Sayed Parvez

Email: [email protected] Mobile: 469-546-5151

Professional Summary:
● AWS/DevOps Engineer passionate in Automation, CI, CD and Configuration Management with
Multi-Cloud services with around 8 Years of experience in IT industry. Experienced in
deployment and network operations, system administration.
● Experienced working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) methodologies
using GitLab, Azure DevOps, Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, jfrog, SonarQube, Nexus, ArgoCD, Flux,
Ansible, puppet and Python in an Agile Environment. 
● Worked on developing infrastructure as a code on cloud platforms like AWS, GCP and deploy
them using Pipelines.
● Experienced in building Kubernetes cluster using terraform and CFN from scratch and make sure
the cluster is production ready so that the applications can be deployed.
● Setting up Gitlab runners for build automation and develop custom gitlab-ci.yaml file for
developers to automate builds and deploy the artifacts to Kubernetes cluster.
● Installing and configuring Terraform and building the infrastructure using terraform
configuration file and maintain state using remote backends like AWS S3.
● Install, Upgrade and mange Rancher Kuberenetes cluster on-premise using Terraform.
● Migrated Linux environment to AWS by creating and executing a migration plan, deployed EC2
instances in VPC, configured security groups &NACL's, attached profiles and roles using  AWS
Cloud Formation templates and Ansible modules.
● Hands-on experience on implementing Cloud Solutions using various AWS Services
including EC2, VPC, S3, Glacier, EFS, AWS Kinesis, Lambda, Directory Services, Cloud Formation,
Ops works, Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Data Pipeline,
DynamoDB, Redshift etc.
● Experienced in designing cloud models for Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-
service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
● Good knowledge on Application Migrations and Data migrations from On-premise to AWS
Cloud.
● Worked on infrastructure with Docker containerization
● Worked on Linux Migrations using Cloud Endure recommended by AWS.
● Automated monthly Linux Patching by integrating Service Now (Built Custom Dashboard) with
Ansible to stop and start various application.
● Linux administrator, with a strong performance background in wide variety of professional
system support and solution-based IT services for Linux Systems (or administrations) including,
monitoring, configuration, troubleshooting and maintenance of operating systems.
● Linux expert with strong ability to automate day to day tasks using Ansible and bash.
Education Details:
● Masters of Science in Computer Science.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AWS Services Ec2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, VPC, RDS, S3, Glacier, IAM,
Kinesis, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud
Formation, DynamoDB, Lambda, Route53, SNS, SQS, API
Gateway, Code Pipeline, Code Build, Elastic Search, Code
Deploy.
Configuration Management Ansible, Chef

languages Python, Shell

Source Code Management GIT, Bitbucket, Code Commit

Operating systems Windows, Linux, Unix, Ubuntu, RHEL, Cent OS and Solaris 

Databases SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL 

Web/Application Servers Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, Oracle Application Server

DevOps Tools AWS Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy, Elastic
Beanstalk, Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker, Jira, Bugzilla, Splunk,
Nagios.

