Aws Cloud

RISHI ZALANI

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SUMMARY

AWS and Microsoft Certified Specialist with more than 11 years of experience in the management of IT Infrastructure projects for new facilities, Data Center migration and Cloud migration

Expertise in Microsoft technologies, VMware virtualization, SDDC, Storage Design, IT Asset Management and Network Security, Agile Methodology, Agile Coaching and Scrum Team management

In-depth knowledge of AWS Cloud services including EC2, VPC, ELB, auto-scaling, load balancing, security groups, Route53, IAM, EBS, AMI, RDS, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, CloudFormation and CloudWatch

Expertise in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning; delivered maximum business value for Infrastructure, Data Center technologies, SDDC, Large Scale Systems and Networks

Top sales performer in the team during the COVID pandemic

Adept at maintaining complete IT infrastructure including server hardware, VMware Environment, data storage, switching and routing, backups, e-mail, firewalls, spam filtering, AV, VPN, mobile devices, VOIP systems and network monitoring.

Set up CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) for major releases in Jenkins to schedule jobs with PollScm and deployed code in staging and production environments

Strong customer centric approach with excellent analytical, coordination, presentation and leadership skills; skilled in grasping the big picture and conceptualizing solutions

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Information, New York Institute of Technology, New York

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate (AWS –SAA02)

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certified

Microsoft Azure Fundamental Certified (AZ 900)

Architecting with Google cloud platform (Coursera)

Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS)

Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Nutanix Certified Advance Professional (NCAP)

Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP 5.0, NCP 5.5)

Nutanix Certified Support Specialist (NSS)

SKILLS

Technology

VMware, Hyper V, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Data Center Migration, Hyper Converged, Converged Infrastructure

Operating Systems

Windows 2003/2003R2/2008/2008 R2/2012, Redhat 7, SLES 11

Hardware

HP Chassis & Blades, Dell Servers, Cisco UCS, Cisco 3k,5k, Quanta Servers (T41S & D51B’s), OEM Servers etc

Backup Software

Symantec Backup Exec, vRanger Pro, Veeam tools

Applications

MS Office 2003/2007 and MS Visio, Ethereal, Solar Winds, Wireshark, HP Open View, Nagios, Terraform, Kubernetes, Velostrata

Cloud

AWS, GCP, Nutanix Cloud

Third party VMware Applications

Platespin Power Convert, Vizon Core, vFoglight, Platespin, Power Recon

EXPERIENCE

Jun ‘20 – Current AWS Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services, Durham, NC

Work with state and local government to migrate there on premise to AWS cloud. Architect solution and help the customer modernize their application & Infrastructure. Assist customer on their cloud journey and be the technical expert to help them migrate

Designed and maintained AWS infrastructure highly available, scalable, secured, monitored and alerting network infrastructure

Configured AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) Group and users for improved login authentication

Launched and configured Amazon EC2 (AWS) Cloud Servers using AMI's (Linux/Ubuntu) and configured the servers for specified applications

Worked on AWS cloud to provision new instances, S3 storage services, AWS EC2, CloudWatch services and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline management

Designed big Data solution using Redshift, EMR etc.

Worked with ETL tools like AWS Glue, Talend and Informatica to extract data.

Performed Continuous Delivery in a Microservices infrastructure with Amazon cloud, Docker and Kubernetes

Built EKS cluster and managed configuration using Kubernetes

Used Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins to build and test the applications and worked with Jira to track issues

Used Terraform to automate and deploy Infrastructure as a code

Worked with customer using multi cloud environment and deployed VM’s using Velostrata in GCP

Responsible for troubleshooting software problems, taking appropriate corrective action and/or interacting with IT staff or vendors in performing medium-complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions

Provided end-user support and participated in software installation, provided application maintenance and support and developed/maintained operating procedures

Made presentations to keep DevOps and other teams updated on changes to architecture and infrastructure standards and tooling

Communicated with clients regarding maintenance, incidents, and projects

Environment: EC2, VPC, ELB, Route53, IAM, EBS, AMI, RDS, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, EKS, Azure, Container, Kubernetes, Talend, Informatica, Jira, Jenkins, Athena, EMR, Redshift, AWS Glue, AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS Services, Cognito, VMware, Linux, Windows

Dec ‘16 – May ‘20 Lead Cloud/System Engineer, Nutanix, Durham, NC

In this project we used AWS services to create and run an entire Nutanix environment. Nutanix is a startup which does not want to invest in data centers to build their infrastructure and decided to go with the cloud native approach. The scope of the project was to create the entire infrastructure in the cloud.

