Jake Awe
Development
TX, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
JAKE's skills align with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). JAKE also has skills associated with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). JAKE has 20 years of work experience, with 11 years of management experience, including a mid-level position.
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Work Experience
Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer
AMD
January 2015 - July 2017
- * Supporting software development and data management projects that prepare large datasets for delivery to a shared cloud computing and storage environment. * Provide strategies and requirements for the seamless migration of applications, web services, and data from local and server based systems to the AWS cloud. * Part of a team of devOps engineer for infrastructure support on AWS cloud. Creating cloud formation scripts for hosting software on AWS cloud. Automating the installation of softwares through powershell scripts * Used Jenkins Docker container to deploy some of our Ansible applications to AWS * Used Terraform to provision application infrastructures employing tools like Autoscaling Groups, Security Group, VPC, CloudWatch etc. * Developed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT, EC2 instances, ELB, Security Groups. * Built a new CI pipeline. Testing and deployment automation with Docker, and Jenkins. * AWS EC2 and Cloud watch services. CI/CD pipeline management through Jenkins. Automation of manual tasks using Shell scripting. * Spinning various AWS elasticache redis clusters from EC2 instance. * focused on improvements to build and deployment tools * Used continuous delivery tools like Jenkins with Terraform to deploy files to QA and Developer servers * Set up ELK stack for Administering and troubleshooting failed deployment of infrastructure. * Deployed company-wide logging system with Docker container on Amazon ECS using Elasticsearch, Logstash, Graylog.
AWS Cloud Engineer
T-Mobile
May 2012 - January 2015
- Actively involved in a program geared towards migrating existing mission and business applications into a cloud based environment. Activities required to re-host an application into the cloud may include architecture modifications, database and/or application server re-hosting, and potentially recoding of existing capabilities to take advantage of cloud platform services. * Work with the architectural lead for the migration of several applications to the cloud. * Work with multiple, concurrent, teams for the migration/re-hosting of applications. * Maintaining/installing/Patching ESX Cluster on VMware and install Linux virtual Machines over it. It also includes managing and assigning of data stores inside the cluster and VMOTION of the Linux machines * VM creation and customization on ESXi. Management and troubleshooting of WHM and C-panel. IIS configuration and management on Web hosting. Configuration and management of ftp server. * Assist in managing the AWS relationship and AWS interface managing/monitoring the utilized AWS services/resources. * Proactively develop best practice standards, architectures, and procedures to support the utilization of cloud infrastructure services. * Configure cluster, failover cluster, troubleshoot cluster issues, add/delete resources, service groups * Experienced in Server builds and automating the provision of OS by using Jumpstart for Solaris and Kickstart for RedHat(RHEL)
Linux System Administrator
Tyson Foods
August 2008 - April 2012
- * Installation/configuration of Rhel 4/5/6 using kickstart Server and Windows OS * Packages and integrating servers to Active Directory, etc. * Maintain puppet environment for automation across multiple servers * Worked with Oracle DBA's for restore of Oracle Instance and Building Oracle RAC Cluster. * Worked on creating Virtual machines using VMware software. * Performed hardware, operating system, security and application updates/patches on these systems as well as operating system hardening based in industry standards. * Experienced working on Datacenter Migration Projects. * Worked with Enterprise Security Manager to get Security certification for servers before moving them in to production. * Responsible for Failover/Pre-Failback/Failback and verification of the same in case of outage in the high environment using VCS (Veritas Cluster Server). * Working very closely with vendors (IBM/HP/Sun/EMC) in resolving any hardware/ Storage and Network issues. * Monitoring the system performance and doing the kernel tuning to enhance the system performance. * Troubleshooting Production Server Problems related to web applications, Sendmail, disk space, file system, DNS and network connectivity. * Experience with patching both manually and automated. * Provided 24/7 on-call support on a weekly basis.
