SUMMARY

• I have 6+ years of hands - on experience in the administration of Linux (Red Hat, Amazon) including cloud environment using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Experienced in managing Engineered Systems for Databases, Applications and Web Servers. I have worked on multiple platforms and environments spanning Finance, IT, Insurance and Tech sectors, with an ability to work both as an individual contributor and as a member of a team.
• Strong Technical Skills in AWS Services, Linux, Java, JSON, and RDS Databases.
• Experienced in Working with AWS services such as AWS S3, AWS EC2, AWS Glacier, AWS RDS, AWS VPC, AWS SNS, AWS SQS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks, AWS Cloud Watch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudFront, AWS Route53, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS IAM.
• Good Experience in Creation of Buckets/objects, enabling versioning, deployed Static Website on S3, and Data Management using LifeCycle Management.
• Configured and Managed Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to avoid fault tolerance and avoid single point of failure of applications, providing high availability.
• Deploy, monitor and manage applications in AWS cloud using Elastic Beanstalk.
• LAMP Stack installation and configuration on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux instances.
• Solid Experience in creating scripted infrastructure using CloudFormation.
• Configured Security Groups, Network Access Controls, & Alias Records in Route53.
• Hand on Experience working with AWS RDS, Creating, updating and backups of Databases.
• Experience in working with Jenkins, Chef Automation Tool.
• Monitor Resources and Applications using AWS Cloud Watch, including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, SNS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: HP-UX 10.x, 11.x. Sun Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 8, 9, 10. AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 RHEL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x. Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10. Windows 95/98/NT/2000/2012 R2/2016

DBMS: RDS, DynamoDB, DMS, Aurora

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, PERL, HTML, PHP

Tools: Putty, NX client, Winscp, Remote Desktop Connection, VNC, Team Viewer, LogMeIn and Cisco VPN Client, MobaXterm, Chef, GitHub, Eclipse, Jenkins.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

AWS Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Constant support and security of our infrastructure by designing, implementing and constant monitoring of our environment with Service Control Policies (SCP’S) and effective use of IAM Boundary and fine-grained permission implementation
• Carrying out daily and periodic AWS account nuking using AWS Nuke and re-provisioned these accounts for other customers using both PowerShell and Linux Operating systems
• Maintained and enhanced the Landing zone infrastructure as part of the full stream cloud team.
• Help setup the restructuring of the Landing Zone infrastructure and migrate legacy accounts into Landing zone infrastructure

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supervised and Implemented AWS service called AWS Landing Zone.
• Supervised and wrote some of the SOP’s for the transition of the whole environment and handover to the operations team.
• Provide system administration support for over 500 instances hosted in AWS with support with regards to instance profiles and DNS updates.
• Designed and Configured the entire AWS dynamic DNS environment.
• Configuring and Integrating the Servers with different environments to automatically provisioning and creating new machines using Configuration management/provisioning tools.
• Provide support to various other clients/customers in different regions especially Japan with special requirements.
• Constant support and security of our infrastructure by designing, implementing and constant monitoring of our environment with Service Control Policies (SCP’S) and effective use of IAM Boundary and fine-grained permission implementation
• Direct support to customers with regards to requirements and delivering solutions based on their needs.
• Using CloudFormation, Git and GitHub, Code pipeline to push various code in our environment with visual studio code. Also make use of Step functions for troubleshooting, Service Catalog for provisioning accounts to customers, Secret Manager and other AWS Services.
• Using cost explorer and proper tagging to enable reduce cost in various accounts in our Organizational units.
• Provide infrastructure and operational support with various AWS services in our environment.

Confidential - Chicago, IL

AWS Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Management and Administration of AWS Services EC2, VPC, S3, ELB Glacier, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, IAM, and Trusted Advisor services.
• Implement and maintain the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using Cloud Watch using Centralized Data Dog monitoring tools.
• Provide system administration support for over 175 instances hosted in AWS Commercial cloud.
• Create, configure and ensure connection to RDS databases.
• Monitoring Live Traffic, logs, Memory utilization, Disk utilization and various other factors which are important for deployment using customized PERL scripts.
• Provision Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, Redhat and Windows EC2 instances using private AMIs and baselines.
• Perform the creation VPC Peering and Flow logs on VPC for monitoring of built VPCs.
• Perform LAMP Stack installation and configuration on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux instances.
• Responsible for allocating, releasing, associating, and disassociating elastic IP addresses.
• Implement Auto Scaling for scaling out to ensure availability and scalability of customer websites and applications.
• Implement, maintain and support reliable, timely and reproducible builds for project teams.
• Configuring and Integrating the Servers with different environments to automatically provisioning and creating new machines using Configuration management/provisioning tools.
• Troubleshoot various customer technical problems and adhere to best practices.
• Responsible for the overall architecture, choosing the right AWS components for the job and managing AWS assets to include VPC, EC2, S3, Route 53, IAM etc.
• Cost and performance monitoring of resources and applications using Aws CloudWatch, including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, SNS and configured notifications for the alarms generated based on events defined.
• Designing automated backup solutions and Disaster Recovery for databases, applications and object data in S3.
• Automate infrastructure and application deployment using Opsworks and cloud formation
• Involved in 24x7 support rotation for Production, Test and Development Databases.
• Building and configuration of the virtual data center in AWS to support Enterprise Data.
• Building servers using AWS and launching EC2 Instances, creating security groups, Elastic load balancers, auto scaling in a defined VPC
• Responsible for bucket creation, user account creation, access permissions and privileges to users as well as policies and IAM role based policies.
• Responsible for designing and implementing cloud-based solutions for public cloud deployment models for a variety of mid-size companies.
• Migration of Existing Application to AWS cloud.