SUMMARY

• Self - motivated and passionate Team Lead, AWS Solution Architect, Linux System Engineer (Red Hat 6 & 7) skills with 8 years of experience in AWS cloud consulting, migrations, design and implementing available, redundant, resilient, scalable, performant, cost TEMPeffective secured networks and applications.
• Experience leading enterprise cloud-based Iaas and PaaS design and implementations.
• Experience developing Solution Architecture for clients in diverse arenas (health, e-commerce, education, and microservices.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks.
• Critical listening skills with the ability to create, implement, and document deliverables that meet customers’ requirements.
• Passionate about staying abreast of AWS’ recent additions to services so as to be able to offer these new capabilities to our clients.
• Excellent oral, written, interpersonal communication, presentation and customer service skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT SKILLS: Migration, Transit Gateway, AWS Global Accelerator, Aurora Global Tables, DR, Disaster Recovery, RDS, EC2, EBS, Autoscaling, load balancing, AWS CLI, Route 53, EFS, S3 Glacier, Storage Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, RDS, IAM, Single Sign-on, AWS MFA, SNS, VPC, VPC Peering, Private/Public subnets, NACLS, Security groups, AWS WAF, AWS Organization, AWS Consolidated billing, AWS Cross-Account Policies, Control Tower, KMS / Certificate Management, CloudFront (CDN), CloudFormation, Guard Duty, Bash Shell scripting, JSON for IAM policies, and AWS Server Migration Service (SMS).

LINUX TECHNICAL SKILLS: Nagios, Lamp Stack ( Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, WordPress) Disk Management, Mediawiki - for documentation, LVM, Boot management, Network management, Bonding, Firewall, Iptables, NTP Sever, DNS Server, File Filtering, Users and Groups, File Security, Remote Access, Package MGT, System MGT, Scheduling and Logging, Archiving, HTTP, NFS, LDAP, FTP, AUTOFS, TCP/IP, Continuous integration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver, CO

AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Developed cloud adoption plans, application designs and deployment mechanisms for client to ensure that both Federal and client regulatory and compliance needs were met.
• Evaluated and recommended tools, technologies and processes to ensure highly available, resilient and fault tolerant infrastructure.
• Led Cloud Migration assessment, planning, implementation and optimization for enterprise applications.
• Set Up Landing Zone and Used Vending Machines to set up business accounts for proper business organization, defined key accounts and platforms, ensuring that Core accounts and other business units were well marked for better resource management.
• Mapped out DR strategy to meet applications and environments requirement, ensuring Federal and client regulatory and compliance needs were met.
• Worked with Applications team to develop backup, pilot light, warm standby and active DR strategies for client environment.
• Migrated critical servers and applications to AWS cloud using VM Import/ Export, server migration service with minimal downtime while ensuring data security both in transit, onsite and in use.
• Ensure accurate documentation in client’s environment especially during migration, optimizations and monitoring.
• Used strong verbal and written communication skills in collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering team, solving complex business problems together.
• Migrated MySQL and Aurora databases from on premise to RDS, AWS MySQL and Aurora respectively.
• Build Docker Machines to re-platform microservices for flexible migration to AWS.
• Used CloudFormation to build, upgrade and maintain services and apps that client continuously needed.
• Used AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy Developers’ codes for immutable deployment ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Used Ansible to set up an AWS VPC, with private and public subnets, internet gateways, public and private route tables, NACLS, EC2 and security.

