SUMMARY:

• Very professional, analytical and motivated Redhat and AWS certified cloud Engineer with experience in installing, upgrading and maintaining Hardware and software systems.
• Proficient in providing support to an assortment of operating systems such as Windows, Solaris 10, Red Hat and Centos.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills to work with a team and provide solutions to complex system - level issues

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Beltsville, MD

Linux Admin /Windows Admin/ AWS solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain all AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment with tools such as AWS cloud formation.
• Used AWS Cloud Former to extract existing infrastructure and modify with AWS Cloud Formation.
• Analyze the jobs in detail to determine the right instance/cluster type (storage, compute,memory optimized) for cost efficient performance.
• Automation with Ansible.
• Maintained user accounts with IAM policies.
• Monitoring with cloudwatch and cloudtrail.
• Performed p2v and v2v conversions for cloud migrations.
• VPC Network design and implementation with security groups and NACLs for security.
• Created AMIs for critical production servers.
• Design highly available, scalable and efficient systems with EC2 combined with Elastic Load Balancers(ELB), Auto Scaling Groups .
• Deployed Docker containers with ECS.
• Worked with distributed teams to design and develop frameworks, solution accelerators and proofs of concept .
• Deploy web solutions with API Gateway, AWS Lamda coupled with EC2, ECS, RDS, and Elasticache.
• Fast distribution systems with AWS cloudfront.
• Used Route 53 alongside ELBs and ALB to provision highly available architectures
• Setup Hybrid solutions with On-prem and cloud solutions linked by site-to-site VPN.
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lamda, Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service(SNS) .
• Support the business development lifecycle (Business Development, architect solutions and pricing).
• Used Dynamo DB and Redis elasticache for the stateless architecture setups.
• Used RDS implemented with MySQL, SQL server and Oracle for multi-tiered application setups.
• Data migration to the cloud using AWS snowball devices .
• Implemented storage solutions with volume and file gateways.
• Setup of hybrid environments with on-prem and Amazon AWS cloud components for efficiency and ease of management with Amazon S3 for storage and EC2 for compute.
• Installing and upgrading Red Hat 6.x, 7.x and solaris 10 on various virtual and physical systems with kickstart.
• SELinux troubleshooting with sealert.
• Firewall management with Windows firewall, Firewalld and IPtables.
• Responsible for remote support of over 100 Linux, solaris and Windows Machines.
• Used cron to schedule jobs.
• Bash, shell, python scripting.
• Configured raid with ZFS and LVM.
• Configuration and maintenance of NFS, DNS, LDAP, FTP, HTTP and DHCP servers.
• Ansible for provisioning, deployment and maintenance of linux systems.
• User creation and management with Active Directory and LDAP.
• Autofs and NFS for user account management.
• Used Active Directory for User management .
• Group policy for centralized management of work environments.
• Remote access and management of Linux and Windows machines with SSH, RDP, SCP and SFTP.
• Performance monitoring in Windows and Linux/Unix with Task Manager, top, ps and netstat.
• Using ACL and file permissions to restrict user access to content.
• RAID configuration in linux with raid 0,1 and 5.
• Disk management with fdisk, gdisk and parted.
• Package Management with Yum,rpm and pgkadd.
• Network troubleshooting with iperf, wireshark and portqry.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Technical support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive knowledge of the Confidential Backup availability suite.
• Experience with hypervisors such VMware Esxi/vsphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM.
• Physical tape library setup with vendors such as HP, Quantum and Dell.
• Virtual tape library setup with software such as Quadstor VTL, solarwinds VTL and AWS VTL.
• Critical analysis of customer’s Virtual and Physical production Environments in order to provide well tailored solutions for backing up Virtual and Physical Machines with Confidential Backup and Replication.
• Implemented Disaster recovery scenarios for Enterprise environments.
• Actively monitored and generated reports for backups using Confidential Backup and replication and Confidential One.
• Log diving for break/fix purposes.
• Worked with various NAS devices such as Synology, Buffalo and Netapp .
• Setup conference calls with various vendors for troubleshooting purposes.
• Worked with Storage snapshots for faster backup and recovery.
• Worked with deduplication appliances such HPE storeonce and Dell EMC.
• Setup cloud backup infrastructures using Confidential capacity tier, Confidential backup for Office 365 and Confidential backup for AWS.
• Agent type backups with software such as Confidential Agents .
• Detailed analysis for log files for troubleshooting failed backups.
• Collaboration with various vendor support personnel to quickly mitigate broken backups and restores.
• Worked with teams to efficiently solve problems.
• Tape backups for the Air-gapped backup.
• Implemented Virtual Tape backup solutions with AWS VTL gateways.
• Provided training for client employees.