Build & Release Engineer Resume Austin, TX - Hire IT People (2024)

SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience in IT industry comprising of Systems Administration and Software Configuration Management (SCM) Extensive experience includes SCM, Build/Release Management, and Change/Incident Management.
• Experienced in working on DevOps/Agile operations process and tools (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation, Environment, Service, Incident and Change Management)
• Expertise on various DevOps tools like Chef, Vagrant, Jenkins, Docker, SVN, GIT and worked closely with developers to integrate automation and managing various applications.
• Experience in automating, configuring and deploying instances on AWS/EC2, and Data centers.
• Created Instances and managed various client applications in AWS cloud.
• Experience on installation and configuration of various DevOps tools like puppet, Chef and Jenkins.
• Used Chef to organize and execute configuration plans on servers.
• Deployed Chef for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Worked with Puppet for application deployment and environment configuration.
• Experience implementing end - end automation using Jenkins.
• Worked on version tools like SVN and GIT.
• Worked with Docker for containerization of multiple applications.
• Experience in network/automation installation using Kickstart.
• Worked on various flavors of Linux and Unix Servers (RHEL,UBUNTU,Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Suse and AIX)which included but not limited to Installation, configuration, Maintenance, Patching and Support of those servers.
• Wrote shell scripts (Bash, Ksh, and PERL) to automate routine tasks like process management, selective file removal and disk space utilization.
• Installing, configuring, and maintaining WebSphere, Samba, Apache/Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic and Send mail.
• Experience withAtlassian tools like Bamboo, Jira, and confluence.
• Experience with TFS (Team Foundation System) basedBuildSystem.
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure Operations.
• Expert shell, Perl, Python and Ruby scripting skills create new, redesign, modify existing scripts to support and improve Java-based applications, data feeds, reporting, batch jobs, and overall system performance.
• Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using various scripting languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, XML.
• Experience in using Nexus and Artifactory Repository Managers for Maven and Ant builds.
• Worked on creating scripts, automation, and global configuration management.
• Experience in Installation and configuration of Web hosting administrationHTTP, FTP, SSH, SFTP, Samba and NFS, NTP Server configuration.
• Experience in scheduling full backup and incremental backup for daily, weekly, and monthly basis, and worked in solving tickets issued on day to day activities and problems related to development and test servers.
• Extensively worked with Change tracking tools like ITSM, BMC Remedy, JIRA, Service Now.
• Involved in installation and configuration of different monitoring tools Nagiosand Cacti.
• Extensively worked with tools like Nagios and Splunk for Monitoring and log management respectively.
• Extensively worked with tools like Nagios, Graphite, Zabbix, Logstash/ElasticSearch and Splunk for Monitoring and log management.
• Hands on experience on Docker hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration. Strong knowledge on Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, Compose and Docker Registry.
• Participated in on-call rotation to provide 24X7 technical supports.
• Excellent team building, project implementation, analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Build & Release Engineering: Jenkins, Puppet, AWS, Chef, Ant, Maven, Perl, ANTHILLPRO and BAMBOO

Version Control Tools: GIT, GIT Hub, SVN, Perforce, CVS, Clear Case, Harvest, Stash.

Scripting: Shell Scripting, Perl, Ruby, Python, Xml, Php.

Programming languages: Java, C++, C, .NET

Middleware: WebSphere, WebLogic, Jboss, Tomcat, Apache, IIS, RabbitMQ,Gemfire

Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Nagios, ELK Stack, Zabbix, Graphite, Wily Introscope, CA APM

Operating systems: Solaris 10/8,Ubuntu 14.x/RHEL 7.x/6.x/5.x CentOS 5.x/6.x, SuseIBM 5L 5.x, AIX V6.1 & Sun Solaris (8/9/10), Windows 2003/2008

Cloud Services: AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation AWS Config, S3, Cloud Trail, IAM.

