Mathew Job

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Professional Summary

●AWS Engineer with 8 plus years combined experience in AWS, Cloud, and IT.

●Expertise in AWS, DevOps Automation tools, and software design processes..

●Outstanding communication skills.

●Dedicated to maintaining up-to-date IT skills.

●Skilled in database systems and administration.

●Proficient writing technical reports and documentation.

●Adept with various distributions of Virtualization, Cloud, and Linux.

●Expert in Performance Optimization.

●Good on implementation of Jenkins as Continuous Integration Tools.

●Strong hands-on development and configuration experience using software provisioning tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Docker.

●Experience with Terraform for automating AWS services: EC2, VPC, other creations.

●Skilled and experienced with Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, Centos, Amazon Linux servers.

●Experience with automated deployment, configuration, and management of CI/CD pipeline.

●Created Infrastructures in a Coded manner (Infrastructure-as-Code) using Terraform.

●Proficient with container systems like Docker and container orchestration like EC2 Container Service, Kubernetes, worked with Terraform.

●Managed Docker orchestration and Docker containerization using Kubernetes.

●Resourceful Cloud Engineer, experienced in evaluating and assessing client requirements and implementing infrastructure to solve identified problems.

●Harnessed code and cloud-native technologies to create scalable and user-centric systems. Strong negotiator with excellent value-driven solutions.

Skills

Cloud/Compute Engines

●AWS, Azure, GCP, VM Ware, EC2, VPC, Lambda, Fargate

Operating Systems

●Unix/Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RedHat), Windows 10, Windows Serve

Programming Languages

●Python, Java, Perl, C, C++, SQL

Scripting

●Bash, Python, Perl, YAML, XML, FTP, Fargate

Data Visualization & Monitoring

●CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Tableau, PowerBI, Nagios, Athena

Software

●Microsoft Project, VMWare, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point

DevOps

●Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Maven, Subversion, GIT Build, CI/CD, EKS, ECS, ECR, DevOps Pipeline

Soft Skills

●Teamwork, Organization and Time management, Multitasking abilities, Self-motivated professional, Adaptability, Cultural awareness, Critical thinking, Conflict resolution

Work History

AWS Engineer, 05/2022 – Present

Capital Group, Dallas, TX

Project Synopsis: Migrated application services from Openshift to AWS 3 services and 9 batch jobs. Migrated code base from Bitbucket to Github. Validated and tested code. Used S3 for storage and Postgres DB Created ECR and ECS components Setup CICD pipelines using AWS Codebuild and Codedeploy for all services and batch jobs Create SSM Params to replace OCP secrets Use CDK to build out pipelines

App Description: Application is an Investment Results Analyzer tool which allows for searching funds and showing comparable American funds and it has services within deployed in Openshift that I helped Migrate to AWS. 3 Services and 9 batch jobs we moved from OCP to AWS

Technologies:

Setting up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 buckets and configuring instance backups to S3 buckets

Create and configure ECR and ECS components

Docker

Successfully migrated containerized environment from ECS containers to Fargate

Performed DevOps tasks such as automating, building, deploying, managing, and releasing code from one environment to another environment

Using CDK to deploy AWS infrastructure

Coordinating pushing the code to GitHub and automating the process of release by pushing all the code to GitHub

Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/Git Repositories, views, and the access control strategies

AWS CICD and AWS SSM

Responsibilities:

Analyzed and Designing an Architectural Diagram for different applications before migrating into Amazon cloud for flexible, cost-effective, reliable, scalable, high-performance, and secured solution

Performed application and data migration from on premise OpenShift platform into AWS

Setting up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 buckets and configuring instance backups to S3 buckets

Create and configure ECR and ECS components

Monitoring AWS infrastructure 24/7 with AWS CloudWatch and open-source monitoring tools

Creating alerts for getting monitoring alerts from CloudWatch and other application services

Successfully migrated containerized environment from ECS containers to Fargate

Developed and containerized high availability and resiliency applications using AWS Services

Performed DevOps tasks such as automating, building, deploying, managing, and releasing code from one environment to another environment

Automating the deployment of applications inside software containers and configuring Docker containers for branching purposes

Using CDK to deploy AWS infrastructure

Coordinating pushing the code to GitHub and automating the process of release by pushing all the code to GitHub

Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/Git Repositories, views, and the access control strategies

Installing, configuring, and administering Linux (Redhat/SUSE, Centos)

Identified gaps in the market to spot opportunities to create value propositions

Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address customer specific requirements.

