Below are the 6 Cloud Engineers/Directors with strong technical skills and multiple systems expertise. The Thor Group® provides cloud engineers with your systems & industry expertise on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

Would hiring a cloud engineer with extensive experience working in a telecommunications company help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Master of Business Administration (MBA). Professional certifications consist of Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) and Certification of Oracle Database Administration. Technical skills consist of Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server. Software knowledge consists of Informatica, SQL Developer, Tableau and TOAD.

Acting as a cloud engineer in a telecommunications company, drove and managed several concurrent complex cloud infrastructure projects by designing/implementing VPC environments including computing, storage, networking, and security. Part of the job was to build and maintain highly-available, Cost-effective, fault-tolerant, scalable systems using AWS and OCI cloud resources. Some of the tasks were migrating multiple legacy systems (435 servers) to the cloud platform using AWS with Cost savings of $12 Million/year in data center and software license Costs, as well as managing various RBMS database like Oracle, MYSQL and SQL Server in day to day activities.

This cloud engineer also used knowledge of Oracle RAC 10g/11g and GRID architecture, configuring and implementing, installing, configuring, tuning and migrating Oracle 10g/11g on Windows/UNIX/Linux servers. Moreover, developed logical and physical database layouts and database sizing and capacity planning. Furthermore, did installing, upgrading Informatica and building mappings for ETL from various data sources like (flat files, Teradata, SQL server to Oracle database).

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this cloud engineer/architect who is proficient in SAP CRM, Oracle, PaaS, IaaS and SaaS with work background in business services, investment and technology services industries? Technical competencies involve SAP CRM, Oracle, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, SQL Server, Agile Methodology and Linux. Educational background includes Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. This individual is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and AWS Certified Developer with additional certifications in Scrum Master, MCSA and CompTIA Security+.

Important contributions of this cloud engineer/architect included designing and deploying AWS technologies such as VPC, EC2, EBS, S3, ELB, Auto scaling, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, RDS, Route 53 & Redshift. The job entailed monitoring, auditing and optimizing cloud infrastructure environments using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-ray, Nagios, Splunk, AWS config and Inspector. Tasks covered applying experience/ understanding of build automation and CI/CD pipelines platforms for developers using AWS Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, Code Star and other third party technologies like Jenkins and GitHub. Experience in migrating Oracle, SQL server, MySQL on prem database to AWS RDS and Aurora database using AWS Database migration Services (DMS) was applied.

This specialist deployed the infrastructure as code and automations using AWS CloudFormation, Ansible and scripting. Knowledge of AWS EC2 Instances provisioning, AWS VPC setup and AWS Auto Scaling for availability of EC2 instances, availability, provisioning of RDS and Aurora database instances was applied. Creating and maintaining AMIs templates, EC2 instances, EBS, and S3 resources required by different organizational entities were skills brought to the table.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this cloud engineer with work experience in consumer services, computer software and telecommunications equipment industries? Educational attainment is composed of BS Computer Technology/Computer Science. Professional certifications consist of Amazon AWS Certification, CompTIA Security+ SY0-201, Oracle Database 11g SQL Fundamentals and Oracle Database 11g Administration. Database skills involve Oracle, SQL Server, Oracle Enterprise Manger (Grid Control/OEM), SQL Navigator, SQL Developer and PLSQL Developer. Programming languages consist of SQL, PL/SQL, C++, HTML 4.0, Visual Basic, ASP and A+.

Contributed to the organization’s success by functioning as Oracle database engineer to support and provide day to day production database, staging, test, and development support for single database instances, data-warehousing, and PeopleSoft database instances including Web application server, web server, process schedulers, and database servers. As a cloud engineer in a consumer services company, performed daily database administration duties using Oracle RMAN utility to do backup, restore, recover, and cloning. Additionally, monitored and managed PeopleSoft Oracle databases using Oracle Enterprise manager (OEM) and the Grid Infrastructure command tool.

Additionally, supported organizational goals by successfully installing Oracle client, installing MS Office 365, and other required tools for PeopleSoft on the workstation. Moreover, audited Oracle database in prod, dev and test using DOD STIG checklist, evidence finding and using the STIG Viewer. Furthermore, checked on user activity within the databases, structure changes to the database such as creation, deletion or modification of tables, clusters, triggers, and more.

