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ERIC TALLA

Dallas

Summary

Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with extensive experience at Accenture, specializing in AWS solutions. Proven track record in application migration and infrastructure automation using Terraform and CloudFormation. Adept at mentoring teams and implementing CI/CD pipelines, ensuring high availability and security. Strong analytical skills complemented by a commitment to Agile methodologies.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Consultant at Vistra

Accenture
Irving
03.2025 - Current
  • Resolved incidents reported by customers related to latency or availability of hosted applications.
  • Monitored and managed performance of EC2 instances, S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables.
  • Troubleshot performance issues related to application stack or underlying infrastructure components.
  • Created CloudFormation templates for automated provisioning of AWS resources in a repeatable fashion.
  • Leveraged Log Insights to filter VPC flow logs to establish root cause analysis.
  • Provisioned Oracle RDS instance and set S3 integration to upload data from S3 bucket to the database

Devops Consultant at Capital at One

Accenture
Irving
03.2022 - 01.2025
  • Provisioned cloud infrastructure in AWS and migrated over 100 applications for a financial institution leveraging terraform and Jenkins pipeline as ci/cd tool in my recent project.
  • Leveraged CloudFormation to provision a highly available infrastructure and deployed application on top of it.
  • Lead new AMI migration work to move from RHEL to AMZ Linux and used JMeter and Hercules for performance testing on new AMI.
  • Create Datadog alerts and dashboards to monitor infrastructure in AWS.
  • Configured Blue/Green deployment to deploy infrastructure and guarantee high availability and fault tolerant application.
  • Created CloudFront Distributions, set up S3 as Origin Access Identification to deliver content and improve user’s experience.
  • Perform vulnerability remediation and bug fixes to keep applications safe.
  • Migrated a legacy Kubernetes platform to AWS EKS and utilized ArgoCD to automate deployments.
  • Performed root cause analysis of problems related to production environment issues and provided solutions accordingly.

AWS Cloud Engineer

Accenture
Irving
03.2021 - 01.2022
  • Created WAF rules and integrated them with the application load balancer and CloudFront to secure applications and improve users’ experience.
  • Mentored, trained, and led a team of five junior engineers by ensuring they followed a well-architected framework and Agile principles in many projects.
  • Migrated RDS databases using DMS.
  • Created monitors and dashboards in CloudWatch, Datadog, and New Relic to monitor infrastructure application metrics.
  • Experience with AWS Service Control Policies in AWS Organizations.
  • Deployed and migrated S3 buckets following AWS best practices for developers to store application data.
  • Deployed, documented, and supported cloud platform capabilities using AWS best practices.
  • Created AWS infrastructures using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible for configuration.
  • Created CloudWatch rules, provisioned, and migrated Lambda functions on AWS.
  • Configured monitoring tools such as CloudWatch Logs, Metrics and Alarms for tracking resource utilization across various cloud deployments.

AWS Cloud Engineer

Ely Consulting
Houston
07.2018 - 02.2021
  • Deployed high availability environment with auto scaling to ensure elasticity and Route53 to create DNS records for the application.
  • Set up a highly available Site-to-Site VPN connection to connect on-prem resources to AWS VPC leveraging AWS Virtual Private Gateways and pfsense router.
  • Hands-on Experience in AWS Network architecture with VPC, Subnets, Internet gateway, NAT, Route table.
  • Expertise with VPN, Load Balancing, Routing Protocols, SSH, Monitoring tools.
  • Created, Managed IAM roles and Policies to control Groups and users’ access to resources.
  • Configured Life cycle management for S3 to move objects across different storage classes to save cost.
  • Deployed terraform templates to build a custom VPC with private and public subnets.
  • Infrastructure monitoring with CloudWatch coupled with alarm creation and notifications for system administrators.
  • Conducted deep-dive hands-on training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
  • Participated in architectural discussions on AWS platform.
  • Optimized cloud infrastructures to reduce costs as it relates to storage, computer and databases.
  • Performed advanced engineering in configuration, management and deployment of AWS cloud environments.

System administrator /Technical support

Propetro Inc
Midland
07.2015 - 06.2018
  • Trained engineers on new software.
  • Upgrading, installing, and configuring application software and computer hardware
  • Create and manage system permissions and user accounts.
  • Troubleshoot issues and outages.
  • Manage all monitoring and alerting throughout company applications!

Education

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX

Skills

  • IAM, EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda
  • IAC
  • Application migration
  • Database migration
  • Application monitoring with New Relic, CloudWatch, and Datadog
  • CloudFormation
  • Terraform
  • Agile
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Aws
  • CI/CD
  • WAF
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Jenkins
  • System administration
  • DevOps
  • Python scripting
  • Terraform Cloud

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • AWS Developer Associate
  • AWS Security Specialty
  • Terraform Certified Associate
  • Terraform Certified Implementation Partner

Timeline

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Consultant at Vistra

Accenture
03.2025 - Current

Devops Consultant at Capital at One

Accenture
03.2022 - 01.2025

AWS Cloud Engineer

Accenture
03.2021 - 01.2022

AWS Cloud Engineer

Ely Consulting
07.2018 - 02.2021

System administrator /Technical support

Propetro Inc
07.2015 - 06.2018

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

Texas Tech University
ERIC TALLA