I am a highly motivated individual seeking a position where my knowledge and experience in AWS Cloud Architecture, Datacenters, Cloud platform infrastructure support, SAN, Networking and Telecommunications can be utilized.

AWS CLOUD ARCHITECTURE                         

 

·             www.solushunzguru.com

·             AMAZON WEB SERVICES – IAD Data Warehouse Cluster Builds

·             Henkels & McCoy – Pentagon Cable Information Network Project – Pentagon Renovation

 

EXPERIENCE

                                                                                   

 

AWS Cloud Architecture

                                4/15 – present

·   Development experience to assist customers with migrating and refactoring their applications to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

·   Design and deploy reference architectures on Amazon Web Services including EC2, S3 and other services

·   Build sample applications on AWS which demonstrate architectural features

·   Define standards for configuring and using AWS services in a secure and scalable manner

·   Hosting highly scalable, fault tolerant applications (such as Wordpress) on the AWS cloud.

·   Experience with auto-scaling and the architecture of stateless applications

·   Experience with configuration management tool (puppet and chef)

·   Demonstrated experience with iaas (Infrastructure as a Service) by use of the following AWS services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation

 

AWS - IAD Data Warehouse REGION - Ashburn, VA       6/12 - present

 

Data Warehouse Technician; Business Intelligence

·   Next level of escalation for data technicians after verifying the validity of the ticket and fulfillment/validation with the SLA

·   Monitoring and maintaining of Amazon database (ORACLE), storage and production servers via remedy ticketing system, SIM messaging for HP, Hi-Track for HDS and Unisphere for EMC. Troubleshooting and repair of multiple hosts running on the linux platform that support the SAN clusters

·   Coordinating planning stages with various teams within the organization and vendors towards the scalability of the data warehouse

·   Coordination of storage arrays installations, configurations and as well eventual codes’ upgrade within the storage clusters

·   Monitoring of SAN activities within the arrays and trouble shooting, replacements of parts as necessary (rebooting of SVPs for HP’s XP 24000, replacing of MPB for P9500 etc)

·   Initiation of proactive sparing for drives in HP, Hitachi and EMC VNX arrays

·   Coordinating the analysis of dial home alerts of the SAN arrays for vendor technical supports (remote) by means of initiating and extraction of dumps, uploading supportsaves, SPCollects and logs.

·   Installing, configuring/build and troubleshooting of “Top Of Rack Switches” eg. CISCO, Mellanox and Quanta LB6 and LB9 for Network of clusters

·   Troubleshooting of BROCADE switches (WWN’s, and port connections) and hosts HBA’s

 

·   Participate in various interview loops; interviewing prospective candidates for data technician positions and provide feedback to interview panel.

 

 

 

 

AWS, IAD REGION – Manassas, Ashburn and Sterling AZ’s, VA      12/11 – present

 

Datacenter Technician: Data Center Operations

·   Monitoring and maintaining of AWS servers which serve as the platforms for the cloud infrastructure (EC2 instances ,EBS, DynamoDB andS3) and production or retail servers via remedy ticketing system

·   Troubleshooting and repair of multiple hosts running on the linux platform (Various models of ZT, DELL, HP, SGI (Rackable) and SuperMicro servers

·   Use of XEN technology to troubleshoot the parent host, create, rebuild, take down the virts etc

·   Coordinating with host owners for scheduling downtime to work on production/database hosts as necessary

·   Eventual part replacement to include motherboards, RAM, controllers, CPU’s drive replacements.

·   Host rebuild/ systems re-imaging

·   Excellent use of the command line and extensive troubleshooting of hosts with Linux OS

·   Troubleshooting single/multimode fiber circuits to ensure quality network connectivity.

·   On call responsibilities

·   Work with amazon proprietary software tools to help resolve issues

·   Working with and troubleshooting the various console networks via console switches and aggregate routers

·   Thorough understanding and Implementation  of network concepts

 

 

 

 

VOLT VMC , Site: AMERICA ONLINE, Sterling                       07/11 – 10/11

Data Center Technician: Hardware NOC

·   Monitoring, updating and closing tickets within the remedy system

·   Coordinate with the different NOC’s to troubleshoot and replace parts for HP, DELL and SUPERMICRO servers

·   Monitoring server log file for errors towards eventual hardware replacement (Hard drives, Controllers, Motherboards)

·   Disk drive rebuilding/rescanning, RAM replacement/upgrades

·   HP ILO, DELL DRAC and ipmi configuration on redhat centos OS

·   BIOS and Firmware upgrades

·   Coordinated with HP and DELL warranty team for logistics of parts inventory based on the history/SLA of the server

·   Worked as a member of hardware break/fix team

 

 

 

 

Equinix Inc. Ashburn, VA         2008 – 2011

Responsibilities: IBX Network Technician

·   Onsite technical assistance (Change Management or maintenance windows)

·   Trouble shooting of circuits and network equipment

·   Server installations and configuration for remote access (IP, Gateway, LAN parameters, accounts)

·   Hardware install/ de-install to include hard drives, RAM disks, memory sticks, riser cards, HBA cards and other server parts

·   Assisting ISP customers and contractors during circuit migrations, maintenance windows and hot cuts/turn-up calls (light readings, optical testing)

·   Installing, terminating, testing and maintaining cabling to include CAT6/5, Single and multimode fiber (62.5/50)

·   BERT testing for errors on cross connects via fiber or copper media

·   Installed and configure settings on media converters to complete the cross connects on circuits

·   Verifying verizon demarcations for customers’ POTS lines

·    Assisting customers to remotely import and export tapes (SUN/SCALAR libraries) for tape back-up and rotations.

·   Documentation of tickets generated for work as well as general inventory and auditing of equipment

 

 

 

 

Basic scripting experience; Python, Bash, shell scripting (boot strap), EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation. Familiarity with Automation and tools; puppet and Chef. BROCADE switches/Fiber chanelling, Hitachi VSP,G1000, HP 3PAR, XP24000, P9500, EMC2 VNX Series, personal computers (windows XP and 7/8, 10), Installation and configuration of servers (LINUX OS; RHEL5.3, CENTOS) along with related hardware replacement, DRAC setup, Telephone Systems (AVAYA PARTNER, Merilyn Legend Switches), Cross-Connecting Pairs to 66 Blocks for telephone line and extensions, PC Maintenance, Hardware/Software Installation, Microsoft Office

 

 

AWS Technical Professional – Accreditation   4 – 2016

 

BROCADE - FICON 101 (1721914) -   8- 2014

 

HITACHI -HDS-TH1997, Hanover, MD                1- 2014

 

EMC2 VNX- Unified Storage Management, Seattle, WA   12- 2013

 

CCNA (CEU units) – George Mason University, VA                                                                           3- 2008

 

BICSI Certified ITS Technician   2006-2009

 

FLUKE Certified Cable Test Technician   10 – 2006

 

A+/ NET+ Certification - DIGITAL CORPORATION, Silver Spring, MD    4 - 2000

 

 

 

Industries:	AWS Cloud Infrastructure, DATACENTERS, SAN
Operating Systems:	Windows ,LINUX/Redhat, Centos OS
Applications:	CISCO, QUANTA, BROCADE, Mellanox

 

 

 

 

 

References: Furnished Upon Request/LinkedIn.com

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