Aws Security

SYED ALI

Phone: +1-647-***-****, Email: adixtw@r.postjobfree.com, Status: Citizen, City: Toronto

Canada, LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/syed-ali-5a442b4b/ Cloud (AWS & Azure) certified professional having more than 10 years of professional experience of gathering business requirements, cost assessment and savings, designing and managing IT services and Data-Centre operations across multiple platforms (AWS, Azure, Windows, Linux, VMware, Citrix, MobileIron iOS MDM, and BlackBerry Infrastructure). Three years of experience leading support teams. Proven ability of technical communication with business clients and vendors. Well versed with ITILv3 and Agile (Kanban/Scrum) best practices. Experienced in collaborating and working with distributed teams in IT Projects IT Skills

Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Architecture Design (AZ-301), TOGAF 9.2, PMI-ACP, CGEIT (In progress) AWS: EC2, S3, AutoScaling, Route53, VPC, RDS, IAM, Cloudfront, DLM, Cloudwatch, Fargate, WAF, SSM, Cloudtrail, Directory Services, Workspaces, Workdocs, Lambda, Guardduty, KMS, EBS, Inspector, Config, Organization, Codecommit, Codedeploy, ELB, Cloudformation, Trusted Advisor, ECS, Fargate, AWS CLI Azure: Subscription, Resource Group, Resource Manager Template, VM, Storage Account, RBAC, App Service, SQL DB, Security Centre, Azure Monitor, Load Balancer, Audit Log, AKS, ACS, Azure Networking, Site2Site VPN, Seuritygroups, Billing, Azure CLI Other Skills: MS SQL 08/12/16, MySQL, MongoDB, EMC VNX 5200, Netapp FAS 8200, Redhat 6/7, Centos, Windows Server 2008/12/16/19, MobileIron MDM, BES, VMWare 5.5/6, Citrix Xenapp 6.5, NetScaler ADC, MuleSoft, Cisco 2900/3200 router/switch, F5, A10, ASA 5500, Active Directory, Office365, Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant, SunFire, IIS 7/8, Apache/Tomcat, Nginx, Orion, Nagios, Newrelic, Cacti, Prometheus, Splunk, Wireshark, NMAP, IOmeter, JMeter, OpenSSL, Duo MFA, Moveit Central, Remedy, ServiceNow, Jira/Confluence, Terraform, Docker, Ansible, Git, Cloudcheckr, Flexera, RFP/RFQ, PCI- DSS, ISO 27001

Education

MS Communication Systems Engineering (Sept 2010 to Sept 2013) BS Computer Systems Engineering (Sept 2006 to Sept 2010) Publication

Cell Edge Detection Based Interference Avoidance Scheme for Closed Mode 4G Femtocells IEEE Paper published in the proceedings of 12th Wireless and Telecom Symposium, Phoenix USA, 2013

Experience

Team Lead - AWS Support at Softchoice, Canada (June 2020-Dec 2020)

Gathered business requirements from customers for applications migration/setup on AWS

Led a small AWS support team, assigned change requests and tasks to the team, had bi- weekly one-on-one meetings, scheduled on-call duties, and checked the ticket quality

Participated in weekly CAB meetings and customer Ops calls to keep the customers updated on current projects

Worked with customers on initiatives like tagging, billing, cost reduction, security and vulnerability assessments

Ensured that the customer environments are highly secured, highly available, data redundant, DR ready, and cost controlled

Worked with project and sales teams to on-board the customer successfully

Setup multi-account setups using AWS Control Tower for setting up Governance

Assisted AWS migrations using SMS/DMS/snowball/volume gateway/cloudendure

Worked to continuously improve the work quality by getting customer feedback Team Lead - Systems Integrator at Mackenzie Investments, Canada (July 2018-May 2020)

Designing and implementing highly available, secure, redundant, and cost-effective AWS cloud solutions for the Business teams using AWS services like EC2, ELB, WAF, VPC, IAM, S3, Directory Services, VPN, Workspaces, DLM, KMS, SSM patch management, Inspector, Guardduty, WAF, Shield, Macie, and Trusted Advisor

Gathering business requirements for applications migration/setup on AWS

Acted as a trusted advisor for AWS cost savings. Helped a business team to save 30% of cost

Led a team of five SI’s. Assigned Project and BAU jira items, had bi-weekly one-on-one meetings to assess their performance, and worked on performance appraisals

Securing the Cloud application infrastructure by following best security practices using IAM policies, S3 policies, AWS Organizations, VPN, NACL, EC2/ELB Securitygroups,WAF, Shield, Inspector, config, cloudtrail, cloudwatch rules, Inspector, SNS, Guardduty, data encryption in transit and at rest

Monitoring Security alerts from Cloudwatch and working on resolving those issues

Integrating on-premise IBM ISAM with AWS console using SAML Idp

Working with internal auditors to provide the required compliance/security evidences

Integrating vendor data feeds with business systems for trading data analysis, transformations and reconciliation using Moveit Central/DMZ

Organizing requirement gathering meetings with business teams to analyze their business needs

Designing new Bloomberg transforms based on the business trading requirements

Involved in planning and implementing on-premise applications/DB (Bloomberg, Factset, Tableau, Datamart, Axioma) upgrade projects

Organizing weekly CAB meetings for discussing upcoming changes and the risk/impact analysis

Following/Implementing the Agile Kanban approach to limit the work in progress items and to improve service delivery

Working with data vendors for critical production support issues

Liaising between business and IT teams to provide timely communication/updates on any upcoming changes, upgrades, and on application impacts

Creating application design/support KB articles on Atlassian Confluence

Monitoring business-critical applications and providing weekly on-call support

Participating on semi-annual Disaster Recovery Drills for the critical applications

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