PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 4 years of experience working as a Windows/IIS/Cloud Support engineer with installation, Configuring, Deploying, Trouble shooting, Administration and Maintenance of IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0.
• Experienced in Azure IAAS and PAAS services, Provisioning VM's, Virtual Hard disks, Virtual Networks, reserved VIP, Azure AD, Load Balancers, Cloud Services, deploying Web Apps and creating Web - Jobs.
• Implemented high-availability infrastructure architectures in an Enterprise and Cloud environment adhering to DR, Business Continuity, and availability best practices.
• Leveraged "Azure Automation" and PowerShell, Chef and Ansible to automate processes in the Azure Cloud.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Executed technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Windows Azure.
• Troubleshoot and fix issues with services including micro services, platform services (PaaS), web and database servers.
• Experience in creation of subscription, Storage accounts and tables using PowerShell.
• Experience in working on CDN technologies for highly available customer facing web applications.
• Manage the deployment, maintenance, support and upgrade of server, hardware, software, operating systems and distributed printers in a Microsoft Windows and server environment. Build and troubleshooting experience with VMware ESX Server and Virtual center server.
• Experience in Design, Implementation, and administering TCP/IP-based services, including DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, prints services, and other infrastructure components as required for large-scale systems implementations and projects.
• Extensively involved in Active Directory Migration from one domain to another domain and working knowledge of Group Policy concepts and principles.
• Experienced in VM to VM and PM to VM migration experience using VMware and other virtual machine software.
• Installing windows roles, features and deploying applications using PowerShell scripting.
• Providing 24x7 on-call supports.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and good team player. Helped the database and application developers on technical issues.
• Experienced in Migrating applications from IIS 6.0 to 8.0 and IIS 7.5 to IIS 8.0
• Good experience with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) tool for managing Virtual server infrastructure.
• Experienced with deployments, Maintenance and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Azure.
• Worked directly with the Azure Product team in tracking and resolving defects in Azure Paas.
• Developed an Azure based high performance compute environment to support the massive computational
• Converted .Net application to Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Project as part of cloud deployment.
• Design and Implement WCF services layer hosted on Windows Azure. This layer is the middle tier between SQL Azure and SharePoint online external content
• Good working experience on PowerShell scripting And MS Web Deploy for creating Websites.
• Experience in working with SQL Server 2005/2008 like writing queries, stored procedures, working with disaster recovery scenarios of SQL using clustering, mirroring, log shipping, replication etc.
• Worked on both software (NLB) and hardware (F5-BigIP) load balancer and configured per environment requirements.
• Experienced In communicating with customers to accommodate customer escalations and provide quick fixes to bring the applications back to business and find the root cause of the issue and apply the permanent fix to avoid future escalations for the same issue.
• Working experience on SCOM 2012 by installing Management packs, SCOM Agents. Monitored daily alerts related to Server availability, Disk Space utilization, Service availability.
• Experienced working as a database administrator for highly available environment. Worked on backups, restores, troubleshooting SQL server connectivity failure issues from middle tier, troubleshooting SQL database locking, and blocking issues.
• Worked extensively on virtualization platform using tools like Hyper V, VMware, and Virtual-PC.
• Experienced in maintaining data center environments like building machines, racking, Imaging, security patching and support.
• Worked on SAN(NetApp) for building cluster environment that provides live migration of virtual machines without downtime during outages.
• Broad experienced in all phases of the software development lifecycle from requirements analysis, architecture, design, development, implementation, test to maintenance and software enhancements

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

.Net Framework: C#. Net, VB.Net, ASP. Net, ADO.Net

Web Servers: IIS 8.0/7.5/7.0/6.0 , Web Sphere, Web Logic.

Scripting Languages: Batch and PowerShell, SQL Scripting

Azure: IAAS, PAAS

Development Tools: Visual Studio, MS FrontPage, MS-Office, Visual Studio InterDev.

Operating Systems: MS Windows 2012R2/2012/2008R2/2003, MS DOS, Red Hat Linux.

Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, SMTP and HTTP

System Center Tools: SCVMM, SCOM, SCSM and etc.

Ticketing/Deployment Tools: UTS, Cugger, SocTicketing, Octopus, MSBuild, TFS, MSRM.

