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Atlanta, GA

Administrating and supporting the company’s Azure Kubernetes infrastructure, ensuring it is secure, resilient, and performance and responsible for complete DevOps activities and coordinating with the development team.
Designed & Implemented Configuration Management (PowerShell DSC)
Responsible to configure the alert notification to monitor CPU metrics, VM healths, and events logs.
Deployed VNETs and site-site VPN using PowerShell and deployed VMs into various subnets and enabled communications between subnets.
Developed PowerShell scripts and ARM templates to automate the provisioning and deployment process.
Successfully created Kubernetes pipeline of deployment & operation activities where all code is written in java, python& stored into bitbucket, for staging & testing purpose.
Preferable Azure by creating a multilevel hybrid pipeline of CI & CD helped clients to achieve the Kubernetes platform.
Working as Kubernetes Administrator, involved in configuration for web apps, Azure App Services, Azure Application Insights, Azure Application Gateway, Azure DNS, Azure traffic manager, App services.
Configured V-net integration, Active Directory, Encryption, and security on Azure using ARM templates and PowerShell scripts.
Automated various infrastructure activities like Continuous Deployment, Application Server setup, Stack monitoring using Ansible Playbooks using Jenkins.
Setting GitLab repository and Runner for build automation.
Creation of GitLab-ci.yml file for kicking build process in stages that run in a docker container.
Developed custom DSC roles.
Implemented Infrastructure as code (IaC)

using CloudFormation templates and Puppet

Created pipelines for deploying code from GitHub to Kubernetes (K8s) cluster in the form of Docker containers using Spinnaker platform.
Involved in designing and deploying a multitude of 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.
Efficient in Build and configuration of infrastructure in cloud development through the usage of Terraform tool as IaC, and ability to modify the Terraform modules based on the requirement of a development project.
Created AWS EBS volumes for storing application files for use with AWS EC2 instances whenever they are mounted to them and installed Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) on EC2 to manage containers created by PCF.
Experience in Microservices development using spring boot and deployment in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).
Agile coaching toward ACCM.
Developed build workflows using Gradle, Gitlab-CI, Docker, and OpenShift.
Administered and Configured the TFS within multi-platform environments.
Involved in the Code migration from TFS to Git repo.
Scrum team member and agile champion, retrospectives, planning poker, agile estimation.
Configuring JUnit coverage report and Integration Test cases as part of build-in GitLab Runner.
TFS/GIT responsibilities include maintaining the version control system (branching model, security), creation and maintenance of build definitions\scripts, and the setup of work item areas and iterations
Implemented cluster services using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to manage local deployments in Kubernetes by building a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster using Jenkins CICD pipeline.
Maintained and automated the scripts by using Python for automated deployments.
Drive end-to-end deployment of various components on the Azure cloud platform.
Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using Chef.
Administered the TFS and VSS Repositories for the Code check-in and checkout for different Branches.
Our DevOps solution includes the functions of build, deploy, automation test control, generating reports, and notification services with an end goal of continuous integration in a data center and Cloud (AWS environment).
Developed Ansible playbooks to manage Web Applications, Environment configuration Files, Users, Mount, points, and packages. Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and GIT.
Familiar with helm charts for deployment manager to use of charts and templates for listed file names.
Implemented Twistlock for rule-based access control policy system for Docker and Kubernetes containers to scan monitor events, runtime, vulnerabilities, Compliance for containers, images, Hosts, Registry, Jenkins Jobs.
Implemented HTTPS Ingress Controller and use TLS certificate on AKS to provide reverse proxy, configurable traffic routing for individual Kubernetes services.
Monitoring and tracing logs using Dynatrace.
Used Bash and Python included Boto3 to supplement automation provided by Ansible and Terraform for tasks such as encrypting EBS volumes backing AMIs and scheduling Lambda functions for routine AWS tasks.
Implemented Pod Security Policies (PSP) in AKS for required best practices and the ability to control what pods to be controlled, scheduled in AKS cluster prevents some possible security vulnerabilities or privilege Escalations.
Experienced working in Istio installation to enable Node to Node encryption on Azure Kubernetes service for Security requirement that intercepts all network communication between microservices.
Installed Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) on instances to manage the containers created by PCF.
Moved all Kubernetes container logs, application logs, event logs and cluster logs, activity logs, and diagnostic logs into Azure Event Hubs and then into Splunk for monitoring.
Used Jenkins as Continuous Integration tools to deploy the Spring Boot Microservices to Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) using build pack.
Daily monitoring production servers using Grafana and Prometheus which is integrated with Kubernetes, exceptions, and report to the team if something happens during standups.
Managing Azure DevOps build and release pipeline. Setting up new repos managing the permissions for various GIT branches. Deployed microservices, including provisioning AZURE environment.
Extended support for existing product teams on how to integrate CICD into the development life cycle.
Gather new requirements with the product owner and create tasks in the backlog, help with groom prioritize and estimations. Once in every two weeks perform deployment to the production environment.
Creating JIRA confluence articles for recent development performed, POC, and tech designs.
Experience with installation and configuration of Dynatrace monitoring tool. And created email alerts and threshold values using Dynatrace for our environment.
Used the Extreme Programming (Agile) methodology.
Familiarity with AWS Redshift, Postgres, MemSQL, and other newer database technologies
Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, PHP, Node.js.

Environment: Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jira, Confluence, PowerShell Windows, IIS, Python, Spinnaker, Splunk, Jenkins, Dynatrace, TFS, AWS, Agile, PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), GitLab, GitLab-Runner, Grafana, Prometheus, Twist lock, Istio, Jenkins, git, Ansible.

Sr. DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Experience in creating the company’s DevOps strategy in a mixed environment of Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS) servers along with creating and implementing a cloud strategy.
Extensive working experience with different SDLC methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall with an ability to be creative and to take self-initiatives to execute/manage multiple projects in parallel during time-critical situations.
Deployed Azure IaaS Virtual Machines (VM’s) and PaaS role instance s (Cloud Services) into secure VNets and subnets, designed VNets and Subscriptions to confirm to Azure Network Limits.
Experience in migrating on-premise data center to AWS cloud using VM Import/Export, Aws Data Migration Services.
Experience in using Cloud Infrastructure management and Implementation Working experience on various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Azure Websites. Caching, SQL Azure, NoSQL, Storage, Network services, Azure Active Directory, Scheduling, Auto Scaling, and Power Shell Automation.
Experience in working with Windows, UNIX/LINUX platform with different technologies such as Big Data, SQL, XML, HTML, Core Java, Shell Scripting, etc.
Used Chef for configuration management of hosted Instances within GCP. Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Maintained the user accounts (IAM), Cloud SQL, Cloud DNS, VPC, RDB, Cloud Datastore Cloud Bigtable, SQS, and CloudPub/Sub services in AWS.
Experienced in processing Big data on the Apache Hadoop framework using MapReduce programs.
Installed, Configured, and administered WebLogic server 10.3.6 for development, QA, UAT, and production environment on RHEL 6.4 platform.
Involved in up-gradation of Weblogic 8.1 to Weblogic 10.3 and migration of Weblogic 8.1 to JBoss 5.0.
Experience in building and deploying solutions to big data problems with various technologies
Experience with Big Data tools and technologies including working in a Production environment of a Hadoop Project.
For Weblogic servers and web servers documented the issues, migration, and upgrade patches.
Configured Node Manager to start and stop servers from the admin console. Configured SSL and provided WebLogic-based security procedures.
Experience using Big Data technologies including Hadoop stack.
Completed set up of CD environment with a focus on UrbanCodeuDeploy.
Moved 72 web services and related applications to uDeploy and maintained them across 5 environments Develop QA, UAT, PreProd, and Prod.
Developed strategies, and contracts for validation of deployments and automated rollbacks in uDeploy.
Set up uDeploy server along with automated scripts to back up the server and restore from backup for Disaster recovery.
Wrote CHEF recipes for automated uDeploy agent installs/updates, uDeploy agent relays install/update, and configuring the same with the uDeploy server.
Designed and implementing Aws Cloud Infrastructure by creating templates for AWS platform also used Terraform to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and production environments.
Configured Jenkins as a built engine to build and deploy applications to DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD environments.
Experienced managing release planning and branching strategy of GIT servers and worked on creating repositories in GIT Stash for multiple applications configured GIT repositories in CI setup in Jenkins and Injected Groovy scripts in Jenkins for the dashboard and customized email triggers.
Set up databases in GCP using RDS, storage using S3 bucket, and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket.
Automated various infrastructure activities like Continuous Deployment, Application Server setup, Stack Monitoring using Ansible Playbooks and integrated Ansible with Jenkins also provisioned and patched servers using Ansible.
Configured in setting up CICD pipeline integrating the various tools with CloudBees Jenkins to build and run Terraform script templates to create infrastructure in Azure.
Worked on Power Shell scripts to automate the Azure Cloud system in the creation of Resource groups, Web Applications, Azure Storage Blobs & Tables, firewall rules and used Python scripts to automate day-to-day administrative tasks.
Experienced on Docker and Ansible to build automation pipeline and Continuous Deployment for code using Jenkins and wrote Ansible Playbooks to automate Ansible Servers using YAML scripting.
Experience working with the OpenShift Redhat Enterprise which allows developers to quickly develop, host, and scale applications in a self-managed cloud environment.
Building/Maintaining Docker/ Kubernetes container clusters managed by Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, on GCP
Chef, Puppet, Jenkins continuous development, Power shell, PHP, Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Unix/Linux scripting.
Administer Splunk Software Development Kit for JavaScript, Python, and GCP Cloud Formation templates for Splunk distributed cluster deployment. Maintain and deploy builds in UAT and Production environments.
Extensively Worked on Docker service rolling updates to implement zero-downtime PROD deployments and worked with Docker Trusted Registry as a repository for our Docker images and worked with Docker swarm.
Configured commercial SSL certificates for high availability architecture applications Servers such as Web Spheres, WebLogic, Tomcat using NGINX and Apache web servers to terminate SSL endpoint.
Deployed Windows Kubernetes cluster with Azure Container Service (ACS) from Azure CLI and Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for runtime environment of the CICD system to build, test, and deploy.
Build servers using GCP, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection.
Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its node, Config Maps, selector, services, and deployed application container as Pods.
Experience working with chef Enterprise and Chef Opensource, Chef DK, Chef Workstation chef server, and client working with the configuration/Deployment tools like a chef (Knife, recipe, cookbook).
Integrated Splunk Enterprise with Dynatrace to monitor the performance of the application, managing Splunk Forwarder on a centralized deployment server.
Developed backup and recovery engine for VM backup/recovery using VMware vSphere APIs, Golang programming language also Contributed source code in Golang to developing an automation framework.

Environment: Azure, Aws, Kubernetes, Docker, Bigdata, Confluence chef, Git, Git-Hub, Maven, MemSql, PowerShell Windows, Terraform, JIRA, Weblogic, uDeploy, Swarm, Jenkins, Ansible, Jira, GCP, Apache Tomcat, Shell Script, Python, Linux, Dynatrace, Splunk.

SUMMARY

A Microsoft® Certified Microsoft Azure Developer.
Certified Software Development Professional having 15 years of IT/Business Solutions experience in analysis, design, development, and implementation of cost-effective, high quality, high-performance, and innovative technology solutions.
Expertise in analysis, design, and development of custom solutions/applications using Microsoft technology stack.
Experience in database design and development using SQL Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access.
Working Knowledge on Microsoft InfoPath 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Development level experience in Microsoft Azure, ASP.NET, ASP, and C #.NET, Web Services, WCF, ASP.NET Web API, ADO.NET, JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS, Bootstrap, PowerShell, CSS, HTML, UML, and XML.
Excellent knowledge of Object-Oriented Design and Development.
Extensive experience with Scrum and Waterfall software development methodologies.
Excellent communication skills and proven track record of global delivery as Lead/IC.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Technologies: Microsoft Azure
Technologies: ASP.NET, ASP, ADO.NET, ADO, InfoPath, ASP.NET Web API, WCF, Web Services, WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2007, Docker, Windows Container
Language: C#, VB.NET
Scripting Languages: PowerShell, JavaScript, JQuery, VBScript
Client Side Framework: Bootstrap, AngularJS
Version Control Tools: VSTS, VSTF, VSS
RDBMS: Azure SQL, SQL Server 2014/2012/2008/2005/2000, MS-Access
Other Tools: CamtAsia, CuteFTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Azure Developer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Create Solution Architecture based upon Microsoft Azure PaaS Services.
Orchestrate and completely automate the build & deployment process using PowerShell, Release Management Online.
Configure & Setup Azure Hybrid Connection to pull data from SAP Systems
Perform Peer’s Code Review to avoid any code quality issues.
Provide Sprint Demo to client and stakeholders.
Design solution for various system components using Microsoft Azure
Create Web API methods for three adapters to pull data from various systems like Database, BizTalk, and SAP.
Coordinate with external teams to reduce data flow issues and unblock team members
Always actively participate in four ceremonies: Sprint planning meeting, Daily Scrum, Sprint review meeting, and Sprint retrospective meeting

Sr. Developer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Responsible for providing estimates for Design and Build Phases of quarterly releases for the VL-In-Box System.
Create Design Documents of quarterly releases for VL-In-Box application with high quality.
Coordination with external team members and other stakeholders to understand the impact of their changes to complete release work with comfort. That helps a lot to avoid any integration issues in the VL-In-Box application.
Review of VL-In-Box application’s test plan and test cases during System Integration and User Acceptance testing.
Interacting with the Client and provide a regular status update on the VL-In-Box application project status.
Review of VL-In-Box Functional Specifications and ensure all requirements are well documented.
Analyze Business/Functional requirements and provide a design solution for software components to meet the Business/Functional requirements of the VL-In-Box application.
Review of VL-In-Box Application Code and Component Designs and ensure the high quality and meeting Business/Functional Requirements.
Code Line management and merge activities for quarterly releases of VL-In-Box application.

