Asa "Ace-Suh" Smith
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Accomplished engineer proffering extensive cloud monitoring, deployment and troubleshooting skills. Defined, built and maintained infrastructure using vendor-neutral and platform-specific tools. Organized and focused person with extraordinary leadership acumen. Resourceful Systems Engineer experienced in evaluating and assessing client requirements and implementing infrastructure to solve identified problems. Harnessed code and cloud-native technologies to create scalable and user-centric systems. Strong negotiator with excellent value-driven solutions.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Systems Engineer
Earth Resources Technologies
03.2022 - Current
- Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams of 8 to define data governance policies, ensuring data quality and compliance with industry regulations
- Develop and manage data integration processes, including ETL pipelines, to streamline data flow across organization
- Perform data profiling and analysis to identify data quality issues and implement data cleansing strategies
- Train and mentor junior data management professionals in best practices for EDW development and maintenance team of 8.
- Implement data security measures, including role-based access control and encryption, to safeguard sensitive data
- Little Oracle experience with running SQL queries to assist troubleshoot issues with database
- Ran Oracle backups for storage management
- Knowledge of alerts and monitoring and system management tools for environments and configuration management and Cloud orchestration tools, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Cloudformation
- Experience with Cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, or Azure
- Administered Azure Data Factory to orchestrate data workflows, monitor pipelines, and optimize data integration processes
- Managed Azure Synapse workspaces, configuring data lakes, and ensuring high-performance data warehousing solutions
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring minimal downtime
- Implemented cost management strategies to optimize cloud resources and reduce operational expenses
- Professional experience in related capacity such as Cloud/Network administration, product support, development or troubleshooting
- Strong working knowledge of public cloud services including AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Understood client needs and objectives by conducting proactive customer and data analysis.
- Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
- Worked with cloud architect to generate assessments and develop and implement actionable recommendations based on results and reviews
- Worked with teams of talented software engineers to define, build and maintain cloud infrastructure
- Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance
Team Lead
Raytheon Missiles & Defense
10.2021 - 03.2022
- Managed Information Security Compliance activities, server security administration & Responsible for Production Servers Deployments
- Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements.
- Minimized resource and time losses by addressing employee or production issue directly and implementing timely solutions.
- Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks.
- Worked different stations to provide optimal coverage and meet production goals.
- Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
- Managed multiple product lines, all way from idea stage through their delivery for teams developing software for Navy
- Perform other Workforce Management duties - schedule management, leave management, report management, compliance management and training logistics
- Works with employees to improve performance, provides ongoing feedback, and develops plans with employees to identify career development opportunities
- Directed and supervised team of 6 engaged in efficient load management and consistent team development.
- Provided reporting for forecast analysis and ad-hoc reporting in support of decision-making
- Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements
Cloud Engineer
Peraton
01.2018 - 10.2021
- Analyzing and monitor performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance
- Be part of client’s scrum team and work on user stories
- Act as subject matter expert on AWS and other cloud providers
- Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
- Provide technical direction and oversight to cloud implementation teams
- Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
- Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime
- Working knowledge of Azure Services IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and coming trends in Cloud space
- Serving as hands-on subject matter expert for DevOps and Automation in Azure/AWS infrastructure environment
- Strong foundation of knowledge around Azure and/or AWS cloud services and cloud ecosystem
- Work with business units, software developers, security, to design and build applications and services within AWS and/or other cloud providers
- Provide daily monitoring, management, troubleshooting and issue resolution to systems and services hosted on cloud resources
Senior Linux Administrator
Solers Inc
09.2014 - 01.2018
- Modification, administration and hardening of Windows Server 2008 / 2012 and Red Hat Linux environment in VMware virtualized environment
- Installed system-wide hardware components, confirming interoperation and compatibility with Linux-based software packages.
- Interacted directly with users to diagnose and correct major system issues and address concerns.
- Provided input on hardware and software purchasing, prioritizing return on investment to optimize IT spending.
- Preserved system documentation accuracy via regular data updates and graphical refreshes.
- Provide clear and unambiguous communication within Incident Management case tools with frequent and timely updates
- Deep knowledge of Wintel platforms, and Networking Infrastructure (Domain, DNS, WINS, DHCP)
- Maintained smooth operation of multi-user computer systems through collaboration with hardware and network engineers.
- Own Root Cause Analysis and Problem Management for corporate Identity Management environment
- Work on service requests of one or more types performed by team
- Manages work load to complete requests by due date
- Perform server related regular operational tasks on infrastructure across team’s managed locations
- Performs regular system maintenance, hardware and software upgrades, physical to virtual migrations and performance tuning
- Establish/manage remote access for users through RDP connections
- Good knowledge of VMware vSphere (ESXi and vCenter)
- Strong knowledge of Remote server administration
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management
Hood College
Frederick, MD05.2016
Skills
- Cloud Architecture Design
- Design
- Cloud Computing
- Storage Virtualization
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Incident Response
- Data and Systems Architecture
- Virtual and Cloud Technologies
- Technical Documentation and Reporting
- System and Network Security
- Communication and Team Collaboration
- Security Management
- IT Infrastructure Proficiency
- Network Security
- Penetration Testing
- Application Administration
Accomplishments
Employee of the Month
- Collaborated with team of 5 in the development of the CLASS contract with SOLERS.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
Certification
- Security+
- Azure
Clearance
Secret
Citizenship
US Citizen
Technical Overview
Expert in engineering and management, solidly credentialed, offering over 8 years of experience in the IT industry. As a Cloud Engineer, responsible for Implementing and coordinating with different patching solutions like Tanium and IBM BigFix and more tools to patch system software and communicate with application or software development teams for downtimes.
Availability
2 Week notice, preferably.
Timeline
Cloud Systems Engineer
Earth Resources Technologies
03.2022 - Current
Team Lead
Raytheon Missiles & Defense
10.2021 - 03.2022
Cloud Engineer
Peraton
01.2018 - 10.2021
Senior Linux Administrator
Solers Inc
09.2014 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management
Hood College
- Security+
- Azure
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