SUMMARY:

• Personable AWS Sr. DevOps Engineer/AWS Cloud Solutions Architect with 5+years of expertise in securely architecting, integrating and developing enterprise class level applications using automation.
• Possessing great communication and presentation skills. Passionate to design and engineer AWS DevOps Hybrid Cloud solutions via Terraform/Docker/Packer/Kubernetes /Ansible and some Chef.
• Contingent upon leading teams to success by demonstrating state of the art Cloud Engineering (Iac) and architectural skills.
• Successfully implementing (development - to- production) multiple time sensitive projects and application releases (CI/CD) with development teams and project managers.
• Earning multiple positive reviews. Seeking to advance my career by learning and growing with your company.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Networking Technologies: Amazon VPC, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, AWS Private Link, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Transit Gateway, Elastic Load Balancing LAN, WAN, VLAN, subnets, DNS, gateways, firewalls, Cisco switches, wireless network access points, VoIP phone systems, key card entry integration and camera systems.

Public and Private Clouds: Dropbox, One Drive, Google Cloud Platform, Next Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Cirtix Xen Server.

Infrastructure/Provisioning Tools: Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Bamboo, Kubernetes and some Chef.

Command Line/Source Control: GitBash and Putty/ Bash Scripting, HCL, Go, Python, RHEL, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, JSON and some Ruby/ Bitbucket and GitHub.

Operating System: Windows 8.1/7/10, MAC OS & Android, Linux, UNIX, Apache, WordPress and Ubuntu.

Windows Server: 2019/2016/2012 R2/2008 R2/SMTP/Exchange & O365.

Managed Print: FM Audit, ECi, Paper Cut and EFi Fiery.

Database Services: Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Amazon Neptune, Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), Amazon RDS and RDS on VMware, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB and Oracle database.

Security: SSL 3.0, TLS, SSL Device Certs. SMB V2, V3, AES 256, OAuth, SAML 2.0, Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), Access Control Lists (ACL), Identity access management (IAM), Managed Keys by AWS, Encryption in-transit, Encryption at-rest, Password Managers (Keeper Security), Azure Active Directory Services, Physical firewalls and VPN.

Deployment of Systems: Email System, Office Suite - Word - PowerPoint - Excel. QuickBooks, File Share Systems, Video and Voice Conferencing, Storage with backups and snap shots. Calendaring system. (Scan to WebDAV/AWS) Scanning documents to the cloud, Document Version Control, Security Control Auditing, and Independent Cloud Servers with Complete Isolation via AWS dedicated hardware.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. DevOps Engineer - AWS

Confidential - Lombard, IL

Responsibilities:

• Working Closely with clients to provision and maintain our product services.
• In detail Scrutiny of the security backlog, to define and remove any vulnerabilities on network/operational workloads using CloudTrail/Splunk.
• Following Automation Guidelines, implemented a taggable resource effort to all resources in AWS. Defining Owners and other required tags to build automation around them for billing and ownership.
• Maintained and deployed S3 buckets to securely log all events, including object logging, server access logs, S3 bucket logs and SNS topics.
• Using the Infrastructure as code methodologies. Such as Terraform 12.26, CloudFormation Templates and Docket to provision multiple EC2s, ELBs, ALBs, SQS, R53, CloudFront, EFS, ECS and S3.
• Hands on experience in provisioning AWS services like EC2, S3, Glacier, ELB, RDS, Redshift, IAM, Route 53, VPC, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation and Security Groups.
• Created and managed multiple Docker deployment pipeline for enterprise class level application images in the cloud using Bamboo.
• Performed EC2/ASG quarterly patching for CentOS via Packer and hardening AMIs.
• Specializing in IAM services. Creating new IAM users & groups, defining roles and policies for numerous resources. Providing a streamline process for securely granting access to AWS services.
• Leading successful projects with development teams by creating the following services. EC2, EC2 container service, Lambda, Elastic beanstalk, S3, EFS, Storage gateway, Glacier Import/ export, VPC, Direct Connect, AWS WAF, Cloud Front Distributions, Cloud formation, Cloud watch, Cloud trail, SNS, SES, SQS, SWF, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache and Redshift deployments.

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect / I.T Support Manager

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• 5+ years of professional experience architecting & operating solutions built on or migrated to AWS. Including design, implementation, migration and consulting experience with distributed applications.
• 5 + years of experience in AWS infrastructure, database services, security and networking. Utilizing best practices for cross regional data replication, availability zones, caching data to Edge locations, Infrequent access S3 buckets and replication between multiple VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds).
• Possessing a great understanding of common enterprise services (Active Directory Services, Information Assurance, Virtual Desktop, Oracle, SAP and frameworks (.Net, ITIL, Zachman & TOGAF)
• Providing leadership and managing internal developer/technology engineers for AWS.
• Worked alongside with the sales team, formulate and executed some of the most efficient sales strategies to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.
• Have been a key point of contact for the business development team, ensuring success in migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Presented AWS value propositions to customers of all sizes and participated in deep architectural discussions to ensure secure solutions are designed for successful deployment to the AWS Public Cloud.
• Conducted multiple sessions to increase client knowledgebase for AWS. Demonstrated live hands-on secure solutions for customers considering and or already using AWS.
• Provided best practice scenarios to client’s technical staff. Enabling them to confidently and securely manage resources on AWS by activating system and cost alerts. Utilizing IAM, OAuth, SAML 2.0, in-transit and at-rest encryption via AES 256. Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for a higher level of security and saving time by using AMI to launch preconfigured instances on the go.
• Have been the technical mediator/sales engineer between the client’s C level employees, IT engineering teams and support staff.
• Hands on experience with EC2, Lambda, Elastic beanstalk, S3, EFS, Storage gateway, Cloud Formation, Cloud watch, Cloud trail, SNS, SES, SQS, SWF, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift deployments, Glacier Import/ export, VPC, Direct Connect and Cloud front Distributions.
• Utilized the following applications to automate deployment on AWS - (Jenkins, Chef, Terraform, Elastic Search and Kubernetes.)
• Impeccable presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with Executives board members, IT Management and client’s end users/development staff.
• Extremely comfortable communicating effectively across internal and external organizations with great written and communication skills.
• Highly experienced architecting enterprise application to meet business requirements in complex environments. Risk and compliance frameworks. High availability architecture ensuring security, disaster recovery, dedicated hardware deployment and multiple availability zones advanced network connectivity.

Microsoft SharePoint Application Developer

Confidential - Des Plains, IL.

Responsibilities:

• Managed Central Administration for managing intranet services, reporting services and web applications.
• Gathered requirements, designed and implemented custom web parts and workflows.
• Proposed and designed SharePoint architecture customized out of the box navigations.
• Migrated sites, lists, libraries and documents to different site collections.
• Created and configured various web parts, such as data view, content query, content editor, and table of content web parts. Customized connected web parts.
• Gave guidance on how to co-author project documents and versioning among team members.
• Developed workflows using SharePoint Designer for numerous projects along with complex workflow actions like Approval & Task processes.
• Created linked data sources in SharePoint Designer.
• Creating Document Libraries, List Features, Site Features, Site Templates, version control, Content Types, Lists, Views, Announcements, and Tasks.