SAIDARAO GANTA

Email: gsai837434@gmail.com Mobile +14379946632

To enhance my technical experience and keep up with the cutting edge of technologies while using my
skills in achieving the company’s goals.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

● Over 5 years of IT industry experience in DevOps, Systems Administration and Configuration

Management working on various Cloud Providers such as Amazon AWS with extensive
experience in Build/Release Management, performing duties such as monitoring, automation,
deployment, documenting, support and troubleshooting.
● Experience with various DevOps related tools for the team such as provisioning the scripts,
deployment tools, development and staging environments on AWS Cloud and Linux.
● Strong working experience with Linux/UNIX environments, Bash script, Shell Script, Python and
Code Coverage.
● Extensive experience in UNIX System Administration on RedHat/CentOS Linux, (5.x,6.x,7.x),
Ubuntu, SUSE Linux 11/12 IBM AIX and Windows Servers.
● Actively managed and hosted different applications like ecommerce stores, ERP Applications.
● Extensively worked on AWS Cloud platform and its services EC2, VPC, AMI, RDS, EBS, Cloud
Watch, Cloud formation, Auto Scaling, Cloud Front, IAM and S3.
● Configured VPCs with in the subnet groups and CIDR ranges. Configured inbound and outbound
security groups for EC2 instances.
● End to End solution for hosting web application on AWS Cloud with integration to S3 buckets.
● Created IAM policies for the group level privileges to EC2 instances and S3 buckets.
● Hands on experience of Build & Deployment phase and usage of Continuous Integration (CI/CD)
tools, build configuration, Maintenance of build system, automation & smoke test processes.
● Installing, Configuration of Jenkins and its plugins to automate continuous builds and publishing
Builds calling Ansible, Chef, Puppet and Maven for Build provisioning and automation.
● Hands on experience on Jenkins and Docker for setting up of continuous integration and
continuous deployments.
● Worked with Ansible Playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, Configuration
management, patching and software deployment.
● Used kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance and manage Docker engine to create Docker
images and use containers with multiple namespace versions.
● Understanding of Cloud Environment like AWS, Azure and virtualization experience with
VMware 5.x and 6.x.
● Strong knowledge on source controller concepts and VCS GIT utilities such Clone, Branches,
Merges, Rebase and Tags.
● Managed and maintained Version Control System GIT and Github to help deploy Source Code
once committed.
● Extensively used complier utilities like Maven, MSBuild and Gradle for compiling, testing and
packing distributed jar, war, and exe files.
● Provisioning the scripts, deploying the Resources and staged Cloud/Virtual environments using
Terraform.
 ● Used Packer to create AWS AMI and provisioned stable EC2 instances with the use of Terraform
to set up multiple environments for testing and deployment purposes.
● Experience in ingesting real-time using Kafka and ELK.
● Experience on Cloud innovations including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and
Software as a Service supplier (Iaas, Paas and Sass).
● Configuration of NIS, NFS, SAMBA, SENDMAIL, Postfix mail, DHCP, APACHE SERVICES, Weblogic,
and Websphere on Linux & Unix servers.
● Experience in creating physical volume, logical volume, volume groups using LVM in Linux and
SAN/NAS storage.
● Experience in monitoring systems: Nagios, and SolarWinds.
● Excellent understanding of SDLC Methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, RUP, RAD and other
processes.

SKILLS:

AWS Cloud Tools: EC2, ECS, ELB, Route 53, IAM, S3, AMI, Cloud Front, RDS, Lambda,
Snowball, VPC, Glacier, SQS, EFS, Code Deploy

CI/CD Automation: Jenkins, GitLabs, Bamboo

Databases: SQL Server, MS-Access, Oracle 10g/9i, Dynamo DB, MySQL, MongoDB

Management Tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Languages: C#, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Json, YAML

WEB/APP Servers: IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0/8.5, Apache Tomcat

Virtualization: HYPER-V, VMWARE Client, Virtual Box, Docker, Terraform

Load Balancers: Network load balancer (NLB), ELB

Networking/Protocol: TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN, SMTP

Build& Deployment Tools: Jenkins, Kubernetes, VSTS, TFS, GitHub, Maven.

Tools Scripting: PowerShell, Python, Shell Scripting, Ruby

EDUCATION:

● Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from J.N.T.U, India

● Maths, Physics, Chemistry | 10+2(Intermediate) from Narayana College, India

CERTIFICATIONS:

