SUMMARY:

• Over 14+ years experience blending strategic IT vision, quality assurance and designing solutions for multiple industries (Transportation, Pharmaceutical, Communication and Media)
• Senior Engineer with over 2 years of experience architecting, implementing, and administering complex enterprise systems.
• Extensive technical skillset with expertise in heterogeneous UNIX/Linux operating environments and AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong background in CI/CD, Infrastructure as a Code implementation, Configuration Management through Automation tools with shell scripting and Security Compliance .
• Proven ability to operate independently on complex projects.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Residency Status: Green Card Holder Authorized to work in the United States for any employer

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: RHEL 5.8, 6.0 & 7.0, SUSE Linux 10, Ubuntu 16, SUN Solaris 10 & 11

Languages/Tools: Bash, KSH, RESTful APIs, HTML, JavaScript, XML, SOAP,JSON, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Cloud Protection Manager (CPM), AWSCli, Trend Micro Anti - Malware

AWS: EC2, S3, Glacier, VPC, IAM, Route 53, RDS, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Lambda, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Config, AWS CloudCheckr, AWS Inspector

Virtualization/Containers: VMWare ESX/ESXi, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat

Code Repository: Git, GitHub, BitBucket

CI/CD: GitLab CI, Jenkins

DevOps Toolset: Packer, Ansible, Chef

Deployment Types: BLUE/GREEN, ROLLING & CANARY

Monitoring: Nagios, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS SNS, SQS, Splunk

Database: Oracle 11g, Sybase, MySQL, Postgres, Dynamo DB, SQL Server & Aurora

Server Applications: Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, Web/eCommerce, ERP, CRM, SAS, Drupal

Networking: NFS, DNS, TCP/IP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP & SSH

Security: AWS Inspector

Issue Tracker/Project Mgmt: Jira, ServiceNow, Scrum, Remedy, Agile & Atlassian

Backup/Restore: Cloud Protection Manager (CPM),RDS Backup, Storage Gateway volumes, EBS

Malware: Trend Micro DSM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Solution Architect

Confidential, CT

• Architected and Implemented strategies to migrate on-premise solutions for customers to the cloud utilizing in-house product
• Guided customers remotely and on-site as SME on best practices for Cloud Adoption.
• Implemented a POC on right sizing of instances for customers migrating from on-premise to the Cloud
• Worked closely with customer to resolve issues with discovery phase of Cloud Adoption

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Confidential . Rockville, MD

• Setup and configured AWS Cloud Infrastructure, including VPC, AZs, AMIs, EC2 instances, Route53, IAM Roles, and RDS connections.
• Architected a hybrid solution to address customer legacy applications
• Architected a plan to migrate on-premise solutions to Amazon AWS cloud
• Designed and implemented IAM policies, Bucket Policies and ACLs to secure S3 objects and buckets
• Designed and implemented cross account IAM-Roles to manage multiple AWS accounts
• Designed, Maintained and Deployed application systems with highly availability, Scalability and Fault tolerance
• Setup, configured, and maintained EMR Cluster along with the inline components such as SPARK, Hive and Hadoop.
• Developed a pipeline to ingest data into the EMR Cluster.
• Guided developers throughout the DEV lifecycle until APP is built for reliability/monitoring.
• Setup, configured, and maintained BitBucket & Git repository for version control
• Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipeline code deployment for EMR using Jenkins and CloudFormation
• Created Shell scripts to automate deployment.
• Performed EC2 patching through automation using Ansible
• Automated AWS Auto Scaling and pre-bake Amazon AMI images with Ansible provisioning playbooks
• Automated system checks and patching of Sun Solaris, RHEL, and Windows servers using Ansible playbooks called through Ansible Tower.
• Monitored site stability, deployments, performance via event logging and metrics
• Implemented and Managed Infrastructure as a code through Jenkins and other automation tools
• Performed Stack creation with several deployment using AWS CloudFormation, Blue/Green, Rolling and Canary
• Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increase scalability, and optimizing speed.
• Installed and configured LAMP stack, Java, Jenkins, Tomcat, and MySQL.
• Reduced deployment time extensively for critical Agile project infrastructure using Atlassian Slack and Jira
• Provided direct support to development and data science teams

AWS Cloud Engineer

Confidential . Bowie, MD

• Responsible for datacenter transformation efforts migrating client/server platforms to

  AWS Cloud environments, supporting over 400 EC2 instances.

• Designed and Implemented architecture to host high-availability web applications on AWS, implemented IAM, containers, and abstracted services.
• Conducted feasibility and sizing assessment of adopting AWS.
• Architected a serverless web analytics solution to provide real time metrics leveraging Kinesis stream, Lambda and DynamoDB
• Developed and implemented standards for IAM on AWS.
• Automated processes and tasks using Ansible and Shell scripts
• Automated provisioning of Linux and Windows instances using Ansible playbooks.
• Setup and implemented CloudForms and integrated with Ansible Tower.
• Automated Docker build, deployment, and testing of front-end, middleware, and database components.
• Implemented Kubernetes infrastructure, managed deployment of container replicas onto cluster nodes.
• Configured VPC within public & private subnets, NAT instances, and Elastic Load Balancers using CloudFormation
• Setup Route 53 and S3 Buckets and performed monitoring using CloudTrail, Nagios, & CloudWatch.
• Setup, configured, and maintained Git repository for version control.
• Automated provisioning of RHEL and Windows EC2 Instances using AMI.
• Implemented IAM, secured AWS Infrastructure, containers, and abstracted services.
• Setup and configured load-balanced Trend Micro DSM Servers on all EC2 instances.

Windows Infrastructure Test Manager

Confidential . TAMPA, FL

• Oversaw and co-ordinated various test phases including unit and system testing, operational and user acceptance testing, and liaise with the authority about system integration testing.
• Worked closely and communicate with the client Project manager Software and Technical Architects and developers on the detailed technical design and support of technical solutions to meet functional, performance, and quality objectives
• Developed software testing project deliverables, including overall Test Strategy, detailed Test Plan/Approach, and Project Test Summary
• Reported into PM and programme management office on progress through various test phases.
• Managed incidents/defects that come out of any test phase
• Liaised with Build platform Lead and technical resources to resolve incidents/defects .
• Analyzed application and Infrastructure designs to determine Windows Active Directory test requirements.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and deployment of VMware/windows 7 solutions, from the configuration design phase through to live operational handover.

OAT Test Manager

Confidential

• Analyzed business requirements, business process documents and related documents to specify test coverage and generate test documentations
• Mapped detailed Non-Functional/OAT requirements to test cases, building test design and test scripts / steps to execute business processes
• Analyzed application and Infrastructure designs to determine OAT/NFT test requirements
• Contributed to test strategy and write test plan, test cases and test scripts
• Validated applications on scalability, disaster recovery and fail-over testing
• Validated disaster recovery (including business continuity) and defining the technical process steps in backing up and restoring systems and data, to all methods of media.
• Executed adhoc and unscheduled tests arising from issues in pre-production and postproduction as assigned by Test manager or project manager
• Validated, verified and ensured that infrastructure and systems remain available when running in error conditions
• Executed test scripts, raise and track defects using HP Quality Centre
• Alert and monitoring testing of database instance and hardware/software infrastructure components

QA Test Engineer

Confidential

• Responsible for creating and validating the quality of QA deliverables and artefacts (Test strategy, Test plans, Test approach, User Stories, Test scripts, Traceability Matrix, Test completion report) across all test work streams
• Responsible for defect management and tracking from resolution through to fix retest and deployment
• Helped define the automation test strategies for the distributed e-commerce platform.