Development Lead

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Responsible for providing estimates for Design and Build Phases of quarterly releases for Explore.MS System.
Review of Explore.MS Functional Specifications and ensure all requirements are well documented.
Analyze Business/Functional requirements and provide a design solution for software components to meet the Business/Functional requirements of Explore.MS application.
Create Design Documents of quarterly releases for Explore.MS application with high quality.
Coordination with external team members and other stakeholders to understand the impact of their changes to complete release work with comfort. That helps a lot to avoid any integration issues in Explore.MS application.
Review of Explore.MS application Code and Component Designs and ensure the high quality and meeting Business/Functional Requirements.
Code Line management and merge activities for quarterly releases of Explore.MS application.
Review of Explore.MS application’s test plan and test cases during System Integration and User Acceptance testing.
Interacting with the Client and provide a regular status update on the Explore.MS application project status.

Development Lead/Sr. Developer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Responsible for providing estimates for PaaS migration of all the components.
Creating project plan for Design, Build, and Test phases of quarterly releases.
Helping team members to resolve any technical issue, Troubleshooting, Project Risk & Issue identification, and management.
Coordination with external team members and other stakeholders to understand the impact of their changes to complete release work.
Code Line management and merge activities for quarterly releases of BCWeb application.
Review of BCWeb application’s test plan and test cases during System Integration and User Acceptance testing.
Participate and provide input for PaaS migration strategy
Review of design documents and ensure all requirements are well documented.
Interacting with the Client and providing a regular status update on the BCWeb application project status.
Creating review trackers, Traceability Matrix, and Execution Plans

Development Lead/Sr. Developer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

I have been involved with the following activities to enhance the functionalities in the MSCert system:
Designing software components for implementing business requirements for applications within the Entitlements system.
Designing integration points with external systems which integrate with applications within the Entitlements system.
Code development, Unit testing, and Code review for implementing business requirements for application within the Entitlements system.
Providing estimates for Design, Build, and Test phases of quarterly releases for applications within the Entitlements system.
Creating project plan for Design, Build, and Test phases of quarterly releases for the Entitlements system.
Helping team member to resolve any technical issue, Troubleshooting, Project Risk & Issue identification, and management
Addressing resource issue, Monthly one on one, Weekly meeting.
Creating code drops/patches for deployment in pre-production and production environment for applications within the Entitlements system.
Performing code merge activities for quarterly releases for applications within the Entitlements system.
Review of test plan and test cases during System Integration and User Acceptance testing
Creating review trackers, Traceability Matrix, and Execution Plans
Creating project plan for Design, Build, and Test phases of quarterly releases

Development Lead/Sr. Developer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Responsible for providing estimates for Design and Build Phases of quarterly releases for BCWeb System.
Coordination with external team members and other stakeholders to understand the impact of their changes to complete release work with comfort. That helps a lot to avoid any integration issues in the BCWeb application.
Review of BCWeb application Code and Component Designs and ensure the high quality and meeting Business/Functional Requirements.
Code Line management and merge activities for quarterly releases of BCWeb application.
Review of BCWeb Functional Specifications and ensure all requirements are well documented.
Analyze Business/Functional requirements and provide a design solution for software components to meet the Business/Functional requirements of the BCWeb application.
Review of BCWeb application’s test plan and test cases during System Integration and User Acceptance testing.
Helping team members to resolve any technical issue, Troubleshooting, Project Risk & Issue identification, and management.
Addressing resource issue, Monthly one on one, Weekly meeting.
Interacting with the Client and providing a regular status update on the BCWeb application project status.
Creating review trackers, Traceability Matrix and Execution Plans.
Creating project plan for Design, Build, and Test phases of quarterly releases.

SUMMARY

To pursue contract roles as an Azure Architect/DevOps.
15+ years of experience in Microsoft Technologies, Strong business focus, technical knowledge, and experience to bridge the gap between the client needs and ICT advancements, and passion to make a difference in any endeavor.
Architecting Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) Implementation,
Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) design, configuration, implementation, and management
Successfully accomplished more than 100 large-scale IT projects across a number of industries.
Azure Compute Services design, configuration, and optimization: Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, App Service (Web App, Mobile App, Logic App, API App), App Service Environment (ASE), Azure Functions, Batch, Service Fabric and cloud services
Architecting, designing, and securing elastic storage in Azure: Blob, queue, File, Disk, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
Architecting and designing solutions based on Microsoft Azure: App Service, Web App, Mobile App, Logic App, API App, Azure Search, API Management, Notification hubs
Architecting, design, and implementation of Azure Networking Services: Virtual Network, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, Azure DNS, Traffic Manager, Express Route.
Architecting and designing Azure Database Solutions: Azure SQL DB, Azure MySQL, SQL Datawarehouse, Cosmos DB, RedisCache, Data Factory
Azure container services, professional in Docker, Kubernetes
Azure Monitoring and Management solutions: Azure Analytics, Application Insights, Automation, Backup, Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Automation and Control
Operation Management Suite (OMS) Log Analytics
Configuring Azure AD, Configuring AD Connect, MFA, SSO, Identity protection, consolidation of Ads, ADFS
Securing Azure Resources and implementing Security in Azure: Security Center, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory B2C, Multi-factor Authentication
VSTS, DSC, chef, Puppet
Create DevOps pipeline dev/test/QA/ production in Azure DevOps and Jenkins
Enabling DevOps Practices with various DevOps tools
Using Various DevOps tools: ARM templates, JSON, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Chef, Ansible, terraform
Building CI / CD pipelines based on various DevOps tools
Containerizing applications via Docker / Kubernetes
Implement Infrastructure as a code
Analysis of the security state of all the resources in Azure
Configuring and implementing Azure Security Center
Controlling cloud security with policy-driven monitoring of security configurations
Disaster recovery and business continuity planning and implementation
Finding threats with behavioral analysis based on our global intelligence and expertise
Respond to incidents quickly with insights into attacks and suggestions for remediation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Azure Architect

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Architecting the Azure migration project
Create the automation framework based on Terraform and Linux bash script
Using Azure DevOps to create build and release pipelines
Deployed Azure resources for various business units, both production and non production environments
Implement configuration management based on the Chef Server, Chef Automate and InSpec and cookbooks

Senior DevOps Engineer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Azure Infrastructure Services
Azure IaaS implementation
Various Azure PaaS Services
Based on the least privilege security concept
Implementing Kubernetes and AKS in Azure
Create the automation framework based on Azure Arm Template, Azure CLI and Python

Senior DevOps Engineer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Network deployment automation
Centralized logging automation
DNS deployment automation
Linux image creation automation
RBAC/Policy deployment automation
Create the automation framework based on Azure Arm Template, Azure CLI and Linux bash commands
Deployed azure resources for four business units, both production and non production environments

Cloud Security Architect

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Security assessment of the current Azure Implementation
Create PowerShell Scripts to automate Azure resource implementation
Management of Azure resources with Azure CLI
Securing resources in Azure
Create a secure DevOps pipeline between the dev machines, VSTS, and Azure Resources
Configuring and implementing Security Center and connect it to different resources in Azure
Network setup / Network Security Group (NSG) development/layer 7 firewalls with WAF Application Gateway

Azure Solution Architect

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Implementing DevOps process for Continuous Delivery (CD) / Continuous Integration (CI)
Creating App Service resources in the Azure / App Service Environment creation and management
Site to site VPN connection between Cisco ASA on-premise and Azure VPN Gateway / Design and configuration of the ExpressRoute
Configuring Azure AD, Policy-based access, Azure Identity protection service, Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
Service Fabric analysis and design for the workload to be migrated to the Azure Service Fabric infrastructure
Implementing Infrastructure as a Code in the DevOps process including creating ARM templates, JSON resource templates, Azure CLI, and PowerShell scripts
Migration of the legacy SQL Server on-premise to the Azure SQL DB
Designing and configuring Application Insights for Azure App Services
Analysis, design, and implementation Microsoft Operation Management Suite (OMS) in Azure
Generating and developing ARM templates for all the resources in the Azure / Infrastructure as a Code
Network setup / Network Security Group (NSG) development/layer 7 firewalls with WAF Application Gateway

Azure Application Architect

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Management of VSTS projects, using Chef
Create a complete DevOps pipeline from Dev/test / QA / Production
Implement API Management layer / Swagger API framework
Application architecture for Payment Processor system – PCI / PIP compliant
Custom Authentication / Authorization based on OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 protocol
Architect, Analyze and develop subscription management system based on Microsoft Azure App Service / Azure SQL Database / Azure Cosmos DB
Architect, analyze, and design Payment processor in Azure-based on Azure App Service and Azure Service Fabric offering

Cloud Migration Expert

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Configuring Azure elastic storage to be used for the migration
Developing PowerShell scripts to be used during the migration
Creating a POC environment to have a better understanding of the migration project
Migrating SharePoint workload form on-premise SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint online
User migration from the old domain to the new domain in SharePoint on-premise
Creating hybrid user profile service between on-premise multi-domain implementation of the product and O365 user profile service

Azure Architect

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Created CI/CD pipeline based on VSTS
Architecting the Azure implementation of the Confidential Portal
Implementing SharePoint workload in the Azure
Design business process automation
Identity federation based on AD Connect from on-prem Active Directory to Azure AD
Planning / designing the Azure virtual network, VPN gateway, site-to-site VPN connection

