Junaid Syed

junaidasyed223@gmail.com
917-819-5208
PROFILE SUMMARY

Having 7+ experience in Information Technology which includes Linux / Windows Administration, Cloud
Computing and DevOps specializing in Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC), Platform as a Service (PaaS),
Software as a Service (SaaS) models involving Cloud Computing platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP.
 Expertise experience with architecting and managing AWS Services like EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, ELB, ECS , Auto -
Scaling, S3, Cloud Front, Glacier, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, Elastic Cache, Route53, Ops Works, Cloud Watch, Cloud
Formation, RedShift, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, SES, Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, Cognito IAM.
 Experience on various Azure Services like Compute (Worker Roles, Web Roles), Azure websites, Azure Storage, Azure
Active Directory, Azure Virtual Networks, API Management, Auto Scaling, ARM Templates.
 Experience in Google Cloud Components, Google Container builders and used Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services
like Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud DNS, Cloud Storage and SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS concepts of cloud
computing architecture.
 Proficient level of experience on DevOps essential tools which include coming up with a combination of Automation,
Tools and Processes to achieve Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration for various applications by integrating
various tools like Jenkins, Run Deck, Git, Jira, Service Now, Nexus/Artifactory, Nimbus, Puppet/chef/ Maven/Gradle,
various testing frameworks like Junit, Selenium, various App Servers like WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat along
with establishing process for code promotion within the Enterprise.
 Expertise on all areas of Jenkins like Plugin Management, Securing, Performance issues, Analytics, Scaling, integrating
Code Analysis and Test Phases to complete the CD pipelines within Jenkins, troubleshooting Jenkins-Run Deck failure
Issues.
 Experience in using tools like Chef/Puppet to treat Infrastructure as a Code, writing various Chef Cookbooks, both, for
Infrastructure Configuration and Deployment Automation using Roles, Environments, Secure with Vault, Attributes and
experience writing various custom Ansible playbooks and Modules for Deployment Orchestration.
 Experience in using Bash, Include BOTO3 to supplement automation provided by Ansible and Terraform for tasks such
as encrypting EBS volumes backing AMIs and scheduling Lambda functions for routing AWS tasks.
 Experience in looking at log archives and keeping it up using monitoring tools like Nagios, Splunk, ELK Stack,
Dynatrace, CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus, and App Dynamics.
 Good Routing experience in Content Delivery Network (CDN) with Akamai, AWS CloudFront, and Route 53.
 Experience working with Apache Kafka, Zookeeper and Rabbit MQ, worked with Apache Kafka for High throughput for
both publishing and subscribing with disk structures that provide constant performance even with many terabytes of
stored messages.
 Experience in using Kubernetes (K8s) for running microservices and pushed them into production with Kubernetes
backed Infrastructure, using Docker Compose, Kubernetes for Orchestrating and Deploying Container based Services.
 Experience in virtualization of servers using Docker, running Docker swarm, worked with Docker Engine and Docker
Machine to deploy microservice oriented environments.
 Good Experience in maintaining a Hybrid IT environment configuration encompassing many aspects of Linux System
Administration like Automating OS installations, RAID, Security Hardening, Capacity planning, VM Patching, etc.
 Experienced in Developing, administering and providing support to the company’s Linux Systems, Windows Systems and
VMWare, creating and enhancing specialized systems and applications that are effective, efficient and secure, creating
and managing User accounts, Groups, Profiles, Disk Space and Process monitoring in RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian,
SUSE Linux.
 Experience in Installation of Patches, Security fixes and packages on AIX and Linux Servers, Configuration of web
Hosting Administration such as HTTP, FTP, SSH, RSH.
 Supported Web Sphere Application Server, IBM HTTP / Apache Web Servers in AIX environment for various projects
and experience in Configuring/ Tuning/ Upgrading and managing the Middleware Application Servers JBoss 4/5/6, Web
Logic, Web Sphere, Tomcat, NodeJS and MQM along with good Logical Volume Manager LVM experience in Linux.
  Respond to all Linux/Unix/Windows and Middleware Incidents 24 x 7 and resolving them on timely basis, Ensuring High
Availability and stable Operations of Infrastructure adhering to problem resolution, Escalation Procedures and develop
backup strategies and disaster recovery plans.

