I have more than 9 years of experience in specializing in traditional and cloud-based infrastructure provisioning. Bridging the gap between development, operations and management.
Assisting clients to take advantage of DevOps tool-sets, to allow programmatic provisioning using infrastructure as code.
Implementer of business critical systems and frameworks to facilitate operational control.
Accomplished implementer of enterprise monitoring systems. Ability to gain ITIL focused enterprise visibility, assisting with ITIL incident and consequent problem management.
Implemented both ITIL and Agile project management change and improved release management. Health. IT Operations Management.
Professional services representation and business development, including a large Bank of America vendor. Required skills included technical infrastructure and software design, presentation to senior management.
Recommended, designed and implemented opensource solutions.
Consolidated infrastructure, increasing flexibility, reducing complexity and costs.
Delivered a framework of opensource tools to allow client to increase their own abilities to monitor their infrastructure.
Designed and implemented an enterprise monitoring and alerting framework with integrated documentation management whilst working for Persistent systems.
Managed an operations team of 4 and was responsible for all infrastructure supporting production systems, including web, middle-ware. This included all software deployments going to UAT via release management.
In June 2014 my family and I moved to live permanently in Australia, having spent the last nine years in various roles in the India and most recently Dusseldorf, Germany.
Specialties: DevOps and "infrastructure as code". Enterprise systems monitoring and alerting, IT operations management. Incident, change and release management.
Senior Consultant @ From August 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaSystems engineer @ From 2014 to 2015 (1 year) Systems engineer @ From 2014 to 2015 (1 year) Systems engineer @ From 2014 to 2015 (1 year) Systems engineer @ From 2014 to 2015 (1 year) Systems engineer @ From 2014 to 2015 (1 year) Systems engineer @ From 2014 to 2015 (1 year) Devops Engineer @ Short term contract as Devops engineer. Taken care of building 1800respect.org.au site and porting it from Redhat to Ubuntu using Puppet. Implemented docker for 1800respect.org.au. From July 2014 to August 2014 (2 months) Melbourne Area, AustraliaDeputy Manager @ Project: Vodafone Germany AD services
Responsibilities:
Day to day activities involve following administration tasks :
• Providing support to more then 20 ad-fetcher critical Servers for Vodafone Germany.
• Provide resolution to various Severity 1 incidents.
• Use Python/Perl/Shell scripting to automate repeated tasks.
• Deploying new servers for new projects with ad-fetcher team.
• Resolving issues related to reverse proxy clusters(front and back-end)
• Monitoring and resolving backup up related issues.
• Monitoring NAGIOS related issues and resolve them on time.
• Hadoop server management.
• Querying SPLUNK for pin pointing issues and resolving them.
• Manage Syslogng server to collect ad-fetcher logs
• Manage Collected server
• Managing Netflix/hystrix for monitoring real time issues.
• Monitoring server stability by using Graphity log monitoring tool.
• As scrum master initiate daily scrum call to see the progress of project.
• Worked on ITIL framework which includes different type requests as per customer requirement like IM/CM/PM.
Mini Projects Handled:
• Deploying audience report server on Linux RHEL 6 machines.
• Written a python script for deploying Adfetcher instance which save time as well as reduce human errors.
• Installed Opsware tool in *NIX servers to enhance package management and done L1 level troubleshooting
• Implemented DR tests with Chef automation tool. From February 2014 to June 2014 (5 months) Sr Analyst-Sys Admin & Support @ Worked as Powerbroker implementation Engineer. Responsible for handling many system admin activities such as Clustering, Virtualization(AWS/KVM), Data center tools like NAGIOS and Puppet.
Project: Bank of America
Responsibilities:
Day to day activities involve following administration tasks :
• Providing support to more then 50,000 critical Servers for Bank of America world wide.
• Provide resolution to various Severity 1 incidents.
• Use Python/Perl/Shell scripting to automate repeated tasks.
• Deploying new servers for Power-broker team.
• Resolving issues related to Power-broker LB clusters.
• Monitoring and resolving backup up related issues.
• Monitoring NAGIOS related issues and resolve them on time.
• Meeting with other teams and stakeholder on regular basses to resolve high priority issues.
• Worked with CAB team on different ITIL related management stuff for CM, IM and PM.
• Automated state full/less VM's across Bank using Python scripts.
