Padma Charan

DevOps /Build & Release Engineer

Email:mohan@slnsystems.com
Phone: 2406548224

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 8 years of IT experience in DevOps /Build & Release, Linux/Unix administration which includes strong experience in
Automating, Configuring and deploying instances on AWS cloud environments.
 Experience in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, IAM, SNS, RDS, EBS,
Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud-Formation AWS Config, Auto caling, Cloud Front, AMI, S3.
 Experience in building the infrastructure by writing various Terraform/Cloud Formation templates.
 Experience in administration of Production, Development & Test environment’s working in various
flavors of Linux and Unix like RHEL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, SUSE Linux, U buntu, Cent OS, AIX 5.2 /5.3 /6.1
/7.1 and Solaris 8, 9, 10.
 Hands-on experience on Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate
repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
 Experienced in working on DevOps/Agile operation process including various tools (Code review,
unit test automation, Build & Release automation, Environment, Service, Incident and Change
Management).
 Worked as a site reliability engineer created ultra-scalable and highly reliable software systems.
 Experience in development and configuration experience with software provisioning tools like Chef,
Puppet and Ansible.
 Wrote several Custom Ansible playbooks for various Applications/Web Servers.
 Designed and created multiple deployment strategies using Continuous Integration and Continuous
Development Pipelines and configuration management tools with remote execution to ensure zero
downtime and shortened deployment cycles via automated deployments.
 Created and wrote shell scripts (Bash), Python and Perl for automating tasks.
 Extensivehly experienced in using Build Automation tools like ANT, Maven, Gradle and working
knowledge on other build tools like make file.
 Experience in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools
like GIT, Subversion (SVN) on Linux and windows platforms.
 Extensively worked with automation tools like Hudson, Jenkins and Build Forge to implement the
End to End Automation.
 Experience in Linux Administration (Installation, Configuration, Tuning and Upgrades of Linux
(RedHat and Oracle Solaris).
 Maintained ELK (Elastic search, Logstash, Kibana).
 Experience in using Nexus and Artifactory Repository Managers for Maven builds.
 Experience using RPMs to effectively package the applications for product deployments.
 Experience is using Apache Tomcat, .NET Application, J Boss, Oracle Web Logic and IBM Web
Sphere Application servers for deployments.
 Familiar with Cloud watch, Elastic IP’s and managing security groups on AWS.
 Quick Learner, Self-motivator and ability to work in challenging & versatile environments with an
excellent written/verbal communication.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Cloud Services AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, EFS, VPC, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation, RDS,
Elastic Cache, IAM, ELB, Route 53)
Configuration Ansible, Chef, Puppet, ANT, Maven, Build Forge
Management tools
Programming C, Java/J2EE, .NET, Xml, Korn Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python, Groovy, Power
Shell, SQL, Boto, Fabric, JavaScript, HTML
OS Platforms UNIX (Solaris 8,9,10), Linux 4/5/6, Ubuntu, AIX, Windows 2008,2012
SCM/Version Control Subversion, GIT, Tortoise SVN, Clear case, Perforce, CVS
Tools
Web Service Tools J Boss, Apache Tomcat 5.x, Intelli J IDEA, Oracle Web Logic 10.x/11.x,
IBM Web Sphere 5.x,6.x,7.0, N gnix, IIS Server
CI Tools Jenkins/Hudson, Bamboo, U Deploy, X Deploy, Anthill Pro
SDLC Agile, Waterfall Methodologies
Database Systems SQL Server 2008/2012, Oracle 9i/10g, PL/SQL, MS Access, DB2,
Postgres, Sybase.
Hard Ware Sun T2000, M5000, Ultra Enterprise 6000/5000, SPARC sun4c/sun4u, Dell
Blade Servers, HP Blade Servers, Dell R720/R730.
Ticketing/Bug Jira, Remedy, Service Now, J unit, PMD, Red Mine, and Bugzilla.
Tracking
Virtualization VMware, VCAC, V Sphere, V Center, V Cloud.
Monitoring tools N agios, Ops view, Hobbit, S plunk.
Container Technologies Docker.
Network Protocols SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, NIS, LDAP, UDP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Client: Priceline, Norwalk, CT Jan 2018 to till date
Role: Sr. DevOps Engineer
Job Responsibilities:
 Worked with different application teams to understand, analyze their current process, tools, tech -
niques, workflows and involved in evaluation and finalization of state of art tools.
 Wrote Ansible playbooks to configure, deploy and maintain software components of the existing and
new infrastructure.
 Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all micro services builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed
to Kubernetes, Created Pods and managed using Kubernetes.
 Utilized Kuber netes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test de -
ploys.
 Setting up huge Kubernetes platform with four clusters and assisting to various app teams.
 Worked on multiple things like setting up Kuber netes dashboards with AAF and using Kube config.
 Experience in Virtualization technologies like VM Ware, Vagrant and worked with containerizing ap-
plications like Docker, Kubernetes.
 Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker
Hub and Docker-registries and Kubernetes.
 Wrote several terra form templates to create infrastructure for various applications.
 Worked on migrating existing application to Containerize using Docker.

