SUMMARY

• 11+ years of total IT Industry Experience and 3+ years in AWS and Cloud Management, Configuration Management, Build, Deploy, Release Management and Quality Assurance.
• Experienced in monitoring metrics on EC2, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, RDS USING Cloud Watch.
• Experienced in services like Route53, Cloud Front, Auto scaling.
• Experienced in VPC, Subnets, Internet gateway, NAT gateway, Route table.
• Experience in backup services like EBS snapshots, S3 backups and Amazon Glacier.
• Automation of various infrastructure components for Iaas and Pass model using various application services using Chef, Puppet.
• Experience in Version Control Software’s like GIT.
• Strong Client Facing Skills.
• Responsible for client engagements, holding workshops with key stakeholders and translating business requirements into cloud specific solutions based on the Azure platform.
• Experience in security policies like Security Groups, IAM (Identity & Access Management) roles and Multi Factor Authentication.
• Experience in installing LAMP stack on Ubuntu servers and on Amazon EC2.
• Experienced in Deployment, Provisioning cloud resources and manage implementation automation through Amazon OpsWorks.
• Experience in long running applications, load balancing, EBS volumes and IAM role using Amazon EC2 container service (ECS).
• Experienced in creating and enhancing UNIX shell scripts using Korn, Shell, Bash
• Experience of Migration & Deployment of Applications with Upgrade Version of Applications.
• Coordinating and tracking all projects for seamless releases using Project Management System JIRA, Source Code Management System SVN and Document Management System SharePoint.
• Knowledge on Docker to build image Confidential root of the repository.
• Stay current with the latest features/capabilities of the AWS platform.
• Exposed to all aspects of Software development life cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Planning, Developing, Testing and Implementing and Post - production analysis of the projects.
• ITIL certified

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, OPEN VMS(HP)

Servers: HP, SUN, IBM blade

Virtual environment: VMWare V Center Sever 5.1/5.5, XEN

Cloud systems: Amazon Web services (AWS), OpenStack, v Center.

Remote Mgmt. Tools: Putty (SSH, FTP, SFTP, Telnet), Win SCP, VNC

Automation Tech: Shell, Python, Ansible

Middleware: JBOSS, Apache Tomcat.

Build & Release Engineering/DevOps: Remedy, Jenkins, AWS, Puppet, and Chef.

Database: SQL server 2008/12, Oracle 11g, No SQL (Cassandra)

Monitoring tools: HP-OVO, OpenVMS, Wireshark, AWS Cloud Watch, Nagios.

Ticketing tools: Remedy, Service Now, one Support system

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Applications supported: Voice Mail, SMS, MMS, IMS CORE, SIP telephony.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Cloud Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked with team to design VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) architecture, public and private subnets, Internet gateway, NAT gateway, route table.
• Install and configure Chef server / workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AWS nodes.
• Involved in designing and deploying a multitude application utilizing almost all the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Work closely with Senior Stakeholders on a technical and business level to provide correct solution and best practices.
• Deployment and management through AWS cloud formation on EC2 (Elastic compute cloud) instances and maintaining Amazon S3 storage.
• Worked on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS service.
• Developed and executed Shell scripts and worked on Python Scripting in different projects for automation of regular repeating tasks.
• Utilized AWS API for complete handsfree auto deployment and auto scaling of EC2.
• Used Chef for configuration management.
• Providing Root Cause Analysis for High severity issues.
• Consult with customers and gather requirements and translate into designs and configurations.
• Used RDS service for creating the MYSQL database.
• Setup Cloud watch for monitoring.
• Advise and educate customers on agile methodologies, DevOps tools and practices.
• Migrate the main messaging services to AWS with auto scaling, active-active failover, remote DR, elastic search log ingestion, metrics monitoring and CDN.
• Design a security & access control structure for on (Identity & Access Management) IAM for on premise and in-cloud use.
• Designed and Implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Setup Amazon glacier service for archiving data.

