Below are the 11 Cloud Engineers/Administrators  with strong technical skills & multiple systems expertise.  The Thor Group® provides cloud engineers with your systems & industry experience on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

What can a cloud engineer with specializations in SAP CRM and SAP SuccessFactors, as well as work background in communication, education and financial services industries bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve SAP CRM, SAP SuccessFactors, HCM, HR SaaS and HR Cloud. Educational attainment includes B.A. degree in Organizational Management (HR emphasis) and Associate of Science. This individual is an SAP Certified Professional Application Consultant.

Focusing on utilizing SAP SuccessFactors, tasks of this cloud engineer covered partnering with global customers to create holistic HCM solutions based on leading practices and in support of HR business strategy, objectives and priorities. Duties covered facilitating HR software design workshops to evaluate customer requirements for HR systems, performing fit/gap analysis and mapping to a technical solution architecture. This individual served as strategic and technical adviser on HR/HCM SaaS deployment planning, implementation strategy and end user adoption. Skills brought to the table consisted of supporting customer SaaS implementation using an Agile project methodology and guiding customers through critical integration points and subsequent configuration decisions. Other functions involved participating in project governance and steering committee meetings to ensure project alignment with overall design strategy, along with supporting sales and pre-sales teams with prospective customer engagements and scoping exercises.

In another job, tasks involved partnering with C-level customer leadership to engage and support the execution of their HCM solution strategy, along with advising and supporting customers to help them maximize the value to see the ROI from their HCM SaaS solutions and increase software expansion. The increase in the adoption and use of the SuccessFactors subscription software resulted in greater retention, renewals, profitability and revenue growth.

Is impacting your organization with a cloud engineer who worked in insurance, retail and software solutions industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Information Technology. Database technologies skills involve Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, Mango DB and No SQL. Additional expertise involves Cloud Services, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, Cloud watch, Cloud trail and Amazon Web Services. Strengths include having over 7 years of experience in automation, configuration and deployment on Cloud environments.

While employed in insurance company as cloud engineer, performed installation of Oracle on Linux and Solaris, as well as the creation of database and Oracle users. Priority was given to the installation and configuration of Oracle 8/9i database on Sun Solaris Servers. Some of the duties were production support of Apache, PHP, My SQL, Tomcat including installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting, as well as security patching. In addition, written shell scripts and Perl scripting to take backup Oracle database.

Part of the job as a cloud engineer in a retail company was to be involved in designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud formation. This specialist used MySQL, DynamoDB and ElastiCache to perform basic database administration. Furthermore, used GZIP with AWS Cloudfront to forward compressed files to destination node/instances.

What contributions could a cloud engineer with experience working in retail, financial services and insurance industries bring to your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Master of Science in Computer Science. Also, has experience working on various databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server. Languages & web technologies skills involve JAVA/J2EE, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 and XML. This specialist has 8 years of extensive experience in IT industry with experience in integration, deployment, site reliability and cloud engineering.

Challenges like developing different environments of different applications on Google cloud by provisioning Kubernetes clusters on GCE instances and GKE using Docker, Ruby/Bash, and Python were successfully completed on a regular basis. As a cloud engineer in a retail company, implementing several TDDs & BDDs while writing test-cases for several Java and Python scripts using languages Cucumber and Behave for the unit-tests then integrating them into Jenkins pipeline. Moreover, launched database for MySQL 5.x and Oracle 11.x using RDS in multiple available zones.

Shared expertise in another job by working as major part in improvising the Performance of operations by creating AWS parallel and nested stacks using Cloud Formation Template (CFT) with IAM users, EC2, ASG and RDS instances in a multi-tier environment. Serving in a financial services company as cloud engineer, performed AWS cloud deployments for web-apps running on AWS Elastic Bean Stalk (EBS) with monitored using Cloud-watch and VPC to manage network configurations. Furthermore, leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling, and VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems for the customers to use Rights Management System.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this cloud administrator, AAS/Network Administration-Cisco Networking, BA/Network Administration, MTA, MCP, who knows Microsoft Azure, AWS, Active Directory and Office 365, with industry background in healthcare, retail, telecommunications and information systems? This professional excelled in all the aspects of IT support, with an emphasis on system and cloud computing.

Contributed to the organization’s success by migrating critical on-premises servers to AWS Amazon Web Services, as well as configuring/maintaining Active Directory on Premises/Azure AD Hybrid infrastructure, via AD Connect synchronization tool. This cloud specialist kept up-to-date on new developments in computer and network vulnerabilities, data hiding and encryption. Other duties involved administering Amazon Web Services and Office 365 Enterprise.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by monitored company-wide trouble ticket queues, as well as reviewing logs for all networking devices for unresolved abnormalities and problems. This included troubleshooting and maintaining all networking devices and infrastructure across the enterprise including switches, routers and firewalls. This cloud administrator also communicated with vendors to resolve network outages and periods of reduced performance. Additional tasks were building server systems and installing into racks, as well as maintaining backups and disaster recovery plan.

