SUMMARY

• Senior Cloud Specialist with over 15 years professional experience and specifically 5+ years in AWS/Azure Architecture, Project Management, Implementation and Migrations working within Agile/Scrum environments for clients like Confidential, Macys and Viacom amongst others.
• Strong experience in delivering Cloud based transitions and migrations for Enterprise Level Environments using AWS and Azure
• Certified in: AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS SysOps Certified Administrator, MS Azure Certified Professional Architect
• Strong experience with on - premise to AWS migrations
• Possesses highest level of experience with AWS Cloud architecture, migration, process tools such as Agile/Scrum, JIRA, SerivceNow, Confluence, coupled with extensive project management and delivery in DevOps environments
• Experience working with various teams of architects, engineers, business analysts, stakeholders, project managers and end clients as well as working alongside offshore teams
• Hands on experience with Architecting IT Environments: Built and reconstructed some of the largest complex IT computing environments for Viacom, Macys and Confidential Experts

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• AWS | MS Azure
• AWS EC2 | VPC | IAM | RDS | ELB | ECS | Auto - Scaling | S3
• Cloud Front | Glacier | Elastic Beanstalk | Lambda | Elastic Cache
• Route53 | Ops Work | Cloud Watch | Red Shift
• Dynamo DB | SNS | SQS | SES | Kinesis | CLI
• JIRA | Service Now
• AWS Server Migration (SMS)
• AWS Database Migration Service
• SQL Azure | NoSQL | SQL | Oracle
• IBM SoftLayer
• JIRA | Agile | Scrum | Confluence
• CROWD | PMT | Comodo
• Docker | Kubernetes
• Git | GitHub
• SFTP | KMS
• Office 365
• SSL | Python
• Terraform | Jenkins | EKS | EFS
• Project Management
• Jira, Service Now, Scrum, Kanban and MS teams.
• CI/CD Jenkins
• DNS | CDN | NS1 | ISIS
• AWS API
• Shell

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS Cloud Solution SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an onsite Operations Manager and a technical Lead at Viacom MTV and lead a team of 29 members offshore.
• Used Jira and Service Now to manage the project and monitor the status of new and ongoing incidents. Trouble shoot and debug issues with the applications like Media Bus, New Relic, NS1, Verisign, Mark Monitor, ISIS, AWS management, MS Teams, Akamai Luna, Status Page, Comodo, Easy Redirect, PMT, JIRA, and CROWD.
• Used AWS console/AWS CLI to spin up EC2 instances, used ELB load balancing on different servers in multiple AZ.
• Used S3 bucket for static website hosting and configured the cloud front distribution (CDN) using edge location to lower the latency and faster delivery.
• Peered multiple VPC’s for different accounts for private connections and security.
• Managed daily stand up scrum meetings for an ongoing Sprint with the Viacom EPAM team.
• Worked onsite as a Lead for offshore team on the target deliverables for the MSO project.
• Monitor the Service Now portal to look for the live, open, ongoing, resolved, closed and pending tickets. Follow up on the pending tickets to update the client on the status of the ticket.
• Creation/Renewal of SSL certificates using Comodo (Cegtigo)
• Used S3 and auto scaling group with ELB for the delivery of the static content using Akamai CDN.
• Experienced on using Mark monitor for DNS registration, Verisign as the primary and NS1 the secondary DNS management.
• Good knowledge on the ITIL process (Change, Release, Incident management) and conversant with the quality procedures and process improvement, while executing the project.
• Used PPT, Excel, Word, Share Point, Outlook, and Microsoft teams for daily operations.
• Updated the status page every day and scheduled maintenance for the web apps.
• AWS Organization member account setup. IAM security policies design and deployment.
• Design of AWS Security policies for AWS Organizations, IAM, Guard Duty, Macie, Config.
• AWS networking with VPN Gateway, Client VPN Endpoint, CloudTrail, etc.
• Setup ELK logging with AWS Elasticsearch. Building of Logstash pipeline, Kibana Dashboard, Timelion analysis.
• Design and Implementation of RBAC (Role-Based-Access-Control) module in Golang.
• Terraform scripts development on AWS and Azure. AWS VPC, Fargate, ECS, docker, EC2, EBS.
• Setup CI/CD procedures on Jenkins.
• AWS CloudWatch setup for production.
• Migrating VMs from private clouds to AWS. Deployment of enterprise communication products on AWS with AWS CLI based script, CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks (Chef), CloudWatch
• Linux/Windows administration, JBoss/WebLogic administration.