Build Servers: TFS 2012/2010

Debugging Tools: NETMon, Process Mon, Fiddler, HTTP Watch, FireBug, AuthDiag, SSL Diag etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Berlin, CT

System Engineer - (Middleware Azure Admin)

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Installed and configured .NET applications on IIS 6.0/7.5/8.0 Web server in Windows 2003/2008 R2/ 2012 Servers.
• Azure Storage development and design utilizing Blobs, Pages, Queues, Tables and VM's.
• Established connection from Azure to On-premise datacenter using Azure ExpressRoute for Single and Multi-subscription connectivity.
• Leveraged VNET system routes and underlying route table that holds Local VNET Rules, On-premise Rules, Internet Rules and IP Forwarding as design basis.
• Experienced on creating Azure VM, Cloud Services and Storages by using Azure Power-Shell Script.
• Convert multiple onsite Data Centers to Virtual Infrastructure using Microsoft Hyper-V reducing physical server footprint, while improving management, efficiency and performance.
• Implemented Azure Application Insights and OMS for monitoring applications and servers. Solution development for OMS Alerting and Remediation.
• Developed a migration approach to move workloads from On-Premises to Windows Azure or develop new cloud-ready application solutions.
• Experienced in Server Load Balancing and writing power-shell scripts.
• Creating a business continuity plan and achieve High Availability.
• Good understanding on deploying On-Premises Virtualization solutions using Hyper-V/VMWare.
• Conducted Azure Automation using PowerShell, Chef and Ansible to automate processes in the Azure Cloud.
• Good working experience in Azure App Service, Azure Logic apps, Service Bus, Document DB, Azure Cosmos DB and SQL Database.
• Deployed Azure SQL databases and other Azure settings using PowerShell and JSON
• Installed and configured .NET applications on IIS 6.0/7.5/8.0 Web server in Windows 2003/2008 R2/ 2012 Servers.
• Configured Authentication methods in IIS 6.0/7.5/ 8.0 to control access to the applications.
• Maintained scripts to ensure a secure IIS administration.
• Expertise in taking backup and restoring data using various techniques.
• Good experience in working with Octopus version 3.9/4.0 and 4.1
• Good experience in SQL Server 2008 New concepts like Replication, Log shipping, backup compression, Data compression and using new data types and OLAP.
• T-SQL stored procedure development, analysis, and troubleshooting, performance and tuning.
• Good working knowledge in creating indexes, retrieving data using joins, and familiar with different T-SQL queries and sub queries.
• Experienced with deployments with Azure portal. Build a presentation to present the design of hosting architecture on Windows Azure.
• Deployed applications on multiple web servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Experience in query optimization & performance tuning using SQL Profiler, Performance Monitor, Execution Plan and DBCC Commands. Provided infrastructure support for applications on IIS 6.0, 7.0 & 8.5.
• Provide level 3 support to application issues as per defined SLAs.
• Root cause analysis and fixing the Windows / IIS Web Server Related issues.
• Good experience in SQL Server 2008 new concepts like backup compression, Data compression and using new data types.
• Good working experience with PowerShell 3.0 for installing windows features and roles and for automating monthly security patching.

Environment: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows server 2012/R2/2013, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Azure Storage, ASP.NET, .Net Framework 4.0, C#, MVC Architecture and Web services, JSON, HTML, XHTML, Java Script, JQuery, SharePoint, Linux, CSS 3 and SQL Server 2008, TFS, AJAX, SQL Server Management Studio, IOT, Stream analytics, Azure ARM, Data warehouse, Oracle 12c, GIT, Web Apps, Active Directory, NSG, Traffic Manager, SQL Azure.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Software Development Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Provided infrastructure support for applications on IIS 6.0, 7.0 & 8.5.
• Administering Windows 2012/2008 R2/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project. create, manage and configure VMs, cloning, deploying VM's to template and templates to VM's
• Provided support in migration of web sites and applications from IIS 6 & 7 (Windows 2003 & 2008) to IIS7.5 & IIS8.5 (Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012).
• Manage Active Directory accounts, creation, deletion, modification.
• New application builds include creating web sites, deploy application bits and configuring applications.
• Responsible for keeping servers updated with all the Microsoft security and Application updates.
• Deploy application hot fixes & releases on the existing applications.
• Performed Data Center Migration of Physical Servers to Virtual Servers (P2V) Using VMware Converter.
• Created several GPOs for servers and desktops and implemented them across the domain.
• Creating, deploying, renewing and Import & export of the SSL s.
• Created a domain with AD Integrated DNS.
• Experience in Database Security includes creating Logins and Roles for users to access the database. Managed security logins and worked with Windows authentication, SQL server authentication and mixed modes.
• Worked on Windows Cluster Services and SQL Cluster Services.
• Worked extensively on virtualization platform using tools like Hyper V, VMware, and Virtual-PC and experience supporting VMware 5.5 and Citrix 6.5.
• Experienced in VM to VM and PM to VM migration experience using VMware and other virtual machine software.
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Creating and maintaining users, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring Responsible for applying the Windows 2012/2008 Patches and Fixes Installed configured and supported IIS 7.5.
• Worked closely with Database Administrator team and was involved in planning, developing database structures, maintaining security, running backups and recovery of SQL Server databases.
• Coordination with application development teams for issue troubleshooting.
• Creation of new User ID and setting configuration for a new user.
• Creating & managing user accounts, e-mail accounts, managing user rights and permissions Responsible for keeping servers updated with all the Microsoft security and Application updates.
• Worked on web server optimization and performance.
• Provide level 3 support to application issues as per defined SLAs.
• Root cause analysis and fixing the Windows / IIS Web Server Related issues.
• Creating, configuring and troubleshooting scheduled task.
• Migrated WebSphere applications 7.x/6.x to JBoss Environment 7.x/5. x.
• Worked on WebSphere Partner Gateways 6.2, IBM Data Power XI52, WebLogic, Jboss and Web servers like IBM HTTP Server, APACHE Web server, SUNONE, NETSCAPE, IIS on AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows platforms.
• Managing server’s high availability.
• Monitoring the Servers and Website availability and acting accordingly.
• Creating the documents and updating the documents of the projects.
• Responsible to monitor, resolve, enhance middleware applications and their performances by using Wily Introscope MOM version 9.x/8.x on timely basis and used Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Hands on experience in performance tuning including TCP/IP channel service tuning, session affinity, trace analysis, Dynatrace, dynacache, servlet caching, JDBC connection pool tuning, etc.

