OpenStack Engineer Resume Trumbull, CT - Hire IT People (2024)

SUMMARY

• 6 plus years of experience in LINUX (Red Hat, Ubuntu, SuSE, CentOS) System Administrator, VMware Admin, AWS Engineer and OpenStack Engineer.
• Experience with OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Swift, Ceilometer, Horizon, Glance, Keystone, Orchestration and Cinder.
• Experience in deploying, configuring and managing servers in OpenStack.
• Configure, monitor and maintain OpenStack Neutron cloud environment.
• Experience in writing scripts to use OpenStack Heat.
• Experience in Load Balancing and Resource Allocation for Tenants, Accounts.
• Experience in OpenStack CLI and contributed for OpenStack documentation.
• Automate infrastructure using Chef and Ansible.
• Worked on core AWS services for Setting up new server EC2 instances in AWS, configuring Security groups, and setting up Elastic IP's, auto - scaling configuration, and Cloud Formation.
• Implement and maintain the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using CloudWatch.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Autoscaling groups.
• Deployed Applications, managed infrastructure using tools like Ansible, Chef and Puppet.
• Knowledge On Red Hat OpenStack & HP Hellion.
• VMware infrastructure installation, Configuration and managing (ESXi 4.x/ ESXi 5.x)
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS, Fault tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware infrastructure.
• Creating, Cloning Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client and migrating servers between ESX hosts.
• Configuring Host profiles in VMware.
• Experienced in maintaining, upgrading and troubleshooting VMware virtual machines.
• Experience in creating Alarms and monitoring Virtual Machine performance.
• Attended Training on VMware vSphere 6.0.
• Experienced in managing the server cluster environment including configuration, shares and permissions.
• Implementing, Installation, configuration and upgrading Operating Systems.
• Configured Kickstart Server in Linux Servers.
• Experience in installing, configuring and implementing the Raid technologies.
• Worked on Data-Center operation and migration across Unix and Linux platforms.
• Configured Volume groups, logical volumes and file systems on Linux.
• Monitor applications, services, operating systems, network protocols and server with Nagios Network Management tool.
• Configuring and managing LDAP, DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS in Red Hat Linux and other Network Services, Linux kernel and memory upgrades.
• Created UNIX scripts for automated data backup, status of the storage.
• Experience in using various network protocols like HTTP, FTP, UDP, TCP/IP, POP and SMTP.
• Experience in configuring Nginx and Apache Tomcat server.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Agile Development Methodology, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Worked with different Bug tracking Tools like Jira, ClearQuest.
• Experience in using version Control tools like Git, Sun, and Mercurial.
• Experience in using various tools like Splunk, Jenkins, Vagrant and Nexus.
• Ability to learn quickly and in corporate new knowledge in the rapidly evolving Cloud landscape.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x, Solaris 10.x/11.x, openSuSE 11.x/12.x/13.x, CentOS 5.x/6.x/7.x, Ubuntu.

Hardware: Dell Servers, Cisco UCS, HP, EMC, IBM Blade Center, Routers, Switches.

Languages: Python, Ruby, JSON, REST, YAML, CSS, HTML, Shell, bash, C, C++, Java, Java Script, SQL, Role Based Access Control (RBAC).

OpenStack: Nova, Glance, Swift, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Keystone, Horizon.

Amazon Web Services: EC2, S3, Elastic IPs, EBS, Security Groups, Route 53, VPC, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Glacier.

Configuration Management Tools: Chef, Ansible, Puppet.

Version Control tools: Git, Sun, Mercurial.

Networking: TTP, FTP, SFTP, UDP, TCP/IP, POP, SMTP.

Other Tools: VSphere Web Client, VSphere Client, VCenter Server, Splunk, Kanban, Nexus, Jira, Remedy, ClearQuest, Nagios, LDAP, Nginx, Apache Tomcat, Vagrant, Hudson, Jenkins.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Trumbull, CT

OpenStack Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Launching new instances using OpenStack Nova.
• Experience in HOT scripts to build on demand OpenStack instances.
• Creation of VM, snapshot, templates and use them based on the requirement.
• Creating and managing of Networks, Subnets and Ports using Neutron.
• Creating Public and Private networks as per the requirement of applications.
• Assigning floating IP’s to Instances.
• Creating and managing Meters, Alarms using Ceilometer.
• Configuring and manage users and services with Keystone.
• Assigning quotas to tenants.
• Configure and manage the Swift Object Storage.
• Creating Cinder Volumes, Extending volumes to VMs and taking Volume Snapshots.
• Creating and managing images using Glance.
• Creating and customizing Flavors as per request.
• Creating Roles and assigning it to users.
• Creating security groups with IP filter rules.
• Experience in using OpenStack Command line to create and manage instances, networks, images, flavors, containers, volumes, accounts and tenants.
• Deployed multiple VMs with same role to distribute workloads and increase reliability through redundancy using OpenStack Load Balance as a Service.
• Used Ansible Tower as configuration management tool and Git as SCM tool to automate the deployment of applications and infrastructure.
• Created a reproducible development server environment using Vagrant and Virtual box.
• Knowledge about working of routers, Open vSwitch.

