Solution Architect Database Administrator

Vijesh PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

AWS Solution Architect

PROFILE SNAPSHOT: 15 +Years of expertise in IT Industry and proven success innovating state-of-the-art solutions on time and under budget Highly skilled Cloud Solution Architect with extensive experience designing and implementing robust data protection strategies across Amazon Web Services, specializing in data lifecycle management, disaster recovery, and security best practices

Achievements:

• Pat on the Back award in Societe Generale in 2017

• Team spot awards in Mindtree in the year 2013

• CORONA Award for Best performance in ‘CME MAS –Database Support

& Enterprise Security’ in CGI India

• ECS Cloud Success STEP Award in 2020

• ECS Cloud Success STRIDE AWARD in 2021

Certifications:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-103)

• Cohesity Platform Foundations

• Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator 2008

• Leadership Skills 2022 - Leadership Academy Foundation Program

• SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA 2 0 (SPS04) Professional Summary :

1. SAP LABS (IT Architect Senior Specialist – Solution Architect) Albany, New York

Duration : August 2018 to Current

• Designed and deployed secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, API Gateway, and CloudFront for enterprise-grade applications.

• Developed cloud solutions based on AWS Well-Architected Framework, focusing on Operational Excellence, Reliability, Security, Performance, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

• Ensured high availability and disaster resilience through multi-AZ and auto-scaling architectures across AWS services.

• Led cost optimization initiatives across AWS infrastructure, leveraging tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, and resource rightsizing to ensure efficient cloud resource utilization and reduced operational expenses.

• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using AWS DevOps CI/CD to enable continuous delivery with high confidence.

• Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, enabling automated, consistent, and version-controlled cloud environments.

• Hands-on experience with EKS cluster architecture, management, and automation, including provisioning, upgrades, scaling, and security.

• Executed cloud migration of on-premise servers and databases to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) for lift-and-shift workloads and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for seamless database replication and transformation.

• Applied IaC best practices to support scalable, version-controlled, and environment-specific deployments. Contact No: : +1-518-***-****

Email:vijesh (DOT)

ramnathgupta (at) gmail com

Technical Knowledge

• Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, RDS,

Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route 53,

CloudFormation, CloudWatch)

• Cloud Storage: AWS S3, EFS, EBS,

Storage Access Tiering Policies

• DevOps Tools: Terraform, AWS

DevOps, Azure Devops

• Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus,

CloudWatch, Performance Insights

• Scripting: Shell, Powershell, TSQL

• Security & Compliance: IAM,

GuardDuty, Security Hub,

• Networking: VPC, VPN, Direct Connect,

Route 53, Load Balancing

• RDBMS: MSSQL & SAP Hana Database

Administration

• Backup Tools :Networker/DDVE and

Cohesity Backup tool

• OS: Windows, Linux

Soft Skills

• Leadership & Team Mentoring

• Collaboration & Proactive

• approach

• Task Prioritization

• Solutions Implementing

• Enforced AWS security best practices using IAM roles, KMS encryption, Security Groups, and Network ACLs to safeguard cloud resources.

• Ensured compliance with SOC 2 by implementing secure infrastructure patterns and automated compliance checks.

• Monitored and responded to security threats using AWS CloudWatch, Performance Insights, Security Hub, AWS Config .

• Applied zero-trust architecture principles and implemented granular RBAC and least-privilege access controls.

• Implemented monitoring and observability using Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana to visualize system health and performance metrics.

• Architected secure, scalable networks with VPCs, subnets, NAT gateways, and route tables, ensuring connectivity and isolation as needed.

• Integrated hybrid connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and Site-to-Site VPN, enabling seamless data flow between cloud and on-premises systems.

• Managed scalable and fault-tolerant DNS routing using Amazon Route 53, including routing policies and health checks.

• Designed and implemented disaster recovery strategies using AWS Backup, S3 Versioning, and Amazon Glacier, with defined RTO and RPO metrics.

• Performed regular DR drills to validate failover processes and data integrity in compliance with business continuity standards.

• Automated backup policies and data retention workflows for critical cloud assets, reducing recovery time and manual intervention.

• Provided technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, promoting adoption of AWS best practices, and cloud- native design patterns to drive operational excellence and scalable solution delivery.

• Led incident management, service request, change management and problem resolution efforts to ensuring timely mitigation and service restoration.

