SUMMARY:

Seeking a Sr Cloud Architect/Manager position where I get to Design, Build and Deliver IT Solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Azure PAAS offerings like App Services, Sql Databases, Cosmos DB, Service Bus etc.

Azure Serverless offerings like Function Apps, Logic Apps.

Azure Networking Infrastructure offerings like VNets, Virtual Network Gateways, VPN, Express Route etc.

Azure Management & Governance offerings like Azure Management Groups, Policies, Security Center, Cost Management etc.

DevOps/CI - CD using Azure DevOps, Terraform, ARM Templates, PowerShell, Azure CLI

Docker Containers and Container Orchestration.

.Net Core 2.0, 1 and .Net Framework 4.6, .Net 4.0, .Net 3.5, .Net 2.0 and .Net 1.1 using C#.

Web Applications -Angular, ReactJS, ASP.Net MVC/Web Forms, ASP.Net Web API and WCF.

Databases - RDBMS -Azure SQL Databases, SQL Server. NoSQL - MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB.

SCRUM, XP.

EMPLOYMENT:

Cloud Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I help organizations move to the Cloud by leading/managing the Design & Implementation of their Cloud Infrastructure, Setting up of Cloud Governance, Monitoring and Security, Migration of Applications to the Cloud and Setting up DevOps practice.
• Designing and Implementing Cloud Landing Zone for Migration to Azure.
• Creation of Security Controls for Azure Services.
• Audit of Azure Environment to check for compliance with Security Controls.
• Remediation Strategy.
• Modify ARM Templates & PS scripts used in DevOps CI/CD to bake in the Security Controls for future Azure Services Deployments.
• Migration of Azure Infrastructure of a Confidential -acquired company to Confidential ’s Azure Environment.
• Analysis of the existing Azure Infrastructure.
• Architectural Changes.
• Migration Strategy.
• Setting up Azure Governance & Management Policies.
• Setting up Azure Security Sentinel for SIEM.
• Designing & building Cloud networking infrastructure using Azure VNet/Subnets along with other networking services such as Network Gateways, Network Security Groups, Firewalls, VPN, Application Gateway.
• Setting up Azure Governance & Management Policies.
• Training Entertainment One staff on Azure.
• Designing & Building VNet/Subnets along with other networking services such as Network Gateways, Network Security Groups, Firewalls, VPN, Express Route, Application Gateway.
• Database Migration Strategy and Implementation from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database.
• Moving Applications on to Azure App Service, Azure App Service Environment and API Management.
• CI/CD of Web Apps using Azure Pipelines, ARM Templates and PowerShell Scripts.
• Infrastructure Build Automation using Azure Release Pipelines, ARM Templates and PowerShell Scripts.
• Setting up Azure Governance & Management Policies.
• Setting up Logging & Monitoring, Azure Cost Management & Azure Security Center.
• Building CI/CD release pipelines of a Cloud (Azure)-based data integration and transformation solutions.
• Designing the data integration & transformation solution using Azure Serverless and Azure PAAS offerings - Azure Functions, Logic Apps and Azure Data Factory.
• Building a tool to automate the migration of on-premises SQL Server DBs to Azure SQL Database. This will be used by AbelSoft to migrate their 2500 customers to the Cloud to transition them from their current on-premises application to their modern Azure/Cloud hosted SaaS application.
• Migrating the initial customers and then training AbelSoft staff to take over.
• Technical Lead, Assured Delivery - Cheque Management Application.
• Technical lead for the team consisting of 4 developers, 2 QA and 1 BA.
• The team was responsible for the application design and development of a modern Web App (built using Angular 5) along with a backend Web API/ Microservices (built using .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Web API).
• Introduced agile principles, CI/CD, TDD, VSTS, Git-based Repository, and Pull Requests to the team, along with the executed transition of the team to modern development practices.
• Moved some of Roger Digital Media’s online websites to the Azure Cloud by containerizing them using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Setup a CI/CD pipeline for the creation and deployment of the containers.
• Containerized their business applications using Docker.
• Trained their staff on how to containerize applications, as well as how to automate the process of creating and deploying a Docker Container using CI/CD.
• Designing and building an intermediary hybrid solution for AbelSoft’s clients to enable them to use AbelSoft’s new Azure/Cloud-based SaaS application while their data was still hosted on the on-premise SQL Servers.
• The solution involved using Azure WCF Relay services and on-premise WCF services to set up secure communication between the Azure/Cloud SaaS application and on-premise SQL Server.
• Migrated Finastra’s on-premises servers and applications to the Azure Cloud using Infrastructure as a Code, ARM templates, PowerShell scripts, and VSTS Build and Release Definitions.
• Trained Finastra’s IT/DevOps team on Azure IaaS offerings, ARM templates, and VSTS

Senior Consultant (.Net and Azure Development)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I do Software Architecture and/or Technical Lead work for Software Projects.
• The product involves building various Integration Components Adapters, implemented using Azure Cloud Service Worker Roles and Azure Service Bus, Data Transformation Components built using Azure API Apps / Azure Logic Apps, Administration Portal built using Web Apps and ASP.Net MVC. Azure Active Directory is used for Authentication/Authorization /Security. Azure SQL and Azure Tables are used for data storage. Additionally, Azure Redis Cache and Azure Key Vault were used for Performance and Security.

Software Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I worked as a Software Architect on a SOA Integration Project for our client Confidential, a web based system dbMotion and an external Confidential ’s EMPI web service.
• Th project integrated their Client Based Legacy systems with the dbMotion System and Confidential ’s EMPI system by building a SSO Service for providing SAML tokens for authentication from the Thick Clients to the dbMotion System as well as a Proxy Services between the dbMotion System and Confidential ’s EMPI Service.
• The project was done in an Agile environment using SCRUM, Sprints, Continuous Integration and TDD.