PROCESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• AWS Certified Professional Cloud Solutions Architect with highly competent, analytical, and performance - driven Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architect Professional, with well-developed qualifications acquired from extensive experience in various areas including Hybrid/Virtualization/System & Cloud Security Orchestration and administration, project management, vendor relationships, strategic planning, and customer service. Having 16+ years of robust experience in Systems/Storage/Virtualization Architectural areas and to commendably utilize the assimilated knowledge with the latest cloud emerging technologies Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) & Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with Amazon Web Services (AWS)/Google Cloud/Microsoft Azure and the OpenStack.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure/OpenStack, VMware ESXi (5.0 & 6.0), vSphere 5 & 6 with Virtual Centre Management, Lab Manager, Citrix, VMware View 5 & 6, vCloud, Active Directory.
• TCP/IP, POWER-PATH, SOLUTION ENABLER, SRDF and TimeFinder, ECC, Replication manager, Navisphere Manager, Unisphere Manager, Snap View, SAN Copy and Mirror View.
• C, C++, JAVA, JavaScript, J2EE, SUN SOLARIS 10, 11, Containers, LDOMS, LINUX 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, VERITAS 6.0/5.0,SUN, SUN SOLSTICE DISKSUITE 4.2.1, SOLARIS VOLUME MANAGER, SUN CLUSTER 3.0/3.1
• Excellent Cloud/Virtualization specialist skills include
• Planning/ Designing & implementing the Secure/Complex, HA multi-tier, end-to-end solutions using a wide variety of private and public cloud offerings, includingAWSEC2, S3, ELB, EMR, RDS, Route 53, RDS, IAM, Cloud Front and Auto Scaling.
• Orchestrate/Planning on all the AWS, Azure VPC(s) with the possible Public/Private Subnet CIDR(s) for all the Applications, Database and Core Service Networks.
• Application architect with wide experience in application designs and development/specialist migrating the on-prem applications (BI Tools, Micro Strategy, Drupal, Splunk, AppGate, CD etc) over to the Cloud.
• Proficient in Programming all the AWS Cloud Infrastructure to build highly available and scalable resources include AWS VPC(s), Subnets, AutoScalingGroups, ELB(s), SecuriryGroups etc, based on the System/Application needs just with AWS Cloud Formation.
• Expert level knowledge and working experience in Securing the AWS Services (e.g. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Dynamo DB, LAMBDA Serverless Programming, Redshift Modelling, Amazon Cloud Front, Key Management Service, Amazon EMR(Hadoop/Hive), AWS SDK and CLI Tools.
• Provide security consultancy and engineering support for cloud security solutions including analysis and development of Amazon, Azure, Google and other security solutions.
• Expert setting-up CDCI in managing/automating the server(s) infrastructure with the tools like Ansible/Puppet and Chef, Jenkins & GITHub.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Towson, Maryland

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created/Maintained & Administrated the Center for Medicare Services (CMS) AWS infrastructure as a part of Retiree Drug Subsidy (RDS) Project awarded for Confidential .
• Experience designing and implementing complex, HA multi-tier, end-to-end solutions using a wide variety of private and public cloud offerings, including AWS EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, Cloud Hardware Security Module, Route 53, RDS, IAM, Cloud Front and Auto Scaling.
• Programmed the Infrastructure for creating the Secured Private & Public Subnets which routes the traffic as needed either through the NATInstances or the NATGateways.
• Expert migrating the on-prem application servers over to the AWS Cloud, Serverless programming with LAMBDA, the Elastic Container Services & Docker administration.
• Migrating Business Intelligence, Splunk, AppGate, Drupal, Tomcat, Connect Direct and many no-of applications over to the AWS Cloud.
• Automated and implemented the Cloud Formation Stacks (JSON Scripts) for creating/administrating the AWS resources like VPC, Subnets, Gateways, Auto Scaling, ElasticLoadBalancers, creating DB Instances and many others across different Availability Zones.
• Maintain the security infrastructure tools that are built on the Cloud platform, providing stability and policies and procedures, Participate in Information Security Incident Response activities for the Firm’s environment.
• Configured the setup for the various Jenkins CICD pipeline configurations for all the micro services & Extensive experience in using Build Automation Dev Ops tools like, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, GITHUB.