TECHNICALSKILLS
Configuration Management Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet
CloudServices AWS, AZURE, GCP
WebTechnologies HTML,SOAP/RESTfulWebServices,JSP,CSS,XML,JSON,Servlets,jQuery,
JavaScript
Versioning Tools GIT, GITHUB, Subversion
CI/CD Tools Jenkins, Run Deck, Bamboo
JIRA, Bugzilla, Service Now
Bug Tracking
Container & Orchestration Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, ECS
Databases IBMDB2,Oracle,DynamoDB,MySQL
Monitoring Nagios, Splunk, AWS Cloud Watch, App Dynamics

Messaging and Queuing IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, Zookeeper

Repository Manager Nexus, Nimbus

Web/App Server Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Jboss, WebLogic, Websphere, IBM

OperatingSystems Windows,Linux,AIX,Unix,MacOS
Scripting JavaScript, HTML, Shell, Bash

CERTIFICATION

AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE

AWS SYSOPS ADMINISTRATOR ASSOCIATE
MICROSOFT CERTIFIED AZURE FUNDAMENTALS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: WorldDisney Word – Orlando,FL Nov 2019 – Current

Role: Sr. DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Implemented AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ELB, Autoscaling groups, Optimized volumes, continuously
working with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Run Deck, Chef, Git, GitHub, Nexus, Splunk, Akamai, Terraform,
AppDynamics, Kafka, Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, Vault, Team Pass, and Nimbus.
 Involved in maintaining Linux as well as Windows servers and troubleshooting server Issues.
 Architected and implemented security to meet PCI requirements using VPC, Public/Private subnets, Security Groups,
NACLs, IAM roles, policies, VPN, etc.
 Maintained the continuous Integration and deployment (CI/CD) systems using tools like Jenkins, Run Deck and
troubleshoot Run Deck, Jenkins job Failure Issues.
 Troubleshooting Production servers, providing support, Solving Issues and Incidents along with P1, P2, P3 and P4
priority cases, Resolved within SLA.
 Acknowledging the incidents in ServiceNow and completing with in SLA.
 Built and Deployed Docker images on AWS ECS and automated the CI/CD pipeline
 Monitored the health of JVM taking Thread Dumps and analyzing the stack trace these helped in performing Root cause
Analysis.
  Using Downstream parameterized trigger plugin for integrating Git, Maven, Apache Tomcat server for achieving
continuous integration using Jenkins.
 Worked on Jenkins CI/CD pipeline jobs for end-to-end automation to build, test and deliver artifacts and Troubleshoot the
build issue during the Jenkins build process and managing artifacts in Nexus Repository.

 Troubleshooting the Issues such as queue manger is down, queue message pile up, channels are down, listeners are down
related to RabbitMQ and MQM.
 Worked for architect application using microservice approach to make applications scalable, version able and deployable
independently.
 Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup
on AWS.
 Troubleshooting Deployment Issues in ECS Clusters and investigating it.
 Wrote Ansible playbooks to launch AWS instances and used Ansible to manage web applications, configuration files,
used mount points, packages and Worked on playbooks for Ansible in YAML.
 Implementation of NAT gateways for web apps hosted in private subnets.
 Setting up monitoring tools like AppDynamics and Amazon Cloud watch to monitor major metrics like Network packets,
CPU utilization, Load Balancer Latency.
 Troubleshooting Issues related to Chef Environment, comparing Run List of different environments, finding cause of the
failure, Editing Recipes, taking care of chef coverage and running chef-client.
 Worked on ServiceNow as defect tracking system and configure various workflow, customization, and plug-ins for
ServiceNow bug/Issue tracker.
 Active member of the Production 24/7 on-call support teams to support critical Application Issues.
 Work under SLA (Service Level Agreement) &Incident Management (Remedy) with increase Productivity, Scalability &
Performance of application and Facilitate problem resolution/ticket closure (Coordinate with end users, Systems
designers, integrators, suppliers, and vendors).
 Documentation of detailed build configuration Build procedures, schedule build calendars and change history for releases.
 Responsible for maintenance of the GIT Repositories which includes Jenkins Integration, creating pull requests, code
reviews, branching, merging and transitioning JIRA issues.
 Used Identify and Access Management (IAM) to assign roles and to create and manage AWS users and groups and use
permissions to AWS resources.
 Being a part of new releases (CTASK) working along with the application team.
 Performed all necessary day-to-day GitHub support for different projects like Check-in, Checkouts, import, export,
branching, tagging, and conflict resolution. Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate
branching, labeling/naming conventions using Git source control.
 Configured and maintained network related implementation and system securities using Security Groups, SSL
Certificates, subnets, Internet Gateways, SSH Keys, AWS Access/Secret keys, IPTables, Network ACLs and different
protocols such as SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.
 Configured and Modified Akamai Net Storage for retention and delivery of web portal failover pages during downtime
events and worked on Akamai security configurations for Whitelist/Blacklist of IPs.
 Supporting Production and non-production deployment failures, supporting Windows application, Monitoring Slack
channel and quick response and bouncing JVMs for multiple applications.
 Troubleshooting Splunk Issues and restarting Splunk forwarder and continuously working with different teams for
Problem resolution and providing better solution.
 Administering Windows Applications, services, and Application Pools on IIS.
Environment:AWS, Azure, VPC, Cloud Formation, EBS, Ansible,OPSWorks, EC2, CloudWatch, IAM, SSL, GIT,
GitHub, CI/CD, Jenkins, Run Deck, maven, Docker, Docker Swarm, Shell,Phyton, Chef, YAML, JSON, JIRA,
ServiceNow, Agile, Linux, Windows, Java, Amazon ECS, Splunk, Nexus, Akamai, Apache, Puppet, Tomcat, Nginx,
JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, MQM, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Zookeeper, Kubernetes, Keyblade, Change Management.