SUMMARY

A Technocrat professional with around 6+ years of experience in various roles as Cloud DevOps engineer with top-notch experience in Automating, Configuring and Deploying instances on Cloud environments and Data Centers, CI/CD tools namely Jenkins, Software Configuration Management (SCM) which encompasses experience in Build/Release, Linux/Windows Administration and in DevOps configuration management and infrastructure as a code tool namely Chef, Ansible, puppet, and Terraform. A clear understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall Methodologies.
Hands-on experience in Azure cloud worked on Azure web application, App services, Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob storage, Azure Functions, Virtual machines, Fabric controller, Azure AD, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus, and notification hub. Proficient in using Azure service fabric to package, deploy, manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers.
Proficient as Cloud Administrator, involved in configuration for the Traffic Manager, Data factory, Event hub, function apps, V-net integration, HCM, Application gateway, App Insights, Active Directory, Azure Key Vault, Encryption and Security on Azure using ARM templates and PowerShell script.
Experienced with operations of cloud services PaaS/SaaS/IaaS in designing and automate the infrastructures and deploying in cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP.
Extensively used Terraform to a reliable version and created infrastructure on Azure. Also created resources, using Azure Terraform modules, and automated infrastructure management. Used Terraform to map more complex dependencies and identify the network issues.
Proficient in several Terraform modules for infrastructure management, Terraform scripts to set up AWS resources EKS, VPC, EC2, AMI, Images, Redshift cluster, ELB, and automate the deployment & infrastructure.
Experienced in migrating on-premises, .Net apps, DevOps platform to Azure CI/CD processes by utilizing ARM templates, Azure DevOps, Azure CLI, App services to build Repos, Pipelines, Web Apps, and monitoring applications using Application Insights.
Experienced in configuring JSON/YAML-based AWS CloudFormation Templates to build and create multiple AWS services for Continuous deployment of applications in prod environment as Docker containers and Kubernetes pods and nodes.
Expertise in deploying microservices, application development, and upgradation using Azure services such as Azure DevOps, Kubernetes Service (AKS), Container Services, MySQL DB, and Grafana, Azure pipelines, RBAC, and monitoring clusters.
Hands-on experience in using JIRA as a bug tracking system. Configured various workflows, customizations, and plug-ins for JIRA bug/issue tracker and integration of Jenkins with Jira/ GitHub to track change requests, bug fixes manage tickets for corresponding Sprints.
Developed microservices onboarding tools leveraging Python and Jenkins allowing for easy creation, maintenance of build jobs, and deploy services in Kubernetes.
Proficient in configuration management tool Ansible and Ansible Tower where I worked on Playbooks, Inventory files to set up servers, deploying software, orchestrate fault-tolerance updates and delivery incorporating Ansible Tower for access control and generate automated workflows.
Experienced in Bluegreen Deployment and Canary Deployment, Octopus deployment in the production.
Managed Kubernetes cluster in the rollback and rollouts methods in the deployment strategies. Integrated Istio and helm packages with Kubernetes clusters for the service mesh.
Experience in Google Kubernetes Engine GKE with Spinnaker for continuous delivery of applications to the engine in different stages, Google App services for deploying microservices in different environments, GCE instances, assigning IAM for projects, Cloud Shell CLI.
Managed flux, Helm charts, Grafana, Tekton, Ingress and Cluster API components in Kubernetes.
Implemented the Docker for wrapping up the final code and setting up the development and testing environment using Docker Hub, Docker Swarm, and Docker Container Network.
Deployed microservices-based applications on Azure Kubernetes by using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Ingress API Gateway, MySQL, SQL Databases, and Cosmo DB for stateless storage of external data, and set up reverse proxy Nginx servers and encrypting with SSL and TLS Skills.
Experience in monitoring tools like Splunk, Nagios, OMS.
Configured Chef servers, worker nodes & bootstrapping Chef nodes for configuration management also proficient in creating Chef Templates, Recipes, Cookbooks, Resources, Knife, Roles, Attributes & Data bags.
Experience in scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, Shell, Bash and familiar with storage, Networking, PowerShell commands. Experienced in creating automated PowerShell Scripts for web app deployment.
Expertise in file system concepts like LVM, SVM, VxVM. Creating new file systems, increasing and decreasing file systems, mounting file systems, unmounting file systems, and troubleshooting Disk space issues. Involved in System Analysis and Performance Monitoring of Red Hat Linux.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Environments: Microsoft Azure, Confidential Web Services, Open Stack
Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Puppet
Build Tools: ANT, Maven, Gradle
CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Bamboo, Spinnaker, Hudson
Container Tools: Docker, Kubernetes
Version Control Tools: GIT, SVN. Subversion, Bit Bucket, Git Lab
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, & SOLARIS
Databases: SQL Server, SQL, MYSQL, Oracle, NoSQL, MongoDB, Dynamo DB, Cassandra
Networking: DNS, DHCP, SMTP, HTTP, SNMP
Testing/Ticketing Tools: Jira, Selenium
Scripting/programming Languages: Python, Shell (PowerShell/Bash), Ruby, YAML, JSON, Perl, Groovy, JavaScript, C, PHP, Java/ J2EE, .Net, Spring Co. re, Spring MVC, REST Web service
Web/Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, Oracle Application Server, Apache HTTP
Virtualization Tools: Oracle Virtual Box, VMWare, vSphere, Vagrant, Oracle Virtual Box
Monitoring Tools: Application Insights, Kibana (ELK), Cloud watch, Nagios, Splunk, Azure Log Analytics (OMS), Grafana.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential, Windsor Mill, MD
Responsibilities:

Designed, configured, and deployed Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates for a multiple application utilizing the Azure stack including Compute, Web App, function app, Blobs, Data Factory, Resource Groups, HDInsight Clusters, Azure Cosmos DB
Migrated servers like relational databases (SQL) and websites to Microsoft Azure cloud and deploying applications on multiple web servers and maintained load balancing, high availability, and synchronized on-premises Active Directory users to office 365 with AD CONNECT.
Deployed ASP.NET web Application in Azure using Web App service, connected it to Azure SQL Database and used VSTS to provide CI/CD pipeline and created Azure Active Directory (AD) tenants and managed to restrict the access to VSTS (Virtual Studio Team Service).
Working as Cloud Engineer, involved in configuration for Web apps/Function apps, V-net integration, HCM, Application gateway, App Insights, Active Directory, Azure Key Vault, Encryption and Security on Azure.
Worked on azure log analytic workspace where bulk logs are available once the Kubernetes is enabled, then used the logic app to filter the required logs and used event hub to transfer the logs to Splunk.
Deployed microservices-based applications on Azure Kubernetes by using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Ingress API Gateway, MySQL, SQL Databases, and Cosmo DB for stateless storage of external data, and set up reverse proxy Nginx servers and encrypted with SSL and TLS
Hands-on experience with Provisioning Service Fabric Clusters and Application Gateway using ARM, PowerShell, and Azure Portal which is a distributed systems platform to deploy and manage Microservices with high availability.
Created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions with Application Insights for monitoring and performing load testing on the applications using the VSTS and used Python API for uploading all the agent logs into Azure blob storage.
Working on Build automation handling large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management and automation systems like Azure DevOps (VSTS,) Docker, Jenkins, Terraform.
Working on Jira to Azure DevOps Migration along with Experience in configuring and using PaaS offerings like Azure Database services, Azure Kubernetes, Azure Containers, DNS, Application gateway rerouting, Application Insights, Azure Container Monitors.
Deployed and optimized two-tier .NET web application to Azure DevOps to focus on development by using services such as Repos to commit codes, Test Plans to trigger application and unit test, deployed artifacts to App Service, Azure Application Insight collects health performance and usage data of the process.
Deployed and optimized two-tier web applications to Azure DevOps CI/CD to focus on development by using services such as Repos to commit codes, Test Plans to unit test, deploy App Service, Azure Application Insight collects health performance and usage data of the process, stored artifacts in blob storages.
Established a private connection between Azure Key Vault and other Azure services by using Azure Private Link. Experience in moving all traffic to the service can be routed through the private endpoint.
Closely collaborate with security architects in developing cloud security frameworks for the enterprise and Security Patching on the Azure IAAS VMs through the Shavlik Patching Tool.
Using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure and built an AKS cluster in the Azure portal using template-driven deployment options such as Terraform and Azure Resource Manager templates.
Designed and implemented Continuous Integration (CI) using tools Azure DevOps over multiple environments to facilitate an agile development process that is automated and repeatable, enabling teams to safely deploy code many times a day while ensuring Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) are supported.
Created Azure infrastructure using ARM templates, Azure pipelines to build, test, and release, and managed Azure Container Registry to store private Docker images, which are deployed. Grafana Monitor to collect metrics and logs. Configured Monitor to track performance and maintain security, and used Grafana tool to collect metrics, queries.
Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm, and built reproducible Kubernetes applications builds, managed Kubernetes manifest files, and managed Helm packages releases.
Worked on Tekton pipeline which aims to provide a set of components used to create a full-fledged cloud-native CI/CD system on top of Kubernetes and also managed Flux to monitor all configured repositories, detect new configuration changes, trigger deployments, and Updates the desired running configuration based on those changes inside the Kubernetes.
Implemented centralized logging tool Nagios for monitoring our Servers.
Worked on multiple areas of Jenkins like Plugin Management, Securing Jenkins, Performance issues, Analytics, Scaling Jenkins, integrating Code Analysis and test Phases to complete the CD pipelines within Jenkins.
Implemented DevSecops strategy for security auditing, continuous monitoring of the entire infrastructure which facilitates enhanced compliance and eliminates security breaches and vulnerabilities.
Worked on Ansible setup, managing hosts file, Using Yaml, writing various playbooks, roles and manage custom modules with Ansible. And managed sensitive information in code using Ansible vault.

Devops Cloud Engineer

Confidential, Louisville, KY
Responsibilities:

Migrated the Data using Azure database Migration Service (AMS). Experience with cloud, hybrid, and IT-as-a-Service models including implementation and migration (Azure). Integrate on-premises Windows AD with Azure AD, configure multi-factor authentication (MFA) and federated single sign-on (SSO).
Managing Azure Infrastructure Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses. Virtual Machine Backup and Recover from a Recovery Services Vault using Azure PowerShell and Portal.
Configured Azure Traffic Manager to build routing for user traffic Infrastructure Migrations Drive Operational efforts to migrate all legacy services to a fully virtualized infrastructure. Configuring the Load Balance Sets Azure Load Balancer, Internal Load Balancer, and Traffic Manager and worked on Application Gateway.
Responsible for creating and managing Azure AD tenants, manage users and groups, and configure application integration with Azure AD.
Created Azure Automation Assets, Graphical runbook, PowerShell runbook that will automate specific tasks, deployed Azure AD Connect, configuring Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) authentication flow, ADFS installation using Azure AD Connect, and involved in administrative tasks that include Build, Design, Deploy of Azure environment.
Created and troubleshot Kubernetes YAML files to deploy SCM CI/CD applications automatically and Idempotently to reduce time costs and used Kubernetes to deploy, load balance, scale and manage docker containers with multiple name-spaced versions.
Set up continuous delivery for the Pods by running Jenkins, Docker images, in Kubernetes. Developed a pipeline using Jenkins Pipeline to automate to push the PODs to the registry, and then deploying it in Kubernetes.
Created and optimized Node.js, web app and deployed by Jenkins into Kubernetes and used Azure Container Registry and automated development by authenticating new codes and deploying them into staging or production platforms.
Experienced in Bluegreen Deployment and Canary Deployment, Octopus Deployment in the production. Managed Kubernetes cluster in the rollback and rollouts methods in the deployment strategies. Integrated Istio and packages with Kubernetes clusters for the service mesh.
Worked on ingress controller that provides reverse proxy, configurable traffic routing, and TLS termination for Kubernetes services. Kubernetes Ingress resources are used to configure the ingress rules and routes for individual Kubernetes services.
Virtualized the servers on Azure using Docker, create the Docker files and version control to achieve the Continuous Delivery goal on the highly scalable environment, used Docker coupled with load-balancing tool Nginx.
Validated deployments in Kubernetes by establishing a local development workflow that used Minikube and Implemented the Kubernetes interface by creating RESTful APIs to read, delete, store and update bucket information on Kubernetes Console.
Created cloud modules for interacting with Azure services which provide the tools to easily create and orchestrate infrastructure on Azure using Ansible Playbooks and Roles and automated cloud-native applications in Azure using Azure microservices such as Azure functions and Kubernetes.
Provisioned the high availability of Azure VMs using Terraform and ARM templates, wrote new plugins to support new functionality in Terraform, and involved in using Terraform to migrate legacy and monolithic systems to Azure.
Worked on Azure Fabric, Microservices, IoT & Docker containers in Azure and involved in setting up Terraform continuous build integration system. Used Azure Internal Load Balancer to provide high availability for IaaS VMs & PaaS role instances.
Developed and maintained Perl/Shell scripts for build and release tasks. Integrated Maven with Jenkins for the builds as the Continuous Integration process. Build Java code and .NET code onto different Jenkins servers as per the schedule.
Integrated JaCoCo with Jenkins for code coverage analysis in Java VM-based environments.
Worked on setting up Jenkins as a service inside the Kubernetes cluster to reduce the failover downtime to minutes and to automate the Docker containers deployment without using a configuration management tool.
Written Templates for Azure Infrastructure as code using Terraform to build staging and production environments. Integrated Azure Log Analytics with Azure VMs for monitoring the log files, store them, and track metrics and used Terraform as a tool, Managed different infrastructure resources Cloud, VMware, and Docker containers.
Provided POC’s to provision the AWS infrastructure and configure using Ansible playbooks which includes checking the health status, installing security patches, monitoring and gathering facts about the ec2-instances, elastic load balancers, S3, auto-scaling groups, and other AWS resources.
Integrated Ansible with Jenkins to provide Automation, Continuous Integration through Jenkins managed nodes over SSH/Power shell using Ansible. Implemented and designed Azure virtual servers by Ansible roles to ensure deployment of web applications. Worked with multiple development teams to resolve issues.
Automated various infrastructure activities like Continuous Deployment using Ansible playbooks and has Integrated Ansible with VSTS on AZURE.
Created required reliable architectures and end-to-end migration plan for migrating Linux/Windows servers along with web applications into AWS cloud platform using services as IPSec tunnel, VPN gateway, Customer Gateway, and Data Pipeline.
Written Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of Azure Nodes and Test Playbooks on Azure instances using Python SDK and Automated various infrastructure activities like continuous deployment, application server setup, Stack monitoring using Ansible playbooks.
Monitored AWS cloud resources and the applications deployed on AWS by creating new alarm, enable notification service using Cloud Watch. Log and event forwarding using (System logs, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config), aggregation to Splunk.
Worked with AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates. Utilize AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS and create nightly AMIs for mission-critical production servers as backups. Deployed Elasticsearch with 10 nodes cluster in AWS environment for client applications.