Environment: Nova, Horizon, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, Cinder, Heat, Swift, Ceilometer, Ansible, Hypervisors (KVM, Libvirt, ESXi), Operating Systems (Linux, Windows), Vagrant, Virtual box, Open vSwitch, Git, Anisble Tower, YAML.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used EC2 to launch instances.
• Designing roles and groups using AWS Identity and Access Management.
• Configured S3 to host static web content.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch.
• Created Amazon VPC to create public-facing subnet for webservers with Internet access, and backend databases & application servers in a private-facing subnet with no Internet access.
• Worked on AWS CloudFormation and CloudFront.
• Written and modified various cookbooks for better management of systems.
• Use Test Kitchen for Chef cookbook testing.
• Utilized Chef Roles and Environments in Chef Management Console.
• Created S3 buckets with Standard and Glacier configuration for tape backs.
• Created Elastic Load Balancing to distribute incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances.
• Used Jenkins, Hudson for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Used to CloudWatch to actively monitoring stats from all of the parts in your AWS solutions.

Environment: EC2, VPC, EBS, S3, Security Groups, Elastic IPs, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Glacier, Chef Management Console, Test Kitchen, Jenkins, Hudson, Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Windows), Vagrant, Virtual box, Mercurial, JSON, Ruby.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Administered VMware ESXi Servers.
• Creating Datacenters in vSphere Web Client and adding hosts to the Datacenter.
• Implemented Fault tolerance and High availability.
• Providing L2 support for all virtual server alerts & issues.
• Installation, Configuration and upgrade Solaris Operating Systems.
• Creating Virtual Servers as per business requirement and specifications.
• Proper power down and up process during maintenance of ESXi hosts or power outage.
• Creating templates as per various business requirements.
• Installation of applications on ESXi servers.
• Managing user objects and groups using vCenter.
• Using vCenter created alarms and monitoring events.
• Monitoring application log, security log and system log using Splunk.
• Configuring Network Printers on Servers and distributed switches.
• Creation of Windows and Linux VMs and deploying them in the different datacenters.
• Creating and mirroring preconfigured Operating system like Windows/Linux.
• Implementing backup and disaster recovery protocols.
• Providing Load balancing capability for the virtual infrastructure.
• Managing user accounts and movements between the domains.
• Maintaining Cluster Servers and patch updates.
• Configuring Backups on Servers and File Servers and restoring the data as per requirement.
• Performed vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Centralized user account creation, enterprise activation of devices and deletion of user account.
• Configuring backup policies, jobs, email alerts, backup tape externalization policies etc.
• Worked with change requests and problem tickets to meet the SLA.
• Working on Remedy tickets and prioritizing the work as per the SLAs.

Environment: vSphere Web Client, vSphere Client, ESX, ESXi, Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Windows), SQL, Oracle, Splunk, HA, Fault Tolerance, Remedy, vMotion, Storage vMotion, vSwitch, RecoverPoint, NFS.

Confidential

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuration, installation, management and support for corporate Linux and Unix Servers.
• Creating system Disk partition, mirroring root disk drive, configuring device groups.
• Installation of patches and packages using RPM and YUM in Red Hat Linux.
• Created Profiles, users, roles and maintained system security.
• User administration that included creating backup account for new users and deleting account for deleted users.
• Installed and configured SSH Gate for remote and secured connection.
• Configuration of DHCP, NFS, DNS servers.
• Used Veritas File System (VxFS) and Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) to configure Raid-1 and Raid-5.
• Monitored System Activities like CPU, Memory, Disk and swap space usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Installed and configured Apache Tomcat and Nginx Servers.
• Creation of logical Volumes (LVM) for Linux operating systems.
• Created and modified users and groups.
• Backup management (logical, hot and cold backups) and recovery in the event of failure.
• Used Jira for tracking defects and Kanban for assigning tasks.
• Used Nexus for collecting, managing dependencies and storing artifacts.
• Monitored networks using networking monitoring tool Nagios.
• Creating, troubleshooting and mounting NFS File systems on different OS platforms.

Environment: Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Windows), NFS, DNS, DHCP, DNS, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Raid Technologies, Nignx, Jira, Kanban, Nexus, Nagios, Cold, Hot Backups Veritas File System, Veritas Volume Manager.