SUMMARY

• Infrastructure consultant specialized in Systems Engineering, AWS Cloud and Confidential Hybrid Cloud with strong background in Linux Administration, Faizan is a former Confidential Hybrid Cloud Contractor with over 8 years of enterprise level experience working with Cloud operations.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect experienced in custom VPC configurations, Cloud Formation for rapid deployments, High Availability and Well Architected Frameworks for the Cloud.Production Support, Installations, CI/CD processes for DevOps fulfilment.
• In - depth knowledge of Cloud Computing.Strategies and building, deploying in and maintaining a well architected cloud environment.
• Excellent customer support, communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to maintain best-in-class cost optimization.
• Overall 8 years of experience in IT Implementation, Administration, Troubleshooting, Upgradation and Management of Datacenters using Vmware, Confidential Hybrid Cloud and AWS.
• 4+ years of experience in AWS and Devops.
• Have good experience in migrating on-premises servers to AWS cloud using the DevOps strategies and various AWS services.
• Experienced in performing TSM enterprise backup & recovery solution (VERITAS NetBackup, Confidential TSM or EMC Networker, CommVault). Performed builds & activation on HACMP, HADR, MDC & RAC Clusters across Oracle, Hana, Sybase and Db2 databases.
• Have good experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) services like VPC, EC2, Cloud Formation, S3, IAM, RDS, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud front, Dynamo DB and Elastic cache.
• Work on Cloud server Builds, Migrations and Upgrades, Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5/6.1/6.2/6.3/7.3 installation, configuration, and upgrade on Sap Hana, Sybase, Oracle, SQL, MAXDb & Db2 on Red Hat Linux, AIX and Windows 2003/2008 platforms.
• Creating and managing IAM roles.
• Creating and managing S3 bucket, CDN and storage Gateway.
• Managing various database services by AWS like RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda functions and elastic cache.
• Utilized Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU, memory, Amazon RDS DB services, Dynamo DB tables and EBS volumes to set alarms for notification or automated actions and to monitor logs.
• Provisioning and building infrastructure in AWS using Cloud Formation.
• Maintaining Amazon EC2 instances availability using Auto scaling.
• Experience with Docker containers and orchestration platforms such as ECS, Kubernetes, Mesos and/or Swarm
• Defining virtual networking environment to launch AWS instances using Amazon VPC.
• Strong Experience in automating built platforms/continuous integration using Jenkins.
• Strong uses of Agile tools and help integrate with AWS.
• Utilizing Ansible for configuration management of hosted instances within AWS.
• Managing the AWS modules from a centralized Ansible configuration server.
• Maintaining the source code using the version control system GIT.
• Have good exposure to Docker containers as well
• Expert in Cloud Technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation and Elastic cache.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization/Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Confidential Hybrd Cloud &Vmware

AWS: CLI, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, JFrog, Docker, RHEL, Centos, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL Satellite

CRM Tools: Ansible, Chef and Jenkins

Containerization: Docker

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012/2008 R2/2008/2003, Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP, Red Hat Linux 9, UNIX, Linux, Solaris

Windows Admin Skills: Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server,DHCP, DNS, SQL server,Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS),WSUS.

Backup/Restore: Tivoli Storage Manager, Netbackup

Server Services: Active Directory Services, DHCP, WSUS, File Server, Exchange 2010/2013 and DNS

Ticketing System: Siebel,Remedy, ISM, SCCD and Service now.

Database: SAP Hana, Sybase, SQL,Oracle & Db2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Cloud Operations Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designing and providing POC s to migrate the current Confidential Cloud managed clients to AWS cloud environment.
• Provisioning and building new infrastructure to the customer in AWS using Cloud Formation.
• Creating stacks as per the customer requirements using Cloud Formation and deploying the instances from the built in images as per the customer requirements.
• Maintaining Amazon EC2 instances availability using Auto scaling.
• Defining IP address range, creation of subnets, configuration of route tables and network gateways in VPC.
• Creating and managing S3 bucket, CDN and storage Gateway.
• Managing various database services by AWS like RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda functions,kenesis and elastic cache.
• Creating and managing IAM roles.
• Manage multiple AWS accounts with multiple VPCs for both production and non - production where primary objectives are automation, build out, integration and cost control
• Design AWS formation templates to create VPC architecture, EC2s, Subnets and NATS to meet high availability application and security parameters across multiple AZs
• Design roles and groups for users and resources using IAM
• Create and manage S3 buckets and policies for storage and backup purposes
• Support, manage and maintain researchers' development efforts with custom applications etc. on AWS e.g. WordPress, Shiny app on Rstudio, QlikSense, etc.
• Work on automation and continuous integration process using Jenkins and Ansible
• Implement EC2 backup strategies by creating EBS Snapshots and attaching the volumes to EC2s when needed
• Manage migration of on-prem servers to AWS by creating golden images for upload and deployment
• Manage several Linux and some Windows servers
• Manage, maintain and deploy to test/development, staging and production environments
• Liaise with Developers to manage upgrades and new releases of applications, tools and systems
• Document all system configurations, build processes and best practices, backup procedures troubleshooting guidelines using Atlassian Confluence
• Provide support across both technical and non-technical teams
• Utilizing Ansible for configuration management of hosted instances within AWS.
• Managing the AWS modules from a centralized Ansible configuration server.
• Maintaining the source code using the version control system GIT.

