SUMMARY

• Senior Cloud Architect with 11+ Years of experience with global clients in IT, Telecom, Retail, Logistics, Aviation and Finance and hands - on experience in cloud infrastructure, application development, storage, platforms, & data. Hands-on leader focused on strategic planning, building high-performing engineering teams, and leading critical IT projects to achieve business objectives.
• Implementing solutions with AWS, Azure, GCP and Open stack .
• Staff Management, train, coordinate, develop, execute, and troubleshoot builds/releases across multiple environments.
• Management of connectivity on AWS: Security Groups, NACLs, VPC peerig, Transit Gw, NAT Gw, AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect.
• Planning, designing, and implementing DevOps, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS & FaaS solutions.
• Hands on IaC by use of Terraform, Azure PowerShell, ARM templates.
• Hands on Serverless: Azure Functions, Logic Apps & AWS Lambda, Step Functions
• Provided cloud application developmentsolutions such as IaaS, Serverless, API Management, Message Brokers ( ESB, Kinesis, SQS, SNS )
• Solutions through DevOps environment, CI/CD with Jenkins Deployments in DevOps Azure and AWS in Agile Teams.
• Migrating workloads to Azure, AWS and Google cloud GCP.
• Hands on AWS: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EMR, ECS, S3, Cloud watch, X-Ray & Lambda.
• Experienced on Azure: ESB, Logic Apps, SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Traffic Mgr, API Mgmt, Front
• Hands on IaaC working with Azure ARM template, AWS Cloud Formations & Terraform
• Hands on scripting tools including PowerShell, Azure CLI, Shell scripts.
• Hands-on Kubernetes ( GKE, EKS, AKS, OpenShift ) and use of Helm Charts.
• Security IAM - AD experience by onboarding thousands of users against hundreds of cloud applications and ensuring the appropriate access controls were in place.
• Dealt with performance analytics Log Analytics, Power BI, Azure Databricks

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud: Azure, AWS, GCP, OpenStack.

CI/CD: Jenkins, Azure Devops, Octopus

Languages: Java, Python, C++, SQL, PLSQL,.NET, XML, JSON, HTML5, Shell/PowerShell scriptsAPI APIs ( RESTFul, SOAP)

RDBMS Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, MS Access, LDAP, Sybase

NO SQL Databases: Cosmos DB, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB

Queue Service Brokers: Enterprise Service Bus, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Kafka

Analytics: Log analytics, Application Insights, Power BI

APIs Gw: API Management Azure, API Gw, Apigee.

Networking: Switches, Routers, Load Balancers, DNS, VPCs, VLANs, VNET, Route 53.

Storage: S3 Bucket, Azure Storage Blob, DAS, NAS.

Serverless: Step Functions, Logic Apps, Lambda, google functions.

IaC: Terraform, Ansible, Azure Power Shell, Azure ARM templates.

Kubernetes: EKS, OpenShift, GKE, AKS, Helm Charts

Application Server: Weblogic, WebSphere, WebApp, Tomcat

IDE: Eclipse, VS Visual Studio, VSC Visual Studio Code.

Security: Hardening with Dome9, SSH, TLS/SSL, Key Vaults, HTTPS, Public Keys, Private Keys, SFTP, Kerberos, Profile access( RBAC, IAM), AD

Operating Systems: Linux RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Confidential -Ux, Clarion, Solaris, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 7

Tools: Git, Crystal Reports, Oracle Reports, Power BI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Miami FL

