Mukul Sharma

Falls Church,VA

Summary

Cloud and DevOps Engineer with DLA Secret Clearance and 9 years of specialized experience in AWS and GCP cloud architecture. Strong ability to migrate monolithic on-premises systems to containerized microservices using ECS and EKS. Proven track record in automating infrastructure through Terraform and CloudFormation, complemented by expertise in building high-availability CI/CD pipelines and data-driven solutions utilizing GitLab CI/CD. Certified in 9 industry standards, including AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Google Cloud Associate Engineer, demonstrating a commitment to continuous professional development and excellence in cloud solutions. Passionate about leveraging technical skills to drive innovation and enhance efficiency within cloud environments.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certification

Work History

Platform Engineer

Credence

McLean, VA

07.2020 - 02.2026

AWS Infrastructure Management: Architected and managed scalable AWS environments utilizing EC2, S3, VPC, and RDS. Implemented automated backups, patching, and auto-scaling.
Microservices Transition: Orchestrated the decomposition of monolithic applications into Docker containers, enhancing system scalability and developer velocity.
Database Administration: Managed global production environments, performing high-stakes maintenance, backups, and restores for mission-critical application servers.
Linux Systems: Advanced administration and troubleshooting within enterprise Linux environments to ensure 24/7 system availability.
End-to-End CI/CD: Engineered automated deployment pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Kubernetes, reducing manual overhead and deployment lead times.
Version Control & SCM: Optimized code management workflows using Git, GitLab, and GitBash to support cross-functional development teams.
Performance Monitoring: Leveraged infrastructure metrics and CloudWatch to proactively monitor system health and optimize application performance.
Continuous Improvement: Directed the evolution of build/test systems, identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the integration and deployment lifecycle.
Data Pipeline Automation: Developed Python scripts to automate complex data extraction and ingestion workflows.
Developed high-quality engineering designs and plans to meet industry standards.
Experienced in writing technical SOP and Whitepapers so users an follow such documents to execute any task without reaching out to their seniors.
Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.
Implemented new strategies to reduce costs and improve efficiency of engineering team.

Cloud Architect

ACISTEK CORPORATION

Crystal City, VA

08.2017 - 07.2020

Design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant applications on AWS. Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements. Implement and design high security in production environment using core services on AWS.
Execute Lambda functions to initiate automated start and stop of EC2 virtual machines and Elastic Container services for cost cutting controls across all environments.
Educating partners and clients about overall AWS infrastructure and its networking components that goes along with the overall architecture that includes hybrid connectivity, public cloud, private cloud, various types of VPN connection models, etc.
Data center migration, especially involving Windows Servers and complex Windows workloads Automating different agile AWS environments with Lambda and Python.
Experience architect in designing and implementing cost effective network architecture on AWS.
Design and deploy RDS services in Production environment.
Write technical documentations on different AWS services for the team. Implement and deploy complex VPC architecture and solutions.
Strategic systems migration planning and deploy Disaster Recovery on AWS.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA

06-2015

Skills

Cloud Architecture & Migration: Led full-lifecycle on-prem migrations to AWS/GCP, utilizing ECS and EKS for containerization
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automated complex cloud environments using Terraform and CloudFormation in Il4/Il5 environments
DevOps & CI/CD: Engineered robust GitLab CI/CD pipelines to streamline application delivery
Systems & Security: Designed secure, resilient system architectures with integrated disaster recovery and ML capabilities
Diaster Recover & Backups: Automated and centralized backups of various AWS services using their native AWS Backup service in a single and multi-tenants accounts
Built Step functions to centralized tagging across all the aws services to comply with DLA J6 compliance to reduce cost on Govcloud enclave
Automated the one click backup for EC2, RDS, and EFS with Step Functions and Lambda

Automated the Linux OS patching using AWS Systems Manager
Have an extensive experience working with Windows Server 2020, and 2022
Migrated Windows AD from one version to a different version in different regions of High Availability on AWS
Skilled in syprep and stigging AMIs for security compliance before deploying windows based EC2 instances in a multi-tenant environments
Implemented AWS Inspector in 100s of containers to find loopholes and security risk inside containers
Experienced in deploying Landing zone with Terraform This makes sure that the landing zone creates new centralized VPC in new accounts before deploying any services in the VPC
Enforced SCPs in IL4/IL5 environment to restrict and limit the what one can or cannot touch or do