SUMMARY

• As a highly dedicated, performance - driven and self-motivated cloud (aws ) engineer, having years of experience in cloud(aws)/linux environments.
• I am able to work with minimal supervision or as part of a team with proficiency in cloud orchestration, security, identity & access management, monitoring and event management, governance & compliance, application delivery, data protection, image and patch management.
• I am always ready and willing to learn new technologies and adapt to new environments and new teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Monitoring & Event Management: AWS CloudWatch (Events & Logs), AWS SNS, AWS S3

Identity & Access Management: AWS Organization, AWS IAM, AWS Secrets Manager, etc.

AWS Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Shield, WAF

Cloud Orchestration/Automation: AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, AWS SSM Parameter Store

Governance & Compliance: AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Well Architected Tool, AWS Budgets, etc.

Application Delivery: Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Commit

Network: VPC, VGW, TGW, CGW, IGW, NGW etc.

AWS Platform: AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, S3, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, CloudFront, Service Catalog, AWS Auto Scaling, Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch etc.

Image & Patch: AWS SSM Patch Manager

Data Protection: AWS KMS, Snapshot Lifecyle Manager.

Self Service: Service Catalog

Programming Languages: Bash, JSON, YML, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS Cloud Architect/Engineer

Confidential, Irving TX

Responsibilities:

• Migrated On premise databases and applications to cloud using AWS migration hub, Database Migration services, Schema Conversion tool etc
• Collaborated with application developers, Project Managers and QA analysts to ensure proper testing, configuration and deployment
• Ability to setup and manage monitoring systems in AWS using CloudWatch and integrated with SNS for notifications for system and performance changes.
• Developed baseline VPC and Network design including leveraging VPN connectivity and Direct Connect
• Built serverless architecture with Lambda integrated with SNS, CloudWatch logs and other AWS services.
• Leverage highly available Applications across availability zones and regions
• Highly implemented fault tolerant, highly available, self-healing and scalable systems in AWS.
• Leveraged automated DevOps tools deployment and Blue-green deployment patterns and strategies
• Configured CI/CD Pipelines using Codepipeline connected to GitHub and build environments (Dev, stage & Prod)
• Implemented Control Tower Preventive and Detective guardrails and leveraged Account Factory, integrated with Lambda for new AWS account creation and setup. leverage IAM best practices and role-based access control
• Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our AWS resources and applications
• Setup and configured logs files for detail monitoring and alerts notification when changes are made
• Implemented AWS Organization to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts including consolidated billing and policy-based restrictions
• Designed secured, cost optimized, highly available and fault tolerant infrastructure in AWS
• Architected and implemented continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins and other CICD.
• Architected and configured Dev/Stage/QA environments in AWS (VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, RDS, Redis, route53, etc.)
• Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, etc.
• Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on resource need, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling etc.
• Leveraged EC2 Create Snapshot API call tocreate snapshots of EBS Volumeson scheduled intervals.
• Monitoring from end-to-end view of runtime systems CPU, bandwidth, disk space and log files using New Relic
• Deployed and configured infrastructure using Cloud Formation Terraform and Ansible

AWS Solutions Architect

Confidential - West Chester, PA

Responsibilities:

• Utilized VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, Cloudformation and other AWS services and migrate On-premises applications to AWS Cloud platform.
• Setup S3 cross region replication on AWS same account and AWS different accounts.
• Designed, configured and deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) for applications utilizing the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Direct Connect, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, SQS, IAM), focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, auto-scaling, load-balancing capacity monitoring and alerting.
• Implemented Cost and performance monitoring of resources and applications using AWS Cloud Watch, including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, SNS and configured notifications for the alarms generated based on events defined.
• Implemented disaster recovery strategy by using Lambda function to copy over database snapshots to another region and using cloudformation template to build same environment in the target region within the RPO/RTO time frame.
• Provisioned RDS, Load balancers, EC2 to meet application requirements.
• Used Cloudformation to build out AWS applications and provision services.
• Implemented CI/CD for various applications with codepipeline and other Devops tools.
• Utilized Devops tools like GitHub, code commit, code build,code deploy and codepipeline, to ensure easy software build, package, testing and delivery to various target environments.
• Extensively worked with Jenkins by installing, configuring and maintaining for the purpose of Continuous integration and End to End automation for all build and deployments.
• Used Docker to deploy application to various targets.
• Championed database/application migration from on premises Oracle and PostgreSQL to AWS RDS on the cloud, using Migration Tools such as DMS,SCT,VM IMPORT/EXPORT.
• Supported mission critical applications running on Tomcat and weblogic applications servers to ensure high availability.
• Design High Availability applications on AWS across availability zones and different Regions.
• Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS
• Refreshing Dev and Test instances with data from Production on a regular basis.
• Automate operational tasks such as software configuration, server scaling and deployments, and database setups in multiple AWS cloud environments with the use of modern application and configuration management tools
• Scripting using linux shell to automate repetitive and automated tasks.

IT/Desktop Support Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as the first point of contact for IT support within the organization
• Installed, configured and maintained software and hardware components of computer and network systems
• Diagnosed and troubleshoot software and hardware issues
• Repaired and replacing damaged computer and network components
• Ensured the security of client and server computers by installing and upgrading antivirus and firewall software
• Supported employees whenever they encounter challenges with computers and network devices
• Maintained and updated technical documentation regularly
• Tested and implemented new hardware and software before full-scale installation