Idrees Darwaish
Sacramento, CA
adhtcl@r.postjobfree.com
Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Senior AWS DevOps/ Solution Architect Engineer
VICE Group Of Companies - Kabul, AF
March 2018 to Present
• Design, implement, monitor and maintain AWS environment leveraging products such as EC2, RDS, ElastiCache
• Provisioning and maintenance of Linux servers in production and development environments
• Contributed in migration of customer's on premise infrastructure to AWS
• Application of auto and manual scaling in AWS
• Maintaining and leveraging Configuration/Systems Management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Puppet, AWS Management Tools
• High Availability concepts, monitoring, data backup and disaster recovery
• Follow and maintain security best practices and compliance with PCI by implementing concepts such as VPC, IAM, WAF, centralized logging, patch management, controls and processes
• Perform SQL backup and recovery, specifically MySQL RDS
• Collaborate with team to support the development process by employing tools and methodologies such as Jenkins, Git, AWS CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and Unit testing
• Frequent use of scripting languages such as Python and to automate the process DevOps Engineer
Vice Group Of Companies - Kabul, AFG
January 2017 to January 2018
JANUARY 2017 - JANUARY 2018
● Develop tools and processes to improve customer experience
● In accordance with the requirements, Systems Management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Puppet, AWS Management Tools, were utilized to meet the ends.
● Make use of scripting languages such as Python and Bash to automate the processes
● Educate customers and on the best practices in terms of redundant, self-healing architectures and application deployment workflow
● Deploy, manage, and maintain applications and systems deployed to AWS
● Proactively look for ways to enhance the functionality, reliability, operation of the pipeline
● Contributes to open source tools that assist in configuration management, deployment and operation of high availability, high-performance application
● Supports multiple customers and internal teams on an as-needed basis
● Collaborates with other teams on tools for systems automation
● As Senior Devops Engineer, Performed as SysAdmin and Software Developer; when environment and work required Linux so.
Linux System Administrator
United Nations - Bishkek, KG
2011 to 2011
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Linux SysAdmin
FEBRUAR 2011 - JULY 2024
● Experience provisioning Linux operating systems required
● Experience with backup/recovery design, DR implementation, monitoring implementation, performance tuning and optimization
● Experience with supporting platform running enterprise Oracle Databases and Middleware Applications
● Strong networking concepts VLANs, Routing, Firewalls, Subnets
● Strong command of Server Operating Systems, general applications and troubleshooting
● Working experience in administrating Linux based servers
● Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking and Internet protocols
● Develop, Maintain, update various scripts for services (start, stop, restart, recycle, corn jobs) UNIX based bash
● Configured and maintained NIS, NFS servers on Linux.
● Setting up an Oracle server in the Linux
Linux System Administrator
Roshan Telecommunication Company - Kabul, AF
May 2004 to May 2007
Plan and respond to service outages; to include supporting system failover to alternate site
● Implement and ensure security preventive measures are fully functioning
● Monitor and enhance system performance
● Responsible for supporting Linux servers for production, development and testing.
● User Account Management, Group Account Management, configuring terminals, adding modems, formatting and partitioning disks, manipulating swap, local and remote printer management, taking and restoring backup, scheduling jobs.
● Performance tuning and preventive maintenance. Performed daily backup.
● Resolving TCP/IP network access problems for the clients..
● Performed administrative tasks such as system startup/shutdown, backups, Printing, Documentation, User Management, Security, Network management, configuration of dumb terminals.
● Troubleshooting backup and restore problems and performed day-to-day trouble shooting for the end users on Linux based servers.
AWS
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University Of Missouri Saint Louis - St. Louis, MO 2019 to 2021
Bachelor's degree in Political Science
American University Of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Bard College, New York, USA August 2011 to June 2015
Skills
• Python
• HTML
• CSS
• Node.js
• React.js
• Docker
• Selenium
• TestNG
• Jenkins
• Maven
• Ansible
• Chief
• bash scripting
• AWS
• CI/CD
• DNS
• Linux
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• TCP/IP
• Operating Systems
• SQL
• User Interface (UI)
• MongoDB
• REST
• Apache
• Test Cases
• Software Development
• Agile
Languages
• English - Expert
• Russian - Fluent
• Dari - Fluent
• Hindi - Intermediate