Devops Engineer

Confidential, Boston, MA
Responsibilities:

Deployed infrastructure on AWS utilizing as EC2 (Virtual Servers in the Cloud), RDS (Managed Relational Database Service), VPC and Managed Network and Security, Route 53, Direct Connect, CloudFormation, IAM, AWS S3, AWS Ropeworks (Automate operations), Glacier (Storage in the cloud) and Cloud Watch Monitoring Management.
Orchestrated and migrated CI/CD processes using Cloud Formation and Terraform Templates and Containerized the infrastructure using Docker, which was set up in Vagrant, AWS logs to Elastic Search and Kibana, and VPCs. Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, Node.js, Python, and Ruby on familiar servers like Apache, Nginx, Tomcat.
Developed Shell/ Python scripts to automate the troubleshooting on the AWS platform based on the alerts provided by the AWS SNS. Creating, Automating, and Managing the firewall rules NSG in AWS in the process of maintaining the security standards in the cloud environment.
Configured AWS IAM and Security Groups in Public and Private Subnets in VPC Managed IAM accounts (with MFA) and IAM policies to meet security audit & compliance requirements and worked as Admin. Policies on the IAM Role-based policies customizing the YAML CloudFormation templates.
Implemented automation workflow to support microservice application running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk which utilizes Lambda, S3, ECR deployed using IaC with Terraform modules and also have experience in Converting existing AWS Infrastructure to Serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, Kinesis), deploying via Terraform and AWS Cloud Formation templates.
Integrated Terraform into the current software release process to help provision AWS resources and deployments of artifacts and services. Wrote automation scripts for creating resources in OpenStack Cloud using Python and terraform modules. Created and managed Cinder volumes in OpenStack Cloud.
Used Cloud Front to deliver content from AWS edge locations to users, allowing for further reduction of load on front-end servers. Implemented AWS Code Pipeline and Created Cloud formation JSON templates in Terraform for infrastructure as code.
Automate AWS infrastructure through infrastructure as code by writing various Terraform modules, scripts by creating AWS IAM users, groups, roles, policies, custom policies, AWS Glue, Crawlers, Redshift clusters, snapshots of clusters, EC2, S3 buckets.
Automated Datalog Dashboards with the stack through Terraform Scripts. Configured CloudWatch and Datadog to monitor real-time granular metrics of all the AWS Services.
Managed different infrastructure resources, like physical machines, VMs, and even Docker containers using Terraform It supports different Cloud service providers like AWS and Digital Ocean.
Wrote CI/CD pipeline in Groovy scripts to enable end-to-end setup of build & deployment using Jenkins. Integrated Jenkins with Hashi Corp Packer and Vagrant files for creating the test environments which includes the same configurations of our Prod, Non-prod environments do.
Responsible for User Management, Plugin Management, and End-to-End automation of Build and Deployment process using Jenkins.
Worked on the Nagios core monitoring tool for alerting the servers, switching, and send data via the network through specific plugins. Performed activities using Nagios both on Linux and Windows systems.
Built Jenkins jobs to create AWS infrastructure from GitHub Repos containing Terraform code and administered/engineered Jenkins for managing weekly Builds and integrated Jenkins with various DevOps tools such as Nexus, SonarQube, Chef.
Executed the automation from commit to deployment by implementing a CICD pipeline with the help of Jenkins and Chef.
Worked with various components of Chef including Chef Server, workstations, Nodes, configurations of chef-client and written cookbooks and recipes for Chef and assigning roles to nodes.
Hands-on experience in the creation of the custom Docker container images, tagging and pushing the images, and Docker consoles for managing the application of the life cycle. Implemented Docker-Maven plugin and Maven POM to build Docker Images for all microservices.
Used ECS (Elastic Container Service) to deploy Confidential EC2 and AWS Fargate with Spot and On-Demand instances whenever required and provides high security and reliability.
Developed multiple Chef Cookbooks from scratch and implemented automation with Vagrant, Chef on AWS for application testing, deployment, and development.
Configured cluster operations in AWS Kubernetes (EKS) to deploy microservices with CI/CD system and used Kubernetes cluster to scale up operations of clusters, maintain the cluster services, load balancing, network policies, group Docker containers across different platform.
Implemented a Kubernetes Container Orchestration solution within AWS leveraging KOPS, which allows easy management creation and recovery of AWS assets.
Implemented Blue/Green Deployments with Zero downtime where the current environment is replicated to the latest version with Kubernetes to resolve the Bug fixes and redirect the traffic to it once the issues are resolved.
Used Docker and Vagrant for managing development environments through the creation of Linux virtual containers. Developing Docker images to support Development and Testing Teams and their pipelines distributed Jenkins, Selenium and JMeter images, and Elastic Search, Kibana, and Log stash (ELK & EFK).

SRE

Confidential, Texas
Responsibilities:

Delivered architecture designs and solutions for public, private, and Hybrid clouds covering the cloud architecture tiers and portfolios of cloud services for a team, implemented Software Release Management strategies, implemented software builds using different tools like GIT, Bitbucket, ANT, Jenkins, Nexus, and Artifactory.
Created and maintained continuous integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) using tools Jenkins/Bamboo over different environments to facilitate an agile development process that is automated enabling teams to safely deploy code repeatedly.
Participating in configuring and monitoring distributed and multiple platform servers using Puppet. Used Puppet server and workstation to manage and configure agents.
Worked on update and merge password authentication issues in Jenkins and Jira is involved in implementing Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Jenkins) especially for the issue tracking application (Jira).
Migrated out core repository from SUBVERSION to GIT. In this process, I was involved in individually migrating all the codebases from subversion to GIT ensuring that the health of our builds is not affected. Performed high-level merges of branches, codebases.
Redefined processes and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting on Linux/UNIX platform, and created NFS Mount Points on Red hat Linux, Solaris.
Connected continuous integration system with the GIT version control repository and continually build as the check-in’s come from the developer. Integrated GIT into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process. Used both GIT and BIT bucket source control systems to manage code.
Involved in editing the existing ANT/MAVEN files in case of errors or changes in the project requirements.
Worked on Setting up puppet master, client and wrote scripts to deploy applications on Dev, QA, production environment.
Experience in writing Ansible playbooks for installing WebLogic and WebSphere applications and Managed Nexus Artifactory repositories to store EAR, WAR, JAR snapshots, and dependencies.
Development of Puppet modules with Jenkins for continuous integration and continuous deployment of managed products, and related services.

LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Created and modified application-related objects, created Profiles, users, roles, and maintained system security. Monitored Linux server for CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization for performance monitoring.
Implemented NFS, Autofs, FTP, DNS, DHCP for administrative and project requirements as well SAMBA server for windows and Linux connectivity.
Installed, upgraded, and configured Red Hat Linux using the kick-start installation and managed, administrated all UNIX servers, includes Linux operating systems by applying relative patches and packages at regular maintenance periods using Red Hat Satellite server, YUM, RPM tools.
Debugged network connectivity issues and involved in troubleshooting activities with commands ping, traceroute, TCPDUMP, nslookup, netstat, iostat, top.
Worked in all areas of Jenkins setting up CI for new branches, build automation, plugin management and securing Jenkins, and setting up master/slave configurations.
Created post-commit and pre-push hooks using Python in SVN and GIT Repos. Setting up the SVN and GIT Repos for Jenkins to build jobs.
Experienced in the installation and configuration of Volume Management and file system through Veritas Volume Manager (VVM) and Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and file systems tasks like the creation of a logical volume and file systems (ext2, ext3, ext4), mounting and unmounting files, modifying in Linux.

SUMMARY

Have 7+ years of SQL server experience with over 4+ years of hands-on experience in MSBI (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), Azure Data Factory (ADF) V2, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), and Data Lake Analytics in Health care, Entertainment, Utility, Banking, and Insurance domains.
Extensive experience on MSBI (SSRS 2008\r2\12\16, SSIS 2008\r2\12\16, SSAS) and MS – SQL server (2008\r2\12\14).
Handle transactional databases like SQL Server and Oracle.
Plan and Develop roadmaps and deliverables to fasten the migration of existing solutions on-premise systems/applications to Azure cloud.
Worked on Azure transformation projects and Azure architecture decision making Architect and implement ETL and data movement solutions using Azure Data Factory (ADF), SSIS
Recreating existing application logic and functionality in the Azure Data Lake, SQL data warehouse, Data Factory, and SQL Database environment
Design and implement database solutions in Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure SQL
Achieved the best performance for SQL & SSIS using synchronous Transformations, Index tuning wizard, Fast parse, execution plan, and SQL pro-filer.
Design & implement migration strategies for traditional systems on Azure (Lift and shift/Azure Migrate, other third-party tools) worked on Azure suite: Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Data Factory (ADF) V2, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Service Bus, Azure Key Vault, Azure Analysis Service (AAS), Azure Blob Storage, Azure Search, Azure App Service, Azure data Platform Services.
Proficient in Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining the data repository/warehouse and business intelligence analytical reports and dashboards using SSRS, Power BI
Expertise in Designing, implementing, deploying, debugging SSIS packages to migrate huge volumes of data from different sources into a Datamart/Data warehouse using control/data flow tasks and C#.Net.
Expert in partition function, Partition scheme, and multiple filegroups and files to host the table data for Data partitioning.
Extensive experience in Agile and waterfall model.
Developed, deployed, and monitored SSIS Packages for new ETL Processes and upgraded the existing, DTS packages to SSIS for the ongoing ETL Processes.
Experience in creating data flows and process flow diagrams, technical requirements documents, and product support documents.
Experience Working with Various kinds of Transformations like Data Conversion Transformation, PIVOT, lookup, Fuzzy Lookup, merge join, union all, etc.
Strong knowledge of data warehouse design, dimensional modeling, and relational data modeling
Experience in Error handling, checkpoints, batch logging, troubleshooting reports using SSRS.
Performed database activities like backup, setting permissions to users, recovery, installing software, deploying SQL code to prod environment, and setting up the new environment on new servers.
Experience in Migrating Reports, Packages, DB objects from 2008 to 2012 and 2014.
Migration of on-premise data (Oracle/ SQL Server/ DB2/ MongoDB) to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) using Azure Data Factory (ADF V1/V2).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Sync, Elastic Pools, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2012,2008 R2, SQL 2005, 2000, Azure data warehouse, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, RDBMS, Microsoft Azure VM, Business Intelligence (BI), Amazon Web Service (AWS), AWS Cloud Watch, Oracle11g, MYSQL 5.x, MS Access, OLAP, OLTP, AWS RDS, AWS Cloud, Microsoft Azure Cloud
Azure Cloud: Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory(ADF), Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Service Bus, Azure Analysis Service(AAS), Azure Blob Storage, Azure Search, Azure App Service, Redis Cache using Pipeline and SSIS, infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS), Database-as-a-Service(DBaaS), Data Migration Service(DMS), Azure SQL Data, Elastic Pools, Geo-Replication, Geo-restore, JSON, ARM templates Data Sync, Azure CLI, Azure SQL Analytics, Azure Network components (virtual network, network security group, User-defined Route, Gateway, Load Balancer, etc., Virtual Machines, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling
ETL Tools: Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Database Migration Service (DMS), ETL SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), ETL Extract Transformation and Load., Business Intelligence (BI).
Storage: Azure Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Backup, Azure Storage Disks- Premium, Azure Files, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1, AWS S3 Cloud Storage.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Azure Migration Engineer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Design and implement end-to-end data solutions (storage, integration, processing, visualization) in Azure.
Design and implement database solutions in Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure SQL.
Architect & implement medium-sized to large scale BI solutions on Azure using Azure Data Platform services (Data Lake Analytics, Stream Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Data Factory, Azure SQL DW, HDInsight/Databricks, NoSQL DB).
Propose architectures considering cost/spend in Azure and develop recommendations to right-size data infrastructure.
Technically guide projects throughout to complete within target timeframes.
Design & implement migration strategies for traditional systems on Azure (Lift and shift/ Azure Migrate, other third-party tools
Develop dashboards and visualizations to cater to business users’ analyse data as well as providing data insight to upper management with a focus on Microsoft products like SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Power BI.
Developed and maintained multiple Power BI dashboards/reports and content packs
Used different sources to pull out data into Power BI such as SQL Server, Oracle, Excel, SQL Azure, etc.
Develop conceptual solutions & create proofs-of-concept to demonstrate the viability of solutions.
Collaborate with application architects and DevOps, Identify, and implement best practices, tools, and standards.
Architect and implement ETL and data movement solutions using Azure Data Factory, SSIS create and run SSIS Package ADF V2 Azure-SSIS.
Migrate data from traditional database systems to Azure databases.
Interacts with Business Analysts, Users, and SMEs on requirements.
Designs Logical and Physical Data Model for Staging, DWH, and Data Mart layer.
Work with similar Microsoft on-prem data platforms, specifically SQL Server and related technologies such as SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS.
Azure Cloud Build and Automation using ARM template.
Collaborate with application architects on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) application to Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Experience managing Azure Data Lakes (ADLs) and Data Lake Analytics and an understanding of how to integrate with other Azure Services. Knowledge of USQL and how it can be used for data transformation as part of a cloud data integration strategy
Migration of on-premise data (Oracle/ SQL Server/ DB2/ MongoDB) to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) using Azure Data Factory (ADF V1/V2).
Work within and across Agile teams to design, implement, test, and support technical solutions across a full stack of technologies.
Identify potential problems and recommend alternative technical solutions.
Work closely across teams (Support, Solution Architecture) and peers to establish and follow best practices while solving customer problems
Architect, design and validate Azure infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environment.
Deploying Azure Resource Manager JSON Templates from PowerShell worked on Azure suite: Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Analysis Service.
Participating in Technical Architecture Documents, Project Design and Implementation Discussions.
Build Complex distributed systems involving huge amount data handling, collecting metrics building data pipeline, and Analytics.
Worked with Azure transformation project and Azure architecture decision.
Worked on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SSAS, SSRS, T-SQL skills, stored procedures, triggers
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Familiarity with Excel PowerPivot, Power View, and Power BI.
Expertise in setup High Availability and Recoverability of databases using SQL Server technologies including Always on Azure VM.

