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Javeed Miyadad

Javeed Miyadad

Oakville,ON

Summary

Seasoned Systems Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, specializing in cloud and data center environments. Proficient in implementing and overseeing scalable, secure solutions utilizing AWS, streamlining processes through CI/CD pipelines, and implementing SRE methodologies to ensure system resilience and maximum uptime. Skilled in infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and fine-tuning performance in high-stakes scenarios. Demonstrated track record of fostering collaboration between development and operations teams to enhance efficiency and facilitate continuous delivery. Actively seeking roles as a Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer to further leverage expertise and drive innovation in cutting-edge technology environments.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Systems Engineer

First Derivatives Canada | KX
08.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for Managing the Complete KX Infrastructure by providing L3 Support for their Data Centers & also to the internal Server rooms having Applications and Databases hosted on premise Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows and few in AWS AWS Cloud Environment.
  • Experienced in architecting and managing cloud-native solutions on AWS, with a strong focus on event-driven architectures using AWS EventBridge. Proficient in configuring event buses, rules, schemas, and pipes from services like S3 and DynamoDB to seamlessly route and process application events
  • Highly experience working with Vendors in order to procure Server Hardware, Network Hardware, IT Peripherals and get them installed and running whenever needed.
  • Keeping all the AWS Instances, On premise Servers Patched and up to date and working closely with the Information Security team in order to keep the environments secure.
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, enabling scalable, consistent, and automated cloud resource provisioning. Worked extensively with Amazon Elasticsearch (OpenSearch) for log analytics and full-text search capabilities.
  • Profound Experience in handling Data Center Hardware and operations ranging from setting up Rack cabinets, Stacking Physical Servers (HPE ProLiant, DELL, LENOVO, Super Micro, Seagate Storage, WD Storage, Fortinet Firewalls, HPE Switches, Cisco Switches), setting up RAIDs, configuring iLO, iDracs, Installing Hypervisors (VMware, Hypervisor, Hyper-V) and setting up bridge networks and running Virtual Machines on them.
  • Solely responsible for maintaining Server racks to Building CI/CD Pipelines and support the App teams.
  • Experienced in integrating Kinesis Firehose, SNS, and SQS to build robust, scalable, and decoupled data pipelines. Additionally, familiar with Jenkins for CI/CD automation to streamline deployments and ensure code quality.
  • Extensive knowledge on Shell Scripts and Automation using Ansible and Terraform
  • Maintained backups for both on Prem and AWS Cloud Instances using Rubrik and restoring them whenever it is required by the App and DB team.
  • Used Rubrik Cloud Cluster with BYOL and setup done on AWS EC2 instances and managed backups of Hybrid Environments from AWS.
  • Configured Rubrik from Scratch and setup Custom SLAs Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze and assigned them to the required VMs accordingly.
  • Installed Rubrik Agent on all new Builds using Ansible Playbooks and maintain the service whenever required.
  • Took On Demand Snapshots of Virtual Machines to Rubrik using Ansible Playbooks before going to maintenance.
  • Restored File level/ Filesystem level and total VM Backups whenever required in the even of Failures and mishaps.
  • Monitored all the environments using Monitoring tools like Nagios and Prometheus and acted upon the alerts and get the issues resolved.

Senior Systems Administrator

Polycom Technologies R&D Centre
03.2019 - 08.2022
  • Supporting Polycom’s On-premise (i.e. Linux/Unix, Storage, backup) , AWS Cloud and Containers Infrastructure.
  • Spearheaded most of the code repositories in GitHub and set up automated CI/CD Pipelines for all product lines.
  • Setting up Pipelines for internal Applications, sourcing from GitHub, Jenkins, Docker and end point as AWS.
  • Maintained GIT workflows for version control.
  • Developed and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins.
  • Defined Branching Strategies, permissions, and access management for Engineering Teams.
  • Adopting Agile workflows in Projects execution & workflows.
  • Built Workflows to create immutable infrastructure in AWS.
  • Implemented Rubrik Cloud Cluster used it to backup all EBS Backups to Rubrik.
  • Built Docker images of internal apps and pushed them to Organization’s registry in Docker Hub.
  • Implementation and document the process of Application or Database Migrations from On-Premise servers to AWS
  • Cloud Migrations from On Premise VM to AWS using VM Export/import Service.
  • Writing JSON scripts and embedding them into IAM Policies to meet customer specific access on AWS Consoles
  • Tagging on Premise VMs to AWS Systems Managers and Patch systems using it.
  • Deploying Guard Duty for Applications for additional security in finding and blocking attacks on Applications hosted on Cloud.
  • Managing attacks on Instances using Guard Duty
  • Maintaining Multi Domain Certificates in Amazon Certificate Manager.
  • Configured SSO logins to different APP and DB teams in IAM
  • Writing Custom IAM Policies to enable Users to have Service Specific Accesses.
  • Configured Cloud Front for deploying content hosted from S3 buckets and EC2 instances.
  • Managing Amazon Web Services - EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, SNS, Cloud watch.
  • Manage AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT environments.
  • Expertise in Architecting secure VPC solutions in AWS with the help of Network ACLs, Security Groups, Public & Private network configurations.
  • Create and maintain snapshots & Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of the Instances for backup and creating clone instances.
  • Experience in working on backup services like EBS Snapshots, S3 backups & Amazon Glaciers.
  • Created load balancers (ELB) and used Route53 with failover and latency options for high availability and fault tolerance.
  • Migrated the current Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used auto-scaling features.
  • Created SNS notifications and assigned ARN to S3 for object loss notifications.
  • Created users and groups using IAM and assigned individual policies to each group.
  • Installed Datadog agent on VMs and configured & Integrated Datadog with all AWS Services being used in Environment.
  • Created Dashboards for monitoring Production Instances and used Screen boards & Time Boards often to troubleshoot any issues.
  • Traditional Server infrastructure admin responsible to build, maintain, troubleshoot and administer servers belonging to Red hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Sun Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux flavors.
  • Evaluate and patching the operating system software on all the server environment on a timely basis and responsible to keep them up to date.
  • Built and maintained Proxy servers for Production Apps & Databases and maintained apache configs accordingly.
  • Configured and delivered ASM disks for the DB Admins in order to maintain High availability whenever there is any outage.
  • Built, configured and maintained Mail relay servers using both send-mail and postfix.
  • Efficiently done data refresh across test, Dev, UAT from Production environment for Jira, EBS and Business Intelligence applications.
  • Configured LDAP server on Linux and integrated LDAP with AD servers for user management.
  • Performed server and database migrations from Solaris to Linux.
  • Written Ansible-Playbooks for different tasks like Patching Servers, pushing Config files, Pulling data from set of servers whenever there is a audit.
  • Using VMware to perform a range of operations from building VMs to creating and maintaining snapshots, decommission of VMs, monitoring and tuning memory, CPU and other attributes related to virtual machines. etc. in accordance with the requirement.
  • Implementing shell scripts and Ansible playbooks for automating several daily jobs across the environment.
  • Maintaining NetApp Storage and using it whenever there is a volume requirement.
  • Backing up both On-Premises and cloud infrastructure on Rubrik Backup tool and maintaining them.
  • Provide solutions to other stakeholders like Database Admins, application teams for any issues reported.