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 Experience in working with Vagrant for testing Ansible plays and deployments.
 Responsible for managing infrastructure provisioning (S3, ELB, EC2, RDS, Route 53, IAM, security
groups – CIDR’s, VCP, NAT) and deployment via SCALR and EC2 Installs with CentOS, Ubuntu and
RHEL 6 Linux.
 Worked on Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates.
 Strictly followed Incident and Change Management, used Jira, You track, Trello for ticket and Agile
methodologies for day to day activities.
 Responsible for designing and deploying best SCM processes and procedures.
 Worked closely with software developers and Sysadmin to debug software and system problems
 Maintained and coordinated environment configuration, controls, code integrity, and code conflict res -
olution.
 Worked and implemented of ELK stack.
 Worked on integrating application logs with Splunk and wrote several custom Splunk queries for mon-
itoring and alerting.
 Installed and Configured RUNDECK and wrote shell scripts to automate App/Web services bouncing/
deployment.
 Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux/Windows machines.
 Analyze and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for Bit Bucket.
 Integrate SonarQube with Jenkins to run unit test cases.
 Implemented the setup for Master-Slave architecture to improve the Performance of Jenkins.
 Used Jenkins and Ansible for Continuous Integration and continuous deployment in multiple environ-
ments.

ENVIRONMENT:
AWS Cloud, AWS Lambda, EC2, Ansible, Jenkins, Git Hub, Solaris 8, 9,10, Fedora, Red Hat Linux 5.x/6.x,
Windows 2008/2012, SVN, Git Hub/Bit Bucket, Azure, MS Build, Nu Get, Maven, Ruby, Kibana, Shell
scripts, Elastic search, Ant, Nagios, Sonar, Agile, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, N Unit, Power Shell, Web Logic, File Beat,
Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, CF Engine, Run books, Apache 1.3.x, 1.2, 2.x, Oracle 10g.

Client: Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, KS Feb 2017 to Jan 2018

Role: DevOps /Build & Release Engineer
Job Responsibilities:
 Responsible for Build and Deployment of the java applications on different environments like Dev/QA
& Production.
 Created private cloud using Kubernetes that supports DEV, TEST, and PROD environments.
 Experience in Virtualization technologies like VM Ware, Vagrant and worked with containerizing ap-
plications like Docker, Kubernetes.
 Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker
Hub and Docker-registries and Kubernetes.
 Created private cloud using Kubernetes that supports DEV, TEST, and PROD environments.
 Experience designing, building, maintaining, and coordinating an automated build/release process us-
ing Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker, Vagrant.
 Involved in Installing Jenkins on a Linux machine and created a master and slave configuration to im-
plement multiple parallel builds through a build farm.
 Used Jenkins, Build forge for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application
Server.
 Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux machines.
 Designing, Administration and troubleshooting database servers like My SQL 5.7, MySQL 5.6, My
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 Installed and Configured the Nexus repository manager for sharing the artifacts within the com-
pany.
 Written/edited Shell Scripts to collect the System Performance Information, account information.
 Responsible for designing and deploying best SCM processes and procedures.
 Worked on upgrading the S plunk Indexers, Search heads and forwarders.
 Worked closely with software developers and DevOps to debug software and system problems
 Maintained and coordinated environment configuration, controls, code integrity, and code con-
flict resolution.
 Experience to Integrate XL Release with Jira for Requirements Management, Bamboo/XL Deploy
for Build & Deployment and Service Now for Change Management process via plugins.
 Experience in Configure XL Release template to have Pre-Deployment, Deployment and Post-De-
ployment phases for one application.
 Wrote puppet modules for the Tomcat/Apache/Splunk forwarder services in our distributed in-
frastructure.
 Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
 Experience with configuration management and automation tools (Puppet/ Docker).
 Implemented the setup for Master slave architecture to improve the Performance of Jenkins.
 Releasing code to testing regions or staging areas according to the schedule published.
 Worked on Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates.
 Used Open Stack and AWS cloud services to launch Linux and windows machines, created secu-
rity groups and written basic Power Shell scripts to take backups and mount network shared
drives.
 Designed Puppet Modules to manage configurations and automate installation process.
 Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Puppet, Maven & Nexus in Linux
environment.
 Used JIRA custom workflows to track issues and JBoss application server to deploy the applica-
tion.
 Created Instances on Open Stack.
 Performing server’s health checks on daily basis, by logging into Unix system and monitoring logs,
and processes.

ENVIRONMENT:
AWS Cloud, Azure, Open Stack, Power Shell, Puppet, Jenkins, Maven, Cloud Watch, Cookbooks,
Docker, Elastic search, JIRA, Python, PHP, Perl, GIT, J Boss, log stash, Java/ Pega, Cobbler, Hashi corp,
Maven, AWSEC2, Web Sphere 6.x, ANT, MS Build, Kuber netes, Java, J2EE, SOA, Redis, Run deck, Salt
stack, D jango, TFS, Red Hat Linux 4.x, 5.x, SUSE 10, U buntu, Solaris 8,9,10, Oracle 9i, Postgres.

