FIRDAVS TURSUNOV

CLOUD ENGINEER

Fairfax, VA, ***31 · 703-***-****

adlh3b@r.postjobfree.com · linkedin.com/in/firdavst · Highly motivated and 3X AWS Certified Cloud Engineer. Well-versed in AWS and Cloud based technologies. Built and configured Highly Available and Scalable environments in AWS. Experienced in many AWS critical services used to run Cloud Based Applications. Created and configured serverless applications using Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB. SKILLS

• Cloud: AWS

• Container Runtime: Docker

• Infrastructure as a Code: Terraform (with

Terragrunt), Packer

• Configuration Management: Ansible

• Compute: EC2, ECS, Auto Scaling Groups

• Storage: S3 (Object Based Storage), EBS

(Block Based Storage), Elastic File System

(EFS)

• CI/CD & SCM: Git, AWS Code Services -

CodeCommit, CodePipeline, CodeBuild,

CodeDeploy, Elastic Beanstalk, GitLab

• Registry: Elastic Container Registry, Docker

Hub

• Networking: Elastic Load Balancer,

CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, NACLs, Route

Tables, Internet Gateways, Security Groups,

NAT Gateway, VPC Endpoints, LAN, WAN,

TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, ENI, VPN

• Serverless: API Gateway, Lambda

(Serverless), Fargate, DynamoDB

• Security: Identity Access Management

(IAM Users, Groups, Roles, policies.), Key

Management Service (KMS), Active

Directory, Amazon Certificate Manager,

SSL/TLS

• Auditing: CloudTrail

• Monitoring/Logging: AWS X-Ray,

CloudWatch Events, CloudWatch Rules,

CloudWatch Logs

• Operating Systems: Linux - CentOS,

RHEL & Amazon Linux, Windows,

Windows Server

• Programming Languages/Scripting:

PHP, Python, MySQL, HTML, CSS. AWS-

CLI. Other: YAML, JSON, XML

• Databases: RDS - Aurora & MySQL,

DynamoDB, MariaDB on EC2 (installation

and configuration)

EXPERIENCE

01. 2019 – PRESENT

CLOUD ENGINEER, FASHION OPTIK LLC, MANASSAS, VA

- Launching an EC2 Instance running Linux; configuring User Data, connecting to the instance via SSH

- Creating and managing IAM users and groups for AWS Access

- Creating IAM roles for AWS services to interact with each other as well as for integrations

- Creating alarms, rules, and events for EC2 instances on AWS CloudWatch as well as configuring SNS notifications

2

- Deploying and configuring VPC, public and private subnets, security groups, route tables, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways and VPC Endpoints.

- Configuring private & public IP addresses of the EC2 instances; creating and attaching Elastic IP address to EC2 instances

- Launching Apache server and phpMyAdmin on EC2 instance (with MySQL); installing WordPress CMS on the instance

- Backing up EC2 instances and launching identical instances through EBS snapshots and AMI’s

- Creating and attaching ENI’s (Elastic Network Interface) to EC2 instances

- Launching and configuring Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) and Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) to make highly available and scalable environments

- Creating and attaching EBS and EFS type storages to EC2 instances

- Encrypting and backing up EBS storages, migrating EBS from one AZ or region to another

- Creating and configuring RDS instances; launching serverless RDS services like AWS Aurora

- Creating read replicas of RDS for high availability and configuring Multi AZ option for Disaster Recovery

- Managing domain names via AWS Route 53, configuring hostnames

- Load balancing and heath checking EC2 instances through Route 53, setting routing policies

- Deploying applications on EC2 instances and managing infrastructure through Elastic Beanstalk service

- Creating buckets on AWS S3 storage service, and configuring bucket policy for secure data access; hosting static web sites on S3 buckets

- Configuring Amazon Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive services to archive infrequently accessed data

- Launching basic VPN and EC2 instances through AWS CLI

- Launching and configuring Lambda Functions and creating DynamoDB tables (serverless)

- Configuring and connecting API Gateway, Lambda service and DynamoDB to each other

- Writing Python functions in Lambda to update the DynamoDB table

- Getting Docker images from Docker Hub, launching, and configuring docker containers, running docker containers on EC2 servers and on Fargate (serverless)

- Pushing & Pulling Docker images on Amazon Elastic Container Repository (ECR)

- Storing and versioning source code on AWS CodeCommit Git repositories.

- Designing and deploying AWS Infrastructure needed to run web-based applications 08. 2017 - 06. 2019

MASTER’S DEGREE

- Studied Master’s Degree in Information Technology in IGlobal University at Vienna, Virginia 09. 2015 - 07. 2017

FREELANCE SOFTWARE ENGINEER

- Managed, developed and configured Joomla & WordPress CMS based websites

- Installed and configured MySQL for CMS based websites

- Created, updated and monitored databases and tables in MySQL

- Upgraded and updated legacy version of Joomla & WordPress CMS based websites

- Installed and customized modules, components and plug-ins to dynamic websites developed in PHP

- Fixed and restored exploited, hacked and breached websites of the clients

- Troubleshooted backend and frontend errors of the websites 3

11. 2010 - 08. 2015

SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR, ROYAL TRADING, KHUJAND, TAJIKISTAN

- Maintained the company’s WordPress based website; updated content and CMS core plug-ins

- Installed and configured licensed applications

- Updated PC hard drives to SSD’s, analyzed the problems of underperforming hardware

- Created advanced excel formulas to import live data and make calculations on it

- Disassembled and assembled laptops and Desktops

- Installed and configured Windows Operating System

- Managed, created, and changed user, group and file permissions

- Created local wired/wireless networks and established resource sharing 08. 2007 - 09. 2010

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR, SHELALE EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION, DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN

- Monitored, filtered, and distributed internet connection to the local network - wired and wireless connections

- Controlled and administrated all computers via Active Directory with restricted permissions for school users

- Developed a web-based attendance program for monitoring and reporting attendance of the students using PHP and MySQL

- Managed, installed, and configured Windows Operating Systems on local workstations

- Administrated the school network and computer hardware

- Installed and configured Windows Server

- Troubleshooted hardware and software problems of the Windows Workstations EDUCATION

2017 - 2019

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, IGLOBAL UNIVERSITY, VIENNA, VA

2002 - 2007

BACHELORS DEGREE IN COMPUTER EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES, MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, ANKARA, TURKEY

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS Certified Developer Associate

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate

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