Prathap Kumar

Cloud Engineer/Architect (AWS, Azure, OCI)

Ph: 312-***-****

Mail: adg3z4@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

●Possess around 14+ years of Progressive experience in the IT industry, in the area of Cloud Services Operations Mgmt, Solution Architecture, Cloud Foundation, support and maintenance, Upgrades, Cloud Deployment, cross-platform migrations and support, Infrastructure Design and planning, Project Management, Integration, Auditing, Automation & Mainframes Technology.

●Technical Expertise - Architecture Design, Automation & Implementation for Enterprise application, on-demand, Databases, EDW, Cloud Datawarehouse Legacy applications.

●Enabling HA, Fault-Tolerant, BCP on Hybrid Clouds (Public, private, Hybrid)

●Using AWS Services - EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, VPC, IAM, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Rest API, Aurora.

●AWS Container Handling – Docker, EKS, ECS, Kinesis, S3, Kubernetes, Config. CI/CD

●DevOps solution –Enterprise applications, Java, .net, Migration to Cloud

●DevOps tools stack - SCM, Artifact Mgmt., Orchestration, Code Review, Quality, Security scan

●Deployment Release Automation - Production, Non-Prod Environments

●Agile Methodology - Sprint Planning using Jira, Daily Stand-up, Sprint retrospective

●SOX Compliance - Audit trails, RBAC, Monitoring & Reporting

●Middleware Admin –Peoplesoft, Weblogic, Application Servers, Clusters, Web services, MQ

●Hands-on experience in implementation, development, upgrade, maintenance and support in PeopleSoft ERP

●Ability to provide solutions by applying innovation and managing projects in various verticals such as Insurance, Campus solutions, Retail and Banking.

●PMBOK and Agile experience.

●Roles Performed: AWS Cloud Architect, Azure Cloud Architect, Cloud Engineer, Devops Engineer, Build & Release Engineer, MW Engineer

Skill Summary

Source Control: Enterprise GitHub, Bitbucket, Serena Dimensions

CI Build: Maven, Gradle, AWS Code Commit, IaC

CI/CD Orchestration: Jenkins, Cruise Control, AWS Code Deploy

Config Management, Iac: Ansible, udeploy, Terraform, YAML, AWS Cloud formation

Application servers: IBM WebSphere, Tomcat, WebLogic, IIS, JBoss

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, MS-SQL, DB2-UDB, Denodo VDB, Teradata, postgresql, Aurora

Artifact Mgmt: JFrog Artifactory

Scripting Languages: Bash/shell, Perl, python, groovy Powershell

Atlassian Tools: JIRA, Confluence

Performance Monitoring: Splunk, AppDynamics

Cloud Platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, OCI

Containerization &

Orchestration: Application containerization using Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Config, Fargate, Lambda

Systems Platform: Oracle Linux 6.x, IBM AIX 6.1, Solaris, Windows.

Trainings and Certifications

●AWS Solution Architect - Professional

●MS Azure Solution Architect (70-534)

●OCI – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Associate 2020

●Oracle database Certified Associate (OCP)

●IBM DB2 certified associate

Education

●Masters in Computer Science from Sri Venkateswara University, India - 2001

Professional Experience

Wells Fargo Bank, NC Aug 2019 - Present

AWS Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer

Project Description: Cloud application and solutions

Responsibilities

●Hybrid Cloud Technology implementation, software architecture, development ( Azure, AWS, OCI)

●Enterprise Cloud Platform and Architecture implementation, Designing Enterprise application refactoring strategy

●Designing Devops for Various HA, DR Enterprise MicroService Applications in Public and Private clouds

●Design and implement cloud security, networking, and Design/deployment for cloud/cloud-native applications

●Performing Rlane analysis Rehosting, Replatforming, Refactoring / Re-architecting analysis and coming up with ROI/TCO.

●Global applications in Java and .net replatform, Rehosting to AWS.

●Designing Blue-green architecture with Public-Private cloud.

●Driving CIO and Organization objectives and Goals in maintaining the applications.

