SUMMARY

• Having 10 years of experience in IT industry with the major focus on Cloud Architecture with AWS/Azure, Designing and implementing highly available (HA) Architecture with necessary resources, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD pipeline), Build and Release management, Linux/Windows administration, and support.
• Hands on experience in Configuration Management (CM) policies and practices with regards to software development life cycle (SDLC) along with automation of scripting using BASH/PowerShell, Python scripting.
• Extensive working experience and knowledge with broad range of AWS Cloud Services like EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, VPC, Route53, RDS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, Dynamo DB, Elastic search, Elastic Filesystem (EFS), Cloud Foundry, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, Lambda, Service Catalog, Kinesis, Redshift Cluster and in Cloud Security (OAuth2 and SAML) and good knowledge on Amazon kinesis firehose.
• Infrastructure Monitoring (Datadog, AWS CloudWatch & Splunk)
• Setting up different types of monitoring tools for the EC2 instances, DB administration and also for the various applications supported.
• Implemented infrastructure in an Agile environment and also provide support to the developers across different departments for various open - source tools.
• Hands on Experience on Ansible and used playbooks to deploy software onto the hosts. Experience in writing Ansible playbooks created custom playbooks written in YAML, encrypted the data using Ansible Vault and maintained role-based access control by using Ansible Tower to manage web applications, Environments configuration files, Users, Mountpoints and Packages.
• AWS Cloud Formation was extensively used in creation and deployment of the infrastructure.
• Worked on networking in the AWS environment using VPC, ELB, DNS.
• Worked on moving data from on-premise to the AWS cloud using services like S3, S3- Glacier, Kinesis, DynamoDB and RDS. Familiar with the Hadoop and Big Data model.
• Configuration and management of the AWS RDS and DynamoDB.
• Developed and implemented an AWS Lambda architecture, and data-processing design pattern to handle massive quantities of semi-structured data to integrate batch and real-time processing within a single framework. Created AWS Lambda functions to support real-time data flows to the system through Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Spark Streaming, and Spark SQL on top of an Amazon EMR cluster through bootstrapping.
• Implementing infrastructure on new AWS systems and migration of existing Linux and Windows-based infrastructure to AWS and Azure Cloud platforms and automated using Terraform, Cloud Formation Templates.
• Conducts routine audits of all applications to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, procedures, and requirements. Publishes whitepapers for various business usage cases.
• Collaborates with Professional Services teams and peer SMEs to produce SOWs, scoping and pricing for RFP responses.
• Speaks to the public and industry on various topics, best practices, and methodologies for digital transformation strategy.
• Configuring backups and reporting them via Key vault services, generating reports via Azure CLI.
• Implemented migration related projects for internal and external customers from AWS PaaS and SaaS.
• Using Azure migration (ASR), for replication and migration for dedicated hosted customers and providing Role Based Access Control (RBAC) roles.
• Working with customer to setup express route in Azure. Setting up temporary backups and Archives using Azure key vault services till customers take over environment.
• Strong experience in creating innovative architectures for vertical industry solutions and experience with Windows Azure Cloud Computing architectures.
• Demonstrate end-to-end architecture strategies, standards, processes, and tools on Microsoft IaaS, SaaS Cloud or Private Cloud.
• Design, develop and implement for various applications and web servers for SaaS. Configuring CI/CD for application servers and deployments on a SaaS.
• Various migration related projects for internal and external customers from AWS, AWS PaaS and SaaS.
• Conducting the current state assessment of infrastructure framework to identify gaps and recommend the framework in Azure Cloud environment.
• Identifying the perspective issues in Azure and suggesting the feasible solution to the client.
• Creating validating and reviewing solutions and effort estimated for Datacenter migration for Azure Cloud Solution.
• Setup Active Directory (AD) in azure cloud using AD connect. Setup ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) in Azure cloud. Setup MFA in azure cloud. Setup domain services in azure cloud. Setup users’ access in azure cloud.
• Managing and maintaining the Microsoft Azure Cloud environment. Able to architect using Azure resource manager with compute, network, storage.
• Able to setup HA/cluster environment using ARM (Azure Resource Manager) best practices. Able to setup NSG in azure cloud. Able to setup firewall and resources groups in ARM. Able to setup Traffic manager with end points.
• Able to setup DLP (Data Loss Prevention) in azure cloud. Creating Containers and deploying servers in cloud. Deployed Azure IaaS, SaaS virtual machines (VM) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the VNets to the Internet using Azure External Load Balancer.
• Provided high availability for IaaS Virtual Machines and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Hands on Implementation of high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models. Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software-based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Amazon Web Services (AWS): Amazon Web Services EC2, S3, ELB, EMR, Auto Scaling, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, Elastic Filesystem, RDS, DMS, VPC, Direct Connect, Route 53, Cloud watch, IAM, SNS, SMS, SES, OpenVPN, Elastic IP, Security Groups, Aurora DB, Key Encryption.

