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Sikender Mohammad

Vice President Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer at MUFG Americas
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ANT MAVEN Jenkins XLDeploy Puppet Chef JIRA Bamboo Ansible Terraform Cloud Formation Service now Blue Prism 5.0 Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Shell ruby python JavaScript SQL Perl Lambda Subversion Git GitLab GitHub MS version source safe IBM- Rational Clear case Clear quest Team foundation service (TFS) Nagios Icinga2 Graylog2 Active Batch V9 Influx DB Graphite IAM Centrify ePAM My SQL Amazon Arora Amazon RDS Postgre SQL MongoDB Maria DB SQL Server Oracle AWS DMS Dynamo DB PING SiteMinder AWS Solutions Architect Professional AWS Solutions Architect - Associate UIPath Advanced RPA Developer Certification Certified Scrum Master(CSM) AI Algorithm PCF Control Tower NIST Controls Bosh Director Terraform Splunk Cruise Control Active Batch Graylog 2.1 Icinga2 Nagios 4.3.1 Blue Prism Chef Cookbooks AWS CLI AWS Console Docker Kubernetes Selenium Python Scripts HP ALM JIRA (Agile) XLDeploy Bamboo Jenkins GitHub SVN RPM

Research Interests

Automation Release Engineering DevOps Collaboration Optimization Lean Agile Continuous Integration Configuration Management Self-learning Analytic Ability Multi-tasking Teamwork Leadership Strategic Planning Problem Solving

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💼 Experience

Vice President Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer

MUFG Americas · January 2020 - Present
Coupled with my certifications around AWS, Responsible for Automating cloud infrastructure deployment and release distribution process for multi cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Implemented CI/CD pipelines using open source tools like Jenkins, git and terraform practicing best practice of implementation. Implemented IAM best practices maintaining CIS standards for AWS cloud. Implementing and supporting the Identity & Access Management program architecture, infrastructure capabilities, components and standards in Amazon Web Services. Specifically, responsible for contributing to activities for IAM component designs, IAM service development, Service integration implementation and Operations of Enterprise-Wide IAM services for all company and technology partners. Responsibilities: Working with stakeholders to better understand the scope and implement continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline. Providing technical leadership in architecture, continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, scripting of server configuration, and repeatable process automation. Engineer and implement AWS IAM capabilities, thoroughly testing in lower environments before checking templates in for release to higher environments Automating, Configuring and deploying instances on AWS using terraform (IaaC automation) Build and deployment via CI/CD pipeline using Bitbucket and Jenkins. Implementing AWS best practice IAM policies and integrating the users with SSO SAML authentication with federated login. Configure AWS AD managed service by creating two-way trust relationship, configuring conditional forwarders to enable on-premise authentication to AWS. Automate and spin up AWS accounts using Control Tower automation, making sure necessary guardrails are enabled for all the accounts. Design and develop automation workflows, develop enhancements to continuously monitor the unused roles from all the AWS accounts. Pilot new cloud native IAM tools for management and automation of IAM processes Configured alert notifications for any non-complaint roles existing in all the accounts. Actively participate in successful delivery of product roadmaps, backlogs, and tracking task metrics for teams performance. Working with cloud engineering to automate the infrastructure deployments aliging the best practices Extend active directory services from on premise to hybrid cloud and implement HA architecture. Automate and implement NIST controls aligning the financial sector best practices and tools in place.

Cloud DevOps Engineer

SLALOM LLC · October 2019 - January 2020
Coupled with my certifications around AWS and RPA, Responsible for Automating cloud infrastructure deployment and release distribution process for multi cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Assisted Company in migrating major workloads to multi cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Service using infrastructure as a code (Iaac). Implemented CI/CD pipelines using open source tools like Jenkins, git and terraform practicing best practice of implementation. Responsibilities: Working with stakeholders to better understand the scope and implement continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline. Architect and implement hybrid cloud solution aligning best practices Analyze and perform migration disposition across the on-premise infrastructure and use the disposition to perform migration from on premise to hybrid cloud. Ensured cloud environments security policies and architecture are very well aligned with best practices prescribed by cloud providers. Analyzed system and implemented scalability to increase the performance of system following the best practice of cloud scalability. Configured schedules/policies to start/stop instances during non-working or non-utilized hours depending upon the usage of service. Working with interface partners to uphold and implement best practices for build/compile, testing and deployment. Providing technical leadership in architecture, continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, scripting of server configuration, and repeatable process automation. Actively participate in successful delivery of product roadmaps, backlogs, and tracking task metrics for teams performance. Prioritize the critical and time dependent tasks and actively involved in pre and post release activities. Analyze the manual process in place and implement continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline for both infrastructure and application automation. Configure automatic alert notifications to internal users using the best practices of cloud security by restricting access to external users. Creating IAM user policies and groups to align them with the best practices of AWS cloud. Created terraform templates to launch the infrastructure of AWS and Azure cloud platforms. Coordinating with IT operation teams for service now tickets to solve the incidents associate with cloud DevOps automation as well as cloud security related items. Analyse and perform migration for appropriate dispositions (Rehost, Replatform and Refactor) to multi cloud migrations (AWS and Azure) Developed process to group application dependencies and select the right tool while reducing the risk and streamline workloads migration to cloud. Configured and implemented Control Tower to spin up landing zones of sub accounts of all environments and followed best practice of security protocols to all the accounts. Configure transit gateway with on prem with BGP routes and created transit gateway vpc attachments in all accounts by sharing transit gateway ID using resource share access. Following best practice of AWS cloud, implemented ingress/egress best practice restricting the CIDR ranges to on prem subnets Configured VPC flow logs, Cloud watch logs and sent the logs to S3 bucket in log archive account. Configured Splunk to read / filter the logs from s3 bucket in log archive account. Implemented the best practice reusable module structure using terraform and configured the backend to store the state file with an encryption and upload to s3 bucket. Configured ci/cd pipeline using bitbucket terraform and Jenkins, making sure the automation is implemented with the best practice.

