SUMMARY

• Adept in using the Amazon Web Services; EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53, RDS, Autoscaling, Load Balancer, Workspace.
• Adroit use of Ansible as automation tool in Linux as well as deployment of instances on the EC2
• Excellent in Oracle Database 11g installation, Patching and upgrade.
• Customer oriented Computer Technician; with great experience in computer hardware, software, repair and peripherals.
• Adept in Greenplum Database installation and patch
• Proficient in Ubuntu, Cent, RedHat Linux OS Installation, Administration and Bash scripting on desktop and VM.
• Diligent and hardworking civil engineering student with excellent communication skills and a passion for learning
• Completed the Customers Service and Retail Operations program at the University of the District of Columbia Community College.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AWS: EC2, VPC, LAMP (Apache), Beanstalk Linux RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE

IAM, Route53, Autoscaling, Load Balancer Oracle/ Greenplum Database setup, install and Patch:

Cloud formation, RDS, AMIs, S3, Workspace Re - imaging, Deployment of computers:

Remedyforce/ JIRA Windows: hardware, software and patching

Automation tools: Ansible, Git, Terraform Scripting Bash Shell, Power shell, Json

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS DevOps Engineer

Confidential . Maryland

Responsibilities

• Using Ansible and Terraform for deploying of Instances on AWS
• Using Ansible and Terraform for creating and deploying of VPC on AWS
• Using Ansible and Terraform for creating subnets, security groups, route tables and ACL’s for VPC creation
• Working with EC2 creating instances using company’s AMI’s and gold images.
• Working with Elastic Beanstalk for quick deployment of services such as EC2 instances, Load balancer, and databases on the RDS on the AWS environment.
• Quick build of PaaS using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for configuration and deployment of the platform.
• Also, IaaS on the EC2 environment working in configuring, deploying and automation of this service.
• Creating directories for use when creating workspace on Amazon Workspace
• Creating and deploying cloud desktops on the Amazon Workspace
• Creating users and configuring permissions on the Amazon Workspace
• Provide administrative support for instances hosted in AWS commercial as well as government cloud environment.
• Creating AMIs and volume snapshots as backup for instances
• Configure VPC with subnets, security groups and NAT instances manually as well as with the VPC creator and Ansible.
• Perform LAMP installation and configuration on RedHat, Ubuntu and Amazon Linux instances needed for website development.
• Using Docker base images to create app specific images as well as running containers.
• Leverage Ansible for provisioning and de-provisioning user accounts on Linux instances.
• Using Git for cloning, pushing and creating of repositories
• Pulling and creation of images on Docker from base images
• Migration of on premises data to Amazon RDS using the amazon Data Migration Service
• Creating load balancer using Ansible to funnel multiple servers and also for Autoscaling.
• Ansible and terraform for Route 53 and DNS creation for servers in instances.
• Bootstrap for automated creation, patch and installation of necessary software if creating manually.
• Creating S3 buckets and setting permissions for buckets using Ansible roles and playbooks.
• Using S3 storage to make fetching important documents during instance creation and Web development.
• EBS: volumes and snapshots. Creating, attachment and detachment of volumes on EC2 instances.
• Creating users both on the instances as well as on AWS using Ansible and IAM.
• Performing patch on Linux and Windows instances within a maintenance window using Ansible and occasionally perform security updates to remediate system vulnerability.
• Securing and ensuring the integrity of servers and systems, by creating and managing security groups and network ACLs to ensure controlled access to instances.
• Autoscaling instances to ensure 100% availability of servers and instance as well as preventing excess charge on unused instances during low traffic per customer’s request.
• Pre-configuration of server/ instances for Drupal 8.0.0 Installation
• Installing Apache and having it configured rightly for Drupal
• Installing PHP and MySql having them configured and ensuring PDO is set right for Drupal
• Setting permissions on the Linux server to ensure that necessary files are writable for successful Drupal installation

