Manohar K

Sr DevOps/Cloud Engineer/Linux Administrator

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 A highly experienced Sr DevOps/Cloud Engineer/Linux Administrator with over 10 years of experience in the IT
industry, specializing in Software Configuration Management, Build/Release Management, Continuous Integration,
and Continuous Delivery across numerous tools and platforms. Demonstrated expertise in Linux Administration,
cloud infrastructure in Azure and AWS, and a wide array of DevOps tools.
 Experience in Linux Administration, with Software Configuration Management, Change Management, build
automation, Release Management, and Azure/AWS/DevOps experience in large and small software development
organizations.
 Expertise using various DevOps tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Ant, Maven, Gradle, Artifactory,
Docker, and Kubernetes.
 Responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the cloud infrastructure in Azure, including virtual
machines, networks, storage, and security.
 Hands-on experience with an in-depth level of understanding in designing and implementing scalable data pipelines
and infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, ELB, VPC, Route 53, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Cloud
Formation, Cloud Front, SNS, MSK, SQS, Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, AWS Lambda, EKS, EBS, EFS, API Gateway…
 Experience in Version Control using SVN, GIT, and GitHub and continuous integration management using Jenkins
and GitLab.
 Devised and executed a CI/CD pipeline through Jenkins utilizing Groovy and AWS Code Pipeline, streamlining the
build, testing, and deployment process for multiple applications across various environments.
 Sight Reliability, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, Bamboo, AWS DevOps, Jenkins, CircleCi, New Relic, OpsGenie,
Snowflake, RDS, Python, Bash, Groovy, lAC, Terraform, SRE.
 Initiating alarms in CloudWatch service for monitoring the server's performance, CPU Utilization, and disk usage. Co
takes recommended actions for better performance.
 Drive and implement a centralized monitoring dashboard to capture all the transactional failures and performance
monitoring using Grafana and Prometheus.
 Responsible for implementing monitoring solutions in Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and Jenkins and wrote
Terraform scripts for CloudWatch Alerts.
 Good Knowledge of Azure Cloud services such as Azure storage, Azure active directory, and Azure Service Bus. I
also created and managed Azure AD tenants and configured Application Integration with Azure AD.
 Migrating Services from On-premises to Azure, AWS Cloud Environments. Collaborate with development and QA
teams to maintain high-quality deployment.
 Hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud services (Paas & Iaas), storage, Wed Apps, Active Directory,
Application Insights, Azure Search, Key Vault, Visual Studio Online (VSO), and SQL Azure.
 Used Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Services like Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud DNS, Cloud Storage and
Cloud Deployment Manager, and SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS concepts of Cloud computing architecture and
Implementation using GCP.
 Experience in Google Cloud components, Google container builders, and GCP client libraries and cloud SDKs Used
GCP HTTP(S) load balancing with Google Cloud Storage buckets and added a Cloud Storage bucket to your load
balancer.
 Used Ansible playbooks to set up the Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline which primarily consists of Jenkins to run
packages and its supporting software components from the Maven build tool.

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 Worked with Ansible and Ansible Automation as Configuration management (CM) tool, to automate repetitive
tasks, and quickly deploy critical applications. Experience with monitoring tools like NAGIOS, Cloud Watch, and
SPLUNK.
 Experience installing, configuring, and managing MYSQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB & Cassandra.
Ability to build deployment, scripts, and automated solutions using scripting languages such as Bash, Shell, Ruby,
and Python.
 Installed, configured, Administered, and maintained JBoss 6.3/6.4/7.0, WebLogic 11g/12c server instances on
Linux/Solaris Platforms using Console and silent mode.
 In-depth knowledge of networking concepts, including configuration, and troubleshooting of network settings,
TCP/IP, DNS, and DHCP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating system Linux (RHEL (Red Hat 4/5/6/7), CENTOS & SUSE), Solaris 11/10/9/8, HP-UX 11.0,
11.11, 11.23, 11.31, HPUX11i V1, V2 & V3, Ubuntu 12/13/14, Windows NT
/2000/2003, DEBIAN.
Application Servers WebLogic Application server 9. x, 10.x, Apache Tomcat 5.x/7.x, Red Hat JBoss 4.22.
GA Web Sphere 6.x/7.x/8.x, Web Logic (8/9/10), Web Sphere4.0/5.0 and nginx
Automation Tools Jenkins, GitLab Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Open Shift
Version control tools GIT, Subversion (SVN), Bit Bucket, GitHub
Networking/Protocol DNS, DHCP, WAN, TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, SMTP, LAN, FTP/TFTP
Scripting Python, Ruby, Bash shell, Power shell scripting
Virtualization Technologies VMWare ESXi, Windows Hyper-V, Power VM, Virtual box
Cloud Environments AZURE, AWS, Amazon EC2 & S3, VPC, IAM, MS Azure, GCP, Elastic Search
Databases RDBMS, NoSQL, MySQL, DB2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS Aurora
Bug Tracking Tools Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence, Agile Methodology
Monitoring Tools Nagios, Cloud Watch, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: United Health Group, United States Feb-2023 to

