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PRAFUL PATEL

REGINA,SK

Summary

Hardworking and passionate Cloud engineer with extensive experience with cloud-based technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), & multi-cloud. Specialized in managing cloud platforms, designing, building, and deploying (IaC) highly available and scalable infrastructure

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Engineer

GoCloudCarrers
06.2022 - Current
  • Worked closely with teams to design and develop technically compliant, cloud-native enterprise architectures to meet business outcomes
  • Designed highly available, cost-effective and fault-tolerant systems using EC2 instances, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
  • Leveraged API Gateway, SNS and SQS to build architecture models with synchronous and asynchronous patterns to decouple, integrate and scale services
  • Designed efficient database workloads to reduce latency and optimize throughput using read replicas and caches.
  • Configured EC2 Auto Scaling with Elastic Load Balancing in cross-AZ and multi-AZ for high availability and fault tolerant
  • Optimized networking for global applications using S3 Transfer Acceleration, Route 53 latency based routing, Global Accelerator and CloudFront
  • Managed and monitored mission-critical systems for optimal performance and high level of availability
  • Boosted network system, data availability and integrity through preventive maintenance and upgrade
  • Implemented event-driven automation for quick respond and incidents remediation actions reducing MTTR by 20% using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda
  • Utilized AWS Config and CloudTrail as part of the governance framework to enable compliance, auditing, troubleshooting, etc of AWS accounts and resources
  • Collected and Analyzed metrics, logs and events with Athena, QuickSight and CloudWatch Log Insights
  • Optimized cost through a mixed of Reserved, Spot and On-Demand Instances, EC2 instance types, Auto Scaling and S3 storage classes
  • Setup and configured systems for real time monitoring and alerts for log files, API calls and other events of importance
  • Engaged in proactive resource optimization, capacity automation and resource planning which boosted operational performance by 10%
  • Performed architecture/design reviews for applications, infrastructure, and network designs
  • Participated in all phases of system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation
  • Ensured data protection and assurance by encryption with AWS KMS
  • Analyzed and made recommendations in areas of costs optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance and service limits
  • Experienced in AWS Organizations SCPs to centrally manage and govern environment as resources grow and scale-out

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

SwaBZ Systems
12.2021 - 05.2022
  • Leveraged AWS IAM service to implement a strong identity foundation and enforced least privilege principle, credential management including STS and MFA
  • Investigated and addressed system configuration issues to enhance usability and improve functionality
  • Setup controls using preventive and detective guardrails for unauthorized actions and detected security weaknesses such as unencrypted EBS volumes
  • Conducted in-depth security audits to identify vulnerabilities
  • Reviewed and established metrics and alarms for tracking based on KPI in order to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements
  • Managed and monitored all installed systems for highest level of availability
  • Enabled versioning and configured S3 life cycle policies to backup and archived files in Glacier
  • Scheduled regular backups by leveraging EC2 Lifecycle Manager to create snapshots of EBS volumes and define retention period as a cost-saving measure
  • Monitored infrastructure, configurations audit and compliance verification of resources with CloudTrail and AWS Config
  • Implemented network firewalls at all layers using security groups, NACL, AWS WAF, Advanced Shield and Firewall Manager
  • In-depth knowledge of computing services: EC2 instances, containers, and Lambda functions
  • Involved in designing and implementation of disaster recovery and failover plans with best RPO and RTO as applicable
  • Experienced in network equipment: VPC, subnet, route table, Internet Gateway, NAT gateway, VPC Endpoint, AWS Direct Connect, VPG, VPC peering, Bashion Host, etc
  • Evaluated existing procedures and processes and made proactive adjustments to meet changing demands and improve efficiency
  • Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time
  • Classified and encrypted data with KMS, managed secrets with Secret Manager and Parameter Store
  • Configured logged files for real time monitoring and set alerts for important events using SNS to enable traceability
  • Used security tools including GuardDuty, Macie and Detective to generate detailed findings and identify root causes of security issues

Cloud Support Engineer

XFusionCorp Data - KodeKloud
05.2019 - 11.2021
  • Worked with team to design, build, implement and support CI/CD framework
  • Performed deployments, updates, configurations in controlled pre-production and production environments
  • Used Ansible for cloud provisioning and configurations management
  • Actively managed, improved and monitored cloud infrastructure on AWS: EC2, S3, RDS including, backups, patching, and scaling
  • Used CloudFormation framework to create templates and provisioned resources including VPC stack, security group stack and network load balancers stack
  • Setup and configured centralized multi-account and multi-region patching of 98 servers with AWS System Manager Automation