MSBI Developer and Azure SQL Database

Confidential, Brea, CA
Responsibilities:

Installed necessary software to set up DEV environment (SQL server, BIDS, Oracle client, TFS).
Created complex stored procedures, functions using joins, temp tables, table variables to retrieve data from Data Warehouse to SSRS reports according to Business requirements.
Performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization of SSIS packages and SSRS report on DEV/QA/Prod Environment.
Troubles shoot and Debug SSIS packages which are created using C#, Vb.Net to resolve data issues that occur in reports.
Created TDD Document based on BRD, FSD docs provided by business and BA.
Deployed, subscribed reports on Report server native/ share point integrated mode through BIDS/SSDT.
Extract, transform and load data into data warehouse using Data Flow Task and Control flow task.
Daily status meeting with PMs and IT director to discuss project status and pending issues.
Used Execution Plan, SQL Server Pro-filer to trace the slow running queries, and Optimized SQL queries for improved performance and availability.
Involved in Designing, Analyzing, building, and testing OLAP cubes in SSAS and adding calculations using MDX.
Experience Working with SSIS Project Deployment Wizard.
Implemented Error handling using SSIS Error handling mechanism to notify the errors to Dev team in order to resolve data issues on time.
Reviewed and modified UTC document created by the offshore team to ensure product output exactly matching with business requirements
Test and validate Cubes, ETL Packages, and Reports to ensure accuracy and quality of data.
Built, deployed cubes to Analysis services server, and analyzed data from SSMS by dragging and dropping.
Developed Analysis Services Project. Responsible for identifying and defining Data Source and Data Source views. Created cubes and defined the dimensions.
Coordinating with offshore team to get things done on time.
Experience Working with Online and Offline Deployments with ISPAC Files
Experienced in Scheduling SSIS Packages (Jobs) and DB Mail Operators.
Worked on Upgrading SSIS 2012 Packages to SSIS 2016 Catalog DB and SSIS 2017 Catalog DB.
Used ETL (SSIS) to develop jobs for extracting, cleaning, transforming, and loading data into the data warehouse.
Involved in all phases of SDLC like requirement gathering, converting business requirements into technical requirements, reports, and packages development using T-SQL/PL/SQL coding, unit testing of code and communicating with testing team to resolve bugs.
Created and Maintained different versions of SQL code, DTSX packages, and .rdl file in TFS report.
Daily Status meeting with offshore team to discuss development status, addressing any roadblocks/bottlenecks raised during the development phase in order to get things done on time.
Experience Working with Transaction Options For SSIS Executables.

MSBI Developer

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA
Responsibilities:

Reviewing code and point of contact for any MSBI technical issues.
Developed 25 medium and complex tabular, drill through, sub-reports based on client request in the span of 8 months period.
Communicate with the Business Analyst and Data Analyst to fully understand requirements.
Analyzed, designed debugged, and reviewed complex stored procedures using Transact SQL.
Created drill down, drill through, sub reports and linked reports using SSRS 2012 as well as managed the subscription of the reports.
Participate in daily stand-ups and weekly status reporting.
Migration of DTS packages to SSIS packages.
Deploying reports on Share point and providing access to members.
Involved in Migration of Databases from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 using SSIS.
Involved in Creation, Development, and Deployment of SSIS packages in SQL Server 2008.
Working with Data Flow Objects / Tasks in SSIS.
Created and published dashboards on the tableau server.
Experience in Using DTSX Files for SSIS Package Execution.
Experience Working with Bulk Load Operations and Data Import Options in SSIS.
Deployed SSIS packages to SSISDB through SSIS catalog from SSDT.
Created Audit tables, Logging, Error notifications to resolve production issues quickly and to maintain data quality.
Scrum meeting with the manager and team members every 2 weeks to track the status and to improve existing process efficiency.
Debugging and resolving data issues while loading data into the data warehouse.
Involved in updating cubes and browsing cube data from SSMS to verify data loaded properly in the cube.
Created and maintained documentation for every SSIS packages and report including business process.
Performed DBA activities like backup, restore, generating scripts, setting up user permissions on both DEV and PROD Environment.
Experience Working Data Flow Tuning with Query Locks and Performance Tuning Data Flow Tasks with Fast Loads Options (OLE DB)

SQL Developer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Requirement gathering, Analysis, Understand the business requirements and specifications.
Created stored procs, functions, and database objects required to retrieve data from transactional DB and data marts for the BI team.
Analyzed and understood the claims and new policies of client data in the data warehouse.
Involving in Unit Test Cases and Defect Fixing.
Extensive experience in controlling the User Privileges, Monitoring the Security and Audit issues as per Standards.
Written SQL queries for the testing team to validate the data loaded into data marts using an ETL process.
Participated in load monitoring periodically.
Experienced with SSIS Tools: SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools), ETL Wizards Working with SSIS Configuration Options and SSIS Catalog Database.
Involved in creating data mart from scratch.
Experienced in Kimball Method of BI Design and Keys Concepts.
Created data mappings which include Source to stage, Stage to Target mapping documents indicating the source tables, columns, data types, transformations required, and business rules to be applied.

SUMMARY

Have 7+ years of experience in System Design, Deployment & Cloud Implementations, Development, Analysis, and Implementation using Microsoft Technologies for enterprise applications.
Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load balancer.
Azure Services including DRAAS, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS while contributing architecture decisions and tasks for ongoing migration efforts.
Hands-on experience in Linux Environment.
Configured Input & Output bindings of Azure Function with Azure Cosmos DB collection to read and write data from the container whenever the function executes.
Investigating the diagnostic logs to find unidentified issues and diagnose the root cause of the issue.
Designed user-defined Routes with custom route tables for specific cases to force tunneling to the Internet via on-premise network and control, use of virtual appliances in the customers Azure environment.
Created clusters on IIS web servers using Network load balancing and managed net scale clusters.
Infrastructure Migrations – Drive Operational efforts to migrate all legacy services to a fully Virtualized Infrastructure.
Worked with ARM templates and scripts using Azure PowerShell during Automation and Build Process.
Azure PaaS Solutions like Azure Web Apps, Redis Cache, Application Insights, Azure Serverless Functions, SQL Azure, and Azure Storage.
Sync Azure SQL Database with on-premises Databases using ARM Portal, SSMS, and DMA.
Maintained and managed DNS (Domain Name Service) for AD (Active Directory) enterprise and maintained the users and groups accounts for the enterprise accounts.
Handled escalated Support tickets till closure for MS Azure PaaS Platform.
Creating and Configuring Azure Redis cache, configuring cache clients using ARM, Azure PowerShell, and adding and removing objects from the cache.
Developed automation solution using PowerShell scripting for day-to-day operational tasks.
Created and Configured Azure Cosmos DB Trigger in Azure Functions, which invokes the Azure Function when any changes are made to the Azure Cosmos DB container.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IaaS
PaaS
VM Migrations
SSMS
DMA
Azure AD & AD Sync
SQL Databases
Database Migrations
Data Factory
Data Lake
Application Insights
PowerShell
Azure Storages
Functions
MS Visual Studio
VSTS
Azure AD Connect
Azure AD
ARM Templates.
VNets and Security Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Azure Cloud Consultant

Responsibilities:

Worked on the Business requirements and developed the solution, Agile Methodology, and continuous integration using the SDLC process.
Collaborate to development of main Web Applications to provide invoicing emission services, Responsible for web application deployments over cloud services on Azure, using VS and PowerShell.
Worked on Power Shell scripts to automate the Azure cloud system creation of Resource groups, Web Applications, Azure Storage Blobs & Tables, firewall rules.
Created and Configured Azure Cosmos DB and exposed the service as Web API.
Troubleshooted the issues regarding access to the applications using the audit logs.
Prepared capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases.
Provisioned Azure data lake store and azure data lake analytics, and leverage U-SQL to write federated queries across data stored in multiple azure services.
Worked on Serverless services (Azure Functions) created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions with Application Insights for monitoring and performing load testing on the Applications using the VSTS.
Configuring the Load Balance Sets Azure Load Balancer, Internal Load Balancer, and Traffic Manager and worked on Application Gateway.
Architecting the IAM scope for B2C and B2B identities using Azure AD, and Integrating .NET Web Apps with Azure AD.
Worked on planning and deployment of Self-service password reset functionality of Azure AD which reduces IT helpdesk cost.
Worked with staff to outline and scheduled department needs regarding database functionalities, data analytics, and reporting; created business requirements.
Co-ordinate with global identity and access management program involved in hybrid identity project.
Worked on Azure Site Recovery, PowerShell Scripts, and ARM templates.
Worked on dynamic group membership rules (rules are based on attributes) to provide access to various applications.

Environment: Microsoft Azure Cloud, SQL Server 2012 R2, SSMS, Azure, Web Apps, Active Directory, NSG, Traffic Manager, Azure SQL Database, Azure AD.

Azure Cloud Engineer

Confidential, Denver, CO
Responsibilities:

Install and Configuring AD FS role on Domain Controllers, deploy WAP Server for the users to reach AD FS out of company network.
Configured Azure Traffic Manager to build routing for user traffic Infrastructure Migrations: Drive Operational efforts to migrate all legacy services to a fully virtualized infrastructure.
Used CRM to manage and analyze customer interactions and data to improve relationships with them and assisting customers.
Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies, and routing.
Design, Install, Administer and Optimize hybrid cloud components to ensure business continuity (i.e. Azure AD, ADFS, SSO & VPN Gateways).
Configuring and Controlling the Scale Up and Scale Out of the App Service Plans and Pricing tier (scale DTUs) while migrating the Databases and Applications from on-premises to Azure Cloud Platform.
Migrate Database Services from on-premises to Azure Cloud Environments using DMA and SSMS, updating the connection strings, collaborate with the development and QA teams to maintain high-quality deployment.
Provide consulting and cloud architecture for premier customers and internal projects running on MS Azure platform for high availability of services, low operational costs.
Worked on Azure AD Connect to sync on-premises AD user data, groups, and organizations to Azure AD and troubleshoot Azure services sync with on-premise AD and resync using the Azure tools.
Integrating Azure Active Directory for user authentication/authorization and organization profiles.
Develop PowerShell scripts to perform pre-migration assessments of Active Directory and server states.
Created the VM Cluster and load balance for VMs using PowerShell in SQL & Windows Environment.
Designed and developed standalone data migration applications to retrieve and populate data from Azure Table / BLOB storage to on-premise SQL Server instances.
Utilized Agile Methodologies – Scrum meetings to manage full life-cycle development of the project.
Configured VMs in Availability Sets using Azure Portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic.
Deployed Web Applications using IIS Web Server and controlled Traffic flow using Internal and External Load Balancer.

Environment: Microsoft Azure Cloud, Windows Server 2012/R2/2016, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Azure Storage, NSG, IIS, Agile Scrum Methodologies.