●DevOps, Kubernetes, containerization and microservices-based architecture design

●CI-CD Build and release tools pipeline Administration/upgrade: GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, MySQL-DB

●Application containerization for Jenkins, Nexus using Docker

●Jenkins Pipelines - CI Builds, Deployments automation using Yum, JDBC for Teradata SQLs

●Enterprise tools & Pipeline Integration - HPQC, Change Request tool, Control-M, REST API

●Setting Infrastructure as code/DevOps architecture, system pipelines

●Workload planning, design DevOps Pipelines, automation architecture/design

●Blue-green and Rolling update deployment model on AWS CI/CD.

●Issue resolution with integration broker, Portal, third party integration.

●Performance monitoring using OEM, SolarWinds, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch

●Ingesting Applications data into Splunk, AppDynamics

●Designing Splunk application monitoring strategy.

●Delivering and maintaining Oracle cloud Compute instances.

Environment AWS, OCI and Private Cloud, EKS, ECS, Docker, Kubernities, CICD, Devops, Jenkins, Git, Jira, Sonarcube, Ansible, Maven

CUA, Washington DC Jun 2017 – Jul 2019

Cloud Architect

Module Name: Hybrid Data Centre operations

Project Description: Cloud Operations and support

Responsibilities

●System specific build - Maven, ANT, Ansible, Terraform for DB upgrade scripts

●Cruise Control customization for CI-CD, automated build and deployment to DEV

●Resolution to PROD Env. issues, Batch cycle processing for PROD and non-PROD ENVs

●Apps Migration/upgrade to Weblogic v12c, Oracle DB upgrade to 12c.

●Design Architecture using Docker for Apache Airflow, talend jars, MySQL as meta store

●Apache Airflow components running on multiple Docker containers

●Airflow components - Web Server, Scheduler, worker node, Executors, Flower, Rabbit MQ

●MySQL - container as service, integration with Airflow

●Web Server - web interface to Monitor, schedule & execute DAGs

●Migration to AWS Cloud: Bitbucket, Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker

●CI-CD tools Administration/upgrade: GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, MySQL-DB

●Application containerization for Jenkins, Nexus using Docker

●Jenkins Pipelines - CI Builds, Deployments automation using Yum, JDBC for Teradata SQLs

●Enterprise tools & Pipeline Integration - HPQC, Change Request tool, Control-M, REST API

●RBAC - LDAP integration, Azure AD using SAML, Roles Refinement for access provisions

●Design and Implementation: Splunk for log monitoring, Tripwire for File Integrity Monitor

●Release Mgmt., Incident Mgmt., Change Mgmt., Escalation procedures for Major impact Outages

Environment: AWS, Devops

Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL Aug 2016 – May 2017

AWS Cloud Architect

Module Name: AWS Re-platform

Project Description: Cloud Operations

Responsibilities

●Global applications in Java And .net replatform, Rehosting to AWS.

●Designing Blue-green architecture with Public-Private cloud.

●Driving CIO and Organization objectives and Goals in maintaining the applications.

●DevOps, Kubernetes, containerization and microservices-based architecture design

●CI-CD Build and release tools pipeline Administration/upgrade: GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, MySQL-DB

●Application containerization for Jenkins, Nexus using Docker

Bauer Media PeopleSoft Support May 2015 – Jul 2016 Architect - AWS Migration of ERP

Module Name: DBA, ERP upgrade, Infra and Production Support

●Responsible for preparation of ERP Upgrade strategy, Implementation strategy and planning, Retrofit and Migration strategy.

●Defining the project plan, timelines, and execution strategy and team management.

●Setting up Integration Broker with FS and HR and other third-party application like QuickPay.

●Current and target architecture design, Fit gap analysis, CAB support.

●Project Tracking and scheduling

ANZ Aug 2014 – Mar 2015

Solution Architect

ERP Upgrade and Data migration/platform consolidation

Responsibilities

●Solution design and architecture

●Peoplesoft platform migration from SQL server to Oracle

●Unicode conversion

●Server imaging and rebuild

●PIA build, configuration and deploy

●Peopletools upgrade to 8.47 to 8.53

●Responsible for preparation of PeopleSoft Upgrade strategy, Implementation strategy and planning, Retrofit and Migration strategy.

