Mohammad Sharique Kamal, Technical Trainer

Mohammad Sharique Kamal

Technical Trainer

Amazon Web Services - United Kingdom

Location
United Kingdom - London
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

Technical Trainer at Amazon Web Services - United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom - London
  • My current job since August 2019

Corporate Trainer for AWS Services

Team Lead - Cloud Support Deployment Services at Amazon Web Services - India
  • India - Bengaluru
  • November 2017 to August 2019

Manage a team of DevOps Specialist working on AWS Deployment offerings (ECS,

CFN, OpsWorks, Code-Suite etc.)
▪ Experience in automation for Build & Release engineering for release automation to achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI and CD).


▪ Guide the team members technically and process wise and keep a tab on overall productivity of the team.
▪ Conduct brown-bag and other knowledge sharing sessions with various team members at regular intervals for up-skilling and cross-skill purposes.
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2. Worked for IBM India Pvt. Ltd. as Cloud SME (April 2017 - October 2017) Job Responsibilities
▪ ServerconfigurationmanagementviaChefandPuppet.
▪ Implementation and maintenance for Private and Hybrid Cloud infrastructure using
OpenStack, IBM Cloud Orchestrator, BlueMix Local Systems and related technologies.
▪ Design, developandimplementstrategiestoautomateserverbuildsanddeployment
of applications to dev, test, and production environments at scale.
▪ Use CM tools such as Puppet and Chef in conjunction with Jenkins for continuous
integration and continuous deployment of managed products and related services.
▪ VersionControlandrepositorymanagementwithGit.
▪ Taskautomation, servicemanagementandapplicationdeploymentusingindustry
▪ standardDevOpsandAutomationtoolssuchasJenkins, DockerVagrantetc.
▪ Use of F5 to configure load balance and high availability and integrate with existing
CM tools.
▪ CreatedPoCsforAutomatedbuild, testanddeployprocessusingcombinationofGit,
Jenkins and Docker.

Cloud SME at IBM - India
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2017 to October 2017

ServerconfigurationmanagementviaChefandPuppet.
▪ Implementation and maintenance for Private and Hybrid Cloud infrastructure using
OpenStack, IBM Cloud Orchestrator, BlueMix Local Systems and related technologies.
▪ Design, developandimplementstrategiestoautomateserverbuildsanddeployment
of applications to dev, test, and production environments at scale.
▪ Use CM tools such as Puppet and Chef in conjunction with Jenkins for continuous
integration and continuous deployment of managed products and related services.
▪ VersionControlandrepositorymanagementwithGit.
▪ Taskautomation, servicemanagementandapplicationdeploymentusingindustry
▪ standardDevOpsandAutomationtoolssuchasJenkins, DockerVagrantetc.
▪ Use of F5 to configure load balance and high availability and integrate with existing
CM tools.
▪ CreatedPoCsforAutomatedbuild, testanddeployprocessusingcombinationofGit,
Jenkins and Docker.

Automation and DevOps Engineer at Intel Security Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Bengaluru
  • August 2015 to April 2017

Explore new technologies and open source tools, analyze their feasibility with regards to existing environment and work on the implementation strategy, to help the company build up an agile development environment to improve software development life-cycle.
Write and test Chef Cookbooks using Vagrant, GIT, Packer, Test-Kitchen & Jenkins.
Develop automation and deployment utilities using Ruby, PowerShell and Python etc.
Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipeline using industry standard tools (such as Jenkins, teamcity etc.) and in-house DevOps and Build Tools.
Setup/Manage Server instances on Amazon (EC2, EBS, ELB, SSL, Security Groups, RDS and IAM).
Setup/Manage VPC, Subnets; make connection between different zones; blocking suspicious IP/subnet via ACL.
Create/Manage buckets on S3 (CLI) and store DB, Centralized log management and other storage related tasks.
Automate AWS workflows via Chef for DevOps workflows.
Maintain GIT repositories for DevOps environment, automation code, Infrastructure code and configuration.
Develop PowerCLI/PowerShell scripts to automate VMWare host and virtual machine inventory.
Develop PowerShell script to automate Active Directory and server tasks and Generate reports for administrators and management.

Senior Server Specialist and Subject Matter Expert at IBM
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2013 to August 2015

Server configuration management via Chef and Puppet.
Architected and designed Rapid deployment method using Puppet/Chef to auto deploy servers as needed.
Develop PowerCLI/PowerShell scripts to automate VMWare host and virtual machine inventory.
Setup/Managing Databases on Amazon RDS. Monitoring servers thorough Amazon CloudWatch, SNS.
Creating/Managing DNS records on Amazon Route 53, manage subnets; make connection between different zones.
Creating/Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, Upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (CPU, Memory, EBS)
Creating AWS Instances and Resources Bills.
Develop PowerShell script to automate Active Directory and server tasks and Generate reports for administrators and management.
Analyzing logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center to diagnose the root cause for the problem.
Configure and Manage PureFlex for cloud infrastructure.
Work in coordination with the Hardware and Storage team for Root Cause Analysis.
Work with the Infrastructure Architects for Design and deployment of VMware virtual Infrastructure, Guest OSes and Middleware components.
Work with product Vendors to obtain solution for ongoing critical issues.

