SUMMARY

• Experienced IT professional working as Cloud/Automation engineer for the last 7 years focusing on automation and supporting hybrid environments.
• Technically experienced with troubleshooting, monitoring, configuration management, scripting, testing, and upholding best devop practices.
• Great at communication and working across functional teams collaborating across SDLC.
• Highly motivated individual with a passion for actively learning and applying hands - on practices while working independently and improving overall processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC, NY

Automation Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Incorporated ansible usage in a large production environment to improve reliability,consistency, and scalability of our infrastructure to save time and provide better high-end customer service.
• Configured Ansible to manage AWS resources and automated the build process for ec2 used by all application deployments including Auto Scaling and Cloud Formation scripts.
• Managed S3 buckets by allowing permission for access, creating lifecycle rules and policies for archiving/backups, and enabling S3 versioning.
• Implemented the use of AWS lambda and elastic beanstalk to run serverless resources and applications to better streamline productions and deployments of cloud services.
• Worked continuously in deploying EC2, configuring S3 buckets, RDS, and VPC.
• Created simple CI/CD pipelines to streamline production and development environments using jenkins.
• Used CodePipeline in continuously deploying Docker images to ECS containers.
• Supported building, provisioning, and deploying infrastructure safely using terraform.
• Optimized and applied bootstrap instances for the sole purpose of controlling the launch and configuration with a specified shell script/bash scripts to be executed automatically.
• Experienced in configuring CloudFormation templates to automate infrastructure deployment.
• Displayed strong technical skills in using ansible playbooks in provisioning infrastructure, managing configuration application/OS, and controlling services.
• Created, configured, and automated servers using Docker to test applications before deployments.
• Created and used docker containers in test,staging and production environments to distribute/collaborate with various environments and orchestrations purposes.
• Applied Docker’s methodologies for shipping, testing, and deploying code quickly to reduce delays between writing and running applications in our working environment.
• Used docker as a control system for our entire application’s operating system to more efficiently manage system resources, deployments, and enable application portability for easy access.
• Created docker compose files with bundled application and deploying using ansible.
• Orchestrated docker containers using kubernetes pods with the latest releases.
• Hands-on experience using GitHub version control to effectively collaborate with other team members, as well as, configure and modify its contents in a centralized repository.
• Used GitHub to clone,push,pull, and merge commits with various branches before merging with the master brancher for production.
• Used AWS Identity and Access Management services in creating roles, users, groups, including managing access to AWS resources in multiple accounts.
• Integrated Route53 by creating alias records that mapped our resources on the cloud to establish a geographical connection with our clients in compliance with SLA.
• Migrated systems from on premises to AWS with Migration Hub.
• Implemented Multi-factor authentication to provide additional security to AWS accounts.
• Monitored and managed AWS resources using cloudwatch by creating customs dashboards.
• Attached EFS volumes to RDS databases and ec2 instances for shared volume storage.
• Supported over 60,000 systems, and setup disaster recovery for on premise environments.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Automation Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained an agile development environment where we mainly focused on grouping multiple tasks to meet deadlines as a team oriented effort.
• Designed infrastructure deployment for cloud/on-prem bare metal, VMs, and containers alongside productions and various other engineers in meeting customers demands in a timely manner.
• Created S3 buckets on AWS environment to store files and objects at different levels of redundancy, prices, and accessibility with specifying access privileges.
• Demonstrated a strong understanding in creating and launching custom EC2 instances using AMI’s of Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL, and Windows.
• Installed, configured, and used services such as SCP,RSYNC,HTTP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, TFTP,NFSand AUTOF to establish a low-latency and high customer service environment.
• Configured and provisioned VMware virtual machines for various level environments and working alongside different teams to provide infrastructure resources.
• Managed storage, disk management, logical volume management and logical partitioning.
• Created logical volume and managed files systems, including extending/reducing based on usage
• Monitored daily backups and maintained offset backup for recovery in case of a system crash.
• Created shell scripts to automate backups and cron jobs to provide redundancy and fault tolerance.
• Automated Linux Based OS through PXE BOOT to deploy and install OS on multiple servers.
• Managed and controlled network bandwidth for increased performance on servers by combining multiple NIC cards via NIC Bonding.
• Regulated and resolved network issues using tcpdump, netstat, nmap, and traceroute.
• Created cron jobs to perform operations and performance at a scheduled time to ensure tasks were being executed in a timely manner.
• Maintained ESXi clusters to establish high-availability by enabling Vsphere and Vsphere DRS solutions and regulated groups of hosts within a cluster and managing all of its resources.
• Utilized VMotion for live migrations of virtual machines that were activating running or failing and in need for immediate maintenance with zero down time from one server to another.
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESXi server, VMware virtual center.
• Managed VMware VCenter and VSphere in production Providing support and backups of vms after business hours Creating ESXi hypervisors with hardware raids.
• Rebuilt OS servers with different RAID levels depending on company needs and specifications.
• Installed patches and updates on ESX Hosts and Virtual machines.
• Managed booting of servers that were offline by accessing iDRAC and iLO.
• Managed and configured IDRAC on Dell PowerEdge series servers.
• Optimized infrastructure performance and monitoring by actively checking system integrity and availability of its resources, hardware, processes and applications logs using nagios.
• Monitored system and infrastructure health such as CPU, Ram, and DISK using splunk.
• Installed, configured and tested software packages, patches, and updates as requested by my superiors and in compliance with SLA.
• Managed and stored users, password, and user accounts in a centralized location using LDAP.
• Implemented the uses of services such as DNS and LDAP for a centralized working environment.
• Managed the use of dhcp lease range in compliance with both customers and company regulations.
• Hands on experience working with SAN, NAS, WAN,firewalls, and IPtables.
• Established and mostly responsible for handling customer relational management with a ticketing system using Jira and Salesforce to ensure our customers were satisfied with our services.
• Used Jira and Salesforce to resolve issues,bugs, and incorporated critical thinking in troubleshooting and resolving incident issues.
• Provided on call support for production issues and supporting maintenance windows.