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2016 - 03.2019
  • Worked in one of the Top US financial Project as a Unix, Linux and AWS Cloud operations Engineer.
  • Responsible for implementing and supporting the cloud based infrastructure and its solutions
  • Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Autoscaling, EBS, RDS, IAM, cloud formation, Route 53, CloudWatch, cloudFront, Cloud Trail.
  • Experience in creating multiple VPC’s and Public and Private subnets as per the requirement and distribute them as groups into various AZ’s of the VPC
  • Created NAT gateways and instances to allow communication from the private instances to the internet through bastion hosts
  • Used security groups, network ACL’s internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure zone for organization in AWS public cloud
  • Created and configured elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment
  • Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes based on requirement
  • Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implemented MFA to provide additional security to AWS account and its resources.
  • Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using cloud watch service.
  • Created EBS volumes for storing application files for use with EC2 instances whenever they are mounted on them.
  • Created Snapshots to take backups of the volumes and also images to store launch configuration of the EC2 instances.
  • Implemented domain name service DNS through route 53 to have highly available and scalable applications.
  • Profound knowledge on server and DB migration services like AWS application discovery service, AWS server migration service, AWS database migration service.
  • Good knowledge on Data Transfer services like S3 transfer acceleration, AWS Direct connect, Amazon Kinesis firehose, AWS Storage and file gateway.
  • Provided second and third-level technical support in a mixed Windows 2k and Linux environment.
  • Monitored the CPU, SWAP and file system alerts and resolved any inconsistencies occurred.
  • Configuring the storage received form SAN team and creating Data stores and hard disks and scanning them from server level to process any space requirement.
  • Using NASMAN tool, exporting NAS shares to the servers via the C backup interface and mounting the share on to the server.
  • Changing Kernel parameters as per the user requirement.
  • Developed Unix shell scripts for regular and periodic jobs and also for system admin jobs.
  • Troubleshooting kernel related issues and server performance issues.
  • Adding route entries for server access from different zones
  • Raising SAN storage request for ASM lun assignment for oracle DB team.
  • Managed, monitored and tested individual and group user access privileges and security. User ID cloning, APP and DB Connectivity issues, Sudo permission requests.
  • VMware tools upgrade after server patching activity happens.

Analyst

HCL Technologies
06.2013 - 10.2016
  • Staples & Free scale semiconductors Project:
  • Handling both L1 and L2 operations in AIX & Linux Environment.

Education

Master of Science - Software Engineering

University of Greenwich London
UK
11.2012

B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada
India
04.2011

Skills

  • Data Center Operations: Cabling, DELL Power Edge, ESXI Installation, Fortinet Firewall Installations, HP Pro Liant, IBM System X, Lenovo Think System Servers and Storage Unit Racking, SAN Setup
  • Operating Systems & Virtualization: AIX, CentOS, Hyper-V, Red Hat Linux, VMware, Wintel Servers, XCP-NG
  • Storage & Backup Technology: Dell Compellent, Pure Storage, Rubrik Backup
  • DevOps: AWS ECS/EKS, Code-Build, Code-Commit, Code-Deploy, Code-Pipeline, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven
  • Cloud Services: Amazon Web Services EC2, Auto Scaling, Certificate Manager, Cloud Front, EBS, ECS, EKS, Far-gate, IAM, RDS, Route 53, S3
  • Automation & IAC: Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Shell Scripting, Terraform
  • Monitoring Tools: CloudWatch, Nagios, Prometheus, xymon

Certification

  • AWS Certified Devops Engineer - Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions architect Associate.
  • AWS Certified Sysops Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate
  • IBM Certified AIX 7.1 System Administrator

Timeline

Sr. Systems Engineer

First Derivatives Canada | KX
08.2022 - Current

Senior Systems Administrator

Polycom Technologies R&D Centre
03.2019 - 08.2022

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2016 - 03.2019

Analyst

HCL Technologies
06.2013 - 10.2016

Master of Science - Software Engineering

University of Greenwich London

B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada

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