Confidential, Rockville, Maryland

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated capability in designing the cost effective and the high available hybrid cloud systems and with environment estimation tools conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud solutions, administer discovery, user testing and beta programs to garner feedback prior to each major release.
• Orchestrate/Planning on all the AWS, Azure VPC(s) with the possible Public/Private Subnet CIDR(s) for all the Applications and the Database Networks.
• Automated and implemented the Cloud Formation Stacks (JSON Scripts) for creating/administrating the AWS resources like VPC, Subnets, Gateways, AutoScaling, ElasticLoadBalancers, ElasticMapReduce Clusters, creating DB Instances and many others across different Availability Zones.
• On-Prem applications servers (Splunk Deployer/SearchHead/OTRS and AppGate etc.) were successfully migrated over to the AWS Cloud based on the organization standards and with the lifecycle process followed starting from DEV to Prod environments.
• Cost cutting techniques applied, setting-up the Custom Cloud Watch Alarm with own written CloudFormation Stacks by using AWS::AutoScaling - ScheduledActions and Lambda for shutting-down and starting-up the instances, expert implementing Streaming Solutions with Kinesis & Quick Sight.
• Designed and set-up the FINRA Splunk, OTRS and AppGate Cloud Infrastructure server instances, storage, and the databases. Fully tested and implemented the Disaster Recovery procedurals on their AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
• Leads the effort to ensure security compliance in accordance with regulatory security standards required by appropriate governing bodies, develop and maintain documentation of all Security products including specific tools, technologies and processes.

Confidential, Maryland

Virtualization/Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Mastery of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform, and its many dimensions of scalability - including but not limited to: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), EC2, load-balancing with ELB, messaging with SQS, autoscaling architectures, using EBS under high I/O requirements, custom monitoring metrics/analysis/alarms via Cloud Watch etc.
• Expert level working experience on AWS products and services (e.g. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon EMR(Hadoop/Hive)
• Expertise with Amazon Web Service AMI EC2 Instance creation(s) and administration for both the EBS and S3 Instances.
• Architect and deploy security-conscious infrastructure within an AWS VPC environment. Understand what services are and are not available in a Private Cloud infrastructure via AWS.
• Experience designing and implementing complex, HA multi-tier, end-to-end solutions using a wide variety of private and public cloud offerings, includingAWSEC2, S3, ELB, RDS, Cloud Hardware Security Module, Route 53, RDS, IAM, Cloud Front and Auto Scaling.
• Ability to effectively address data security concepts in public cloud as it relates to customer needs including an in depth understanding of Federated Security / KSM, Single Sign On, and AWS IAM
• Ability to develop high level and detailed design documents addressing the business, infrastructure, security, support and operational needs of the business.

Confidential, Baltimore

Sr. Solaris Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed and deployed networking solutions ranging from small businesses to large scale data centers.
• Hardware/ Software support for M4000/M5000 Servers and other SUN enterprise Servers, Upgrade and maintain firmware on SUN M5000/M4000 & T4’s,T5’s and different Oracle T series Servers.
• Installing, configuring/administrating Migrating Global/Sparse Zones and LDOMS on Solaris 10 & 11 Servers.
• Resource pool administrating Containerization includes creating pool-sets, associating pools to psets and transferring the resources (CPU) in between the Zones.
• Experience on Solaris 11/10/9/8 and RHEL 5/6/7, installation/administration & maintenance & Live Upgrades.
• Administrating with the new Solaris 10 & 11 Automated Installer (AI) which is a network based multi-client provisioning system for a hands-free installation of the OS for both the SPARC and x86 systems.
• Well expertize creating/managing & administrating Solaris 11 link-aggregations, VLAN(s) and VNIC(s).
• Image Packaging System (IPS) Package Manager and update Manager GUI’s with Solaris 11 to check and to connect to Oracle Support Repository and update the system in the periodic intervals.
• Created disk groups, volumes, volume groups and RAIDs using LVM in RHEL & VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Proficient in Installing, Configuration, Troubleshooting Computers, Software,Routers, Switches, Modems, Data Circuits and other Data Communication Equipment.
• Expert in setting upSSH, SCP, SFTPconnectivity betweenUNIX hosts.
• Proven Solaris Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration specialist across different platforms.
• Extensive Expertise with the Planning/Executing the Solaris Live-Upgrades in the larger environments.
• Planning, managing and Installation VMware ESX 5.0 /6.0 server, Installation and configuration of virtual center database and installation of VMware infrastructure virtual machine.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Systems Administrator/Architect (SA)

