SUMMARY:

Team - oriented AWS Cloud Solutions Architect, with hands-on Linux and Oracle database skillset and more than five (5+) years of experience working as a cloud Solutions architect/Linux System Admin for clients, managing server infrastructures, Oracle Database implementation/Migration and data center operations. Implementing upgradable, scalable, Hyper-converged infrastructure and micro-services across multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, AWS, Oracle). Helping clients achieve business agility and flexibility, providing strong AWS ecosystem expertise as a Solutions Architect.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Self-motivated: Conflict resolution/High Achiever.
• Strong verbal communication Team Motivation.
• Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Computing - Amazon Web Services EC2, EBS, S3, AWS, Azure, BCP & DRP, PKI, IAM, AMI, VPC, VPC Peering, NACL, Security Groups, Route53, Auto Scaling, ELB, SNS, Cloud Watch.
• Orchestration Services ECS, Docker Containers, Cloud Formation, Ansible,
• Database Oracle, MySQL, SQL server.
• Operating System CentOS 6/7, Ubuntu, Redhat 6/7 Bash, python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

AWS Solutions Architect

Confidential - Austin, TX

• Architecting/operating solutions built on AWS Platform.
• Configuring and deploying micro-services and instances for example AMI's, EC2, ECS, Auto-scaling, S3, Security groups using Cloud-formation.
• Used Terraform in building infrastructure to host web/applications and RDS infrastructure; using AWS cloud provider.
• Proactively monitor resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, SNS and configured notifications for the alarms generated based on events defined.
• Established the appropriate monitoring and alerting of solution events related to performance, scalability, availability and reliability.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring applications on various platforms using Elastic Beanstalk, setting up the life cycle policies to back the data from AWS S3 to AWS Glacier.
• AWS - built VPCs from scratch, creating private and public subnets, creating security groups and network access lists, configuring internet gateways, OpenVPN, creating AMI, understanding of user access management/role based access/multi factor authentication and API access, configuration of auto scaling and elastic load balancer for scaling services if a configured threshold has been exceeded, configuration of SNS to send notifications and Cloud Watch to collect logs and metrics.
• Experienced with “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations with the aid of AWS solutions.
• Ensured security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions.
• Extensive understanding of and ability to solution service offerings across; Infrastructure (including outsourcing best practices, transition, and ITIL).
• Created new VM templates for several Operating Systems with all the recommended and required settings for optimum performance and efficiency.
• Configured NACL and security groups, thus limiting malicious attacks from blacklisted range IP addresses.
• Understanding of shell scripts (Bash), Perl, Python and PowerShell for automating tasks.
• Setup NAT gateway as a route out to the internet for instances in private subnet.
• Setup internet gateway as a route out to the internet for instances in public subnet.
• Responsible for creating VPCs for dev/test team, thereby simulating a production environment for web/application servers and database traditional servers in public and private subnets respectively.
• Responsible for creating Auto-scaling groups from launch configurations to either scale out or shrink back instances depending on traffic and demand, and this service is been supplemented by SNS notifications from CPU utilization and other monitoring parameters.
• Engaged with C-level executives to define and execute on Enterprise cloud strategies.
• Assisted customers architect solutions on AWS leveraging cloud best practices.
• Solicited feedback from Client's and influenced future iterations of the AWS platform.

Consultant: System Administrator/AWS Cloud

Confidential

• Provided administration support for more than 300+ servers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu VM .
• Performed software package installation, upgrades and updates using yum and rpm
• Perform activities related to day-to-day administration on RHEL which include installation, upgrades and loading patch management & packages
• Monitor the health of application servers, disk usage and other statistics using monitoring tool like OMD Nagios
• Perform daily system administration activities; checking system logs, troubleshooting, and other resource usages.
• Apache/Tomcat server, mail server and MySQL databases
• Captured and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS Solutions Architect team.
• Ensured security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions.
• Built deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Hands-on experience writing Production-ready automation code to implement solutions with Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation or similar - e.g.: Chef, Terraform.
• Designed of client s Cloud environments with a focus on AWS and demonstrate Technical Cloud Architectural knowledge, playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA and development Cloud Infrastructures running in 24x7 environments.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring applications on various platforms using Elastic Bean Stalk, setting up the life cycle policies to back the data from Amazon Web Services AWS S3 to AWS Glacier, various AWS EC2 and S3 CLI tools.
• Hands-on knowledge of transitioning clients to the Cloud, i.e., migrations, hybrid co-existence.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to research, architect, engineer, and configure complex cloud solutions to specified requirements in support of global, business critical systems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, Lambda, S3, EFS, RDS, Redshift, Route 53, CodeCommit, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Kinesis, Athena, EMR, IAM Roles, Data Pipeline, DynamoDB, NoSQL, VPC.
• Extensive understanding of and ability to solution service offerings across; Infrastructure (including outsourcing best practices, transition, and ITIL).

Senior Oracle DBA

Confidential - Lanham, MD

• Provided 24/7 Production database administration support and monitoring to ensure a proactive problem recognition and resolution of database issues.
• Installed and configured Oracle RDBMS on UNIX and Windows environments.
• Responsible for creating, managing user accounts; granting and revoking required privileges.
• Wrote SQL code, DML and DDL scripts to implement specified requirements, new features, maintenance and bug-fixing.
• Installed, configured and managed 11gR2 (2 node RAC) on ASM storage.
• Performed backups, restores, cloning, or refreshing databases in all environments
• Achieved optimized performance for the database by gathering statistics and rebuilding indexes on tables
• Export/Import, Datapump, Transportable tablespaces to migrate data from one database to another
• Upgraded various Oracle 11g databases from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3 using patch set and DBUA.
• Created and rebuilt indexes as necessary to improve query performance.
• Developed and enforced database related policies, standards, naming conventions, SOP and best practices.
• Modified database structures as required by developers due to business or application requirements, clone development databases for testing and training.
• Performed backups, restores, cloning, or refreshing databases in all environments.
• Ensured availability of all databases in all environments (Test, Dev and Prod).