System Administrator

XFusionCorp Data - KodeKloud
11.2018 - 04.2019
  • Responsible for solving and troubleshooting day-to-day cloud/Devops service requests
  • Automated application build and deployment, driving efficiency of code development process.
  • Tested and troubleshot applications and documented issue resolutions for development team.
  • Set up user accounts, permissions and passwords and defined network policies and procedures.
  • Supported, configured, maintained and upgraded customer networks and in-house servers.
  • Managed day-to-day storage equipment administration to promote optimal system asset application.
  • Installed and maintained firewalls to secure on-site and cloud-based hardware against unwanted intrusions.
  • Responsible for the maintenance, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, network servers, and virtualization.
  • Set up and configured Docker container images, Docker Volume mapping and upload to the Docker Hub.
  • Writing Ansible playbooks and replacing the modules as per the project requirements.
  • Creating and deploying Kubernetes cluster and managing the pods.

Test Analyst/Automation

SaskTel
12.2017 - 10.2018
  • Providing QA test status and progress reports as appropriate to top management.
  • Execution of manual and automation testing (functional, regression, sanity, smoke).
  • Analyze client's frontend web, and e-com requirements and design test scenarios to test end-to-end functionality and billing.
  • Responsible for designing and creating a test Plan, scenarios, and test cases based on Web, Mobile and BRM application system requirements.
  • Execute Test Cases and raise defects, and defect reporting in HP ALM or Jira to follow up and track them to closure.
  • Validate and verify API's using Postman during PCC (Policy Control and Charging) project.
  • Handled requests from Frontend web such as Creating a New Consumer / Business Accounts, adding a subscription to the account, adding a deal, verifying the Data Usage and billing based on the Bill date and chosen plan etc.
  • Validate and verify Identity and manage access control and group policies.
  • Validate provisioning delegates using provisioning tools like HLR/HSS, CIM, DSC, CIM, TAS, RIM.

QA Analyst/Automation(Lead)

Esprit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
12.2007 - 11.2017
  • Adhering to project planning, scope, resource coordination and delivery, as per specified timeframes. Implementing project plans within deadlines.
  • Development and maintenance of test cases according functional specification.
  • Ensuring project progress as per scheduled deadlines for various tasks and taking necessary steps to ensure completion within time, cost and effort parameters.
  • Experience with test automation frameworks, such as UiPath, QTP, Selenium Webdriver.
  • Designing and coordinating the implementation and availability of the QA test environments and ensuring compatibility of QA test, agile and DevOps.
  • Documenting and tracking test plans, test results, analysis and unresolved problems using tools.
  • Providing QA test status and progress reports as appropriate to top management.
  • DevOps projects on own personal virtualized environment.
  • Actively updating and experimenting new technologies continuously on Cloud & DevOps domain.

Skills

  • Architecture design
  • Software Architecture
  • Networking and protocols
  • Automation of common tasks
  • Configurations management
  • Infrastructure monitoring
  • Operational analysis
  • Testing and maintenance
  • Log management and analysis
  • Diagnosing and resolving bugs
  • Vulnerability and security management
  • Erecting firewalls and network security
  • Designing security controls
  • Data, systems and asset security

Websites

Tech Blogs & Projects

  • https://medium.com/@prafulpatel16
  • https://www.youtube.com/@prafulpatel16

Education

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science & Applications
  • M.COM
  • B.COM

Certification

  • Hashicorp Certified - Terraform Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator – Associate
  • CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • Aviatrix Certified Engineer -Multi-Cloud Network Associate
  • Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner-GCCEP
  • Advanced Diploma in Computer Science and Application

Tech Skills

AWS, Azure, GCP,  OCI, Terraform, Ansible, Linux, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Shell Scripting

Timeline

Cloud Engineer

GoCloudCarrers
06.2022 - Current

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

SwaBZ Systems
12.2021 - 05.2022

Cloud Support Engineer

XFusionCorp Data - KodeKloud
05.2019 - 11.2021

System Administrator

XFusionCorp Data - KodeKloud
11.2018 - 04.2019

Test Analyst/Automation

SaskTel
12.2017 - 10.2018

QA Analyst/Automation(Lead)

Esprit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
12.2007 - 11.2017

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