PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

An IT professional with 13+ years of IT and Cloud computing, development and System Administration Hands - on experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: /APPs: Apache, DNS, Servers, File systems, Firewalls, Account Mgt, Load balancing, SSL etc.

AWS: VPC, EC2, Auto Scaling, Systems Manager, EFS, S3 Life Cycle, RDS with Multi AZ a nd Read Replicas, CDN and Caching, Elastic Cache, Elastic Search, Route 53 DNS Designing, IAM role, JSON, AWS Migration, SNS topic with CloudWatch alarms, Kinesis, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, Code Commit, Code Pipeline.

Programming Languages: Bash, Python, JSON, java, shell

DevOps Tools: CloudFormation, Ansible, Code Commit, Code Pipeline, Git & GitHub, Tomcat, Jboss, Maven, Nexus, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Packer, Terraform.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Cloud Engineer/Technical Lead/AWS Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Splunk developing dashboards, forms, SPL searches, reports and views, administration, upgrading, alert scheduling, KPIs, Visualization Add-Ons and Splunk infrastructure.
• Hands on experience in installing Splunk Symantec DLP, Splunk DB connect Splunk App for AWS and more.
• Used XML, Advanced XML and Search Processing language (SPL) for creating Dashboards, views, alerts, reports and saved searches. Upgraded and Optimized Splunk setup with new discharge.
• Worked on large datasets to generate insights & communicate insights to guide strategic roadmap on operational intelligence as well as worked with Restful API and shell scripting.
• Worked on Splunk Objects development and reports on Security baseline violations, Non-authenticated connections, Brute force attacks and many use cases.
• Architect for kinesis data firehose and implanted it with Splunk indexers to achieve optimized data analytics with Splunk applications and add-ons.
• Wrote Splunk Queries, Expertise in searching, monitoring, analyzing and visualizing Splunk logs.
• Installed and implemented Splunk SDK with python for automated Splunk administration
• Optimized Splunk for peak performance by splitting Splunk indexing and search activities across different instances.
• Worked with Splunk app for Enterprise Security to identify and address emerging security threats using continuous monitoring, alerting and analytics.
• Created Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards.
• Extensive experience developing and applying Terraform modules using variables, interpolations, String, Map, List, Output, Count, Element etc.
• Build Terraform modules for VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, Security Groups etc.
• Designed AWS well architected multi-tier environment using IAAC with Terraform modules
• Active participation in the migration effort of on-premises servers to the public cloud with Terraform and Version control with Git/GitHub.
• Experience using data sources and bootstrapping with Terraform
• Experience using terraforms in public as well as Government Cloud with AWS and other providers

Confidential, Newcastle, DE

AWS solutions Architect SME

Responsibilities:

• Managed Microsoft applications including WINS, DNS, DHCP, printing, Proxy, IIS, Active Directory, SMTP, FTP, and Domain Controllers.
• Installed upgraded and maintained MS Windows OS 2012, 2012 R2, 2016.
• Implemented and monitored IIS, DNS, AD DS, Group Policies WSUS, DHCP, FTP, Windows Failover Clustering. VMware and Hyper-V environments using VMware convertor
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation Templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates and created scripts in Python which integrated with Amazon API to control instance operations
• Expertise in Active directory design and support (GPO's, AD Schema, OU's, LDAP, Sites, Domains and Forests etc.
• Performed many hot/cold VM provisioning and P2V, V2V migrations using VMware Converter.
• Strong understanding of Windows Active Directory, Experience with Active Directory administration in a multi domain environment. Users and Groups creation and validation
• Build VMs on demand using client provisioning.
• Used Java Code Issues WebSphere Portal Server on Linux platform.
• Managed Ansible for configuration management, Application Deployment, automation etc.
• Created templates for application servers such as Oracle and SQL.
• Create VMs for Disk sharing for Oracle and Windows clustering.
• Build and maintain HA and DRS clusters health checks.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes, Docker
• Created Ansible playbooks for installation, upgrade, deployment and server restart
• Experience writing various custom Ansible Playbooks and modules for Deployment Orchestration and system administration.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Ansible, Maven in Linux environment.
• Used Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple namespace versions
• Hands-on experience in version control using, GIT and GITHUB and continuous integration management using Jenkins.
• Created build pipeline for various applications using Jenkins as CI tool.
• Created AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for instance RDP/SSH logon, worked with teams to lock down security groups
• Design and implement new Data Center VMware infrastructure.
• Assist users with slow and unresponsive VMs by troubleshooting issues with CPU and Memory

Environment: VMware, Python, JSON, Tomcat, Maven, Nexus, Docker, GITHUB, Apache, DNS, Servers, AWS, Jenkins, Ansible, GIT, JIRA, LINUX, Terraform.

AWS Solution Architect and Cloud Support Tech.

Confidential, DE

Responsibilities:

• Managed AWS infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation
• Designed and deployed scalable, highly available, fault tolerant and reliable applications in AWS
• Hands-on experience with AWS CLI including deploying CFTs, managing S3, EC2, IAM on CLI
• Monitored infrastructure and applications using CloudWatch and Nagios
• Implemented cost optimization strategies in the AWS infrastructure
• Architected Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ for automatic failover at the database tier
• Recommended and implemented DR strategies for Business Continuity and HA
• Designed EC2 and related architecture to meet HA while incorporating security best practices
• Provided technical perspective on infrastructure design options and configurations
• Developed Solution Definition Documents (SDD) and Low Level Deign Documents for public cloud
• Recommended and implemented security best practices in AWS including MFA, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, firewalls- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks etc.
• Managed Ansible for configuration management
• Used AWS system manager documents and run command to automate operational tasks across AWS resources.
• Used Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets and incidents
• Delegated access across AWS accounts using IAM cross account roles
• Implemented STS to provide temporary access

Environment: VMware, Python, JSON, Tomcat, Maven, Nexus, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, Ansible, GIT, JIRA, LINUX, Terraform.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and architected self-healing, secured, highly available and fault tolerant infrastructure in AWS
• Solutioned VPCs for various environments including NAT Gateways, VPC Peering and Transit Gateways
• Optimized cost through reserved instances, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling policies and lifecycle hooks etc.
• Created CloudWatch filters for CloudTrail and AWS Config configuration changes to ensure sustained visibility to activities performed in the AWS Account and configuration items with the account
• Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services
• Leveraged AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources
• Architected and implemented continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Code Pipeline, Code Commit, Code Build and Code Deploy
• Used Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets and incidents
• Developed architecture diagram for the production environment using Lucid Chart.
• Enhanced security and HA for the production environment
• Configured and used AWS CLI to make API calls to AWS console
• Managed data encryption using S3 service master key

Infrastructure Support Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled projects in monitoring, deploying and applications on LINUX/UNIX servers.
• Installed Debian/red hat/Ubuntu Operating Systems Distributions
• Installation, configuration and administration of Enterprise Linux and Unix Systems
• Configure LVM - based partitions and manage mount points usage as needed Creating, cloning Linux
• Performing capacity analysis, monitoring and controlling disk space usage on systems
• Software installation and management using Yum and RPM
• Configured and Managed NFS and Samba for File Sharing
• Installed access points, routers and switches
• Managing user accounts and SUDO permissions
• Created shared drives and folders and personal drives for users
• Provided customer service to resolve computer issues
• Red Hat Package Management (RPM) and YUM package installation and maintenance
• Updated and documented helpdesk tickets with Remedy ticket system
• Resolved software and hardware issues
• Scheduled backup of files
• Performed operating system upgrades