MABELL Kale

Design infrastructure leveraging key aws services including EC2, EBS, ELB,Security groups, RDS, VPC, S3 Lambda, route53, Cloudwatch cloudformation, IAM, Dynamodb, API Gateway, and more.

Collaborate to develop fully automated CI/CD pipelines that build, deploy, and test across multiple environments.

• Work closely with development teams to integrate their projects into the CI/CD pipeline for QA, Stage and Production environments and ongoing support.
• Automate the provisioning of infrastructure using infrastructure as a code tools such as AWS CDK, CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Participates in the designing, and implementation of cloud architecture, security standards and change management procedures in Aws GovCloud.
• Maintains security standards by automating security best practices using AWS services such as, Lambda function, eventbridge, SNS, Cloudwatch.
• Monitored cloud costs across AWS accounts, identified root causes of abnormal cost increases, and implemented lasting solutions.
• Design network architecture on AWS using VPC, Subnets, Internet Gateway, Route table, Nat setup, Transit gateway, VPC endpoint, Multiple account connectivity.
• Supported and troubleshot infrastructure issues, analyzing problems related to continuous integration and delivery frameworks.
• Worked closely with developers and managers to resolve the issues that were raised during the deployments in different environments
• Collaborate with the Information Security Manager to ensure the company Network and Infrastructure systems conform to company Security policies and procedures
• Monitor the server alerts and troubleshoot the alerts.
• Participate in migration activities of various on-premise systems to the AWS cloud.
• Automate deployment processes using CI/CD pipelines to enhance efficiency.
• Implement monitoring solutions to ensure system health and uptime.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot system issues to maintain operational continuity across environments.
• Develop scripts for configuration management to streamline workflows.
• Configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS using Terraform and Ansible.
• Managed infrastructure as code with tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Collaborated with development teams to streamline application releases and updates.
• Monitored system performance and resolved issues in real-time environments.
• Implemented security protocols to safeguard applications and data integrity.
• Conducted regular system backups and disaster recovery planning initiatives.
• Updated software upon release of vendor patches to mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Identified opportunities for process improvements to decrease support calls.
• Developed requirements for system modifications and new system installations.

• Proactively maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24x7x365 uptime service
• Creating and maintaining Linux EC2 instances in the Cloud
• Create new EBS Volumes and format them into file systems
• Demonstrated knowledge of file system and storage management concepts, including LVM.
• Day to day operational support of RHEL 6/7 that includes installation, testing, and troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues.
• Participated in monthly patching process using RedHat Satellite to ensure system security and stability.
• Identified and analyzed system performance issues, collaborating with product development team to recommend effective solutions.
• Built new Linux virtual Machines by cloning on VMware Client 6.4.
• Optimize and monitor system performance
• Strong understanding in TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, NFS, NTP and SSH
• Installs/loads operating system and application software
• Schedule, plan, and implement system upgrades for multiple environments
• Support patch and maintain infrastructure systems to be compliant with security scans
• Performed server racking and cabling, and built servers using Kickstart and KVM.
• Perform regular security hardening.
• Using Kickstart to build physical hosts and make sure security policies are applied based on company policies.
• Verify all necessary cron jobs are applied for smooth system automation
• Follow up on all feedback from customers to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Created disk partition, volume groups and Logical volume using LVM.
• Used RPM and YUM for package management
• Created new file systems and mounted them according to system requirements.
• Participated in daily system monitoring to ensure optimal performance.
• Installing and configuring Apache and supporting them on Linux production servers.
• Making sure all servers are synchronized with the NTP server.
• Gained familiarity with LDAP client setup and administration processes.
• Troubleshooting Linux network, security related issues, filter packets using tools such as iptables, firewall, and TCP wrappers.
• Administer users, groups, passwords, and other aspects of security
• Monitor system logs and activities on all servers
• Maintain formal documentation of managed systems
• Monitoring the File System, CPU load, Memory for better system performance.
• Working closely with developers making sure all necessary applications are running properly
• Manage system storage resources and security by implementing LVM for disk utilization, logs alert and CPU utilization of Dev/Test/Prod environments on Linux/Unix systems.
• Managed Linux servers to enhance performance and maintain security.
• Configured and maintained user accounts and permissions across systems.
• Monitored system performance and resolved technical issues efficiently.
• Implemented backup solutions to safeguard critical data and systems.
• Collaborated with development teams to integrate applications into Linux environments.
• Developed scripts to automate routine tasks and improve efficiency.
• Provided technical support for Linux-based systems including troubleshooting of server applications and hardware issues.
• Administered AWS cloud infrastructure and services for efficient resource management.
• Implemented security best practices for AWS environments to safeguard data integrity.
• Automated deployment processes using AWS CloudFormation and other scripting tools.
• Monitored system performance and identified issues using AWS CloudWatch tools.
• Managed user access and permissions through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Provided technical support for troubleshooting cloud-related issues to internal teams.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to optimize cloud architecture and workflows.
• Conducted regular system audits to ensure compliance with industry standards and policies.
• Created IAM users and roles with appropriate access control policies.
• Built custom AMIs from existing EC2 instances to be used as a base image.
• Managed storage options including S3 buckets and Glacier archives.
• Monitored application logs stored in CloudWatch Logs for operational insights.
• Migrated existing workloads into the AWS cloud environment.
• Set up backups for databases hosted in RDS according to customer requirements.
• Ensured compliance with corporate standards regarding security policies.