Racheal Abbey
Development
CA, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
RACHEAL ABBEY's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). RACHEAL also has skills associated with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). RACHEAL ABBEY has 5 years of work experience.
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Work Experience
DEVOPS/CLOUD ENGINEER
CLOUD SPACE CONSULTING LLC. VA
July 2020 - Present
- Design and build modern pipelines for CI/CD, automating and improving application deployments in the AWS cloud environment. Created internal tools and scripts to automate routine tasks and enhance security measures for Kubernetes deployments. Automated the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications using Kubernetes, reducing manual intervention, and ensuring consistency. Implemented monitoring solutions to proactively track the health of Kubernetes clusters, diagnosing and resolving issues promptly. Ensured security within Kubernetes deployments by implementing RBAC policies and following best practices for securing containerized environments. Successfully deployed and maintained Linux-based servers (Ubuntu, CentOS) for hosting critical applications, ensuring 24/7 availability and optimal performance. Configured and managed system resources, users, and permissions on Linux servers, implementing security best practices to safeguard sensitive data. Conducted regular system updates and patch management, minimizing vulnerabilities, and ensuring systems were up to date with the latest security patches. Collaborated with software development teams to create development environments on Linux systems, facilitating efficient code testing and deployment processes. Develop data platform infrastructure and pipelines utilizing Snowflake and Talend to support reporting and data science requirements. Implement best practices like Test Automation, Build Automation, Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Nexus, Terraform, Git, and Docker. Managed Databricks workspaces, including setting up clusters, notebooks, and libraries for data exploration and analysis. Developed and managed Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using AWS CloudFormation, optimizing resource provisioning and configuration. Implemented configuration management using Ansible, ensuring consistency and reliability across cloud resources Supported web site/services operations, management, and security to maintain high availability and performance. Collaborated with infrastructure architects to deliver complex solutions for clients worldwide, focusing on Hybrid and Multi-Cloud implementations Contributed to creating reusable assets to drive efficiency and standardization across the organization. Implement and maintain the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using CloudWatch. Leverage AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable, and flexible systems that can handle expected and unexpected load bursts. Encrypt and manage both server-side encryption such as KMS and AWS Client encryption library, and client-side encryption of S3 and databases in the cloud. Migrate databases and workloads from on premise servers to the cloud using tools such as AWS Data Migration Service (DMS), Schema conversion tool (SCT). Implement and maintain monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 instances using CloudWatch and SNS. Perform S3 bucket creation, access policies, and archive outdated data to Glacier through the Lifecycle policy configuration. Good knowledge and experience using AWS Lambda for Server-less computing. Worked on administering various AWS Services using the AWS Console, CLI and SDK (python, Node.js). Experience with MySQL and RDBMS Experience working on Docker Hub, creating Docker container images, and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configurations. Worked on ECS (Elastic container service) and Docker for deploying containers and involved in testing the micro services.
AWS DevOps/Cloud Engineer
UBER
July 2019 - June 2020
- Built a complete CI/CD pipeline from the scratch by using Git/GitHub as version control, Jenkins as CI server, and Ansible Playbooks for application deployment to Development k8-Cluster. Architected and implemented continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins and other CI. Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, role- based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, etc. Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on re-source need, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling etc. Setup Ansible control and slave nodes and used playbooks for automation configuration of servers across environments. Implemented infrastructure as code technologies like Terraform and CloudFormation to ensure consistency and repeatability in cloud environments. Leveraged EC2 Create snapshot API call to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals. Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our AWS resources and applications. Configuring NACL, Security Groups and WAF to secure the application and VPC network depending on access parameters provided and conditions. Designed and provisioned a complete AWS Server-less Architecture to ease network traffic by using s3, Lambda function, SQS and DynamoDB as a distributed database.
AWS Solutions Architect
Epsilon, CA
November 2018 - June 2019
- Build and maintained Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS. Managed GitHub repositories/permissions including branching and tagging. Implement Blue/Green deployment for software upgrades. Designed and implemented automation infrastructure for configuration management and orchestrated deployment using automation tools such as Ansible. Designed and deployed cost-efficient, fault tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS Cloud. Implement and enhance scripts in Python. Created Ansible Playbook and CloudFormation to configure and deploy to various AWS environment. Creating containers using Docker. Designed, built, deploy, and maintained Infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure as Code Tools such as Terraform and Cloud Formation. Implemented application and infrastructure monitoring and responsiveness using AWS CloudWatch and SNS. Integrated services like GitHub, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, Code Build and AWS Code Deploy to create a deployment pipeline.
Education
University Oakland
MBA
