Aws Cloud

CHIGOZIRIM BEN

Cell: 240-***-**** - **************@*******.***

Professional Summary

Team-oriented AWS Cloud Solutions Architect, with more than five (4+) years of experience working as a cloud Solutions architect for several customers, managing server infrastructures, database migration and data center operations. Implementing upgradable, scalable, hyper-converged infrastructure and micro-services across multiple platforms (Azure, AWS Cloud).

Skills

· Project management.

· Team leadership/Security Awareness.

· Strong verbal communication.

· Information Protection and Analysis.

· Team Motivation, Self-motivated.

Docker Containers, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Jenkins, F5, Palo Alto, Aviatrix, Barracuda Guardian Angel.

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - (Certified)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Certified)

AWS Developer Associate (Certified)

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (In-View)

AWS Certified Security – Specialty (In-View – 10th December, 2019)

Work History

01/2017 to 09/2019

Consultant; AWS Solutions Architect

Capital One Financial Corp – McLean, VA

Participated in architectural discussions with customers when building new and migrating existing applications on the AWS platform.

Deployed over 200 Amazon Workspaces for Customer's employee in India (offshore) and Mexico (near shore).

Architecting/operating solutions built on AWS Platform and Deployed third party applications like Palo Alto, F5, Aviatrix Transit Gateway boxes.

Experienced with "on-premise to cloud" migrations and IT transformations with the aid of AWS solutions.

Configuring and deploying micro-services and instances on AWS Cloud Platform.

Proactively monitor resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch including creating alarms to monitor metrics for services like EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3.

Experience in setting up Life-cycle policies to back data from AWS S3 to AWS Glacier for archiving.

Built VPCs from scratch, creating private and public subnets, security groups and network access lists, configuring Internet gateways, and NAT gateway.

Created business continuity/disaster recovery, fail-over and runbook documentation.

Responsible for deploying web/application servers and database traditional servers in AWS VPC.

Script manually built services in DevTest environment into CloudFormation Template and maintain the stack leveraging AWS S3/Code Commit.

12/2014 to 07/2016

Consultant; AWS Cloud Engineer

Citigroup – Remote/Onsite, VA

Conducted education/training sessions for AWS cloud.

Hands-on experience writing Production-ready automation code to implement solutions with Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform.

Designed production, staging, QA and development Cloud Infrastructures.

Experienced in AWS cloud migration.

01/2013 to 12/2014

IT Security Consultant

Nike, Inc – Beaverton, OR

Created incident response processes, procedures and maintained security documentation.

Established and maintained disaster recovery procedures for current and new technologies.

Reviewed and identified vulnerabilities while creating and analyzing metrics on the state of the system.

Demonstrated experience working with senior management on highly sensitive projects that require the utmost discretion and maintaining strict confidentiality on all data, records, and tasks as required.

Education

2018

Bachelor of Technology: Industrial Chemistry

Federal University of Technology

Certificate of Completion: Cloud Security Architecture and Operations the SANS Technology Institute - Washington D.C

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