Akhil Kadari
Chicago,IL
Summary
A self-motivated Cloud Engineer offering close to 6 years of experience in IT industry with 4+ years of experience in AWS environment and AWS services such as IAM, VPC, VPN, EC2, S3, ROUTE 53, ELB, ECS, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Terraform, Autoscaling groups, Storage Gateway, database services like RDS. Hands-on experience with deployment and management of major AWS native services and well as various third-party solutions. I am also familiar with Agile and Waterfall software development life cycles change configuration management. My team and I are responsible for maintaining cloud computing systems, as well as assessing systems to identify potential weaknesses or problems. I am highly motivated, teachable, and hard working with a team player mentality. My strength is the ability to pay thorough attention to details, provide solutions, and ability to meet clients’ deadlines.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
AWS Cloud Engineer
R1 Rcm
02.2019 - 08.2023
- Expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment and good knowledge of AWS services like Cloud formation, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load-balancers, S3, Cloud Front, Elastic File system, RDS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, IAM
- Implemented Auto Scaling for scaling out to ensure availability and scalability of customer websites and applications during unexpected traffic/demand
- Cost and performance monitoring of resources and applications using AWS Cloud Watch and Dynatrace including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3 and configured SNS notifications for the alarms generated based on events defined
- Creating VPC, ELB, etc through Cloud Formation stack
- Created NAT gateways and assigned Elastic IPs to allow communication from the private instances to the internet through jump/bastion hosts
- Involved in creating IAM Users, Groups, Roles, Identify Providers and defining Policies and applying to IAM Users and Groups
- Experience creating EC2 AMI’s and migrating it to different regions also EC2 instance backup
- Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Amazon Glacier
- Working on DB Migration from Dev Env to test Env, test to Stg Env, Stg to pre-production Env
- Creating/import SSL certificates using AWS certificate manager
- Working on Blue -Green servers Switch over activity for new sprints
- Worked on JIRA for defect/issues logging & tracking and documented all my work using Confluence
- Configured AWS Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) in IAM to implement 2 step authentication of user's access using Okta Authenticator and AWS Virtual MFA
- Working on ServiceNow P1, P2 issues
- Created Multiple Confluence Pages for Easy client understanding
- Working on Security patches for Linux and Windows servers using IBM Big Fix Tool
- Configured Wildfly server, key cloak servers, RabbitMQ servers
- Worked on Var and Jar file Deployments of Wildfly server, key cloak servers, RabbitMQ servers
- Coordinating with the Development, Database Administration, QA, and IT Operations teams to ensure there are no resource conflicts
- Automated daily backups of critical data using AWS S3, reducing the risk of data loss in case of system failures.
- Participated in architectural discussions to build confidence and promote customer success when developing new and migrating existing applications, software and services on AWS platform.
- Designed custom monitoring dashboards using Amazon CloudWatch for real-time insight into system health and performance metrics.
- Implemented security best practices within the AWS environment, safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
Associate AWS Consultant
PhyCARE Solutions
11.2016 - 02.2019
- Implemented high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto scaling and other disaster recovery models
- Worked extensively with AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, Autoscaling Groups, Route53, IAM, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudFront, SNS, and RDS
- Launched Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications
- Created IAM role for S3 Bucket access and Installed AWS CLI on the instance to access the S3 Buckets
- Defined AWS Instance Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed reaching one or more AWS EC2 instances
- Configured and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Deployed Cloud Formation scripts to automate EC2 instances, ELB..
- Made applications more scalable and highly available system in AWS(ELB), implemented Auto Scaling
- Involved in creating, attaching, and detaching EBS volumes to EC2 Instances
- Providing day to day user support
- Creating AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) to EC2 Instances for backup
- Configuring alarms to monitoring Instances, ELB’s, and CPU Utilization etc using Amazon Cloud Watch and Dynatrace
- Created patch groups, used patch baselines, and applying patches to the application servers, used patch-compliance to see the compliance summary of patches
- Provided 24 x 7 on-call supports in debugging and fixing issues related to Linux servers in Cloud Environment using Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Evaluated client needs and expectations, establishing clear goals for each consulting engagement.
- Liaised with customers, management, and sales team to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to successfully deliver comprehensive solutions for clients.
- Managed client relationships through regular check-ins and updates on project progress.Phycar
Education
Masters in Information Technology - Information Technology
Governors State University
Park Forest, IL05-2025
Skills
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Lambda
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- AWS CloudWatch
- Dynatrace
- AWS SNS
- AWS S3
- AWS IAM
- AMI
- Snapshot
- Lifecycle Management
- Jira
- ServiceNow
- VPC
- EC2
- ELB
- EKS
- RDS
- SES
- Route53
- CloudFront
- AWS Auto Scaling
- Dynamo DB
Timeline
AWS Cloud Engineer
R1 Rcm
02.2019 - 08.2023
Associate AWS Consultant
PhyCARE Solutions
11.2016 - 02.2019
Masters in Information Technology - Information Technology
Governors State University