2. Society General Global solution center

Organization : Society General (Senior Cloud Engineer) Duration : February 2016 to August 2018

Details of the project:

Société Générale is a French multinational banking and financial services company The company is a universal bank and has divisions supporting French Networks, Global Transaction Banking, International Retail Banking, Financial services, Corporate and Investment Banking, Private Banking, Asset Management and Securities Services Roles and responsibilities :

• Experienced in enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid infrastructure deployments, architecture design, migrations, and technology management

• Developed cloud solutions based on Azure and AWS Well-Architected Framework, focusing on Operational Excellence, Reliability, Security, Performance, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability

• Designed and migrated applications from on-prem to cloud environments

• Expertise in IAM integration, RBAC, security, governance, and compliance with corporate standards

• Managed SSL certificates and DNS configuration for cloud resources

• Proficient in network design and implementation (Firewall, VNet, Subnets, VPN) on Azure and AWS

• Led digital transformation initiatives across multiple organizations' Cloud & Infrastructure teams

• Deep knowledge of Azure and AWS Backup, including policy management, retention, and recovery

• Expertise in Azure Blob Storage, ANF, AFS, AWS S3, EFS, EBS, optimizing data redundancy and access controls

• Implemented data lifecycle policies for backup data across Azure and AWS storage tiers

• Designed hybrid cloud backup solutions and integrated on-prem data with cloud services

• Implemented cloud-based disaster recovery using Azure Site Recovery and AWS DR services

• Ensured data encryption, access control, and compliance in backup environments

• Implemented Azure Storage Service Endpoint Policy to mitigate data exfiltration risks

• Facilitated secure cross-region access with Microsoft Storage Global service endpoints

• Reduced storage costs by 25% and improved data protection with automated lifecycle management

• Led critical application migrations, ensuring high availability, rapid recovery, and optimized data protection

• Provided technical guidance on backup and archiving best practices

• Improved recovery time by 70% with cloud-based backup solutions

• Implemented AirGap security measures and premium backup services for enhanced data protection

• Designing and implementing CI/CD build pipelines using Azure DevOps and Terraform

• Experience in Network designing and implementation (Firewall, VNet, Subnets,NSG, Rout table, and VPN configuration with Azure cloud

• Implemented security measures including RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) with least privilege principles and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Azure and AWS to ensure secure access control and minimize risks

• Worked on serverless architecture using Azure Functions and AWS Lambda to build scalable, event-driven applications with reduced infrastructure management overhead

3. LTIMindtree Ltd

Organization : Mindtree (Lead Engineer )

Duration : June 2013 to February 2016

Details of the project :

Raet is a leading e-HRM software in the Netherlands and have started their business out of NL recently They mainly offer HR solutions and various options/flexibility to their clients with ‘n’ number of applications Working as a core SQLDBA for all their applications across DTAP environment

Roles and responsibilities :

• Successfully involved in complete end to end transition of all the production database servers from onsite to offshore This includes right from creating inventory till offering solutions to High availability concepts and migrations

• End to end responsibilities of SQL server upgradation and migrations of various applications

• Experience with planning, designing, building and implementing disaster recovery environment

• Designing, configuration and troubleshooting high availability concepts like multi node clusters and transactional Replication for various applications

• Responsible for designing effective monitoring in place for all the aspects of database servers for a monitoring tool called MWatch

• Solely responsible for LUN administration

• Installations and configuration of SQL server stand alone and clusters

• Monitoring/Troubleshooting performance Issues using various techniques

• Performing Backup and Restoring duties

• Implementing, refining and modifying storage management configuration of mdfs, ndfs and ldfs

• Building, modifying, scheduling and troubleshooting SQL Server maintenance jobs

• Perform proactive SQL Server Health Checks and taking necessary decisions as and when required

• Executing T-SQL queries and Stored procedures

• Troubleshooting Temp DB & DB Space Issues both at database and disk level

• Configured Database mail and linked servers in SQL server

• Conducted various meetings and conferences with different teams and customers to meet corporate milestones for database server maintenance and data migration Security and architectural planning for database servers along with architecture teams

• Have experience in utilizing ETL tools, including SSIS and ETL Package design

• Trained 10 member of DBA team and been award as best faculty for the year 2013-2014 4. CGI Information Systems

Organization : CGI Information System (Associative Software Engineer -DBA) Duration : June 2010 to May 2013

Details of the project :

Bell Canada is a Canadian telecommunications and media company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec Including its subsidiaries Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL Internet services in most of Canada east of Manitoba and in the northern territories, and a major competitive local exchange carrier for enterprise customers in the western provinces

Roles and responsibilities

• Perform proactive SQL Server Health Checks

• Involved in capacity planning, sizing and database growth projections

• Performed installation of SQL Server Service Packs and CU’s

• Used System monitor to find the bottlenecks in CPU, Disk I/O and memory devices and improved the database server performance

• Reviewed DB Scripts from the development team before releasing them into the Production

• Maintaining the Process Document & Creation of the same in SQL Server

• Performing Backup and Restoring duties on Production, Development, UAT Environments

• Implementing, refining and modifying storage management configuration of mdfs, ndfs and ldfs

• Building, modifying, and scheduling SQL Server maintenance jobs

• Monitoring/Troubleshooting Blocker Issues Performance monitoring and tuning of I/O related issues

• Monitor Production Instances and respond to alarms as per the monitoring definitions

• Extensively used tools like SQL Profiler, Index Tuning Wizard, and Database Engine tuning wizard

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