SHOLA ABDUL

● Orchestrated VNETs, subnets, NSGs, VPN Gateways, and peering, delivering 99.9% uptime; Implemented Load Balancers and Availability Zones to assure high availability.

● Devised strategic plans for Azure VM capacity, scrutinized performance, and slashed costs by 20% through effective Cost Management and Billing practices.

● Executed flawless migrations of on-premises and hosted workloads to Azure, minimizing downtime and ensuring a seamless transition.

● Mastered Azure Virtual Desktop and session-based remote desktop solutions, fostering efficient remote access for teams.

● Seamless collaboration with development teams, ingraining DevOps practices in 90% of projects.

● Utilized Terraform to architect infrastructure solutions, slashing deployment times by 30%.

● Maintained a 99.5% uptime rate for Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019 versions.

● Oversaw Office 365, executed Azure administration and design, applied Group Policies, and scripted virtual environments, elevating operational efficiency by 15%.

● Demonstrated expertise in Linux Operating Systems and 3rd party hosting providers, contributing to diverse infrastructure management.

● Facilitated seamless integration with solution partners, achieving success in 80% of projects.

● Proficiently handled Docker and Kubernetes, contributing to 25% of application modernization projects.

● Leveraged Azure DevOps and boards to automate pipeline deployment and streamline repository management.

● Direct the configuration of networks and virtual machines in the AWS Cloud for a client.

● Create Terraform templates to establish and construct Amazon Web Services resources for 24 clients.

● Pioneered the creation of an automated build and deploy CI/CD pipeline from scratch using GitHub, Jenkins, Docker (for image building and containerization), and Kubernetes, reducing manual deployment by 85%.

● Execute container operations in Kubernetes clusters to maintain high availability, achieving a 99% uptime rate in a production environment using both imperative and declarative approaches.

● Develop and manage a CI/CD Pipeline in Jenkins, retrieving code, compiling applications, conducting tests, and pushing artifacts to Nexus.

● Administer AWS cloud resources including EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, CloudWatch, IAM, RDS, Lambda, and ECS.

● Maintain ACL and design Security Groups, configuring Inbound/Outbound rules, and creating/importing Key Pairs.

● Automate builds and deployments in Jenkins CI/CD and AKS, GIT, Bitbucket, Github, and Artifactory for clients.

● Manage AWS Linux servers and conduct patching of cloud servers.

● Construct and administer Jenkins Library and Plugins.

● Author Ansible playbooks to automate the configuration of various AWS servers, boosting efficiency by 65%.

● Proficiently utilize Project management tools such as Jenkins, Visio, and Confluence.

● Employ Identity Access Management to generate new accounts, roles, and groups for 42 client staff members.

● Oversee the entire lifecycle management of servers, from provisioning to decommissioning.

● Design and implement server monitoring with CloudWatch and automate log archiving to S3.

● Develop an automated No-Downtime deployment strategy using Auto-Scaling Groups.

● Collaborate seamlessly with developers and QA to implement Continuous Integration testing with Jenkins.

● Established CI/CD pipelines for Microservices, integrating Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Docker, and Slack to provide immediate feedback to Dev teams post code check-in.

● Provisioned Dynamic Jenkins Docker slaves using DockerHost for seamless CI/CD Pipelines.

● Set up Git repositories and SSH Keys in GitHub for Agile teams.

● Integrated GitHub web hooks into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process.

● Implemented the master-slave architecture in Jenkins to enhance performance.

● Imported existing infrastructure into Terraform using Terraform Import command.

● Created Dockerfile and automated docker image creation using Jenkins and Docker.

● Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS and Azure Cloud using Terraform, realizing a 70% and 85% optimization respectively.

● Generated nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube.

● Established quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced them in the pipelines to fail builds when conditions were not met.

● Terminated redundant resources in AWS, resulting in a $15,000 reduction in running costs.

● Leveraged AWS EKS to deploy, scale, load balance, and manage docker containers across multiple namespace versions

● Collaborated with project managers and project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.

● Clearly identified project stakeholders and established user classes, and characteristics.

● Conducted interviews to gather user requirements through workshops, questionnaires, surveys, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.

● Liaised with stakeholders and the project team to prioritize collected requirements.

● Translated conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/the project team.

● Developed and conducted peer reviews of business requirements and interpreted requirement specifications correctly.

● Drove the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicated these back to the business stakeholders.

● Initiated and led the transition of the organization to a more Agile approach.

● Doubled as Scrum Master and facilitated Scrum Ceremonies, including stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other sprint activities.

● Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.

● Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.