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Atif Choudary

Ashburn,VA

Summary

Eight years of experience in cloud and security, I have adeptly utilized new tools, services, and certifications in automation, platform engineering, and application engineering. My goal is to leverage these skills and experiences to lead and engineer DevSecOps projects..

Clearances:

DoD - Secret (Active)

DHS - EOD (inactive)

DoS - Interim TS (inactive)

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton
Ashburn, VA
01.2023 - Current
  • Using Kubernetes, GitLab pipeline and CD tools to develop, configure, and maintain PaaS infrastructure.
  • Using Helm chart and ApplicationSets to automate the deployment of applications through multiple enviorments.
  • Using Docker and container technology to test and run applications within a secure and local environment.
  • Using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Kiali to run metrics and keep track of application telemetry.
  • Leveraging Istio to configure network and gateway ingress and egress resources on cloud tools.
  • Resolve problems with declarative approach and use imperative when necessary.
  • Producing bi-weekly demos for work done during each sprint on a consistent basis and creating README's for all new deployment or configurations.

Cloud Administrator

Glidefast
Huntsville, AL
06.2021 - 12.2022
  • Deployed Jenkins CI pipeline jobs for Zero Trust Artitecture environment.
  • Created DockerFiles and container images for PaaS environment for various cloud applications.
  • Administered OpenShift Clusters for service, CRDs, pod, etc. orchestration
  • Configured computing, networking and security systems within development and production cloud environments for US AF, Space Command, Army Core of Engineers and EiTaaS project.
  • Managed Observability and open telemetry applications for true metric and data gathering.
  • Deployed Azure Databricks clusters with multiple different python libraries such as Spark, BeautifulSoup, NumPy, PipEnv.

Technical Associate II

Dev Technology
Reston, VA
09.2018 - 06.2021
  • Managed Intunes security patches, automatic package installations and endpoint monitoring tools.
  • Managed Linux Servers while utilizing cron jobs for automation of tasks.
  • Helped architect cloud migration of on prem servers to cloud for cost efficiency.
  • Performed system upgrades, patching, security hardening and monitoring of systems.
  • Troubleshooted and resolved hardware, software, network and storage related issues.
  • Leveraged PowerApps and PowerAuto to create front end application while keeping backend database highly available with consistent traffic flowing.

Operations Administrator

Arctan
Arlington, VA
01.2018 - 09.2018
  • Compiled a list of outside contractors by price and option to work for Arctan.
  • Setup Linux OS and taught 15-20 employees on how to navigate around the OS.
  • Created VPN secret keys and provided employees with account security credentials.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems

George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
05.2020

Skills

  • Cloud Engineering
  • Security Engineering
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • SQL
  • Git
  • Scripting
  • Data obserability
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • RMF
  • Agile
  • Red Hat satellites

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Security +
  • Linux +
  • Azure Administrator
  • AWS Cloud practitioner

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton
01.2023 - Current

Cloud Administrator

Glidefast
06.2021 - 12.2022

Technical Associate II

Dev Technology
09.2018 - 06.2021

Operations Administrator

Arctan
01.2018 - 09.2018

Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems

George Mason University

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