Client: Boeing – Long Beach, CA Aug2017 – Oct 2019

Role: Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
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 Installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux 5.x, 6.x,7.x using Gold Disk Image.
 Configuring VMware on clustered environment implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion Storage
VMotion. 
 Managed (load balancing and distribution) these containers use used container orchestration tools like Docker, Swarm,
Openshift, Kubernetes and Helm.
 Extensive experience in the design and implementation of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous
Deployment and DevOps processes for Agile projects, working with technologies and platforms including Java, Jenkins,
Subversion, Git, Oracle, UNIX/Linux, VM Ware, Docker, Vagrant, Chef, Puppet, AWS.
  Creating VM Session on ESX servers through Virtual Infrastructure Client. 
 Data Center Migration support for CX, DMX attached hosts. 
 Automated configuration management and deployments using Ansible playbooks and YAML for resource declaration.
And creating roles and updating Playbooks to provision servers by using Ansible.
 Converted puppet modules to ansible playbooks.
 Installing, Configured and management in Ansible Centralized Server and creating the playbooks to support various
middleware application servers.
 Experience in Active directory configurations and support. 
 Experience with setting up Linux servers for Oracle Real Application Clusters and configuring SAN based mount points. 
 Preparing servers for Oracle RAC installation which includes tuning the kernel, agent, installation, adding NAS storage
on 2,3, 4 node clusters. 
 Writing Cloudformation templates for Automating AWS infrastructure and application deployments by using AWS
Services like EC2, ECS, S3, SNS, Amazon Aurora, into different Availability zones for the High Availability and
Disaster Recovery.
 Created One Click Deployment Pipeline by Codebuild and Codepipeline to implement the Continuous Integration process
and Codedeploy and CloudFormation to automate the Continuous Deployments.
 Created VPC Peering between multiple VPC into various AWS accounts.
 Perform Security Audit and Enhancing Security by using AWS Inspector periodically.
 Configuring and maintaining networking related implementation and system securities using Security Groups, SSL
Certificates, subnets, Internet Gateways, SSH keys, AWS Access/Secret Keys, Iptables, Network ACL’s and different
protocols such as SSH, HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
 Managing Automation toolset such as Puppet by writing Manifests and modules.
 Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using
BitBucket source control.
 Check Logs using Logging intelligence such as Kibana, ELK stack and CloudTrail.
 Management and Implementation of Linux (Centos, Redhat) and Windows (windows Server 2008/2012 R2), Middleware
(Apache, PHP, Tomcat, JBoss and Fuse), and java applications.
 Create a single endpoint for each environment like dvl, qa, stg and prd in Route53 and used Cloudflare as a Web
Application Firewall for preventing DDOS attack, IP Blacklisting, traffic re-routing and DNS management.
 For backup, taking a snapshot of existing volumes and create AMI from running servers and restore it in case of
emergency.
 Used Cloudwatch and SquaredUp to monitor Alarms created for high CPU usage, stopped services and low space on
volumes.
 Created Apache Proxy and Reverse Proxy Server to proxy all traffic to Backend Servers.
 Creating Docker images from Centos Linux as per requirement of the product/service and storing those Docker images to
the ECR or Nexus Repository.
 Using Twistlock Security for the Vulnerability and HIPAA compliance check for Docker Containers and Images.
 Working in ticket-drive workflow environments such as Jira and create new tickets according to monitoring alerts into
Service Desk Plus.
 Create Diagrams, workflow, system architectures with wiki-based and document-based collaboration and common
toolsets, like Atlassian tools (Confluence) and SharePoint Proactive.
 Administering Active directory into IAM roles for the credentials, permissions and roles of the all users and SSL
certificates into Certificate manager.
Environment: AWS EC2, S3, VMware, Tomcat Apache, Ansible, Java, JBoss, Oracle, JIRA, CloudWatch,
CloudFormation, DynamoDB, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Nagios, Grunt, Azure, CI/CD, Git, Puppet, Linux, windows server
2012 R2, Redshift, Python, Data Centre Migration AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Maven, Openstack, Nova, Neutron,
Swift, Glance, Heat

