SUMMARY

• Highly accomplished and solutions - oriented IT Professional with broad based knowledge in Systems Design and Development, implementing and integrating cost-effective, high performance technical solutions and cloud implementations to meet challenging business needs.
• Cognitive about designing, deploying and operating highly available, scalable and fault tolerant systems using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Proficient in writing CloudFormation Templates (CFT) in YAML and JSON format to build the AWS services with the paradigm of Infrastructure as a Code.
• Highly skilled in deployment, data security and troubleshooting of the applications using AWS services.
• Experienced in implementing Organization DevOps strategy in various operating environments of Linux and windows servers along with cloud strategies of Amazon Web Services.
• Possess high working qualities with good interpersonal skills, high motivation, fast learner, good team player and very proactive in problem solving to provide best solutions.
• Experience in onsite / offshore development model, including remote work.
• Experienced with installation of AWS CLI to control various AWS services through SHELL/BASH scripting.
• Experience using Agile Methodology with the SCRUM and SAFe Framework using techniques like Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Expertise in transitioning organizations from traditional Waterfall to Agile using the SAFe framework.
• Focused on Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and enabled Pair-Programming

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York City, NY

AWS Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecting, and provisioning for AWS resources as IaaC for the network, compute and database resources.
• Create, update network ACLs, through an aws command-line interface
• Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Autoscaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudTrail.
• Experienced in creating CloudFormation stacks to provision for VPC’s, public & private subnets, NAT, RTs as per requirement, and distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC.
• Used security groups, network ACLs, internet gateways, and route tables to ensure a secure zone for the organization in AWS public cloud.
• Manage FortiGate and Prisma firewall routers as addition traffic delegation into and out of aws vpc
• Create and manage team wise security for GitHub repo for dev QA and Prod environments.
• Manage recovery and failover plan for all environments.
• Setup WAF in front of web applications for security and vulnerabilities
• Migrate application and database to aws using 6Rs strategy for migrating to aws
• Check health and performance of containers running inside nodes of EKS cluster using elastic search cluster.
• Used Grafana for monitoring DevOps CI/CD pipeline
• Created and configured elastic load balancers and auto-scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and highly available environment.
• Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files required to serve static content for a web application.
• Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java.
• Implemented domain name service (DNS) through route 53 to have highly available and scalable applications.
• Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using the Cloud Watch service.
• Experienced in creating RDS instances to serve data through servers for responding to requests.
• Created snapshots to take backups of the volumes and images to store launch configurations of the EC2 instances.
• Setup cloud intranet for internal portal for an application running in EC2 instance and service running on aws platform
• Configure routing in FortiGate firewall to filter traffic for machines setup for internal users
• Created hosted zone in Route53 and create routing policies to route traffic for web domain name to applications sitting on the cloud
• Facilitated DevOps CI/CD projects for web application development within AWS
• Create CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and AWS Code Pipeline to build applications using containers in the EKS cluster.
• Created Faregate profile in the EKS cluster, and also created tasks to deploy containers to EC2 instances.
• Provision of AWS managed elastic search instance to ingest application container logs
• Integrate elastic search with cloud watch to stream application log files
• Use Terraform to provision new resources in aws and also update existing resources within aws cloud services. services.

Confidential

AWS Solution Architect /SAFE Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Created a fault tolerance cluster by implementing Elastic Load Balancer and also definitely path base routing policies.
• Installed and configured Nginex with SSL certificate and FQDN in dev, QA and Prod.
• Developed and implemented software release management strategies for various applications as per agile process.
• Managed Amazon redshift clusters such as launching the cluster by specifying the nodes and performing the data analysis queries.
• With the help of IAM created roles, users and groups and attached policies to provide minimum access to the resources.
• Created topics in SNS to send notifications to subscribers as per the requirement.
• Provision of AWS managed elastic search instance to ingest application container logs
• Create DevOps CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to building applications using containers in EKS cluster
• Worked on the databases of the Amazon RDS and carried out functionalities for creating instances as per the requirements.
• Designed Java API to connect the Amazon S3 service to store and retrieve the media files.
• Implemented Amazon RDS multi-AZ for automatic failover and high availability at the database tier.
• Configured AWS CLI and performed necessary actions on the AWS services using shell scripting.
• Implemented CloudTrail in order to capture the events related to API calls made to AWS infrastructure.
• Defined all server types in Ansible, so that a newly built server could be up and ready for production within 30 minutes OS installation.
• Enabled Continuous Delivery through Deployment into several environments of Test, QA, Stress and Production using Jenkins.
• Created a hosted zone with primary and secondary record set for failover routing policy using Route53
• Provision aws resources using terraform templates
• Migrated a monolith application in on-prem to docker containers in aws using Kubernetes service, ECR, Jenkins and GitHub repo.
• I work with two teams of developers, architects, testers, BA’s and quality engineers to create unique applications for the manufacturing plants.
• I am working with the mobile application development team to build a secure and comfortable platform for customer uses.
• To improve the mobile app quality, great client satisfaction, greater transparency, and faster return of investment (ROI)
• I facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meeting.
• I facilitate the grooming process and collaboratively work with the product, development, UX and QA teams to size features/enhancement, understand dependencies, constraints, risk, etc.
• I facilitate the release planning effort including the development of a scope statement that defines the scope for the release within SAFe 5.0.

Confidential, Boston, MA

AWS Solution Architect/SAFe Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Created CloudFront distributions to serve content from edge locations to users so as to minimize the load on the frontend servers.
• Configured private and public FQDN for Dev,QA,Prod EC2, instances and Load balancers by creating respective records in internal DNS server and using Route53 for public internet hostname.
• Utilized AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets and EBS.
• Configured and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using Cloud Watch.
• Installed and configured Nginex with SSL certificate and FQDN in dev, QA and Prod.
• Migrated applications from internal data center to AWS.
• Maintained edge location to cache data with CDN using Cloud Front to deliver data with less latency.
• Scaled distributed in-memory cache environment in the cloud using Elastic cache.
• Managed automated backups and created own backup snapshots when needed.
• Provided installation & maintenance of Puppet infrastructure and developed Puppet manifests & modules for configuration management.
• Created Jenkins programmatic user in AIM with appropriate group assigned policy for Jenkins configuration and CI/CD setup.
• Deployed and configured Git repositories with branching, tagging, and notifications. Experienced and proficient in deploying and administering GitHub.
• Configured Linux environments in both public and private domains
• I manage the scope statement against change during the release
• I remove blockers and impediments that are keeping the team from making progress
• I maintain metrics for the release and proactively seek to add additional metrics and KPI’s to monitor performance and continually improve each release.
• I help improve the efficiency of the development team by suggesting improvements in process and operational excellence.
• I ensure traceability through the software development lifecycle is maintained
• I coach and mentor the team in the adaptation and maturity of the defined SDLC processes and ensure the necessary evidence is created to support audits.
• I prepare and present reports on the progress of each phase during the release and the success/retrospective learning of each release