SUMMARY

• A self - motivated Cloud (AWS) Engineer offering about 10 years of experience in LINUX/CLOUD/CICD environments with proficiency in cloud orchestration, security, identity & access management, monitoring and event management, governance & compliance, application delivery, data protection, image and patch management, self-service and ops analytics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: /APPs: Apache, DNS, Servers, File systems, Firewalls, Account Mgt, Load balancing, SSL etc.

AWS: VPC, EC2, Auto Scaling, Systems Manager, EFS, S3 Life Cycle, RDS with Multi AZ and Read Replicas, CDN and Caching, Elastic Cache, Elastic Search, Route 53 DNS Designing, IAM role, Confidential, AWS Migration, SNS topic with CloudWatch alarms, Kinesis, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, Code Commit, Code Pipeline.

Programming Languages: Bash, Python, Confidential, shell

DevOps Tools: CloudFormation, Ansible, Code Commit, Code Pipeline, Git & GitHub, Tomcat, JBOSS, Maven, Nexus, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Packer, Terraform.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS Solutions Architect/Cloud Engineer

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Responsibilities:

• Designed and architected self-healing, secured, highly available and fault tolerant infrastructure in AWS
• Solutioned VPCs for various environments including NAT Gateways, VPC Peering and Transit Gateways
• Optimized cost through reserved instances, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling policies and lifecycle hooks etc.
• Created CloudWatch filters for CloudTrail and AWS Config configuration changes to ensure sustained visibility to activities performed in the AWS Account and configuration items with the account
• Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services
• Leveraged AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources
• Architected and implemented continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Code Pipeline, Code Commit, Code Build and Code Deploy
• Used Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets and incidents
• Developed architecture diagram for the production environment using Lucid Chart.
• Enhanced security and HA for the production environment
• Configured and used AWS CLI to make API calls to AWS console
• Managed data encryption using S3 service master key
• Extensive experience developing and applying Terraform modules using variables, interpolations, String, Map, List, Output, Count, Element etc.
• Build Terraform modules for VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, Security Groups etc.
• Designed AWS well architected multi-tier environment using IAAC with Terraform modules
• Active participation in the migration effort of on-premises servers to the public cloud with Terraform and Version control with Git/GitHub.
• Monitoring & Event Management: AWS CloudWatch(Events&Logs), AWSSNS, AWSS3
• Identity Access Management: AWS IAM, Active Directory, AWS Workspaces.
• Governance & Compliance: AWS Organization, AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Well Architected Tool, AWS Budgets, AWS License Manager, etc.
• Application Delivery: Jira, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS CodeCommit.
• Data Protection: AWS Manager, AWSKMS, Snapshot Lifecyle Manager
• Image Patch: AWS SSM Patch Manager, AWS Golden AMI Pipeline
• IAC: CloudFormation
• Experience using data sources and bootstrapping with Terraform
• Experience using terraforms in public as well as Government Cloud with AWS and other providers

AWS Solutions Architect/ Cloud Engineer

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed Microsoft applications including WINS, DNS, DHCP, printing, Proxy, IIS, Active Directory, SMTP, FTP, and Domain Controllers.
• Installed upgraded and maintained MS Windows OS 2012, 2012 R2, 2016.
• Implemented and monitored IIS, DNS, AD DS, Group Policies WSUS, DHCP, FTP, Windows Failover Clustering. VMware and Hyper-V environments using VMware convertor
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation Templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates and created scripts in Python which integrated with Amazon API to control instance operations
• Expertise in Active directory design and support (GPO's, AD Schema, OU's, LDAP, Sites, Domains and Forests etc.
• Performed many hot/cold VM provisioning and P2V, V2V migrations using VMware Converter.
• Strong understanding of Windows Active Directory, Experience with Active Directory administration in a multi domain environment. Users and Groups creation and validation
• Build VMs on demand using client provisioning.
• Used Java Code Issues WebSphere Portal Server on Linux platform.
• Managed Ansible for configuration management, Application Deployment, automation etc.
• Created templates for application servers such as Oracle and SQL.
• Create VMs for Disk sharing for Oracle and Windows clustering.
• Build and maintain HA and DRS clusters health checks.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes, Docker
• Created Ansible playbooks for installation, upgrade, deployment and server restart
• Experience writing various custom Ansible Playbooks and modules for Deployment Orchestration and system administration.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Ansible, Maven in Linux environment.
• Used Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple namespace versions
• Hands-on experience in version control using, GIT and GITHUB and continuous integration management using Jenkins.
• Created build pipeline for various applications using Jenkins as CI tool.
• Created AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for instance RDP/SSH logon, worked with teams to lock down security groups
• Design and implement new Data Center VMware infrastructure.
• Assist users with slow and unresponsive VMs by troubleshooting issues with CPU and Memory

Environment: VMware, Python, Confidential, Tomcat, Maven, Nexus, Docker, GITHUB, Apache, DNS, Servers, AWS,Jenkins, Ansible, GIT, JIRA, LINUX, Terraform.

AWS System Administrator SecTek

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed AWS infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation
• Designed and deployed scalable, highly available, fault tolerant and reliable applications in AWS
• Hands-on experience with AWS CLI including deploying CFTs, managing S3, EC2, IAM on CLI
• Monitored infrastructure and applications using CloudWatch and Nagios
• Implemented cost optimization strategies in the AWS infrastructure
• Architected Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ for automatic failover at the database tier
• Recommended and implemented DR strategies for Business Continuity and HA
• Designed EC2 and related architecture to meet HA while incorporating security best practices
• Provided technical perspective on infrastructure design options and configurations
• Developed Solution Definition Documents (SDD) and Low Level Deign Documents for public cloud
• Recommended and implemented security best practices in AWS including MFA, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, firewalls- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks etc.
• Managed Ansible for configuration management
• Used AWS system manager documents and run command to automate operational tasks across AWS resources.
• Used Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets and incidents
• Delegated access across AWS accounts using IAM cross account roles

Environment: VMware, Python, Confidential, Tomcat, Maven, Nexus, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, Ansible, GIT, JIRA, LINUX, Terraform.

Linux/AWS System Administrator

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and architected self-healing, secured, highly available and fault tolerant infrastructure in AWS
• Solutioned VPCs for various environments including NAT Gateways, VPC Peering and Transit Gateways
• Optimized cost through reserved instances, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling policies and lifecycle hooks etc.
• Commit, Code Build and Code Deploy
• Used Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets and incidents
• Developed architecture diagram for the production environment using Lucid Chart.
• Enhanced security and HA for the production environment
• Configured and used AWS CLI to make API calls to AWS console
• Handled projects in monitoring, deploying and applications on LINUX/UNIX servers.
• Installed Debian/red hat/Ubuntu Operating Systems Distributions
• Installation, configuration and administration of Enterprise Linux and Unix Systems
• Configure LVM-based partitions and manage mount points usage as needed Creating, cloning Linux
• Performing capacity analysis, monitoring and controlling disk space usage on systems
• Software installation and management using Yum and RPM
• Configured and Managed NFS and Samba for File Sharing
• Created shared drives and folders and personal drives for users
• Red Hat Package Management (RPM) and YUM package installation and maintenance
• Updated and documented helpdesk tickets with Remedy ticket system