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Client: WellsFargo-Charlotte, NC Aug2016-Jul2017
Role: System Administrator
Responsibilities:
 Involved in design and deployment of multitude of Cloud Services on AWS Stack such as EC2. Route 53, RDS, Dynamo
DB, S3, SQS, SNS, IAM while focusing on high availability, fault tolerance and auto scaling in AWS CloudFormation.
 Migrated Linux Environments to AWS by creating and executing a migration plan, deployed EC2 instances in VPC,
configured security groups and NACLs, IPTables, User groups and roles using AWS CloudFormation Templates and
Ansible modules.
 Involved in installing, configuring, Troubleshooting, System Security, monitoring, managing, maintaining and
Performance Analysis of Linux/UNIX/Windows and Cloud.
 Involved in Managing network security using AWS Load balancer, F5 Load Balancer, Auto-scaling, Security
groups and NACL, AWS CloudFront, Route53, encrypting data using KMS and analyzing the data using AWS Kinesis.
  Created alarms, monitored, and collected log files on AWS resources using Cloud Watch on EC2 instance which
generates Simple Notification Service (SNS).
 Managing CDN on AWS CloudFront and Akamai to improve performance.
 Worked with AWS Route53 to manage DNS zones and give public DNS names to elastic load balancer’s IP.
 Involved in creating Azure services with Virtual Machine. Involved in developing the Azure Solution and Services like
IaaS and PaaS. Managed Azure Infrastructure Web Roles, Worker Roles, Storage, Azure AD Licenses.
 Created Cache Memory on Windows Azure to improve the performance of data transfer.
 Deployed instances on Azure environment and in Data Centers and migrating to Azure using Azure Site Recovery and
collecting data from all Azure Resources using Log Analytics and analyzed the data to resolve the Issue.
 Responsible for installation, configuration, upgrade, troubleshooting and maintenance of AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1, VIOS and
RHEL 5/6 on P Series systems, OS Security Patches and Additional Setup and configured TCP/IP network on LINUX
and AIX.
 Installation, Configuration and Administration of WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, NodeJS on Linux/UNIX
servers.
 Installed, configured, maintained, Troubleshooted and fixed Application servers Issues on multiple platforms of Linux,
Unix and Windows environments, Fixed Application Issues by using Thread Dumps, Heap Dumps. Also fixed TCP
Dumps for network Issues.
 Involved in Installing, Upgrading, managing packages via RPM and YUM package management, Kernel patches,
Systems configurations, performance tuning on UNIX/Linux Systems.
 Responsible for the Operation and administration of IIS Windows Web servers across Engineering, QA and PROD
Environments.
 Installed and Renewed TLS Certificates for Web/App Servers.
 Installed, Configured and Administered Firewalls with different Network protocols like TCP/IP, NIS/NIS+, NFS, DNS,
NTP, FTP, SMTP and SNTP.
 Modified Bash/Shell and Python Scripts to automate administrations tasks like customizing user environment,
performance monitoring, Configuration Management policies and practices with regards to SDLC.
 Written Terraform scripts to automate AWS services which include ELB, EC2, RDS, Database Security Groups, Route
53, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups and S3 bucket.
 Responsible for setting up Jenkins pipeline and taking entire set up from build to PROD deployment.
 Automated built and deploy process in CI/CD pipeline using Maven and Gradle as a building tools and deployed code
using Rundeck (Standalone servers) and AWS Code Deploy (Lift and Shift servers).
 Working everyday with GIT and GitHub which includes creating branches, pull requests, Merging, cloning and with
Atlantis for automating terraform from the pull requests in GitHub to provision AWS Resources.
 Troubleshoot scalable infrastructure, services and distributed systems performance related issue and Monitor it on
CloudWatch logs, Splunk, AppDynamics, Activity logs.
 Configured Chef to build up services and applications on the instances once they have been configured and written Ruby
Scripts for Chef automation, Tested Chef Cookbook on Cloud Instances in AWS and Azure, using Test Kitchen, Chef
Spec and utilized Ohai to collect attributes on the node.
 Managing build infrastructures environment setups and monitoring daily operations in Jenkins - Rundeck and
enhancing/troubleshooting issues/problems.
 Monitoring the metric alerts, performance related issues like high CPU utilization, Application performance, high
Memory utilization, Application tuning and Query tuning, Acknowledge the request for Application stop/start using App
Dynamics, Cloud Watch and Splunk.
 Worked on creation of custom Docker container images, tagging, and pushing the images to Docker registry and worked
on Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
 Worked on HashiCorp Vault and Consul Secret Management tools to provide security for Credentials, tokens and API
Keys.
 Setup Message Queuing systems (Rabbit MQ and IBM MQ) with configurations of various aspects such as listeners,
channels, Queues, and ports.
 Worked on Java and .NET applications by automating their build from end-to-end, by integrating test tools like
SonarQube and Selenium using Jenkins.
 Active member of 24 x 7 on Call Production team and supported Incident Management.
Environment:AWS, Azure, VPC, Cloud Formation, EBS, OPSWorks, EC2, CloudWatch, IAM, SSL, GIT, GitHub,
CI/CD, Jenkins, Run Deck, maven, CI/CD, Docker, Docker Swarm, Shell, Chef, YAML, JSON, JIRA, ServiceNow,
Agile, Linux, UNIX, Windows, Java, .NET, Amazon ECS, Splunk, Nexus, Nimbus, Akamai, Apache, Tomcat, Nginx,
JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, Puppet, MQM, RabbitMQ, App Dynamics.

