1. Resume
Kumar Budagam
9 Westbury court, Forest Gate Email:kumar.budagam@gmail.com
London, E7 8BT Mobile: +44 (0) 7749775361
Linux Devops Engineer (5+ years of experience)
Professional Career:
● Seeking a position in a challenging environment where I can leverage my knowledge skills in
shaping myself as a professional as well as towards the growth of the Organization. Committed,
adaptable and incisive with a positive and analytical approach to problem solving. Good team
player with excellent communication, organizational and interactive skills.
● Linux administrator specializing in primarily REDHAT, CentOS and also UNIX. Good Knowledge of
Linux/Unix internals, networking, security, system performance tuning and maintenance. Good
experience with virtualization, automation tools and monitoring tools, as well as DevOps culture in
Unix/Linux environment
Technical Skills:
➢ Created Cloudformation templates for environment orchestration within AWS infrastructure
➢ Created Self-healing Jenkins Setup using AWS Cloudformation
➢ Implemented Application Deployments using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to override infrastructure
limitations and complexities
➢ Automated the Installation of Various Linux OS Images in Virtual Environment using a single
configuration file with Packer.
➢ Provisioning and maintenance of KVM Linux Virtual Machines and Hypervisors
➢ Automation, Administration, Contracts negotiations, Enforcements in the following areas:
Internet Connectivity, Datacentre’s, IT Equipment purchases, Research and Development on
cutting edge IT Infrastructure technologies
➢ Completely handled the continuous build and delivery environment infrastructure using Chef,
Jenkins, Amazon Web Service
➢ Worked extensively in Virtualization of servers in Linux Environment using KVM

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➢ Automating versioning of application components in centralized repository using nexus
➢ Experience with configuration of Network, firewall, Load balancers, Operating systems and
software in Amazon’s Elastic Compute cloud (Amazon web services)
➢ Experience with configuration management tools Puppet, chef and Source control Management
Tools(GitHub, SVN) and Continuous integration using Jenkins
Tools and Technologies:
Devops- Tools
● Chef
● AWS Cloud Formation
● AWS Management
Tools
● Ansible
● AWS Storage and Compute
● Docker
● Amazon EC2
● Packer
Continuous Integration Tools
● Github
● Subversion
● Jenkins
● Shell Scripts
● Apache Tomcat
● Apache HTTP
Linux Administration Tools
● Cobbler
● PfSense
● WireShark
● Cacti
● Nagios
● MySQL Workbench
● Tcpdump
Work Experience:
Employer : Mundio Mobile Holdings Limited London (March 2013- Present)
Role : Linux / DevOps Engineer
Responsibilities:
➢ Handled the continuous build and delivery environment infrastructure using Chef, Jenkins
➢ Automate the delivery of application code into the CI and automated deployments to test and
production environments using following tools Git, Maven, Jenkins
➢ Managed all phases of build and release activities as well as wrote scripts to implement
configuration management methodology

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➢ Wrote Chef cookbooks for managing the full application stack (httpd/MySQL/PHP)
➢ Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment and build jobs using Jenkins
➢ Implemented GitLab for version control of puppet modules and process documentation
➢ Automated Orchestration of VM instances using Chef
➢ Streamline the management of development, integration test and pre-production environments
using Chef to ensure environments and their respective deployed applications are consistent in
their configuration
➢ Hands – On Experience with Docker
➢ Administering and troubleshooting websites hosted on LAMP stack
➢ Automated the Installation and Configuration of Apache HTTP and Nginx based Web servers using
Chef .
➢ Network, System and Application monitoring through Cacti and Nagios, and reviewing system and
application logs, and verifying completion of Scheduled jobs such as backups, Disk space
➢ Implement Continuous Delivery principles to improve existing change control and release
management processes.
➢ Managing and Troubleshooting SQL servers (MySQL/Maria DB) and applications using SQL
➢ Writing, updating and debugging to automate tasks using BASH, Perl, Python scripts
➢ Configuring and maintaining the Datacentre DNS records running on Active Directory, Linux BIND
Employer : BLUE IT SERVICES UK LTD London (June 2011 – September 2012)
Role : Linux System Engineer
Responsibilities:
➢ Maintaining Linux/windows based computer network setup. Various services provided by this
network are: web services using Apache, IIS, Email collaboration through Sendmail, Traffic /
bandwidth control using "iptables" firewall, My SQL servers, FTP server, File sharing and printing
using Samba
➢ Automation of Network services with Puppet

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➢ Well versed and hands on experience in Implementation of Build Automation using Unix shell
scripts.
➢ Configured Version Control System Subversion for Developers
➢ Setup of Build Environments in Various Environments
➢ Responsible for daily/weekly releases/builds
➢ Managing Servers and configuring NFS, iSCSI protocols.
➢ Installing Physical and virtual server with Kickstart templates and PXE Boot configuration.
➢ Network Monitoring tools configuration and troubleshooting through Nagios
➢ Security implementations by using ACL’s, and granting file access permissions
➢ Writing/debugging BASH, Perl scripts for automations
➢ Responsible for design and implementation of policies, branching methodologies
➢ Standardizing architectural pattern for Application components deployments
➢ Analyzing Java cores and heap dumps by using heap and core analyzers and follow-ups with
application teams for any leak suspects, out of memory issues, and any blocked threads
➢ Resolving issues on the servers which are bound to cause impacts to the client
➢ Involved in setting up twin cell architecture in Pre-prod environments
➢ Setting up Monitoring for environments using UNIX shell scripts and Nagios
➢ Providing On Call support and handling work requests, Incidents
➢ Troubleshooting and reporting critical application issues
➢ Monitoring the server logs, generating and analyzing javacores, heap dumps to find out the root
cause for any performance issues
➢ Troubleshooting the issues escalated Application team
➢ Apply the hotfixes to resolve the intermittent application failures with pre-approvals
Employer : NOURISH SYSTEMS PVT.LTD (June 2008 – May 2009)

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Role : System Administrator
Responsibilities:
➢ CentOS/UNIX installation, configuration and administration
➢ User accounts and access administration based on UNIX groups
➢ Troubleshooting user logins and Home directory related issues
➢ Managing NFS filesystems by exporting them and giving permissions to different servers in the
project
➢ DHCP server configuration file maintenance and dhcp client additions within the project server
➢ Performance monitoring using top, vmstat
➢ Basic File System management using LVM. Like new file systemcreation and extensions for in use
filesystems
➢ Linux systemMonitoring tools Nagios, Monit, top, ps, free, nmap Gnome systemmonitor
➢ Configuring and maintenance of NIS, LDAP, iSCSI, SSL, SSH
➢ Network installations of Kickstart, RPM Packaging, Updating via Red Hat Network
➢ Configuring and implementing Web servers (APACHE, Nginx) and virtual Hosting.
Organizational Responsibilities
➢ Mentor and coach junior team members
➢ Contribute to the development of the Software Engineering competency
➢ Published Blogs and actively participant in technical discussions
➢ Conduct training sessions and Tech Talks
Academics:
➢ London South Bank University 2009 – 2010:
MSc in Telecommunications & Computer Networking
➢ Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad 2004 – 2008:
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE)

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Certifications:
CISCO CERTIFIED NETWORK ASSOCIATE (CCNA): CSCO12029269
REDHAT LINUX CERTIFIED (RHEL 6)
RHCE : 111-160-743
RHCSA : 111-160-743
(https://www.redhat.com/wapps/training/certification/verify.html?certNumber=111-160-743)
References:
Available upon request, Ready to relocate home nearest to work place.