Eldar A.

Eldar A.

Chief Cloud Architect

San Francisco , United States

Experience: 20 Years

Eldar

San Francisco , United States

Chief Cloud Architect

150000 USD / Year

  • Immediate: Available

20 Years

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About Me

I have over 20 years of experience in the diverse areas of IT Management, Technical Support & Solution, Project Management and Networking in Telecom, Banking and Oil&Gas industry. I’ve been successful in maintaining focus on achieving bottom-lin...

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Skills

Portfolio Projects

Description

  • Setting up High-Security standard of Cloud Environment according to PCI-DSS, ISO/27001, CIS benchmarks
  • IT Infrastructure monitoring system based on Nagios tools with more customized settings for the dedicated Application environment.
  • Setting up Prometheus and Grafana to monitor Cloud Infrastructure
  • Using Terraform to configure Cloud Infrastructure and keep versioning of changes.
  • Centralized Authentication, Authorization and Accounting system with detailed system Logging
  • Migration VMware Infrastructure to Amazon AWS Cloud Environment.
  • Linux Docker Containers Support and DevOps Management
  • CI/CD based on Jenkins, Ansible, Perl & Python Scripting
  • Implementation of Remote Access System to customer’s DC over multiple VPN from Google Cloud Platform
  • UNIX/Linux Systems support & consultancy according to the implemented projects.
  • Develop procedures to test and validate the system and business-related applications.
  • Develop system-scripting software for application report procedures.
    • Maintain systems documentation (infrastructure, configuration, etc.).
    • Configuring and Managing RHEL Linux 6.X, 7.X x86_64
    • Cluster System Management – Oracle RAC Cluster
    • Identify the overall system performance trends and problems.
    • Identify applications for performance improvement and collaborate with developers and other systems staff to implement
    • Recommend workload-balancing procedures.
    • Help in establishing the client service level objectives
    • Develop an online management application for monitoring system capacity loading.
    • Establish the performance and capacity thresholds for systems.
    • Monitor system utilization and forecast capacity need
    • Tech Stack – DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS, AWS Infrastructure, AWS Cloud, EC2, S3, ECS, IAM, CloudFront, Linux, Docker, Chef, Networking, Git

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Description

  • Leading development and operations processes inside team
  • Developing Cl/CD roadmap and implementing to the project
  • Play a significant role in establishing operational processes for a fast-growing distributed cloud platform.
  • Help scale our platform to lOx customers.
  • Improve deployment process within AWS (ex. cross-region automated deployment).
  • AWS services administration: 1AM, VPC, Route 53, EC2, S3, CodeBuild,
  • Code Deploy, Redshift, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation
  • Google Cloud Platform: Cloud DNS, Cloud Storage, Cloud VPN, EC2
  • Azure Cloud: Virtual Linux/Windows Instances, Resource Groups, Virtual Gateway
  • VCS: Bitbucket
  • Automation tools: Ansible, Terraform
  • Containerization: Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes
  • Scripting: Shell, Ant, Python
  • Jira, Aha, Slack, Confluence
  • Improve automated test and simulation frameworks.
  • Develop and automate standard operating procedures around common failure scenarios.
  • Monitor, analyze, and report performance statistics for cloud hosted environments.
  • Develop application performance management to measure and act upon performance data.
  • Consult and contribute to system architecture.
  • Write clean, well-documented, and resilient code.
  • IT Infrastructure monitoring system based on Nagios tools with more customized settings for the dedicated Application environment.
  • Centralized Authentication, Authorization and Accounting system with detailed system Logging
  • Migration VMware Infrastructure to Amazon AWS, Google and MS Azure Cloud Environment.
  • CI/CD: Jenkins
  • Worked closely with the application team to optimize integration between the SaaS software and infrastructure
  • Designed, developed, managed, and ensured the reliability of a wide range of critical infrastructure systems, services, tools, and automation that provided the foundation for SaaS platform.
  • Tech Stack – DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS, AWS Infrastructure, AWS Cloud, EC2, S3, ECS, IAM, CloudFront, Linux, Docker, Chef, Networking, Git

