Md Wazir Ahmad

DevOps lead and Linux Expert with 10 Years Experience in DevOps,Configuration

,Build Automation,Deployment Process,Production Support,Defect Fixing,Linux
Administration,VPC
configuration,AWS,Docker,Kubernetes,Jenkins,Maven,SonarQube,Ansible,GIT

PROFILE SUMMARY

With more than 10 years of experience in the IT

industry, I have acquired my skills in senior
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DevOps lead, Linux administration , automation
Mobile: +91-9673473829 and team lead and management. I have worked
Email: wazirzafar1@gmail.com with Wipro Technologies, TCS, and CTS, where I
have gained expertise in build and deployment,
AWS, and production operations. My technical
PERSONAL DETAILS proficiency includes working with CICD tools like
Total Experience 10 Years 6 Months Jenkins and Git, as well as managing
Pune
environments in AWS. I have experience with
Current Location
shell scripting, Maven, Gradle, Docker,
Date of Birth Jun 13, 1987
Kubernetes, SonarQube, and SonarLint. I have
Gender Male
also worked with Jira for project management
Marital Status Single / Unmarried
and have been responsible for implementing
tasks, resolving incidents, and managing change
requests. My ability to adapt to new
SKILLS environments and learn new technologies
Senior Associate quickly makes me a valuable asset to any
DevOps organization.
Configuration Management
Build Automation
Deployment Process EDUCATION HISTORY
Production Support
Defect Fixing Post Graduation
Linux Administration Course M.Tech( Data and Computational Science
VPC Configuration )
AWS College Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur
Docker Year of Passing 2023
Kubernetes
Grade 7/10
Jenkins
Maven
Graduation
SonarQube
Course B.Tech/B.E.(
Ansible
Electronics/Telecommunication )
Splunk
GIT College SRM Institute Of science And
UNIX Technology, SRM University
DevOps Engineer Year of Passing 2012
Team Leadership Grade 6.4/10
Team Lead And Process Trainer
Class XII
Board CBSE
TECHNICAL SKILLS Medium English
Symantec NetBackup Year of Passing 2006
Unix,RedHat/Linux Grade 60-64.9%
GIT,Jenkins,Maven,Gradle
UNIX Shell Scripting Class X
Devops,Docker,Kubernetes Board CBSE
Splunk,SonarQube,SonarLint
 JIRA,AWS Load Balancer,VPC Medium English
Samba Server,LVM,NFS,Linux Server Year of Passing 2004
Linux Administration Grade 70-74.9%
Team Handling
Team Leading

WORK EXPERIENCE
LANGUAGES KNOWN Nov 2016 to Jun 2023
English Senior Associate - DevOps at Cognizant Technology
Hindi Solutions India Ltd
French Overall, 10 + Years of IT experience, having expertise in
Urdu Devops,maintenance and support Expertise in
Configuration tools Ansible.

COURSES & CERTIFICATIONS Expertise in CICD Tools Jenkins. Worked on creation of

workflows in JIRA.
Symantec Netbackup Certificate Training
Unix Shell Scripting Certificate
Expertise on shell scripting to monitor the services running
Redhat Linux 7 Participation Certificate
on UNIXInvolved in production support activities like root
Symantec NetBackup Training Certificate cause analysis, fixing defects, migrating fixed defects
based on severity, sending status reports to clients and
discussing about the pending production defects.
SOCIAL LINKS
https://www.linkedin.com/in/md-wazir-ahmad- Prepared impact analysis document for the production
6a583940/ defects, monitored the services running in the application.

Ability toadapt seamlessly with new environment/people

and have the potential to learn new technology/processes
in ease. Expertise in build and deployments using Maven,
Gradle, Jenkins,GIT. Worked in nexus installation and
configuration.

Managing Environments in AWSExperience with installing

and managing plugins for Jira and Confluence.
Experience with build and deployment processes for
multiple projects.
Build and deploy artifacts into an application server using
continuous integration environment.

Monitor builds and provide proactive support to resolve

any build issues.
Responsible for maintaining the source code in Subversion
with proper branch
/ trunk process.Deploy code to QA, Stage and Production
Environments
Responsible to check the code contention in Subversion
trunk before every production release.

