SUMMARY:

• Competitive IT Professional with 5+ Years of Experience as Cloud Engineer and Linux Systems Administrator .
• Worked and learned a great deal from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud services like EC2, S3, EBS, RDS.
• Strong knowledge on Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Web services.
• Performed configuration, deployment and support of cloud services including Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Highly experienced in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, AWS Config, Auto Scaling, Cloud Front, IAM, S3 and Route53
• Expertise in large scale, high performance enterprise application deployment and solution architecting on complex heterogeneous environments on AWS infra services.
• Strong experience in designing, cost efficient fault tolerant, scalable solutions and distributed systems in AWS.
• Effective communication skills and continuous interactions with the global clients and internal management. Encourage, motivate & mentor the team with technical discussions.
• CCNA Certified Network Engineer by passion with precise understanding of Linux Operating system with over 2 - year of experience in monitoring and maintaining network stability and reliability
• Install/configure/maintain the Linux servers DNS, NFS, Send mail, apache, ftp, sshd.
• Expertise in designing and maintaining networks with Amazon Web Services and automation scripting
• Built a Linux network test environment, with other team mates.
• Skilled in installation and maintenance of Cisco networks, troubleshooting network issues and cloud formation
• Involved in complete Administration tasks on Red Hat Linux and documentation for the projects executed.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Networking Technologies: TCP/IP, UDP, WLAN/LAN, PPP, Frame Relay, Multicasting, MPLS Routing, RIPv1/2, RIPng, IPv4-6, ARP, BGP, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP, DHCP, DNS, RTP, ACL, VLAN, Spanning Tree Protocol, RSTP, HSRP, Port-Security

AWS Cloud Services: EC2, ELB, Cloud Watch, VPC, EBS, S3 bucket, Route 53, Cloud Front, Cloud Trail, Auto-Scaling, Cloud Watch, Lambda, DynamoDB, MariaDB, Nginx

Voice Over IP Codecs: G.711, G.723, G.726, G.728, G.729

Networking Tools: Asterisk, OPNET/Riverbed Modeler, X-Lite, Wireshark, Cisco Packet Tracer, GNS3

Programming Languages: C, C++, Python

Hardware: HP, DELL

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Cisco IOS, RedHat Cent OS 5/6

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

Linux / AWS Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented continuous integration and deployment solutions to target environments.
• Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and ensure the connectivity between LAN sites.
• Creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client 6.
• Written Cloud formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.
• Database Administration on various platforms like Linux
• Involved in designing and deploying a multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud formation
• Creating Cloud watch alerts for instances and using them in Auto scaling launch configurations.
• Managing Multiple AWS instances, assigning the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs.
• Auto scaling the instances to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly reliable systems.
• Configuring of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with networking of subnets containing servers.
• Build servers using AWS: Importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection.
• Built S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS .
• Setting Cloud Watch alerts for instances and utilizing in Auto-scaling launch configurations for better performance.
• Developed and managed cloud VMs with AWS EC2 command line clients and management console.
• Included security groups, network ACLs, Internet Gateways, and Elastic IP's to ensure a safe area for organization in AWS public cloud .
• Created detailed AWS Security Groups which behaved as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Experienced in Red Hat Linux package administration using YUM
• Responsible for managing more than 500 LINUX servers through virtualization.

AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, automate, deploy, scale and manage both private and public cloud environments.
• Built private cloud using VMware vRealize suite technologies, and built self-service portals with automated OS deployment, network and storage allocation.
• Expertise in managing AWS cloud resources EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, RDS, Elastic beanstalk, Cloud Watch and IAM.
• Managing the servers and their applications by automating the platform using the configuration management tool Salt Stack.
• Experience in writing formulas for automation of applications and as well as for database
• Supported applications running in private cloud developed using VMWARE and public cloud - AWS environments.
• Mentored other systems administrators in engineering, installation, configuration, testing and administration of Linux servers.
• Experience with security tightening processes and managing resources upon all the cloud vendors.
• Interact with business units, understand the requirements and design the solution in either private or public clouds based on the application owner demands
• Monitored cloud infrastructure resources, and created utilization, trending, chargeback and show back reports.
• Provided level 3 technical supports for mission critical applications cloud infrastructure, mostly dealing with availability and scalability issues.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
• Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX and Windows - PowerShell, Shell script etc.

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure Ubuntu, Centos on remote servers and Desktop servers.
• Installation of patches and packages using RPM and YUM in Red hat Linux.
• Installed and configured Apache/Tomcat web server.
• Created and modified users and groups with SUDO permission.
• Working with developers to load software onto Linux Enterprise servers and also debugging Scripts.
• Set up and administer user and groups accounts, setting permissions for users.
• Diagnosed and resolved problems associated with DNS, DHCP, VPN, NFS, and Apache.
• Creation and administration of Virtual Machines using VMware and virtual box.
• OS upgrades and installation of third party software, packages and patches as per requirement.
• Maintaining the Linux Firewall for network and implement to the network security.
• Troubleshooting the network with the help of netstat, ping, nslookup and trace route tools.
• Resolving TCP/IP network access problems for the clients. Develop, Maintain, update various scripts for services (start, stop, restart, recycle, Cron jobs) UNIX based shell.
• Experience installing and configuring SSH (Secure Shell) encryption in order to access securely on Ubuntu and Red hat Linux.
• Responsible for configuring and connection to SSH through SSH clients like Putty and Cyber duck.
• Remotely coping files using SFTP, FTP, SCP, Winscp, and FileZilla.
• Regularly manage backup process for server and client data.
• Performed configuration of standard Linux and network protocols, such as SMTP, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, NFS, SMTP, HTTP, SNMP and others.
• Installing open source application, search, analyze and develop new application for users.
• Planned and prioritized implementation phase in accordance with the business requirements
• Drafted and managed progress reports during the implementation, testing and communication phases
• Meet clients to document project requirements, update status, reports assessment and explore the possible solution
• Setup/Managing Linux Servers on Amazon (EC2, EBS, ELB, SSL, Security Groups, RDS and IAM).
• Setup/Managing VPC, Subnets; make connection between different zones, blocking suspicious ip/subnet via ACL.
• Setup/Managing CDN on Amazon Cloud Front (Origin Path: Server / S3) to improve site performance.
• Create/Managing buckets on S3 (CLI) and store DB and logs backup, upload images for CDN serve.
• Creating/Managing DNS records on Amazon Route 53 and go-daddy panel.
• Creating/Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, Upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (CPU, Memory, EBS)