SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of experience in IT infrastructure administration, cloud deployment, transitioning multiple projects, and ensuring seamless end - to-end delivery of services that remedy core business issues and boost efficiency & profitability through new technology introduction.
• 5 years with Amazon Web Services and Extensive experience migrating applications and databases from on-premises to AWS environment.
• Ported the client's infrastructure to AWS using various services like VPC, EC2, ASG, ALB, SNS, RDS, EBS, S3, EKS, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, WAF, AWS SSM, AWS Cost Management, Trusted Advisor, Migration & Transfer, Security & Compliance.
• Worked with migration services like AWS Server Migration Service, AWS Application Migration Service, Cloud Endure, and Amazon S3 transfer acceleration to migrate on-premises workloads to AWS faster and more efficiently using Rehost "lift and shift" methodology.
• Experience performing homogenous migrations such as Oracle to Oracle and MS SQL to MS SQL database migrations using the RDS migration tool.
• Responsible for managing DevOps tools Bitbucket, Maven, JFROG Artifactory, SonarQube, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, and K8S.
• Experience in change management, automating tasks, and maintaining run books on confluence.
• Profound knowledge of Microsoft Windows Web Server Administration (IIS), MS SQL administration, Desktop support, and MAC OS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AWS Migration: CloudEndure, Migration evaluator (TSO), AWS DMS, AWS MGN, AWS VM Import

Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53

Monitoring & Event Management: VPC Flow logs, AWS Cloud Trail, SNS, CloudWatch Logs & Events, Prometheus, Grafana

Databases: AWS RDS, MS SQL, Oracle, Amazon Dynamo DB

Data Protection: AWS KMS, Snapshot, Lifecycle Manager

Governance & Compliance: AWS Trusted advisor, AWS Budgets

AWS Security & IAM: AWS IAM, Secrets Manager, AWS Config, AWS WAF

Cloud Orchestration: Terraform, AWS SSM

DevOps: GIT, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Docker, ECR, EKS, ECS, Kubernetes

Programming Languages: Python, YAML

Ticketing Tools: Jira, BMC Remedy, ServiceNow

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Senior Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing a GitHub Actions workflow to automate creating and deploying Docker images to a repository.
• Using Docker to build and tag the image and GitHub Actions to automate the image push to the repository.
• Configuring GitHub Actions triggers the workflow automatically when changes are pushed to the code repository.
• Deploying and managing containerized applications on AWS & Azure Managed Kubernetes using Helm charts and GitOps workflows, ensuring consistency and minimizing configuration drift.
• Implementing GitOps workflows using Argo CD to automate application deployment and management on Kubernetes clusters.
• Configuring Argo CD to monitor Git repositories for changes and automatically deploy updates to Kubernetes clusters, improving deployment speed and reliability.
• Using Helm charts to automate Kubernetes resource management, including deployment, scaling, and rollbacks.
• Automating package builds and distribution using JFrog Artifactory, reducing manual effort and improving release cycle times.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Ported the client's infrastructure to AWS cloud using various services like VPC, EC2, Load Balancer, RDS, S3, Route53, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logs, Trusted Advisor, Identity Access Management, & Compliance.
• Implemented the AWS IAM permission boundary feature to prevent privilege escalation.
• Created lambda function to schedule the automated snapshot backup using Python script.

Confidential

Cloud Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Migrated the Application and Database servers from on-premises to AWS cloud.
• Rehosted workloads to the AWS Cloud by using the CloudEndure Migration tool.
• Migrated MS SQL databases from on-premises to AWS EC2 & RDS environments.
• Implemented IAM to manage users, groups, roles, policies, MFA, and access key rotation to ensure compliance.
• Deployed cost-effective solution to the non-Production environment using Instance Scheduler.
• Provisioned the AWS resources using Terraform and maintained the state files in the S3 bucket.
• Created AWS VPC, NAT, NACL, VPC Peering, Internet Gateways, security groups, and Transit Gateway Services.
• Set up a Modular and Scalable Virtual Network Architecture with Amazon VPC.
• Created AWS VPC endpoints for S3 and Mapped S3 bucket to store VPC Flow logs and CloudWatch logs.
• Implemented AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java.
• Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using the Cloud Watch service.
• Created cloud watch alarm to send an alert when changes are made to Security Groups, EC2 instance status change, S3
• Scheduled Lambda Function to run weekly EC2 AMI backup using cloud watch event as Lambda trigger.
• Supported the sec-ops team installing the Splunk agent to monitor the logs.
• Collaborated with the application team to set the threshold limits to monitor the environment.
• Budgeting, forecasting, and Capacity planning using VMware Cloud Health.
• Developed the scripted pipeline in Jenkins, which implements the multiple stages of the pipeline using Jenkinsfile.
• Uploaded Terraform manifest file to Bitbucket repository and integrated Jenkins pipeline to create the AWS resources.

Confidential

Cloud Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Launched Amazon Machine Images, Editing Permission on AMIs, Customizing AMIs
• Crafted the Elastic Block Store Volumes and Snapshot.
• Rebuilt crashed instances from snapshots or AMIs and retained the same IP and hostname.
• Manually created the EC2 instance AMI from the AWS console.
• Tagged EC2 instances as per the project requirement.
• Created and configured default CloudWatch metrics to monitor resources like EC2, S3, ELB, EBS, etc.
• Created Log Groups in AWS Cloud Watch specific to applications and services.

Confidential

Lead Migration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated applications and databases from on-premises to AWS Cloud.
• Used the lift and shift migration strategy to move the .net web application and MS SQL database workloads.
• Launched the MS SQL RDS instance and imported data into RDS using the RDS migration tool.
• Launched Amazon Machine Images, Editing Permission on AMIs, Customizing AMIs
• Crafted snapshots and mapped the EBS volume in the snapshot.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge in Configuring and troubleshooting Virtual Directory, Application Pool, Session State, Caching, Authentication, and worker processes definitions.
• Good knowledge of the Worker process, Web Garden, and Web Farm in IIS
• Created application pool in IIS and recycled the application pool when it is required.
• Responsible for the creation of development, staging & production database instances.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered Microsoft XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Mac Operating Systems
• Managed the operations and supported 800 end-users.
• Conducted remote troubleshooting and Contacted clients to find out the nature of the problem.