Cloud Engineer

Tauqeer Iqbal
Phone No: (469) 651-7598
E-mail: tauqeer.iqbal816@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Organized, Goal-Oriented and results driven AWS Cloud engineer with diverse professional experience in IT industry
specific to Data center management, AWS Cloud, general Systems Administration, Change, Product and Project
Management. Strong attention to detail with prioritized work method to face the challenging work environment and
deliver quality output, solid knowledge and experience in Amazon Web Services, open source technologies and best
engineering practices of CI/CD. Possess outstanding client interaction and relationship management skills resulting
in long lasting relationships with team members and stakeholders, Self-driven team player with excellent inter-
personal Communication and Presentation skills both verbal and written.
 Proven Capabilities in translating customer requirements into technical design Documents and ensuring
clear communication of those requirements to Business, Design and Development Teams
 Extensive Experience in Configuration management and Infrastructure provisioning using AWS Cloud
Formation
 Expertise in troubleshoot build problems as they arise & work with engineering team to resolve issues
 Expertise in Defect management plan & root cause analysis
 Strong ability to troubleshoot any issues generated while building, deploying, running environments
Certifications
AWS Certified Sysops Administrator - Associate
License 9DDHNSECKJBE1YKW Certification Date: Oct 2017 – Oct 2019
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (Expired)
License AWS-ASA-19435 Certification Date: Aug 2016 – Aug 2018
Scrum Fundamentals Certified
License 608234 Certification Date: Jan 2018 – Jan 2021

Education
Masters of Science Engineering - Engineering Management August 2015
Oklahoma Christian University 3.6 CGPA
Bachelors of Electrical Engineering – Telecommunications August 2013
Usman Institute of Technology - Hamdard University 3.74 CGPA

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Platforms: Red Hat Linux, Windows Server 2008, 2012 Windows XP Professional, Windows 7, Windows 10,
Ubuntu
Tools: Apica, Splunk, Zabbix, Prometheus, StackStorm, Pagerduty, Appdynamics, Slack, Mir3, HPSM, Jira,
Hive, VersionOne, Anaconda, PowerShell ISE, SQL Developer, SQL Management Studio, Grafana,
Jenkins, Chef, GIT, Terraform, Selenium Scripting
SDLC: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework
AWS: R53, Load Balancers, EC2, Auto-Scaling, Systems Manager, Opsworks, SNS, IAM, AWS KMS,
CLOUDHSM, NACL’s, ACL’s, SG, CloudFormation(JSON/YML), S3, Bucket management, Data
Lifecycle management, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch, EBS, VPC, VPN, Federation, Directory
Services, Event driven Automation, Clout Trail, CloudWatch
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS Architect/Migration Lead - Accenture October 2018 – Present

Project: DOW/Dupont Spin
Project Background: DOW and Dupont announced their merger/spin off in 2017, which created three entities in
different industrial groups. As an Architect and Migration lead my objective was to migrate their business-critical
Applications to Cloud and few on-premises infrastructures. The core objective of my role revolved around
designing an efficient, highly available & cloud optimized infrastructure, in addition to migrating data for all related
applications and handing over the Applications after successful business testing. Below are few highlights of the
tasks:
 Corteva Agriscience
 Migration Lead for Multiple Non-ERP Applications
 Worked as Migration Lead for Corteva Agriscience
 Lead the migration of multi region based worldwide Application Operations Dashboard, data
comprising of 33,500+ user Worldwide with data related to Enormous number of sites worldwide
 Worked with HTML web pages configurations, dot Net based application
 Automation done for OPD for Application related dependencies
 Deployed OPD with HA clustered SQL DB Configuration
 Deployed and Configured Enterprise Printing solution OMS in Cloud with HA to enable printing
Solution for all the sites across the world comprising of 3200+ printers
 Deployed and Configured Enterprise Label Printing Solution in cloud with HA to enable Label printing
for all the sites
 Tools & Technologies Used: Visual Studio, shell scripting, Powershell Scripting, HPQC, Azure Storage,
Azure Storage Utilities, Azure Access manager, Vm’s, ILB’s, NSG’s
 Lead Cutover simulation
 Actively assisted in Go live for the responsible applications
 SpecCo
 Migration Lead for Multiple Non-ERP Applications
 Worked as Migration Lead for SpecCo
 Lead the migration of multi region based worldwide Application Operations Dashboard, data
comprising of 33,500+ user Worldwide with data related to Enormous number of sites worldwide
 Worked with HTML web pages configurations, dot Net based application
 Automation done for OPD for Application related dependencies
 Deployed OPD with HA clustered SQL DB Configuration
 Deployed and Configured Enterprise Printing solution OMS in Cloud with HA to enable printing
Solution for all the sites across the world comprising of 3200+ printers
 Deployed and Configured Enterprise Label Printing Solution in cloud with HA to enable Label printing
for all the sites
 Deployed an international level tax compliance Application for the Organization
 Tools & Technologies Used: Visual Studio, shell scripting, Powershell Scripting, HPQC, Azure Storage,
Azure Storage Utilities, Azure Access manager, Vm’s, ILB’s, NSG’s
 Drafted the whole cutover plan with all the tasks and duration
 Lead the 2 Cutover Simulations
 Cross trained the Run and Maintain teams on the application and infrastructure
 Documented all the details for the application, in respective runbooks