Confidential, Manassas VA

AWS Solutions Architect /Linux System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed, documented and implemented Solution Architecture for numerous clients.
• Developed and demonstrated Proof of Concepts, demos to our clients, using strong communication skills to give them a clear picture of our solution and its benefits.
• Identified cost control mechanisms and estimated AWS costs using AWS Cost Explorer.
• Did numerous migrations from on premise data site to AWS.
• Developed, documented and implemented Solution Architecture and POCs for clients in diverse arenas (health, e-commerce, education, and microservices.
• Estimated AWS costs and identified cost control mechanisms using AWS Cost Explorer.
• Created both private and public subnets to handle client resources publicly or privately depending on client needs.
• Help clients to archive and retrieve data in S3 glacier at very minimal cost with best security and performance.
• Created and Peered VPCs within and across regions for business use, allowing access and routing for business units, services and users across AWS multiple account.
• Used NAT Gateway and NAT instance to ensure internal facing apps and services (in Private Subnets) got updates without exposure to the internet.
• Built and used Baston Hosts to provide secure access to private networks
• Used AWS Single Sign-On and IAM to ensure the principle of less privilege, recommended access and password policies.
• Configured SNS to notify me on statuses and behavior of instances.
• Created users, roles and policies for control, access and interaction using AWS Best Practices, in line policies, MFA, and granting least Privileges to apps and users.
• Worked with Information Security and Architecture teams to define and design secure and scalable solution to meet business needs.
• Added, partitioned, formatted, resized EBS volumes for data and storage management.
• Deployed available, fault tolerant, redundant, secured and resilient microservices, applications and web servers using AWS EC2, RDS and EBS.
• Filtered Functional/Management Security groups and NACLS traffic just as required by the application and its administrators.
• Built 3 tier apps ensuring that communication between web server, application server and database is only possible through the security groups.
• Leveraged RDS inbuilt features like automated backups, Daily snapshots, 35 days retention period, red replicas, Multi AZ, logs to S3 to ensure high availability and performance.
• Set up WAF and CDN. Used AWS Auto Scaling and Route53 to handle unpredictable load, large data set and to control costs.
• Created and copied AMI across availability zones and regions for fault tolerance and disaster recovery; also used Multi-AZ deployment and Route53 to mitigate against disaster and blackouts.
• Created READ-REPLICAS in AWS RDS to solve critical performance issues in client’s environment.
• Leverage RDS proxy to mitigate against application failure and ensure seamless failover.
• Monitor CPU utilization, Disk READS, Disk write ops, NetworkIn, NetworkOut, replication lag and other performance related issues using CloudWatch.
• Using CloudTrail, securely consolidated all cloud trail logs across multiple regions and accounts for easy governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing.
• Used Route53 DNS for failover, to balance load, disaster recovery and domain transfer.
• Did hands-on implementation of DevOps pipeline using AWS CLI, CI / CD tool sets.
• Used AWS code commit, code build, code deploy to run node.js application using S3 as code repository.
• Used Git as remote code repository for client’s codes, Jenkins to pull codes from Gits and build Docker machines to Docker hub.

Confidential

AWS Solution Architect / Linux System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Controlled access to files and directories using ACL permissions. Performedpackage management, system updates using YUM and RPM.
• Created DNS server both master and slave for name resolution within Clientenvironment.
• Created files and directories on Linux systems with best control and accesspolicies.
• Configured NTP servers and multiple servers across client’s environment.
• Using Unbound, halped client servers launch in AWS to do name resolution on premise.
• Configured and used Nagios to monitor the performance and live of servers and applications in client environment.
• Used cron to schedule jobs and multiple jobs across servers and environments.
• Experienced with LVM; created, extended, reduced, and migrated logical volumes. Diagnosed network connectivity issues and configured network.
• Hardened Linux servers based on recommendations provided by our security team and best practices.
• Ensured compliance and security using firewall, SELINUX and iptables reducing security breaches and strengthening company policies.
• Built out volume, managed, partitioned and created VGS and LVS, Files system for Resource Sharing within customer environment.
• Analyzed RHEL boot sequence, bios, grub, kernel, init, to identify booting related issues.
• Created, extended, reduced, and migrated logical volumes. Diagnosed network connectivity issues and configured network.
• Set up VPCs with Private and Public Subnet, Nat gateway, internet gateway, public and private route table, nacls and security.
• Created S3 bucket to store object files like video and photos.
• Used AWS IAM to create users, groups, roles and policies for administration, access and control.
• Set up password policies for AWS users to make sure users rotated password in compliance with clients’ needs.