PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Customer oriented IT Professional with 11+ years of Information Technology in IT infrastructure.
• Microsoft Certified Cloud Architect with proven track record in solution design for cloud technologies in infrastructure. Adept at developing solutions, procedures & Service standard for project transformation and business excellence.
• Proficient in designing effective solution for cloud deployment, transitioning multiple projects & ensuring delivery of service.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Azure Expertise: IaaS, PaaS, VM Migrations, VNet, Traffic Manager, Azure Cloud Services, App Service Environment SQL Azure, Active Directory, Data Factory, Data Lake, HDInsight, S2S VPN ExpressRoute, Power Shell, OMS, Security Center, Service bus, blob storages

MS Servers: Windows, SharePoint2010/2016, Office 365, Windows Cluster Server, SQL Server, IIS Server, File Server, Proxy Server, Exchange Server, ADFS, SCCM server, Terminal Server

Infrastructure: VMware EXSI, VCenter, vSphere, VMotion Citrix Cloud, XenApp, Xendesktop, FAS, Email Security gateway

Networking: DNS, DHCP TCP/IP Configuration, Ethernet, Firewall, VPN, Wireless Networking, Hyper - V, Virtualization, Cloud storage, Clustering, AWS CDN

Other tools / technologies: Power Shell, MS Visio, Azure AD Connect, MS Project, DevOps

Software Engineering Methodologies: Agile / SCRUM

Cost Optimization: Azure Advisor, Reserve instances, Azure guardrails, Configure auto-scaling, Cloud Billing reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cloud Architect

Confidential - DALLAS, TX

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing solutions on Microsoft Azure (compute, network, storage, and security) for cloud strategy initiative.
• Architect and develop custom solutions as part of our app modernization and cloud - native development services leveraging modern web technologies.
• Translate business requirements to technical requirements, solution designing and build business cases.
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in the Azure IaaS services (Virtual network, NSGs, ExpressRoute, Application Gateway, Load balancers, API Gateways, Recovery services vaults, VMs, Storage accounts, Azure Site recovery.
• Designed fault-tolerant, highly available architecture for Azure and hybrid cloud to suffice requirements of business.
• Experience in infrastructure automation; PowerShell and Azure APIs, ARM template, Terraform.
• Developed plans, implement systems and procedures to effectively secure company information, infrastructure, intellectual property, and users against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure.
• Proficiency with DevOps Orchestration/Configuration/Continuous Integration Management technologies.
• Responsible for the technical design, lead elaboration and discovery sessions to inform solution design for cloud migration or application modernization efforts and provide thought leadership.
• Provide best practices around provisioning production and non-production environments on Azure to optimize cost, scalability, and security.
• Migration and operations of Office 365 in both Hybrid and Cloud-only configurations.
• Administration and Management of services the security within the Office 365 platform with an emphasis on business process design of Azure Information Protection (AIP/MIP), Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS), Advanced Threat Protection suite (ATP), Data Loss Protection (DLP), Intune, and Azure Active Directory
• Experience with Splunk, Sumo logic, Okta, Ping Identity, CrowdStrike, Carbon black, Next Gen Firewall
• Provide guidance on Microsoft's core business applications, as well as virtual environments built on Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware and Hyper-V .
• Communicate thoroughness of vision for system architecture topology, component design, networking, and security of proposed solutions through modeling and using tools like Visio.
• Proactively provide guidance on engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices In corporate industry standards and guidelines into design.
• Provide Guidance on Microsoft's core business applications, as well as virtual environments built on Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware and Hyper-V .

Senior Cloud Engineer

Confidential - Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) 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 VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Implemented high availability with Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software-based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).
• Leveraged VNET system routes and underlying route table that holds Local VNet Rules, On-premises Rules, Internet Rules and IP Forwarding as design basis.
• 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 customer's Azure environment.
• Associated routes with VNets via the route table per relationship constraints.
• Managed IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.
• Strong knowledge of virtualization technology (VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix)
• Office 365 Environment design and implementation with Hybrid Azure AD
• Expertise in Active Directory Federation Services (Azure AD Connect, PowerShell, Office Pro Plus 2013/2016, OneDrive for Business)

Senior System Administrator

Confidential, Coppell, TX

Responsibilities:

• Develop highly innovative solutions to resolve complex problems.
• Active Directory admiration including managing domain and multiple forests for 3000 Users.
• Windows Server Administration - 2003, 2008, 2008, 2012 R2.
• Exchange Server Management
• NAS/SAN Administration & Maintaining existing network infrastructure.
• Working with Hyper V and other virtualization technologies.
• SCCM and WSUS administration.
• Strong working knowledge of DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, IIS, File & Print server management.
• Ensuring all installations are in accordance with manufacturer's specifications and best practices.
• Responsible for server maintenance solutions, including anti-virus Providing support for core server functionality as well as DNS, DFS, and sFTP services.
• Supporting Windows server, Terminal servers and Citrix platforms.
• Upgrading system software and hardware components as required to meet business needs, coordinating backups, ensuring upgrades are occurring in accordance with established procedures.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leads the day-to-day operational support for servers, storage & network infrastructures.
• Builds, patches, tests (check for compatibility issues, conducts QA) and deploys complex systems and platforms meeting clients' needs and specifications.
• Planning and implementing changes to infrastructure with the goal of enhancing performance.
• Performs complex storage and server data backup, data migration and disaster recovery operation.
• Performs operating system upgrades for infrastructure, Local Area Network/Wide Area Network (LAN/WAN)
• Configures security Policies and access permissions for groups and individuals.
• Provides specialized enterprise level support and management for Windows Infrastructure, Active Directory, Exchange, all Windows server hardware & VMware.
• Assists software developers with application troubleshooting related to server and/or network infrastructure.

System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administration & Management of Active Directory 2008, Group Policy, Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012, IIS 6 & 7, WSUS 3, Exchange 2010/, SQL 2005/2008, VMware ESXi, MS unified messaging, and Lync 2010/2013
• Windows Server Patch Management, Endpoints Updates, and Anti-virus tools
• Responsible for troubleshooting of system problems and system support
• Maintain and administer Dell Server& Compellent network storage system.
• Performs engineering duties in planning, designing, and executing engineering programs.
• Technical writing, defining test plans, and associated materials.
• Participate actively in shaping support systems - namely issue tracking, escalation, resolution, and reporting.
• Works with Business Applications, vendors, consultants, contractors, and IT personnel