Présent
Rôle: Sr DevOps/Cloud/Linux Administrator
Responsibilities:
 I am playing a key role in a strategic effort that aims to plan, develop, and implement the process of moving our
company's current on-premises application to the cloud platforms of AWS and Azure.
 Configured and deployed Azure Automation Scripts utilizing Azure stack (Compute, Web and Mobile, Blobs, ADF,
Resource Groups, Azure Data Lake, HDInsight Clusters, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Cloud Services and ARM),
Services and Utilities focusing on Automation.
 Created Azure Automation Assets, Graphical runbook, and PowerShell runbook that will automate specific tasks,
deployed Azure, AD Connect,
 Involved in administrative tasks, including building, designing, and deploying in the Azure environment.
 Gained experience in dealing with Windows AZURE IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services,
Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, and Auto-Scaling.
 Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role) in secure Vents and subnets.

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 Involved in managing and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline using DevOps Toolset which includes Continuous
Integration of GitHub, Jenkins, and JFrog Artifactory and deploying through Ansible Automation and Ansible Tower.
 Used Docker for setting Azure Container Registry with Docker and Docker-compose, actively involved in
deployments on Docker using Kubernetes. Also responsible for developing a Test environment on Docker containers
and configuring them using Kubernetes.
 Deploying Windows Kubernetes (K8s) cluster with Azure Container Service (ACS) from Azure CLI and Utilized
Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test, and Octopus Deploy.
 Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to the
agile process.
 Track and Manage SaaS application deployment, Win10 Upgrade, Office 2016 Upgrade and Testing, UAT, etc.
 Configured Continuous Integration by setting up Build and test automation (ATDD) Jobs in Hudson/Jenkins by
pointing to Orchestration and UI layer Repositories in GitHub/Subversion.
 Create, maintain, and administrate GitHub and Subversion repositories as source code management.
 Provisioned and configured Tomcat and Apache instances using shell/Perl/groovy in Deploy.
 Configured and Managed Jenkins for running the automated Builds and Deployments to Cl Dev Servers.
 Creating new build jobs, Integration testing jobs, and deploying jobs in Jenkins to automate the process.
 Implemented the Continuous Integration (CI) with the help of GitLab/Jenkins/Automation Set up for the
applications I worked on.
 Experienced in Gitlab CI and Jenkins for CI and End-to-End automation for all build and CD.
 Proficient in documenting and implementing building, deployment, and release procedures.
 Strong expertise in DevOps concepts like Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous delivery (CD), Infrastructure as
Code (IAC), Cloud Computing, etc.
 Developed re-usable Terraform modules for implementing (laC) for AWS and Azure, where we leverage all the
infrastructure spin-ups from Terraform modules.
 Used Jenkins and Ansible Automation for Continuous Integration and continuous deployment in Multiple
environments, created inventory in Ansible for automating the CI/CD.
 Used Shell/Perl scripts to automate the deployment process.
 Responsible for setting up & configuring monitoring and metric-gathering systems around Prometheus and Grafana.
 Extensive experience monitoring the servers using Grafana, Prometheus, and Nagios.
 Worked with AWS CLI and AWS API to manage resources on AWS for many services such as EC2, S3, VPC, Cloud
Watch, ELB, and Auto-scaling, created Python script using AWS API Calls to manage all resources deployed on AWS.
 Configured AWS IAM and Security Groups in Public and Private Subnets in VPC Managed IAM accounts (with MFA)
and IAM policies to meet security audit & compliance requirements.
 Provided high durability of the available data using data storage in the AWS S3 bucket, versioning S3, and lifecycle
policies. Also, the web hosts the data from the S3 bucket by creating URLs.
 Configured Amazon Elastic Container Service to use scale cluster size and adjust its desired count or down in
response to CloudWatch alarms.
 Deployed and configured Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full-text search, and application
monitoring in integration with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch.
 Followed the Software Development Life Cycle throughout the project and used the Agile methodology.
 Carried out detailed and comprehensive business analysis with the Agile methodology.
 Worked on Administration, maintenance, and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
 Installed, managed, and deployed Linux RedHat Enterprise and installation of packages and patches for Red Hat
Linux Servers.
 Perform primary Linux Server administration tasks, including setup, installation, OS patching, data backup, user
account management, and access control.
 Worked on Linux Utilities: SSH, FTP, User, Process, Memory, Package, Disk, and Log Management.

