Huy Tran

AWS & Azure Cloud DevOps Engineer

Email: adyedh@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 678-***-****

Professional Summary

●Results oriented technologist with 8+ years of experience as a AWS & Azure Cloud and DevOps engineer with an additional background in Full-Stack Software Development.

●Experience with automations including IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager), CI/CD with Git Actions, Jenkins, and configuration management with Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.

●Planning and automation with amongst others Junit and SonarQube across Unit, Functional, Integration, System, Performance, and Security.

●Expert in working with AWS & Azure Cloud Services including EC2/VM, S3/Storage, Load Balancing, CloudWatch/Monitoring, CloudFormation/Azure Resource Manager, Route53/DNS, S3/Glacier/Storage, and Networking VPC/SG/NSG/Direct Connect and Express Route.

●RDS SQL and NoSQL databases Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DynamoDB and MongoDB, with a strong knowledge of the SQL language.

●Identity and Access Management (IAM), Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory (AAD), and AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory.

●Create scripts to automate administration and services using JavaScript, Bash, and Python.

●Systems administration in Linux, MacOS, and Windows on both client and server side.

●Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, and Nagios.

●Apply containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes along with EKS/AKS, ECR/ACR and DockerHub.

●Prepare Test Plans, Use Cases, Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Data.

●Hands-on version control application using Git and source code management client tools such as GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket.

●Proven skillful troubleshooting and debugging (including at the code level) issues that arise during building, deploying, and the production support working in collaboration with the development team as well as diligently documenting phases of the build and release process.

●Excellent academic credentials: education in Computer Science from Korea University and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Kentucky.

Technical Skills

Cloud: AWS, Azure, VMware

Programming Languages: JavaScript, Python, Bash, Java, Groovy

Markup: YAML, XML, JSON

DevOps: Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Git Actions

Monitoring: CloudWatch, ELK, Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Nagios

Databases: Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB

IAC: Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager

Work History

Sr. AWS & Azure DevOps engineer

Octane5

Atlanta, Georgia

04/2021 - Current

Octane5 is a team of licensing system and brand compliance experts delivering software & security products to leading global brands)

●Used Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and designed, developed, and maintained a highly available and scalable Cloud infrastructure, ensuring that the system is secure, efficient, and cost-effective.

●Operated and maintained AWS & Azure infrastructure including EC2/VME, Route53/DNS, S3/Glacier/Storage, Terraform, CloudFormation/Azure Resource Manager, CloudWatch/Monitor, and IAM/AAD focusing on high availability, fault tolerance and auto-scaling.

●Creating JavaScript, Bash and Python scripts to automate AWS and Azure services, which included web servers, Load Balancing (ELB), CloudFront/CDN distribution, and SQL and NoSQL database.

●Implemented containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

●Setting up automated testing, deployment, and monitoring pipelines to ensure that changes are delivered quickly and with minimal risk.

●Used critical AWS tools, ELBs and Auto-Scaling policies for scalability, elasticity, and availability.

●Collaborating with the development team to ensure that the system is designed to support continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) processes including using Jenkins and Ansible.

●Managed and coordinated Terraform State file for a large team.

●Enabled both automation and serverless computing with AWS Lambda functions and Azure Functions.

●Wrote Ansible playbooks and updated software using Ansible inventory.

●Configured ELK stack in conjunction with AWS and used Logstash to output data to AWS S3.

●Installed, set up, configured and supported CentOS, Ubuntu, and Windows environments.

Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer

Dish Wireless

Meridian Colorado, USA

03/2019 – 04/2021

DISH Network Corporation (DISH, an acronym for Digital Sky Highway) is an American television provider and the owner of the direct-broadcast satellite provider Dish, commonly known as Dish Network, and the over-the-top IPTV service, Sling TV

●Handled migration of on-premises applications to the cloud and created resources in the cloud to enable this. Use all critical AWS tools, ELBs, and Auto-Scaling policies for scalability, elasticity, and availability.

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

●Designed AWS CloudFormation templates and Terraform manifests to create custom sized VPC Subnets and NAT to ensure secure deployment of Web applications and database templates.

●Utilized Bash with AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS, and create nightly AMIs for mission-critical production servers as backups.

●Used Jenkins as a continuous integration (CI) tool to deploy Spring Boot Microservices to AWS Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) using build packs.

●Used CloudWatch logs to move application logs to S3 and create alarms based on a few exceptions raised by applications.

●Implemented Terraform modules for reusable and consistent deployment of various applications across multiple Cloud providers and managed infrastructure.

