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Raza DarRD

Raza Dar

AWS Solution Architect/AWS Data Architect

£800/day
Manchester, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Raza

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional
- AWS Certified Security Specialty
- Certified Terraform Associate
- Experienced in working in a large multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Landing Zones
- Extending On-Premises networks AWS Cloud Networks using AWS DirecConnect, AWS TransitGateway, VPC, NACL, Routes, VPC Endpoints and VPC Endpoint Serviec (Privatelink) etc
- Design and implement AWS cloud infrastructure using AWS IAM, AWS Lambda (Python), System Manager, Step Function, DynamoDB, and AWS EventBridge.
- Create a base image (AMI) customized to fulfill the company's requirements
- Enable new AWS Regions and set monitoring and logging using AWS CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail and vulnerability checks using AWS Inspector service as well as AWS System Manager.
- Spikes to investigate the initial cost and effort to migrate server/application (VMWare, vCenter, Linux) from on-premises to AWS using AWS Migration Hub.
- Design and deploy a prototype automation solution on AWS clouds
- Design and implement an AI analytical system for your BI or RAG ChatBot using AWS Bedrock service
- Review for Improvement and additions in existing System Architectures on AWS
- Cost optimization on AWS
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • HSBC UK Ltd
    AWS DevOps Engineer / AWS Architect
    March 2022 - November 2024 (2 years and 8 months)
    • Worked in a large multi-account AWS environment (above 1500 AWS Accounts) and provided system architecture, implementation, improvement and migration services. Collaborating with different stakeholders to define and achieve, highly available, resilient, scaleable and cost-effective solutions on AWS clouds.
    • Implementing AWS architecture solutions as infrastructure as a code using Terraform. These architectures consists of miscellaneous AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, System Manager, dynamodB (NoSQL), VPC, IAM, RAM, Inspector2, CloudWatch, Cloudtrail, API Gateway, Cloud-Native build. Architect IAM Policies.
    • Extending AWS cloud infra to new AWS region and on-boarding new AWS Accounts
    • Configure CloudWatch logs push to Splunk service and backup to S3 for different solutions and setup alarms and alerts.
    • Implemented Service Contral Polices (SCP) to centrally manage AWS accounts and limit IAM roles permisstions. Reduce IAM role permission via SCP’s.
    • Deploy VPC, DirectConnect and Transit Gateway connection to extend AWS cloud networks to use On-Prem resources and vice versa.
    • Created Thousand Eyes (SaaS from Cisco) network monitoring setup in AWS clouds for different AWS regions.
    • Added watermark in HSBC’s base AMIs ( Linux, Windows) Build Factory to improve compliance control for AMI depreciation. Automation deployed using AWS System Manager and AWS StepFunctions.
    • Reviewing legacy application solutions and resources to migrate to AWS clouds.
    • Write AWS lambda functions using python and add unit tests using pytest and Moto libraries .
    • Configuring CI/CD Jenkins pipelines for miscellaneous projects to setup automation.
    • Deploy CloudWatch Alarms to integrate with AWS Shield for DDoS protection.
    • Enable CVE and Network exposure checks for EC2, ECR, Lambda’s using AWS Inspector delegated administrator account for AWS Organization.

    Terraform Python Bash Linux Amazon Web Services
  • Dual Layer IT Solutions Ltd
    AWS DevOps Engineer / AWS Data Engineer
    September 2021 - January 2022 (4 months)
    • Providing system architecture, implementation and improvement services to Dual Layer IT clients. Collaborating with different stakeholders to define and achieve optimum service and system architecture on AWS.
    • Implementing aws infrastructure as a code using terraform for miscellaneous aws services such as S3, ec2, security groups, vpc, subnets, NACL’s, ACM, AMI , IAM roles, authena, AWS Glue.
    • Architecting and maintaining data piplelines, data processing ETL with AWS Glue and setup Quicksight dashboards.
    • Adding SNS for SMS and Email notification and setup resouces policies.
    • Configure CloudWatch logs and backup to S3 for different applications and setup alarms and alerts.
    • Reviewing legacy application solutions and resources to migrate to AWS clouds.
    • Configuring AWS CI/CD pipelines for miscellenous projects to setup automation.
    • Review infrastructure for PCI DSS Compliance using AWS SecurityHub, AWS Config.

    Tools & Skill: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, EC2, VPC, YAML/JSON, Terraform, TerraformCloud, Docker, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, AWS SecurityHub, AWS Config, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, NodeJS, Typescript, Python, Git, GitHub, dynamoDB, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, VirtualBox, Docker, Plantuml
    SQL Terraform Amazon Web Services Linux Python
  • Hexaware Ltd
    AWS Engineer
    January 2021 - August 2021 (7 months)
     Develop and Architect features for D&G serverless backend services on AWS. D&G have a suit of around 50 services deployed on AWS and based on microservice architectures with REST API's.  Implementing Lambda functions using Typscript/NodeJS run time for server-less application architectures and integrate with AWS API Gateway using Serverless Framework.  Define serverless yaml file for AWS resources, environment variable and permission for resources in the stacks.  Deploy services to different environment (CI, DEV, TEST, SIT, UAT) as requested by Testing teams.  Configuring AWS CI/CD for serverless applications AWS CloudBuid .  Investigate issues and fix bugs in the existing services/ build pipeline using CloudWatch logs and testing tools.
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  • MPhil
    City University of Hong Kong
    MPhil

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