Environment: Amazon web service AWS, Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon Storage ServicesS3, Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, Route53, IAM, Glacier, Linux

Confidential

AWS Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Amazon Web Services architecture, API implementation EC2 Server setup and deployment, build, maintenance, & configuration of various AWS resources like, EC2, EBS, Elastic Load Balancers, S3, VPC, Security Groups that are utilized for different environments like dev, testing, staging/prod.
• Create and drive architectural presentations to stakeholders.
• Configured S3 to host static web content, versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier.
• Optimized volumes and EC2 instances& Created multi AZ VPC instances.
• Used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups.
• Deployment and management through AWS cloud formation on EC2 (Elastic compute cloud) instances and maintaining amazon S3 storage.
• Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, ICMP, SNMP, FTP, SSH) using Nagios.
• Setup Route53, Network and Auto scaling for high availability.
• Utilized Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB services, DynamoDB tables, EBS volumes; to set alarms for notification or automated actions; and to monitor logs for a better understanding and operation of the system.

Environment: Amazon web service AWS, Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon Storage ServicesS3, Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, Route53, IAM, Glacier, Linux, Nagios.

Confidential

Cloud Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked with team to design VPC architecture, public and private subnets, Internet gateway, NAT gateway, route table
• Extensive work on LINUX server and VMWARE/Virtualization Administration.
• Extensive work as Solution Architect responsible for designing fully virtualized messaging solution and deploying them from scratch and integrating with other network component like Voice-mail etc.
• Played important in bringing in AWS specific expertise to a team of architects who are familiar with legacy infrastructure using VMWare. The goal is to migrate and go "all-in" with AWS. My role is to evaluate individual workloads to recommend the best migration path.
• Deployment and management through AWS cloud formation on EC2 (Elastic compute cloud) instances and maintaining Amazon S3 storage.
• Migrate the main messaging services to AWS with auto scaling, active-active failover, remote DR, elastic search log ingestion, metrics monitoring and CDN.
• Design a security & access control structure for on IAM for on premise and in-cloud use.
• Designed and Implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Environment: Amazon web service AWS, Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon Storage ServicesS3, Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, Route53, IAM, Glacier, Linux

Confidential

Cloud Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked with team to design VPC architecture, public and private subnets, Internet gateway, NAT gateway, route table.
• Created IAM for instance roles as well as for team member access
• Used Cloud Front for website distribution
• Used the AWS forums to learn practical management of EC2 resources
• Used Cloud watch, ELB, RDS, Dynamo DB and other AWS resources
• Deployment and management through AWS cloud formation on EC2 (Elastic compute cloud) instances and maintaining Amazon S3 storage.
• Configured S3 to host static web content, versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier.
• Setup Auto scaling group for instances.
• Used OpsWorks so that changes can be made Confidential stack level.

Environment: Amazon web service AWS, Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon Storage ServicesS3, Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, Route53, IAM, Glacier, Cloud Front.

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Handling various tools of Confidential &T for Production, DEV and TEST Environment and developing and monitoring of Centrex Mate/Centrex Control System)
• Working in CENTREX MATE/CENTREX CONTROL SYSTEM Project working on UNIX and LINUX Servers to implement the scripts that have been developed in DEV Environment and tested in TEST for Centrex Mate to provide and improve the high-end solution for Confidential &T Telecom business users.
• Technology and Tools Involved

Environment: Linux, Unix, Shell Scripting, Netcool, Websphere Console Monitoring, BMC Patrol, Nagios, Oracle DB

Confidential

Infrastructure Solution Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the Business Resumption Representative for Company’s Unix Systems; this task included working with all application teams whose servers are supported by the UNIX team to create a Disaster Recovery Plan for both the application and the server.
• Represented UNIX administrators on Root Cause Analysis team.
• Provided frequent assistance and consulting to various applications teams.
• Participated in weekly off shift call rotation, which demands extensive knowledge of UNIX and application systems.
• Performed hands on training of basic UNIX commands for new team members who were having frequent issues.
• Performed OS patching and other changes as per requirement.

Environment: Linux, Unix, Shell Scripting, Netcool, Share point, BMC remedy

Confidential

Sr. Technical Support specialist

Responsibilities:

• Generate reports using various tools like CMS, IEX, CRDB and E-share for chats.
• Coordinate with Command Center and other support staff to make sure that all SL targets are met.
• Take part in performance monitoring and other client calibrations ( Confidential &T) and to prepare agenda for those calls.
• To monitor calls and chats of agents, to track chronic cases and work towards improving them.
• Worked with Windows 95, 98, XP, ME both voice and web based process (Internet Service Providers).
• Worked on Consolidated Reports database (CRDB), IEX (Workforce Management) and Avaya CMS.
• Acting as a Mentor for regular monitoring, coaching and providing regular feedback to the team being assigned to us (Team Handling).