Waqas Alyas

Aws Cloud System Engineer @BNY

New York, NY, US

Designed and implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment frameworks from code to deploy using Jenkins.Designed and implemented automated provisioning and configuration frameworks in support of infrastructure-as-code.Provided POC\'s to provision the AWS infrastructure using Ansible playbooks which includes checking the health status, monitoring and gathering facts about theec2-instances, elastic load balancers, auto scaling groups and other AWS resources.Setting up the Ansible control machine (RHEL7) and configured the remote host inventories via SSH.Worked closely with other development and operations teams to understand complex product requirements and translated them into automated solutions.Involved in AWS architectural design to provision the AWS resources.Involved in writing the packer scripts to generate the machine images for AWS.Managed the AWS cost cutting by writing the Ansible playbook for auto start/stop of AWS resources at a particular time of the day by triggering it from Jenkins.Providing a test-driven development for Ansible by using Server spec. Written spec tests for checking if servers are configured correctly.Setting up Server spec on the local and writing the test cases to check the configurations and impotency of the remote servers.Versioned the playbooks on the source code management tool GitHub.Used Jira for tracking and ticketing.