Network Services: TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, SSH, DHCP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston, MA

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in DevOps migration and automation processes for build and deploy systems.
• Managed continuous build and continuous integration environments in Scrum and Agile projects.
• Used SVN and GIT to manage software code and revisions in a repository.
• Provisioned and managedAWSEC2 instances, volumes by deploying Chef.
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, Elastic Load Balancer and Auto scaling groups.
• Designed and built highly available, private AWS clouds and migrated large production systems on Amazon AWS.
• Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
• Worked on Chef extensively for deployment for servers, creating recipes and cookbooks managing changes through Chef Server.
• Organized and executed configuration and deployment plans on servers using Chef.
• Automated environment configuration in test and dev. environment using Chef.
• Using Chef deployed and configured Elastic search, Log stash and Amazon Kinesis for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring in integration with AWS Lambda and Cloud Watch.
• Wrote Recipes and Cookbooks in Chef 12.14 to Automate configuration and deployment of various applications and services.
• Designed and developed automated deployment and scaling processes based on Vagrant and Chef for a wide range of server types and application tiers, including Elastic search, and Zend PHP and IIS Clusters.
• Used Maven and Jenkins to automate the software build.
• Worked on integrating GIT into the continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Jenkins.
• Managed and administered our SVN repositories and confluence installations.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Familiar and experienced with Agile Scrum development.
• Proposed and implemented branching strategy suitable for Agile development in Subversion.
• Integrated Maven with Jenkins for the builds as the Continuous Integration process.
• Created images and stored in the Docker containers and uploaded to the Docker hub
• Developed procedures to unify, streamline and automate application development and deployment procedures with Linux container technology using Docker.
• Deployed Docker Engines in Virtualized Platforms for containerization of multiple applications.
• Configured Redhat Kickstart server for installing multiple production servers.
• Developed unit and functional tests in Python and Ruby.
• Developed and maintained Pythonand Shellscripts for build and release tasks.
• Responsible for writing Hooks and Triggers using Python. Built Java application using ANT.
• Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation-usingJenkins along with Pythonand Shellscripts to automate routine jobs.
• Created and maintained the Python deployment scripts for Web Sphere web application server
• Configuration and administration of DNS, LDAP and Sendmail on Ubuntu/Redhat Servers.
• Involved in writing various scripts like Bash, Shell, and Perl for automation.
• Installed and configured SAMBA server for Windows and Linux connectivity.
• Performed TCP/IP, DNS and DHCP administration.
• Including Active Agent types, also wrote Zabbix templates to handle SNMP as well as custom scripted monitors.
• Rebuilt and Scaled Zabbix Monitoring Infrastructure to support over 1700 servers, with 1000 processed values per second.
• Built centralized logging system with Logstash/Elastic Search/Kibana(ELK).
• Installed and monitored administering and monitoring tools such as Nagios.
• Maintained and monitored all of company's servers’ operating system and application patch level, disk space and memory usage, user activities on day-to-day basis.
• Performed Disk management with the help of LVM (Logical Volume Manager).
• Configuration and Administration of Apache Web Server and SSL.

