SUMMARY

• AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate with AWS Certified Developer with around 6+ Years of experience in IT industry comprising of Systems Administration and Change Management, Software Configuration Management (SCM), Build and Release management and Process Engineering.
• Currently working on Enterprise - wide development team forPuppet-based application, middleware, patching andconfiguration deploymentengineering.
• Experienced in Automating, Configuring and deploying instances onAWS, Azure environments and Data centers, also familiar withEC2,Cloud watch,Cloud Formationand managing security groups onAWS.
• Provides leadership and strategic guidance with pursuit teams during the solution development process to ensure alignment with overall company sales and client business strategy and effective use of AWS services and CSC offerings. Develops high-level technical operating strategies and solutions, and benefits. Analyzes stakeholders, identifies and recognizes prospect traits and determines how to effectively influence their decision.
• Managed applications by implementing AWS services which includes EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB (Elastic Load Balancing), AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM (Identity &Access Management), Route 53, Lambda, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, OPS Work, Security Groups, used Containerization tools like Docker to automate deployments, scaling and containerized applications across clusters of hosts.
• Maintains current and applicable knowledge of industry, market and IT (information technology) services best practices and trends as well as maintaining on AWS to evaluate and ensure company solutions and services are meeting the needs of clients.
• Provides leadership to help customers understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions and delivery excellence.
• Experience with Cloud Management Platforms (CMP’s) and automation tools such as Puppet, Chef, CloudFormation, etc.
• Experience working with enterprise management systems, ITIL service delivery, and service desk integration.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members and prospective clients.
• Ability to articulate and present the business value of company solutions with a firm understanding of company strategies and products relative to company's major competitors.
• The following AWS s are highly desired; significant hands on experience may be substituted but candidates are expected to achieve one or more s within the first three months of hire.
• Implemented Chef Recipes for Deployment on build for Data Centre Servers. Also, re-used and modified same Chef Recipes to create a Deployment directly into Amazon EC2 instances, skilled with Linux-based infrastructures.
• Experienced in managing multiple corporate applications into GitHub code management repo and creating user level of access for related GitHub project directories to the code changes.
• Handled Cloud Operations based on a defined service that includes but not limited to, Installations, scaling servers, migrating, solving infrastructure issues, taking backups, lead and participated in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and success when building new, or migrating existing, applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Demonstrated a deep understanding of governance, compliance, and cyber security ATO, System Security, Risk Management, Incident Management, created, articulated and positioned an innovative and compelling vision and value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the financial benefits and transformational value of migrating to AWS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Platform: AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack

Configuration Management: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, DockerProvisioning Tools Terraform, CloudFormation

CI, Build Tools: Jenkins, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Maven

Monitoring Tools: CloudWatch Agent, Nagios

Database: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB

Version Control Tools: GIT, GitHub, CodeCommit, Subversion(SVN)

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, AWS X-Ray, Amazon CloudWatch

Web Servers: JBOSS, Apache, TomcatScripts Ruby, Perl, Python, Bash Shell, PowerShell