AWS Cloud Solution SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as onsite lead for Macys client.
• Platform in premises migration to IBM SoftLayer, Azure and AWS.
• Coordinate with application owners (SME’s), data scientists, and DB Admins and business users to provide recommendations for the best solution based on all their requirements.
• Gather information from app SME’s to build the LLC Non-Prod Q.A Environments like BIZ, FIX, REL, DSG, S2B and S3B for the Macys apps.
• Created non-prod IWM (Integrated Workload Management) environments for Macys.
• Parallel worked with other Dev-Ops, Cloud Vendors, and Infrastructure teams in Macys to procure H/W and S/W at IBM SoftLayer at DAL DC and MS Azure and AWS.
• Deep dive analysis for each application H/W procurement to optimize the cost
• Validated H/W fulfilled requests from IBM SoftLayer and MS Azure.
• Worked closely with onsite as well as offshore teammates to achieve and deliver on time.
• Assign tasks to the teammates for building the non-prod environments.
• AWS RDS, SQL, and Oracle DB’s instances creation, connection, and development.
• Used Jira, Service Now, and Peoples Track to create H/W and S/W requests.
• Updated the confluence page for my assigned tasks on daily basis.
• Reported team updated status (Progress Report) to the Confidential engagement leads and project directors on Weekly and Monthly basis.
• Set up Azure VNets, Azure Resource groups, multi availability zones subnets, load balancers and API gateway for Azure apps.
• Used Linux bash scripting to manage the instances and download the required applications, software.
• Provide system management involving account monitoring, security, Operating System installation, and other local area system administration related functions
• Work with vendors and datacenter technicians for installing/troubleshooting/replacing hardware as necessary
• Provide tuning, troubleshooting and analysis for improving environment performance
• Provide technical expertise to the identification, design, modification and implementation of integrated services and technologies at the Enterprise level
• Review test plans, results analysis, capacity planning guides, innovate solutions to improve performance engineering effectiveness.
• Architecture design of Magento cluster on AWS.
• Deployment of Magento on AWS (with Lambda, RDS, Elastic Cache, EFS, Launch Configuration, Auto-scaling Group, Target Group, Load Balancer, S3 features).
• Design of fault-tolerant ELK cluster on VMs.
• As a Lead DevOps to organize the daily agile meeting to discuss the approaches of deployment, CI/CD procedures

AWS Cloud Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support for both hardware and software issues our users encounter.
• Managed the configuration and operation of client-based computer operating systems.
• Daily monitor the system and respond immediately to security or usability concerns.
• Created and verify backups of data for business continuity and DR scenarios.
• Upgraded system and processes as required for enhanced functionality and security issue resolution.
• Administrated infrastructure, including firewalls, databases, malware protection software and other processes. Review application logs. Install and test computer related equipment
• Allocated system storage and planning storage requirements for the database, making sure to meet all the necessary system requirements. Updated the software versions. Created Program files and folders. Enrolled users and maintain system security.
• Created AWS S3 Buckets for the company storage and static website hosting.
• Experience of using Microsoft Office365, Word and Excel.
• Created AWS S3 buckets, performed folder management in each bucket, bucket versioning and managed cloud trail logs and objects within each bucket.
• Created Highly Available Environments using Auto Scaling and Load Balancers.
• Experienced in S3 Versioning and lifecycle policies to manage and backup files and objects and to archive files and objects in Glacier to save cost.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto Scaling groups.
• Configured Elastic Beanstalk for quick deployment of applications.
• Created monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
• Ability to design application on AWS taking advantage of Disaster recovery. Configured Used SQS and SNS Service with other AWS services.
• Experienced in RDS SQL, MySQL Amazon Arura and NoSQL database creation.
• AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) Group and users for improved login authentication.
• Troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve computer and virtual servers and problems related to hardware and software infrastructure.
• AWS Organization member account setup. IAM security policies design and deployment.
• Design of AWS Security policies for AWS Organizations, IAM, Guard Duty, Macie, Config.
• AWS networking with VPN Gateway, Client VPN Endpoint, CloudTrail, etc.
• Development of a generic auto-deployment tool to deploy with any network topology and any AWS services, it is a python program that reads YAML playbooks to do scalable and secure deployment on AWS.