Ricky Alexandre
Hollywood,FL
Summary
Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate with 8 years of solid experience architecting on AWS cloud platform in Finance, communication, and health industries. Had been involved in technical roles designing and implementing architecture solutions, enhanced smooth operations, cost optimizing, end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, event data analysis, troubleshooting, infrastructure security, system configurations, and maintenance to ensure best quality service.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
AWS Cloud Engineer
Boomi
2015.11 - Current
- Worked closely with teams to design and develop technically compliant, cloud-native enterprise architectures to meet business outcomes
- Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME), and point of contact for internal and external clients and managed over 20 customer calls a day
- Performed as Lead Architect taking solution ownership and oversaw the completion of 6 projects
- Designed highly available, cost-effective and fault-tolerant systems using EC2 instances, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
- Leveraged API Gateway, SNS and SQS to build architecture models with synchronous and asynchronous patterns to decouple, integrate and scale services
- Designed efficient database workloads to reduce latency and optimize throughput using read replicas and caches.
- Configured EC2 Auto Scaling with Elastic Load Balancing in cross-AZ and multi-AZ for high availability and fault tolerant
- Optimized networking for global applications using S3 Transfer Acceleration, Route 53 latency based routing, Global Accelerator and CloudFront
- Managed and monitored mission-critical systems for optimal performance and high level of availability
- Boosted network system, data availability and integrity through preventive maintenance and upgrade
- Implemented event-driven automation for quick respond and incidents remediation actions reducing MTTR by 20% using Amazon CloudWAtch and AWS Lambda
- Utilized AWS Config and CloudTrail as part of the governance framework to enable compliance, auditing, troubleshooting, etc of AWS accounts and resources
- Collected and Analyzed metrics, logs and events with Athena, QuickSight and CloudWatch Log Insights
- Optimized cost through a mixed of Reserved, Spot and On-Demand Instances, EC2 instance types, Auto Scaling and S3 storage classes
- Setup and configured systems for real time monitoring and alerts for log files, API calls and other events of importance
- Engaged in proactive resource optimization, capacity automation and resource planning which boosted operational performance by 10%
- Performed architecture/design reviews for applications, infrastructure, and network designs
- Participated in all phases of system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation
- Ensured data protection and assurance by encryption with AWS KMS
- Analyzed and made recommendations in areas of costs optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance and service limits
- Experienced in AWS Organizations SCPs to centrally manage and govern environment as resources grow and scale-out
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Fis
2012.07 - 2015.08
- Leveraged AWS IAM service to implement a strong identity foundation and enforced least privilege principle, credential management including STS and MFA
- Investigated and addressed system configuration issues to enhance usability and improve functionality
- Setup controls using preventive and detective guardrails for unauthorized actions and detected security weaknesses such as unencrypted EBS volumes
- Conducted in-depth security audits to identify vulnerabilities
- Reviewed and established metrics and alarms for tracking based on KPI in order to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements
- Managed and monitored all installed systems for highest level of availability
- Enabled versioning and configured S3 life cycle policies to backup and archived files in Glacier
- Scheduled regular backups by leveraging EC2 Lifecycle Manager to create snapshots of EBS volumes and define retention period as a cost-saving measure
- Monitored infrastructure, configurations audit and compliance verification of resources with CloudTrail and AWS Config
- Implemented network firewalls at all layers using security groups, NACL, AWS WAF, Advanced Shield and Firewall Manager
- In-depth knowledge of computing services: EC2 instances, containers, and Lambda functions
- Involved in designing and implementation of disaster recovery and failover plans with best RPO and RTO as applicable
- Experienced in network equipment: VPC, subnet, route table, Internet Gateway, NAT gateway, VPC Endpoint, AWS Direct Connect, VPG, VPC peering, Bashion Host, etc
- Evaluated existing procedures and processes and made proactive adjustments to meet changing demands and improve efficiency
- Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time
- Classified and encrypted data with KMS, managed secrets with Secret Manager and Parameter Store
- Configured logged files for real time monitoring and set alerts for important events using SNS to enable traceability
- Used security tools including GuardDuty, Macie and Detective to generate detailed findings and identify root causes of security issues
Education
Bachelor of Science - Economics
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL11.2014
Skills
- Architecture design
- Software Architecture
- Networking and protocols
- Automation of common tasks
- Configurations management
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Operational analysis
- Testing and maintenance
- Log management and analysis
- Diagnosing and resolving bugs
- Vulnerability and security management
- Erecting firewalls and network security
- Designing security controls
- Data, systems and asset security
Timeline
AWS Cloud Engineer
Boomi
2015.11 - Current
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Fis
2012.07 - 2015.08
Bachelor of Science - Economics
University of Florida
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