Cloud DevOps Engineer

SLALOM LLC · October 2019 - January 2020
Clients: CalPERS (Oct19 to Jan20) o CI/CD implementation o Analyse and perform migration disposition to hybrid cloud platforms o Major workload migration using disposition of rehost, replatform and refactor to hybrid cloud platforms o Implemented end to end monitoring of stack o Best practices and Secure by Design o UIPath POC to automate the data manipulation

Cloud DevOps Engineer

SLALOM LLC · July 2019 - October 2019
Clients: Apple (July19 to Oct19) o CI/CD pipeline o IaaC Automation o Lambda deployments o IAM least privilege access analysis o Excessive permissions Coupled with my certifications around AWS and RPA, Responsible for Automating cloud infrastructure deployment and release distribution process for multi cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Assisted Company in migrating major workloads to multi cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Service using infrastructure as a code (Iaac). Implemented CI/CD pipelines using open source tools like Jenkins, git and terraform practicing best practice of implementation.

Sr. Specialist (Management Consulting) DevOps Engineer/Cloud DevOps Engineer

KPMG LLP · April 2016 - February 2019
Clients: State of Hawaii, Department of Human Services -KOLEA(April16 to Feb19) - CI/CD implementation - Automated the critical workloads that processes around 350 to 400k Hawaii resident applications - Implemented end to end monitoring of stack State of California RPA using Blue Prism (Mar18 to Dec18) - Automated the oracle stack manual data manipulation applications using Blue Prim - Implemented end to end monitoring State of Oregon CI/CD agile implementation (Oct17 to Dec18) - Implemented CI/CD in agile project meeting the tight deadliness with effective delivery of work - Contributed to phase -2 Goldman Sachs by Marcus (Jan19 to June19) - Architected and automated the AWS Organization as well as infrastructure - Deployed PCF on AWS using IaacC automation - Implemented NIST controls in place - Security by Design architecture - Least privilege access Automate deployment and release distribution process. Build and deployment implemented continuous integration using Jenkins, XL Deploy, Git from scratch. Automated middleware SOA, Medicaid Rulebase, Portal and Siebel enterprise stacks using CI tool Jenkins and Deployment tool Deploy. Assisted Company by implementing backup/disaster recovery system for entire CI system. Integrated defect tracking system with continuous integrated system. Responsibilities: Managing and maintaining systems related to build, continuous integration Working with release team for deployment work Created infrastructure related to application deployments in XL Deploy repository Maintaining repository with respect to latest deployments Generating reports and scheduling tasks deployments Working with architecture and infrastructure teams to continually improve the build, continuous integration and release process with a focus on automation and efficiency Maintaining scheduled builds in Jenkins as a part of continuous integration work Working on python scripts for automated deployment tasks in xldeploy Integrated various applications using active batch to process and interact effectively with business partners Also monitoring Active batch activities daily from end to end and be a problem solver for any issues during run Automated Invoice systems of business partner using blue prism, robotics process automation and reduced lot of manual effort Actively monitoring the systems using Nagios 4.3.1 for centralized logging and server metrics using icinga2. Using Gray log 2.1 for monitoring logs from different stacks at one end to identify the issues earlier Automate end-to-end delivery and management of infrastructure and application deployment and releases using Chef. Performed software configuration/release management activities for three different Java applications. Designed and implemented Continuous Integration process using tools like Hudson with approval from development and other affected teams. Defined processes to build and deliver software baselines for internal as well as external customers. Deployed the Java applications into web application servers like Web logic. Maintained systems working on Amazon Web Services (AWS) console and AWS CLI to launch and manage VM's with Public/Private subnet and setup load balancing, security groups etc. Developed micro services using AWS lambda, AWS API Gateway. Implemented Chef Cookbooks for OS component configuration to keep AWS server's template minimal. Implemented and managed continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS, Used Subversion as source code repositories. Developed infrastructure on AWS Cloud, extensive usage of, AMI's, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, Route53, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, ELB, Auto Scaling, DynamoDB, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Watch, ECS. Coordinating with IT operation teams for any service now tickets to solve the incidents associate with automation Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) console and AWS CLI to launched and managed VM's with Public/Private subnet and developed a setup for load balancing, security groups etc. Using terraform to build infrastructure (Iaas) and PCF (pivotal cloud foundry) to deploy the PAS and Bosh director on AWS for scalability and high elasticity. Created terraform templates to create VPC peering and route table updates between same or multiple VPC accounts. Migrating services from on premise to AWS cloud using server and database migration tools. Monitored cloud watch logs and created auto alert email notifications of api logs. Created CI/CD pipeline from scratch for java-based applications and deployed on WebLogic servers using tools like o SCM: SVN, GitHub o Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Bamboo o Continuous Deployment: XLDeploy o Automation: AWS, Ansible and On-prem (Jenkins pipeline with XLD) o Automated Test: Selenium, Python Scripts o Project Mgmt.: JIRA (Agile), HP ALM o Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

🎓 Education

Wilmington University

Masters in Information Technology ·

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad

in Electronics and Comm. Engineering ·
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🏅 Certificates & Licenses (4)

Certified Scrum Master
· Issued on
UIPath Advanced RPA Developer Certification
· Issued on
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS · Issued on
AWS Solutions Architect Professional
AWS · Issued on
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