PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DevOps/AWS Engineer

Confidential - Washington, DC

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Pipeline from scratch using Jenkins, Git, Nexus and Maven
• CICD using AWS native services like CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline and CodeBuild.
• Create and Manage Disaster Recovery (DR) and Continuity of Operation of Operations (COOP) best practices using Commvault and recently AWS Backup
• Monitor Infrastructures using Nagios
• Monitor AWS systems using CloudWatch and CloudTrail
• Manage Jenkins Plugins and integration with other DevOps tools smooth release management
• Using Nexus to manage Deployment Artifacts
• GitHub/GitLab for version control and source code management
• Manage containers using Amazon EC2, ECR, EKS and Fargate
• Create and manage AWS Resources using CloudFormation, Boto and Terraform and Ansible
• Create and Manage Lambda functions to support different use cases
• Creating and managing Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK Stack) on both Windows and Linux servers using Chef
• Using Slack for Deployments based off of successful Jenkins Build
• Build Deployment using Maven
• Knowledge Transfer/Acquisition via Confluence
• Resolve tickets via Jira
• Using Postfix to manage external email accounts
• Using Artifactory and Nexus for Dependency Resolutions
• Administering several AWS Resources
• Build and manage AWS infrastructures in multi AZ for High Availability
• Create and manage Elastic Load Balancers, Auto Scaling Groups and Policies for AWS solutions.
• Create EBS volumes and snapshots to backup
• Manage single sign-on on AWS using Okta based on AWS Role based policies
• AWS CloudWatch and Nagios for monitoring
• Initiate both temporary and permanent redirects with Nginx
• Using Python-Pytest and Curl for unit testing of codes before code commit
• Using Vagrant to spin up Virtual Machines

DevOps/AWS Engineer

Confidential - Greenbelt, MD

• Deployed several AWS resources using Cloudformation
• Spanned up virtual machines, Git servers using Vagrant
• Jenkins
• Docker Container
• Managed users’ permissions in Linux Environment
• Created/managed Ansible playbooks, tasks and modules
• Migration from On-Premise to AWS and vice versa
• Managed Linux Directories and Files
• Assisted System Owners to get ATT and ATO
• Built AWS solutions in GovCloud to ensure conformity with FEDRAMP standards
• Shell and Python Scripting
• Artifactory
• Coordinated with Software Architect to provide deliverables
• Analyzed Architectures to create Build Sheets for Dev/Test/ITE and Staging/Prod
• Coordinated with Security Team to obtain ATOs
• Created/managed web servers on AWS
• Deployed AWS resources using Manage Console and CLI
• Managed App, Database and Web Tiers.

AWS Solutions Architect

Confidential - Bowie, MD

• Deployed, managed, and operated scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• Deployed AWS resources with Ansible
• Active Directory on AWS Cloud.
• Provisioned highly available and scalable Ec2 instances, ELB and auto scaling.
• Migrated an existing on-premises application to AWS.
• Configured and maintained Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).
• Configured a 3 tier web hosting environment on AWS.
• Knowledge of Commvault for Backup and Recovery
• Created and managed Elastic Block Storage(EBS) and S3 buckets
• Used Cloud Formation to create AWS resources
• Created and Managed AWS Resources based on J2EE, Python and JSON
• Granted permission and implemented versioning on S3 buckets
• Created AMIs of instances and snapshots
• Provided system administration support for a client with 120 instances hosted in AWS Cloud environment
• Created and managed public and private subnets
• Configured security group to control access to web apps and database tiers
• Configured Route 53 DNS Server
• Implemented application functionality on Amazon RDS
• Configured Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Implemented IAM best practices
• Deployed Robust Cloud Access Management Solution and Authentication
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure
• Assist in writing change implementation plans (CIPs) for Change control Board (CCB) approval.

