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waqas alyas

Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS and Kubernetes

BNY MellonNew York City College of TechnologyRemote, NY9 Years ExperienceSenior Level

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AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production incident leadership in a regulated banking environment, using deep OS-level tooling to diagnose CPU entitlement and memory pressure issues. Experienced with HMC/vHMC, VIOS, and zero-downtime DLPAR resizing, plus PowerHA/HACMP clustering and validated failover testing. Also drives migration readiness via Bash/Python automation (60% manual-effort reduction) and phased AIX cloud/hybrid cutovers.

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Key Strengths

  • Led high-severity AIX production incident triage using OS performance tools (topas/vmstat/iostat/svmon/lparstat)
  • Coordinated with virtualization team to adjust CPU entitlement/resource limits and stabilize performance
  • Implemented proactive monitoring/alerting for CPU, memory, and paging saturation
  • Executed zero-downtime DLPAR CPU/memory resizing while managing contention across shared LPARs
  • Planned and executed AIX migrations using dependency discovery, lift-and-shift vs re-platform decisions, and phased cutovers with parallel testing
  • Built/operated PowerHA/HACMP clusters and validated failover via simulated node failures with no downtime
  • Automated AIX patching and inventory with Bash/Python, reducing manual effort by 60%

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Experience

AWS Cloud & System EngineerBNY Mellon · Jul 2024 – Present
Senior System EngineerComcast · Nov 2021 – Jun 2024
System EngineerApidel Technologies · Jul 2021 – Nov 2021
AWS Cloud EngineerBank of America · Nov 2019 – Jul 2021
Cloud / DevOps EngineerPNC Bank · Feb 2017 – Nov 2019

Education

New York City College of Technologybachelor, Computer Science

Languages

English

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