SDLC: Agile, Scrum

Operating System: RedHat, Ubuntu, Linux, Windows, CentOS

Web Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, Node.js

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Developed automation and processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale, monitor applications in Data Centers and in AWS Cloud, contributed in code reviews with team to ensure that each project meets the requirements as described in the user story.
• Deployed codes using Jenkins in AWS Elastic Beanstalk, EC2 and used Bitbucket version controller to ensure code health, responsible for day to day Build and deployments in Dev, QA, pre-production and production environments
• Continually re-evaluated existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability, security and cost optimization, implemented process and quality improvements through task automation
• Collaborated with IT business partners, architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable designs, evaluated new service options, identified issues and impacts, and made recommendations on feasibility and ROI
• Implemented AWS high availability using AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), which performs balances across instances in multiple availability zones, designed, implemented and supported fully automated CI and CD processes using Puppet and the Terraform
• Supported systems integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) by providing insight to testing teams in order to ensure the appropriate depth of test coverage. Experienced in setting up logging and monitoring for applications and infrastructure
• Responsible for creating Network Security Groups and add inbound rules for various ports like RDP(3389), PS remoting (5986), Custom ports (8081,9200) to allow access only from private network address prefix to provide utmost security
• Developed and maintained documentation on infrastructure, software, systems, and disaster recovery methodology, seamlessly integrated applications to vast driver network, real-time geo-fencing enabling pick-up punctuality
• Continuously validated and executed component integration test (CIT) scenarios to identify application errors and ensured software solutions meet functional specifications, create user stories, futures, and test cases in JIRA issue tracking software to deliver product on time
• Implemented Ansible to manage all existing servers and automated build/configuration of new servers. Hands on experience with IAM to set up user roles with corresponding user and group policies using JSON. Maintained DevOps framework covering Process and Tools, conducted DevOps maturity assessments, created roadmap for DevOps transformation and lead the transformation hands-on experience with containerization of applications (Docker) and deployment into production environments (Docker Swarm, Amazon ECS, Kubernetes

Environment: EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Bean Stalk, ECS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Elastic Cache, CloudWatch, Route 53, Redshift, Lambda and Dynamo DB, LAMP, Nagios, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Tomcat, WebSphere, Nexus, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Bash scripts, SVN, Selenium and GIT

Confidential, MOORESVILLE, NC

AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• As a Solutions Architect, you will have the opportunity to help shape Analog Device’s cloud infrastructure utilizing Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., AWS EC2, S3, RDS and AWS-IoT).
• Your broad responsibilities will include: lead and own the technical engagement (design and build) and ultimate success around specific implementation projects.
• Provide architecture expertise for custom vertical solutions.
• Accelerate AD’s ADConnect (development platform) cloud offering through automated Cloud Formation templates.
• Report on State-of-the-Market for IoT Solutions in General, and use that information to inform the IoT Solution Architecture.
• Provide subject matter expertise on security as it relates to cloud architectures.
• Ability to think strategically about business, product & technical challenges.
• Should be highly technical and analytical with implementation / consulting experience.
• Deep knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, S3 & AWS-IoT)
• Strong track record of architecting custom solutions utilizing AWS services.
• Leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments.
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell)
• Configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet.
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
• Understanding of application, server, and network security and government requirements such as HIPAA is an advantage.
• Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications.
• Candidate must have a proven track record of leadership, dealing with ambiguity, working with cross-organizational teams and business acumen.
• Implemented a DevOps environment using multiple CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Applied AWS Security best practices using IAM, KMS, MFA, Role-based-access-control.
• Deployed large-scale applications on AWS using Cloud formation to automate infrastructure, continuously acted on finding innovative ways of improving IT services for the business.
• Acted on operational feasibility by evaluating analyses, problem definitions, requirements, solution developments, and proposed solutions. Demonstrated solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear codes.

Environment: EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Bean Stalk, ECS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Elastic Cache, CloudWatch, Route 53, Redshift, Lambda and Dynamo DB, LAMP, Nagios, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Tomcat, WebSphere, Nexus, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Bash scripts, SVN, and GIT