Sr Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead cloud initiatives across a portfolio of projects, train & mentor staff with regard to new technologies, methodologies, software, platforms, and tools.
• Provide ownership of complex migrations to cloud-based technical solutions in regards of compute, storage, network components including backup, monitoring and DR environment requirements.
• Provided solution to e-commerce through the OLS Online store for the CEMEX group.
• Develop defined roadmaps and plans on a program team to cost-effectively migrate a customer’s current application infrastructure to the cloud.
• Improving cost and pricing of cloud services including other factors that impact businesses operational costs.
• Provided formal training on Cloud for the involved areas.
• Performed Cloud connections to on-prem by using VPN Gw and Express Route.
• Assist in migrating, building, delivering, and managing hybrid cloud environments leveraging services provided by AWS, Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry & OpenStack (airship).
• Use of Cloud services: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EMR, ECS, S3, SNS, SQS, Data Warehouse, AWS Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) & Hadoop.
• Defined the container service architecture, including security Lambda & Functions also with Docker Enterprise Edition and Kubernetes with OpenShift and Helm Charts.
• Integrated BRE BPM SaaS to Azure through the API management in .NET.
• Managed CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, Jenkins and Octopus for Azure and AWS.
• Designed Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Azure PowerShell with ARM templates.
• Deployed solutions with Azure Service Fabric.
• Hands on Google Functions, Apigee, GKE, Storage, serverless, Datastore in .NET.
• Built, maintained and automated reliable and efficientETL, ELT jobs.
• Designed and deploy solutions by using SQS, ESB and Kafka.
• Designed data migrations strategies from Datawarehouse to Azure Data Lake.
• Created prototypes and proof-of-concepts and training materials.
• Dealt Analytics for performance metrics and BI, with Log Analytics and Azure Databricks.
• Used AD Active Directory to enable SSO access to the Cloud by onboarding thousands of users against hundreds of cloud applications.

Confidential - Richardson TX

Sr IoT Cloud Architect / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for collaborating on Presales and setting cloud vision; providing thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and cloud services architecture to meet operational objectives for cloud solutions
• Educate customers of all size on the value proposition of managed services on Cloud
• Provided ownership of 4G LTE vEPC, IoT under OpenStack cloud-based technical solutions for security compliance.
• Provided Solutions under V15 & V16 for main OpenStack projects such as Nova, Neutron, Heat, Octavia, Cinder, & Zun; Hands on AirShip with Open Stack.
• Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.
• Guided team in self-organization, encouraged and motivated team to focus on goals.
• Worked with PoCs by working with Azure, AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Interacting with CI/CD DevOps Pipelines, NFVs and use as vSwitch and vLoadBalancers.
• Usage of containers with Kubernetes and OpenShift and security compliance.
• Implemented PoCs with SNS and Kafka to manage security for incoming transactions.
• Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Being responsible of Presales initiatives and evaluated several migrations to cloud alternatives and makes a case for the best approach for 4G LTE telecom solutions.
• Provided formal training on cloud for the areas related to cloud migration.
• Developed design cloud patterns to set enterprise best practices for cloud migration and adoption by using VPC, SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, EC2, RDBMS Oracle & MySQL, S3 buckets.
• Designed strategies for Data Migrations moving from On-prem data to Cloud Solutions in AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry ensuring best practices for security compliance.
• Interacted with CI/CD DevOps pipelines; Designed Infrastructure as Code with Ansible and CloudFormation, Provided IaaS & PaaS with public & private cloud solutions.
• Designed high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies to meet application objectives, including exposure to plan and strategize backup and recovery ops under Cloud.
• Designed data migrations, tuning large instances on IaaS, resource management, data replication and backup/recovery techniques.
• Created prototypes and proof-of-concepts and training materials predominantly by using Linux VMs/EC2 with CentOS on AWS and Oracle Cloud.

Confidential

Solution Architect / System Admin

Responsibilities:

• System administration, familiarity with secure build and configuration on complex operating environmentswith +1000 Virtual VM stacks in production.
• Install, upgrade, and manage OS & database applications
• Management of LTM/GTM, load balancing algorithms on production env. (F5).
• Developed design diagrams and corresponding documentation to set enterprise best practices, setup and maintenance of network services and devices ( routers & switches).
• Designed high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies to meet application objectives.
• Designed, develop, and execute test plan based on software requirements.
• Supported the NOC and tier 2/3 support organizations.

Confidential

Solution Architect / Project Manager /System Admin / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Pre Sales of Confidential applications for 3G, 3.5G & LTE.
• Designed, tested and developed applications using Oracle DB HA, PL/SQL under Java.
• Management day to day operations of 500+ UNIX /Linux production systems (RHEL, Ubuntu, Solaris, Confidential -UX); Scripted on language Perl, shell, Bash, Ksh and Tcl.
• Applied OS hardening and implemented security controls, Compliance and Vulnerability remediation activities
• Managed network protocols like FFTP, TFTP, NTP, SNMP, F5 LTM, VPN’s, DNS, DHCP
• Designed & Development of HA setup, performance tuning, contingency plans like reliable backups and restore procedures for Oracle Database Servers
• Planned and coordinated testing environment deployments and application / system integration testing.
• Encouraged and motivated team to focus on iteration goals.