AWS Engineer

Confidential . - Virginia

Responsibilities

• AWS Administrator for company’s cloud environment
• Configuring Cloudwatch to monitor EC2 instances and RDS Instances as well as transfer of logs for client as requested
• Writing Cronjob scripts for collecting logs from MySQL RDS and having them transferred to Cloudwatch logs
• Creating application server instances on EC2 as per client requests
• Installation of applications such as Microstrategy, Drupal, Apache etc. on EC2 instances as required by client
• Setting up Alarms on Cloudwatch for EC2 instances and RDS instances with alarm notifications being sent to email when desired or specified threshold is passed.
• Writing ansible scripts for configuration of window instances running applications
• Using Ansible as an automation tool for deploying of Instances on AWS environment
• Using Ansible as an automation tool for creating and deploying of VPC on AWS
• Using Ansible as an automation tool for creating S3 buckets, subnets, security groups, route tables and ACL’s for VPC creation
• Working with EC2 creating instances using company’s AMI’s and gold images.
• Quick build of PaaS using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for configuration and deployment of the platform.
• Creating AMIs and volume snapshots as backup for instances
• Ensuring the integrity of servers and systems, by creating and managing security groups and network ACLs to ensure controlled access to instances.
• Writing Ansible scripts using cloud and shell modules for creating s3 buckets and transferring logs from Cloudwatch to created buckets on s3
• Setting up custom Disk and Memory Alarms on cloud watch using awscli and also creating Ansible script to automate this task.
• Pre-Install setup and configuration of application on EC2 Instances as well as the installation of this software both manually and using Devops tools when best.
• Creating Tableau and Pentaho server, making sure instances are configured rightly for the applications and also for integration with other applications in the environment
• Infrastructure as a code using cloud formation script to create stacks

AWS Architect

Confidential . Chantilly, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Consultant for AWS Cloud Engineering and architecture
• Comparing performance and expense for cloud computing for customer interested in setting up a development environment in cloud rather than physical location
• Creating and deploying of instances in development stage
• Using Ansible role as automation tool to run patches on servers on different platforms
• Using Ansible as automation tool for installing and patching required application needed by developers
• Helped to determine a less expensive route of using Oracle DBA on a development environment in cloud
• Using S3 storage to make fetching important documents during instance creation and Web development.
• Creating Gold images/ baseline images as per customer request
• Providing support for server and network issues
• Deployment of computers for customers and new employees
• Setting up VOIP phones editing user and assigning phones to new employees
• Setting up and re-imaging computers for new employees
• Changing switches and troubleshooting network issues
• Hardware technician providing desk side support for desktop and laptop
• Updating company’s inventory and Auditing
• Adding new employees to the domain
• Creating new user email account as well as editing user accounts permission

Salesforce Jr. Admin

Confidential . Washington DC

Responsibilities

• Remedy/ Salesforce Database Jr. Admin
• Fixing hardware, software and network issues
• Troubleshooting switches and network server issues
• Creating reports and dashboards on Remedy
• Creating and editing applications on SalesForce
• Customer relations analyst checking survey report submitted by end user on Tier I tickets closed.
• Re-imaging Windows computers and data transfer
• Active Directory: creating and editing users

AWS Administrator Architect.

Confidential . Maryland

Responsibilities:

• Help with the architecture and design of the AWS Cloud environment
• Comparing performance and expense for computing a development environment in cloud rather than physical location
• Creating and deploying of instances using Ansible and Terraform as automation tool
• Using Ansible role as automation tool to run patches on servers on different platforms
• Using Ansible as automation tool for installing and patching required application needed by developers
• Creating and using S3 storage for fetching important documents during instance creation and Web development.
• Creating Gold images/ baseline images as per customer request on AWS as well as on Docker
• Running containers and images on Docker
• Deployment of computers for customers and new employees
• Designed the company’s logo and business card
• Greenplum and Oracle database installation and patch
• Installation of RedHat and CentOS Linux on Oracle VM virtual box
• Creating, setting permissions and configuring groups and users on Linux servers

Computer Analyst & Software Administrator

Confidential .

Responsibilities:

• Computer Hardware troubleshooting and repair
• Installing and configuring of Linux CentOS
• Installing and configuring of Windows (XP, Vista and 7)
• Creating and modifying directories on the CentOS system
• Troubleshooting server issues using the syslog and bootlog to identify issues
• Creating, configuring and modifying users using bash scripts
• Installation and configuration of Linux servers with more focus on CentOS
• Troubleshooting and repair of printers and other computer peripherals
• Memory and hard disk drive upgrade
• Heat sink cleaning and processor change
• Phone repair and troubleshooting
• Software installation and troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting, scanning and fixing virus issues