Net Developer / Cloud Engineer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented MVC Controllers to handle the HTTP requests from the browser.
Created Web APIs using ASP.NET, Web API allow new web/client projects to leverage reusable data.
Worked with ASR (Azure Site Recovery), PowerShell, and MVMC (Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter) for on-premise to cloud migrations.
Worked on VSTS and developing with Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 and higher versions.
Designed and developed the C# components for implementing business logic which is used to do the transactions on the database using ADO.NET.
Involved in the design and development of Web Application in C#.NET, ASP.NET, user controls, and deployment of the applications in the Cloud Environment.
Developed CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for user interface uniformly throughout the applications.
Extensive use of client-side scripts using HTML and JavaScript for an appropriate balance between the server-side and the client browser capabilities.
Worked with Sessions Objects, Cookies to store the application state and Used Master Pages to provide a user-friendly appearance to the applications.
Implemented 3-tier and MVC architecture for separation of concern & open-close design principle.
Implemented HTTP protocol and SSL to secure the information between WCF Service and Client.
Involved in writing/modifying Stored Procedures and creating Tables, Views in SQL Server 2008 Database.
Created Web Services, which are used to communicate to the other departments. Involved in phase 3 level of the project design development and testing of the systems.
Created a framework for a consistency service based on the eventual consistency pattern to replicate collected data from document DB to a SQL Database.
Created custom scripts for adding indexes to SQL Azure Tables.
Used Git as a version control tool.
Using SSIS to migrate data to the SQL Server Database from various sources like Excel Sheet, Microsoft Access, and System Sources.

Environment: ASSP.NET, MVC, C#, SQL Server 2008/2012, Windows Azure, Windows PowerShell, CSS, Microsoft Visual Studio.

.NET Developer

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) gathering Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, and Testing.
Implemented Business and Database layers by N-Tier architecture.
Created Web API Controllers to provide Restful Services as well as data to UI.
Created various packages using SSIS and automating them using SQL Scheduler.
Used XML-based procedures for ADO.NET objects, to facilitate the importing of large XML datasets into the SQL Server Database.
Implemented AJAX-based functionality using jQuery library to request transaction update and dynamic page content rendering by invoking the REST endpoints.
Worked extensively on designing databases and normalizing tables.
Created Web APIs using ASP.NET Web API allows new Web/Client projects to leverage reusable data.
Created various Web Forms & User Interface Screens using C#.NET & ASP.NET.
Created Interfaces in C# to communicate through the WCF services.
Used Entity Framework technology for querying, data retrieval, manipulation, and data storage using LINQ.
Worked with Report/Process automation and solution development using C#, Excel Macro, and VBA development.
Created Tables and Implemented SQL Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, indexes, and complex queries in SQL Server 2008.
Used a hybrid of Waterfall and Incremental model as SDLC.
Created Technical Specification documents with UML diagrams like Activity Diagrams and State Diagrams for a better understanding of the flow of the module for future reference.
Used Client-side and Server-side validations for better performance.

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, JQuery, AJAX, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio.Net 2003, HTML, XMLs.

SUMMARY

IT Administrative Professional with 13+ years of experience in migration, implementation, project, and BAU support for Confidential Core Infrastructure Solutions both on Azure cloud and on-premise. Comprehensive technical expertise in Exchange, PowerShell scripting, Office365, Active Directory, and Confidential.
Established WAN, LAN with 2k endpoints for a new branch.
Led a project moving 25k mailbox users to Office365 from on-premise Exchange 2010 in record time with a multi-stage approach.
Supervised KEDB, KB for the L2 team to minimize ticket churn and administered the knowledge management portal development with 500+ documents to support 40 different type categories.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Azure Administration
Office 365 Administration
Confidential Configuration
PowerShell Scripting
Windows Administration
ITSM Tools – Remedy
Exchange 2016, 2013, 2010, 2003
Confidential Active Directory 2012, 2008, 2003
End-user computing device administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Azure Administrator

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Migration, App Services, Azure Load balancing, Networks, Backups, Security Center IaaS and PaaS.

Office 365 Administrator

Confidential
Responsibilities:

License management for O365.
Used e-Discovery to restore user mailboxes.
Extensively used PowerShell scripts for several administrative activities.
Responsible for liaison with Confidential for corporate support.
Experienced in user mailbox properties such as legal hold, online archive.
Have used Exchange admin center to manage mailboxes and anti-spam policies for businesses.

Exchange Administrator

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Administration and troubleshooting – NDR, SPAM, Confidential, mail flow, and DirSync.
Extensively used PowerShell scripts for various administrative activities.
Windows Patching and exchange server pathing.
Management and support of Recipient, RBAC, and ECP.
Installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of CAS array, DAG, and Transport rules.
Migrating user mailboxes to Office365 from on-premise and allocating license to users.

AD Administrator

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Administered FSMO roles
Administration and troubleshooting of Recipient Management

Windows Administrator

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Evaluation and installation of server upgrades, patches, and hotfixes
Installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of TS, WDS, RRAS, Domain Controllers, DNS, Group Policy, DHCP, Disk Quotas, DFS, and VPN
Keep backup and restore policies definition and implementation against critical data, servers, databases, and file servers

Desktop Administrator

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Accountable for end-user computing and other devices backup, preparation, configuration, and connectivity.
In charge of end-user computing devices troubleshooting for their software, network, and hardware issues.
Headed multiple vendor/business partner management
Recommendation of suitable infra components, e.g. Laptops, Software, LAN/WAN devices, PCs.

Azure Administrator/Office 365 Administrator/MS Exchange Server Admin

Confidential, Chicago
Environment: Azure, Azure AD Connect, PowerShell cmdlets, Cisco iron port, Active Sync, Confidential, Exchange 2013, Office 365
Responsibilities:

Migrating on-premises workloads to Azure cloud.
Deploying Azure Backup along with other Confidential backup solutions for Azure
Designing and live migration experience from on-premises to Azure IaaS & PaaS
Knowledge of Azure network, Azure DNS, Traffic Manager, VPN and Express route, and Load Balancers.
Monitoring systems and application performance.
Proficient in all the services offered by Confidential Azure including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
Hands-on experience on AD B2C Custom UI and Custom Attributes, Role-based access (RBAC), and AD Groups.
Building new environments for development and test in Azure.
To ensure the performance, scalability, availability, and security of production systems.
Managing network storage in Azure.
Migrated 25k user mailboxes to office365 from Exchange 2013 in order to create a hybrid deployment.
Developed PowerShell Scripts to automate processes and tasks.
Maintained system documentation logs, troubleshooting, and diagnosis of system problems.
Used Azure AD Connect for directory synchronization and federation with Confidential 3.0.
Administer, Troubleshoot and provide L1/L2/L3-Server Level support to Email infrastructure hosted on Confidential Exchange Server 2010,2013, and O365 for a user base stretched across different environments and time zones.
Troubleshoot and administer the exchange server health, message tracking, auto-discover, mail flow, exchange active sync, queue viewer.
Managed Exchange server 2013 datacenter failover test.
Provided support and maintenance of DAG, transport rules, and on-prem user mailbox issues.
Cisco Iron port support failover test, whitelisting, whitelisting, and Mail flow logs.
Troubleshooting critical issues on email and mobility infrastructure and driving them to resolution as per the agreed SLAs with the customer.
Available 24×7 to perform on-call/stand-by duty or to perform scheduled changes.
Attended SRT for high severity incidents (Sev1/2). Offering Root Cause Analysis and defining Action items in accordance.
Conducted training on outlook and mail environment to Local IT. Part of Daily Service Review (DSR), Change management meeting.
Coordinated with the network team, AD team, backup team to resolve Exchange Issues.

Exchange Administrator

Confidential
Environment: Exchange 2010, 2003, AD, PowerShell scripts, OU, Security Groups and Distribution Groups, Remote Connectivity Analyzer.
Responsibilities:

Responsible for Exchange 2010, 2003, 2003 AD administration, Windows server 2008, and maintenance in a multi-site environment.
Handled recipient management, RBAC and EMC.
Responsible for Configuration and Troubleshooting of Confidential Exchange Server 2010 with Hub Transport Server role, Mailbox server role, Client Access Server roles.
Managed DAG, CAS Array and transport rules, and the messaging environment with Exchange Server 2010.
Optimization and performance tuning of Exchange Server for best performance.
Handled Outlook Web App (OWA) access issue, active sync, and outlook anywhere.
Mail quota, delegation, and individual mail restore as per the IT policies.
Responsible for assuring the highest availability of mail servers by analyzing Event viewer reporting, performance monitor logs, and taking the right measures to troubleshoot the problem.
Troubleshooting & Administration of Mail Routing / Mail Flow and Monitoring Queues on Exchange Server configured alerts and performing Offline Defrag on databases.
Monitor system backup operations, alerts, and thresholds and co-coordinate with local administrators to fix the issue.
Public Folder creation, replication and rights management, and Exchange power shell.
Management and Support of Windows 2003 Server and Exchange server 2003 infrastructure, ADS, DHCP, Disk Quotas, DNS, TS, Remote Desktop mgmt, and DFS.
Management and support of an Active Directory site, site links, replication schedules, and boundaries, used ADUC to create and manage computer, user, and group accounts in an Active Directory environment.
Monitor the Mail Server for health. – CPU, RAM, Queues, Disk space, and Backup.
Vendor management.
Responsible for the Server AMC – contacting the vendor for replacement/hardware-related problems. Exchange-2010-datacenter-failover-and-disaster-recovery/with the central NOC for WAN related issues and ensure smooth
Ensuring closure of all location-related problems by coordinating with the local Wipro FME or any other third party when required.
Troubleshoot and fix Anti-Virus issues, Maintaining and Auditing computer assets.
Basic Legacy applications support (SOMS, MIS, SYMCO, and SAP).
Set up workstations and laptops for new employees, network connectivity, installation of soft wares, configuration of Outlook.

Exchange Administrator/Windows Administrator

Confidential
Environment: Windows 2003/2000, Exchange 2003, 2000, AD, OU, Security Groups and Distribution Groups, McAfee
Responsibilities:

Installation, configuration, and Administration of Windows 2003/2002 Server.
Management and Support of ADS, DHCP and DNS, Exchange 2000/2003 Servers.
Management and Support of Sites and Replication between them.
Configuring group policies for all types of users to access resources both on the servers and across the network.
Performance monitoring and implementation of RAID on servers for fault tolerance and redundancy.
Installing and configuring (Adding workstations to Domain, outlook, IE, and installation of Development soft wares, giving suitable privileges to users on workstations) of workstations according to user requirements.
Maintaining McAfee enterprise antivirus (ePo) systems to keep the network free of any virus attack.
Management and support of backup and restore using backup software, DFS, terminal services, disk quotas, and home folders.
Managed Password policies and Account lockout policies.
Resolving user problems related to hardware, network, and software.

Windows Administrator/Desktop Engineer

Confidential
Environment: Windows/2003/2000, Exchange 2003, 2000, AD, OU, Backup
Responsibilities:

Maintain Windows 2000 Servers, Active Directory servers, DNS, and DHCP.
Back up & restore data through Windows native tool into 24GB DATs.
Administrating User, Group, and OU account.
Installing & configuring the network printers.
Maintain LAN with Cisco Switches (Catalyst 2950 series).
Maintaining backups and providing solutions for OS problems.
Providing Internet solutions as per user requirements.
Complete PC/Helpdesk Support for LAN/WAN, Printers, and Scanners.
Troubleshooting Internet Explorer, PC hardware issues, and Web applications issues.
Setup and configured hardware and software inventory.
Installation and troubleshooting of Windows XP/2000/NT Desktops and Applications.

Systems Engineer

Confidential
Environment: Windows 2000 server, Exchange 2000, Windows NT, and windows 2000 professional
Responsibilities:

Installation and deploy services of new desktops, and laptops.
Hardware fault diagnosis, and isolation of desktops/laptops. The first level of support on desktop/laptops under warranty / AMC with third-party vendor & vendor coordination for L2/L3 & Spares support.
Installation and OS Support – Repair / Re-Installation or fresh Installation.
Installation and Software Support on Office Automation software, Anti-virus software, Email Client (Outlook), IE, other Business Critical Applications.
Configure/troubleshoot network connectivity of desktops, laptops, and network printers.
Installation, the configuration of peripherals e.g. printers, scanners
Troubleshooting first-level printer problems (e.g. paper jam, alignment, configuration setting, driver-related problem, etc.), vendor coordination for L2/L3 for Spares support.