What contributions could a cloud product director & solutions strategist, who has a BS/Computer Science, MS/Computer Applications (Artificial Intelligence), MS/Computer Science (Networking & Software Engineering), who worked in information technology (IBM), telecommunications, energy/utilities & transportation industries, and has IaaS, SaaS, PaaS expertise in HP OpenStack, IBM Bluemix, and Cloud Foundry, bring to your organization? This specialist has deep understanding of IOT Value Chain, Ecosystem and Technologies, and rich IOT experience and has rich hands-on background in managing and developing Cloud-based Web and Mobile SaaS applications from ground-up through Agile methodologies. Additional Skills in PaaS include IBM Bluemix, AT&T M2X, Etherios Device Cloud, Apache Spark, YellowFin, JasperSoft, Piwik, Webtrends, OpenStack, Open Whisk, Blockchain and Cloud Foundry. Expertise in web technologies consisted of Java, JavaScript, HTML5, REST, XML/JSON, AJAX and Drupal.

This specialist provided technical expertise and advices with a wide range of cloud and open source technologies, including Bluemix, Cloud Foundry, Docker Container, IOT, Mobile, Data & Analytics, Watson Cognitive Computing, Blockchain and Openwhisk. Another task was managing Cloud based communication & collaboration product portfolios, including telephony based unified communication product, call center solution, conferencing & web collaboration, call accounting, cloud voicemail solution.

Shared expertise by driving the development of next generation of Cloud-based IOT Asset Tracking & Management web UI, including designing wireframes and mockups, preparing interactions and requirements, and working with IT for implementation. This included managing the Cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics initiative to provide customers valuable insights about their operations and ROIs. This cloud director managed both software and hardware/firmware of the products, including web UI design & development, analytics and business intelligence, customer beta test trial, analysis and defect tracking, device management and diagnostics.

Would a cloud director, BS/Secondary Education, MA/Instructional Design & Media, with skills in Appian, SalesForce.com, Oracle, Siebel, PaaS/SaaS & Internet-of-Things (IoT)/RFID who worked in Appian, government, computer software and aerospace/defense industries match the needs of your organization? Core competencies include analytics solutions, data integration, systems integrators, strategic alliances and business development.

Acting as a director of strategic alliances for a computer software company, responsible for identifying revenue targets & strategic programs, generating tactical sales leads for the sales team and driving long term business development with Federal systems integrators. Some of the targets were DoD, Civilian and I/C for cloud enabled analytics and data integration solutions.

While working for a Appian, responsible for strategic business development with Federal Systems Integrators, commercial integrators and others. This included targeting all Federal verticals for Appian cloud enabled BPM platform into new and existing SI programs. This cloud specialist developed BPM practices for mid-tier SIs, which involved training and Appian-based solutions. Other duties were building and managing Global Partner Alliance Program (PAM) for multiple vertical markets, driving OEM, ISV and SI business, as well as managing IBM Global Services relationship with $20M annual LOB. Another task was targeting DoD accounts for Oracle OnDemand Cloud Solutions. The compensation tied to overall team goal with average team quota of $50M.

Would a detail-oriented Vice President and IaaS engineer lead, BBA/MIS, MSCE, Certified ITIL, who is adept in designing and orchestrating Cloud software, IaaS & PaaS, while working in the financial services and information technology industries fit in your organization?

Accomplishments included defining storage hardware platforms for global PSI and VSI services which included server platform selection and qualification across Linux, Microsoft and VMWare operating systems. This cloud specialist architected advanced hardware solutions for Hight Frequency Trading and Murex implementations using GPU and SolidState Storage technologies. Other tasks involved planning security policy across server hardware and infrastructure platforms, as well as negotiating service, solution definition and product offerings with clients, service owners and project leads. Another duty was developing third party integration for roll-in-rack solutions that synchronize into end to end automation procedures.

Shared expertise by establishing and executing technology standards and strategies across business units and central technology organizations. This cloud professional designed and managed business architecture and technology performance configurations to maintain optimal power and performance ROI. This engineer also implemented Firmware and OS driver baseline policies to enhance security and maintain infrastructure stability and resiliency. An additional duty was performing architecture, engineering and implementation of various infrastructures to maintain corporate services across the global organization of over 200,000 employees.