Client: Century Link, Salt Lake City, UT Jan 2016 to Feb 2017
Role: DevOps/Unix Engineer
Job Responsibilities:
 Work closely with various Scrum teams to make sure to bridge any gaps, resolve any issues arise
during Builds, Deployments, Testing on day to day basis.
 Installation and configuration of Solaris 9/10 and Red hat Enterprise Linux 5/6 systems.
 Installation and configuration of Red hat virtual servers using ESXi 4/5 and Solaris servers (LDOMS)
using scripts and Ops Center.
 Launching and configuring of Amazon EC2 (AWS) Cloud Servers using AMI’s (Linux/Ubuntu) and
configuring the servers for specified applications.

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 Experience in configuring VMware Virtual Hardware, Memory, NIC and VDISK.
 Performed package and patches management, firmware upgrades and debugging.
 Setting up Connection Strings and connecting SQL Server AZURE Databases from locally Installed SQL
Server Management Studio (SSMS) for Developer.
 Setup up and maintenance of automated environment using Chef Recipes & cookbooks within AWS
environment.
 Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis tools like J Unit, Cober tura, Clover,
PMD, find bugs and check style.
 Addition and configuration of SAN disks for LVM on Linux, and Veritas Volume Manager and ZFS on
Solaris LDOMs.
 Configuration and troubleshooting of NAS mounts on Solaris and Linux Servers.
 Configuration and administration of ASM disks for Oracle RAC servers.
 Involved in .NET APIs for AWS including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon Dynamo DB.
 Analyzing and reviewing the System performance tuning and Network Configurations.
 Used Jira, confluence for tickets, followed ITIL and PCI DSS process as per client’s requirements.
 Experience with analysis of logs and performing root cause analysis for various issues coming up on
daily basis .
 Performed configuration and troubleshooting of services like NFS, FTP, LDAP and Web servers.
 Management of Veritas Volume Manager (Vx VM), Zetta byte File System (ZFS) and Logical Volume
Manager
 Excellent experience in patching Solaris and Redhat servers.
 Configured and maintained Network Multipathing in Solaris and Linux.
 Configuration of Multipath, EMC Power path on Linux, Solaris Servers.
 Implemented, Configured SUDO, SSH, ssh key-gen and other security tools.

ENVIRONMENT:
Redhat Linux 4/5, Cent OS, AIX, Solaris 8,9/10, Sun Fire 480/440, Sun SPARC T2000, HP 9000K, Dell
Proliant Servers. IBM RS/6000, p Series servers, VMware ESX Server, Windows 2003, Graphite, Subversion
(SVN), Jenkins, Java/J2EE, ANT, H Aproxy, HP ALM Tooling, Load Balancer, Maven, Chef, Tomcat, Perl
Scripts, Salt, , vSphere, VMware Nagios, Docker, Bamboo, GitHub, Oracle, .NET
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Client: Sofin Technologies Pvt Ltd, India Aug 2011 to Sep 2015
Role: Linux/Unix Administrator
Job Responsibilities:
1) Installed and Configured RHEL 5.x and CentOS, Virtual Machines in VMware ESXi using v Center Server
and v Sphere Client.
2) Network troubleshooting and worked with utilities like net stat, io stat, vm stat, sar, top and various
third-party tools to troubleshoot user applications, system problems, file systems space issues, server
panic/shutdown/hang, network problems, hardware issues related to disks, memory modules.
3) Used Remedy (Incident and Change management) for Ticketing, extensively communicated with
customers, participated in bridge calls and worked with various teams including oracle, blackboard,
ITM, TSM, NetBackup, WebLogic, WebSphere, updated Runbooks.
4) Worked with VCS – highly available.
5) Experienced troubleshooting servers using utilities like net stat, iostat, vm stat, top, if config etc.
6) Worked with User Administration commands like use radd, group add, password, ch mod, ch grp, user
mod.
7) Successfully installed and configured Oracle RAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
8) Installed and Configured Nagios server in CentOS, also developed few plugins and checks to monitor
various system related parameters, services and processes
9) Day-to-day responsibilities include providing CVS support for different projects, maintaining the
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10) Support and monitoring of Windows desktops, Networking and server running on Solaris, Red Hat
Linux, worked on User Administration including adding /deleting users, password aging, groups, file
permissions.
11) Worked with installation of Patches, FTP, unzip, untar, scheduling of cron jobs, worked with server
monitoring using commands like uptime, ping and Solaris 10 utilities like svcs, svcadm.
12) Build and deployed J2EE application in JBoss, used Maven for building and deployment.
13) Integrated HP QC, QTP, Load Runner, and Performance Center with Jenkins, which would run tests and
display results and reports on Jenkins.
14)Experienced in testing the Application using HP QC, QTP, Selenium, performance center, Load runner.
ENVIRONMENT:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x/5.x, CentOS, Solaris 9, 10, VMware ESXi, NCCM (Network Configuration and
Change Management), Sites cope, Nagios XI and Nagios Core, Oracle 9i, Web Sphere, Tomcat, Java/J2EE,
CI/CD, Maven, ClearCase/CVS, Jenkins, WebSphere, Team City, QTP.