SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced and certified, lead Azure Cloud professional with strong experience in migrating SAP workload to public cloud, Azure, DevOps, AWS, Azure Administration, Azure Infrastructure Operations, Linux and end to end Project Management
• 5 MS - Azure certifications, 5 AWS certifications and Google Cloud Certified
• Prior strong Pre-sales/sales, .NET background, SAP Basis, Linux, SAP HANA, SAP GRC, SAP Security background and experienced with deploying SAP workload in Azure.
• Expertise in planning, executing & spearheading IT Infrastructure Projects and developing & streamlining systems with skills to enhance IT infrastructure operational effectiveness
• CISSP and CCSK certified security practitioner with strong expertise in MS Azure security and identity services including but not limited to Azure Active Directory, Domain Services, Azure Security Center, Azure Governance, Security, Authentication, MFA, Authorization, B2C, Data Privacy, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cryptography / Key Management, Access Controls and Security Protocols,
• Strong, winning, certified Azure Practice leader with ability to sell, scope and win projects: Excellent RFP, SOW, RFI, Pre-sales/sales, sales lifecycle management, Practice and client management skills
• Expertise in driving the deployment of customers’ workloads into Azure and increasing their consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers’ cloud adoption model and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers.
• Hands-on experience in managing configuration, Windows Azure Migration, Deployments, maintenance, software application & hardware devices with a focus on systems and Windows Azure environments.
• Displayed quality skills in planning & designing servers for backup & recovery in Azure; restoring application/VMS etc. in case of crash/ emergencies & maintaining high availability with configuration.
• Resourceful in delivering System/Applications maintenance support and responding to outages during off-hour software deployments within established Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:

• Microsoft Technologies Azure (IaaS, PaaS, Hybrid)
• AWS
• DevOps
• Infrastructure Management
• Configuration Management
• SAP Basis, SAP Security & SAP HANA/GRC
• MABS, DPM, Azure Backup, ASR, Azure Migrate, Azure Deployment Planner Client Servicing
• Azure Compute, Network, Storage & Disaster Recovery
• Project Management and Team Management
• Agile Methodology Expertise
• Azure Security and Identity services
• Wide breadth of skills sets includes, .NET, .NET Core and React JavaScript Expertise
• RFP, SOW, Practice management, Sales/Pre-sales

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Lead Azure Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain project related documentation (Statement of Work Document, Proof of concept document, technical design document etc.)
• Support sales/pre-sales, Manage resources and develop staff, assist in defining team objectives, provide subject matter expertise and conduct performance reviews
• Develop overall solutions including Statements of Work and Bills of Materials
• Migrated SAP HANA workload to Azure
• Ownership of technical delivery, customer engagements and sales enablement
• Meeting with clients to understanding their needs (lead architect assessment meetings), and determining gaps between those and technical functionality, and collaborating with all stakeholders to generate mutually agreeable and advantageous solutions.
• Led the design, architecture and deployment of solutions in Azure platform
• Architect and design n-tier applications grounds up using Azure IaaS and PaaS services
• Deploy Infrastructure using ARM templates for Azure PaaS services with deployment tools such as Octopus and VSTS
• Azure Active Directory B2C and B2B setup and management.
• ARM Template development for IaaS, and PaaS deployments. Azure Resource Management and automation with Octopus and PowerShell. Linked template deployments and updating Resources with ARM templates
• Implementing Cyber Security Standards for Security Level 4
• Deployed Cloud controls, Cloud Governance and Azure Security
• Created Azure architecture blueprints and developer documentation
• Migrated applications from on premise or other clouds to Azure, VMware, and Netanya
• Integrated systems between Public Cloud Providers Azure and AWS
• Automate DevOps with deployment tools - Puppet, Chef and Ensile
• Introduce Azure Service Fabric Azure PaaS in Big data, IoT, Machine Learning spaces to end client
• Published articles on technology trending topics to company Wiki
• Agile/Scrum with multiple cross-functional teams.
• Providing the azure Training for internal Employing and team.
• Analyzing on premise cost and Azure cost as per customer requirements.
• Helping customer to provide the training on new azure services and features.
• Helping Customers for application monitoring and providing the internal training.
• Communication with client-side technical team on architecture point of view and signoff.
• Migration Project's reviews and guide team on technical and functional perspective.
• Windows Azure Environment setups and implementation.
• Support system testing\Integration testing and UAT before deploying to production Environment.
• Managing & Monitoring Daily events for Azure Technical Service.
• Experience in designing cloud, Web and middleware solutions, supporting them with solution approach, cloud assessment workshops, POCs and development/migration Plans.
• Developing, implementation and documentation of operating policies, methods, processes, measures, and tools.
• Migration Project's reviews and guide team on technical and functional perspective.
• Windows Azure Environment setups and implementation.
• Support system testing\Integration testing and UAT before deploying to production Environment.
• Managing & Monitoring Daily events for Azure Technical Service.
• Coordinate all vendor management tasks inclusive of working with external vendors and internal employees.
• Ensuring enterprise-wide needs for due diligence, risk assessment and continuing vendor monitoring are being accomplished.
• Experience in designing cloud, Web and middleware solutions, supporting them with solution approach, cloud assessment workshops, POCs and development/migration Plans.
• Analyzing and identifying applications for cloud assessment and fitment, mapping the workloads across IaaS, PaaS and private clouds.
• Engaging with customer base to understand their evolving business needs and align IT strategy on priorities