Azure: Virtual Machines, NSG, Load Balancer, ADFS, IAM, ARM, Logic APPS, VPN, Data Lake, Power BI, Auto Scaling, Blob Storage, Log Analytics, Public & Private IP, Hybrid Identities, Server Migration, Multifactor Authentication, APP Service Containers, COSMOS DB, Azure Key Vault.

Automation Tools: Chef, Ansible

Version control tools: Git

Networking/protocol: TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, FTP/SFTP, HTTP/HTTPS

Scripting: Python, JSON

Cloud Environments: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform

Database: Redis, AWS RDS, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, SQL Server.

Monitoring Tools: CloudWatch, Cloud-Checker, Azure Monitor, Azure App Insights, Log Analytics.

Programming/Web Technologies: .Net, HTML, Python

Framework: Agile Methodologies, Tensor Flow, Keras.

Data Sciences: Machine Learning, Deep Learning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plainsboro, New Jersey

Sr. Cloud Architect (AWS/Azure)

• Designed & Implemented static webpage architecture using services such as IAM, KMS, Cognito, API Gateway, Route 53, S3.
• Built and configured a Virtual Data Center and deployed instances in AWS cloud for Enterprise Data Ware Housing which includes VPC, Private & Public Subnets, Security Groups, Route Tables, Using of NAT Instance/Gateway for private server connectivity, RDS, Auto-Scaling & Load Balancers, Configuring SNS.
• Designed and implemented Azure Architecture, Active Directory and designed Web Apps.
• Network performance, monitoring code practices & frameworks, and migration/release skills and management with Service Now APIs & platform in general.
• Hands on experience in implementing AWS broad range of services such as provisioning EC2, AMI, VPC, ELB, Auto-Scaling, Security Groups, IAM, EBS, AMI, S3, SNS, SQS, Route53, ELB, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation, Cloud front, Cloud trial, RDS, EMR, Redshift.
• Created and Configured Red Hat Linux Environment and Microsoft Windows Virtual Machines in AWS using EC2, Elastic IP, VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, NAT Gateway.
• Deployed AWS Lambda code from Amazon S3 buckets. Created a Lambda Deployment function and configured it to receive events from your S3 bucket.
• Created Python Scripts to Automate AWS services, ELB, CloudFront Distribution, ECS, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application configuration, created stacks with single servers or joins web servers and loaded the big volume source files from AWS S3 to redshift with Talend Big Data tool.
• Development of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud in the scalable environment which provides advanced security features such as security groups and network access control lists to enable inbound and outbound filtering at the instance level and subnet level.
• Managed servers on the Microsoft Azure Platform Azure Virtual Machines instances using Ansible Configuration Management. Created Ansible manifests, profiles and roles modules to automate system operations.
• Creating and maintaining containerized micro services and configuring/maintaining private container registry on Microsoft Azure for Hosting Images and using Windows Active Directory.
• Used Microsoft Azure for Development, Test and UAT environments for all customers regardless of final Production platform (SaaS Cloud, Private secure cloud) to speed up development/ deployment process and work within CI/CD framework.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Designed, configured and deployed Microsoft Azure for a multitude of applications utilizing the Azure stack (Including Computer, Web & Mobile, Blobs, ADF, Resource Groups, Azure SQL DW, Cloud Services, and ARM, focusing on high-availability, Disaster Recovery, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling).
• Customized Ansible modules for finding facts about AWS CloudWatch alarms and taking actions to pause/Unpause those alarms during deployments.
• Trained and deployed Machine Learning Models on Linear Learning.
• Designed, built & managed a multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure in Azure.

