Mohammed Fazil

• Led end-to-end, complex, mission-critical AWS migration projects for banking, mining, and e-commerce clients.
• Oversaw planning, execution, and post-migration optimization with the AWS cloud excellence team.
• Conducted Cloud Migration Assessments, designed architectures, troubleshooted, and implemented security measures based on AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars.
• Collaborated with clients to define migration strategies aligned with business goals and compliance requirements.
• Led and trained a team of junior migration engineers, emphasizing cloud implementation, administration, operations, and security best practices.
• Mitigated security issues with the Nessus vulnerability assessment tool, strengthening compliance, audit, and governance using AWS Security Hub and Guard Duty.
• Configured proactive monitoring and alerting mechanisms for cost anomalies and budget thresholds.
• Designed and implemented highly scalable and secure cloud architectures, optimizing resource utilization, and minimizing costs.
• Implemented and enforced effective tagging strategies for detailed cost allocation and tracking.
• Deployed EKS cluster, upgraded EKS, configured auto-scaling, and maintained monitoring using Fluentbit.

Achievement

• Deployed lambda@edge to secure CloudFront access using basic auth across all AWS accounts to improve security, and this was appreciated by the client.
• Setup pipeline to upload artifacts to Akamai net storage to reduce manual effort
• Conducted comprehensive assessments of existing on-premises infrastructure, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Reduced up to 20% infrastructure cost by utilizing AWS tools such as AWS Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer to identify and resize underutilized or overprovisioned instances.
• Reduced up to 30% of the storage cost by implementing data lifecycle policies to manage storage costs, archiving or deleting data based on usage patterns, based on AWS cost optimization best practices.

• Identifying key requirements and providing technical insights for various projects implementations and migration
• Migrating legacy application and its infrastructure from On Premise to Cloud or vice versa
• Experience in on-premise infra management and cloud repatriation
• Performing detailed analysis of technical requirements and planning for server migration
• Preparing checklists for implementation, migration and maintenance
• Fine tuning and Optimization of web and database servers
• Implementing scalable clusters and load balancing configuration for high availability and failover at both private and public cloud infrastructure
• Experience in planning, deploying and managing various Hypervisor Technologies like Citrix XEN, Hyper-V, VMware ESXI
• Monitoring server and network environment using open source monitoring tools
• Disaster recovery design and deployment for database and servers. Administration of Firewall, SAN and NAS devices
• Expertise in deploying, managing server monitoring tools like Nagios, Monit, Appdynamics and ELK stack
• Worked closely with clients, Dev Leads and Project managers to understand their business needs and translate them into effective cloud solutions
• Provide top level support and technical leadership to team members
• Designed and implemented highly scalable and secure AWS architectures
• Hosting and monitoring web application developed for clients in On Premise and AWS EC2 instances
• Conducted regular performance assessments, implementing optimizations to enhance system efficiency
• Delivered technical training sessions for internal teams and clients to promote AWS best practices

Achievement

• Delivered technical training sessions for internal teams and clients to promote AWS best practices and cloud transformation adoption
• Reduced power consumption by implementing raspberry pi devices for python data ingestion project
• Implemented open source APM and Server monitoring tools for proactive monitoring
• Successfully built proxy automation server to handle complex web harvesting process
• Eliminated application downtime by implementing Galera database cluster with High Availability using cluster control.