Environment: Ubuntu/Redhat Linux, Chef,AWS EC2, GIT, Docker,Jenkins, Python, Ruby, Websphere, Apache, Logical Volume Manager,SVN,Artifactory, ELK, Zabbix,VeritasNetBackup, Windows 2010.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in automation of build and release process for various business critical applications.
• Extensively worked on Installation and configuration of Redhat 5.x/6.x and CentOS.
• Worked on installation of local yum repository and package administration using yum and rpm.
• Followed Agile Methodology toolset including tools for maintaining user stories and deployment solutions for Scrum.
• Managed deployment automation using Puppet, MCollective, Hiera, and Custom Puppet modules.
• Installed, configured and administered EnterprisePuppet 2.x/3.X/4.x on Linux environment.
• Developed Puppet manifests for deploying, configuring, and managing various applications.
• Wrote custom Puppet modules for managing the full application stack (Tomcat/httpd/MySQL/Java).
• Worked on Puppet for the deployment of servers with custom scripts.
• Change root password on all servers from centralized Puppet master server.
• Worked on implementation of several native Linux services like Ubuntu and Redhat.
• Automated, configured and deployed instances in AWS cloud and worked with Amazon EC2/S3
• Created various instances in AWS and managed application in cloud.
• Implemented VPC, Auto scaling, S3, CloudWatch, Ec2, CFT services on AWS.
• Saved and managed software code base and revisions in a repository using source control tools like Git and SVN.
• Managing the code migration from TFS, CVS and Star team to Subversion repository.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Web and Application Servers including Apache, tomcatandJBoss.
• Written cookbooks for installing Tomcat, Weblogic, JBoss, WebSphere, JDK etc. and for configuring load balancers and fail over.
• Configured application servers Tomcat, JBossandNginx to deploy the code.
• Installed and configured Jenkins and used it for continuous Integration (CI).
• Configured Jenkins build jobs to provide continuous automated builds based on polling the Subversion source control system during the day and periodic scheduled builds overnight.
• Administered Jenkins, Proposed and implemented branching strategy suitable for agile/scrum development in a Fast Paced Engineering Environment.
• Deployed Docker Engines in Virtualized Platforms for containerization of multiple applications.
• Created a Virtual Network on Windows Azure to connect all the servers.
• Created automation tool usingAnthillproof daily weekly quarterly admin activities, build, patch and package tasks usingAnthillPro.
• Involved in migration of Bamboo server, Artfactory& GIT server.
• Developed and maintained Perl/Shell scripts for build and release tasks.
• Extensively used ANT tool to do the builds, integrated ANT to Eclipse and did local builds.
• Maintained JIRA for tracking and updating project defects and tasks.
• Created repositories according the structure required with branches, tags and trunks.
• Implemented Splunk, CloudWatch, Zabbix, Nagios, and Gomez to monitor and manage servers.
• Perform performance monitoring (Nagios) and report activity log.
• Centralized logging and log parsing/indexing with Logstash and ElasticSearch.
• Automated Installation and configuration process for various application servers like JBoss, Tomcat, Websphere.
• Maintaining production critical servers running Red Hat Linux supporting Oracle database and Web services.
• Working closely with Web Administrators to understand, participate, and experience the technical architect for web sites such as Apache, JBOSS, Web Logic; and deploying J2EE Applications to these environments
• Provided24x7 On-call support.

Environment: Red Hat 5.x/6.x, Ubuntu 14.x, CentOS5.x/6.x, Puppet, Jenkins, Vagarant,Python, Nagios, SVN,AWS, DNS, NFS, ANT, Apache 1.3x, Artifactory, JBoss, SAN,Windows, WebSphere, Tomcat.

Confidential, South Portland, ME

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided configuration management expertise to all software development projects.
• Worked as a DevOps Engineer for one of the most complex system. Used Git, Maven, Jenkins, CHEF and Jira as tools for day-to-day build & release cycles.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon Web Services.
• Responsible for Deployment and maintenance of different QA & UAT environments.
• Release Engineer for a team that involved different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases.
• Implemented the use of Nagios tool for Monitoring and analyzing the network loads on the individual Machines
• Suggested changes to development practice to increase efficiency by restructuring the branching structure to include merging mechanism.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and Apache MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Developed build scripts using ANT and MAVEN as the build tools for the creation of build artifacts like war or ear files.
• Installed and configured and used Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing an automation solution.
• Used various plug-ins to extend the base functionality of Hudson/Jenkins to deploy, integrate tests and display reports
• Created and implemented custom Nagios monitoring and managed with Puppet.
• Coordinating the resources by working closely with Project Manager’s for the release and carried Deployments and builds on various environments using continuous integration tool.
• Participated in code reviews and ensured compliance with standards. Developed and implemented the software release management for the release of web applications.
• Used Shell/Python scripts to automate the deployment process.
• Assist developers with establishing/applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming Designing and implementing for fully automated server build management, monitoring and deployment By Using DevOps Technologies like Chef, Puppet.
• Co-coordinated Instance Refreshes and Environment Re-base lining.
• Created virtual images similar to production environment using Docker by writing Docker -compose files.
• Dockerized Zabbix agent with support for Docker container metrics and Docker host OS metrics.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/GIT views, and the access control strategies.
• Developed comprehensive application and server monitoring (including some automatic problem-resolution) using Nagios, Ganglia, Monit, and Ruby/shell scripts
• Developed a continuous deployment pipeline using Jenkins, Chef, and Ruby/shell scripts
• Planning, scheduling and documenting releases at code Freeze Periods.
• Sole person to be responsible for Release/Change control Process.
• Converted and automated builds using Maven and Ant. Scheduled automated nightly builds using Jenkins.
• Support developers to resolve issue. Helped development team for better build process.