Environment: AWS (EC2/AMIs/VPC/S3/IAM/S3,EBScloud trails, CloudWatch, EMR, Cloud Formation, SQS, SNS, Snowball, Lambda, Kinesis, Redshift, Route53,RDS,MYSQL), AWS Direct connect, VM Export/Import, AZURE (VM, IAM, ADFS, Logic APPS, Function APPS, Blob Storage, Log Analytics, Key Vault, Web App Services), Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), OpenStack, Node.js, Ansible, Nginx, Kubernetes, Linux, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Python, PowerShell, ServiceNow, OpenShift.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Cloud Architect (Azure)

• Architected Storage solutions and Executed failsafe virtual private compute network for clients.
• Designed & implemented VPN by understanding the requirement of the Client.
• Implemented Role Based Access Control, SSO (Single Sign On), IAM, Managing of Active Directories (Hybrid, Cloud, On Premise), using of Micro Services to implement Architectures
• Design and created road map in designing architecture, implementation and maintaining Microsoft infrastructure technologies using VM, Azure Storage, NSG, VPS, Load Balancing.
• Hands on Experience with focus in handling cloud environments and supporting infrastructure form Azure Market Place.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• Hand on experience in implementing of AGILE, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Implemented IAM roles for focused access to user in Azure Environment.
• Configured Azure RBAC Built-In Roles that apply to all resource types: Owner, Contributor and Reader, Create right to delegate access to others for owners.
• Defined product requirements and creates high-level architectural specifications, ensuring feasibility, functionality, and integration with existing systems/platforms.
• Implemented Configuration management using Git and GitHub.
• Subject matter expert for Azure’s Infrastructure as a Service. Plan and execute large-scale migrations of systems from private infrastructure to public cloud platforms (particularly Azure and AWS)
• Managed Microsoft Active Directory domain environment and typical services, including administration of users and groups, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, DFS, ADFS, LDAP and Windows Workstations as they pertain to an enterprise AD environment.
• Implemented high level architectures with Multiple VPN’s with VM’s, Storage Class, Network Security Group (NSG), Function app, and Cosmos DB.
• Implemented the iterative development process using the Agile methodology.
• Plan and coordinate data migrations between systems. Monitor, optimize and allocate physical data storage for database systems.
• Working technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring and supporting Microsoft SQL Server, as well as MySQL instances.
• Planned and executed vendor selection & analysis for Roles project (SailPoint, Oracle Identity Governance, Courion & ForgeRock) and for Multifactor Authentication project (SafeNet, SecureAuth, Duo Security) for around 20,000+ internal users within 10 weeks with detailed design and implementation analysis’ use case.
• Provided technical direction and leadership for existing and future Identity and cloud infrastructure while collaborating with the enterprise architect, operations teams along with strategic vendor partners while defining the target technology state, thereby building a business proposal and strategic roadmap of execution
• Generate monthly and weekly performance reports to be presented to upper management (Director and above) encapsulating different initiatives within engineering and operations team. Define future roadmap for IAM related services and functions
• Handled responsibilities as IAM Architect, IAM Technical Lead, Sr. IAM Consultant, Specialist, Software Engineer, and Module Lead.
• Updating existing access management and provisioning workflows.
• Have knowledge and experience in Solution Architecture, Requirement gathering and analysis, Functional Specification, Design, Implementation of Identity Management solutions with different Identity Manager Products.
• Act as a liaison between customers, sales, service engineer teams and support.
• Assisted leadership with the ongoing development of policies and procedures for the purposes of consistent product delivery.
• Participate in development of roadmaps and participate in the standard processes for Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
• Conducted research to develop practices and security policies for identity management.
• Implemented and tested configurations for LDAP servers and schemas.

Confidential

Sr. Strategic Business Manager

• Developed expert knowledge of Client’s business and problem/solution domain.
• Developed and implemented a Cloud Services marketing strategy for Microsoft Azure Services; offers and promotions to ensures cloud services consumption and value.
• Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects on time within budget and within scope.
• Oversaw all aspects of projects from development to launch. Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of projects.
• Responsible for IT security and compliance, management of technology vendor relationships, disaster recovery and business continuity planning, as well as project management and documentation for department initiatives.