SUMMARY

• Meticulous Cloud Architect/Cloud Engineer maintaining highly functional digital systems for uninterrupted workflows and consistent productivity.
• Oversees routine maintenance checks and software update schedules to reduce network downtime and likelihood of security compromises.
• Loves collaborating with customers and teammates to develop and implement creative technical solutions to challenging problems.
• Detail - oriented team player with strong organizational skills.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• CI/CD (Jenkins)
• AWS EC2
• Docker
• AWS VPC
• Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC)
• Apache
• GitHub / GitBash
• AWS Serverless
• Linux Server
• Cloud Hosting
• Cloud Applications
• Restful API
• Application Deployment
• System Architecture Design
• Code Development
• Windows Servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions.
• Configured twelve VPCs and 30 Subnets for six accounts using CloudFormation
• Configured Internet gateway and Nat gateways and associated route-tables using CloudFormation
• Deployed a single egress internet architecture using transit gateway
• Connected all six accounts together using shared transit gateway and configured transit gateway routing and propagation to allow inter-vpc communication
• Configured MFA for AWS Managed AD Users using AWS Identity center
• Configured the workspace account to interact with instances in other region using transit gateway propagation and route-table
• Worked closely with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects.
• Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
• Configured Site-to-Site VPN to connect to client on-premises network using transit gateway
• Recommended design changes to production systems in response to changing business process, capacity, risks and performance requirements.
• Researched and understood emerging technologies and end-user needs.
• Partnered closely with technical stakeholders to implement security, operational, compliance and privacy-related controls as part of cloud blueprints.

Confidential

AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Communicated complex cloud solutions to staff in simple and practical terms
• Broke out existing monolithic applications into more modern microservices, ensuring that applications are decouples and fault tolerant
• Partnered closely with technical stakeholders to implement security, operational, compliance and privacy-related controls as part of cloud blueprints.
• Developed and documented system security authorization boundaries for cloud-based solutions and client applications within cloud service.
• Implemented RDS Master-slave data replication to easily maintain multiple copies of a MySQL data by having them copied automatically from a master to a slave database
• Used the Jenkins automation server to deploy AWS Code Build artifacts with AWS Code Deploy
• After implementation, CI/CD pipeline is triggered by code changes made on BitBucket, automatically fed into Code Build, after which output is deployed on Code Deploy
• Configuring and maintaining Linux (Red hat) virtual, environments installed multiple sparse and whole root within one physical instance of redhat6, working with other system engineers as team to meet confidential standard
• Volume and file system management in Linux and Solaris environments
• Integrated S3 bucket with a web domain
• Leveraged AWS Certificate Manager and AWS CloudFront distribution to serve content globally using AWS Edge locations
• Used API Gateway to throttle users request in the front end while using Lambda to automate functions of applications at the back end
• Developed specifications, drawings and engineering artifacts and reports.
• Interfaced directly with customers, stakeholders and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements use cases and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
• Deployed AWS compute resources using AWS Cloud Formation (IaaC)
• Performed troubleshooting on the deployment failures using Cloud Formation rollback features.

Confidential

AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT/AZURE ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Trained and guided interns within the organization on basic AWS Cloud Practitioner crash course
• Wrote DockerFile for an Ubuntu based web application
• Built Docker image and ran docker container
• Deployed container on Kubernetes using "kubectl"
• Designed and implemented monitoring configurations to help identify and protect against DDoS attacks, EC2 instance compromise, etc
• Responded promptly to user requests for permission changes, new storage and expansion questions.
• Worked as technical leader alongside customers and infrastructure team and contributed to business development.
• Performed first-level incident response and service resolution for cloud systems.
• Created Terraform files and deployed servers in production
• Checked terraform files into a version control system (BitBucket)
• Configured object storage bucket with static website and enabled cross region replication on bucket for the purpose of reliability and backup solution
• Granted only appropriate permissions to users to pipeline resources as defined on Jira ticket
• Built docker images using Jenkins Pipeline
• Pushed image into AWS ECR through Pipeline.
• Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses against business needs.

Confidential

AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT/AZURE ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Assessed available architecture and proof of concept and selected best methods for implementation of said architecture and created appropriate automated tests to validate functionality
• Monitored resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch to create alarms to monitor metrics such as EC2, RDS
• Built a multiplayer, turn-based game using Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon SNS, AWS Cognito, AWS Lambda, AWS Cloud9
• Formed deployment strategies for software updates at multi-platform organizations using the Blue/Green technique
• Integrated Jira with Jenkins to allow team members view progress of application and access reports and updates on performance of application
• Worked with developers and engineers to realize technological solutions.
• Analyzed Type solutions proposed to meet diverse business requirements.
• Contributed heavily to product development lifecycle of both back-end and customer-facing solutions.
• Mentored team, sharing skills and expertise and encouraged each member to bring forward ideas and suggestions for improvement.
• Created migration strategies to bridge development gaps between existing software architecture and future updates.
• Reviewed business success drivers, applying strategic prioritization to future architectural updates.
• Designed architecture strategies for large-scale System-wide application deployments.
• Constructed architecture governance processes, communicating parameters to development staff during adoption training.
• Captured and shared best-practice knowledge among AWS community and presented sessions at industry conferences.
• Applied scripting methodologies to automate IT administrative related tasks.