SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience in Infrastructure Management and System Administration.
• 3 years of experience in AWS cloud solution and service management, AWS Certified solution Architect.
• Experienced in designing cloud models for Infrastructure - as-a-service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
• Manage and Responsible for Cloud Operation technical delivery, client management, efforts and cost estimation, resource requirement, on boarding strategies, technical understanding, and requirements.
• Result oriented approach with Exceptional leadership skills. 3 Years of experience in handling technical delivery team.
• Identifying appropriate use of AWS Architectural best practices.
• Estimating AWS costs and identifying cost control mechanisms.
• Hands-on experience on Architecting and securing the Infrastructure on AWS using IAM, KMS, Cognito, API Gateway, Cloud Trail, Cloud Watch, Config, Trusted Advisor, Security Groups, NACL etc.
• Good knowledge on Application Migrations and Data migrations from On-premise to AWS Cloud.
• Responsible for infrastructure uptime, customer success, Infrastructure and Application security, client escalation management, team management, outage management, deployment, production support and new initiatives.
• Backup and Disaster recovery experience of different application on AWS cloud and on premise set up.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

AWS Solution Architect/Cloud Security Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experienced with "on premise to cloud" migrations and IT transformations with the aid of AWS solutions. Focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto scaling using AWS Cloud native services.
• Participated in architectural discussions with customers when building new or migrating existing applications on the AWS platform.
• Communicate with different IT teams to collect the existing on-premise application & server requirements. Map the collected data points with the AWS resources to plan for the POC.
• Responsible for deploying 2 tiers and 3 tiers web architecture.
• Configured and managed various AWS Services including EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, Glacier, Cloud Front, and Route 53 etc.
• Proactively monitor resources and applications using AWS Cloud Watch including creating alarms to monitor metrics for services like EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3.
• Experience in setting up Life-cycle policies to back data from AWS S3 to AWS Glacier for archiving.
• Used AWS Route 53 for configuring the High-Availability and Disaster recovery to make the environment up and running in case of any unexpected disaster.
• Create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup.
• Create VPC, subnets, security settings, EC2, IAM, RDS and S3 buckets based upon the requirement, IAM accounts (with MFA) and IAM policies to meet security audit & compliance requirements.
• Migrating servers from on-premises data centers to cloud by using AWS database migration service and other conventional methods such as Import/export, backup and restore etc.
• Maintaining a common documentation library of standardized procedures and configurations.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer/AWS Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Installed new / rebuild existing infrastructure includes servers, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Managed multiple projects including SOW preparation and introduced Work Breakdown Structure creation for projects.
• Developed and maintained installation and configuration procedures.
• Recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Planned, designed, and implemented a project to provide network security stack providing visibility, redundancy, and consistency for all applications hosted in the cloud.
• Designed end state services which are self-sustaining and scalable aligning with business needs and cloud best practices.
• Created Cloud Watch alarms that taking care of EC2 auto recovery and auto reboot for instances that failing system status check and instance status check.
• Monitoring and analyzing AWS resource utilization for right sizing and cost optimization
• Experience building infrastructures for secure and highly available applications.
• Maintained a common repository for standardized procedures, configurations, and architectural diagrams.
• Managed technical team for project deployments and prioritize higher level client requests.

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered and support Email migration to Office 365 environment.
• Active Directory/creating users and groups Defragmentation for Computer Performance.
• Managed File System and Drives, Directories and Disk quotas.
• Edit and configure Group Policy.
• Implemented disaster recovery solution for current server infrastructure and support building redundant server.
• Installed and configured routers, switches, and access servers.
• Responsible for development, implementation and support of PC systems that meet the technical needs. Perform all phases of desktop support including installations/upgrades of hardware, software and operating systems, and problem resolution for hardware and software related problems.
• Maintained inventory system that includes maintenance/problem records and a complete hardware inventory as well as maintain system administration related documentation.

Confidential

Technical Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for migration of Windows 2003 Active directory from Windows NT4, which includes upgrading DNS, DHCP and Wins
• Redesigned network to improve network security. Implemented Cisco router, VPN, DHCP, NAT. Eliminated SMTP open mail relay, upgraded DNS servers, resolved intermittent hardware issues
• Provided escalated support for windows desktop OS (2000/XP) issues
• Successfully deployed a backup server with Tape Library
• Installed, implemented, and integrated personal computer applications. Provided customer service 24/7 clients, both onsite and over the phone
• Desktop support for company users including, MS Office, Windows 2000/XP, Outlook.
• Repaired, maintained, and supported company PC’s, workstations, and servers
• Handled requests, procurement, and installation of all IT related purchasing