AWS DevOps Engineer/Production Support Engineer – Capital One January 2017 – October 2018
 Hands-on experience with tools like Zabbix, Apica, Splunk, Mir3, Graphana, HPSM, PagerDuty
 Extensive monitoring for critical applications with effective response time leading to rapid resolutions
in possible cases
 Deep understanding with implementation experience of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process
that includes Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment Projects and Products
 Experienced in settings checks, scenarios, user administration, URL analysis, reports generations for
multiple platforms, for both customer and internal facing URLs using Apica
 Created Selenium scripts and integrated Scripts with Apica to create required test Scenarios
 Provided hands on training to the team members on Apica Synthetic monitoring tool
 Integrated the monitoring infrastructure with Prometheus for infrastructure and application level
monitoring
 Working experience for automating infrastructure deployments using Terraform/SLS for monitoring
intelligence and SRB’s projects
 Provisioned Infrastructure for StackStorm-Event Driven Automation
 Integrated StackStorm with AWS, Pagerduty and Slack
 Migrated Monitoring from Apica to New Relic, Configured infrastructure monitoring, APM, Minion
 Dashboards and Alerting Using DATADOG, granular metrics level Monitoring
 Hands-on experience with PowerShell Scripting, Shell, Python, JSON, YAML
 Working experience with Jenkins, Chef and puppet
 Developed CloudFormation Templates to deploy infrastructure using Amazon CloudFormation
 Used Microservices within automated deployments
 Created Bootstrap scripts for automating deployments
 Hands-on extensive log analysis experience on Splunk
 Configured the Route 53 DNS and load Balancers for the VPC
 Configured the Disaster Recovery for the Application by creating the Read Replica's in another region
with the minimum instances possible
 Customized the AWS Cloud Watch metrics and SNS accordingly using Amazon API for the custom
metrics to appear on the cloud watch to know the health of the Instances and to monitor the
performance accordingly
 AWS Provisioning & Troubleshooting, Enterprise VPN and Amazon VPC integration with data center
 Used the AWS KMS for the password Encryption and storing the secret attributes
 Configured Security Groups & Load Balancers for instances and with extensive care for the
Connectivity Issues
 Application deployment and data Migration on AWS
 Installed application on AWS EC2 Instances and configured the storage on S3 Buckets and EBS
Volumes
 Created images of running application setup for backup and Recovery
 Attended the Minor/Major Event change control meetings to get necessary approvals for the
deployment request
 Designed Infrastructure keeping HA and DR as a core requirement of deployment
 Deployed Internal Apica Monitoring Application for applications running in private subnet for
internal users
 Created Auto-Scaling Groups with appropriate Launch Configurations to maintain HA application
infrastructure
 Configured SNS topics integrated with CloudWatch alarms for monitoring of running Amazon services
 Created CloudWatch Dashboards for different metrics of the running infrastructure
 Integrated Incident management platform Pager Duty with Amazon CloudWatch for notification
purpose
 Provided Hands on training to the team on integration of Pager Duty & CloudWatch
 Configured notification settings on Pager Duty, with escalation policies and acknowledgement
policies
 Used Lambda functions within CFT’s to use latest AMI’s
 Linux and Windows Administration
 Professionally trained on Chef (intermediate level)
  Deep understanding of Chef Recipes, Roles, Cookbooks, Kitchen, Environments
 Profound Knowledge on Cloud Security Standards
 Provided technical support, including identifying and resolving problems on Cloud
 Constructive feedback to 3rd level teams for mitigating the risk and resolutions in case of incidents