Work Experience:
AWS / DevOps Engineer
Client: Citizens Bank - Johnston, RI Jan 2019 – Present 
● Responsible for configuring and securing the infrastructure on AWS Cloud
● Responsible for Creating AWS IAM Users, Policies, Groups etc.
● Provisioning of AWS resources like EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, S3 buckets, creation of subnets and
all other operational tasks using Ansible. 
● Performed configuration, deployment, and support of cloud services including Amazon Web
Services.  Performing the hardening of AWS root account after requisition. 
● Installation and configuration of SCM tool, Ansible on EC2 instance. 
● Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and
SNS services in AWS cloud. 
● Designed for high availability and business continuity using fail over routing policies, multi
AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto scaling and other disaster
recovery models.
● Implemented AWS Organization to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts including
consolidated billing and policy based restrictions.
● Made use of the various S3 storage classes based on customers needs.
● Installation and migration of on premise Jenkins, Arti factory and SVN to AWS cloud
infrastructure.
● Provisioned load balancer, auto-scaling group and launch configuration for micro services
using Ansible.
● Experience with Agile and DevOps concepts Developing monitoring architecture and
implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations, and alerts
● Deployed and configured Git repositories with branching, forks, tagging, and notifications.
● Experienced using different log monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK and Logstash for to see
logs information.
● Implemented continuous integration using Jenkins. Configured security to Jenkins and also
added multiple nodes for continuous deployments.
● Configured SSH, SMTP, Build Tools, and Source Control repositories in Jenkins.
● Installed multiple plugins to Jenkins. Configured Proxy to get auto updates
● Designing and implementation of public and private facing websites on AWS Cloud.
● Used AWS Route 53 for configuring the High-Availability and Disaster recovery to make the
environment up and running in case of any unexpected disaster.
● Written various Lambda services for automating the functionality on the Cloud.
● Leveraged Docker to build, test and deploy applications in different environments.
● Migrate Linux environment to AWS by create and execute a migration plan,
● Install and configure Terraform and build the infrastructure using terraform configuration
file and maintain state using remote backends like AWS S3.
● Automated build and deployment using Jenkins to reduce human error and speed up
production processes
● Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging
● Used AWS cloud services to launch Linux and windows machines, created security groups
and bootstrap user data to install packages at run time.
● Installed and configured Nagios as monitoring tool for disk usage, CPU utilization, list of
open files etc. and sending alerts to our teams based on the same. 
● Work with CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies
using Azure DevOps, AWS EKS, ArgoCD and FluxCD and Kustomize in an Agile Environment. 
● Migrate On-Prem VM’s to cloud using cloud endure and refractor monolithic applications to
microservices. Build docker images and depoy them as Statefull set, Deployments and
Daemon set.

Environment: AWS EC2, S3, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, AMI, ELB, VPC, Puppet, Redhat, Ubuntu,
Apache Nagios, Kafka

AWS / DevOps Engineer

AT&T LABS - Seattle, WA July 2018 –Dec 2018
● AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS,
Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation AWS Configuration, Auto scaling, Cloud Front,
IAM, S3.
● Experience in AWS using EC2, AWS Dynamo DB, AWS S3, AWS VPC and IAM services.
● Knowledge on launch EC2 instances & manage instances by using Terraform
● Primary duties include Build and Deployment of the java applications onto different
environments like Development and Production.
● Analyze, resolve, compilation and deployment errors related to code development,
branching, merging and building of source code along with Linux Administration
(Installation, Configuration, Tuning and Upgrades) of Linux.
● Have knowledge in creating Buckets in AWS and stored files. Enabled Versioning and
security for the files stored.
● Configure log insight to all the virtual machines where critical applications are installed.
Created dash boards to various applications and monitored the logs.
● Experience setting up and maintaining auto-scaling AWS stacks (preferred using cloud
formation) 
● Implemented continuous integration using Jenkins. Configured security to Jenkins and also
added multiple nodes for continuous deployments.
● Configured SSH, SMTP, Build Tools, and Source Control repositories in Jenkins.
● Installed multiple plugins to Jenkins. Configured Proxy to get auto updates
● Migrating projects from CLEARCASE to GIT and working as GIT admin as well packing and
automating builds, code analysis, find bug, maven, CI builds Setup using TFS for all the
projects in assurance. 
● Build files using Ansible and combine them to form clean, reusable abstractions.
● Build, manage, and continuously improve the build infrastructure for global software
development engineering teams including implementation of build scripts, continuous
integration infrastructure and deployment tools.
● Used shell scripting to automate procedures for automated deployment in Linux based
systems.
● security tools to help mitigate security vulnerabilities and automate repeatable tasks,
monitoring and tracking using automation or configuration tools like Puppet and Ansible.

Environment: AWS (EC2 Instances, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudFront), AWS Dynamo DB, AWS S3,
AWS VPC, IAM, Redhat, GIT/GITHUB, Jenkins, Nexus, Jira, Ansible, splunk.

