Ankur Walia

Glasgow, United Kingdom, +44-7501243833 ankurwalia@yahoo.in

I am an AWS Infrastructure Engineer working to help business getting started with AWS, and make their AWS experience a great one. I have extensive experince in working closely with the customer to help bring their requirements to reality.

Experience

AWS Consultant

Avaloq Innovation

Working as part of Infrastructure Development team managing multiple teams and AWS account in a multi AWS account setup.

  • Co-ordinating with the customer for requirement gathering and analysis and transforming into technical tasks.
  • Working together with the customer in an Agile way to manage the changing requirements.
  • Planning and creating the SSO permission sets and account assignment at the organization level.
  • Lead the product search to automate the architecture diagram creation (Cloudcraft, Hava, Lucid). Coordinated with the sales team of mentioned products saving substantial man hours in maintaining the diagram updated.
  • Lead the Proof-of-Concept mini project to implement IP Address Manage (IPAM) and setup CIDR pools to be used by various AWS accounts using Resource Access Manager (RAM).
  • Designed and developed a solution for automated OS patching, and Database service restart using System Manager’s maintenance window.
  • Designed and developed a cloud native serverless solution for Python job automation.
  • Worked on managing IAM user polices, roles, and Service Control Policies (SCP) to grant appropriate permissions using principle of least privilege.
  • Designed a Highly available and fault tolerant multi-AZ system for application using Oracle database hosted on EC2.
  • Extensive experience in Infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as a code with Terraform.
  • Integrated of Gitlab and Terraform cloud workspaces for automating deployments.
  • Experienced in working on Linux environments, and creating bash scripts for automation.
  • Creation of automation scripts using Python API for AWS (Boto3).

    • April 2021 - Present

    Assoiate Consultant

    Atos Syntel Europe ltd.

    Project – Provisioning Infrastructure to host a web application using Oracle Database hosted on EC2 instances.

  • Provisioning of EC2 Instances behind an Application Load Balancer hosting the web application.
  • Provisioning of EC2 instances hosting the Oracle Database, and creating communication between these two tiers.
  • Storing the VPC access log files in S3.
  • Storing the application binaries in S3 and accessing using S3 endpoint.
    • April 2020 - November 2020

    Assoiate Consultant

    Atos Syntel Europe ltd.

    Project - Oracle Database 12c Implementation consisting of implementation of Oracle database release 12c with maintenance and addition of new functionalities.

  • Created and modified Oracle PL/SQL packages and procedures.
  • Created Oracle and SQL reports 12c as per the business requirements.
  • Created and modified existing Oracle forms 12c.
  • Developed several application objects as per requirements, created custom job schedules.
  • Client interaction for information gathering & analysis and code review.
  • Team Working within other Project teams including Production Support Team using Agile principles.
  • Individually responsible to manage Highest Priority issues requiring Urgent Fix.
  • Solutions of Live defects using my strong analytical thinking to provide quick response in Live Time.
  • Performed code reviews for Team members and responsible for approval for the code for Live Deployment.
    • January 2018 - April 2020

    Oracle Developer

    Syntel ltd.

    Project - Product Data Hub Implementation - This project consisted of implementation of Oracle Product Hub (PDH) for Humana and several customisations as per Humana requirements

  • Responsible for Custom Oracle PL/SQL code; packages and events as per the requirements
  • Personalisation’s as per requirements
  • Developing custom business events, subscriptions and business rules for PDH
  • Developed several AOL objects and created custom concurrent programs for data extraction
  • Client interaction for gathering information for analysis and code reviews
  • Metadata import
  • PL/SQL Code(Package, Procedure, Function)
  • Using Web Adi for data load
    • October 2014 - January 2018

    Education

    RGPV- Bhopal (India)

    • Bachelor of Engineering
    Computer Science

    GPA: 6.96/10

    August 2010 - May 2014

    Interests

    When I am not working, I enjoy playing football or cricket with friends. If that's not happeing then you will find me playing computer games with my friends.

    I love cooking and cook almost daily. I mainly enjoy cooking Indian cuisine.

    Certifications

    • Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Assocaite
    • Avaloq Certified Customization Professional