● Certified AWS Solution Architect – Associate

 ● Certified AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

American Express, Toronto Sep 2017 – Present

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

● Worked as a Build/Release/Deployment/Operations (DevOps) Engineer with good

understanding of the DevOps principals.
● Maintained, developed and provisioned infrastructure using Ansible, GIT, Jenkins, Terraform,
Packer and multiple AWS tools.
● Create and Maintain daily and nightly builds, custom and private builds using Jenkins to
implement the CI process and integrated tools such as Maven and MSBuild to compile and
package Git SC and provide feedback of UT.
● Built end to end CI/CD Pipelines in Jenkins to retrieve code, compile applications, Perform tests
and push build artifacts and integration Ansible, Chef, Maven and Terraform to help provisioning
the infrastructure.
● Responsible for designing, implementing and supporting of DevOps and AWS cloud based
infrastructure and its solutions.
● Configured AWS EC2 instances, AMI and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in VPC and
worked as Admin for AWS in managing the user using IAM for the AWS access.
● Build and provisioned AWS AMI utilizing Terraform and Packer for building, updating, and
versioning infrastructure securely and cost-effectively, as well as creating custom in-house
solutions with Ansible configurations.
● Automated Productions server using Ansible Playbooks and deploying applications using Ansible.
● Defined Variables, Handlers, Loops, Tags, Roles, Playbooks and utilized Ansible-Galaxy to
automate and configure multiple environments.
● Used Bash and Ansible Playbook to help system admins automate repetitive work such as user,
group, Filesystem and package management.
● Wrote playbooks to gather system related facts such as Network Config, Storage Volumes FS
mounts, Cluster Config and Application related process to help trouble shoot issue or prepare
for changes that required outages.
● Responsible for setting up and managing Elasticsearch, Logstach and ELK Stack.
● Responsible for monitoring Elasticsearch search clusters and tuning of ELK clusters when
required, this includes creation of templates to dictate retention of indices and datatype field-
mapping on Index Patterns.
● Performed all necessary day-to-day Subversion/GIT support for different projects and
Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/GIT Repositories, views, and the
access control strategies.
● Predominantly used GIT as source code management tool: creating local repo, cloning the repo,
adding, committing, pushing the changes in Local and Remote Repositories, files, branching,
creating tags, viewing logs, pulling latest commits, etc.
● Coordinate with QA engineers for automated testing of release candidates and worked
developers to address testers challenges/concerns and rive them to rest.
 ● Created AMI with the help of Maven and Terraform to ensure infrastructure provisioning in a
timely and cost efficiently manner.
● Created Docker images using a Docker file, worked on Docker container snapshots, removing
images and managing Docker volumes.
● Knowledge in Docker swarm orchestration, networking, security, storage and volumes.
● Integrated monitoring tools such as SolarWinds and Nagios in the Environments.
● Helped create documentation and procedural steps in CM, Automation, CI/CD and Devops
workflow.

Vertiv software labs limited, India July 2015 – Aug 2017

System Engineer/Software Developer

Responsibilities:

● Highly motivated and committed DevOps Engineer experienced in automation using Ansible and
Chef.
● Setup Ansible CS, adding Ansible nodes and working with Ansible Ad-hoc commands and writing
Ansible Playbooks for Deployments.
● Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Mount
points and Packages.
● Managed OS operations, packages, services using Ansible modules and writing Playbooks to
start and stop applications in a sequential manner.
● Implemented Chef to deploy the builds and write Cookbooks for Dev and QA.
● Used Chef to help admins automate repetitive Unix takes such as Filesystem and package
management.
● Experience in working with Version Control Systems like GIT and GitHub and utilizing Branching,
Merging, Tagging to maintaining the SC versions.
● Worked on creating repositories and cloning repositories and helped Developers to Fetch, Pull,
and Push SC from local to central repositories and vice-versa.
● Performed periodic system audits on all environments to ensure that only controlled versions of
software reside all environments.
● Experience on working with Maven complier and understanding Build lifecycle and Artifacts
while creating Jenkins Builds.
● Responsible for taking the source code and compiling using Maven and package it in its
distributable format such as JAR, WAR and deploying them in the WebSphere application server.
● Extensively worked on Jenkins installation, configuration, and integration for the purpose of
providing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
● Responsible for managing and implementing CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and creating and
managing new users to Jenkins specific permissions.
● Installed and configured necessary plug-in in Jenkins according to requirement and utilized
Docker Images and Terraform for quick provisioning and deployments.
● Designed and implemented multiple deployment strategies using CI&CD Pipeline through
automation with enterprise GitHub, Jenkins, Sonar, Docker, Packer, Terraform and AWS AMI's in
Linux environment.
● Built EC2 instances and configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) groups and
users for improved login authentication.
● Responsible for distributed applications across hybrid AWS and physical data centers.
● Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications
according to the agile process.
● Highly experienced with UNIX/Linux Administration, Enterprise Hardware Troubleshooting and
Capacity Planning.
● Developed UNIX Bash shell scripts and used Cron to schedule their execution times.
● Install and configuration of Web hosting administration HTTP, FTP, SSH, & RSH.
● Troubleshooting and resolving varies LVM FS, Network shared FS and RedHat cluster issues.
● Worked on OS performance issues utilizing ‘iostat’, ‘vmstat’, ‘top’ and kernel tuning to help
increase OS performance and debug Network related slowness.
● Responsible for creating VMs on VMware 5.x, 6.x to install both Suse and Redhat OS.
● Managed RHEL servers in vSphere client to configure Network, vMotion to suitable hosts and
Datastores and helped ensure VMware tools presence.