Environment: Git, Mavan, Jenkins, Jira, Ant, Docker, Puppet, Python, Zabbix, ELK, Nagios,Svn, AWS, DNS, NFS, ANT, Apache, JBoss,NAS, WebSphere, Tomcat, Unix, Linux, Shell, Ruby.

Confidential

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As member of Release Engineering group, redefined processes and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting, on UNIX platform.
• Familiar and experienced with Agile Scrum development.
• Installed, configured, and supportedPuppetto standardize environments.
• Used Puppet to automate Configuration management & Applications.
• Worked with Puppet for application deployment and environment configuration.
• Modified different configurations on servers from centralized Puppet Master server.
• Wrote Puppet Manifest files to deploy automated tasks to many servers at once.
• Strong knowledge of AWS including EC2.
• Strong in building scalable web applications on AWS.
• Maintained and administered GIT source code tool.
• Created Branches, Labels and performed Merges in Stash and GIT.
• Migrate the code, artifacts from clear case to stash.
• Deployed using Ansible and Jenkins to completely provision and manage AWS EC2 instances, volumes, DNS, and S3.
• Support the code builds by integrating with continuous integration tool (Jenkins).
• Installed and configured Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing an automation solution.
• Integrated GIT into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process.
• Used Jenkins for automating Builds and Automating Deployments.
• Managed build results in Jenkins and deployed using workflows.
• Managed to deliver specific versions of various components of an application into target environments.
• Maintain and track inventory using Jenkins and set alerts when the servers are out of resources and need attention.
• Integrated delivery (CI and CD process) Using Jenkins, Nexus, Yum and puppet.
• Modeled the structure for multi-tiered applications orchestrate the processes to deploy each tier.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Used Confluence to create, share and discuss content and projects.
• Proposed and implemented branching strategy suitable for agile development in Subversion.
• Created Branches, and performed Merges in Source Tree & Stash.
• Automating the regular tasks in Subversion and streamlining the process of access to SVN. Migrated Projects from SVN to GIT.
• Used/supported technologies like Linux, CentOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, MySQL (with replications), Apache, Nginx, IIS, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, load balancer NetScaler/HAProxy, memcached/Varnish.
• Responsibility for the server availability, monitoring (Zabbix) and improvements of (physical, virtual) servers.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills.
• Worked with customers, developers, testing, product management and support staff.
• In-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk and understand varied customer deployments.
• Involved in multiple projects simultaneously and efficiently.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Subversion, Jenkins, JIRA, Maven, GIT, ANT, Puppet,Zabbix, AWS, Python, Remedy, Unix Shell Scripting.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed Redhat LinuxKick-start Installation.
• Configured and maintained Redhat Linux and SUSE servers.
• Installed, upgraded and loaded Patches and Packages on Redhat Servers.
• Attendedto users, developer problems; did troubleshoot the system and end user issues.
• Created and maintainedOperating System Installation Documents.
• Monitored system performance, tune-up kernel parameter, added /removed /administeredhosts, users.
• Scheduled Jobs usingCRONTABandAT Utility and wrote shell scripts to automateSystem Process.
• Worked on Performance monitoring using native and third party tools.
• ManagedNIS, NFS and Send mail Server.
• Added more resources likeMemory, Disksand increasing theSwap.
• Performed User and Group Management usingAdmintools.
• Development of Perl, Shell (Bash) scripts, Ruby, C# and PowerShell (Windows) to automate Sys Admintasks and Autosys tools.
• Development of an Inventory web application (Ruby on Rails) to store Servers, Applications, Services,Owners and their attributes with an easy search and relationship among them.
• Wrote Cron, bash and shell scripts.
• Involved in documenting of Linux and Windows environment and configuration details including.

Environment: Red hat, NIS, NFS, Perl, shell Scripting, CRONTAB/AT.