Resume

Manoj Kumar

N-107, Sham Nagar,

Khyala Road, New Delhi-110018

Mob. Ph. +91 99 999 73 726

E-mail: manoj.kumar84@gmail.com
manojksamtani@gmail.com

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Career Summary

Linux/DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of IT experience, with a strong performance background in wide variety of professional system support and solution-based IT services for Linux Systems (or administrations) including, DevOps, Cloud, monitoring, configuration, troubleshooting and maintenance

Career Objective

Seeking a challenging position as a Manager/Lead Linux, DevOps, Web and cloud administration, where I can learn / face new challenges and utilize my skills and experience for the growth of company infrastructure.

Professional Qualifications

Educational Qualifications

Certifications

DOEACC ‘A’ Level

Bachelor of Commerce from Delhi University

Microsoft Certified System Engineer

VMWare Certified Associate (VCA) – Data Center Virtualization

VCA - Cloud

Red Hat Certified Engineer Participant

Technologies Used:

OS                                                                   : Redhat 3/4/5/6, Fedora/CentOS, Ubuntu 10/11/12/14

Cloud Services                                                 : Amazon, RackSpace, OpenStack

Servers                                                            : NginX, Apache, NodeJS, Tomcat and Glassfish

DNS                                                                : Bind, GeoDNS, DDNS

RDBMS Databases                                          : MySQL, PostgreSQL

NoSQL Databases                                            : CouchBase with ElasticSeach

Stacks                                                             : LAMP, LEMP

Script                                                               : Bash, Python and Ruby

Tools                                                               : Puppet, Jenkins

Load Balancers                                                : HAProxy, Pound, Apache Proxy, NginX

Professional Experience

Duration

Jan 2017 – Till Date

Organisation

IHS Markit

Designation

VP – Solution Engineering

Profile:

Encouraging people to adopt automation/devops

Working on Agile i.e.; sprint planning, backlogs, dashboard, kanban etc.

Documenting the tasks and requirements of infrastructure in Confluence

Coordinating multiple teams to gather requests and assigning to team

Working on Redhat 5/6/7 physical and virtual servers (running over AWS and VMWare)

Configuring 3 tier application based on LAMP stack and Tomcat/Jboss

Configuration of MySQL and key based (or nosql) Redis DB’s

Working on RHN Satellite servers to manage legacy servers

Writing Puppet manifests, custom facters and functions

Writing scripts in bash or python to ease of repetitive work

Designing and implementing infrastructure and DR

Other tools - MCollective, Puppet-lint, Memcached, ElasticSearch

Implementation of monitoring system using Centreon and Nagios

           

Duration

May 2015 – Dec 2016

Organisation

Kurtosys System India Pvt Ltd

Designation

Sr DevOps Engineer

Profile:

Working on Finance fund management tools project - Automation

Managing a team of 4 members

Managing Ubuntu 12 and 14/Redhat 5/6 physical and virtual servers (running over RackSpace (OpenStack) and AWS) with different type of services apache/tomcat/mysql standalone and cluster/replication

Managing servers in AWS (using EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, CloudFront, ELB, CloudWatch, AutoScalin, VPC etc.)

Configured Puppet Master and Agent servers for automation and standardizing the infrastructure

Standardizing and Automating installation and deployment of LAMP/LEMP Stack / Apache / NginX / NodeJS / OpenAM / Tomcat / Glassfish / MySQL / MemSQL / CouchBase / ElasticSearch and other services using Puppet

Configured Redis Cluster for PHP session store

Managing Clients high availability Web sites running over Apache and NginX

Managing MySQL running with Replication

Managing GlusterFS cluster

Managing monitoring with Nagios, OpsGenie and Slack

Writing Puppet manifests, custom facters and functions

Written scripts for server provisioning in BASH and basic functions in Python

Continuous Integrating git code with Jenkins

Knowledge of container based instances using Docker

Duration

July 2014 – May 2015

Organisation

Dell International Services

Designation

System Admin – Sr Advisory

Profile:

Worked on 2 Finance/Banking Projects – Moodys

Leading team of 5 members working on Redhat Linux platform

Managing - > RHEL 5/6 servers, Redhat Clusters 5/6, Working on Dell servers and using iDRAC for remotely management, Multipath configuration, SAN LUNs addition, deletion and resizing, LVM management

Standardizing and Automating deployment of packages, scripts and files using puppet

Duration

Nov 2012 – July 2014

Organisation

IBM India Pvt Ltd

Designation

Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) – Linux

Profile:

Worked on 2 Finance/Banking Projects – Barclays & Ameriprise

Worked as a SME, supporting at Level 4, Lead a team of 20 members (supporting L1-L3)

Capacity planning and sizing of infrastructure, Designing Infrastructure architecture as per application requirements

Ensure Assurance Testing of Servers before Infrastructure go live, Analyzing problem and providing Root cause

Worked on Problem, Change and Incident Management (HP Service Now)

Managed Redhat 5/6 Linux Physical and Virtual Servers infrastructure

Managing Virtual Data Center using vCenter running over VMware 5 (including VM creations/deletions, managing VMs resources, vMotion, Resource Pools, Storage Addition etc.)

