SUMMARY:

• Accomplished AWS Architect/Cloud Engineer with 10 years of IT and 5 core years experience managing, designing/planning cloud infrastructures and data - center operations across multiple platforms (Unix, Linux, Windows). Effectively plan, install, configure and optimize the IT infrastructure to consistently achieve high availability and performance.
• Proven systems administration experience and visionary leadership to the planning, design, development, implementation and technical support of multi-platform, multi-system cloud and security.
• Implementation experience with highly available, scalable, fault tolerant multi “az” shared infrastructure, platforms, or applications architecture at a large enterprise or service provider
• Migration experience importing/exporting, windows servers, all Linux distributions, db, dns, file formats vmdks, v2i’s, vhd’s into aws s3 and converting them into AWS AMI’s
• Automation and Continues Integration. Opsworks & Chef, Bamboo, Jenkins, Code Deploy, Cloud Formation
• Cloud Security SaaS Tools Integration, Trend Micro, Boundary, Xeccdium, Halo Cloud Passage, Nessus.

HIGHLIGHTS OF IT SKILLS:

• Linux
• LAN/WAN/NOC Administration
• Project Management
• Workflow Planning
• Productivity Improvement
• Cisco CSR 1000v
• SQL Server
• Virtualization Platforms and Cloud Infrastructure
• VMWare
• FTP
• Data Warehousing
• Jira /Webex/Share Point
• ELB/Auto Scaling Groups
• Versioning, Lifecycle policies
• Confidential, Public, Private & hybrid, design and configurations, Sg, Confidential ’s
• Puppet, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Stash
• Technical Support
• Systems Installation Configuration & Upgrading
• Security Solutions
• ITIL
• Cisco VPN and other VPN client/server technologies
• MYSQL/Fedena Oracle
• C++/J2EE/PHP/.Net
• AWS, EC2, S3
• Racemi Cloud Automated server migration
• CI- Bamboo, Jenkins, Code Deploy.
• RDS, Oracel, SQL server, Maria DB, MySQL, Amazon Aurora
• Database Design Management
• NOS Patches Updates
• Site to Site VPN Connections
• Training & Mentoring
• Window Server
• Data Mining
• Data Migration
• Dynamic Cloud Server
• Cloud Security:
• Sophos-UTM
• Xeccdium
• Trend Micro
• Boundary
• Halo Cloud Passage
• Nessus
• Self Signed SSL Certificates on ELB’s
• Opsworks & Chef

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, Wa

Lead AWS solution Architecture Cloud DevOp’s

Responsibilities:

• Architecting cloud first applications on AWS and designing high availability applications on AWS across availability zones and availability regions taking advantage of disaster recovery design guidelines
• Automated build pipeline, continuous integration and continuous deployment (Cloud Formation Templates. Bitbucket, Puppet and Jenkins)
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging and cost management tools that integrate with AWS and performance test strategies for applications on AWS- Single Region HA test cases, Multi region HA test cases.
• Leading a team that established Enterprise VPN and Amazon Confidential integration with data center
• Planned and designed architecture processes, diagrams, documentation, guide lines for deployments, project plans, deployment pipe lines, testing, monitoring, launch plans, operational readiness, sign offs.
• Planned and designed puppet architecture flow processes, based off git repo branches and aligned with different environment masters for, DEV, PPD, PROD and PROD.
• Provisioning cloud formation with user data and meta data. For boot strapping, puppet agent installation scripts, yum updates, EBS, mappings and mountings.
• Cloud formation and Jenkins to Configure and maintaining Virtual Private Clouds ( Confidential ), NAT instances and installing Elastic Load Balancers Configuring Confidential peering’s both spoke and mesh configurations for Confidential ’s, in multi accounts and regions, cross account IAM access configuration.
• Cloud formation for 4 to 7 layers for architecture flow, WAF-ELB-WEB-ILB-APP-ILB-APP-ILB
• Blue-Green deployments, planning, flow, and cloud formation provisioning.
• Documentations: Infrastructure work sheets, Environment validation forms, application architecture docs, network architecture docs, Infrastructure docs, SOP-docs, project plan docs.

Confidential, Sterling, Va

Sr. AWS Solutions Architecture, Application Developer and AWS System OP’s

Responsibilities:

• Planned and conducted technical tasks associated with the implementation, installing agents and maintenance of cloud security using tools like: x-suite, trend micro, boundary, halo cloud passage and Nessus.
• Provisioning system administration support for instances hosted in AWS cloud environment.
• Provisioning EC2. Instances using Ubuntu Linux, Amazon Linux, Redhat Linux and Windows AMI’s.
• Patching of Linux and windows instances within a maintenance window using perform security updates of same instances for the remediation of system vulnerabilities.

