SUMMARY:

A cloud solutions architect with experience in Amazon Web Services. A resilient, focused and passionate professional seeking to use my professional knowledge and experience in helping to transform clients' IT infrastructure, operations and applications to the most innovative, scalable, highly available, secured, fault tolerant systems and cost effective on AWS cloud platform. Integrating deep Cloud security skills during design and build, and to protect data, application, network, enterprise system, infrastructure, asset and people for the clients across AWS environment. Build CI/CD pipeline configurations to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TOOL: Linux, AWS CLI, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, Terraform, SonarQube, Sonatype Nexus, Git, Splunk

WORK EXPERIENCE:

AWS DevOps Security Consultant

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provide solutions to implement continuous integration & continuous deployment solutions for large sized project.
• Developing Jenkinsfile for CICD pipeline to automate build, and deploy application in different environments.
• Supporting client on AWS environment with build and managing enterprise - scale DevOps platforms, including code repositories, application build automation tool, Maven and testing tooling, automated deployment tooling, CICD pipeline (using Jenkins), containerization technologies (Docker & Kubernetes), monitoring and general automation of infrastructure provisioning (CloudFormation & Terraform), and configuration management functions (Ansible).
• Implementing SonarQube for continuous inspection of application code to detect bugs, code smells and security vulnerabilities.
• Implement system that is highly available, scalable and self-healing. Work closely with application development team and infrastructure team to provide fully automated deployment routine for production.
• Work across all functional (development, testing, QA, deployment, infrastructure) and project team to ensure continuous operation of all environment.
• Help clients with AWS environment design, planning and architecture ensuring that it meet the business goal requirement and performance goal.
• Implementing authentication and authorization of users, applications and AWS resources/services.
• Supporting clients in their journey to cloud with assessment of current state capability as mapping to the cloud services in meeting the business goals.
• Providing day-to-day support for AWS cloud security strategy implementation and governance within the environment, ensuring that security processes and requirements are met.
• Develop AWS environments as code, with scripting capability to automate everything.
• Assess and established clients' Data Protection controls, and standards on client engagement to reduce business risk.
• Apply deep Cloud security skills during design and build, and to protect data, application, network, enterprise system, asset and people for the clients across AWS environment.
• Implementing security automation with API Gateway, AWS Guard duty, AWS WAF, AWS Config, AWS Inspector, AWS SSM, AWS Lambda, Secret Manager and CloudWatch.
• Providing services to help clients protect their information, infrastructure, application and business processes against cyberattack.
• Implemented PCI & HIPAA security measures in AWS cloud environment to ensure that compliance requirements are met.

AWS Cloud Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Configuring NACL, Security Groups and WAF to secure the application and VPC network depending on access parameters provided and conditions.
• Setup and configure VPC PrivateLink (Endpoints), Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Transit VPC, VPC Peering, Reverse Proxy Caching, CDN, IPsec and VPN for secure data transfer, and secured connection to other AWS services and other AWS accounts.
• Automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation, Terraform, Boto3; and application configuration and deployment using Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible and docker.
• Implementing security automation with API Gateway, AWS Guard duty, AWS WAF, AWS Config, AWS Inspector, AWS SSM, AWS Lambda, Secret Manager and CloudWatch.
• CI/CD pipeline management through Jenkins. Version control through GIT.
• Testing and deployment automation with Docker containerization and Jenkins. Automation of manual tasks using Shell scripting.
• Experienced with event-driven and scheduled AWS Lambda functions to trigger various AWS resources.
• Leverage AWS cloud services such as EC2, ELB, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
• Create and manage IAM user accounts and role-based policies for access to AWS services.
• Implement and maintain monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 instances using CloudWatch and SNS.
• Perform S3 buckets creation, access policies, and archive outdated data to Glacier through Lifecycle Policy configuration.
• Launching databases via RDS to support web application functionality.
• Create low latency website using S3, CloudFront, and Route53.
• Install Apache and Nginx Web Server on EC2, (proxy server as needed).
• Create and manage users, permissions, directories and files in Linux environment.
• Set up Ansible environment for configuration management, Dynamo DB, Elastic cache and Lambda.
• Implementation of compliance with CIS Benchmark on AWS environment.
• Enforcing company’s policies and procedures during design and implementation.
• Defining and deploying monitoring metrics and logging systems on AWS environment. Application and system log analysis using Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, Data Dog, Logic Monitor.
• Design, develop and implement high availability; backup and recovery strategy for applications and database.

AWS Solutions Architect

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Planning, designing and developing solutions on Amazon Web Services. Working closely with customers in implementing strategy for achieving business objective.
• Managing the relationship between the organization's technical demands and the capacity to be pulled from the AWS cloud.
• Ensure compliance with the company’s policies and procedures during design, development and implementation.
• Automation of cloud infrastructure configuration and deployment using cloud Formation and Ansible.
• Designing and deployment of public and hybrid cloud solutions for customers using appropriate services based on requirements.
• Provisioning secure environment for AWS VPC network, and implement infrastructure as code using configuration management tools. Implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and monitor infrastructure.
• Migration of customers' on-premise workloads(applications) to the AWS cloud platform.
• Design, develop and implement high availability, backup and recovery strategy for applications and database.
• Evaluating and improving existing AWS deployments.
• Defining and deploying monitoring metrics and logging systems on AWS.
• Identifying appropriate use of AWS and deployment, and operational best practices.
• Hands-on experience and good knowledge of AWS services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, VPN, Route53, ELB, Auto scaling, SQS, SNS, IAM, DynamoDB, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, ECS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Guardduty, internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, AWS Inspector, Advisor.
• Scripting with Shell, SQL, JSON, YAML, XML, Linux script.

Cloud Solution Support

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Developing backup and recovery strategy for applications and database on virtualization platform.
• Enforcing backup policy in accordance with the organizational policy.
• Proactive resolutions of issues and prevention of both physical and virtual servers' outage.
• Administering of storage management solutions, and end-to-end execution of client's cloud services.

ETL Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Created SSIS packages to extract data from OLTP to OLAP systems, and scheduled jobs to call the packages.
• Applied various data transformations like Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD), Aggregate, Sort, Multicasting, Conditional split, Derived column etc.
• Creating complex T-SQL, Stored Procedures, functions, triggers and DB objects as and when needed to convert data logically as per the business requirements.
• Design and prepare standard and ad hoc reports and summaries for statistical analysis.
• Extracting actionable insight from data to provide clear recommendations for the users.
• Data modelling, database design, development, testing and implementation with RDBMS.
• Design, develop and maintain customized reports and dashboard using excel and tableau.