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Lead Sr. Azure Cloud Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Delivered the Integration Solutions built on top of Microsoft Technologies Azure (IaaS, PaaS, Hybrid).
• Responded to RFP’s and RFI’s request from Clients.
• Collaborated with SA to deliver pre- sales support for Windows Azure, WebApps, Azure DR, Backup, monitoring etc. projects; helping with estimates, proposal and proof of concepts.
• Migrated SAP workload to Azure
• Created:
• Azure Web apps and deploying the Azure Web sites
• Custom OS images and implanting in Azure Portal
• Azure VM on Azure portal and managing the azure subscription
• Azure Web sites, Services, SQL databases, and so on
• Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup plan per user request
• Supported customers in analyzing the azure billing and Azure resources quota management in azure.
• Enabling the Azure subscription monitoring through Azure Operation Manager/SCOM.
• Created and Configured Azure subscription/Site to site recovery /Storage Accounts etc. in azure portal.
• Troubleshooting Azure VM connectivity, Azure Application and Azure Subscription related to the issue as per user request
• Migrated Data from Elasticsearch-1.4.3 Cluster to Elasticsearch-5.6.4 using Logstash, Kafka for all environments.
• Infrastructure design for the ELK Clusters.
• Elasticsearch and Logstash performance and configuration tuning.
• Identify and remedy any indexing issues.
• Deploying & configuring Azure site to site recovery for DR and Azure back-up in ON -Premises/Azure Environment.
• Developing Azure VPN as per the user request and configuring RDS Server on Azure.
• Creating and configuration of Hanuinsight to analyze the azure subscriptions billing.
• Analyzing and identifying applications for cloud assessment and fitment, mapping the workloads across IaaS, PaaS and private clouds.
• Steered efforts in integrating the SCOM with Azure Operation Insight as per the requirements.
• Led a team of 20 members of Windows Azure migration & Cloud solution for more than 100 subscriptions
• Multiple Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as services (IaaS) & Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings were reviewed and the resulting report was used to inform the client about the risks related to these services
• Implemented Disaster Recovery, backup migration, Azure WebApps Deployment etc. for multiple global organizations.
• Managed multiple Data Centre disaster recovery exercises that addressed a broad span of disciplines (e.g. Windows Azure, On-Premises Datacenter’s Windows servers, Applications, Databases, Web Services, Storage and File Transfers)