AWS Cloud Engineer, 11/2019 – 04/2022

Fiserv, Inc. – Brookfield, Wisconsin

Is an American multinational Fortune 500 company headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin that provides financial technology and financial services. The company's clients include banks, thrifts, credit unions, securities broker dealers, leasing and finance companies, and retailers.

Responsibilities

●Developing and performing the automation deployments using AWS by creating the IAM, EC2, VPC, S3 and CloudWatch.

●Setting up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 buckets and configuring instance backups to S3 buckets.

●Maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route53, SES and SNS services in AWS cloud.

●AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport.

●Designing an Architectural Diagram for different applications before migrating into Amazon cloud for flexible, cost-effective, reliable, scalable, high-performance and secured solution.

●Monitoring AWS infrastructure 24/7 with AWS CloudWatch and open-source monitoring tools.

●Creating alerts for getting monitoring alerts from CloudWatch and other application services.

●Writing bash and Python Script for infrastructure automation and monitoring.

●Automating the deployment of applications inside software containers and configuring Docker containers for branching purposes.

●Using Terraform to deploy AWS infrastructure.

●Managing Terraform state files with AWS S3 backend.

●Deploying infrastructure on dev, pre-prod and prod environments with Terraform.

●Using Git for source code version control and integrating with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline, code quality tracking and user management with build tools Maven.

●Defining dependencies and plugins in Maven POM.XML for various activities and integrating Maven with GIT to manage and deploy project-related tags.

●Coordinating pushing the code to GitHub and automating the process of release by pushing all the code to GitHub.

●Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/Git Repositories, views, and the access control strategies.

●Experience modeling data in and deciding application paradigms using PostgreSQL and NoSQL.

●Installing, configuring, and administering Linux (Redhat/SUSE, Centos).

●Configuring network services such as NFS/NIS/NTP for UNIX/Linux Servers..

●Identified gaps in the market to spot opportunities to create value propositions.

●Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address customer specific requirements.

●Setup and manage DevOps tools and web/application servers.

●Ensured availability and backup procedures met service levels (minimum 99.5%).

●Managed databases through ongoing administration and maintenance procedures.

●Communicated with the Engineering team to successfully deploy new production releases and configure as required.

●Monitored and tested applications performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and collaborate with developers on solution implementations.

●Reviewed existing systems and made recommendations for improvements.

AWS DevOps Engineer, 07/2017 to 10/2019

Nordstrom – Seattle, Washington

Nordstrom is a luxury department store chain operating as a full-line retailer with departments for clothing, footwear, handbags, jewelry, accessories, cosmetics, and fragrances, with some stores featuring home furnishings, wedding departments, in-house cafes, restaurants, and espresso bars.

Responsibilities

●Analyzed legacy On-Prem applications and worked on design strategy and final migration to AWS Cloud.

●Designed and built scalable production systems (load balancers, Memcached, master/slave architectures).

●Part of a team that created a VPC environment that included server instances, storage instances, subnets, availability zones, etc.

●Set up alert monitoring for performance and security using tools like CloudWatch and CloudTrail.

●Performed DevOps Engineer tasks such as automating, building, deploying, managing, and releasing code from one environment to another environment.

●Used provisioning and spinning up AWS EC2 Instances and ECS Clusters.

●Maintained continuous integration and continuous delivery.

●Installed, configured, and managed GitHub repo.

●Created Docker containers to leverage existing Linux Containers and AMIs in addition to creating Docker containers from scratch.

●Educated customers about containerization solutions as part of the AWS Containers Area of Depth Technical Feedback Community.

●Wrote Cloud Formation Templates (CFT) in YAML and JSON formats to build the AWS services with the paradigm of Infrastructure-as-Code.

●Deployed applications onto their respective environments using Elastic Beanstalk.

●Experienced with event-driven and scheduled AWS Lambda functions to trigger various AWS resources.

●Performed data migration from on premises environments into AWS.

●Helped in solving application problems using services like Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF).

●Configured network setting using Route53, DNS, ELB and IP Address and Cider configurations.

●Designed technically compliant and secure cloud solutions, as well as value-based, on-demand services to facilitate the effective transition and migration of projects and programs into unique and adaptive cloud environments.

●Deployed and debugged cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle.

●Developed high availability and resiliency applications using AWS Services such as Multi AZ, Read replicas, ECS, etc.