SUMMARY

A Data Platform Solution Architect presently associated with Confidential Corporation with a strong consulting and presales background possessing 15 years of hands on experience in Big Data, Data Science, Cloud and Enterprise applications.
Implemented large Lamda architectures using Azure Data platform capabilities like Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, HDInsight, Azure SQL Server, Azure ML and Power BI.
Demonstrated expert level technical capabilities in areas of Azure Batch and Interactive solutions, Azure Machine learning solutions and operationalizing end to end Azure Cloud Analytics solutions.
Strong experience in Azure Cloud platforms like
Credited with 4 individual (sole inventor) patents in BigData, Analytics, mobility and cellular technology areas at and was rated a PDF level 5 at IBM Business consulting services (BCS, which is the highest level of technical competence at IBM business consulting services United States.
Designed end to end scalable architecture to solve business problems using various Azure Components like HDInsight, Data Factory, Data Lake, Storage and Machine Learning Studio.
Strong experience of leading multiple Azure Big Data and Data transformation implementations in Banking and Financial Services, High Tech and Utilities industries.
Possesses hands on experience in Cloudera Hadoop, HortonWorks Hadoop, various ETL tools, Cassandra, and various Confidential IaaS/PaaS services.
Owned multiple end – to-end transformations of customer business analytics challenges decomposing them into a combination of suitable infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS/Hybrid) and software (Mapreduce) paradigms and then used machine learning algorithms to derive effective intelligence from data lakes.
Sized and designed scalable Big Data landscapes with central Hadoop processing platforms and associated technologies like ETL tools and NoSQL databases on both Cloud and On-Prem hardware to enable end to end business use cases.
Rated Top Data Platform Architect in Confidential ’s Connect(Appraisal Program)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Server: 16 two socket Confidential Xeon Servers based on E5-2600 family of processors
DataNodes: 26 TB HDFS raw storage / node with 96GB of RAM / node.
Network Adapters: 10GbE Converged Network adapters
Switches: 2 x 48 Port 10 GbE

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Azure Data Engineer/ Design

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Designed and architected scalable data processing and analytics solutions, including technical feasibility, integration, development for Big Data storage, processing and consumption of Azure data, analytics, big data (Hadoop, Spark), business intelligence (Reporting Services, Power BI), NoSQL, HDInsight, Stream Analytics, Data Factory, Event Hubs, and Notification Hubs.
Designed and built a Data Discovery Platform for a large system integrator using Azure HDInsight components. Used Azure data factory and data Catalog to ingest and maintain data sources. Security on HDInsight was enabled using Azure Active directory and
Designed an end-to-end Azure cloud-based analytics dashboard for a state government for showing real-time updates for the recent state assembly elections 2016. The solution utilized PowerBI, Enterprise Gateway, and Azure SQL Server.
Designed and built a machine learning model to predict airline ticket prediction for a system integrator that enabled them to reduce their employee travel expenditure by 26%. The model used multiple regression models to predict how airline seat prices and hotel reservations varied across the year given various parameters.
Owns the Azure technical customer engagement including architectural design sessions and implementation of projects using big data use-cases, Hadoop-based design patterns, and real-time/stream analytics.
Designed machine learning models for a major systems integrator to predict datacentre failure rates.
Conducted numerous training sessions, demonstration sessions on BigData for various Government and Private sector customers ramping them up on Azure Big Data solutions.
Built numerous technology demonstrators using Confidential Edison Arduino shield using Azure EventHub and Stream Analytics, integrated with PowerBI and Azure ML to demonstrate the capabilities of Azure Stream Analytics.
Designed machine learning program models(classifiers) for the state of Andhra Pradesh to predict dropouts in their primary and secondary schooling system. These models ingested data from population demographics, student historical performance/dropout rate, and family economics to arrive at a prediction and probability for the dropout rate.
Designed an Azure EventHub and Stream Analytics architecture fulfilling the analytics and data storage requirement for a Smart Grid project. Project Envisaged installing around 70,000 electric consumption smart meters at residences and small-scale industries all controlled by a smart grid.

Senior Architect

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Conceptualized and built a Big Data analytics platform at Confidential with open source tools to enable a wide range of Customers to do proof of concepts at very low price points. This initiative has helped in the sales and account mining process with a significant percentage of customers re-engaging after a successful proof of concepts leading to the generation of active Big Data projects.
Architected multiple projects using Hadoop both in fresh implementation and production support cases.
Senior architect responsible for anchoring the transformation journey for replacing the customer’s existing EDW with a Lamda data processing architecture with MapR Apache Hadoop distribution as the core engine. The total data size is approx. 7.5 Petabytes.
Working with customer architects to create roadmaps for 3 separate business tracks migrating to the new data processing architecture.
Decomposing requirements from individual business tracks into small use cases which could then be realized using time-bound proof of concepts.
Providing hands-on expertise in the realization of small PoC’s to gain business confidence leading to a commitment to the overall transformation
Customer Support Area: Enabling loading SFDC data using Sqoop into Hive Tables for querying
Designing logical zones for data in MapR PoC clusters for loading data.
Studying incoming structures and ETL transformations happening on those files. Translated the same into appropriate Hive Jobs. Also trying out SparkSQL as an alternative.
Working with the customer chief architect to define his vision and help him in tool selection.
Lead architect in a Big Data implementation for an Australian Financial Services customer enabling Advice Compliance Monitoring using Cloudera Hadoop CDH 5.2.1 and associated Big Data technologies.
Architected the Big data Landscape components on AWS cloud which included Linux staging server, Informatica Big Data Edition, Cloudera Hadoop (CDH 5.2.1), Amazon Redshift, and Qlikview.
Provided hands-on installation leadership and guidance on setting up and managing the Cloudera Hadoop Cluster with data at rest and data in motion encryption.
Designed Hadoop Cluster security using various security protocols which included – –
Conducting data security workshops to explain data security aspects and gained insight into customer requirements
Enabling cluster perimeter security using AWS VPC
Conducting EC2 Port audits to enable only those ports needed by Cloudera Manager and Hadoop to perform
Controlling user access using coarse security using Linux access protocols and integration with LDAP for users to seamlessly access HUE.
Created data silos to limit visibility into data using Apache Sentry so that data is displayed on a need to know basis
Configured data in motion encryption to encrypt shuffle and sort phases of MapReduce
Provided insight into Data at rest encryption using Navigator Encrypt utility.
Used Cloudera Manager and Cloudera Director to install separate Hadoop Clusters for Development and Testing. Performed benchmark testing on the Hadoop Clusters to ensure. Worked with Cloudera professional services to ensure the cluster was certified for production jobs.
Worked with the ETL Team to load the Financial Statements of Advice (SoA) into the HDFS layer.
Translated the requirements which included Comparison of Scope and Strategy, Comparison of Scope of advice and recommended products, Cost comparison, Lost Benefits, Insurance ownership into effective MapReduce algorithms which were then run on the Financial Statement of Advice documents.
Loaded results in Hive and then extracted them with the Informatica ODBC connectors to an AWS Redshift Cluster for R-based analysis by the customer’s data scientists.
Transitioned the cluster to production support and managed production support activities like Cluster space management, maintenance of critical services like Mapreduce, Hive, Impala till handover to managed services.

Azure Data Engineer/ Design

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Installed HortonWorks Hadoop cluster on Confidential Azure cloud in the UK region to satisfy customer’s data locality needs
Created Data ingestion methods using SAP BODS to load data from SAP CRM and SAP ECC into HDFS
Used Ozzie workflows to query the data to extract tables into MongoDB.
Mongo view was used as the operational data store to view the data and generate reports.
Built a Hortonworks Cluster on Confidential Azure to extract actionable insights for data collected from IoT sensors installed in excavators.
Loaded machine data collected via installed sensors and GPS equipment from an MSSQL data dump into the HDP cluster using sqoop.
Conducted multiple workshops with the business to understand the data and determine which insights would bring the most immediate value.
Processed the data in HDP using Hive and provided simple analytics using Highcharts on a Meteor UI platform.
Used General Linear Model using MS Big ML and provided insights into the risk of failure of these excavators. The analysis was conducted by collating sensor and maintenance data from multiple sources like engine oil temperature, pressure, maintenance history, battery level, and fuel gradient.
Project is inflight and is a work in progress to enable multiple insights for the Owner, dealer, and manufacturer.

Big Data Cloud Architect

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Successfully strategized and executed multiple enterprise cloud transformation programs in areas of Big Data and Enterprise Applications in the below areas
Designed and built multiple Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) clusters on AWS cloud for Hadoop map-reduce applications for enabling multiple proofs of concepts.
Architected Big Data clusters on the cloud to ingest and write data from and to Amazon S3 storage and Redshift to keep the cost of data storage to a minimum.
Enabled cloud watch and Ganglia on large AWS-based cloud clusters to enable effective monitoring of clusters.
Built mid to large clusters on AWS cloud using multiple instances of the Amazon EC2 cloud. This was to enable use cases that used distributions of Cloudera Hadoop or Hortonworks Hadoop.
Conceptualizing and migration of SAP Upstream systems to AWS to reduce TCO.
Enabled multiple Big Data use cases for customers ranging from Security as a service to Customer sentiment analysis
Enabled Big Data analytics using Hadoop to create a predictive engine in SAP applications like SAP CRM
Designed Big Data landscapes with Hortonworks Hadoop stack, Flume, Jasper charts to enable analytics models for security and instruction detection for a Swiss Customer.
In process of ramping up on Confidential Azure to enable the creation and management of Big Data architectures using MS Azure.

Azure Data Engineer/ Design

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Enterprise architect for Sales and Marketing IT organization specializing in areas of Enterprise Architecture for Big Data, Hadoop, and Analytics.
Involved in conceptualization and design of a Confidential Big Data Platform to extract structured and unstructured data from Enterprise transactional systems and then applying Big Data analysis techniques and Apache mahout machine learning techniques to determine customer sentiment.
Designed the Hadoop platform for high performance and low cost when compared with existing in-house data warehousing systems.
Architected the congregation of 3 key components of the Big Data platform
On-Prem third party Massively Parallel Platform (MPP) hardware
Chose Confidential’s distribution of Apache Hadoop after extensive performance evaluations with two other vendors of Hadoop that included the below
Fitment into the massively parallel platform, security, high availability, and multitenancy support.
Ease of administration, operation, and upgrades.
Software architecture including support for ingestion tools, machine learning, and statistical analysis.
Implemented “Start Small” strategy to quickly stand up a 16 server 192 core Hadoop on-premise platform in 5 weeks from conceptualization to operationalization.
Orchestrated cross-organizational partnership for activities like evaluation of Apache Hadoop distribution, cluster design, hardware selection, and wiring, security and access management, integration of ingestion and extraction tools with existing enterprise landscape.
Final Cluster design in the data center was two racks with total HDFS storage of 300 TB (effectively usable 100TB) with 3-way replication running MapReduce Version 1.
Evaluated and signed off on final cluster architecture which consisted of the below components
Designed the cluster for processing enterprise structured data from data warehouses like Teradata and SAP HANA and unstructured data from weblogs, XML, Social Media, and flat files.
Enabled multiple data ingestion techniques like Flume, Sqoop, Enterprise ETL tools, and simple PUT-based HDFS data insertion to enable ingestion of business data into the cluster through multiple ways.
Enabled the ‘Capacity Scheduler’ to balance Hadoop cluster resources, enabling multiple MapReduce batch jobs to run in parallel on the cluster.
Set up data processing tools like Hive, Pig for processing data. Nagios and Ganglia were enabled for visualizing the cluster resources.
Designed a multi-layered security architecture by creating a system for project isolation within the cluster preventing users from accidentally viewing or deleting data from another project’s center. Integrated system to Confidential’s Enterprise Access Management tool (EAM) and Active Directory for seamless authentication into the system.
Developed a predictive analytics engine to deliver information and insights using real-time ongoing predictive analytics.
Led multiple POCs with the aforementioned Big Data platform demonstrating value to business groups.
Led the conceptualization of an integrated analytics hub (IAH) at Confidential as a central Hadoop data store for various sales and marketing businesses to load and extract data. The centralized data strategy also helps Confidential get more insight into the data dependencies and drive more actionable intelligence.
Successfully delivered on the below big data use cases at Confidential resulting in a total estimated savings of $10 M a year
Incident predictability: Proactively understand and monitor customer incidents and automate root cause analysis and incident prevention. A proof of concept was undertaken that demonstrated reduction of incidents about 30% of 4000 per week.
Recommendation Engine: Apache Mahout Algorithms were utilized to classify and cluster incidents to build a scalable recommendation engine that could be used by various businesses.
Customer Insight: Conjoining data gathered from Websites and Consumption data gathered from the Teradata warehouse was used to enable better product availability and appropriate inventory levels at various manufacturing sites.