Confidential, Bellevue, Washington

Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting software development and data management projects that prepare large datasets for delivery to a shared cloud computing and storage environment.
• Provide strategies and requirements for the seamless migration of applications, web services, and data from local and server-based systems to the AWS/Azure cloud.
• Migrated SAP workload to public cloud
• Part of a team of DevOps engineer for infrastructure support on AWS cloud. Creating cloud formation scripts for hosting software on AWS cloud. Automating the installation of software through PowerShell scripts
• Used Jenkins Docker container to deploy some of our Ansible applications to AWS
• Used Terraform to provision application infrastructures employing tools like Autoscaling Groups, Security Group, VPC, CloudWatch etc.
• Developed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT, EC2 instances, ELB, Security Groups.
• Built a new CI pipeline. Testing and deployment automation with Docker, and Jenkins.
• AWS EC2 and Cloud watch services. CI/CD pipeline management through Jenkins. Automation of manual tasks using Shell scripting.
• Participated in team development of Digital Ad Services SOA application using Visual Studio/ ASP.NET 3.5-4.0, WCF and Entity Framework. Major emphasis on WCF Services/Middle Tier (business) layers leveraging EF and extensive use of LINQ (lambda expressions) for data transformations.
• Spinning various AWS elasticache redis clusters from EC2 instance. focused on improvements to build and deployment tools
• Used continuous delivery tools like Jenkins with Terraform to deploy files to QA and Developer servers
• Set up ELK stack for Administering and troubleshooting failed deployment of infrastructure.
• Deployed company-wide logging system with Docker container on Amazon ECS using Elasticsearch, Logstash, Graylog.

Confidential, Plano, TX

AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in a program geared towards migrating existing mission and business applications into a cloud-based environment. Activities required to re-host an application into the cloud may include architecture modifications, database and/or application server re-hosting, and potentially recoding of existing capabilities to take advantage of cloud platform services.
• Work with the architectural lead for the migration of several applications to the cloud.
• Work with multiple, concurrent, teams for the migration/re-hosting of applications.
• Maintaining/installing/Patching ESX Cluster on VMware and install Linux virtual Machines over it. It also includes managing and assigning of data stores inside the cluster and VMOTION of the Linux machines
• VM creation and customization on ESXi. Management and troubleshooting of WHM and C-panel. IIS configuration and management on Web hosting. Configuration and management of ftp server.
• Assist in managing the AWS relationship and AWS interface managing/monitoring the utilized AWS services/resources.
• Proactively develop best practice standards, architectures, and procedures to support the utilization of cloud infrastructure services.
• Configure cluster, failover cluster, troubleshoot cluster issues, add/delete resources, service groups
• Experienced in Server builds and automating the provision of OS by using Jumpstart for Solaris and Kickstart for RedHat(RHEL)

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Lead SAP Basis & Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed multiple SAP Basis projects and installations including SAP security and GRC.
• End to End BW on HANA Implementation with Project Planning to Execution
• BW 7.40 SP8 Upgrade on HANA
• Delivered set of custom report applications (MS Windows Forms, WPF, MS ASP.NET) in SAP management utilizing MS WCF(REST), MS .NET Parallel Extensions, asynchronous communications, DI containers, ORM, dynamic (through code) Task Scheduling, programmatically formatted Excel reporting.
• HANA Database Revision Patching
• PI 7.1 to PO 7.4 Upgrade
• Installation of CRM Suite SAP Enhancement Package 2, Version for SAP HANA
• Performed HANA Configuration HANA Backup and Recovery, Transports, HANA Security,
• Worked with HANA Studio for performing HANA activities
• Upgrade SAP ERP 6.0 EHP 6.0 to ERP 6.0 EHP 7.0 (ready for HANA).
• SAP BI 3.5 (NetWeaver 2004s) to BI 7.31 (content 747) upgrade.
• Unicode conversion of SAP BI 7.31.
• Created, Configured and Implemented end to end Archiving blueprint, approach, strategy for SAP HCM HR Archive Objects, Technical and Cleanup tables. Developed UAT/QAT with Volume Test, Sizing documents with full workshops of ILM (Information Life Management
• Developed containment strategy for non-sap tables and z tables outside of ADK Archive objects.
• Implementation of Quality Management and Change Request Management (Full customized workflow, (35 Status)
• End User Monitoring Setup using Solution Manager Upgrade
• SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Upgrade
• Implementation of Solution documentation.
• Implementation of Change Request Management and Quality Gates
• Aris and uPerform Integration
• SAP BW v7.3 (ABAP) powered by HANA 1.5, Executive Dashboard RDS
• Unicode conversion of SEM 6.0 (ERP with BI CONT + SEM-BCS).
• Installation of additional AS-Java Usage Types (EPC, EP, BI-Java) into NW7.00 systems.
• Configuration of EWA (Early Watch Alert reporting) in Solution Manager Landscape.
• Advanced SAP technical performance analysis and recommendations for both SAP and database layers for ERP 6 systems on Oracle.