Sr. Cloud Engineer at Citrix Systems Inc.
  • India - Bengaluru
  • March 2013 to September 2013

 Support Citrix cloud offering named CPSM (Cloud Portal Services Manager) which ena-bles Cloud service providers across the globe to manage their re-seller and client base efficiently and automating mundane tasks such as user and service provisioning.
 Using REST API for application maintenance.
 Give support to all hosted cloud servers and applications.
 Troubleshoot customer Infrastructure environments which consist of working on tech-nologies like RHEL, SUSE, Windows server 2008 and 2012, Active Directory, MS Ex-change, Windows Clusters, MS Sharepoint, Lync etc.
 Troubleshoot VM provisioning issues on Hyper-V and VMware ESX Server.
 Troubleshooting Web services Related issues via IIS 7.0 and Sharepoint
 Help customers optimize their SQL server (which is backend database for CPSM and SharePoint services) through basic maintenance task such as Query Optimization and Profile Tracer etc.
 Automation tasks via basic Power Shell scripts modifications
 Good proficiency with CRM tools such as Salesforce.com, HP Service Manager Etc.

Level 2 Engineer at Hewlett Packard (HP)
  • India - Bengaluru
  • June 2011 to March 2013

 RHEL, SUSE Linux, Windows 2008 R2, 2008 and 2003 server administration.
 Patch management, implementation and automation for above mentioned OS.
 Active Directory administration and troubleshooting on Windows 2008 R2 and Hyper-V Environment.
 Administration of windows server 2003/2008 with ADS, DNS, DHCP, Share point Portal server.
 Design configuration setup and maintenance of VMWare virtual Infrastructure using VMware ESX Server.
 Configuration, administration, and troubleshooting for LINUX servers (Red Hat Enter-prise Linux Environment).
 Testing and validation of patches for Linux servers. Performance Tuning and Optimiza-tion.
 MS Exchange administration and troubleshooting on Exchange 2003/2010 Environ-ment.
 Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hard-ware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
 Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

Technical support Analyst at Accenture
  • India - Bengaluru
  • August 2010 to June 2011

 Experience in providing Support for Desktop Users
 Installation & Up-gradation of Operating System
 Maintenance and servicing of desktop computer system
 Primary operating systems: Windows XP and Windows 98, Redhat Linux
 Installation of Operating system and new machines to the network
 Troubleshooting Hardware, Operating system, and Network issues (maintaining LAN, Internet Connections and other Network Services)
 Following up Warranty issues with system and printer vendors
 Virus Management and Maintaining network systems, installing Software and Tools.
 Upgrade of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS.
 Upgrade plan for hardware on Standalone servers and Hosts.

IT Analyst at HSBC Data Processing India Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Kolkata
  • April 2007 to August 2009

 Monitoring and maintaining multi-tier servers and on demand systems and network re-sources
 Centralized administration of desktop users using Active Directory with Group Policy for HSBC Middle East Users.
 Lotus Notes account administration (First Level) and maintenance.
 Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
 Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
 AS400 account administration.
 HUB (HSBC Universal Banking) account administration.
 Transactional Data back-up for finance and treasury departments via I-Factor (AS400) application.

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at Sikkim Manipal University
  • May 2013

MCA (Master of Computer Applications) is a three-year Professional Master Degree program in Computer Science. The objective behind MCA is to introduce the latest technologies, tools and applications in IT and to meet the ever-growing requirement of IT professionals. MCA students need to study Financial Management, Accounting, Mathematics, Programming Languages like C, Java, ASP .Net, Web Development, Database Management System, and other fundamental Computer Science topics

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at IGNOU
  • June 2008

Bachelor in computer application (BCA) is 3 years degree course and comprises of the subjects like database, networking, data structure, core programming languages like ‘C’ and ‘java’. This course provides a lot of opportunities to the students who are interested in computer field and wants to work in the IT sector as programmer or software developer.

Specialties & Skills

Active Directory
VMware Infrastructure
DevOps and CICD Automation
Linux server administration
Windows Server 2008
Active Directory
Jenkins Continuous Integration
PowerShell
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Redhat Linux
Windows Servers
Ansible
Terraform

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Bengali
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert

Memberships

Institute of Actuaries of India
  • Student Member
  • May 2007

Training and Certifications

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2019
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2019
MCITP - 70-640 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Reading
    I am an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction. I have read fictions from writers such as Jeffrey Archer, Frederick Forsyth etc. In non-fiction, some of my favourite writers are Malcolm Gladwell and Karen Armstrong