Engineer Aws

Faraz Bin Younus

Flat # *** Danube Building, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai

Mobile: +971********* Email: *******@*****.***

Professional Summary

Highly skilled Linux System Engineer has exceptional development ability and extensive knowledge of programming in Bash. Has excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and a strong ability to work with minimal supervision. Has a Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunication Engineering and three years of experience working as a system engineer

Core Qualifications

●AWS Architecture design and administration

●Deployment of AWS EC2,SNS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront, Route53, SQS, Cloud Watch, AWS CLI & many other services.

●Configuration management through Ansible.

●Microsoft Azure Architecture Designing and Administration

●Proficient with Bash scripting and task based Power-shell scripting

●Deep knowledge of MySQL/PGSQL and Intermediate knowledge of MS SQL

●Infrastructure provisioning through Terraform.

●Proficient with security prevention and identifying vulnerabilities

●Experienced with building deploying, troubleshooting and optimizing web services like Nginx, Apache and IIS

Experience

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 13/10/2019 – Present

DT-One Dubai, U.A.E

●Configuration Management through ansible for 200+ servers in inventory.

●Managing Site to Site VPNs on EC2 Cisco Router to have secure connectivity between Telcos

●Managing infrastructure using terraform with git repository.

●Setting & Maintaining FreeIPA for centralized users management.

●Managing Hybrid infrastructure AWS + Equinix in Singapore using Direct Connect.

●Vulnerability scanning through Tenable for all EC2 instances and apply suggested fix.

●Enabled AWS Backup services to backup RDS and EC2

●Setting up and manage ECS clusters through ansible & Terraform.

●Managing ELK and Grafana for monitoring AWS and application resources.

Sr. DevOps Engineer 02/01/2018 – 20/09/2019

TCS-ECOM Karachi, Pakistan

●AWS invoices, cost optimization and billing justification to upper management.

●Manage AWS EC2 resources for Magento StoreFront

●Setting up and troubleshoot Java based application server on Linux

●Managing RDS, S3, EFS, ELB, Redshift, CodeDeploy, SNS, CloudWatch & Autoscaling, on AWS

●Proxypass http/https request to java/tomcat applications.

●Queue-it and AWS SQS for queue mechanism

●AWS SES and Sendgrid 3rd party integration with Exim4 STMP server.

●Disaster Recovery planning and management.

●Maintain and secure AWS environment for public our interfacing applications.

●Prepare infrastructure for high traffic for the Magento storefront

●CI/CD setup for release management using Jenkins and Bitbucket Pipeline

●Dockers management for development environment.

●Basic automation task using Ansible using Adhoc and Play-books.

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer 06/06/2017 – 29/12/2017

NexDegree Private Limited. Karachi, Pakistan

●Setup and configure Windows Server 2008,2012 and 2016 with IIS & ASP.net on Azure

●Setup and configure Window Server 2008 & 2012 with Domain & Active Directory.

●Setup and configure RM, VM, Azure SQL databases, File system on Azure Cloud

●Setup and Configure Azure ScaleSet and SQL Failover .

●Successful deployments of Barracuda WAF on AWS & Azure

●Setup and configure EC2, RDS, S3, EFS, SES, ELB, CloudWatch & Autoscaling, on AWS.

●Patches deployment and automation using Ansible scritps.

●Setup Redshift automation for Data analytics by converting Mysql to Psql like AWS Pipeline.

●Docker container to run web applications.

●Migration from dedicated to Cloud infrastructure specifically for WebApps

●GitLab, Plesk, Directadmin, Cpanel and WHMCS installation

●Coordinate & Resolve Spam/Abuse issues raised by Datacenters

●Setup system which creates WordPress websites on one click

●Task assignment to system engineers and keep pushing them to complete before the deadline.

●Spiceworks ticketing system administration for our clients

●DDOS and SQL injection prevention for web and voip applications.

●Freeswitch installation and troubleshooting on Debian 8 jessie with root cause analysis for each reported audio issues.

Infrastructure/System Engineer 03/12/2013 - 05/06/2017

NexDegree Private Limited. Karachi, Pakistan

●Installation of LAMP, FTP, BIND, SMTP & POP3 servers.

●Manage and setup infrastructure using EC2, RDS, ELB & Autoscaling for web applications

●Manage WordPress, Drupal and MyBB CMS based web applications

●Websites Vulnerability testing and prevention

●Administration of Linux based OS like FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS.

●Worked as an integral part of the development team with setting up systems and maintenance of system

●Worked with the development team to create appropriate cloud solutions for client needs.

●Maintain the Freeswitch & Asterisk servers

●Mysql and PostgreSQL administration and Tuning

●MegaRAID and 3Ware raid troubleshooting

●Monitoring server performances on NAGIOS, CACTI and Zabbix (Open source NMS)

●Firewall like iptables, shorewall and ufw and open source IDS

Education

Bachelors of Engineering Degree - Telecommunication Engineering Dec 2012

Iqra University

Karachi, Pakistan

Certifications & Training

●MCITP (Server 2008 with Active Directory) & MCTS (SCVMM)

●VCA (Cloud & Workforce Mobility)

●CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker)

●Jenkins & Ansible (Udemy)

●SAP Hybris (Udemy)

Projects

●Migrated Appraisal Management Product based on ASP.NET to Azure cloud with Failover mechanism.(Value Link, US)

●Auto Websites deployments (Goto Live) configured for WordPress using bash script.(SniperMonkey, US)

●Migrated Yayvo.com from dedicated to cloud scalable infrastructure. (TCS, Pakistan)

●Maintain 45 Dell Power Edge servers for social webinar (conferencing) for Maestroconference. (Maestroconference, USA)

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