Database Engineer

Confidential - Washington, DC

• Data Modeling and Reverse Engineering using ER Studio
• Executed Data Modification in Development environment.
• Created Change Requests (CRQs) for Production Deployment using Remedy.
• Resolved Incident Tickets using Remedy
• Built and Deployed changes using ClearQuest and ClearCase
• Enterprise Metadata Repository
• Created and Managed Database objects.
• Scheduled jobs using Autosys. Advised System Administrators on database requirements
• Installed Oracle 10g and 11g databases on Windows and Linux platforms
• Set environmental variables.
• Created, managed listener and tnsnames
• Performed patches.
• Performed Oracle database Upgrade/ Data Migration from 10g to 11g databases.
• Performance tuning; using ADDM, AWR, SQL Advisor; using Enterprise Manager to tune databases.
• Installed and applied several Oracle critical patches to various database versions.
• Established, implemented and maintained comprehensive Oracle database maintenance plans.
• Developed, implemented and maintained an Enterprise Oracle backup, recovery and disaster recovery strategy and use Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) to backup the databases.
• Performed various RMAN cold and hot backups.
• Assigned Security Policy to User; Oracle Label Security as well as Oracle Level Security
• Maintained redo logs and archive them to tape, monitor alert log, trace files and audit logs.
• Performed import and export as needed and scheduled nightly export on database.
• Performed database security (using both OS, database authentication, and principle of least privilege)
• Inserted bulk load (batch job) into the database using SQL Loader; table creation, partitioning and maintenance.
• Administered database user accounts; manage spaces, passwords, profiles and roles, privileges, and access control
• Managed cluster ware and grid infrastructure
• Managed primary and standby database- Data Guard
• Manage clusters of databases- Real Application Cluster (RAC)

Database Administrator - AWS Cloud

Confidential - Vienna, VA

• Implemented application functionality on Amazon RDS
• Provision EC2 Instances using several AMIs.
• Migrated data from non-cloud environment to cloud systems.
• Ensured that hardware and software pre-installation requirements are met
• Installed and upgraded Oracle software.
• Advised System Administrators on database requirements
• Installed Oracle 10g and 11g databases on Windows and Linux platforms
• Set environmental variables.
• Created, managed listener and tnsnames
• Performed patches.
• Performed Oracle database Upgrade/ Data Migration from 10g to 11g databases.
• Performance tuning; using ADDM, AWR, SQL Advisor; using Enterprise Manager to tune databases.
• Installed and applied several Oracle critical patches to various database versions.
• Established, implemented and maintained comprehensive Oracle database maintenance plans.
• Developed, implemented and maintained an Enterprise Oracle backup, recovery and disaster recovery strategy and use Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) to backup the databases.
• Performed various RMAN cold and hot backups.
• Assigned Security Policy to User; Oracle Label Security as well as Oracle Level Security
• Maintained redo logs and archive them to tape, monitor alert log, trace files and audit logs.
• Performed import and export as needed and scheduled nightly export on database.
• Performed database security (using both OS, database authentication, and principle of least privilege)
• Inserted bulk load (batch job) into the database using SQL Loader; table creation, partitioning and maintenance.
• Administered database user accounts; manage spaces, passwords, profiles and roles, privileges, and access control
• Managed cluster ware and grid infrastructure
• Managed primary and standby database- Data Guard
• Manage clusters of databases- Real Application Cluster (RAC)

Certified Oracle DBA

Confidential - Lanham, MD

• Planned, configured, managed, troubleshot and installed Oracle databases, Oracle Client on Windows OS and Linux.
• Security and granting privileges; authentication, auditing, and authorization. Using Fine Grain Access Control.
• Installed and managed Oracle Enterprise Manager and Grid Control
• Developed, implemented and maintained an Enterprise Oracle backup
• Backup and restoration of databases using RMAN. Hot and cold backup including disaster testing, and incremental backup.
• Implemented data replication to prevent data loss.
• Ability to modify parameter files in order to startup newly created instances
• Performed import and export as needed and scheduled nightly export on each database
• Maintained redo logs and archive them to disk, monitor alert log, trace files and audit logs
• Resolved complex database issues by researching and provide recommendations
• Use ADDM performance tuning tools to help reduce database downtime by up to 50%, tune the database and applications for faster and better performance; also performing goal-oriented tuning as necessary
• Database instance and schema creation utilizing DBCA or manual script, migration, archive, restoration.
• Ensured optimum allocation of disk space