PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• AWS - certified DevOps Engineer and Solutions Architect with over 5 years’ experience in Automation, Enterprise Applications and driving Information Management Strategy. An outstanding performer in building high quality solutions that are scalable, highly available and fault tolerant, tailored towards the goal of an enterprise. Highly skilled in DevOps and Cloud Engineering/Cloud Security.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Architecture: Amazon Web Services, AWS Config, Docker

Dev Ops: Ansible, AWS CloudTrail, Terraform, Cloud formation, Jenkins, VMWARE, CI/CD pipelines, Git

Cloud Security: SonarQube, AWS Managed Firewall, Barracuda, Palo Alto Panorama, GuardDuty, AWS Shield, AWS WAF, Cloud Endure, Dome9, Macie

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, PA

AWS Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed docker containers for DevOps designs and enabled interfaces for DevOps builds and release management and CI/CD pipeline for applications.
• Provisioned VPC with other components of the VPC and AWS Infrastructure using CloudFormation Templates and Former2.
• Created CloudFormation scripts for hosting software on the AWS cloud.
• Monitored AWS applications using CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
• Implemented Ansible for configuration management for Linux environment.
• Built Linux and Windows VMs for DevOps environment.
• Scheduled AWS lambda functions from CloudWatch triggers and used Lambda to trigger various AWS resources.
• Developed and maintained deploy jobs for application code deployment across all environments using a wide range of Automated tools (Jenkins, GitHub, Nexus, SonarQube, Ansible, Puppet and Docker).
• Generated reports with SonarQube to cover Code quality for potential bugs, code coverage, coding rules.
• Implemented AWS IAM key rotation in the application, using AWS Secrets Manager.
• Provisioned resources, users, and access controls on AWS cloud.
• Used Terraform to provision application infrastructures employing tools like Autoscaling Groups, Security Group, VPC, CloudWatch, etc.
• Developed and implemented monitoring, backup and archival solutions in AWS to support customer requirements.
• Deployed automation on AWS by using Elastic Beanstalk.
• Used Route 53 policies to route traffic according to the geographical locations.
• Reviewed data coming from the cloud security tools and third-party/managed security service providers.
• Deployed databases in Private Subnets and configured Bastion Hosts and NAT-Gateways for access.
• Implemented various Security policy using NACL, Security groups, Private-subnets, Encryption in transit and Encryption at rest etc into all configurations backup and recovery process monitoring.

Cloud Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed Cloud Architecture projects for the Company.
• Led sessions with businesses to deeply understand their needs and documented requirements.
• Used requirements gathered to design a fault tolerant and highly scalable architecture.
• Created and maintained project-related documentation (Statement of Work Document, Proof of concept document, technical design document, etc.).
• Developed and documented implementation plan for on-premises migration into cloud.
• Led migration Project reviews and guided the team on technical and functional perspective.
• Designed, built, and migrated applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Validated the environment to meet all security and compliance controls.
• Designed, deployed, monitored, and managed enterprise level platforms and infrastructure in AWS.
• Identified key areas for improved and cost-effective cloud architecture.
• Designed and developed technically and operationally feasible long-term solutions.
• Analysed and identified enterprise technical and operational risks, then provisioned the best architected AWS infrastructure.
• Performed cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Analysed and deployed Cloud controls, Governance and Security on the Cloud Architecture.
• Designed scalable, elastic, and redundant architecture that allows the organization's Data Lake to organically grow as the demand increased for their services.
• Provided technical guidance and built solutions using AWS services.
• Defined cloud strategy, roadmap, and business case for cloud adoption by assessing and analysing on-premises applications.
• Defined cloud architecture, design, and implementation for hosting large, complex applications in AWS.
• Created and implemented innovative business solutions to support corporate objectives.
• Configured AWS services including IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift, Direct Connect, Route 53, SQS, SWF, WorkSpaces, WorkDocs, ELK. CloudWatch, Cloud EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, Glacier, CloudFormation, Terraform, CloudTrail, OpsWorks, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Kinesis, RedShift, AWS IoT, SNS, API Gateway, SES etc.
• Provided functional and technical expertise on Cloud architecture best practise.
• Engaged with Security and DevOps teams to ensure secure Cloud Environment.
• Built innovative automation processes to remove legacy/manual processes.
• Architected 3rd party solutions like Palo Alto, Barracuda, Checkpoint (Dome9), built on AWS platform.
• Supervised Cloud deployments and provided troubleshooting and user support.
• Captured and shared best-practice knowledge amongst the engineers.
• Deployed a 3-Tier web application using Ansible and Terraform while ensuring the application/database tier is highly available and fault tolerant.
• Provided guidance on cloud security solutions and best practices to internal teams.
• Performed design reviews and collected architecture performance metrics to assure continuous improvement.
• Conducted research on software and systems products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts.
• Configured NACL and security groups, limiting malicious attacks from blacklisted range IP addresses
• Enabled Cloud Migration Governance standards, best practices, and security compliance.
• Built architectures and wrote scripts for smoother cloud transitions and lower sustainment costs.
• Implemented highly available and disaster recovery solutions in AWS to meet the customer SLA (Service Level Agreement requirements)
• Presented business and technical analysis, recommendations, and architectural designs and solutions in a clear, concise, and articulate manner
• Developed client-centric use-cases aligned with their business objectives
• Gathered requirements and provided strategies for seamless migration of applications, web services, and data from local server-based systems to the AWS cloud.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, setup and configured E-commerce platform called OpenShopen an online store for Clients
• Managed and supported clients on OpenShopen
• Designed, setup and configured ERP solution called SMERP a product that offers SMEs of all types (retail and online) the required tool to manage all their business operations concerns from top to bottom.
• Recommended upgrades for existing systems and programs.
• Revisited the development process to fix bugs or address client or consumer concerns.

Customer Service Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ensured Effective and Efficient implementation of bank-wide policies with respect to branch operations.
• Supervised activities of Operations staff to ensure timely and efficient service delivery to customers.
• Involved in the cross-selling of the company’s products and also encouraged other staff to do so.
• Ensured proper documentation of all transactions and authorized transactions within approval limits.
• Supported the overall process of management and corporate decision-making thereby ensuring the organization maximizes its profitability.
• Ran and organized both internal and external sessions for members of staff.
• Pre-qualified and selected maintenance vendors/contractors.
• Supervised and Coordinated work of contractors and in-house Technicians.
• Used Performance Management techniques to monitor and demonstrate of agreed service levels and also fostered improvement.
• Liaison with Human Resources department and IT Unit in automating the posting of salaries bank-wide.
• Was on the team that was involved in the automation of expenses, withholding tax deduction from vendors and cost of repairs bankwide.
• Involved in the migration of data from Oceanic Bank’s fixed asset system from Fixed Asset Management System functions (FAMS) to SAP.
• Prepared weekly management report.
• Routine reconciliation of finance balance with Fixed Asset Management System functions (FAMS).