What contributions could a cloud administrator, BS/Computer Administration, who is adept in Amazon AWS, Red Hat, VMware Cloud, EC2, Cloud Watch, S3 and RDS, with industry experience in insurance, software, financial services and information systems bring to your organization? Additional skills include Apache, Tomcat, IIS, .Net, Java J2EE, SQL, My SQL, No SQL-MongoDB, Cassandra, Puppet and Chef.

Challenges like configuring and managing private/public cloud infrastructures using AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, AMI, EBS, Cloud watch, Load balancers, Route 53, RDS, IAM, and AWS S3 were welcomed and successfully completed on a regular basis. This cloud professional served as administrator and architect of cloud platforms (AWS) and NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Cassandra. Core competencies include strong technical background in Storage, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management (LVM) and logical partitioning. This included managing network troubleshooting applications TCP/IP including Ethernet, IP addressing, sub-netting and routing. Other tasks were setting up Amazon EC2 instances, setting up security groups and configuring Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto Scaling groups. An additional duty was working on AWS EBS Volumes, Cloud Formation and Cloud Watch services.

Shared expertise by managing and supporting AWS Security related issues such as IAM and S3 policies for user access. This cloud professional supported all other AWS products such as S3, Elastic Load Balancing, and Route53 (DNS), as well as configured AWS VPC with public and private subnets. Secondary responsibilities consisted of setting up Internet Gateways for public subnets in VPC, building multiple servers on AWS using cloud formation template, as well as rehydrating the AWS servers periodically to have the latest AMI updated on it.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a cloud administrator, BS/Computer Science, with skills in Microsoft Azure, IBM SmartCloud, Active Directory, Office 365, OneDrive and SharePoint, who worked in hospitality, banking, government and telecommunications industries? Trainings attended included Cloud Services and Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft Azure Introduction and Office 365 Configuration.

Core competencies including expertise in Hybrid environment using IBM SmartCloud via Lotus Notes, on Premise Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office 365 Cloud platforms. An Open 365 Engineer who has hands on experience upgrading from Lotus Notes (8.53 and 9.0) to MSO365. Duties included working closely with small teams of Office 365 Engineers to design, implement, and support enterprise-level, complex Office 365 Solutions. Notable accomplishments were significantly improving employee efficiency and enhancing the public impression of the Messaging and Collaboration for a hospitality company.

As cloud administrator, provided tier 2/3 proactive and reactive support of Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange issues as related to the cloud and processes such as assuring target address, licensing and connectivity. This included Mobile Device Management, Mobile Migration from all email enterprise environments to Email / Cloud Environments. This cloud specialist also managed, administered and supported a Hybrid Lotus Notes/Office 365 Cloud based Environment running on a Windows server 2012 in a global environment.

Would a cloud administrator, BS/Computer Science, with skills in OpenStack, Cisco Cloud, Cloudberry, Oracle, Hadoop, MS SQL, Jira and Bugzilla, with experience working in telecommunications, defense/aerospace, education, semiconductor and hospitality industries match the needs of your organization? Technical skills include AutoCAD, Client/Server, MS-Access, Sendmail, Eudora, DCID 6/9, DOD 5200.1, HSPD-12, FIPS-2001, VMware, HPL, HPCC, Cliqr, Ansible, AutoIT, Bash, Fortran, C/C++, Java, Perl, PowerShell, PL/SQL Python, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, SQL, TCL/TK, Visual Basic, CSU/DSU, DNS, ICMP, ISDN, LAN/WAN, SNMP, Frame Relay, Cisco, LinkSys, Lease Line, T1, Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP/IP and VPN.

Acting as OpenStack UI software engineer for a telecommunications company, worked with the operating systems of OpenStack, Linux and Windows, and scripting languages such as BASH, Python, PowerShell, and Heat to orchestrate the launch and presentation of cloud applications from independent software vendors into the company’s Cloud Services Marketplace. This process involved knowledge of OpenStack services such as Nova, Glance, Cinder, and Neutron. Knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Centos, Ubuntu, and Microsoft Windows was utilized to complete assigned tasks.

While working for a aerospace/defense company, wrote application to do back up and restores of virtual machines using Ansible. Other duties involved configuring and installing Apprenda, Cloudberry, Riak-CS, Riak-KV, and Stackato. This cloud professional also built an OpenStack cloud installation and worked on assuring high quality data. Additional responsibilities consisted of writing software in Groovy, JavaScript, Git and Hadoop to ensure data quality, as well as writing scripts in Bash to assist in programming tasks.

Would a cloud & networking administrator, BS/Electronics, CCNA, certified in EMC/ VMware ESX/ Sun Solaris Administrator, skilled in CloudBoost, VMWare, Sun Solaris, EMC & NetBackup, who worked in data recovery services, information systems & bpo industries match the needs of your organization?

