Adnan Hussain

Manchester, UK · adnanhussaiin98@gmail.com

I am an experienced Senior AWS Cloud Engineer at Softcat. Previous experience includes working with Amazon Connect to build cool omni-channel contact centre solutions for large organisations across various sectors.

AWS Certified Security - Specialty AWS Certified Developer – Associate AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Amazon Connect Developer Specialist Amazon Connect Communications Specialist Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) ITIL 4 Foundation APMG AgilePM Sumo Logic Fundamentals Sumo Logic Administration Sumo Logic Search Mastery

Experience

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Softcat

Providing technical solutions for various AWS services for our managed service customers.
I've made use of the following services and took on various responsibilities within this role:

  • AWS - Lambda, EventBridge, IAM, SNS, SES, S3, EC2, VPC, Route53, RDS, Systems Manager, Patch Manager, Config, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Identity Center
  • Amazon Connect SME
  • Terraform
  • Python
  • Git/Github/Github Actions
  • Managed Services
  • ServiceNow
  • ITIL v4
January 2025 - Present

AWS Cloud Engineer

Softcat

Providing technical solutions for various AWS services for our managed service customers.

May 2023 - January 2025

CX Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Mission Labs

Designed and implemented omni-channel contact centre solutions using Amazon Connect with a key focus on CX (Customer Experience). I’ve worked with the biggest customers at Mission Labs and mainly worked on projects where I’ve lead the build of intelligent web chat solutions running on Amazon Connect and utilising other services such as Amazon Lex, Lambda & DynamoDB on the back end. This was all tied in with SmartAgent on the front end.

I’ve been grateful to have had a varied work experience during my time at Mission Labs. From doing my core role, building contact centre solutions, to getting involved with designing/re-designing our customer's AWS setups, pre-sales and proof of concept work showing off the SaaS product, SmartAgent.

I've made use of the following services within this role:

  • Amazon Connect
  • Amazon Lex
  • DynamoDB
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • CloudFormation
  • Terraform
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudFront
  • Route53
  • IAM
  • Cognito
  • Quicksight
  • Athena
  • Grafana
December 2021 - May 2023

Technical Support Analyst

Infor
  • Worked with Infor’s products, M3 Tech & CLM (Customer LifeCycle Management) product lines.
  • Provided application & technical support to customers via WebEx/Infor Xtreme Portal.
  • Managed our internal environments (TEST, DEV & PROD) by continuously monitoring for errors/CPU heap usage, testing/troubleshooting, applying new fixes as and when released.
  • Used SQL Server to maintain/upgrade internal database and debug issues on the customer side through queries.
  • Provided configuration and maintenance support for ElasticSearch.
  • Primary support liaison between the company and customer, working closely with our CloudOps and DevOps internal teams to provide solutions to incidents.
  • Used Sumo logic to proactively monitor and view logs for potential issues that may occur in our Multi-Tenant cloud customers live environments.
  • Handled and assisted customer P1 (Production Down) incidents with immediate WebEx/Zoom support.
  • Additional testing and troubleshooting with means of remote desktop to customer environments via Thycotic Secret Server.
  • Proactively kept customers informed of how and when problems are resolved. Also created KB articles for each incident and in other cases created a defect tickets for incidents where product defects were noticed. This would be created as a JIRA ticket and passed on to the QA/Dev team to further assess.
  • Continued to always develop knowledge in specific Infor cloud suite and operating environments.
March 2020 - December 2021

IT Service Desk Analyst

G4S

1st & 2nd Line support for Electronic Monitoring Systems contracted by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

  • Experience using Active Directory to manage user accounts
  • Troubleshooting and solving end user Citrix issues
  • MSSQL to run queries and analyse customer data
  • Executed updates/patches to virtual machines
  • Nagios to monitor/manage system events
  • Managed VMware environments and ensured that they were running as expected
  • Managed incidents and problems via iTop
  • Utilised ITIL as part of service management and followed the best practices to fulfil SLA’s
  • Created and managed JIRA tickets for incidents escalated to 3rd line support.
August 2019 - March 2020

Education

Manchester Metropolitan University

BSc Software Engineering
Grade: 2:1
2016 - 2019

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
  • Python
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Git/GitHub/GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • HTML/CSS
  • SQL

Personal Projects

AWS Cloud Resume Challenge (This online CV/Resume)

This website is stored in AWS S3 and utilises a CloudFront distribution to serve the website globally. The domain name for the website was acquired from a 3rd party. The SSL certificate for it was obtained from Amazon Certificate Manager and the custom domain was configured in Route53

Terraform used to create and deploy a DynamoDB table and item within the table. This table was created to store the website visit count.

CI/CD for the front end. My GitHub repo stores the website code and is the source for the pipeline created in AWS Codepipeline. Once a change is made and pushed into Git, the pipeline will retreive the new files and then deploy them to S3.

Programming Languages & Tools used in this project:
  • HTML, CSS, Javascript
  • Python
  • AWS (S3, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudFront, Route53, Certificate Manager, Codepipeline, Lambda)
  • GitHub
  • Terraform

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Security - Specialty
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Amazon Connect Developer Specialist
  • Amazon Connect Communications Specialist
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
  • ITIL v4 Foundation
  • AgilePM Foundation
  • Sumo Logic Search Mastery
  • Sumo Logic Administration
  • Sumo Logic Fundamentals