, Data Pages, Agents, activities
 Reviewed code pull requests for design, security concerns, correctness, and HIPAA compliance prior to
merging code from external contractors
 Responsible for nightly and weekly builds for different modules. Responsible for Design of different
Release Environments for new projects.
 Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX, and Windows - Batch, Shell script etc.
 Responsible for Distributed Version Control Systems like GIT, SVN, ACCUREV.
 Wrote and executed various MYSQL database queries from Python using the Python -MySQL connector
and MySQL dB package.
 Environment: Windows/Linux, Git, SVN, ANT, Python, MYSQL, Java, Nexus, UAT, Shell script, Load
balancer.

Client: Bowes, Haryana, India Aug’2013-Sept’2014

Role: Linux System Admin

Responsibilities:

 Implement, maintain and support reliable, timely and reproducible builds for project teams.
 Scheduled users to perform High Performance Computing activities on the Linux Cluster.
 Provided 24/7-support coverage, pager support and weekend support.
 Monitored System Performance, Tuned and optimized systems for better performance.
 Applied patches and supported Linux Servers with Oracle Database servers.
 Worked as a Systems Administrator on Red Hat, CentOS and Ubuntu.
 Created users and groups and assigned them appropriate quotas and ACLs as per company requirement.
 Experience managing and tuning MySQL and writing SQL scripts.
 Worked on Kernel tuning and Kernel patching.
 Identified and solved any issues or errors.
 Installed and configured Nagios monitoring tool to manage infrastructure.
 Worked on Applying patches, installed monitoring tools and upgraded BIOS on HPC Clusters.
 Managed Disk using LVM, resized disk space when required. Managed disk space from NetApp filers.
 Setup NTP server and synchronized clients with NTP server.
 Troubleshoot application problems by diagnosing issues.

Environment: MySQL, Shell Scripts, SQL Scripts, Oracle Database, Kernel, Ubuntu, Linux Cluster