SUMMARY

• A results - oriented and detailed IT Specialist who has excellent business acumen with interpersonal skills.
• Analytical and organized with a proven history of successfully identifying needs, making recommendations, and implementing effective solutions.
• Dedicated to maintaining a reputation built on quality, service, and uncompromising ethics.

Areas of Expertise

• DevOps
• CI/CD Implementation
• Identity and Access Management
• Cost Optimization
• AWS Cloud Architecture
• Google Cloud Architecture
• Infrastructure As Code (CloudFormation/Terraform)
• Backup/Archival
• Security Hardening
• S3 Integration
• Networking/Routing
• DNS Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Storage and Content Delivery
• AWS Well-architected
• On-prem to Cloud migrations
• SysOps Administration
• Multi-account architecture
• ETL / Data Transformation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AWS: EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, CloudFront, ECS, Docker, Kubernetes, JSON, CodePipeline, Step Functions, Systems Manager, Glue, Athena, DynamoDB, Storage Gateway, SAM, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, RDS, ETL

OS: Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu, Confidential Linux, Windows

Code: Terraform, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, JSON, YAML, Ruby, Shell scripting, SQL, AWS states language, XML, Boto3, Github, GitLab

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completed several Database migrations from on-prem to AWS
• Deprecated and cleaned up AWS resources in legacy accounts to reduce cost
• Implemented storage optimization for services such as S3, CloudFront, and AWS backup
• Migrated Jenkins servers from one account to another
• Created and managed multiple pipelines for a wide range of microservices
• Updated legacy apps by using a serverless approach opposed to dedicated servers
• Created Terraform(IAC) scripts to deploy applications to AWS through Jenkins
• Created CloudFormation(IAC) templates to deploy and manage infrastructure on AWS
• Broke a monolithic legacy application into microservices using services such as ElasticBeanstalk, API Gateway, and Lambda
• Led AWS decom and migration effort for legacy applications to another isolated AWS account
• Spoke directly with stakeholders to decide on future Cloud architecture projects
• Implemented CloudFront integration to reduce network cost by nearly 75%

Confidential

DevOps Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical guidance, as well as made decisions for a vast number of technical problems.
• Helped to maintain, manage, and expand the company’s AWS infrastructure using best industry practices.
• Led, designed, implemented, and supported new initiatives in AWS from start to finish.
• Managed and oversaw software deployments.
• Supported our technical teams with legacy services and custom integrations.
• Worked with stakeholders to identify product gaps and implement new solutions and tools.
• Provided end-user support to our technical teams.
• Mentored junior members of our technical teams.
• Developed and maintained application code in multiple languages
• Developed and implemented an ETL state machine designed to cleanse hundreds of gigabytes of data for legal compliance from start to finish.
• Led several on-prem to AWS server migrations which saved the company roughly $3,000 monthly.
• Created a state machine with over 300 functions running in parallel in 4 different phases to deliver data to a DSP
• Created over 30 different State Machines to automate repetitive tasks which reduced overhead for the rest of the developers.
• Implemented SNS and CloudWatch monitoring on all State Machines, EC2 instances, Lambda automation, and Cloud storage.
• Created hundreds of customized scripts with the boto3 API and Python.
• Implemented cross-account architecture which replicated S3 data and instance backups to a backup account for disaster recovery.
• Wrote several detailed documents to troubleshoot and maintain the applications/software which I created.

Confidential

Cloud Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with customers to improve existing processes and also develop new methods to improve their entire cloud architecture.
• Replicate customer environments in a full-scale setting to reproduce critical issues to provide efficient troubleshooting for high severity cases.
• Diving deep into service interdependencies and region specific configurations to find the root of a problem about to affect an entire organization or subset of AWS customers.
• Operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and while obtaining top-notch experience in cloud computing.
• Possess the ability to be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate strong organizational skills, juggle multiple tasks at once, work independently, and can maintain professionalism under pressure.
• Ability to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages.
• Work efficiently with customers to create a viable solution that is specific for their use case such as cloud migrations, disaster recovery implementation, security hardening, solution architecture, application development, etc.
• Produce appropriate technical documentation and reports. Also responsible for maintaining system functionality, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Demonstrate sound knowledge of Unix concepts and the development of custom code(JSON, Python, etc.)

Confidential

Data Center Technician

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a dynamic team of professionals across the Information Technology (IT) spectrum to execute on-site, hands-on physical infrastructure activity for IT equipment (such as Servers, Net Devices, SANs, Windows OS Support, etc.) physical cabling, parts/component replacements, physical hardware troubleshooting, and highlighting challenges - to enable efficient support of these DC operations.
• Execute work-orders via ticketing queues and systems in a fast-paced environment - leveraging your broad range and high level skills in support of incident management and change implementation for Confidential 's online services physically deployed in your datacenter(s).
• Participate with inventory, spare, cable, and related asset management, in sensitive internal High Business Impact (HBI) environments; to enable external compliance and regulatory audit preparation activities.
• Provide excellent customer service, (via your mature interpersonal awareness, and communication skills) to bring your technical abilities to life while supporting Confidential ’s future success