Confidential, Cupertino CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plan, deploy, monitor and maintain Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple EC2 nodes and VMware VMm's as required in the environment.
• Setting up databases in AWS using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket.
• Experienced in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, S3, Dynamo DB, ElastiCache, IAM, Cloud Formation, OpsWorks, and Cloud Watch.Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups.
• Experience in deploying and supporting CentOS, Red Hat, or Debian operating systems.
• Extensively used build utilities like Maven, ANT for building of jar, war and ear files. Virtualization technologies like VMware, Vagrant, deploying and supporting CentOS, Red Hat, or Debian operating systems.
• Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances and setting up security groups.
• Performing RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management.
• Hands on experience with IAM to set up user roles with corresponding user and group policies using JSON.
• Good understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Performed automated installations of Operating System using kick start for Linux.
• Issue tracking, SDLC & team collaboration tools (Jira, Version One, Confluence

Confidential, Denver, CO

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrated and supported the Confidential Tivoli Storage Manager system running on AIX platform that include daily troubleshooting the Tivoli environment like daily reports that have result failed/missed backup, failed administrative scheduled, TSM DB/log activity and fine tuning.
• Installed and configured TSM backup client for open systems (AIX, Windows, and RHEL) - Registered around 350 TSM backup-archive clients (TDP for MS Exchange, Oracle, SQL2000/2005 and DB2).
• Ensured enterprise-wide support for over 1,500 users by designing, installing and maintaining 24x7 backup systems running Confidential Tivoli Storage Manager, AIX Pseries, tape libraries, 3494 and LTO tape libraries, DNS servers and firewall. Assign LUNS from SHARK, EMC DMX-1000 to TSM Server.
• Planned for and sized an appropriate hardware environment for a TSM backup server.
• Installed hardware, OS and software.
• Developed procedures and documentation for backup and offsite tape storage and rotation according to existing Service Level Agreements.
• Enhanced DR environment by providing additional solutions to address any short falls.
• Monitored on-off site tape rotations and inventory, and monitor procedures for compliance with Disaster Recovery program.
• Performed and checked TSM processes such as Storage pool design, database backup, offsite backups, migration and volume expiration.

Environment: P-series servers, Confidential 3594 LTO library, AIX 5L, Windows 2000/2003, TDP for MS Exchange, oracle, SQL2000/2005 and DB2, Tivoli Storage Manager V5.4, Tivoli Storage Manager V5.5.

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and system administration of Windows 2000/2003/2008
• Maintained network running on Windows 2000/2003 for 900 Users.
• Migrated users and their settings from Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003 server to 2008 server/Exchange server.
• Active Directory User’s Management for new employee joins and providing access to the resources and file permissions.
• Involved in the TCP/IP network configuration
• Created and deleted the user accounts across the location.
• Installed, configured, tested, maintained, monitored, and troubleshot end user workstation hardware, software, networked peripheral devices, cabling, and networking hardware and software products.
• Completed installation and configuration of Windows NT Server software, service packs and Option pack and latest updates
• Responsible for Domain controller’s throughout organization.
• Monitored and maintained backups in Symantec/VERITAS Backups
• Managed Remote Servers through Terminal Services Manager.
• Maintained corporate DNS system.
• Routine maintenance activities for optimal performance
• Installed .Net Framework 2.0 on Windows 2000/2003 Servers.
• Installed and Set up Print servers in the Network
• Installed and Maintained Microsoft SQL server 2003/2008 Backup and Restore.
• Created Virtual Sites and Directories in IIS and FTP server.
• Prepared Network Documentation and Created Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Set up user accounts, Permissions and Passwords.
• Created and maintained document management systems for the team’s collaboration.
• Experience on Working On Call 24x7