PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Skilled Cloud Solutions Architect with designing, testing and delivering infrastructure to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency. Work cross - team and communicate effectively with people from a variety of different backgrounds and different levels of technical ability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• AWSEC2, ECS, S3, Glacier, EFS, EBS, Auto-Scaling, ELB, Lambda, API Gateway
• VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, Microsoft AD, Cognito, NACL, Security Groups
• Jenkins,Terraform
• CloudWatch, Config, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Splunk
• MS Outlook, MS Project, MS-Excel, Power Pivot 2010, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cloud Architect

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture, design, and development of a next-generation solutions in the AWS cloud.
• Developed plans to safeguard data logs against modification, destruction or disclosure.
• Customized in-development software to clients' current hardware environments, designing applications to span multiple systems.
• Created migration strategies to bridge development gaps between existing software architecture and future updates.
• Drafted visual representations of software architecture design for presentation to stakeholders.
• Communicated software architecture strategies to senior leadership and third-party business leaders.
• Developed application architecture strategy to specifically align with employer business goals.
• Captured and shared best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
• Provisioned cloud infrastructure in an automated manner using tools like Terraform and CloudFomation.
• Applied the continuous delivery (CI/CD) automation process from conception to implementation, and the integration of cloud-native services to create full functioning, cohesive delivery pipelines.

Cloud Architect /Consultant

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Work with functional leads and business leaders to ensure technical strategy is aligned with company and departmental vision.
• Define and establish architecture best practices, standards, guidelines and patterns for end to end solutions in our AWS stack
• Design and articulate the overall enterprise architecture both on-prem and how they'll fit in the AWS cloud environment (right-sizing, cost optimization and performance improvement)
• Define network routing, security and compliance configuration, and identity management solutions to work with our platforms on-premise and in the cloud.
• Built and maintained our Cloud Computing environment using AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Collaborate with Delivery & Support, DevOps Engineering, and our core software development team on strategies and plans to help exceed our customer expectations.
• Partner with DevOps engineers to facilitate the deployment, operation and governing of cloud native services with a focus on CICD continuous integration, continuous delivery and automated testing.
• Proven record of accomplishing designing, developing and maintaining dependable mission-critical build pipelines & products.
• Analyze and detect data security violations using SIEM tool.
• Improve efficiency and data integrity with Splunk.
• Developed plans to safeguard data logs against modification, destruction or disclosure

IaaS Fillfillment /Consultant

Confidential - Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for the efficient resolution of IT infrastructure related incidents, service requests and update service desk management systems accordingly.
• Serve as a fulfillment engineer for an Infrastructure as a Service team to help my organization fully migrate to the cloud.
• Use a combination of Jenkins, terraform, python and JSON to spin up resources for our internal customers in our AWS cloud.
• Respond to customer requests and incidents which involve solving technical issues and resolving data/configuration issues
• Collaborated with multiple internal teams across disparate groups to resolve client support escalations
• Maintained Continuous/Integration and Continuous/Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and adhered to version control (GitHub) guidelines for code deployment
• Enforced adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
• Translated requirements into prioritized list of user stories and deliver per timelines
• Worked with product line leaders and architects to develop Infrastructure plans and ensured that they modeled the well-architected frameworks
• Drove excellent quality in the development and support of AWS cloud solutions
• Established foundation for future implementations and automation requirements for cloud
• Analyze machine data using Splunk tools to gain further operational insight to improve overall systems performance
• Ingest and analyze application security logs in Splunk and create SPL logic to detect anomalies and mitigate threats.
• Created Splunk dashboards, alerts, and reports from ingested data.
• Ensured that applications and relevant systems it runs on have appropriate monitoring, logging and alert solutions.

Implementation Analyst /Consultant

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw end-to-end system integration, user acceptance, and production testing of new designs to existing product platform including tracking design defects and monitoring defect resolution.
• Proposed gap remediation strategy and increased buy-in for uncovered opportunities and new product designs.
• Developed financial models and consumer experience strategy for client's web portals and addressed new technology adoption issues.
• Collaborated with Product Management and Engineering to review software improvements and provide design feedback
• Collaborated with peers on complex projects as required (e.g. data center modifications, build-out for DR sites.)
• Served as a liaison between infrastructure operations and the vendors to address performance issues or problem analysis and see them through to resolution
• Coordinated performance analysis, recommendations, and improvements within the hosting infrastructure
• Translated Business/Technical requirements into High level and Low Level Design documents.
• Collected requirements in close cooperation with Product and other non-technical staff.
• Reviewed, implemented and supported Enterprise Security solutions including Web Service Security, SSL Mutual Authentication.