SUMMARY

• Team - oriented AWS Cloud Architect with 5 years of experience working as a cloud infrastructure architect for clients, managing server infrastructures and datacenter operations, implementing upgradable, scalable, Hyper-converged infrastructure and micro-services across multiple platforms (Unix, Linux, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Windows/AD-DNS).
• Helping clients achieve business agility and flexibility, providing strong AWS ecosystem expertise as a Solutions Architect.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL server, NOSQL/DynamoDB
• Conventional Database security patches, private subnet, hardening of instances and Database Analyst
• Bash Shell Scripting on Linux, Red Hat, Amazon Linux, Pearl Scripts for monitoring
• Orchestration Services ECS, Docker Containers, Cloud Formation, Elastic Beanstalk Cloud Computing - Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, AMI, VPC, VPC Peering, NACL, Security Groups, Route53, Auto Scaling, ELB, SNS, Cloud Watch and Cloud Formation), Jenkins, Chef, Cloud formation, Ansible
• Python, Bash, JSON, YAML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICE MANAGER (Linux/Unix)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Documenting system administration procedures for routine and complex tasks.
• Daily co-ordination and maintenance of RedHat Satellite and capsules for seamless promotion and implementation of quarterly patch schedules on Rhel5, 6 and 7
• Responsible for coordinating the roll-out of company standard/golden AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) to ensure uniformity of security patches on ec2 instances
• Initiated the deployment and management of Amazon Inspector for scanning vulnerabilities on ec2 instances running on amazon linux AMIs
• Responsible for managing application service accounts on over 3000 unix/linux servers
• Participate in DR co-ordination of applications hosted on AWS
• Responsible for implementing fault tolerant and highly available 3-tier applications hosted on AWS
• Responsible for the inception of consolidated AWS accounts and the deletion of default resources using python boto3 automation, lambda and cloudformation (Iaac)
• Responsible for building custom resources on AWS using cloudformation
• Diagnosing and resolving system operational problems quickly and effectively. Coordinating with vendors to resolve hardware and software problems. Assist users with access and other help desk ticket requests or issues
• Day-to-day operations of the systems including systems administration, monitoring and storage performance up to and including network components.

AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT/CLOUD ARCHITECT

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support and system monitoring in a 24/7 setting to development and test environments. Responsible for trouble shooting day to day issues with various servers on different platforms and monitoring systems using various open source tools
• Responsible for deciphering architectural diagrams and replicating on-premise infrastructure to the cloud
• Responsible for day-to-day administration of Amazon Windows Servers and joining built-in servers to domain names for test and dev environments
• Responsible for inputting parameters on cloud formation templates for one-time deployment and automation
• Setting up directory shares with NFS servers, and configuring clients as NFS clients, setting up auto-mounts for home directories in different domains
• Responsible for building Organizational Units, and Computers; replicating Group Policies on Organizational units as fund on premise
• Responsible for working on Active Directory and Domain Controllers for authentication and verification purposes on dev and test environments
• Proactively monitor resources and applications using AWS cloud watch 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
• Responsible for migrating from on premise to the cloud, actively building infrastructures for dev and test deployments in the cloud.
• Migrated client’s co-operate websites being hosted on a Rackspaces’ servers to AWS; thereby, drastically cutting cost of maintaining these websites from $100,000/monthly to $500/monthly
• Created highly available, fault tolerant; hybrid environment in merging clients’ on-prem data center with AWS Cloud environment
• Created Static website using s3 and cloud front distribution leveraging the use of edge locations to enhance latency for end users
• AWS - Provision VPC from scratch, creating private and public subnets, creating security groups and network access lists, configuring internet gateways, Open VPN, creating AMI, understanding of user access management/role based access/multi factor authentication and API access, configuration of auto scaling and elastic load balancer for scaling services if a configured threshold has been exceeded, configuration of SNS to send notifications and Cloud Watch to collect logs and metrics

AWS CLOUD ENGINEER/ SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configuring and deploying micro-services and instances for example AMI’s, EC2, ECS, Auto-scaling, S3, Security groups using Cloud-formation
• Deployment of AWS infrastructure using Terraform - Planning of AWS infrastructure, inspecting of AWS resources, inspecting the state of AWS infrastructure and applying configuration changes to AWS infrastructure
• Orchestration and Provisioning -Terraform used to programmatically, safely and predictable create an infrastructure by deploying VPC from ground level, deploying services like subnets, NACL, security groups, IP CIDR ranges, ELB and web/application servers
• Used Terraform in building infrastructure to host web/applications and RDS infrastructure; using AWS as a cloud provider
• Experience in configuring, deployment and support of cloud services including Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Providing expertise to client’s early adoption strategy such as end user training, evangelizing cloud solutions, bringing understanding, experience and best practice in cloud ecosystem
• Designed and managed public/private cloud infrastructures, using Amazon Web Services which include EC2, S3, Cloud Front, Elastic File System, RDS, VPC, Direct Connect Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, and IAM roles
• Configured and managed Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), to avoid single point of failure of application servers and webservers, thus providing high availability and network load balancing
• Proactively monitor resources and applications using AWS cloud watch 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
• Created new VM templates for several Operating Systems with all the recommended and required settings for optimum performance and efficiency
• Configured NACL and security groups, thus limiting malicious attacks from blacklisted range IP addresses
• Created business continuity/disaster recovery, failover and run-book documentation
• Created and wrote shell scripts (Bash), Pearl, Python and PowerShell for automating tasks
• Configured launch configuration, auto scaling groups and SNS notification for heavy traffic on instances
• Setup NAT gateway as a route out to the internet for instances in private subnet
• Setup internet gateway as a route out to the internet for instances in public subnet
• Responsible for creating VPCs for dev/test team, thereby simulating a production environment for web/application servers and database traditional servers in public and private subnets respectively
• Responsible for creating auto-scaling groups from launch configurations to either scale out or shrink back instances depending on traffic and demand, and this service is being supplemented by SNS notifications from CPU utilization or other monitoring parameters
• Configured URL re-write in setting up Cloud Front/edge locations
• Experience in managing MySQL data backups and restoration
• Proactively involved in graphing data metrics from servers and reporting it using dashboards.