SUMMARY

• Highly skilled IT Professional with 7+ years of experience in diversified technologies including designing IT solutions, and 4 of those as an AWS Solutions Architect with expertise in driving large multiple and complex business solutions for assigned customers.
• Provide in - depth solutions architecture from both business and technical perspectives, Considering all realities and constraints such as cost, contract terms, Business conditions, and the clients’ technical environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, Self- motivated, adaptable, flexible, willing to take initiative, quickly learn new concepts, and open to new challenges.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Rockville, MD

AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT | ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Architecting, Designing and Implementing, developing solutions for enabling enterprises in the cloud environment
• Designing and architecting solutions which include failover, security, monitoring, patching strategies and compliance (Ex. PCI-DSS, HIPAA etc.)
• Provisioning Infrastructure on Cloud and Hybrid environment using automation tools like CFTs.
• Designing Automation Solutions and Strategies using DevOps tools and methodologies.
• Provisioned infrastructures for different environments (production, preprod, Q&A, Dev)
• Involved in different Migrations Projects to AWS & Azure platforms following the principles of the Well-Architected framework and strategies
• Architecting, Designing, and Implementing, Developing Cloud based solutions aligning to AWS Well Architected Framework
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Building Proof of Concepts and capability demonstration to the prospective clients
• Partner with Cloud Engineers, Cloud Ops, and other teams in executing migration projects to ensure minimal risk and business disruption
• Coordinating & Collaborating with client / stakeholders to gather and incorporate non-functional requirements in the application and infrastructure architecture
• Performing the assessment of IT enterprise applications to determine the business justifications and technical feasibility for migration to public cloud platforms
• Define appropriate migration strategy for each application (Rehost, Refactor, Rearchitect, etc.) while considering cost and complexity of the various options
• Provide deep cloud migration expertise covering infrastructure, application architectures, cloud capabilities, security
• Work with technical team in AWS cloud infrastructure security and improvement.
• Implementing and Maintaining end-to-end security ensuring best practices are always implemented .
• Collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams to refine the security baseline and harden key components
• Strong experience in network automation utilizing CloudFormation, Chef, Terraform, Ansible, Python etc.
• Performing the assessment of IT enterprise applications to determine the business justifications and technical feasibility for migration to public cloud platforms
• Ensure best practices and continuous service improvements
• Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
• Presenting Solutions to clients at CXO LeveL
• Configured various performance metrics using AWS Cloud watch & Cloud Trial
• Attending Agile/Scrum Meetings with Dev& QA Provisioning the Sprint delivery.
• Implemented AWS Organization to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts including consolidated billing and policy-based restrictions
• Implemented Control Tower Preventive and Detective guardrails and leveraged Account Factory, integrated with Lambda for new AWS account creation and setup.
• Projects Completed
• Lead migrations from on-premises infrastructure and systems to cloud environments
• Currently Working on setting up a CI/CD Pipeline using DevOps tools like Jenkins, Docker, Code pipeline, etc
• Migration for a large group of small and medium size businesses in the United States (Side Project)
• Support the migration of applications to the cloud infrastructure and assist in the analysis, tuning, and re-architecture when necessary to ensure adherence to business requirements.
• Migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS& Azure using tools like CloudEndure, SMS,DMS, DataSync etc..
• Successfully completed a project to deploy an application using AWS microservices (ECS, Fargate, ECR) and S3, API Gateway, CloudFront.
• Architected & deployed a cloud hosting environment using AWS &Azure for hosting customer facing applications.
• Automated the Identity and Access Management in AWS Development Environment.
• Successfully completed a project to deploy the environment on cloud with Infrastructure as code, with one click fully automated solution which builds infrastructure on cloud and deploys the application on open shift containers.
• Architected & deployed multiple projects using Infrastructure as code CloudFormation and automated cloud services using serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda & API Gateway etc.
• Automated the Identity and Access Management in AWS Development Environment
• Cloud watch for end to end monitoring,
• Cloud trail to track API calls made in the environment
• Used AWS config (detective) and AWS SCP (preventive)
• Used trusted advisor to implement best-practice recommendations in the categories of cost optimization, performance improvement, security, and fault tolerance
• AWS Used Systems Manager to gain visibility and control of our infrastructure on AWS and to automate operational tasks across AWS resources
• Proficient in writing reusable Cloud Formation Templates (CFT) in YAML and JSON format to build the AWSservices with the paradigm of Infrastructure as a Code.
• Experience in creating reusable template using CloudFormation, provisioning databases using RDS and setting up CDN using CloudFront and S3.
• Experience with CI/CD tools: AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins, Ansible, CodeCommit and Code Pipeline for automation & configuration management.
• Maintaining the users accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS and SNS services in AWS cloud.
• Experience in Creating, Editing Bash/Shell Scripts For Automation and GIT as a VCS
• Hands-on experience Architecting and securing the Infrastructure on AWS using IAM, KMS, Cognito, API Gateway, Cloud Trail, MFA, VPC, Roles, Policies, Cloud Watch, Config, Trusted Advisor, Security Groups, NACL etc.
• Gained exposure at a professional level with Python and Ruby
• CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline for SDLC
• S3 for object base storage include S3 bucket management with Lifecycle rules, replication, encryption, version etc
• Management and compliance with AWS organization, Control Tower, Service catalog etc

Confidential, Lanham MD

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR/ DEVOPS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Perform multiplatform server builds on VMware, which include Windows Server 2012, 2016, UNIX (Solaris 10), Linux (Centos 6/7 and RHEL 6/7
• Perform system performance monitoring and tuning; participate in capacity planning and systems configuration
• Solid understanding of networking protocols including BGP, OSPF, STP, VLAN, DHCP and DNS
• Interface and work closely with Project Managers on project implementations
• Work in close collaboration with development teams and provide technical leadership for projects related to automation of application rollout
• Assist customers with the planning and design of system architecture
• Controlled versions in repositories using version control tools like GiT
• Configured, and administered multiple production servers across multiple platforms
• Performed RAID mirroring of Root disk
• Create, modify, and deploy of Docker container image.
• Work in close collaboration while architecting, Designing, and Implementing, Cloud based solutions
• Use TCP/IP troubleshooting tools to troubleshoot and resolve network connectivity and DNS related issues and set up, configured and trouble shoot Apache, NFS, SMB, SSH, LDAP & CIFS Servers in a multiplatform LAN
• Contributing to the DevOps team to maintain and build out our infrastructure and servers operating on AWS platforms.

Confidential, Lanham MD

IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Responsibilities:

• Virtualization support and configuration - VMware, Hyper-V, vSphere
• Use TCP/IP approach to troubleshoot and resolve network connectivity and DNS related issues
• Manage inbound requests via the OCC ticketing system (Service Now)
• Backup and restoration of user files and systems using shadow copies and recovery tools.
• Assisted in the creation of custom agency boot image (7,8,10) to be deployed over bootable drives and PXE - SCCM.