Managed Veritas Cluster (Service, resource etc.), Volume Manager operations (addition, deletion, resizing disk etc...)

Creation and management of infrastructure running over Amazon Web Services (AWS – EC2, S3, EBS, CDN etc...)

LVM, Multipathing, PAM and network bonding, shell scripting for automating frequent tasks

Duration

May 2011 – Nov 2012

Organisation

HCL Comnet & Services

Designation

Sr. Specialist

Profile:

Worked as Team Lead, managed a team of 7 members working on Linux and Cloud platform

Got trained, education certification and worked on CA AppLogic (Grid Computing)

Configured and managed OpenStack Cactus release (NOVA/SWIFT/GLANCE) over KVM (Ubuntu

             Server)

Managing Migration of Redhat Linux Servers, remotely HP servers using ILO, LVM, IPTables, Multipath, PAM and Network bonding, Managed Redhat Cluster 5

Duration

Dec 2010 – April 2011

Organisation

Citizen Media Pvt Ltd

Designation

Sr. Linux Administrator

Profile:

Budgeting, capacity planning, sizing and disaster recovery of Infrastructure

Worked on RHEL 4/5, Fedora, Ubuntu

Nagios, RsysLog, OpenVAS, Snort, Nessus, AIDE

LAMP installation, configuration, security and optimization for high traffic sites

Amazon web Services (AWS) - (API & AMI tools, EC2, S3, EBS, Autoscaling, RDS, VPC, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, Beanstalk, Route53)

Duration

March 2010– Nov 2010

Organisation

SDG Software India Pvt. Ltd.

Designation

Sr Infra Specialist

Profile:

Worked on RHEL 4/5 Servers

Managed web hosting environment running over LAMP environment

Monitoring infrastructure using Nagios

Management of DNS records

Managed centralized user login on servers with OpenLDAP Server’s with LAM

Duration

March 2008 – Feb. 2010

Organisation

Tekriti Software Pvt. Ltd.

Designation

Sr. System Administrator

Profile

Budgeting, capacity planning and sizing of Infrastructure

Worked on Linux, LAMP & tomcat Administration for building and managing high traffic sites over physical and cloud environment (Apache Web Farm, CPanel, Load Balancer, Reverse proxy, PHP, MySQL Replication/Cluster, Memcached), Managed Version control using Subversion

Amazon Cloud Computing – Amazon Web Services (    AWS, EC2, S3, Autoscaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, RDS, EBS, Route 53 etc..)

Nagios for 24X7 automated monitoring

Configured ICICI payment gateway on linux, php-bridge and java

HA Proxy, Keepalived, NginX, CPanel, PHPMyAdmin, Webmin, Sarg, AWStats, DenyHosts, HIDS, Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner, Snort, Mysql Slap

Internal Office

Servers: FTP, Proxy (Allow/Deny internet access to users on time, IP and sites basis, bandwidth management), VMWare Desktop Virtualization

Others: Installing and configuring different types of applications like VtigerCRM, mantis bug tracker, eventum bug tracker, Drupal etc...

Shell scripts for adding/deleting/modifying server users, creating backup files for user’s data and servers required files

Duration

May 2006 – Feb. 2008

Organization

The Chopras ( n&n Chopra Consultants Pvt. Ltd.)

Designation

Asst. System Administrator

Profile:

Managed Linux based network spread over 17 branches in all over India with head office in Delhi

Maintaining integrated network of Linux & Windows 2000 servers with clients of Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows XP & Linux clients,

Servers Setup and Managed: DNS, NIS, DHCP, Squid, Samba, VPN (CIPE), FTP, NFS, Firewall (security), Postgresql DB, LAMP Stack

Performing administrative tasks using shell scripts and command line tool like sed and awk

Managed Postgresql Database. Regular Backups/Restore processes are done whenever needed

User management tasks creating Users, Groups, Assigning general permissions and special permissions (Quota, ACL etc.)