Ejaz Sheikh

About Ejaz Sheikh

Experienced in DevOps tools such as Chef, Vagrant, Virtualbox, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, SVN, GIT, and Docker.Experienced in strategy and practical implementation of AWS Cloud-Specific technologies which include EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, RDS, ELB, ECS, Cloudformation, Cloudwatch, Lambda and RDS MySQL.Worked on cross platform tools such as version control. Experienced in setting up Baselines, Branching, Merging, Develop, manage Pre-and Post-commit hook scripts; provide support for parallel development.Experience working on Multiple AWS instances, set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs, Auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.Managed Linux and Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2 using Chef Server. Configured and monitored distributed and multi-platform servers using Chef.Managed on-site OS/Applications/Services/Packages using Chef as well as AWS for EC2/S3 & ELB with Chef Cookbooks. Installed Chef-Server Enterprise On-Premise/WorkStation/ Bootstrapped the Nodes using Knife.Wrote recipes and cookbooks and uploaded them to the Chef server.Worked with Chef Enterprise Hosted as well as On-Premise, Installed Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes.Experienced in Branching, Merging, Tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GIT on Linux platforms.Worked with GIT version controls. Setting up new development branches, merging branches, facilitating the releases.Setting up the new repos, managing the permissions for various GIT branches. Creating adhoc GIT stashes.Integrated Maven with Jenkins for Continuous Integration process.Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with Maven to schedule the builds. Extensive experience using MAVEN as a Build Tool for the building of deployable artifacts from source code to write Pom.xml and Build.xml respectively.Worked on installation of Docker using Docker toolbox.Worked on creation of custom Docker container images, tagging and pushing the images.Setup V2 Docker registry for local image storage / management. Used Docker Registry API to interact with the registry.Worked on installing of Docker using Docker toolbox. Created Docker images using a Docker file. Worked on Docker container snapshots, removing images, and managing Docker volumes. Automated the process of Apache Webserver installation, configuration using Ansible.Redesigned and redeployed the Nagios implementation.Used JIRA as a Change Management/ Work Management/ SCRUM Agile Tool.Deployment and management

Experience

1. Devops Consultant

   Exaze

   Jun 2022 — Present · City of Johannesburg, ZA

Education

• St. Anthony's Senior Secondary School

  BCA

  2015 — 2018