SUMMARY:

A self - motivated AWS Cloud Engineer and Linux System Administrator, offering more 5 years of experience in AWS/Azure/Linux/ environment with proficiency in several distributions of Linux (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu) and AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, ROUTE 53, CDN, IAM, Redis, Memcached, ELB, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Trusted Advisor, Direct Connect, Kinesis, CodeCommit, AWS Systems Manager, etc). Azure service; Azure Blob Storage, Azure VN, Azure Paas, and Azure Iaas services. MS Project / MS Visio

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Orchestration: AWS Systems Manager, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS Lambda, Ansible, Docker, Kubenete, etc

Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Inspector, etc.

Monitoring & Event Management: AWS CloudWatch (Events & Logs), AWS SNS, AWS S3

AWS Platform: VPC, Route53, EC2, ELB, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, Trusted Advisor, CloudFront, Service Catalog, AWS Auto Scaling, CloudWatch.

Azure Platform: Azure Active Directory, Azure Blueprint, Azure Policies, Azure Initiative, Logic Apps, Azure Service Catalog

Identity & Access Management: AWS Organization, AWS IAM, AWS AD Connector, Active Directory

Image & Patch: AWS Golden AMI Pipeline

Self Service: Service Catalog

Governance & Compliance: AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Control Tower

Programming Languages: Bash, JSON, YML, Python

Application Delivery: Bitbucket, Jenkins, AWS Code Deploy, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Commit, AWS Code Build, AWS Code Star.

Data Protection: AWS Manager, AWS KMS, Snapshot Lifecycle Manager, AWS Cloud HSM

Database: DynamoDB, MongoDB MySQL, Postgres, Amazon Aurora

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

AWS/Azure Cloud Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provides technical guidance on building solutions using Azure IaaS, PaaS and other services
• Define cloud network architecture using Azure virtual networks, VPN and express route to establish connectivity between cloud and on-premise
• Developed Azure policies that support multiple effects (deny, audit and append), created Azure initiative and integrated azure policies with Azure Blueprint
• Create Azure Service Catalog products: SQLDB and StorageV2
• Use Azure DevOps to deploy Azure Blueprint that created Service Catalog products and policies
• Designed secure, cost-optimized, highly available and fault-tolerant architecture designs and infrastructure in AWS
• Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation and Terraform
• Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, etc
• Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection, and changing of EC2 instance types based on resource need, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling, etc
• Leveraged EC2 Lifecycle Manager to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals for backup and define a retention period as a cost-saving measure
• Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our AWS resources and applications
• Leveraged STS to generate and provide temporal credentials to users.
• Setup and configured logs files for detail monitoring and alerts notification.
• Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services
• Architect a static website to host a one-time event or in a disaster recovery scenario by leveraging Route 53.
• Tagged AWS resources and developed a methodological standard for tagging of individual resources for audit, tracking, and cost analysis.
• Designed a highly performant infrastructure by leveraging Elasticache in front of a database to cache common queries on a database or architect read replicas for read-only queries.
• Configured lifecycle configuration rules on an S3 bucket to move data between S3 storage classes for easy accessibility, archiving, and or cost optimization.
• Architected a highly secure infrastructure with public and private subnets for multi-tier web applications.
• Provision secured resources in VPC subnets with security groups and NACLs.
• Architect a secure infrastructure with a NAT Gateway to allow instances in a private subnet to access the internet for updates.
• Configuration of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) using Code Pipeline for automation of code releases and AMI build.

Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supports the Enterprise sales team by acting as a technology liaison with the customer in a pre-sale support capacity
• Develop value-add technology solutions with network services for potential customers
• Present features, benefits, and value of the Confidential Solution in customer engagements
• Integrate qualifying and evaluating tools/resources into opportunity lifecycle
• Contribute to RFP, RFI and tender requests with engineering/design specifications, product and service descriptions
• Capture conceptual design of access, transport, data, voice and video network architectures that meet customer requirements
• Collaborate with Engineering, Sales, Operations, Marketing, and Product Development teams, to manage customer expectations of technical solutions and future service requirements
• Various other duties as required
• Deliver network architecture drawings/diagrams and equipment CAPEX for qualified sales opportunities -
• Microsoft Visio Software proficiency is an asset.
• Maintain ongoing relationships with technical contacts of key Enterprise accounts

Project Coordinator/Linux System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Owner of Managed services during the implementation phase and post-implementation support
• Provide coaching with Managed Services products and other product developments
• Provide high-touch service experience during all phases of service implementation
• Work to implement changes and interventions by maintaining project visibility
• Collaborate with other departments and teams to ensure a smooth delivery
• Build and configured Linux servers from scratch with type one hypervisors for virtualization and network components
• Performed package management, system updates using yum and rpm
• Shell scripting & task automation by creating cron jobs
• Maintained server integrity by applying updates and patches per our maintenance policies
• Configured and Managed NFS and Samba for File Sharing
• Configured and Managed Firewall
• Configured and Managed Apache Web Service
• Controlled access to files and directories using ACL permissions
• Work as a direct liaison for clients to help design processes and identify service expectations
• Identify and define client needs and apply them to technical standards
• Advocate directly for client needs and interests while working to ensure best practice support