Abid Ali

Experienced DevOps and Linux Engineer with strong expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift, and infrastructure automation across multi-cloud environments. Skilled in designing secure, scalable, and highly available systems on AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and enterprises

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  DevOps EngineerPerfect Presentation - 2P2024 to now• Manage and administer Linux environments including CentOS, Red Hat, Oracle Linux, and SUSE Linux. • Configure and maintain SUSE SAP Storage Clusters (Pacemaker) for high availability and performance. • Deploy and manage container orchestration platforms using Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE2). • Automate infrastructure tasks using tools using Ansible core, AWX, Ansible Galaxy Operator with UI, Gitea and ArgoCD with EDA Controller. • Monitor and optimize system performance, ensuring availability and reliability using AppDynamics and BMC BHOM. • Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to streamline application deployment using Jenkins & GitLab. • Conduct system patching, updates, and security hardening across all Linux systems. • Manage and troubleshoot networking and storage solutions in Linux environments. • Collaborate with development teams to optimize workflows and integrate DevOps practices. • Design and implement scalable solutions for production and disaster recovery. • Managing Linux server’s backup using Veritas NetBackup solution. • Managing Alibaba and OCI cloud Operations and new deployment. • Managing VMware on Alibaba and OCVS Operations and new deployment. • Installed, configured and managed OpenLDAP on RHEL 8 for a telecommunications client. • Racked, stacked, cabled, installed, and integrated Dell servers, SAN storages, and SAN switches for a company client at over 20 sites.
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  Senior Linux System EngineerArbisoft2023• Managing Oracle, RedHat and Ubuntu servers for the largest enterprises of USA. • Implemented and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, resulting in a 30% increase in deployment efficiency. • Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks for automating server provisioning, configuration, and deployments. • Deployed and managed containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, optimizing resource utilization and scaling. • Designed and implemented secure and scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS and OCI, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery. • Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management with Ansible, reducing manual intervention by 40%. • Administered and monitored Linux servers, ensuring optimal performance and security compliance. • Managing backups and recovery scripts of multi terabytes of Oracle database on-prem/cloud • Oracle server patching, cloning and other administration tasks • Provide support in Oracle Exadata (compute nodes, storage cells), OS patching • Managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Instances • Managing OCI compute instance patching and maintenance • Managing MS defender endpoint security solution. • Automate the manual process using Ansible and Bash scripting. • Orchestrated the upgrade, enabling version control improvements, collaboration, and streamlined software development. • Troubleshoot issues with worker nodes, maintenance, and scale-out task.
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  Linux System EngineerIbex2020 to 2022• Configuration and Management of servers with the help of Ansible. • To fix vulnerabilities and deploy missing patches with desktop central Tool (DTC). • Management of backup using Veeam and scripts. • Administration of Next Cloud as a replacement of Dropbox for company users. • Administration of Zimbra Mail solution for agent. • Administration and monitoring of more than 1200 servers including Windows and Linux OS. • Monitoring and management of servers and services using Nagios Monitoring Tool. • Manage Amazon Web Services ELB, EC2, S3, RDS, SNS, CloudWatch, Route53 and other developer tools. • Managing and configuring CI/CD Jenkins pipeline. • Configuration and management of Active Directory, Exchange Server, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Webservers and SQL Servers on Microsoft. • Administration of Duo proxy for 2 Factor Authentication with Servers, Workstations, and VPN. • Administration of Azure, GCP and Rackspace cloud services. • Administration of Microsoft Office 365 (Teams, Office 365, and Power BI). • Administration of Cloud Watch MDM solution. • Working with PowerShell to automate daily tasks to overcome workload. • Working within virtual environment VMware ESXI and KVM to manage Servers. • Administration of Sentinel one Anti-Virus solution. • Administration and Management of VMware vRealize Operations. • Administration and Management of Citrix VDI and Forcepoint DLP.

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  Masters, Information TechnologyUniversity of Education2014 to 2016

• kubernetes
• containers
• open source software
• orchestration
• system administrator
• volumes
• amazon web services
• ansible
• api objects
• aws
• aws certification
• aws cloud
• cloud
• cloud architecture
• cloud certification
• cloud data
• cloud infrastructure
• cloud services
• custom resource definitions
• helm