Worked on several POC projects on Google Cloud Platform

Designed AWS Cloud Formation Templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnets, Internet Gateway, and NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web Applications

Used Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as IAM, EC2, EBS, ELB, RDS, S3, Route 53, Gateways, VPCs, Direct Connect, CloudWatch, Lambda, API gateway etc.

Created several users, roles and groups in IAM

Implemented AWS Code Pipeline and Created Cloud formation JSON templates in Terraform for infrastructure as code

Wrote various scripts using Python, Shell, Terraform, Velostrata for various deployment strategy

Implemented big data solution using Redshift, EMR, Athena along with integration with ETL tools like Glue, Informatica and Talend

Created jobs for builds and deployments in Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, HashiCorp

Used Docker Container to package the applications and deployed them to WebSphere application server

Performed CI/CD deployment using GitHub, Bitbucket etc. and created a highly available Web application

Deployed Kubernetes clusters, configured and managed using EKS console and AWS CLI

Acted as a Project Manager to manage the overall delivery of migration between business and technology

Environment: Nutanix, VMware, Cisco, Windows, Linux, KVM, AWS, Azure, Veeam, HYCU, Python, Shell, Terraform, Informatica, Talend, Redshift, EMR, Athena, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Formation, Code Commit, Shell scripts

May ‘14 – Apr ’15 Lead VMware Solution Architect, Dell EMC, Durham, NC

Worked with different groups within the company to create next generation of converged infrastructure. Worked with Project Management to gather requirements, worked with other engineer to Architect and design MVP and worked with QA for testing the product in the defined timelines.

Performed product design and engineering of VBlock, VxRack etc.

Built converged infrastructure & support customers as needed

Provided Converged and Hyper Converged design and development infrastructure for SDDC

Implemented automation using VMware vRA

Configured Compute, Storage and Networking - all three pillars of Converged infrastructure

Implemented performance tuning and IO Measurement matrix improvement

Worked with vSphere 6.0, Virtual Distributed Switching, VMware VSAN, ScaleIO etc.

Engineered Next Gen Hyper Converged Solutions

Worked with Cisco USCS Server, Cisco Networking Switches, EMC storage etc.

Interacted with customers to create a hybrid cloud with AWS, Azure and on Prem solution

Documented Logical build guide (LBG) for MFG to produce the product for sale

Documented product support documents for Support team and upgraded documents for system upgrade

Created Architecture document, MVP (Minimal Viable Product) document

Performed RCM upgrades and Validation of Upgrade processes

Worked with different hardware manufacturers for compute stack

Designed datacenter and next generation of Cloud enabled products

Followed Agile methodology/Scrum

Acted as a project manager, ensuring the timely delivery of projects

Attended interlock meeting, product design and discussion meetings

Established Continuous Delivery in a Microservices infrastructure with Amazon Cloud, Docker and Kubernetes

Performed, built and maintained Docker infrastructure for Service oriented architecture (SOA) applications

Used Jenkins to build and test the applications and used Jira to track issues.

Environment: VMware, Cisco, EMC, vBlock, VxRack, Docker, VSAN, Kubernetes, Nutanix, ScaleIO, VNX, VNXe, Dell, HP, IBM, UCS, vCSA, RCM, Jira, Agile, vRA, vRO, SDN, SDS

Jan ‘12 – Dec ’14 Senior System Analyst, Goldman Sachs, Salt Lake City, Utah

Worked in production supported and assisted with any day to day operations and issue resolution. Worked with global team to follow the Sun model and worked within different shift to resolve issues.

Environment: VMware, Citrix, Windows, Linux, Cisco Nexus, Exchange, Cisco MDS

Jan ‘11 – Dec ’11 VMware View & Citrix Lead, KeyBank, Cleveland, OH

KeyBank was looking at deploying VDI’s in their banking environment with VMware as backend and Citrix as the front end. Worked with customer team to architect a solution and deploy more than 700 VDI users along with documentation and training the team.

Environment: VMware, Citrix, Windows, MS Office

Jul ‘10 – Dec ’10 Wintel VMware SME, Hewlett Packard, Basking Ridge, NJ

Worked with different customers in performing P2V migration of their physical Server to Virtual Machines. Worked on multiple projects to perform P2V migration

Environment: VMware, Citrix, Windows, Linux

Sep ‘08 – May ’10 Graduate Assistant (Lab Technician), NYIT, New York City, NYC

Managed student lab with around 50 Desktops and ensured that any student technical issues were resolved.

Environment: Windows 7, MacAfee, Windows Defender, Cisco Switch.

Jul ‘05 – Aug ’07 Network Administrator, GTL Limited, Pune, India

Managed day to day activity of network configuration and configured switches.

Environment: Windows, Linux, Cisco

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