Environment: AWS, AZURE, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, ANT, Maven, Ruby, Shell, Python,
WebLogic Server11g, Load Balancers, WLST, Apache Tomcat 7. x, Virtualization, Configured plug-ins for Apache HTTP

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server 2.4, Nginx, LDAP, JDK1.7, XML, GitHub, Nagios, Splunk.

Client: Accenture Solutions PVT. LTD India, Hyderabad March 2020 to Sept-2022
Role: DevOps/Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities :
 Implemented Large Scale Cloud Infrastructure resources - IAM, Elastic IP, Elastic Storage, Auto Scaling,
VPC, EC2, EBS, APIs ELB, AMI, Route 53, RDS, SES, SNS, SQS, Ropeworks, EMR, OpenShift, Cloud
Formation, CDN, KMS, S3, LAMDA(Serverless), CloudFront, Cloud Trail.
 Developed environments of different applications on AWS by provisioning EC2 instances and configuring
Terraform, Bash, and Docker.
 Being an active role in the application infrastructure management team, I was completely involved in
setting up the new environment for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) in
Agile software methodology.
 Provisioned the highly available EC2 Instances using Terraform and cloud formation and wrote new
plugins to support new functionality in Terraform.
 Experience in deploying artifacts such as WAR and RAR using build automation tools like Maven, Ant, and
Gradle
 Experienced in working with Ansible Tower to manage multiple nodes and inventory for different
environments, automated repetitive tasks, and deployed critical applications on the cloud using Ansible,
and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.
 Experienced in ServiceNow Change Management can be used to manage changes to the IT environment,
including approvals, scheduling, and tracking.
 Experienced in writing Ansible Playbooks for automating CI/CD pipelines, deploying, updating launch
configuration for microservices, provisioning load balancers, and auto-scaling instances.
 Configured Ansible control machine & wrote Ansible playbooks with Ansible roles.
 Created inventory in Ansible to automate continuous deployment and wrote playbooks using
YAML scripting.
 Developed automation scripting in Python (core) using Puppet to deploy and manage Java applications across
Linux servers.
 Installed & Implemented Ansible configuration management system.
 Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Services,
Resources, Mount points & Packages.
 Deployed Ansible playbooks in the AWS environment using Terraform and created Ansible roles using
YAML.
 Worked on AWS cloud to provision new instances, S3 Storage Services, AWS EC2, Cloud watch services, and
CI/CD pipeline management through Jenkins.
 Extensive experience working with AWS provided Solutions like EC2, ELB, VPC, Route 53, RDS, S3, IAM, and
CloudWatch.
 Deployed and configured Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full-text search, and
application monitoring in integration with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch
 Then store the logs and metrics in the S3 bucket using the Lambda function.
 Experience in integrating Jenkins with various tools like Maven (Build tool), Git (Repository), SonarQube
(code verification), Nexus (Artifactory), and implementing CI/CD automation for creating Jenkins pipelines
programmatically architecting Jenkins Clusters
 Managing Docker files, Images Docker containers, and Kubernetes clusters
 Installation, configuration, debugging, and support of Atlassian tools Jira, Confluence, and Stash
 Set up customized Jira Projects, Workflow, Confluence Spaces, and Jira permission and web-based status
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 reports by using Maven, and shell scripting.
Environment: AZURE, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Nagios, Splunk,
EC2, VPC, S3, SQS, SNS, Terraform, ELB & EBS, Lambda, Kinesis, MySQL, MongoDB, PowerShell, SVN, GIT, Puppet,
Maven, Nexus, WebLogic, Tomcat, Python Scripts, Perl Scripts, Ruby Scripts, Bash Scripts, Puppet, XML, Unix, JIRA.