Environment: IIS 8.0, IIS 7.5, IIS 6.0, .Net 4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SQL server 2008 SharePoint 2007/2010, Linux.

Confidential, SanFrancisco, CA

Application Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured .NET applications on IIS 6.0/7.5/8.0 Web server in Windows 2003/2008 R2/ 2012 Servers.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server v8.5 in a Network Deployment fashion utilizing both vertical and horizontal Clustering across multiple machines on RED HAT LINUX using the Profile creator for creating DM profile and Custom Profiles.

• Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites (Windows 2003/2008) on VMware ESX server.
• Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware VirtualCenter, using Virtual Center, ESX, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks.
• Expertise in configuring SSL on Web Server and WebSphere Environments.
• Responsible for Backup/Disaster Recovery planning, implementation and testing.
• Configured Authentication methods in IIS 6.0/7.5/ 8.0 to control access to the applications.
• Maintained scripts to ensure a secure IIS administration.
• Installed VMware ESX server 5.0/5.1 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Expertise in taking backup and restoring data using various technics.
• Installed & configured Windows 2008 with Active Directory service, involved in the maintenance and upgradation of DNS and DHCP servers.
• .Net application support and integration with IIS.
• Configured multiple websites in IIS and installed Plugins to proxy requests to Application server.
• Checking connections from IIS web servers and SQL servers and troubleshooting.
• Experience in Installation, applying patches, configuring, upgrade and troubleshooting of SQL Server 2008/05 on Windows Servers Clustered and Hyper-V environment.
• Good experience in working with Octopus version 3.9/4.0 and 4.1
• Good experience in SQL Server 2008 New concepts like Replication, Log shipping, backup compression, Data compression and using new data types and OLAP.
• T-SQL stored procedure development, analysis, and troubleshooting, performance and tuning.
• Good working knowledge in creating indexes, retrieving data using joins, and familiar with different T-SQL queries and sub queries.
• Create a Virtual Network on Windows Azure to connect all the servers.
• Experienced with deployments with Azure portal. Build a presentation to present the design of hosting architecture on Windows Azure.
• Deployed applications on multiple web servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Applied patches and upgrades to windows servers in various environments.
• Involved in Data/Table partitioning, indexing, rebuild indexes and Update statistics at regular intervals or after huge data manipulation queries for better performance.
• Experience in query optimization & performance tuning using SQL Profiler, Performance Monitor, Execution Plan and DBCC Commands.
• Managed Public Key Infrastructure (VeriSign MPKI)
• Experience in Database Security includes creating Logins and Roles for users to access the database. Managed security logins and worked with Windows authentication, SQL server authentication and mixed modes.
• Working experience in writing Maintenance Plans for Full, Differential and Transactional Log Backups.
• Experience in setting up Snapshot and Transactional Replication from Production to Report Server.
• Good experience in SQL Server 2008 new concepts like backup compression, Data compression and using new data types.
• Good working experience with PowerShell 3.0 for installing windows features and roles and for automating monthly security patching.

Environment: IIS 7.5, IIS 6.0, .Net 4.0, Win Server 2008 R2, Win Server 2012, Microsoft SQL server 2008 SharePoint 2007/2010.