Manoj Kumar

Experience

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  Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (WIN)

  Dec 2007 - Jan 2010

  Server Engineer

  • Worked on different VMware products like VMware workstation, VMware server, VMware Converter and ESX server 3.5.• Knowledge in ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Snapshots, Creating Teams, NIC teaming, VM resource allocation.• Excellent knowledge in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and Virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.• Design and implement online backup solutions for virtual machines using VMware consolidated backup integrated with 3rd Party backup vendors like ARC server Backup.• Excellent knowledge in log analysis on ESX & VC servers for troubleshooting• Migrating Virtual machines across various VMware products like ESX Server, GSX Server and Workstation• Ensuring that the servers come under Security Norms furnished by technology Group of Standard Chartered Bank. Show less

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  Thomson Reuters

  Jan 2010 - Feb 2011

  Senior Server Engineer

  • Installation, Support and Troubleshooting of around 400 Production and Staging servers.• Deploying Windows Servers & clusters by connecting through ILO and Blade Management Module• Firmware & Device Driver up gradation of HP & IBM Blades• Administration & troubleshooting of Symantec (VERITAS) Net Backup Client & verifying daily backup.• VMware ESX Server Administration & performing activities like VMotion, DRS, Performance Tuning, VCB Backup, P2V & Cloning• Patch Management of Servers through WSUS, patch link and MBSA• Installation and Support Windows 2008 Hyper-V Virtualization Host and clients• Implemented SQL 2005 Cluster servers.• Managing HP & IBM Blade servers through Management Modules• Configure RHEL Show less

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  Mphasis

  Feb 2011 - Nov 2018

  Lead Infrastructure Engineer

  • Providing support for 9000 Windows servers• Operating system patching, reviewing patching dependencies and planning and preparation of change requests.• Operating system installation/upgrade, VM installation and management.• Problem determination and resolution within SLA’s, performing RCA for the incidents.• Installing, managing and administration of terminal services.• Ability to quickly analyze & diagnose technical problems.• Good knowledge of backup tool VVM.

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  Tech Mahindra

  Dec 2018 - Feb 2021

  DevOps Executive

  •Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process. •Deployed Puppet for configuration management to existing infrastructure. •Utilized Configuration Management Tool Chef & created Chef Cookbooks using recipes to automate system operations. •Deployment and implementation of Chef for infrastructure as code initiative. •Involved in Chef infra maintenance including backup/monitoring/security fix. •Created and managed a Docker deployment pipeline for custom application images in the cloud using Jenkins. •Implemented Jenkins for Continuous Integration Builds, automated deployments, and Notifications. •Integrated Subversion for automating builds with Jenkins. •Working with the product team to setup SVN repository and build branch, customizing release scripts. •Managed the Subversion branching strategy for a few applications by creating Release branches, Development branches thus ensuring the integrity of Trunk. •Implemented Release schedules, communicated the Release status, created Rollout Plans, tracked the Project Milestones, prepared the reports and chaired the Release calls and worked for a successful Release of JIRA Application. •Solid understanding of Linux shell and Perl scripting, UNIX, Windows, build and release engineering principles. •Used scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash and PowerShell for configuration. •Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, in multiple environments. •Moved Database to Amazon Redshift and rewrote reports and dashboards in Tableau. •Used Amazon IAM to grant fine access of AWS resources to users. Also, managed roles and permissions of users to AWS account through IAM. •Configured an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Data Base subnet group for isolation of resources within AWS RDS. •Working with JIRA to track project defects and tasks. Created Crontab scripts for scheduled jobs. Show less

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  HDFC Bank

  Feb 2022 - Sept 2023

  Cloud DevOps Engineer

  •Worked with DevOps platform team was responsible for specialization areas related to Puppet for cloud automation. Implementing Change requests for server configuration, software installation. Managing Linux VMs using puppet as per project requirements. •Automation configuration and deployment of Linux and Windows machines using Puppet. •Implemented Puppet Master, Puppet Console and Puppet Agents, Create Puppet modules and Classes. •Deployed and monitored scalable infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) & configuration management using Puppet. •Redesigned and redeployed the Nagios implementation. Nodes automatically added/removed themselves via Puppet. •Installed and configured Docker, Docker images, Docker Hub registers and Containers. •Enhance SDLC cycle by using Docker containers delivered with Openshift for web application deployment. •Installed, Configured and Managed monitoring tools such as Nagios, Splunk for Resource Monitoring/Network Monitoring/Log Trace Monitoring. •Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Chef and Maven in Linux environment. •Responsible for design and maintenance of the SVN/GIT repositories and the access control strategies. •Provided end-user straining for all SVN, JIRA users to effectively use the tool. •Architecting High Available, Autoscalable platforms in AWS cloud on Windows & Linux. •Managing 24x7 support for clients on AWS Cloud across various regions. •Worked as Admin for AWS in managing the user using IAM for the AWS access. •Hands on AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, VPC, Route 53, Auto scaling groups, CloudWatch and CloudFront. •Handling AWS Cloud Operations starting from Architecture Design till Application delivery. •Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto Scaling groups. Set up Auto Scaling Groups based on memory and CPU to adapt to unforeseen spikes without having an outage or needing manual intervention. Show less

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  Morningstar

  Sept 2023 - now

  DevOps Engineer

  •Created and implemented the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates from a deployment, deployed the template using the portal, Azure PowerShell, CLI, and using Azure quick start templates. •Integrated an application with Azure Active Directory (AD), implemented a hybrid network and Azure Site Recovery, set up Site to Site & Point to Site VPN between on-premises and Azure Networks. •Worked on Serverless services, created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions with application insights for monitoring and performing load testing on the applications using the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) also called as Azure DevOps Services. •Automated VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) build and deployment to IAAS and PAAS environment in Azure and developed build support utilities in PowerShell and Go lang. Integrated TFS with Octopus Deploy for the release process. •Created Azure Automation Assets, Graphical runbook, PowerShell runbook that will automate specific tasks, deployed Azure AD Connect, configuring Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) authentication flow, ADFS installation using Azure AD Connect, and involved in administrative tasks that include Build, Design, Deploy of Azure environment. •Implemented a CI/CD pipeline with Docker, Jenkins (TFS Plugin installed), Team Foundation Server (TFS), GitHub and Azure Container Service, whenever a new TFS/GitHub branch gets started, Jenkins, our Continuous Integration (CI) server, automatically attempts to build a new Docker container from it. •Developed and deployed resources using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates and maintain, support infrastructure for teams using VSTS. Build out VSTS Infrastructure of the application using Azure Automation Runbooks. •Worked on Azure Web Apps for hosting many Web Applications, RESTful APIs, and mobile backends developed in .NET which can run and scale in various Windows Environments and Linux Environments. Show less