Professional Experience

Acethia -  MD

Feb 2013 to present

Cloud Support Engineer

Use Cloud Formation scripts to design, deploy and manage Highly Available, Fault-Tolerant Multi-AZ infrastructure including setup of VPC, ELB, SG, Public and Private Subnets, S3, EC2s, NAT, IAM, ACLs, SNS Topics, and Auto-Scaling.

·   Provision EC2 Instances using Ubuntu Linux, Amazon Linux Red hat Linux and Windows AMIs.

·   Configure and maintain virtual private Clouds (VPC), NAT instances and installing Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to monitor Public and private instances inside the VPC

·   Lunch, configure and connect to oracle EE, MySQL database on RDS

·   Perform LAMP installation and configuration on Ubuntu, Red hat and amazon Linux Instances

·   Participate in JIRA change management task.

·   Install and configure Drupal and WordPress on both Amazon Linux and Ubuntu EC2 instances.

·   Change instance types per client request

·   Commission and decommission websites hosted in the company environment per request of the client, hence, creating AMI’s of the instances and volume snapshots

·   Perform Data dumps at the request of the client

·   Implement autoscaling for scaling out to ensure availability and scalability of customer websites and applications

·   Provide system administration support for a client with over 170 instances hosted in AWS Cloud environment

·   Create and manage  public and private subnets, configuring security groups to have controlled access to web apps and database tiers, configuring route 53 DNS servers, ensuring appropriate protocols are configured for connectivity

·   Configuring route 53 for domain name to IP resolution

·   Utilize Ansible for provisioning and de-provisioning user accounts on Linux instances

·   Utilize Ansible Tower for scheduling Playbook executions

·   Ensure appropriate protocols are configured for connectivity.

·   Create and manage elastic Block Storage.(EBS) and S3 buckets

·   Utilized Cloudformation and JSON to configure templates

·   Expertise in writing Bash Scripts

·   Manage system processes and scheduling processes with the Cron utility

·   Contribute to improve the security of AWS by proper utilization of IAM and security groups

·   Patching of Linux and Windows instances within a maintenance window using Ansible and perform Security updates of some instances for the remediation of system vulnerabilities

·   Occasionally take the lead in scrum meetings while providing weekly status reports

·   Provide system documentation and team training for knowledge sharing using confluence.

·   Configure websites and production instances for monitoring using Nagios and Cloudwatch

FBS Corporation, Greenbelt, MD

June 2012 – February 2013

Oracle DBA

Managed Oracle database administration assignments for diverse industry clients. Enhance database performance, perform restores, implement recovery procedures, handle performance tuning and conduct regular system backups using RMAN and other utilities. Ensure technical and functional designs meet business requirements.

·          Conduct database design and implementation

·          Developed and tested storage strategies and disaster-recovery plan for large manufacturing company’s operational database, delivering solution that guaranteed recovery performance and high availability.

·          Conduct database security implementation and maintenance (creating and maintaining users, roles, and privileges)

·          Implemented  and maintained database security by creating and maintaining users, roles, and privileges

·          Innovated time-saving, robust employee data-intake system that automated database update functions, enabling new salary and process-exception information to be automatically populated for a client.

·          Wrote SQL scripts to create tables, indexes synonyms, views and other objects

ITR Partners - London

Aug 2009 to March 2012

Oracle DBA

·   Administered database user accounts; managing passwords, profiles and roles, privileges and resource control.

·   Created databases and granted user privileges; created and granted privileges on tables and indexes.

·   Managed networks, configured listeners and monitored oracle net configurations.

·   Installed and upgraded oracle software patching with OPatch.

·   Monitored alert log files and trace files on day to day activities

·   Used export and import utility tool to do various levels of data movement and backup 

·   Expertise in the creation of databases, tablespaces, tables, indexes and other database objects

·   Created hot, Cold and RMAN backups and recoveries. 

·   Applied patches, keeping applications software bug free, and improving data integrity.

·   Worked in PL/SQL and SQL tuning tasks, change management, database refreshes

Tuned various slow running query using optimizer

Education:

PGDip Occupational Safety and Health Management

BSc Microbiology

Certification:

Cloud Certified Solution Architect - in view                                  

Oracle Certified Associate                

Oracle Certified Professionals

SQL Fundamentals