VISHAL SURESH BABU
Manassas,VA
Summary
Cloud professional with extensive expertise in managing cloud infrastructure and deploying scalable solutions. Proficient in leveraging cloud platforms, automation tools, and security protocols to enhance operational efficiency. Committed to driving operational excellence within cloud environments while optimizing infrastructure for stability and performance. Demonstrated ability to ensure seamless integration of cloud solutions with business processes, fostering innovation and growth.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
AWS
Herndon, VA
04.2020 - Current
- 6 years of experience in working directly with technical teams from AWS enterprise, customers and partners to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs for their application deployment.
- Led incident response efforts, diagnosing and resolving issues in cloud environments swiftly.
- Managed and provisioned with CloudFormation and Terraform templates for provisioning Infrastructure as a code using scripts, simplifying deployment process and reducing
time-to-market by 30%. - Offered solutions for different Linux and Windows problems for customer using their applications on AWS, and assisted large businesses as a Linux and Windows system administrator for their AWS servers.
- Worked with Microsoft Active Directory as a domain administrator and AD-DNS to manage Domain trusts and domain joined systems and help built Windows Failover cluster on AWS EC2 for SQL Servers.
- Built automations around AWS Systems Manager (SSM) using Powershell, Shell, python, to help drive enterprise customer requirements into automated way in AWS.
- Expertise in AWS IAM and Organizations to centrally manage and govern environment as resources grow and scale-out.
- Utilized AWS Config and CloudTrail as part of the governance framework to enable compliance, auditing, troubleshooting, etc of AWS accounts and resources.
- Served as a point of contact for a leading healthcare client, assisting them in transitioning to cloud services following a significant security breach that resulted in substantial financial losses.
- Configured and maintained AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC, resulting in a 25% improvement in system performance and a 15% reduction in infrastructure costs.
- Troubleshooted various application deployments, recreated customer issues, and build proof of concept applications. Applied advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers individual needs.
Network and Cloud Systems Engineer
EmpowerID
06.2017 - Current
- Deploying and Managing onsite systems and equipment (Cisco switches, servers, Cisco ASA, etc.)
- Deploying and Testing Network equipment including routers, switches, firewall etc.
- Deploy and manage Windows Server environments onsite, hosted in Amazon AWS, Azure, Vmware.
- Develop automation scripts to implement using PowerShell and EmpowerID workflows, and Chef Scripts
- Managing DNS, Active directory and group policy management, VPN.
- Assist in moving existing private cloud workloads to public clouds, specifically AWS and Azure.
- Working on various SSO, Federation, Certificates and other IAM techniques.
- Provide support on-call 24/7 for any troubleshooting or corrective actions related to incidents impacting any availability within the production environments.
Education
Masters of Science - ECE
University of Illinois At Chicago
05-2017
Skills
- Python
- Wireshark,Cisco Packet tracer, Active Directory,IIS
- Windows and Linux Administration
- IAM, SSO-SAML, WS-FED, Active Directory Management, RBAC, WebSSO
- Routing and Switching Protocols
- CI and CD pipelines
- Cloud infrastructure management
- Network troubleshooting
- Windows server administration
- Terraform expertise
- Kubernetes administration
- AWS Cloud and Azure
Accomplishments
AWS IAM Expert
AWS Windows Subject Matter Expert
AMS All Star Award Recipient
Certification
- Cisco Certified Network Associate - Routing and Switching 200-125: Cisco ID: CSCO13121740
- Embedded C certified by RCAI, USA.
- Completed CCNA Network Fundamentals conducted by CISCO networking academy.
Timeline
Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
AWS
04.2020 - Current
Network and Cloud Systems Engineer
EmpowerID
06.2017 - Current
Masters of Science - ECE
University of Illinois At Chicago