●Defining the project plan, timelines, and execution strategy and team management.

●Building new servers, environments, support strategy and automated concepts.

ANZ Dec 2012 – Aug 2014

Project Manager Upgrade Specialist

FSCM 8.9 to 9.2 upgrade, NZ integration and db platform migration from SQL server to Oracle

Module Name FSCM 9.2

Responsibilities

●Upgrade Specialist: Peoplesoft FSCM 8.9 to 9.2 upgrades and Integration.

●Designing Peoplesoft integration and upgrade strategy for Customer

●Platform migration from SQL server to Oracle and performing Unicode conversion

●Peoplesoft infrastructure build and PIA configuration and setup for initial phases of upgrade.

●Integration broker support with various applications in the organization.

●Performance tuning

●Upgrade customization and tuning the upgrade template to fit into tight cutover schedules

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Oct 2012 – Nov 2012

HCM, CRM Upgrade and DB platform migration from DB2 to Oracle

Responsibilities

●Upgrade and support: Peoplesoft HCM 9.1 upgrade for Global payroll.

●Unicode and multi character database

●Post upgrade support

●DB2 migration to Oracle.

AMP Dec 2011 – Sep 2012

Solution Architect

AXA GL integration and FSCM 9.1 Upgrade,

Responsibilities

●Upgrade Specialist: Peoplesoft FSCM 9.1 upgrade and GL Integration

●Building new servers, environments, support strategy and automated concepts.

●Configuring Performance Monitor servers. Developing Performance monitor tools

●Maintaining the PeopleSoft components for various environments.

ANU, Canberra Sep 2010 – Nov 2011

Peoplesoft Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities

●Configuring new clustered server architecture for Database and Peoplesoft instances.

●Building new servers, environments, support strategy and automated concepts.

●Configuring Performance Monitor servers. Developing Performance monitor tools

●To take care of migrations, database updates and server maintenance.

●Implementing periodical releases for various modules of PeopleSoft Implemented within

●Expertise in implementing SOX auditing, ITSCA Auditing process support and coordinating with Audit consultants like E&Y, PwC etc.

Blackboard Upgrade, US Jun 2010 – Sep 2010

Responsibilities

●Assessment

●Planning

●Execution

●Tuning

●Delivery

Environment SQL server 2008, Peoplesoft HRMS 9.0, CRM 9.1, FSCM 9.0

Nike Support, US May 2008 – Jun 2010

Team Lead

Responsibilities

●Role in the Peoplesoft Team

●SOX auditing, ITSCA Auditing support

OOMC Bank Support, US Jul 2007 – May 2008

Peoplesoft Team Lead

Responsibilities

●Role in the Peoplesoft Administration Team

●Configuration Manager – To take care of migrations, database updates and server maintenance.

●Quest Stat upgrade

●Tax updates, patches

Environment : Peoplesoft Financials 8.8, HRMS 8.3, Windows 2k3 server, Stat 5.3.2/5.1.3

Honda of Americas, US Feb 2007 – Jul 2007

Upgrade Specialist

Responsibilities

●Execution

●Tuning

●Delivery

Environment: Oracle 8i, Oracle 10g, Peoplesoft Financials 8.4 /8.9, IBM AIX 5.3, Windows 2003 AD server

H.E. Butt, US Nov 2006 – Feb 2007

Upgrade Specialist

Responsibilities

●Application Management – Applying patches, maintenance packs.

●Performing Database refresh.

●Perform Data Changes.

●Applying patches, fixes and Tax updates

●Migrating projects across various environments

●Performance tuning of SQL statements used for reporting and queries

●Backups and Recovery

Environment Oracle 9i and Informix 7.3, Peoplesoft Financials 7.5, HCM 8.9, Sun Solaris 7/8/9

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