Sameer Charania

I am an enthusiastic, pro-active team member with strong interpersonal skills and an excellent history in information technology solution development and support. 

I am a dynamic, goal-oriented individual with a strong desire to succeed and lead others to success. I perform well either as a team worker or on an independent basis with minimal or no supervision. A strong willingness to learn new technologies on demand and keeping up to date on existing technologies exemplify some of the qualities I have to offer.

I have experienced vast and hands-on approaches to implementing and administering computer networks, hardware and software applications and am currently performing in the role of Senior DevOps Engineer as a contractor. I work in a very technical capacity and am involved in the design, development and continual improvement of all of their online operations and sites. I specialize in DevOps engineering and have been highly involved in the design, maintenance and upkeep of the automation around the software development pipelines, platform and infrastructure to aid in continual development and deployment. 

Professional experience and my formal education to date clearly demonstrate my eligibility for the position at hand. If you are seeking a consultant who constantly stays abreast of his field, who is technically informed, who earns major staff support, and who is committed to achieve total success, please consider my CV attached herewith.

Specialties: Automation, systems design, development, CI / CD.

DevOps design and implementation supporting Agile · Jenkins / TeamCity / GitLab Server and Runner installation, configuration and deployment for CI/CD · Ansible installation, configuration and deployment · Molecule and testinfra implementation and testing for Ansible · Puppet configuration and deployment · BitBucket configuration and deployment · GitLab CI / GitHub configuration and deployment, GitHub actions implementation. · AWS EC2, S3, ELB, NLB, IAM, Inspector, Route 53, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, Codedeploy, ECS, SSM , SQS, SNS, KMS, API GW, Lambda, Kinesis, Cognito, GuardDuty, Control Tower. · Kibana, ElasticSearch / Fluentd / Prometheus / Grafana installation, configuration and deployment via helm · Cloudflare configuration and deployment · Chef configuration and deployment · Google cloud platform deployment and automation · Kubernetes deployment to AWS via KOPS and deployment automation with helm / tiller · K8s ingress controllers, proxy, state-metrics, services, service monitors, certificate manager tie in with certbot for Lets Encrypt certificate renewal deployment and automation · Packer image creation and automated deployment via Terraform · Scripting in BASH, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, Python and Ruby · NodeJS / PM2 installation, configuration and deployment · RackSpace Cloud, DNS, LB, Rack Connect configuration, deployment and management · Terraform configuration, deployment and management for Rack Space OpenStack, Azure, AWS. Spacelift implementation and configuration. · kitchen / vagrant / rspec integration for Ansible / Puppet/ Chef development. · Chocolatey installation, configuration and deployment · Docker installation, configuration and deployment via docker-compose · RabbitMQ installation, configuration and deployment · Terracotta installation, configuration and deployment · Ubuntu 10.04 – 16.04 upgrade, installation and administration · LDAP installation, configuration and deployment · VMware ESX server administration and implementation · ZXTM / F5 / Elastic Load Balancing / Cloudflare · Cisco IOS routing / switching configuration. · Apache / Nginx / IIS web server implementation and administration

2012: Rittman Mead - Oracle Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing boot camp · OBIEE 11G AND ODI installation, configuration and maintenance 2010: QA IQ Training at RIM UK LTD · Kepner-Tregoe (KT) Resolve · ITIL V3 Foundations training 2001 - 2003: Computer Technology Institute. Mississauga. Ontario, Canada · Network Technical Specialist - A+ Hardware & Software, Network +, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA 2000), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA SQL), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE 2000), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Linux Proficiency Institute (LPI) and Technical systems project management. 2000: Taima Technical Support Certification, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · Certified in DOS, WIN 3.X, WIN 95 / 98/ME, WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 2000, MAC O/S and The Internet. Ottawa, Ontario 1997 - 1999: Seneca College, King City Campus. – King City, Ontario, Canada · Law Enforcement Studies / Police Foundations. 1995 - 1996: Bramalea Secondary School (Ontario Academic Credits), Brampton, Ontario, Canada · (OAC) / O.S.S.D Bramalea, Ontario.