Mini Projects Handled:
• Deploying Power-broker servers in LB/HA clusters.
• Written couple of python scripts for Power-broker log analyze and report security issues to respective CTO SA managers.
• Implemented Eucalyptus for building Amazon Web Services (AWS)-compatible private and hybrid cloud computing environments. From April 2011 to January 2014 (2 years 10 months) Automation enginer @ From 2014 to 2014 (less than a year) Automation enginer @ From 2014 to 2014 (less than a year) Module Lead - Information Technology @ Project: Persistent Systems
Day to day activities:
• Providing support to more then 500+ Persistent Systems servers.
• Creating EMC EnVision log server dashboards for other teams.
• Use Python/Perl/Shell scripting to automate repeated tasks.
• Deploying new servers for new projects with in Persistent.
• Resolving issues related to Squid reverse proxy cluster, backups, NAGIOS, CMDB etc.
• Interacting with other teams on EMC envision log server dashboards.
• Managing easyCMDB server for CM, PM, IM and FTP, DNS, Squid reverse proxy servers and syslogng server for central logging.
• Monitoring/resolving security issues on servers using Nessus vulnerability.
• Troubleshooting complex issues with packet capturing using TCPdump and Wireshark.
• Fine tuning services like Apache, CMDB, DNS, Squid servers.
• Worked on ITIL framework.
• Done DR tests on regular basis for easyCMDB, DNS, FTP, Squid reverse proxy cluster.
Mini Projects Handled:
• KVM Virtualization pilot project implementation for ITIG staff.
• Deployed SNORT IDS/IPS for real-time blocking of Miscellaneous attacks.
• Deployed local YUM server for Linux clients.
• Automating DR tests, backups for easyCMDB server.
• Implemented FTP server Automation through Apache and shell/PHP scripting.
• Implemented centralized service monitoring with NAGIOS tool.
• Implemented Squid reverse proxy High availability(HA) cluster.
• Implemented PUPPET for centralized configuration management.
• Implemented Linux clients integration with Active Directory using Samba Winbind and shell scripting.
• Deployed EMC envision central logging server for Central log monitoring.
• Integrated PIDGIN clients for Linux users to use Microsoft OCS/Lync in Linux.
• Deployed Persistent foundation site and klisma.in from scratch.
• Created Knowledge group, given talks on automation at various ITIG internal meetings.
Awards:
• Spot award for FTP tool implementation.
• Spot award for Linux clients integration with Active directory forest. From July 2009 to May 2011 (1 year 11 months) Member Technical Staff @ Project: Worked for Cisco systems.
Responsibilities:
Day to day activities involve following administration tasks :
• Providing support to Cisco employees for Linux administration related task.
• Resolution to various Severity 1 incidents.
• Replying new Linux servers for Cisco testbeds.
• Resolving issues related to Linux routing issues on ad-hoc basis.
• Taking backups on regular basis.
• Done DR tests on regular basis.
Mini Projects Handled:
• Migrated 10s of Sun solaris machines to Linux for Cisco systems.
• Implemented Linux routing project for Cisco systems.
• Written huge number of scripts for automated testing for Cisco UBR7000 and UBR10000 routers. From November 2007 to July 2009 (1 year 9 months) Network Engineer @ From August 2005 to October 2007 (2 years 3 months)
B.Tech, Electronics and Telecommunication's @ Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University From 2001 to 2005 10th class, General Studies @ Bhasyam Public School From 1998 to 1999 Surendra Kumar Anne is skilled in: Shell Scripting, Red Hat Linux, Cluster, Linux, Servers, Nagios, Apache, Virtualization, RedHat, DNS, Linux System..., Unix, Solaris, LDAP, Scripting, CentOS, Data Center, VMware ESX, KVM, RHEL, NFS, Debian, Bash, Xen, Load Balancing, FTP, Unix Shell Scripting, High Availability, MangoDB, Python, Perl, Puppet, Chef, saltstack, Openstack, Cloudstack, Ruby, AWS, AIX Administration, Active Directory, ITIL, Open Source, Integration, Ubuntu, Enterprise Architecture, Cisco Technologies, Routers, Routing, HP-UX, TCP/IP
Websites:
http://www.linuxnix.com,
http://www.google.com/profiles/surendra.anne