Rashid Hassan Awale
Ottawa,ON
Summary
Accomplished Cloud Engineer proffering extensive cloud monitoring, deployment and troubleshooting skills. Defined, built and maintained infrastructure using vendor-neutral and platform-specific tools. Organized and focused person with extraordinary leadership acumen. Resourceful CLOUD ENGINEER experienced in evaluating and assessing client requirements and implementing infrastructure to solve identified problems. Harnessed code and cloud-native technologies to create scalable and user-centric systems. Strong negotiator with excellent value-driven solutions.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
9
9
Certification
Work History
Cloud Engineer
Metro-College College of Technology
03.2024 - 09.2024
- Designed and implemented a cloud-based solution using AWS services that resulted in a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 20% increase in system reliability
- Developed and maintained automation scripts to manage cloud infrastructure, reducing manual intervention by 50% and improving system uptime by 25%
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve AWS cloud infrastructure issues, resulting in a 40% reduction in incident response time
- Configured and maintained AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC, resulting in a 25% improvement in system performance and a 15% reduction in infrastructure costs
- Designed and implemented security measures to protect cloud infrastructure, resulting in a 50% reduction in security incidents and a 20% improvement in compliance
- Developed and maintained cost optimization strategies for AWS cloud infrastructure, resulting in a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 10% improvement in resource utilization
SAP Security and GRC Consultant
CITI BANK
01.2018 - 12.2020
- Strong Experience in understanding Segregation of Duties and Audit Compliance Standards
- Defining and assigning Role Approvers, Monitors, Risk ID owners, and Business Units
- User Administration through GRC Access Control
- Fire Fighter Administration
- Define and document SOPs for Security and GRC for day to day operations
- Created Single, Derived and Composite Roles in R/3
- Worked with AGR_1251, AGR_1252, AGR_AGRS, AGR_USERS tables
- Extensively used SU53 and SUIM to assign the missing authorizations to the users
- Tracing missing authorizations objects using SU53 and recommended appropriate roles for the end users
- User administration (creating, maintaining, deleting user accounts and assigning roles)
- Managing user login parameters and password parameters
- Comprehensive use of Profile Generator to generate roles and assign roles to end users
- Analyzing authorization problems/errors and implementing appropriate solutions
SAP Basis Consultant
Infosys Technologies Limited
01.2017 - 12.2018
- User master Record creation/modification using SU01, including complex design restrictions
- Mass user creation using SU10
- Utilized SECATT for mass user creation allowing automatic testing of SAP business processes
- Created QTP scripts for mass creation and deletion of users and roles during system clean ups, Mass role generation, user assignments and others as required for the team
- Role creation/ modification using Profile Generator (PFCG) including complex design restrictions
- Ensured accuracy and segregation of duties through comprehensive testing of all profiles and authorizations
- Expertise in resolving Authorization issues by analyzing Authorization Checks
- Troubleshooting user access through authorization error analysis (SU53, SU56) and System Trace (ST01)
- Work with Functional, BASIS, and Network teams to troubleshoot complex access problems
- Monitor and maintain user ID through User Information System (SUIM) – created monthly audit reports
- Worked extensively with SE01, SE09 & SE10 in managing mass transport
- Worked on audit logs using SM18, SM19 and SM20
- Database and Server monitoring, system backup scheduling through Monitoring Transactions such as SM50, SM51, DB12, DB 13 etc
- Monitoring & analyzing system logs, monitor background job logs, workload analysis, update troubleshooting, checking the status of work process, dump analysis (ST22) & clearing
- Proficient in working with the tables USR
- AGR
- And USH
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Cloud Engineer
Metro-College of Technology
Toronto, ON09.2024
Cybersecurity Analyst
Herzing College
02.2023
SAP BI/BW, SAP BASIS (Net Weaver), SAP ABAP, SAP SECURITY
Erp Mastering
01.2010
Software Quality Assurance and Testing
Algonquin College
01.2008
Oracle Database Administration
Algonquin College
01.2007
CompTia A - Computer Technician
Ali Institute of Technology
01.2003
MCSE, CCNA, UNIX - Network Administrator
ALI Institute of Technology
01.2002
O.S.S.D
Ecole Secondaire Etienne-Brulee
01.1992
Skills
- AWS IAM ACCESS MANAGEMENT
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation)
- DevOps Tools (Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Networking (VPC, VPN, Direct Connect)
- Security (IAM, KMS, Security Groups, NACLs)
- Database Management (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB)
- Scripting (Python, Bash)
- Automation ( Ansible, Chef, Puppet )
- Load Balancing (ELB, ALB, NLB)
- Serverless Architecture (API Gateway, Lambda)
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery (Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, Backup and Restore)
- Cloud Computing
- Virtualization
- Databases
- Programming
- VS Code
- Migration
- Networking
- Routing
- Load Balancing
- Switching
- Enterprise Computing & Networking
- Authentication Systems
- Data and Cloud Security
- Enterprise Solution Architecture (ESA)
- Business Architecture
- Information Architecture
- Application Architecture
- Technology Architecture
- Technical Skills
- Teamwork Skills
- Incident responder
- Vulnerability assessment
- Analysis
- Information security
- Collaboration
- API Development
- DevOps principles
- Kubernetes Management
- Scripting Languages
- Infrastructure as Code
Certification
- Certified AWS solution Architect Associate, MM/DD/YY
- Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner, MM/DD/YY
- Certified AWS DevOps, MM/DD/YY
- Certified Azure Administrator, MM/DD/YY
- Certified Azure Security Administrator, In Progress
- Certified AWS Security Specialist, In Progress
- Certified Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, In Progress
- Microsoft Certificate Professional System Engineer, MM/DD/YY
- CompTia Network+ Certification, MM/DD/YY
- CompTia Security+ Certification, MM/DD/YY
- CompTia A+ Certification, MM/DD/YY
References
Available upon request
Languages
English
Full Professional
French
Native or Bilingual
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Cloud Engineer
Metro-College College of Technology
03.2024 - 09.2024
SAP Security and GRC Consultant
CITI BANK
01.2018 - 12.2020
SAP Basis Consultant
Infosys Technologies Limited
01.2017 - 12.2018
Associate of Applied Science - Cloud Engineer
Metro-College of Technology
Cybersecurity Analyst
Herzing College
SAP BI/BW, SAP BASIS (Net Weaver), SAP ABAP, SAP SECURITY
Erp Mastering
Software Quality Assurance and Testing
Algonquin College
Oracle Database Administration
Algonquin College
CompTia A - Computer Technician
Ali Institute of Technology
MCSE, CCNA, UNIX - Network Administrator
ALI Institute of Technology
O.S.S.D
Ecole Secondaire Etienne-Brulee
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