Michael Major
Project Management
MD, United States
Skills
Cloud Computing
About
MICHAEL A. MAJOR's skills align with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). MICHAEL also has skills associated with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). MICHAEL A. MAJOR appears to be a low-to-mid level candidate, with 3 years of experience.
Work Experience
Managed Services Engineer
VERINT
June 2021 - June 2023
- Troubleshot installation, configuration, integration, and application of Verint products within the customer environment alongside 3rd party applications Deployed software updates and monthly security patches to keep servers running optimally. Acting as the organization's subject matter expert for cloud, automation, and end-to-end architecture for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions. Completed daily monitoring of the customer server environment for service outages, Leveraging Lambda, Fargate, and other serverless, and ensuring technical equipment in each program area functions effectively and that staff has the necessary skills and knowledge to use its standard software. Development and Maintenance of architecture solutions such as reference architecture, product strategy, and product-toservices roadmap.
Senior Cloud Engineer
iVISION
January 2023 - March 2024
- Led the design and implementation of cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure for global clients, including architecture design, infrastructure provisioning, networking, security, and monitoring. Provided technical leadership to cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, and security, to ensure the successful delivery of cloud projects on time and within budget. Collaborated with clients to understand their business requirements and design custom cloud solutions that align with their strategic goals and deliver optimal performance, security, and scalability. Conducted cloud assessments and provided recommendations for optimizing cloud workloads, improving security, and reducing costs by leveraging Azure best practices and services. Automate and streamline cloud deployments using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, Azure DevOps, and other automation tools to improve cloud deployments' efficiency, consistency, and quality. Ensure adherence to cloud security best practices, compliance requirements, and industry standards such as GDPR, HIPAA and ISO 27001 by designing and implementing robust security architectures and monitoring mechanisms. Maintains the latest advancements in Azure services, cloud technologies, and industry trends and provides technical leadership and guidance to clients and internal teams.
KURA LABS
June 2022 - December 2022
- Cloud Infrastructure - SRE & DevOps Training Academy Establishing proficiency in Linux environments with extensive use of BASH and Python to automate core processes involving resource provisioning, monitoring, security, and scaling. Building and scaling automated software deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker (ECS), Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, and CircleCI to provision microservice applications. Monitored, troubleshot, and remediated application, infrastructure, and incident issues using DataDog, CloudWatch, and Splunk. Building, securing, and deploying N-tier microservice infrastructure and VPCs (multiple AZs, subnets, gateways, load balancers, APIs, application servers, databases) using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, and Keeper. Leveraging Lambda Fargate and other serverless to ensure technical equipment in each program area functions effectively and that staff has the necessary skills and knowledge to use its standard software.
Education
Community College of Baltimore County
Associate of Applied Sciences
