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Jaffer Sheriff

Jaffer Sheriff

Prague

Summary

Cloud engineering professional with proven ability to design and manage scalable cloud solutions. Known for driving cloud adoption and optimizing performance across multiple platforms. Highly collaborative and results-driven, with focus on continuous improvement and adaptability. Key skills include cloud architecture, automation, and team leadership.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Cloud Engineer with Devops

Cognizant
02.2019 - Current

1) AWS Infrastructure Management:

  • Design, implement, and manage AWS environments, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability
  • Use AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and VPCs to architect and support cloud infrastructure
  • Implement AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices, including cost optimization, security, operational excellence, reliability, and performance efficiency
  • Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible for automating the provisioning of AWS resources.


2) DevOps Pipeline Development and CI/CD Automation:

  • Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions to automate application builds, tests, and deployments
  • Integrate AWS DevOps tools like CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodeCommit to streamline deployment processes
  • Optimize CI/CD processes to improve efficiency, reliability, and deployment speed.


3) Monitoring, Logging, and Incident Management:

  • Implement monitoring and alerting systems using AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and third-party tools to maintain optimal system performance and security
  • Set up centralized logging using services like AWS CloudWatch Logs and AWS OpenSearch Service
  • Develop automated responses to alerts, enabling a self-healing infrastructure for quick incident response
  • Troubleshoot and resolve performance and reliability issues in AWS environments.


4) Automation and Optimization of Infrastructure:

  • Automate recurring tasks using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and Systems Manager to reduce manual intervention and improve efficiency
  • Develop IaC templates and scripts to streamline resource provisioning, scaling, and decommissioning
  • Utilize auto-scaling, load balancing, and elastic services to ensure optimal resource utilization and cost-efficiency
  • Implement automated backup and disaster recovery strategies to protect data and maintain high availability
  • Managed disaster recovery planning for critical applications hosted in the cloud environment, minimizing potential data loss or service outages during unforeseen events.

Cloud Operations Engineer

Cognizant
01.2014 - 02.2019
  • Company Overview: Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • Working for Cognizant Technology Solutions for more than 5 Yrs
  • And with 3+ Years of experience in Informatica Master Data Management
  • Expertise as MDM Admin and experienced in performing MDM end to end configurations
  • Experience in working on both Implementation, Support/Enhancement and Upgradation Projects too
  • Experience in installation and configuration of core Informatica MDM Hub components such as Hub Console, Hub Store, Hub Server, Cleanse Match Server and Cleanse Adapter in Linux
  • Hands-on experience with Informatica MDM Hub configurations - Data Mappings (Landing, staging and Base Objects), Data validation, Match and Merge rules, customizing/configuring Informatica data director (IDD) applications
  • Experience in defining and configuring landing tables, staging tables, base objects, lookups, query groups, queries/custom queries, packages, hierarchies and foreign-key relationships
  • Expertise in Informatica MDM Hub Match and Merge Rules, Batch Jobs and Batch Groups
  • Experience in MDM packages and queries and Understanding of Security Access Manager (SAM) configuration
  • Knowledge in Subject Area Group, Subject Area, Subject Area Child configuration in IDD (Base) and Exposure in Task Administrator in IDD
  • Understanding of IDD User Exit implementation and cleanse function and Java library in MDM
  • Hands-on Experience in tools like HIRO Autopilot and other automation tools like Jenkins & Bamboo
  • Hands-on Experience on AWS cloud architect associate
  • Cognizant Technology Solutions

Education

Bachelor's of Technology - Electronics and instrumentation

Dr. MGR Engineering College
06-2013

High School Diploma -

Doveton Corrie Anglo Indian Boy's Higher Secondary School
05-2009

Skills

  • Infrastructure as code (IaC)
  • Performance optimization
  • CI and CD pipelines
  • AWS expertise
  • DevOps methodologies

Accomplishments

  • Achieved AWS Cost Optimization by 40% by completing automating Of Shutting down/Start of AWS EC2 Servers based on Timezones with accuracy and efficiency in Business hours.

Certification

  • Dataiku ML Practitioner
  • Operations on AWS
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty
  • Academy Accreditation - Generative AI Fundamentals
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Languages

Czech
English

Personal Information

Title: Solutions Architect | AWS Machine learning | 2 x Dataiku | Release Management | Sr. Specialist | Tech Lead | Cloud Engineer

Timeline

Senior Cloud Engineer with Devops

Cognizant
02.2019 - Current

Cloud Operations Engineer

Cognizant
01.2014 - 02.2019

Bachelor's of Technology - Electronics and instrumentation

Dr. MGR Engineering College

High School Diploma -

Doveton Corrie Anglo Indian Boy's Higher Secondary School
Jaffer Sheriff