Syed Sohaib Tahir

Experience

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  LCC - A Tech Mahindra Company

  Jan 2011 - Aug 2012

  RF Engineer
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  Huawei

  Dec 2011 - Dec 2013

  Network Performance Engineer

  Worked as part of Huawei Mutli Vendor NPM Team at Zain KSA as Network Performance and Optimization Engineer, managing NSN, Huawei and ZTE products and services.

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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Jul 2015 - now

  - Helping government agencies transform business workflow, operations and citizen experience using Gen AI- Technical Leader responsible for building and delivering technical strategy to transform government finance and administration systems using modern technologies and cloud solutions. - Problem Solver across Technology, People and Process- Helping governments to modernize core systems, achieve efficiency, transform operations and deliver better citizen experience through cloud powered technologies. - Trusted advisor to government agencies within US and internationally to transform mission workloads on cloud such as Tax, Labor & Workforce, and Pension & Retirement systems.- Helping customers design secure and compliant regulated workloads on cloud for compliance frameworks such as IRS Pub 1075, CJIS, and NIST 800-53. - Helping Enterprise customers to design reliable, scalable and secure cloud networks.- Thought leader, author and reviewer of various AWS blog posts and whitepapers (20+ published content) - AWS Public Speaker and Evangelist - delivered 30+ sessions across AWS re:Invent, AWS Summits, industry events and government conferences. - Amazon Bar Raiser ( delivered 200+ interview loops)- Directly mentored 30+ Amazonian across various roles. Show less • Helping customers in building well-architected solutions on the AWS cloud.• Understanding of broad range of AWS services and different solutions built on top of them using concepts like HA, scalability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery and cost optimization. • Deep understanding of various workloads and how to design and migrate them on AWS to meet compliance requirements such as PCI, HIPAA, FedRAMP,CJIS and ITAR.• Hands-on experience in designing automation workflows to complete infrastructure level provisioning of resources and various operational tasks using AWS automation tools and services.• AWS public speaker: Delivered talks at the re:Invent 2018 and 2019, AWS Loft and AWS Public Sector Summits. Show less Dedicated AWS Support Engineer for Netflix.• Provide Technical and Architecture support to customers on different AWS Services particularly EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, VPC, VPN, Route 53, Lambda and Cloud Watch. • Helped new customers in designing and architecting HA applications using ELB, Auto Scaling, EC2, VPC and RDS.• Worked with customers for setting up highly available and low latency DNS system using Route53 Failover/latency based routing. • Helped customers in deploying highly available applications in Docker environments using Elastic Beanstalk and Cloudformation.• Helped customers in building a highly redundant connectivity to AWS VPC using Direct Connect and VPN.• Involved in troubleshooting customer network issues with tools such as packet captures, device configurations and Linux system administration tools. • Expert in designing and troubleshooting web-server architectures in the Cloud such as N-tier web application. • Understanding and working knowledge of hypervisors and virtualization concepts.• Hands-on experience building security best practices for AWS cloud using services such as IAM, ACM, MFA and KMS.• Configuration of Cisco ASA, PAN and Fortinet VPN solutions for AWS cloud.• Working knowledge and hands-on experience of configuring and architecting NAT, TGW, VGW, DXGW and virtual routers running on EC2 instances.• Configuration and troubleshooting of Apache, OpenSSH, IPsec, Bind and Nginx servers.• Thorough understanding and hands on experience with Infrastructure Engineering technologies (firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security etc.)• Experienced in identifying and articulating key trade-offs when making cloud and infrastructure decisions• Thorough understanding of IaaS, PaaS, Container Orchestration and Infrastructure as Service concepts. • Helped customers in automating tasks on AWS cloud using boto3 and AWS lambda.• Hands on experience in Building ELK based solutions for Data Analytics. Show less

  • Principal Solutions Architect

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Senior Solutions Architect

    Jul 2019 - now

  • Solutions Architect

    May 2017 - Jun 2019

  • Cloud Support Engineer

    Jul 2015 - Apr 2017