Client: Softenger PVT LTD, Hyderabad Oct-2017 to Mar-2020

Role: DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities :
 Involved in DevOps migration/automation processes for building and deploying systems.
 Administered Jenkins, Proposed and implemented a branching strategy suitable for agile/scrum development in a
Fast-Paced Engineering Environment.
 Coordinated developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using
GIT source control.
 Analyzed and resolved conflicts related to merging source code for GIT.
 Worked on Installing Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, and system Performance tuning on
Unix/Linux systems.
 Big data, real-time transactions, high volume, scalable components, etc.
 Implemented continuous deployment with Apache Mesos and Marathon by using Docker as a container
orchestration for data center automation.
 Used Marathon REST APIs to kick off new deployments of an application using HTTP PUT and REST services.
 Used Docker for container snapshots, attaching to a running container, removing images, managing director
structures, and managing containers in the Docker registry.
 Experience working on several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, Compose, and Docker
Registry.
 Involved in designing and deploying a multitude of applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2,
Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, and IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in
AWS CloudFormation.
 services with an end goal of continuous integration in a data center and Cloud (AWS environment).
 Used MySQL and Elasticsearch to perform basic database administration. Build out server automation with
Continuous.
 Integration - Continuous Deployment tools like Jenkins & Maven for deployment and building management systems.
Environment: RedHat, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, GIT, SVN, Maven, Ant, Nagios, Docker, AWS (Auto
Scaling), Cloud Formation, EC2, $3, VPC, ELB, AMI, RouteS3, Glacier, Code Commit, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline), Tomcat,
WebSphere, JIRA, Confluence, Veritas Volume Manager, MySQL, Shell Scripting, Python, Chatterbot, Chao Monkey.

Client: Artech Info Systems PVT.LTD, Hyderabad, India May-2015 to Oct

2017
Role: DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities :
 Created a Docker file for each microservice and changed some of the Tomcat configuration files that are required to
deploy Java-based applications to the Docker container.
 Worked with automating builds and deployment processes using Shell scripting.
 Creating a fully automated build and deployment Platform, coordinating code build promotions, and orchestrating
deployments using Jenkins and GitHub.

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 Enabling users to better manage software development, deployments, and infrastructure with tools like Jenkins and
GitHub/Bitbucket.
 Deployed applications into the AWS cloud using Amazon EC2, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), AWS S3, Cloud Watch
and Route 53.
 Worked in Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, and JBoss application servers in Linux/Windows environments.
 Experienced using Atlassian products like JIRA and Confluence for issue tracking and documentation.
 Installed, configured, and administered and integrated Apache Web Server with the WebLogic Application Server
for load balancing.
 Involved in SCRUM ceremonies (stand-up, grooming, planning, demo/review, and retrospective) with the teams to
ensure successful project forecasting and realistic commitments.
 Maintaining appropriate file and system security, monitoring and controlling system access, changing permission,
ownership of files and directories, maintaining passwords, assigning special privileges to selected users and
controlling file access, monitoring the status of the process to increase the system efficiency, scheduling system-
related and corn jobs.
Environment: Docker, Tomcat, Shell Scripts, Jenkins, Git, EC2, VPC, AWS $3, Cloud Watch, Route53, WebLogic,
WebSphere, JBoss, LINUX, UNIX, RESTful API, Lambda, My SQL Scrum.

Client: Sreesaila Networks Pvt ltd, Hyderabad, India Aug-2012 to May

2015
Role: Cloud Engineer/Linux Administrator
Responsibilities :
 Installing, configuring, and upgrading Red Hat Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x/8 and SUSE 10.x/11/12 on VMware infrastructure
environment using kickstart/VM templates.
 Installed and configured Red Hat Satellite server 5.7 for RHEL OS patching, Provision & management of RHEL
environment.
 Performed TCP/IP, DNS, and DHCP administration.
 Configured and Managed SUSE Manager for SUSE Linux Patching and Provisioning servers.
 VMs moved old data stores to new data stores using VMware storage migrations.
 Resource management for VMs increasing CPU, Memory, DISK expansion, etc.
 Adding Hosts to VC, Creating and managing VMs under the Hosts.
 Tuning performance settings for better performance and optimum utilization.
 Extensively working on AWS Cloud computing and involved in creating AWS EC2 instances and deploying RHEL Linux
on AWS environment.
 Involved in the development of AWS including creating VPC, IAM users, EC2 instances, EBS, and S3 resources.
 Working experience in Terraform managing AWS cloud form.
 Taking snapshots and restoring when required in AWS & VMware.
 Experience in installation and configuration on Tomcat application server 6.0/7.0.
 OS patches using satellite and custom scripts in the AWS environment.
Environment: RedHat Centos; 5,6, and 7 SSH, Virtual Box, TCP/IP, LVM, Apache, Git, HTTPS, SSH, Shell Scripting Bash
Shell, FTP, NFS, AWS CloudFormation, CICD Pipeline, Git Hub, Jenkins, IAM, EC2, S3, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, EBs
volume, Security, Group, Auto Scaling

EDUCATION:

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Concordia University, St. Paul, Saint Paul, MN
Master’s in information technology and management