●Configured, deployed, and managed Docker containers using Kubernetes.

●Experience working on Version Control Management Tools such as Git and GitHub.

●Configured different plugins on Jenkins to integrate with GitHub and Bit and scheduled multiple jobs in the build pipeline.

●Performed troubleshooting and resolved issues within the Kubernetes cluster.

●Set up and support databases (e.g., RDS, databases on EC2) in the cloud.

●Provided other storage solutions such as S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier, etc.

●Strong knowledge with Web Services, API Gateways and application integration development and design Successfully migrated containerized environment from ECS to Kubernetes EKS Cluster.

Cloud Engineer, 10/2015 to 06/2017

Micron Technology, Inc. – Boise, ID

American producer of computer memory and computer data storage including dynamic random-access memory, flash memory, and USB flash drives.

Responsibilities

●Launched AWS EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu/RHEL) and configured the launched instances with respect to specific applications. Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) for mission-critical production servers for backup.

●Involved in Implementation of various AWS cloud Applications & deployments using Amazon EC2, S3, RDS (MySQL), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Auto scaling, CloudFront, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Watch, Red shift, Identity Access Management (IAM), Implementing Virtual cloud platforms using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Formations, LAMDA.

●Experience in different migration services like AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) to migrate on-premises workloads to AWS in easier and faster way using Rehost “Lift and Shift” methodology and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), AWS Snowball to transfer large amounts of data and Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration.

●Configured and maintained the AWS Lambda function to trigger when there is a Jenkins build kicked off, which internally gets stored on AWS S3 bucket for everybody to access. Created Route53 to route traffic between different regions. Worked with Security groups & Network ACLs.

●Automated AWS infrastructure through infrastructure as code by writing various Terraform modules, null resource scripts to create AWS IAM users, groups, roles, policies, custom policies, AWS Glue, Crawlers, Redshift clusters, snapshots of clusters, EC2, S3 buckets, application deployments.

●Provisioned the highly available EC2 instances using Terraform and CloudFormation templates, wrote new plugins to support new functionality in Terraform and involved in using terraform migrate legacy and monolithic systems to Amazon Web Services.

●Set up Jenkins server and build jobs to provide Continuous Automated builds based on Polling the Git source control system during the day and periodic scheduled builds overnight to support development needs using Jenkins, Git, and Maven

●Monitored servers and network using supplied tools to ensure security and efficiency of IT infrastructure, including system performance and troubleshooting issues and alerts.

●Maintained smooth operation of multi-user computer systems through collaboration with hardware and network engineers.

●Developed and integrated tools and provided operational support to development, test, and production platforms.

●Assessed servers, databases, storage, and associated enterprise applications and provided evaluations about strengths and weaknesses of existing hardware, software, communications and IT operations.

●Submitted recommendations for hardware and software upgrades, as well as IT communications infrastructure upgrades.

●Modified and/or replaced existing servers, databases, storage, and associated enterprise applications.

IT Systems Administrator, 03/2014 to 09/2015

A-Max Auto Insurance – Dallas, Texas

A-MAX Auto Insurance is an industry leader that specializes in providing low-cost insurance to thousands of Texas residents and businesses. At A-MAX, they are dedicated to exceeding expectations by continuing to set forth our commitment of providing excellent service, affordable rates, and convenient locations.

Responsibilities

●I worked as a Systems Admin and provided in-depth support for resolving and troubleshooting advanced system issues.

●Worked in an Agile environment with scrums and regularly scheduled meetings.

●Design and deploy host computers and monitoring system performance.

●Plan and configure computing systems of hardware and software.

●Performed troubleshooting/bug fixing and provided production support.

●Managed infrastructure upgrades, analysis and resolution of end user hardware and software issues.

●Facilitated IT enterprise architecture across organization's enterprise transformation programs.

●Engineered, managed and installed PBX system with ACD and reporting capabilities for client call center.

●Conformed to quality, performance and interoperability standards for implementation of solutions.

●Managed IT staff monitoring and diagnosing server and data center problems and design and implementation of new data center technologies.

●Worked closely with infrastructure staff and departmental decision makers to identify, recommend, develop and implement cost-effective technology solutions.

●Controlled development of test areas, systems test data and testing methods prior to implementing new systems.

Education

MSU-TX –Bachelor of Business Admin: Management of Information Systems

Associate of Science

Dallas College - Dallas, TX

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