Data Center Consultant - Recruit Tek February 2014 – December 2016

Acquired the knowledge of Designing and Implementation of Data Center Architecture, learned different
strategies, scenarios and solutions of implementing cloud services in most appropriate way possible, working with
different hardware and software available in market, Cluster management, vSphere, vCentre, Hypervisor
installations, VNIC’s and many other concepts and practices. Also went under extensive training for certification of
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect – Associate
 Created the Polices for the S3 buckets and also on the IAM Role based polices and customized the JSON
template
 Configured the Route 53 DNS and load Balancers for the VPC
 Configured the Disaster Recovery for the Application by creating the Read Replica's in another region
with the minimum instances possible
 Created snapshot of a VMware ESX Server Guest VM
 Deployed & Migrated Oracle database in AWS cloud
 Monitored API activity trail, cloud resource configuration
 Backup and export Route53 zones, EBS volumes, RDS and EC2 instances, copy snapshots to other regions
for DR
 Customized the AWS cloud Watch metrics and SNS accordingly using Amazon API for the custom metrics
to appear on the cloud watch to know the health of the Instances and to monitor the performance
accordingly
 AWS Provisioning & Troubleshooting, Enterprise VPN and Amazon VPC integration with data center
 Used the AWS KMS for the password Encryption and storing the secret attributes
 Created VPC network with EIP’s also configured Security Groups & Load Balancers for instances and with
extensive care for the Connectivity Issues
 Application deployment and data Migration on AWS
 Installed the application on AWS EC2 AMI Instances and also configured the storage on S3 Buckets
 Virtual datacenter services including Analyzing, designing, implementation and administration
 Implementation and extension of networks to the virtual datacenters with proper network security
 Service sizing, Performance metrics, Cost Analysis, Security and access
 Prepared tutorials for the AWS training
 Provided high level technical support, including identifying and resolving problems on Cisco supported
products for e-Commerce infrastructure
 Attended the Minor/Major Event change control meetings to get necessary approvals for the deployment
request

Network Engineer Intern – Damcon Engineering October 2013 – December 2013

 Learned different concepts of Networking
 Data Center Administration
 Learned VLAN LAN WAN MAN and other related technologies
 Configured Lan networks
 Switches configuration
 Passive Network Cabling in a data center
 Hands on router configuration training
 Implemented VLan configuration
 Gained firsthand knowledge of Building Management System
 Maintaining the data center supplies and inventories
  Assuring the cleanliness of the data center and the surveillance room.
 Creating day to day reports of the tasks performed and scheduling task for next day as per status

System Administrator Intern - SCT Group September 2012 – October 2012

 Provided project and technical support
 CCTV Surveillance operator
 Passive Network Cabling in a data center
 Hands on router configuration training
 Implemented VLan configuration
 Gained firsthand knowledge of Building Management System
 Maintaining the data center supplies and inventories
 Assuring the cleanliness of the data center and the surveillance room.
 Creating day to day reports of the tasks performed and scheduling task for next day as per status

Technical Support Engineer Intern - United Mobiles July 2012 – August 2012
 Provided technical support to customers including repairs, sales invoice, assistance
 Mobile engineering, repair and maintenance
 Studied and worked on different cell phone architectures for various vendors
 Made an assessment and improvement report for analytical understanding of processes and trends
 Resolved software and hardware related issues
 Studied different bands of communication technology
 Understanding of signals propagation

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

President – UIT Telecom Society January 2010 – August 2013

 Organized National Conference on Emerging Technologies (COMNET ’10 ’11 '12 & ‘13)
 Created Milestones and Maintained resources for accomplishing the milestones
 Created agenda for weekly meetings, monthly milestones and on event day flow and resource allocation.
 Developed strategic plans to promote the organization and made sure that the appropriate steps are
carried out to make the events successful.
 Lead generation for the sponsorship campaign and generated funds worth USD 25,000.(Pkr 2,500,000/=)
 Conducted Interviews, hired and trained the task officers for Marketing purposes
 Managed multiple teams comprising of 150 task officers to run aggressive parallel marketing
 Responsible for Event Designs and Program Layout
 Conducted research on Current trending topics in IT and Communications Sector
 Coordinated with Industry experts for the delivery of respective technical sessions
 Scheduled Meetings with different business professionals for contributing their time and financial
resources in the event
 Drove Event Sponsorship and Publicity campaigns
 Conducted Meetings with national and Multi-national ICT organizations for partnerships and workshops
 Documented Event Registration Records
 Team building, Team Management and internal briefings and preparation of Society's By-laws
OTHER PROJECTS
 Hospital Database Management system: a small scale DB project creating tables with
appropriate fields and relationships between the tables to manage and store the
necessary information in a structured and relevant manner
 Wi-Fi Based Patient Monitoring System: A research based project to create a smart
centralized environment for hospitals to monitor patients vitals from one central
location enabling hospitals a highly sensitive alert system, less labor work and 24/7
patient monitoring ability
 Troubleshoot using waterfall technique of engine breakdown represented in fishbone
diagram for analyzing different aspects causing failures to the system
 Research based project on comparison of different text compression techniques to
achieve maximum results
 Research based project on compression of text using image standards, to achieve high
rate of compression

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
 AWS Solution Architects - Professional  Microsoft Azure
 AWS Solution Architects - Associate  Data Center Architecture
 AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate  Cloud infrastructure
 Certified Cloud Security Professional  Cisco Network Associate
 Chef Fundamentals  VMWare Fundamentals
 Chef Intermediate

References:
Available upon Request.