Cloud & Infrastructure Architect
Hands-on Cloud Architect & Information Technology Manager, known for innovative approach to solving problems. Team leader experienced in building and motivating professional, capable, and responsive organizations. Experienced in Cloud and Enterprise Data-center Solution Architect who can demonstrate the design, plan, architecture and management principles related to cloud computing infrastructures. Demonstrated mastery in facilitating evaluation of requirements for business application integration and service activation; able to consistently deliver enhancements and solutions that drive employee and customer satisfaction and loyalty. Started my career as DevOps Engineer and Cloud Systems Administrator adept at helping businesses (Start-Ups, Large Enterprises & Organizations) to realize alignments between new technologies and business strategy.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
1- 12 years of industry experience, strong innovative and technical background.
2- 5+ years with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with deep expertise in Amazon’s cloud computing offerings
3- Effective in fostering collaboration and consultative relationships with senior management and across traditional boundaries; highlighting inflection points of technology decisions.
4- Technical leader with broad experience, brings focus on “big picture” business impacts of technology projects: real costs, practical benefits, risks and contingencies.
5- Adaptable – skilled at supporting individuals, building systems, handling problems; as well as managing teams, training, developing strategies, policies and processes.
6- Key contributor to the innovative and game-changing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
7- Technical Account Management, Solution & Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Computing, Documentation & Reporting, Troubleshooting, Technology for Development, Process Improvements, Change Lifecycles, Open Source, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services, gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them.
In this role, I’m working as AWS Cloud Architecture at Zameen.com the one of Pakistan largest Real Estate Website with millions of customer. My function is create a solution for largely customer facing with a strong technical angle, deep experience in AWS, software and systems architecture, IT infrastructure, security, and other relevant technical concepts. I am working closely with technical team and prospects to make them successful on the AWS platform, building scalable, fault tolerant, cost effective, and secure systems.
Key Responsibilities:
1- Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud solutions.
2- Establish AWS cloud services for making website secure and fastly accessible to the customers.
3- Help development team to build scalable, resilient, and high-performance applications and services on AWS
4- Advise software development teams on architecting and designing web interfaces and infrastructures that safely and efficiently power the cloud environment.
5- Develop/capture/document architectural best practices for building systems on AWS.
Key Technologies and Skills:
1- Expert-level knowledge of Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon CodeDeploy, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and other services of the AWS family
2- High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Database Concepts, System and Software Architecture, Security, IT Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Internet Technologies
3- Excellent customer facing skills and communication skills
NorthBay Solutions is the leading supplier of software outsourcing services to Enterprise and Emerging companies NorthBay has built many enterprises, desktop, server-side, social applications and infrastructure applications via our offshore development team.
I have developed, enhanced, optimized, and administered Data Center and enhance that have contributed to efficiency, profitability, cost savings, and productivity for company operations.
Operations;
Responsible for provisioning, maintaining and improving upon server infrastructure, split between physical data centres and AWS. Also provided 24/7/365 on-call support.
Wrote scripts/tools to fully automate application deployment, configuration, self-repairing, and monitoring. Experience with F5 BIG-IP and Synology hardware, and VMWare ESXi.
Amazon Web Services;
As a passionate advocate of AWS within Gracenote, I migrated my department from a physical data centre environment to AWS. I also designed, built, and deployed a multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, R53, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, IAM, and EMR), focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
Utilized communication skills and deep technical knowledge to provide solutions for individuals and organizations; expanded competency in key areas through independent projects and presentations. Project areas included development and implementation of Asterisk, IPv6, Linux (CentOS 6, and related security packages), Network Monitoring (Zabbix), Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2, SNS, Glacier, Route 53), and email implementation (Postfix, DMARC, DKIM).