PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Self motivated AWS Solution Architect and Linux System Administrator/Engineer offering eight years of experience in AWS/Linux/Windows/Mac environment with proficiency in AWS (VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, ROUTE 53, CDN, IAM, AWS LAMBDA,CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Docker, etc) and several distributions of Linux including (Red Hat, CentOS). Experience with e - Commerce Platform and CMS WordPress with 24/7 Oncall Support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS PROFICIENCY:

Tools: /APPs: Apache/Nginx, DNS, SERVERS, SMB, MySQL, NewRelic, Nagios, File systems, Firewalls, Account Mgt, AD/LDAP, Load balancing, Confidential, TCP/IP

AWS: VPC Designing including VPN, EC2/Auto Scaling, S3 Life Cycle, RDS Clustering with Multi AZ, ROUTE 53 DNS Designing, CDN, IAM policies, JSON.

Platforms: AWS, Linux RHEL,CentOS, SAN Exchange, Macs, PC

Programming Language: working knowledge of ansible, Jenkins, Bash, Shell scripting and Json for IAM policies

Virtualization/Hardware: VMware EXSI, experienced/knowledge of Jenkins for CI/CD, GIT for version control, Docker and ansible for configuration management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

AWS Solutions Architech/DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Performed security setup, networking, system backup and patching for both AWS, and on- premise environments.
• Designing a secure, fault tolerant and redundant environment in AWS
• Archirtect high availability environment with auto scaling in conjuction with S3 as storage and route 53 as DNS.
• Securely deploy MySQL Primary DB and it read replica in private subnet with muti AZ for disaster recovery and best practice
• Migration of high availability webservers and databases to AWS Ec2 and RDS with minumuim or no downtime
• Life cycle configuration for data to live and cycle within buckets in accordance with how often it can be accessed minimizing cost.
• Ensured data recoverability by implementing systems snaphot, AMIs, RDS Replicas and application level backup to S3
• VPC build with Private and Public Subnet couple with VPNs setup back to on premise datacenter and cooperate offices
• VPC peering with other Accounts allowing access and routing to service and users of separate account to communicate.
• Architech highly available servers using ELB and Autoscaling
• Network, Cpu, Disk and connectivity monitor with cloudwatch and setup to trigger alarm and notify system administrators
• Monitor from end-to-end view of runtime systems cpu, banwidth, disk space, and application logs with Newrelic
• Aide setup for and configured for logs files detail monitoring and alerts notification when changes are made.
• Performed root-cause analysis of recurring issues, system backup, and security setup
• Troubleshot system issues ranging from booting, network, firewalls and disaster recovery using rescue & single user mode
• Security groups configured and locked down to the various authorized subnet and IP addresses in AWS
• Build and configured servers from scratch with type one hypervisors for vitualization and network components
• Designed deployed and clustered High Availabity servers on VmwareExsi using vSphere Client
• Volume Managed Partitions, created VGs, LVs,and Swaps Files system for Resource Sharing in Linux
• Performed applications installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, maintenance, and monitoring on LINUX servers
• Created, managed and administered user accounts security and ssh passwordless login
• Installed and configured Nginx, apache/Tomcat
• Built and integrated new servers using local repository via automated methods ( Confidential )
• Monitoring from end-to-end view of runtime systems cpu, banwidth, disk space and log files using Nagios Xi
• Experience writing and running Ansible Playbooks for automation

Confidential, Texas

Unix/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained server integrity by applying updates and patches per our maintenance policies
• Provisioned storage as needed and collaborated with San Engineers to add storage to servers
• Experienced with LVM; created, extended, reduced, and migrated logical volumes
• Configured and managed servers which include but not limited to NFS, SSH, VFTPD, NTP, etc.
• Diagnosed network connectivity issues and configured network
• Controlled access to files and directories using ACL permissions
• Performed package management, system updates using yum and rpm
• Created partitions, logical volumes and swap, format with ext3 and ext4, zfx,Resized and create logical partions
• Secured SSH server for password less login and to local network using iptables
• Configured firewall using iptables and selinux reducing security breaches and strengthening company policies.
• Hardened Linux servers based on recommendations provided by our security team and best practice.

Confidential, California

Help Desk Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Replaced failed hardware on Confidential PowerEdge and End of life servers ( Confidential ) hardware
• Configured hardware and software, install Microsoft Windows Patches and updates, load computer with operating systems.
• Provided helpdesk support, resolved problems, and customer service to the end user’ satisfaction
• Managed PC setup & deployment for new employees using standard hardware and software
• Furnished system images, perform computer re-images, and assist users with data backup and restores

Confidential

Help Desk Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Provided helpdesk support and assist users with data backup and restore
• Assign time for customers at the Cyber Cafee
• Installation of Antivirus programs on Windows computers
• Managed PC setup & deployment for new employees and students using standard hardware and software
• Configured hardware and software, install Microsoft Windows Patches and updates, load computer with operating systems