• Configure and maintaining Virtual Private Clouds ( Confidential ), NAT instances and installing Elastic Load Balancers
• Configuring Confidential peering’s both spoke and mesh configurations for Confidential ’s.
• Configured Confidential end points.
• Balancers (ELB) to monitor public and private instances inside the Confidential .
• Commission and decommission websites hosted in the company environment per request of the client, hence, creating AMI’s of the instances and volume snapshots.
• Change instance types per client request.
• Create and manage public and private subnets, configuring security groups to have controlled access to webapps and database tiers, configuring route 53 DNS servers. Ensuring appropriate protocols are
• Configured for connectivity as per client’s request.
• Perform data dumps at the request of the client.
• Create and manage Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and S3 buckets.
• Proficient in the installation and configuration of LAMP on Ubuntu, Redhat and Amazon Linux instances.
• Configuring route 53 for domain name to IP resolution.
• Provision, associate and disassociate Elastic IP’s to EC2 instances, IGW’s and route tables.
• Configuring and proficient in the use of Identity and Access management (IAM).
• Manage system processes and scheduling processes with the Cron utility.
• Install and administering MySQL database and PHP.
• Participate in Change Management control of project assets.
• Take the lead in scrum meetings while providing weekly status reports.
• Contribute to improve the security of AWS by proper utilization of IAM, security groups and network Confidential ’s, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trial.

Confidential, Baton Rouge, La

Architecture, Virtualization/, Systems Cloud Administrator and LMS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Proficient knowledge in administration, installation, upgrade, performance tuning and deploying of Apache Tomcat applications.
• Automatically migrate existing physical or virtual servers in the cloud, migrate workloads between locations, migrate workloads between dissimilar physical and virtual platforms.
• Planned, designed and created storage, networking and other system components.
• Planned, designed and implemented a backup and disaster recovery programs
• Achieved 99 percent uptime and resolved a history of network failure by directing the implementation and performance tuning, rebalancing workloads, correcting server configuration problems and writing scripts to ensure smooth server/reboot functioning.
• Planned, implemented and controlled user and account security rights and restrictions.
• Led in-house team in large-scale Linux server upgrade, which significantly enhanced system performance.
• Drove a 25% decrease in Web site downtime by migrating “1and1” server sites and online schools to Linux server.
• Corrected server configuration problems, wrote scripts to ensure smooth server/reboot functioning, and assisted with a variety of Linux-based inquiries and concerns.
• Replaced major manufacturer’s vulnerable network with robust security through joint architecture of firewall and Confidential .
• Achieved economies of scale and reduced spending on technology infrastructure and staff by
• 10 percent after spearheading the migration of key apps and data to the cloud.
• Facilitated global expansion by providing remote employees access to information and data.
• Reduced speed-to-market from 4 months to just 3 weeks through better use of resources and the creation of a new R&D model, AWS cloud front following the implementation of cloud-based data and apps.
• Planned, designed and implemented availability and disaster recovery strategies for outsourced apps and systems.
• Evaluated and reconfigured the existing networks setup to create a robust, scalable solution.
• Recognized opportunities and built support for change by providing leadership, guidance and advice to the CIO and other technology leaders.
• Chaired cross-functional teams and committees that studied cloud feasibility, recommended SaaS and other outsourced solutions and created a seamless transition plan.
• Responsible solely for the migration of data and apps to the cloud.
• Led a blended team responsible for a major server upgrade, which significantly enhanced system performance.
• Led enterprise-level hardware/software installations and upgrades, user training and dozens of other projects.
• Led LMS administrator; created, managed, trained stack holders for more than 5 institutions in the usage, Moodle and WebEx to better online education.
• Vendor Relationships and Negotiations
• Participated in the development of technical proposals for labor, hardware and recurring costs related to the implementation and ongoing maintenance of outsourced cloud solutions.
• Advised procurement and line managers throughout negotiations. Contributed to the development of SLAs
• Provided oversight, feedback and developed key vendor relationships.

Confidential, Baton Rouge, La

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Hired as a full-time systems administrator following initial consulting role. Provide Windows/Unix/Linux administration; network operating center (NOC) administration, LAN/WAN/VPN administration, VMware administration, and intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) monitoring. Also manage FTP servers, AD/DNS, wireless access points and load balancers.
• Design and implement highly available (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions for clients and employer.
• Evaluated and reconfigured company’s Unix/Linux/Oracle setup, including reallocating SAN disk space to engineer a robust, scalable solution.
• Improved system security through setup and ongoing maintenance of Security Manager.
• Delivered a cohesive solution managing Cisco firewalls and containing all IDP software.
• Researched, recommended and implemented network enhancements that improved system reliability and performance.
• Revamped Backup schedule and upgraded Windows servers. Optimized system availability (averaging 99.9% uptime) and equipped company with scalable systems to support fast business growth. vTrained employees across multiple departments on network operations including log-in procedures, network management software, permissions, printing issues, security and use of software.