SUMMARY

• Expert setting - up the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform, and its many dimensions of scalability - including but not limited to: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), EC2, load-balancing with ELB, messaging with SQS, AutoScaling architectures, using EBS under high I/O requirements, custom monitoring metrics/analysis/alarms via Cloud Watch etc.
• Designing and Implementing complex, HA multi-tier, end-to-end solutions use a wide variety of private and public cloud offerings, including AWS EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancers, IAM, AutoScaling, DynamoDB, Cloud Front RDS, Route 53.
• Expert level knowledge and working experience of AWS products and services (e.g. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Cloud Front, Amazon EMR)
• Expertise with Amazon Web Service AMI EC2 Instance creation(s) and administration for both the EBS and S3 Instances.
• Implemented fully automated Cloud Formation (JSON Scripts) for creating/administrating the instances with Auto Scaling, ElasticLoadBalancers across different Availability Zones.
• Designed and implemented the complex, HA multi-tier, end-to-end solutions using a wide variety of private and public cloud offerings, includingAWSEC2, S3, ELB, RDS, Route 53, RDS, IAM, Cloud Front and Auto Scaling.
• Proficient in Programming the AWS Cloud Infrastructure to build highly available and scalable infrastructure components like AWS resources and its associated dependencies (or) runtime parameters based on the application needs with CloudFormation Templates.
• Expert setting-up Custom Cloud Watch Alarm(s) for Scale-up and Scaling-Down the Instances in the AWS Cloud.
• Experience in the Infrastructure (Server, Storage, and Database) discovery, design, build, and migrations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux (Red Hat 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x), UNIX, WINDOWS NT/2000/2003

Cloud: AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation AWS Config, S3, Cloud Trail, IAM, Docker, VMWare.

Version Control Tools: CVS, SVN, GIT, GIT Hub, Source Tree

Databases: MySQL, MS Access, Oracle 9i/10g/11g,DB2,Couchbase

Tools: ANT, MAVEN, JENKINS, CHEF, PUPPET, ANSIBLE, BUILD FORGE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created AWS Launch configurations based on customized AMI and use this launch configuration to configure auto scaling groups and Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Route53, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups.
• Built environment within AWS Virtual Private Cloud using EC2 instance, Route 53 DNS routing, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling groups.
• Used Cloud Watch metrics to monitor the AWS resources based on the requirement.
• Automated and implemented the Cloud Formation Stacks (JSON Scripts) for creating/administrating the AWS resources like VPC, Subnets, Gateways, AutoScaling, ElasticLoadBalancers, creating DB Instances and many others across different Availability Zones.
• Expert Programming the AWS Infrastructure with the Cloud-Formation.
• Implemented fully automated Cloud Formation (JSON Scripts) for creating/administrating the instances with Auto Scaling, ElasticLoadBalancers across different Availability Zones.
• Setting up private networks and sub-networks using Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and creating security groups to associate with the networks.
• Configured Elastic Load balancer (ELB) including high availability of ELB using various subnets in various availability zones, configured security settings and health check for application.
• Managed users and groups using the Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Experience with building and deploying multi applications utilizing Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, SNS, focusing on High-availability, fault tolerance and auto scaling.
• Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 Instance for snapshots and creating clone instances.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Expert managing/administrating virtual datacenter(s) and the installation procedures with VMware infrastructural virtual machine.
• Planning, Installing, configuration, maintenance and administration of VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, V-Motion, Storage Motion, HA and DRS, P2V, V2V and Troubleshooting.
• Management of virtual machines, their resource pools and capacity planning security hardening and Monitoring of VMs & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Creation and Deployment of Virtual Machines in Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC), setup of their vSANs, vSwitches & VLAN/Port-group(s).
• Expert level knowledge and working experience of AWS products and services (e.g. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Cloud Front, Amazon EMR)
• Provisioned AWS S3 buckets for backup of the application and sync these contents with remaining s3 backups, by creating entry for AWS S3 SYNC in crontab.
• Created customized AMIs based on already existing AWS EC2 instances by using create image functionality, hence using this snapshot for disaster recovery.
• Experience in managing virtual instances and disks using Puppet and Deployed Puppet, Puppet dashboard for configuration management to existing infrastructure.

Confidential, Concord, CA

Build and Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create maintain and execute all (ITSM) process management incident management & Change management with all business approvals.
• To ensure the service delivery under the ITSM framework Incident/ problem/ change management.
• Work Procedures in Creating/ Resizing/ Shrinking with LVM & Veritas File Systems.
• Monitor systems for performance to agreed business expectations or beyond.
• Monitor and report on system and database backups to ensure they appropriately configured, implemented and verified to enable recovery from failure.
• Provide assistance in installation and support for Sun hardware and software products including installing version or release upgrades to existing installed software base.
• Design of DNS & SAMBA servers to provide domain logins for the Staff & the students to make sure secured logins to the LINUX servers.
• Ensure to avoid illegal accessing of internet using the firewall configurations and to provide the reliable/healthy transmission of network.
• Enabling quota limit for the users to restrict the space usage on the home directories.
• Installation, configuration, and administration of Oracle 8.1.7, 9i and 11i On Solaris 8/ Linux and Windows 2000 Server environments.
• Responsible for implementation and monitoring of Database Backups.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Apache / Web logic on Solaris, Linux and Windows.
• Developed basic UNIX scripts using Perl and KORN.
• Provide ongoing product maintenance including problem identification, program fix installation and validation including regular maintenance cycles to implement fixes to known problems.
• Solaris 8, 9 & 10/Linux/AIX 5.2&5.3/ system administration including security, regular auditing for intrusion detection.
• Setting up of networks involving RHEL / SUN Workstations, Servers and Communication Products.
• Monitor and system administration including Install/Update patch software, firmware, and security patches for all applications in installed infrastructure.
• Update periodic patches in all UNIX Servers, Disk Management - Logical and Physical
• Configuration and Administration of Load balancers and FS's, taking servers in/out of rotation.
• Provided 24x7 on-call/Remote Support for UNIX Production Problems
• Responsible for day - to - day system administration tasks.
• UNIX Support and Co-Ordination for Live Production Applications of Project Management & Documentation.
• Operating System Installations, configuration of servers, workstations and I/O devices
• Monitored and administered file systems and recognizing file access problems.
• Managed complete NIS and NFS. Configured NIS server for 20 workstations; configure NFS.
• Wrote SHELL SCRIPTS for in-house maintenance.

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install new and/or rebuild and maintain existing servers and configure VMware guests, clones, Guest moves and settings ON hardware, peripherals, services, disks, NICs, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements on VMware Clients.
• Event Monitoring and Detection of Hardware and operating system errors and failures and working on them.
• Daily alert management for Solaris, Linux and AIX machines which typically include root, var, /home and other Application FS issues.
• Alerts on hardware problems which involve replacements memory, PS, etc replacements on Linux, Solaris, Disk replacements on Solaris, Solaris SVM, Linux, Linux LVM environments.
• User/Group Account Management Create, Modify, Delete, Disable, Password Reset, File Permissions Handling with Scripting
• Ensuring Systems are updated with all recent patches with RHEL 4.x and older version with up2date command, for Linux version 5.x or above with yum update and for Solaris with patchadd command and patch cluster, install cluster by downloading from SUN.