AWS/DevOps Engineer
Charter Communications - Denver, CO July 2017 – June 2018
● Validating the hub validation using the cloud tv player and Checking the tiles on channels
using the sling player
● Working on the CLMS and resolving the issues on the channels and Resolved SD-HD,
Attributes and Channel issues.
● Writing new ansible scripts to automate ORT operation and the regular day to day works,
Configured Redhat servers using terraform method also configured new AMS and Stitcher
servers.
● Creating the file systems using Red Hat volume manager and performing the health check
on a regular basis for all Linux servers.
● Worked with JIRA for creating Projects, assigning permissions to users and groups for the
projects & Created Mail handlers and notification Schemes for JIRA.
● System Administration and problem solving for issues including resource allocation on
hypervisors, networking, and security of our Cloud Computing environment.
● Performance Tuning and Management for Linux server and working with the
application/database team to resolve issues.
● Using terrform built new red hat Linux servers, Resolved the time zone issues.
● Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using AWS code pipeline, Go CD, Bamboo,
Jenkins, Ant and Maven in Linux environment.
● Set up CI (Continuous Integration) for major releases in Jenkins and Go-CD.
● Configure and deploy AWS code pipeline to run codes in response to events and
automatically manage resources.
● Written chef cookbooks and Ansible playbooks for various packages and installed them on
VMs to perform QA testing.
● Application of AWS solutions especially EC2, S3, EBS Elastic Load Balancer.
● Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2Auto scaling groups.
● Configuring and Using ELK stack from the stractch and visualizing the dashbords on the
floor.
● Created puppet manifests and modules to automate system operations. Created monitors,
alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch
● Configuring the Docker containers and creating docker files for different environments.

Environment: SVN, Maven, Docker, Chef, Git, Go CD, Bamboo, Ant, Jenkins, Puppet, Tomcat,
Shell, AWS and JIRA, CLMS, ORT.

DevOps/Linux Engineer
IBM - Chicago, IL Jan 2016 – June 2017
● Advise Security Implementation Requirements and Server Security Considerations
● Managed Performance/Capacity, System Performance Tuning and Implemented System
HW/SW Components
● Using System Analysis and Monitor Tools to find out the Root Cause Analysis
● Security patching on Servers on various platforms such as Windows, Linux and Virtual
machines.
● Activities include operation and maintenance of operating systems across multiple
platforms, middleware
● applications, various database technologies, high availability solutions and load balancing.
● Applying security patches on Linux, windows servers and running Nessus scan on servers
finding the vulnerabilities on it.
● Configuring Bind servers and creating Zones and records in it.
● Installing Win bind software on new servers and configuring active directory on it.
● Experienced using different log monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK and Logstash for to see
logs information.
● Using IBM ITSAS tools finding the vulnerability on production, development and test servers
and also applied SSL certificates.
● Maintained and administered GIT source code tool. Also Created Branches, Labels and
performed Merges in Stash and GIT.
● Create repositories according the structure required with branches, tags and trunks.
● Configured application servers like WebSphere and Apache Tomcat to deploy the code.
● Developed processes, tools, automation for Jenkins based software for build system and
delivering SW Builds.
● Responsible for large-scale Puppet implementation and maintenance. Puppet manifests
creation, testing and implementation. 
● Created puppet manifests and modules to automate system operations. Created monitors,
alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch
● Merging release branches back to trunk after the production release and resolving of
conflicts during merging in both CVS and Subversion. 
● Configuring the Docker containers and creating docker files for different environments.
● Upgrading Cisco N5000, N6000 and N9000 switches NX-OS software to latest version

Environment: Red Hat Linux, Nessus, CISCO N9000, Puppet, Jira, Jenkins, GIT, Shell Scripting,
Windows Server 2008 R2, IBM ITSAS tools, Bind DNS.

Linux Engineer
Wenso Creative Solutions- Hyderabad June 2013 - Dec 2014
● Creating user & group accounts or updating user account information, resetting
passwords
● Installing, configuring and managing Red hat Enterprise Linux
● Installation and Configuration of Network Printers.
● Performing Linux administration duties including installation, maintenance.
● Installation & Configuration of software packages in Red Hat Linux. (Using yum and
rpm)
● Working with Logical Volume Manager and creating of volume groups/logical.
● Configuration of the RAID 1 and RAID 5 Storage using Volume Manager.
● Maintaining/supporting Windows Server Administration (NT, 2000, 2003, 2008).
● Configure, install, update, troubleshoot, repair and replace computer systems, terminals,
peripheral equipment and related hardware throughout the organization.
● Performs installation, customization and maintenance of the operating system and systems
software products in support of business processing requirements.

Environment: Red Hat Linux, Windows Server 2008 & 2003, R2, DNS, Puppet, NIS, SNMP,
SENDMAIL, Apache, LVM and Veritas Clusters.