SAP Business Analyst

Confidential
Responsibilities:

Architected an SAP HANA landscape to transform the existing data warehousing landscape from SAP BW into SAP BW and SAP BO on HANA.
Designed the process to move an older data warehousing architecture from an Ab Initio – Teradata-based system to BODS, SLT, SAP HANA-based system.
Created methodologies to extract and load data from flat files (Sales Commissions and Geo Discounts) into SAP HANA using SAP BODS
Identified tables extracted from SAP ECC, SAP SCM, and SAP CRM and designed methodologies to load these tables into HANA using SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT) service
Improved the and transformation logic in BODS to reduce errors in master data and transaction data to reduce jobs from failing in SAP BW
Generated EOL plans for Ab Initio and Teradata based systems to ensure smooth rollover into SAP HANA
Managed and influenced multiple business stakeholders from various geographies by way of explaining their use cases and how they will be impacted, benefits of HANA in their use case, and critical timelines like quarter close reporting for commissions payout.
Currently working on enabling a Hadoop cluster to enable the extraction and processing of Customer data from Confidential web interaction sites.
Comprehensive understanding of large scale reporting architectures involving SAP BOBI, Information Design Tool (IDT), SAP Lumira, and Xcelsius tools on the below areas:

– Reporting from SAP BO BI from Teradata or SAP HANA
– Creation of a BO BI universe and reporting using SAP Web intelligence
– Creation of simple reports from excelsior.
– Creation of databases in MongoDB and creating Java applications

SUMMARY

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- Cloud Engineer having 8 years of experience in Windows Administration, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Configuration Management, and Cloud Implementations.
- Has worked on Azure web application, Azure storage, Azure SQL Database, App services, Azure AD, Azure search, Virtual machines, Fabric controller, and notification hub.
- Designed, configured, and deployed Microsoft Azure for numerous applications utilizing the Azure stack (Including Azure SQL, Cloud Services, Compute, Web & Mobile, Blobs, Resource Groups, and ARM), to target fault tolerance, high – availability, and auto-scaling.
- Proficient in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (PaaS & IaaS), Internet of Things (IoT), Azure Monitoring, Key Vault, Application Insights, Document DB, Visual Studio Online (VSO), and SQL Azure.
- Developed and implemented methodologies for cloud migration, developing backup and recovery techniques for databases and applications on a virtualization platform.
- Knowledge of designing Azure Resource Manager Template and custom build steps using PowerShell.
- Designed, developed, and deployed Cloud Service projects to Web Apps, PaaS, and IaaS.
- Configured SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) in Windows Azure IaaS.
- Worked on the different AZURE environments for provisioning of Linux servers and services.
- Experience in hosting plans for Azure Infrastructure along with implementing & deploying workloads on Azure virtual machines (VMs).
- Knows how to migrate the existing v1 (Classic) Azure infrastructure into v2 (ARM), scripting and templating the whole end-to-end process.
- Having execution knowledge of Microsoft Patterns & Practices for .Net System Architecture.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Technologies including JavaScript, ASP.Net Web Services, VB.Net, C#, .Net, ADO.Net, jQuery, XML, XSLT, and Ajax.
- Setup Windows Workflow to process insurance applications in ASP.NET. Optimized SQL Server for ASP.NET internal enterprise application.
- Deep expertise on .Net components: C#, VB.NET, ADO.Net, ADO.Net Entity Framework, ASP.Net, ASP.Net MVC, Web services SOAP, WCF Services.
- Advanced knowledge of designing and Developing Interfaces, Custom Controls, and User Controls using ASP.NET and C#.
- Good at handling backend data sources like MS Access and XML, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, XAML Data source.
- Strong understanding and working experience on all phases of software development life cycle.
- Expertise in RDBMS including MS Access, MS SQL Server. Strong understanding of SQL queries, Stored Procedures, Testing exception handlers, Views, Functions, Packages, Triggers, Cursors & tables, and object types.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

- - Cloud Platforms: Windows Azure, Windows Server.
  - Languages: C#, VB.Net, C, SQL, T-SQL, XML, XAML, HTML, LINQ, UML.
  - Scripting Languages: JavaScript, VB Script.
  - Databases: SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, MS Access.
  - .Net Framework: .Net Framework 4.5, 4.0, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0.
  - Protocols: SOAP, HTTP, UDDI, FTP, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, SSL.
  - Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, 7, Windows server 2003/2008.
  - Technologies: ASP.Net, ASP.Net MVC, HTML, AJAX, CSS, JQUERY, Web Forms, Win Forms.
  - Other Tools: MS-Office (MS-Excel, MS-Project 2013, MS-PowerPoint), Visual Studio 2013, QlikView (Reporting), SQL Server Management Studio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. AZURE CLOUD SUPPORT ENGINEER

Confidential, CARROLLTON, TX

- - Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), address blocks, DNS settings, security policies, subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP, and routing.
  - Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into safe subnets and VNets.
  - Practical knowledge of Azure External Load Balancer and Azure Internal Load Balancer.
  - Implemented Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
  - Designed Network Security Groups to limit inbound/outbound access to network interfaces, VMs, and subnets.
  - Setup Azure Virtual Appliances to meet security conditions as software-based appliance functions (WAN optimization, firewall, and intrusion detections).
  - Used firewall appliance where requirements call for layer 7 security models.
  - Utilized NSGs for layer 4 Access Control List (ACLs) for incoming/outgoing packets.
  - Designed User Defined Routes with custom route tables for certain cases to force tunneling to the Internet via an On-premise network and controlled use of virtual appliances in the client’s Azure environment.
  - Used VNET system routes and underlying route table that holds Internet Rules, Local VNet Rules, On-premise Rules, and IP Forwarding as a design basis.
  - Worked on IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.
  - Configured BGP routes to allow ExpressRoute connections between Azure cloud and on-premise data centers.
  - Environment: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Azure Storage, Windows server 2012/R2/2013

AZURE CLOUD ENGINEER

Confidential, NYC, NEW YORK

- - Worked on Microsoft Azure Cloud (Public) to offer IaaS support to clients and created VMs using Power Shell Script and Azure Portal.
  - Manage and Create Storage Account and Affinity Group in Azure Portal.
  - Capturing an image of a Virtual Machine (VM), attaching a disk to a VM, Managing and creating Virtual Network and End Points in Azure Portal.
  - Deploy VM’s, Storage, Network, and Affinity Group using PowerShell Script.
  - Building Storage Pool and Stripping of Disk for Azure Virtual Machines. Backup, Configure and Restore Azure Virtual Machine using Azure Backup and Backup to cloud Storage Account utilizing Cloudberry Cloud Storage Tools.
  - Convert existing standard VM (virtual machine) into Premium Storage Account. Patching and Validating the VM in Azure.
  - Monitor Azure Infrastructure using System Center Operation Manager (SCOM).
  - Creating Quorum for File sharing in Azure Cloud to Configure Window Failover Cluster.
  - Implemented Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to apply styles for the web pages.
  - Coordinating with Microsoft to extend subscription limit like- Core limit and Cloud Services. Resolving Client’s Issues remotely.
  - Expertise in optimizing code and improving the efficiency of databases including recompiling stored procedures and taking care of other maintenance tasks.
  - Involved in unit testing and designed the front-end application using CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, and jQuery.
  - Hands-on experience on ICD 10 maintenance screens using VB.net to pull out data from DB2 and call windows forms for the medi-span process of the claims solution.
  - Handled whole development life cycle, from design, coding, testing to deployment.
  - Reviewed a technology team and worked as a leader to define a growth plan meeting product development demand.
  - Design front end and backend using MVC Scaffolding Pattern. Build Web Forms using Entity Framework and C#.Net.
  - Providing updates to business partners regularly and document technical and programming specifications.
  - Designed, developed, and implemented the PDA Device using MVC Pattern and used CSS, JavaScript, .NET Master Pages, Validation controls, Content place holders, themes, and Web Forms for UI designed Interactive User Interface development.
  - Resolving the issues in the code and implemented extensive Data Binding with several Server Controls like Grid View.
  - Maintaining source and documentation control using Team foundation server.
  - Performed Unit Testing and Integration Testing using N-Unit.
  - Part of deployment and post-production support for the application.
  - Environment: Visual Studio.NET 2010, AJAX, C# 4.0, T-SQL, LINQ, Entity Framework, AZURE CLOUD, AngularJS, MongoDB, ASP.NET 4.0, WCF, UML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL Server 2008, VSS.

Cloud App Support Engineer

Confidential, Houston

- Handle escalated tasks on interconnectivity issues, complex cloud-based identity management, and user authentication, service interruptions with Virtual Machines, and associated storage (Blobs, Tables, Queues).
- Assisted support forums (Azure Active Directory, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure Virtual Machines,) for Microsoft Developers Network including Partners and MVPs.
- Provide consultation and cloud architecture for premier customers and internal projects operating on Microsoft Azure platform for high availability of services, low operational expenditure.
- Apprising Group Manager about technical escalations, analyzing top issues and top call drivers for the week, and provide action plans for a smooth workflow.
- Fixed escalated Support tickets till closure for the MS Azure IaaS platform.
- Work closely with the program executives/item bunch for information on newly delivered highlights. Collaborate with head proprietors of Microsoft exclusive endeavor items.
- Assist content development team on official documentation, tech blogs, and “how-to” tutorials. Fix lab sessions for teams to reproduce the critical issues.
- Organize tech sync calls to stay update with platform/emerging technologies.
- Member of an internal project to design an IVR using AI and logical troubleshooting algorithms in order to automate the Support process.
- Environment: Microsoft Windows Azure, Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows PowerShell, Windows server 2008/2012/R2, Microsoft SQL Server.

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Key Responsibilities Areas

• Exporting and Extracting code changes as well as configuration changes from CRM server to Visual Studio.

• Pushing changes to remote branch on AZURE DEVOPS using GIT.

• Creating Merge request, Adding corresponding approvers.

• Building & deploying Artifacts using CI Pipeline, unit testing, static code analysis, code coverage, copying Artifacts to staging directory.

• Configuring Jenkins jobs, application-component wise.

• Deploying applications into different environments using uDeploy.

• Writing the Test Cases based on Wireframe and Sprint document.

• Automating with the help of Selenium Web Driver in java.

• Creation of components, application, environments. Mapping corresponding resources to environments. Defining application process in uDeploy.

• Deploying configured applications. Fixing bugs if any in deployments.

• Writing and Uploading cookbooks on Hosted server.

• Analyzing reports generated for individual cookbooks.

• Tracking traps in a network.

• Creating dummy traps.

Key Responsibilities Areas

• Designs and executes information security awareness training and educational activities.

• Conduct training for clients on-site as well as off-site.

• Conducts information security risk assessments and control selection activities.

• Design and implementation of security processes.

• Manage task allocation, ensuring quality of the deliverables in line with industry standards and best practices.

• International Trainer and Workshop leader on IT Governance, Risk, Cyber Crime, CISA, CISM.

• Definition and development of security control designs including those required to support external regulations.

• Troubleshooting on all the Enterprise Support cases Severity A, B, or C and on Professional Support.

• Business Critical Cases.

• Educating customers regarding the Root Cause Analysis, resolutions and how they were achieved and also keeping them updated every day with technical aspects via email, if extensive troubleshooting is going on the case.

• Delivered multiple triages on Mail Flow Deployments and Migration to share theoretical and
troubleshooting knowledge and experience after working on cases.

Key Responsibilities Areas

• Monitor the Azure Environment for the clients by creating the alerts of the specific parameters.

• Performing regular health checks on the resources like Azure Traffic manager, Web apps, apps service plans, Load balancers and Cosmo Database.

• Managing and configuring Azure Policy and working with Initiative policy definition and assignment.

• Understanding on different RBAC roles and Azure User admin access roles.

• Working with different logs in Azure which include Activity logs, Diagnostic logs and exporting them to OMS.

• Understanding of Azure storage while creating and managing Azure storage access keys and Shared access Signature (SAS) and Azure Storage Replications.

• Working with Azure Blob and Azure File Share, Azure File sync services and components like Sync Groups and Cloud Terring.

• Working with Azure Backups using Recovery service Vault, backing up Single Azure VM or multiple Azure VM and Creating Backup Policies.

• Configuring Availability sets, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Azure Network, NSG, Route Tables and Traffic Manager.

• Using New Relic as the monitoring tools and monitor the Azur environment for the clients.

• Creating alert in OMS based on customer threshold.

• Creating rules for Autoscaling to meet customer requirements during the peak trading hours.

• Working with different storage replications: LRS, ZRS, GRS, RA-GRS.

• Publishing Azure Website using Microsoft SQL studio, Filezilla.

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