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Description

  • Managing 50+ servers in a distributed and highly available critical infrastructure CentOS / Ubuntu system administration and performance tuning
  • Experience with Amazon CLI, EC2, S3, CloudFront
  • Automation skills with Puppet, Ansible
  • Zabbix, Grafana, Nagious monitoring systems
  • Jenkins
  • Docker, Vagrant
  • Web stack (Nginx, PHP-fpm, Percona-DB), Tomcat, JBoss , Nginx + ModSecurity - WAF
  • Git, Gtilab, AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps
  • Shell, Python scripting
  • Jira
  • Setting up High-Security standard of Banking Environment according to PCI-DSS, ISO/27001, CIS benchmarks, STIG
  • Centralized Authentication, Authorization and Accounting system with detailed system Logging
  • Migration Internet Banking System to Solaris 11.3 Clustered Environment.
  • Migration Core Banking system into Encrypted environment (DB, Apps, Payment Systems, VPN)
  • Analysis, Design, Development and Testing of software applying best practices of Software Engineering at every phase of the development process
  • Stay abreast of regulatory and policy developments affecting areas of responsibility and work collaboratively with our Corporate Diversity Team
  • Document audit results and communicate issues to management, identifying opportunities for improvement in the design and effectiveness of key controls
  • Troubleshooted critical production issues that the DevOps teams escalated resulting in a quick resolution of errors
  • Worked closely with the application team to optimize integration between the SaaS software and infrastructure
  • Designed, developed, managed, and ensured the reliability of a wide range of critical infrastructure systems, services, tools, and automation that provided the foundation for SaaS platform
  • Provide technical assistance, advice, coaching, and consultation to individuals and groups regarding cross-cultural conflicts and disputes
  • Design and deliver cross-cultural, diversity and inclusion presentations, workshops, and learning modules
  • Partner with Recruiting to monitor employment activities such as applicant flow, new hires, terminations, transfers, and promotions to identify potential areas of focus and other opportunities to promote diversity initiatives
  • Provide business updates and manage business reporting for the Defined Contribution Consulting Program
  • Work with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations and Technology to implement processes that help the firm manage risk
  • Manage certain ongoing processes to ensure high quality output
  • Help drive and manage the launch of new Defined Contribution Consulting program
  • Initiate change by identifying and implementing process improvements designed to enhance the delivery of retirement plan products and services
  • Act as primary contact for other business units within the firm on initiatives to establish greater consistency across lines of business
  • UNIX Systems support & consultancy according to the implemented projects.
  • Develop procedures to test and validate the system and business-related applications.
  • Tech Stack – DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS, AWS Infrastructure, AWS Cloud, EC2, S3, ECS, IAM, CloudFront, Linux, Docker, Chef, Networking, Git

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Description

Fast Mail Messaging Systems migration from Solaris 9 to Sun Solaris 10u8, ORACLE Sun

  • ORACLE OpsCenter Management System (Jet Templates, Provisioning, Patching, Zone Management, LDOMS);
  • Sun Security Toolkit implementation for Sun Solaris Systems as required corporate Information Security rules.
  • Sun Live Upgrade from previous system version to the latest Solaris Release (10u9) with EIS DVD Patch bundle installation and kernel patching applying.
  • Sun Management Center, Sun Java Enterprise System, Sun Cluster, Identity Manager, VERITAS Cluster, VERITAS NetBackup, ORACLE RAC, Sun Java System Application Server EE, Sun Java System Directory Server EE
  • MTN Online Corporate Web Service Project Consultancy for Application Developing and Security Settings. The project has been based on Apache v2.x / MySQL / Perl / OpenSSL / Apache Tomcat + JDBC for Enterprise DB farm (Oracle RAC + MySQL)
  • Customer specified monitoring system based on Nagios + SNMP traps
  • Transparent Proxy tunneling based on Sock/SSH with back forward remote Management system of UNIX servers for outsource engineers.
  • Mobile version extension for remote Management access to UNIX systems for iPhone/ Android smartphones.
  • MTN DNS Systems for ADSL Network across Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. The new AydahwaDNS 2011 has been designed for MTN Nigeria Infrastructure. Integrated remote Management and Monitoring System.
  • Management and maintenance of SUN Systems and Storages.
  • UNIX Systems support / consultancy 24/7.
  • Evaluation, installation and maintenance (fixes and upgrades) of any software installed on the central servers.
  • Develop procedures to test and validate the maintenance (fixes and upgrades) of the system and subsystems.
  • Diagnosis and problem solving with Sun Solve Top Level Support Service (Case management)
  • Customization of the data center software systems likes tape management, job scheduling, output management

. Establish technical standards (i.e. set up infrastructure remote sites, Sun EIS installation).

. Develop system-scripting software for application report procedures.

. Maintain systems documentation (infrastructure, configuration, etc.).

. Automated backup process of Databases servers with Solaris system tools

. Cluster System Management – Oracle RAC, VERITAS, Sun Cluster

. Identify the overall system performance trends and problems.

. Identify applications for performance improvement and collaborate with developers and

other systems staff to implement

. Recommend workload-balancing procedures.

. Help in establishing the client service level objectives

. Develop online management application for monitoring system capacity loading.

. Establish the performance and capacity thresholds for systems.

. Monitor system utilization and forecast capacity needs.

. Centralized Network Based Backup by VERITAS NetBackup Enterprise Server for

UNIX, Windows, Oracle DB, Exchange Messaging Server, NetApp, EMC Clarion SAN.

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