Yusuf Barrett
Springfield,VA
Summary
To obtain a position where I can maximize my multilayered skills, quality assurance, program development, customer service and a successful track record in the Amazon Web and Active Directory service environment.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS Cloud Engineer
ECS Federal
Fairfax, VA
06.2019 - Current
- Creating and Configuring Linux and Window EC2 Instances
- Creating AMIs
- Proficient in Confluence, Jira, Gitlab and Artifactory
- Creating user accounts in Jira, Confluence, Gitlab and Artifactory
- Creating Customer accounts in Active Directory and AWS
- Unlocking customer accounts in AWS and Active Directory
- Activating and deactivating AWS MFA for customer accounts
- Generating Passwords and resetting Passwords for customer AWS and Active Directory accounts
- Creating Production and Non Production accounts through Active Directory
- Creating AWS MUA accounts in IAM management and AWS ADFS accounts
- Perform Patching of Window Servers
- Creating Snapshots of AMIs and volumes
- Giving user Deploy permissions in Artifactory
- Switching roles in AWS
- Centrify Accounts in Prod and Non-Prod Environments
- Adding customers to Groups in AWS and Active Directory
- Sending Encrypted emails with customers login credentials
- Troubleshooting ADFS, AWS, Active directory and Citrix desktop issues
Devops Engineer
Infozen
Bethesda, MD, USA
07.2016 - 06.2019
- Creating Citrix desktops for customers
- Proficient with Remote Desktop
- Creating DEVOPS accounts for customers through Active Directory
- Assigning roles in AWS and Active Directory
- Giving customers access to windows Bastion host
- Creating S3 buckets and giving customers permission to access the MUA S3 dirty buckets
- Opening Ports in Amazon EC2 security Groups
Armed Security Officer
Ameriguard Security Systems
10.2008 - 12.2018
- Responded quickly to incidents and assessed active situations for security concerns.
- Underwent and maintained firearms certification in compliance with state laws and organizational standards.
- Performed hourly patrols of building areas, parking lots and facility grounds.
- Enforced company policies and procedures consistently across various sites while maintaining professionalism at all times.
- Completed full building and grounds patrols to spot and investigate concerns.
- Performed routine inspections of security equipment, identifying maintenance needs to prevent system failures.
- Demonstrated sound judgment under pressure when making critical decisions regarding site safety and threat mitigation measures.
- Checked personnel ID badges and issued temporary credentials to visitors.
- Responded decisively to emergency situations with effective crisis management tactics, mitigating potential harm or damage.
- Enhanced security by conducting thorough patrols and monitoring CCTV systems for suspicious activity.
- Maintained detailed incident reports, providing clear documentation of events for management review and action planning.
Education
Cloud Academy
San Francisco, CASkills
- Dell PowerEdge Servers
- VMWare
- AWS
- EC2
- S3
- EBS
- ELB
- VPC
- RDS
- Route53
- Cloud watch
- DNS
- TCP/IP
- Apache
- MySQL
- Nginx
- Ansible
- LAMP
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Remedy
- Amazon Linux
- Red Hat Linux
- Windows XP
- Windows 2007
- CloudWatch
- Active Directory
- Windows Remote desktop
- Citrix Desktop
- Bash
- Shell
Certification
- AWS Certified Professionals Solution Architect
- CompTIA Security + Certification
Citizenship
U.S Citizen
Hobbies and Interests
Cloud Engineer
Clearance - Type
Top Secret Clearance
Timeline
AWS Cloud Engineer
ECS Federal
06.2019 - Current
Devops Engineer
Infozen
07.2016 - 06.2019
Armed Security Officer
Ameriguard Security Systems
10.2008 - 12.2018
Cloud Academy