Confidential, CHERLASTON, SC

AWS TECHNICAL ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Used Cloud formation templates and launch configurations to automate repeatable provisioning of AWS resources for applications.
• Creating and updating AWS stack using AWS Cloud Formation and writing the templates file using JSON.
• Integrated Amazon Cloud Watch with Auto scaling launch configurations for monitoring the log files, store them and track metrics.
• Utilized AWS Cloud watch to monitor environment for operational & performance metrics during load testing.
• Installed, configured and managed the ELK (Elastic Search, Log stash) for Log management within EC2 / Elastic Load balancer for Elastic Search.
• Designing and configuring the AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Secure Email Service (SES) architecture of the solution and working with a client.
• Created scripts in Python Which Integrated with Amazon API to control instance operations.
• Maintained Build Related scripts developed in ANT, Maven, Python and Shell. Modified build Configuration files including Maven build.xml.
• Developed and maintained the continuous integration and deployment systems using Jenkins, ANT, and Maven.
• Planning, scheduling and documenting release sat code Freeze Periods.
• Performed Functional and Stress Testing for a few applications using Mercury Load runner.
• Installation and configuration of RED HAT LINUX for new build environment and Monitor performance on RED HAT LINUX 6/7.
• Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
• Wrote Python Code using Ansible Python API to Automate Cloud Deployment Process.
• Used Ansible Playbooks to setup Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Deployed micro services, including provisioning AWS environments using Ansible Playbooks
• Worked with Chef for all the software configurations and written multiple complex Cookbooks and Recipes for pushing the configurations to various enterprise nodes.
• Worked on using Chef Attributes, Chef Templates, Chef Recipes, and Chef Files for managing the configurations across various nodes using Ruby.
• Automated CI/CD process using Jenkins, build-pipeline-plug in, Maven, Git.
• Used Jenkins, Build forge for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server.
• Used Puppet to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points, Packages.
• Experience with container based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker HUB, Docker file, Docker Compose N Docker registries.
• Worked on creation of Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.
• Automated application deployment in the cloud using Docker technology using Elastic Container Service scheduler.
• Created and managed a Docker deployment pipeline for custom application images in the cloud using Jenkins.

Confidential, Confidential, MD

AWS TECHNICAL ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, Elastic load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection in Amazon CLI.
• Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
• Experienced in setting up all Amazon Web Services Components through Cloud Formation Templates (JSON).
• Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 Instance for snapshots and creating clone’s instances.
• Setup Elastic Load Balancer for distributing traffic among multiple Web Logic servers.
• Written wrapper scripts to automate deployment of cookbooks on nodes and running the chef client on them in a Chef-Solo environment.
• Created Python Scripts to Automate AWS services which include web servers, ELB, Cloud front Distribution, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application configuration, this Script creates stacks, single servers or joins web servers to stacks.
• Used Cloud formation templates and launch configurations to automate repeatable provisioning of AWS resources for applications.
• Creating and updating AWS stack using AWS Cloud Formation and writing the templates file using JSON.
• Integrated Amazon Cloud Watch with Auto scaling launch configurations for monitoring the log files, store them and track metrics.
• Utilized AWS Cloud watch to monitor environment for operational & performance metrics during load testing.
• Installed, configured and managed the ELK (Elastic Search, Log stash and Kibana) for Log management within EC2 / Elastic Load balancer for Elastic Search.
• Designing and configuring the AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Secure Email Service (SES) architecture of the solution and working with a client.
• Created scripts in Python Which Integrated with Amazon API to control instance operations.
• Maintained Build Related scripts developed in ANT, Maven, Python and Shell. Modified build Configuration files including Maven build.xml.
• Developed and maintained the continuous integration and deployment systems using Jenkins, ANT, and Maven.
• Planning, scheduling and documenting release sat code Freeze Periods.
• Stand by administrator for Clear Case and PVCS.
• Performed Functional and Stress Testing for a few applications using Mercury Load runner.
• Installation and configuration of RED HAT LINUX for new build environment and Monitor performance on RED HAT LINUX 6/7.
• Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
• Wrote Python Code using Ansible Python API to Automate Cloud Deployment Process.
• Used Ansible Playbooks to setup Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Deployed micro services, including provisioning AWS environments using Ansible Playbooks
• Worked with Chef for all the software configurations and written multiple complex Cookbooks and Recipes for pushing the configurations to various enterprise nodes.
• Worked on using Chef Attributes, Chef Templates, Chef Recipes, and Chef Files for managing the configurations across various nodes using Ruby.
• Used Jenkins, Build forge for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server.
• Involved in maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

Environment: EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Bean Stalk, ECS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Elastic Cache, CloudWatch, Route 53, Redshift, Lambda and Dynamo DB, LAMP, Nagios, Cloud Watch Tomcat, WebSphere, Nexus, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Bash scripts, SVN, and GIT