Openstack Administrator

Role & responsibilities

SUMMARY:

• Openstack/Linux administrator with years of experience in Openstack, cloud computing, Virtualization, Linux System Administration and Configuration Management.
• Experience in managing multiple private clouds for enterprises on Bare metal, Virtual Machines and Containers to address different project needs.
• Experience in Openstack components Neutron, qlNova, Cinder, Horizon, Ceilometer, Heat, Glance and Swift.
• Expertise in upgrading Openstack releases from previous to latest stable version.
• Experience in deploying Cloud both automatically using Triple-O, Openstack Ansible and manual deployment.
• Experience in verifying Openstack environment in Docker Containers for Sanity tests before upgrading production environment.
• Experience in DevOps process using Jenkins, Ansible for On Demand Openstack deployment.
• Experience in creating/managing multiple tenants in a cloud, creating quotas, triggering alarms when certain thresholds are reached, creating network and creating/customizing heat templates.
• Expertise in troubleshooting Openstack issues from fault detection, fault isolation and resolving key issues.
• Experience using Tempest and Rally for functionality and performance testing; trigged those test cases from Jenkins.

Knowledge on AWS architecture.

• Solid foundation on Python and shell scripting languages.
• Solid knowledge in object Python and C++ object oriented programming (OOP) concepts.
• Experienced in supporting large - scale multi-tenant infrastructure level services.
• Experience in supporting private cloud environments housing multiple tenants in multiple networks.
• Experience in managing cloud software deployments, with a focus on continuous integration and deployment using GitHub, Jenkins, and Maven.
• Administration of Production, Development and Test environment's carrying Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux and Centos
• Experience installing, configuring and managing Linux based systems and applications via automation and configuration management tools such as Chef , Salt and Ansible.
• Experience in implementation and maintenance on Apache Tomcat, MySQL and JBoss web service environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Cloud Computing: Openstack, VMWare, AWS, Containers(Docker)
• Operating Systems: UNIX, Redhat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows
• Databases: Oracle, MYSQL, MongoDB and PgSql
• Programming Languages: Shell scripting(BASH), Python, Go
• SCM Tools: GIT, ArgoCD
• CI Tools: Jenkins
• Monitoring & Automation Tools: Zabbix , Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible
• Virtualization: VMWare ESXi, KVM
• Certification: RHEL , OSP , Cloud Admins