Client: Sears Holding-Chicago, IL May2014–Jul2016

Role: Linux Administrator
Responsibilities:
  Installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux 5.x, 6.x using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
 Supporting EMC Power path, SAN and multi pathing, NIC bonding.
 Manage existing high available application services using Linux RAC cluster and VERITAS CLUSTER server.
 Configuration and administration of VMware ESXI, vCenter, vSphere Client and Linux / Windows clients
 Automated various service and application deployments with Ansible on CentOS and RHEL. 
 Performed UNIX System Administration Fine tuning, Kernel debugging, process scheduling, disk and file system I/O,
kernel internals, TCP/IP communications
 Leveraged Docker Engine to run Multiple Tomcat Instances as Containerized App Servers.
 Migrated the current Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used auto scaling feature and Involved in
Remediation and patching of Unix/Linux Servers.
 Configured AWS IAM and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in VPC.
 Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
 Used Mysql, DynamoDB and ElastiCache to perform basic database administration.
 Used GZIP with AWS Cloudfront to forward compressed files to destination node/instances.
 Build out server automation with Continuous Integration – Continuous Deployment tools like Jenkins/Maven for
deployment and build management system.
 Configuration tool Installed and configured such as Puppet master / slave and its compute nodes via CLI tools to AWS
nodes.
 Designed and developed automation test scripts using Python.
 Installed VMware ESXi 5.5 and 6, vSphere Server and VMware vCenter Server 5.5/6 in rack Servers.
 Worked on designing and deploying a multitude application utilizing almost all of the main services of the Openstack
(like Nova, Neutron, Heat, Keystone, Glance, Swift) focused on high – availability and fault tolerance environment.
 Created a Secure network architecture on Openstack using Neutron service by configuration of L3 and L2 Agent and
subservices of Openstack.
 Created Yaml Templates for main services like Nova, Swift, Neutron for reuse the current environment or to easily
modify the current environment.
 Worked on Keystone service on Openstack to manage the users and groups by assigning the role and policy as per
project.
 Managed version control tool Git to version code changes to help developers/programmers branch/merge/revert code.
 User, Group creation, monitoring and maintaining log for system status/health using Linux commands and Nagios system
monitor.
 Good understanding of ELB, security groups, NACL, NAT, firewall and Route 53. 
Environment: AWS EC2, S3, VMware, Tomcat Apache, Java, JBoss, Oracle, JIRA, CloudWatch, CloudFormation,
DynamoDB, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Nagios, Grunt, Git, Puppet, Linux, windows server 2012 R2, Redshift, Python, Data
Centre Migration AWS, Jenkins, Maven, Openstack, Nova, Neutron, Swift, Glance, Heat

Education: MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University