Rakesh J
Denver,US
Summary
An industrious professional with experience in Network/Cloud Computing and eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Motivated and passionate to learn, grow and excel in the field of Data Analytics.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Infrastructure Engineer
Doctor On Demand
03.2020 - 08.2020
- Participated in development meetings for high-value customers and business operations updates.
- Assisted in technical design documentation for client consumption.
- Lead in Proof of Concepts for Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan
- Implemented VPN connection from on prem to Google Cloud to satisfy client's needs.
- Assisted in designing and implementing SLAs for Cloud Operations monitoring.
- Data migration.
- Assisted in implementing infrastructure design according to client's needs.
- Assisted in professional service workshops.
Cloud Engineer
Vector Planning & Services, Inc.
02.2018 - 03.2020
- Created infrastructure on AWS using VPC, ECS, ELB,, S3, Route 53, CloudWatch and IAM.
- Designed and deployed highly scalable infrastructure using ELB, and Autoscaling services.
- Created AMI images of critical EC2 instances from snapshots and migrated to other regions for backup purposes.
- Created alarms in Cloudwatch for monitoring of server performances, CPU utilization and disk usage.
- Understanding of AWS security best practices.
- Created users and role assignment for users according to AWS security best practices of least privilege.
- Created new network infrastructure using VPC, public and private subnets, route tables, security groups, NACLS, NAT and internet gateways.
- Created bucket policy and object based permissions to adhere to security best practices.
- Developed automation framework for public cloud deployments using Terraform templates to create VPC, EC2, Security Groups, s3.
- Familiar with Software Development ecosystem such as Git, Maven and Jenkins.
- Worked with others to monitor performance of application, created automated system administration monitoring and alert systems using Nagios , Cloudwatch and SNS systems to prevent incidents that can interrupt service.
- Experienced in provisioning and configuration management of development and testing environments using tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
- Managed network security using Load Balancers, Autoscaling, security groups and NACL.
- Configured an integrated Ansible Tower to scale automation and control infrastructure from a central and visual setup and dynamically manage our cloud environment with limited human interference.
- Performed software installations and upgrades to Linux systems and maintaining them according to established policies.
- Experienced in installing, configuring and managing virtualization platforms such as VMware ESXI.
- Performed configuration management on Linux based servers using ansible.
- Provided support for AWS EC2, S3, Cloud watch, IAM, Security Groups, Auto Scaling and Cloudtrail and integrating SNS with CloudWatch for alerts notification to monitor servers and manage operational cost.
- Configured and managed Elastic Load Balancing to implement fault tolerance and avoid single point of failure of applications.
- Installed and managed patches and software updates on Linux systems using ansible.
- Used terraform templates and ansible playbooks to automate and manage infrastructure on AWS.
- Involved in setting up a centralized backup system for instances running on AWS using R1soft.
NETWORK ENGINEER
Criterion Systems
07.2016 - 02.2018
- Implementing IP addressing schemes, WAN protocols to meet network requirements.
- Familiarity with configuring features on Palo Alto such as VPN users, web browsing policies for users, URL filtering module.
- Troubleshooting user web proxy issues on Palo Alto in URL Filtering module.
- Created IPSEC site to site tunnels on Palo Alto.
- VPN setup and troubleshooting with Global Protect VPN client for remote access.
- Experience installing, configuring and troubleshooting Catalysts (2900, 3500, 3700 and 6500 series) switches and maintaining Cisco Routers (2800, 3600, 4400 and 7200 ).
- Experience in virtualization platforms such as VMware ESXI and Virtualbox and system administration skills.
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, VLANs, trunking, STP, VTP, Port Security.
- Troubleshoot connectivity issues involving VLANs, NAT, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP.
- Working Knowledge of F5 Load Balancers, Palo Alto Firewall and ASA firewalls.
- Performed maintenance as needed on equipment, performed device upgrades, modifications of configurations, password changes.
- DHCP, DNS, NAT, PAT, Port security, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF.
- Backup and restore device configurations.
- Working Knowledge of network monitoring tools like Wireshark, Solar winds, Inflobox, Nessus, Nmap.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, self-motivated, self-managed, result oriented, practical, always looking to learn and contribute.
- Gained hands on experience with STP, VTP, VLAN trunking.
- Installed and setup Cisco routers and switches according to deployment plans.
- Setup ACLs, Port Security and implemented Firewall security policies for internal users and DMZ servers.
- Familiar with project Management tools and ticketing systems tools such as Jira, Freshdesk.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Economics
University of Buea
Cameroon12.2014
Skills
- Equipment Configuration: Routing and Switching
- Devops Tools: Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible etc
- Network Problem Solving
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Data Backup and Migration
- Linux System Administration Skills
- Monitoring Design for SLA on Cloud Ops
- Basic level proficiency with Google Sheets , Microsoft Excel, SQL, Bash Scripting, Python
- Cloud Infrastructure Planning and Design
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Attention to Detail
- Adaptability and Ability to Learn Quickly
Certification
Google Associate Cloud Engineer
Certification ID: 5LPC1G(26-05-2022)
AWS CSA(04/2022)
Validation ID: RYYR7MK2LMR4Q0SD
RHCSA
Certification ID: 180-222-135
Timeline
Infrastructure Engineer
Doctor On Demand
03.2020 - 08.2020
Cloud Engineer
Vector Planning & Services, Inc.
02.2018 - 03.2020
NETWORK ENGINEER
Criterion Systems
07.2016 - 02.2018
Bachelor of Science - Economics
University of Buea
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