Lead SAP Basis & Systems Engineer
Kyocera
January 2004 - August 2008
- Deployed multiple SAP Basis projects and installations including SAP security and GRC. * End to End BW on HANA Implementation with Project Planning to Execution * BW 7.40 SP8 Upgrade on HANA * HANA Database Revision Patching * PI 7.1 to PO 7.4 Upgrade * Installation of CRM Suite SAP Enhancement Package 2, Version for SAP HANA * Performed HANA Configuration HANA Backup and Recovery, Transports, HANA Security, * Worked with HANA Studio for performing HANA activities * Upgrade SAP ERP 6.0 EHP 6.0 to ERP 6.0 EHP 7.0 (ready for HANA). * SAP BI 3.5 (Netweaver 2004s) to BI 7.31 (content 747) upgrade. * Unicode conversion of SAP BI 7.31. * Created, Configured and Implemented end to end Archiving blueprint, approach, strategy for SAP HCM HR Archive Objects, Technical and Cleanup tables. Developed UAT/QAT with Volume Test, Sizing documents with full workshops of ILM (Information Life Management * Developed containment strategy for non-sap tables and z tables outside of ADK Archive objects. * Implementation of Quality Management and Change Request Management (Full customized workflow, (35 Status) * End User Monitoring Setup using Solution Manager Upgrade * SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Upgrade * Implementation of Solution documentation. * Implementation of Change Request Management and Quality Gates * Aris and uPerform Integration * SAP BW v7.3 (ABAP) powered by HANA 1.5, Executive Dashboard RDS * Unicode conversion of SEM 6.0 (ERP with BI_CONT + SEM-BCS). * Installation of additional AS-Java Usage Types (EPC, EP, BI-Java) into NW7.00 systems. * Configuration of EWA (Early Watch Alert reporting) in Solution Manager Landscape. * Advanced SAP technical performance analysis and recommendations for both SAP and database layers for ERP 6 systems on Oracle. * UCES Upgrade to OKTA (Cloud Based Solution) * SAP Solution Manager 7.1 patching. * Implemented Service Level Reporting, Solution Reporting, CCMS Alert monitoring, * Worked on Charm configuration
Manager, Cloud and DevOps
Kronos
August 2017 - Present
- * Experienced Cloud and DevOps engineer in Automating, Configuring and deploying instances on AWS, AZURE Cloud environments and Data centers. * Supported 300+ AWS cloud instances running Ubuntu, Redhat and windows environments. * Build expertise in Workflow for Amazon Web services like EC2, S3, ELB, EBS, VPC, Security Groups, IAM, and DevOps tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, Vagrant, Apache, Tomcat, Ant, and Maven * Responsible for Installation of applications on AWS cloud and implemented AWS solutions using S3, EC2, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto-scaling groups. * Own site operations which includes: security, reliability, operations (including testing and documenting what to do for failover) of all deployed servers * Configure and manage internal AWS services needed to run the site: Route 53, ELB, Elasticache, RDS, EC2, ECR, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, SQS, etc. * Support CICD pipeline and help construct API gateways and trade off strategies for assembling on and off-chain communication between multiple peers * Scope out the network details, implementation, and monitoring for one or more testnets * Construct utilities for inspecting and maintaining the network, such as monitoring utilities, debugging utilities, facilities for checking and analyzing transactions, tools for exploring the blockchain * Involved in designing and deploying multi-tier applications using all the AWS services like (EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud formation. * Deployed Cloud controls, Cloud Governance and Azure Security * Created Azure architecture blueprints and developer documentation * Migrated applications from on premise or other clouds to Azure, VMware, and Netanya * Integrated systems between Public Cloud Providers Azure and AWS * Designed and developed infrastructure using Terraform and cloud formation and automated end-to-end transit hub connectivity resource deployment in AWS via Terraform. * Proficient with container systems like Docker and container orchestration like EC2 Container Service, Kubernetes, worked with Terraform. * Managed Docker orchestration and Docker containerization using Kubernetes. * Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers. * Managed Docker orchestration and Docker containerization using Kubernetes. * Automated various infrastructure activities like Continuous Deployment, Application Server setup, Stack Monitoring using Ansible playbooks using CI tool like run desk and Jenkins. * Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manage the changes. * Carried automated Deployments and builds on various environments using continuous integration (CI) tool Jenkins. * Built a new CI pipeline for testing and deployment automation with Docker, Jenkins, and Ansible. * Installed, Configured, Administered Jenkins Continuous Integration Tool also automated Continuous Build and deploy Scripts for Jenkins. * Using Chef deployed and configured Elastic search, Log stash and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring in integration with AWS Lambda and Cloud Watch. * Monitored Applications and Servers through Nagios, Web Servers Administration on Apache and Nginx.
Education
University of Texas at Arlington
B.Sc. in Economics and Computer Science