While working for an information systems company as cloud administrator, directly involved in upgrades, install and design of the existing SAN with New brocade 5100 SAN. Other tasks involved installation, upgrade, migration, planning, and troubleshooting for everyday data center issues which included VMware, SAN, storage, backups, UNIX, Linux, VMware, ISCSI and networking.

Acting as a technical support lead networking data domain, provided support to enterprise level customers using e-mail, phone and WebEx, as well as focused on issues involving networking, replication, CIFS, NFS, OST, ddboost, cloudboost and SNMP. This specialist acted as technical lead in the specific areas of OST/DDBOOST. Duties performed consisted of identifying emerging issues, working directly with engineering to resolve them, as well as running performance testing using tcpdump, Wireshark, and iostat to isolate bottlenecks in the TCP/IP environment. Another task was Reconfiguring customer configuration in various backup environments (NetBackup, Backup exec, VMware, Oracle RMAN, Avamar and Networker) to increase performance through load balancing and optimization.

Would a cloud systems administrator, Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect, with proficiency in Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMware ESXi & vCloud Air, Xen, Hyper-V, Linux KVM, Barracuda Firewall & Cloud Router, DirectConnect and ExpressRoute for oil/energy, professional services, aerospace, retail and media production industries match the needs of your organization? Security technology skills are composed of Cisco ASA, Checkpoint Barracuda NG-F (Certified), Barracuda WAF, PFSense, IPTables, VPN-P2S & S2S.

Acting as a cloud systems administrator for an oil/energy company, integrated Amazon AWS services into daily operations for process improvement and cost reduction. This included the management and configuration of HP ProCurve and Cisco ASA network environment with multiple discrete WAN uplinks, and multiple discrete WiFi network SSIDs. Another task was managing 240 TB+ SAN environment based on ‘white box’ Open Solaris systems as well as commercial licensed software. This cloud professional maintained 24/7/365-hour uptime environment for engineering analysis servers and workstations, as well as facilitated and automated data transfer from outside organization to analysis and engineering resources via Linux servers running Bash and Python scripts.

While working for a professional services company, performed PowerShell script development to allow and automate start/stop/snapshot actions against IaaS Objects in AWS and Azure to minimize cloud spend and management overhead. The deployment of Barracuda NG-F firewalls in MS Azure to solve client cloud-routing limitation issues was implemented. Some of the duties consisted of implementation of Barracuda WAF appliances in MS Azure for client application protection, as well as development of ‘Golden Image’ base VMs for future client server deployments in AWS and Azure.

Would a detail-oriented AWS cloud administrator, BT/Electronics & Communication Engineering, who is well-versed in AWS, Red Hat, VPC EC2, S3, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, AWS EC2, RDS and EBS, with background in pharmaceutical, insurance, retail and information systems industries fit in your organization? This specialist has 8 years of professional experience in installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Red Hat Linux, AIX, Ubuntu and Windows on various hardware platforms and 3.5 years in AWS cloud.

Some accomplishments included setting up and building AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates. This cloud professional redesigned infrastructure for high availability using multiple AWS availability zones, as well as architected the development, testing, integration, and production of AWS environments. Another duty was creating Python scripts to totally automate AWS services which included web servers, ELB, Cloud front distribution, database, ec2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application configuration. This script dynamically added and removed servers from AWS production environment.

Shared expertise by building Chef Development workflow and best practices around configuration management as well as building a strong and diverse internal Chef community. This cloud specialist designed and built a continuous integration and deployment framework for Chef Code using test driven development. This included the maintenance of user accounts (IAM) and Route 53 services in AWS cloud.

How can a Linux systems administrator (DevOps), CompTIA Server+ Certified, who is proficient in Amazon AWS EC2 RDS S3, Rackspace, Windows Azure and Google Apps, with experience working in aerospace/defense, insurance, food service, computer software and information systems industries help your organization? Other technical know-how is composed of Zimbra, MS Exchange, ProofPoint, Barracuda, Citrix XenApp, VMWare ESXi, Vpshere Center and Horizon View VDI.

Working with challenging issues such as configuring, maintenance and administration of Java and NodeJS stacks in EC2, S3 in AWS for Prod have vetted this specialist’s work experience. Other duties involved configuring and implementing Docker Management, Registry and Shipyard environment for DEV, as well as maintenance, administration, code reviews, and builds in TFS. This cloud professional configured Tomcat APR OpenSSL, DNS and F5 load balancing, as well as offered configuration, maintenance and administration of LAMP stack in Dev/QA/Prod. Another task was configuring, maintaining and administrating RDS in AWS.

With a “can do approach” in the area of providing operational support for the customer MS Windows Azure cloud environment have been career objectives. This cloud specialist troubleshot and quickly resolved high priority impacting issues; provided escalations to teams regarding status of failed services; as well as provided technical leadership with incident handling and troubleshooting via Lync. Additional duties were facilitating communication with end-users and on-call teams during significant (high priority) incidents via Lync; as well as developing, validating and maintaining technical documentation daily and when instructed to do so within TFS.