Amer Raza

About Amer Raza

Business-focused Solutions Architect with 15+ years of experience designing and…

Experience

1. Cloud Security Architect & Devops Lead

   Cloudxpertize

   Jan 2010 — Present

   I have 23 years of IT Infrastructure and Programming experience. Out of that, 13 years of expertise is in Cloud & DevOps enablement and security implementation on cloud. Professional level certified in all 3 major cloud platforms. AWS, Azure, and GCP. • I have helped create DevOps technical groups from ground level up, hiring new employees and consultants to add to the existing people in the group. • Working experience on build and continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Maven and ANT • Hands-on experience with Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Ops works and OpenStack, Kubernetes. • Configured Ansible to manage AWS environments and automate the build process for core AMIs used by all application deployments including Auto scaling, and Cloud formation scripts • Created custom policies using IAM (Identity Access Management) for AWS Cloud resources and Groups and Maintained IAM roles and User credentials • Experienced in setup and maintenance of Load Balancers. TCP/IP fundamentals, DNS, FTP, LDAP, Remote Access, Security Management, System Troubleshooting skills, and good knowledge in networking concepts • Implemented numerous server migrations on both Linux/Unix and Windows servers. Migrations include moving all clients and their data, configuration settings, testing and verifying everything is correct with zero downtime • Expertise in code deployment on web application servers like Web Sphere/Web Logic/Apache Tomcat/JBOSS • Well-versed in creating and updating Chef Manifests and modules, files, and packages, Automation cloud deployments using Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform • Good command over Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems. • Proficient in using scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, Java • Extensive experience in Linux/Unix system Administration, System/Server Builds, Server Installations/Upgrade/ Patches, Migration, and Trouble shooting • developer tools like Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, and Code Pipeline

Education

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Executive MBA, Management Information Systems

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Social Media Marketing Specialist, Digital Marketing Analytics

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Master’s Degree, Computer Science

• Harvard Business School

  Business, Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Skills

• IT Management
• Technical Recruiting
• Agile Project Management
• Cloud Security
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Analysis
• Devops
• Enterprise Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Pmo
• Cloud Storage
• Pmp
• Cloud Applications
• Cloud Architecture
• IT Strategy
• Software Development
• Big Data
• Resource Management
• Vendor Management