●Managed Git repository, code branching & merging, and production deployments with Jenkins for CI/CD. Used Maven as a build tool on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on source code.

●Applied CI/CD tools to implement Blue/Green deployment methodology for reducing downtime and risk in Production environments.

●Integrated SonarQube with Jenkins for continuous code quality inspection. Implemented functional tests using the JUnit and Cucumber frameworks.

●Used Hybrid cloud environment for application deployments using OpenStack cloud and work within cloud for Integration process.

●Used Kubernetes to deploy, scale, load balance, and manage Docker containers with multiple name-spaced versions. Created Dockerfiles and Docker images for both Elastic Container Register (ECR) and DockerHub.

●Managed Kubernetes using Helm Charts. Create reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, manage Kubernetes manifest files, and manage releases of Helm packages.

●Orchestrated Docker images and containers using Kubernetes by creating a control plane and worker nodes across dev, test, staging and production environments.

●Hands on assisting stakeholders with Splunk to design and maintain production-quality data, log analysis and alerts, and dashboards.

Sr. AWS Build & Release Engineer

WestRock

Sandy Springs, GA

01/2017 – 03/2019

WestRock is the 2nd largest American packaging company. It is one of the world's largest paper and packaging companies with US$ 21.3 billion in annual revenue and more than 50,000 team members in more than 300 locations in 30 countries around the world.

●Configured and maintained common Linux applications and services such as Apache, Active, DNS/BIND, SSH, NFS, DHCP, and SNMP.

●Implemented and configured Nagios for continuous monitoring of applications.

●Enabled notifications via emails and text messages.

●Configured Linux servers for clusters of Oracle Real Application and configured SAN-based Configured network, SAN, switches, and 3PAR OS virtualization.

●Configured Jenkins Pipeline to manage weekly and nightly builds.

●Developed a test environment that reduced integration issues and improved code quality.

●Implemented pipelines in Jenkins. Added multiple nodes to Jenkins and configured SSH for continuous deployments.

●Administered Linux servers for functions such as managing Apache/Tomcat server, mail server, MySQL database, and firewalls in both development and production.

●Re-defined processes and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting on Linux platforms.

●Conducted User Management, Plugin Management, and End-to-End automation of Build and Deployment process using Jenkins.

●Worked on Switch configurations (Brocade and Cisco) and vCenter and VMware ESXi Hypervisors installations as part of environment Bring Up.

●Monitored system activities such as CPU, Memory and Disk and Swap space usage to avoid performance issues.

●Managed source code repository, build, and release configurations, processes, and tools to support daily development, test, and production build and software deployment operations.

●Used JIRA for issue tracking and monitoring.

●Used Shell & JavaScript scripts for automation purposes.

Systems Engineer

The New York Times

Manhattan, New York City, NY

01/2015 – 12/2016

The New York Times Company is an American mass media company that publishes The New York Times, its associated publications, and other media properties.

●Performed dedicated strategic and budget planning for all systems and related hardware and software.

●Deployed and Managed Linux & Solaris servers.

●Updated patches, software on a regular basis

●Provided on-call support to 24/7 infrastructure deployment and troubleshooting.

●Spearheaded the research, evaluation, and feedback on problematic trends and patterns in customer specific issues such as network connectivity, software, and hardware.

●Developed and maintained problem tracking and resolutions databases, endeavoring to always ensure comprehensive and accurate documentation.

●Set up a system to identify and repel any potential threats or attempts at unauthorized network access.

●Ensured enforcement of national and DoD security policies, directives, and standards.

●Handled remote control, patch management, operating system deployment, network protection, and other important services via the Microsoft SCCM platform.

●Installed, supported, and maintained servers and other related computer systems.

●Conducted detailed oversight to determine that all defensive mechanisms were in place and operational.

●Performed troubleshooting of customer issues over the phone and in person, accurately diagnosing and resolving issues in response to customer reported incidents.

●Utilized Remedy to address customer service issues. Maintained an expert affinity for Remedy, handling every step of the work order process within the software.

●Implemented thorough customer support policies, procedures, and standards, taking care to design them to be as enforceable and accurate as possible.

●Responded to server outages expeditiously, and corrected interruptions as quickly as possible.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

Full-Ride Academic Scholarship

University of Kentucky

Computer Science

Dept. of State Scholar

Korea University (Semester abroad)

Certification

AWS Solution Architect – Associate

DevOps Boot Camp Certification – from Udemy

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