SUMMARY

• Highly motivated, skilled, and results - driven certified AWS Solutions Architect, with over 6 years of professional experience as a solutions architect implementing cloud solution best practices to provision and manage secure, scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available architectures.
• Expertise in networking, compute, storage security, and cloud-based technologies. Expertise in managing teams, building strategic relationships, communicating technology architectures, and providing business solutions to complex cloud infrastructural problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Experience with AWS native tools such as: EC2, ECS, S3, VPC, CloudFront, Lambda, AWS CloudWatch, API Gateway, etc.

Cloud Security: IAM, AWS Guard Duty, AWS WAF, AWS EventBridge, AWS Cloud Watch, AWS Cloud Trail, AWS Config,etc.

Configuration management services: Ansible, GIT, and Systems Manager.

Infrastructure as a code and automation tools like: CloudFormation and terraform.

Containerization: Docker, ECR, ECS, EKS.

DevOps: Ansible, Terraform, Git

Serverless service: AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, AWS Step Function.

Messaging service: AWS SQS, AWS SNS.

Database: AWS RDS, DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, MYSQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Aws solutions architect

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Strongly practiced and demonstrated knowledge of AWS networking including VPCs, NACLS, Security groups, Subnets, Route tables, NAT gateways, Internet Gateways.
• Leveraged other network services like CloudFront, Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancers.
• Utilized AWS cloudwatch to monitor metrics for services like EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3.
• Provisioned AWS databases like RDS and DynamoDB running on DB engines like Aurora, Postgres, and MySQL
• Experience with security tools like AWS shield, WAF, NACL, Security groups, and proper routing.
• Managed users with IAM policies to give least privileges IAM roles to enable communication between different resources.
• Used S3 to store data in buckets. EBS volumes and EFS to attach to servers for storage.
• Experience with EC2 and web applications like Apache and Nginx.
• Integrated and decoupled resources using messaging services such as AWS SQS and AWS SNS.
• Worked with configuration management tools like Ansible and Systems manager.
• Migration of legacy on-prem data centers to the AWS cloud using tools and services like AWS DMS, AWS CLoudEndure, AWS Snowball, ADS, AWS MGN.
• Connect virtual cloud to other networks using VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway and VPC peering.
• Experienced presentation and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and technical teams.
• Consulted and advised engineers, architects, and executives, and helped define the right choice of technology stacks.
• Managed Microservices using Docker to quickly spin up into reproducible development environment, registering on ECR and orchestration using Amazon ECS and deployed into Amazon EC2 and AWS Faregate.
• Developed CloudFormation templates in JSON and YAML format to deploy resources. Also worked with Terraform in some cases.

AWS solutions architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting focused on developing and implementing business solutions based on latest technologies in cloud services, virtual server platform, and enterprise storage systems.
• Configured and maintained user accounts for dev, QA and production servers and created roles for EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, EBS resources to communicate with each other using IAM.
• Managed organizations accounts and resources with AWS Systems Manager and its capabilities like session manager, state manager, and Run command.
• Provisioned virtual machines (EC2 instances) to power web and application servers.
• Increased performance, availability, and scalability with the use of Autoscaling, Multi AZ deployment for databases and Cross Region Replication for data.
• Created additional targeted business solutions in high demand areas for disaster recovery and backup to provide customers with cost-effective off-site solutions to meet regulatory compliance.
• Monitored AWS Environment using Trusted Advisor, GuardDuty, and CloudTrail.
• Provisioned servers using AWS lambda in conjunction with API gateway for serverless architecture.
• Participated in the migration of applications from on-prem to the cloud using AWS Cloud endure. Re-structured and architected the applications to integrate with AWS resources.
• Developed technical architecture roadmaps to support business requirements and objectives while considering current infrastructure capabilities and limitations.
• Architected, built, and maintained cost-efficient and scalable cloud environments for the organization.
• Developed an automated monitoring and even-driven system using Amazon Cloudwatch that increased uptime to 100% and saved cost.
• Utilized Ansible as a configuration management tool to automate the configurations of my infrastructure using master/client nodes architecture.
• Provided guidance on best practices related to security, compliance, and performance optimization, as well as identifying opportunities for cost-savings and project improvement.
• Participated in sales meetings with prospective clients to discuss customer needs and provide recommendations regarding technology solutions that meet those needs within budget constraints.

AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT

Confidential, Nevada

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented, and monitored multiple AWS environments to ensure high availability and performance for all applications.
• Worked with development team to ensure new applications met all required performance, security, and compliance standards before being deployed to production.
• Designed and edited blueprints for IT infrastructure and networking architecture according management’s demands.
• Recorded and spread best-practice knowledge between the solutions architect team.
• Configuring NACL, Security Groups, and WAF to secure applications and VPC network depending on access parameters provided and conditions
• Assisted in provisioning a serverless website using S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB.
• Configured Single-Sign-On (SSO) of AWS with enterprise Active Directory like Okta as the Identity Provider.
• Configured firewall inbound and outbound rules for Network security groups
• Demonstrated excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Partnered with technical staff and other teams to assess systems architect and recommended solutions to improve it.
• Architected blueprints to improve security of cloud resources using tools like AWS WAF, Shield, NACLS and Security groups.
• Led teams to architect, design, deploy and implement Cloud solutions encompassing multiple specializations, resources, and technologies
• Experienced in continuous monitoring of the AWS Environment with AWS GuardDuty, and Vulnerability scanning and management with AWS Inspector.
• Implemented data protection at rest and in transit using KMS Keys and TSL Certificate.