Effectively performed production deployments without any

post-install issues. Responsible for new environment setup
of development, build and production environments.
Responsible to keep the servers secure by remediating the
security vulnerabilities. Effectively involved in analyzing
and remediating the vulnerabilities. Developed Shell
scripts for many automation purposes.
Administration of continuous integration tool Jenkins and
version control tool Git Does Daily, Weekly and Monthly
Status Reporting

Nov 2015 to Nov 2016

Senior Process Associate at TCS
Linux admin and devops engineer ,User Admin, Disk
management, Hard and Soft link, Installation, I/O
redirections editor, DNS configuration, NFS
configuration, Samba server, LVM, Package management,
Crontab and Permissions, Boot process and IP tables ,
Provided technical support and troubleshooting ,
Monitored system performance , implemented
performance tuning measures. Developed and maintained
automated scripts for routine tasks, improving efficiency
and reducing the manual efforts.
Provided technical support and training to end users on
Linux related topics, managed , installed ,configured and
optimized Linux servers based on the
project requirements and best practices.
Configuring the CICD pipeline, VPC configuration, AWS load
balance,
Security, Identity, Compliance, Storage and compute,
Declarative pipeline script with stages and steps.
Linux admin and devops engineer User Admin, Disk
management, Hard and Soft link, Installation, I/O
redirections editor, DNS configuration, NFS configuration,
Samba server, LVM, Package management, Crontab and
Permissions, Boot process and IP tables , Provided
technical support and troubleshooting , Monitored system
performance , implemented performance tuning measures.

Developed and maintained automated scripts for routine

tasks, improving efficiency and reducing the manual
efforts. Provided technical support and training to end
users on Linux related topics, managed , installed
configured and optimized Linux servers based on the
project requirements and best practices , Configuring the
CICD pipeline, VPC configuration, AWS load balance,
Security, Identity, Compliance, Storage and compute,
Declarative pipeline script with stages and steps.

Skills: Git Troubleshooting, Virtualization , Amazon VPC

Oct 2012 to Oct 2015

Project Engineer at Wipro Technologies

Automation in Unix,Linux,storage and backup using Unix
shell scripting
Linux and backup admin
Configuring and automated installation using scripts,
Jenkins
Have setup JIRA workflow, user, groups, issues,
screens.
Created projects and workflows in JIRA.
Configuring the CICD pipeline
Creating shell scripts for automated installation
Fixing issues in the deployment and configuration of
the environments.
Created shell script to verify the health care data
before and after server on Unix.
Coordinated with different teams during the server
migration to resolve any issues in the planned activity.
Installation of patches/packages.
Creating and managing user accounts.
Creating and managing file systems.
File permissions and assigning rights to users.
Scheduling/Controlling of jobs using Cron and at.
Monitoring of various services running on Linux
servers.
Knowledge on configuration of NFS and FTP.
Monitoring disk and file system usage.
Backup and Restore activities.
Experienced on Linux Logical Volume Manager
(LVM)Linux and backup admin. Configuring and
automated installation using scripts, Jenkins ??? Have
setup JIRA workflow, user, groups, issues, screens. ???
Created projects and workflows in JIRA. Configuring the
CICD pipeline Creating shell scripts for automated
installation. Fixing issues in the deployment and
configuration of the environments. Created shell script
to verify the health care data before and after server on
Unix. Coordinated with different teams during the
server migration to resolve any issues in the planned
activity. Installation of patches/packages. ??? Creating
and managing user accounts. Creating and managing
file systems. File permissions and assigning rights to
users. Scheduling/Controlling of jobs using Cron and at.
Monitoring of various services running on Linux
servers. Knowledge on configuration of NFS and FTP.
Monitoring disk and file system usage. Backup and
Restore activities.
Skills: Git Troubleshooting , AS400 , Automation
Linux , Unix Administration , NetBackup

PROJECTS
DevOps lead, Back up Admin in Unix & windows; Aut
omation unix shell scripting; Redhat linux6;7 admin,
3127 Days
Backup and Restoration of 24 Major Location throughout
the world using Symantec Netbackup tool &
UNix;Automation engineer & Redhat linux6;7 admin
Project Details:
Project Name - Hospira Information Technology, Sealed Air
Project Description- Project/App details what it does etc. (it
is a Pharmaceutical Company, located at Lake Forest, US)
& Packaging product
Technology & Tools- Linux , shell scripting ServiceNow ,
BMC remedy tool
Team Size- 10
Duration in the project 3 to 4 years
Responsibility - Project engineer and Senior Process
associate
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Project Name - Salesforce , John Lewis, Royal bank of
scotland
Project Description- Its cloud based service and banking
projects and life science where it makes the medical
equipment worldwide
Technology & Tools- Linux , AWS , unix Shell scripting and
declarative pipeline , ServiceNow
Team Size - 8
Duration in the project- 6.5 years and above
Responsibility - Senior associate and Tech lead

OTHER INTERESTS
Playing outdoor games like cricket ,Football , table tennis
and running and reading novels and technolgy books