Hani Al Kanafani

Experience

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  Symantec Corporation Ind. Private Limited

  Jul 2018 - May 2020

  DevOps Engineer / System Admin

  • Enhanced the efficiency of the development lifecycle by establishing fully automated CI/CD pipelines with AWS and Jenkins for 30 projects.• Implemented dynamic provisioning of AWS resources using Spot Fleet, ECS/EC2, and Fare gate, automating resource allocation for enhanced efficiency. • Optimized development workflows by developing comprehensive CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deploy processes, ensuring reliable software delivery. • Integrated comprehensive testing coverage by automating and integrating JMeter, Accessibility, Security Testing tools, Selenium, and Cucumber. • Played a key role in deploying applications to AWS Elastic Bean Stack, leveraging automation for 40% made more efficient deployment processes. • Participated in different testing phases, including Integration testing, Smoke testing, Performance testing, and Load testing, ensuring the reliability and performance of applications. • Reduced manual intervention by 50% and improved deployment speed implementing CI/CD processes using Jenkins and Ansible for docker image building and deployment. Show less

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  GlobalLogic

  Jun 2020 - Jul 2021

  DevOps Engineer

  • Optimized AWS expenditure by 67% through strategic cost-saving measures such asefficient resource allocation and auto-scaling cluster implementation.• Experience in writing Chef Cookbooks, Recipes in Ruby for Provisioning Dev, Test andPre prod, Production environments consisting of DB installations, Tomcat, Web Logic, Web Sphere, and Windows IIS.• Deployed a diverse range of applications leveraging nearly all aspects of the AWS stack,including EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS, IAM, with a focus on high availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling using AWS CloudFormation.• Optimized development workflows by developing and implementing scripts using Docker, Jenkins, and Maven for building and deployment.• Achieved streamlined deployment processes, improving efficiency by 30%, by implementing Docker and configuring Kubernetes clusters.• Good Experience on Version control tools like Git, GitHub, SVN, Bitbucket. Developed a robust CI/CD system on GKE with Jenkins, utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for runtime environment - building, testing, and deploying applications.• Utilized Kubernetes for deployment and management of Docker containers across multiple namespaces, improving load balancing and scalability.• Experienced in Managed AWS infrastructure with automation and configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Kubernetes, Cloud Formation and Terraform.• Provisioned servers using AWS and launching EC2 and RDS, created security groups,Load Balancing, auto scaling groups, NACLs, Private, Public subnets, Firewalls, DNS and ELBs in custom VPC's. Show less

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  Collectors Universe INC

  Jul 2021 - Jun 2022

  Lead / DevOps Consultant

  • Excellent knowledge in Azure compute services, Azure Web apps, Azure DevOps, Azure Data Factory & Storage, Azure Media & Content delivery, Azure Networking, Azure Hybrid Integration and Azure Identity & Access Management.• Executed Jenkins automation for build and deployment processes, resulting in a 70%reduction in manual work and a significant increase in production efficiency.• Hands-on experience with Amazon different EC2 instance families spanning acrossTest, Dev and Production and Cloud Automation through DevOps tools like Chef, Ansible, Docker, Run Deck and Kubernetes.• Designed and implemented Azure DevOps security policies, resulting in a 50% reductionin security incidents and a 30% increase in compliance with industry standards.• Setup Continuous Integration environment using Jenkins for building jobs and to pushthe Artifacts into Jfrog repository on successful builds. Worked with Jenkins APIs to know various things like build status, count of builds, Git commit version used by Jenkins builds etc., using Groovy.• Involved in designing Azure Resource Manager ARM templates, deployed to Azure and Customized build process using PowerShell. Creating Azure Backup vault and protecting, required VMs to take the VM level backups.• Experience with the whip development, Amazon, whip service, python, and the Django framework.• Optimized development workflows by developing and implementing scripts using Docker, Jenkins, and Maven for building and deployment. Automated code deployment using Jenkins for robust CI/CD pipelines, streamlining the development lifecycle for 20 projects.• Experience with the cloud automation technologies, such as ARM cloud, formation, andTerraform and experience in using Terraform for building, changing, and versioning, infrastructure and manage existing and cloud infrastructure as well. Show less

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  UnitedHealth Group

  Jun 2022 - Apr 2024

  Senior Devops Engineer

  • Resulting in a 25% reduction in human error and a 40% increase in production speed by automating deployment with Jenkins.• Established automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, eliminating 70% of manual work.• Managed 5 Kubernetes applications with Helm, including essential tools like Prometheus and Thanos.• Increased system reliability by 15% resulting from strategic management of Chef, Consul, Vault, and ELK.• Hands-on experience with database, such Oracle, MySQL, and NOSQL database, such as MongoDB.Implemented routing rules and validating policies in APIGEE.• Created alerts and dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana, improving cloud service monitoring tailored to 100 customer needs.• Expertise in integrating Terraform with Ansible packer to create and version the AWS infrastructure designing automating, implementing and sustainment of Amazon machine images AMI.• Experience in Architecting and securing the Infrastructure on AWS using IAM, KMS,EMR, Cognito, API Gateway, Cloud Trail, Cloud Watch, Amazon Simple Queue Service Amazon SQS, Config, AWS Kinesis, Lambda, NACL, Elastic Beanstalk, Redshift and Cloud Formation, have exposure on other cloud services like GCP, OpenStack.• Written Python scripts for pushing data from DynamoDB to MySQL Database and created, maintained the Python deployment scripts for Web Sphere, web application server.• Introduced best practices in pipeline automation, providing Docker and Kubernetes training on AWS to 20 developers, optimizing workflows.• Responsible for writing Hooks and Triggers using Perl, built Java/J2EE Application using MAVEN.Expertise in core AWS services S3, EC2, ELB, EBS, Route 53, Auto-scaling groups, lambda, and monitoring security practices like IAM, Cognito, Cloud watch, Cloud alarms, Cloud trial and CI/CD deployment services like code commit, code build, code deploy, and databases like RDS, Dynamo, DB and Elasticache. Show less