Vivek K.

About Vivek K.

With over 9+ years of experience as a Red Hat certified Senior System Administrator/Engineer, I have worked extensively as a Linux Administrator and DevOps Engineer, collaborating with development and IT operations teams. My experience spans physical, virtual, and DevOps environments, focusing on system and server administration, shell scripting, and expertise in VMware, AWS cloud services, and a variety of DevOps tools, including Jenkins, Git, GitHub, SNOW, and Docker.I have extensive experience in managing and maintaining operating systems like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and Ubuntu. I’ve installed, configured, and administered RHEL,CentOS 6.x/7.x, and Ubuntu across various infrastructures. Additionally, I have worked in DevOps environments, leveraging Jenkins for automating production processes and streamlining continuous integration (CI) for projects.A key part of my experience includes automating infrastructure provisioning and implementing CI/CD pipelines for high-traffic applications, particularly in the Production sector. worked with Git and GitHub, ensuring seamless collaboration and maintaining code integrity across teams. I also have strong experience configuring Maven for dependency management and automating builds to optimize artifact generation.Cloud Services: VMWare,AWS (EC2, ELB, VPC, RDS, IAM, EKS, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS, SQS, EBS, Route53)Operating Systems: Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, WindowsCI/CD & Monitoring: Jenkins, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ZabbixContainerization: Docker, KubernetesBug Tracking: ServiceNowConfiguration Management: AnsibleDatabases: MySQL, PostgreSQLBuild Tools: ANT, Maven, Terraform, SonarQube, JFrog ArtifactoryVersion Control: Git, GitHubWeb Servers: Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, IISLanguages & Scripting: Shell, Yaml, TFSDLC: Agile, Waterfall

Experience

1. Sr Sre IT Infrastructure

   Dell Technologies

   May 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Developed CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Maven, and Docker.Managed GitHub repositories, created automated Jenkins jobs, and deployed applications over SSH.Control-M administration for production, QA, and Dev environments.Performed configuration, deployment and support of cloud services using Amazon Web Services.Managed creation of Amazon EC2 instances and setting up security groups and creation of Key pairs to access instances.Attached Elastic Block Storages, Instance backed-up storages for the virtual machines/instances.Launched Linux and Windows virtual servers on AWS EC2 Instances with predefined AMIs.Optimized volumes and EC2 instances and created multi AZ VPC instances.Used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups, created domain name server with the help of AWS Route 53 to route end users to access internet applications.Configured S3 to host static web content, Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling group.Supported AWS Cloud instances and familiar with AWS Management Console.Installed the Docker image in the Amazon EC2 Instance and installed Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP in that instance and build the Docker Image.Worked on Administration, maintenance and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers.Upgraded the services with package management using RPM, YUM for Stability and Security of the servers.Experienced network based services including TCP/IP, DNS BIND, Syslog, NTP, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, SMB, etc.Utilized vmstat, netstat, dig, traceroute, and rsync,PS, TOP, HTOP commands to check the status of process.Created user and group accounts, managed accounts and their access privileges in the Linux systems.Developed shell scripts to automate daily routines in the production such as back-up management.Monitor the system performances using Nagios and zabbix.Environment: AWS EC2, AMI, EBS, S3, ELB, IAM, RHEL 7, Jenkins, GIT, Docker, Nagios,Zabbix,Ansible,TF, SNOW

Education

• Zabbix Certified User (ZCU)

  Zabbix , Zabbix Certified User (ZCU)

• RHCE

  RED HAT CERTIFIED ENGINEER, LINUX SERVER 6,7,8

  2013

• Punjab Technical University

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science

• RHCSA

  RED HAT CERTIFIED SYATEM ADMINISTRATOR, LINUX SERVER 6,7,8

  2013