- Responsible for architechting, designing, and leading project implementations for the infrastructure engineering organization. - migration of current application stack from datacenters on to AWS Cloud manages service (over 500 servers)- managing onsite team of engineers- documenting and reporting migration process - planning and implementing live monitoring and notifications via Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, DataDog, Zabbix- implementing HA Load Balanced architecture (no single point of failure)- auditing AWS and application stack security and access- hardening application stack for PCI compliance- planning and implementing Cloud backup and recovery solution- optimising platform utilisation and overall AWS cost savings of 40% (per annum)- utilising AWS services: VPC, ELB, Route53, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, IAM, Direct Connect, CLI, API- stack automation via Ansible and Puppet- planning AMI auto provisioning and Auto Scaling- penetration and vulnerability testing- daily reporting to managed service provider- multi-layer NAT / Proxy implementation

Maintaining and creating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines, to ensure the development process is automated and repeatable. Helping to build and deploy system infrastructure in a cloud focused environment while providing operational advice to developers when appropriate at EMC. Another responsibility will be monitoring existing clusters of deployed instances in the Cloud maintaining backups and performance (manually scaling where appropriate), identifying errors, troubleshooting, improving alerting on failure and also deploying new code releases to those environments.

Enhance infrastructure security, including VPC hardening and Security Group modifications using AnsibleManage network configurations within our AWS VPC and VPNStrengthen our DDoS and intrusion prevention systems via WAF injection, ELB configuration, and auto-scalingLock down access to our systems by implementing Google Apps integration, ldap, or similarOwn the budget and auditing of our cloud configuration, including using a tool like Scout to audit for changes to our infrastructure

Sr. Performance Test Engineer at MICROSOFT. Worked on Microsoft VSTS-2010, 2012, TFS ALM Tools like Coded UI Test, Load Test, Web Performance Test, Microsoft Test Manager 2012 (MTM), Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS), Visual Studio Team System 2010/2012 (VSTS) in Corporate Social-Collaboration & Social Networking Domains.

* Microsoft Infrastructure services* Directory Services Infrastructure re-design and Windows Domains restructuring* Infrastructure support: Dev, QA, and Production.* Systems integrations with Active Directory using LDAP.* Domains and servers security hardening to meet PCI requirements* Provisioned servers, applications, and Web Services.* Deployment of SCCM 2012 multi-site / domains* Windows Operations Team formation: ask me about this* MS failover clustering 2008r2 and 2012, IIS, and DFS replication* Preparation of technical documentation

• Primary technical contact responsible for providing consultative - proactive and/or reactive support to Cisco end customers. • Responsible for Plan, Build & Run activities for Cisco UC and Collaboration solutions.• Support pre-sales activity for highly complex networks.• Define scope and develop Statements of Work for customer projects.• Set technical direction for Cisco Advanced Services best practices and functional roles within customer engagements • Act in a technical team leadership capacity and provide support for as focal point for highly complex customer problems.