Responsibilities:

• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Migration VM ware convertor, Virtual Infrastructure client.
• Installation/configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN environment.
• Performing VMware crash/error analysis, Root cause Analysis, Coordinate Post Problem Analysis and Trend Analysis.
• Provide ongoing product maintenance including problem identification, program fix installation and validation including regular maintenance cycles to implement fixes to known problems.
• Installing, configuring and Administration of Global & Sparse Zones (LDOMS) on Solaris 10 Servers.
• Controlling access to the volumes of data in the shared environment, controlling access to individual shared environment, Administrating SAN Network with EMC Control center SAN Manager which will show all servers, switches & storage elements, visually map’s the storage network & provides the management access to the storage as appropriate.
• Assist in monitoring the usage of various system components and tuning the operating system environment to enhance performance where reasonably possible.
• Coordinate the resources between various Sun organizations for specific customer issues.

Confidential, OHIO

System Administrator Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware’s product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to the Horizon Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Developing technical marketing collateral, including product and services slicks, sample service offerings SOWs, and technical presentations for customer briefings, industry events, and publishing on corporate blog.
• Educating customers and internal staff on VMware products offerings and best practices for combining solutions to create private and hybrid clouds.
• Mentoring and providing quality assurance oversight to professional services engineers during the course of technical engagements to ensure that VMware solutions were delivered in accordance with best practices and professionalism.
• Performed hands-on technical implementation, troubleshooting, and remediation on complex client projects requiring high-touch or strategic vision.
• UNIX Administration includes working exposure of Enterprise level servers like SUN Fire 15k, 25k, SUN E2900, E880R, E480R, SUN Blade 100x,200x, 1600 series and the storage boxes includes EMC 8830, DMX 1000, 3000 storages and clarion CX500/600/700 etc.
• Jumpstart Installation of all the other domains under System Controller by configuring itself as Jumpstart Server.
• Excellent Virtual Server Administration experience with VMWare ESX Server 3.5 installations, Upgrades & maintenance.
• Installing VMware Tools package(s) for enhancing the performance of the Virtual Machines.

Confidential

System Administrator II (Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Administrating SC on 15k to share resources (IO boards/ SBs’) in across the domains.
• Installation, configuration, and administration of Oracle 8.1.7, 9i and 11i On Solaris 8/ Linux and Windows 2000 Server environments.
• Enabling quota limit for the users to restrict the space usage on the home directories.
• Responsible for implementation and monitoring of Database Backups.
• Wrote UNIX Shell Scripts to Automate Online/Offline Backups.
• Administration of Oracle database with variety of tools includes Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) etc.
• Planning for backup of Production databases with BCV & SNAP volumes (Both DCO 20 & DCO 0).
• Proficiency with BCV (Business Continuity Volume) BCV backups & SNAP backups.
• Periodical Performance Monitoring of Servers & Necessary precautionary measures.
• Backup & Clone creation routines scheduled thru cron to have the latest back-up of the System in case of Disasters.
• Manage NFS, NIS, SMTP, DHCP and DNS, server configurations.
• Hardening of Solaris servers to keep them secure.
• Developed soft skill of the team member that helped them communicates better with other team members and business alike.
• Design of DNS & SAMBA servers to provide domain logins for the Staff & the students to make sure secured logins to the LINUX servers.
• Ensure to avoid illegal accessing of internet using the firewall configurations and to provide the reliable/healthy transmission of network.