Randy D. Smith
San Antonio
Summary
Skilled AWS Cloud Engineer with expertise in designing, deploying, and managing cloud solutions. Proficient in EC2, S3, RDS, and IAM, with a strong focus on AWS best practices. Analyzed technical requirements to implement cost-effective strategies and enhance efficiency, delivering innovative solutions that optimize system performance.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS Cloud Engineer
Infosys
San Antonio
04.2020 - Current
- Responsible for design, implementation and operational support for Cloud-base infrastructure solutions
- Create Proof-Of-Concept (POC) and architecture for upcoming implementation
- Deploy EC2 instances using AMIs (Amazon Linux 2, RHEL, and Windows), bootstrap instances, and secure instances using AWS Keys, security groups, etc.
- Create Cloud Formation Templates (CFT) to automate deployment and configuration of various AWS services such as; VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, AutoScalingGroup(ASG), EBS, RDS, EFS, Redshift, DybamoDB etc.
- Create and manage VPCs, subnets (private and public), NAT gateways in a multi-region, multi-zone infrastructure landscape as per requirements
- Create and manage security groups, network ACLs, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a security of organization’s assets in AWS public cloud.
- Configure Route53, elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute traffic, optimize cost, tolerate fault and scale a highly available environment
- Grant access to 2500+ Active Directory federated Domain Users to AWS resources. Create and manage IAM users, groups & roles.
- Implement automated deployment of Golden Amazon Machine Image (GAMI) for EC2 deployment and update in ASG
- Assisted in building and deployment of CloudWatch integration with Splunk, for monitoring AWS production resources
- Implement and deploy Lambda Function to automate rotation IAM User credentials (Access Keys)
- Create S3 buckets for data storage in AWS cloud, manage bucket policies and implement lifecycle as per organization’s guidelines
- Create parameters and SSM documents using AWS Systems Manager
- Implement account wide deployment using AWS Systems Manager Run Command.
- Deploy hardening script or Security Control Assessment (SCA) on entire Windows Domain
- Implement and deploy infrastructure wide fixes to resolve vulnerabilities, including zero day vulnerabilities
System Administrator
FDIC (GDIT, CSRA & Unisys)
Arlington
02.2010 - 10.2019
- Responsible for service restoration management across multiple frameworks
- Monitor current hardware and infrastructure health via network monitoring applications (NetCool and SolarWinds)
- Responsible for Event Management across all FDIC technical platforms (Server, Network, Storage, Etc.)
- Works with network administrators to configure and troubleshoot issues emanating from the network
- Respond to and create incidents for application and server based alerts
- Assists in the coordination and planning of disaster recovery programs
- Provides both a technical and managerial oversight within the Enterprise Wide Command Center (EWCC) across FDIC to ensure the coordination of operations and maintain business continuity.
- Responsible for escalations to management for any Severity one (SEV1) issues.
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting for Microsoft office Suite (2010) and Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software issues on workstations
- Configure and troubleshoot PointSec/ EndPoint and Entrust Security Issue.
- Interface with outside vendors to coordinate software and hardware problem resolution.
Education
BS - Computer Technology
Bowie State University
Bowie, MDBowie, MD
Skills
- AWS architecture
- Cloud Formation Templates (CFT)
- Cloud automation
- Cloud cost optimization
- Infrastructure deployment
- Automated deployment
- Cloud-based infrastructure
- AWS Lambda
- AWS data migration tools
- AWS Database Migration Services
- DevOps tools
- Infrastructure coding
- Performance tracking
- Resource monitoring
- Security
- Firewalls
- Load balancers
- VPC
- DNS
- YAML
- JSON
- Boto3
- CloudWatch
- Cloudtrail
- Disaster recovery
- Route 53
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Datadog
- Linux
- Windows servers
- Windows EC2 Server
- Linux EC2 Server
- AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory
- Active Directory setup
- AD Connector
- Disaster recovery
- Route 53
Certification
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Timeline
AWS Cloud Engineer
Infosys
04.2020 - Current
System Administrator
FDIC (GDIT, CSRA & Unisys)
02.2010 - 10.2019
BS - Computer Technology
Bowie State University