SUMMARY:

• Overall, 20+ years of experience in Microsoft Operating Systems Administration, Technical Management and designing Cloud Architecture.
• Proven capabilities in designing/managing projects, collaborating with project teams, interfacing with clients and deploying technology to build successful & cost - effective solutions inline with customer s needs.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Expert and AWS Professional Cloud Architect.
• Over a decade experience in Banking Financial and Human Capital Management industry. Implemented the cloud migration solutions for public and hybrid cloud models.
• Experience in legacy enterprise application modernization and containerization.
• Experience in Continuous integration/Continuous delivery (CI/CD) implementations.
• Experienced with AWS Cloud platform and its features, which includes EC2, S3, Route 53, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, and Cloud Watch.
• Knowledge on GIT and Jenkins Continuous Integration of Server Installation, Configuration, Design and Administration, and integrating these tools with other systems.
• Extensive Good Knowledge with configuration management tool Called Ansible
• Automated the cloud deployments using Ansible and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.
• Configuring Jenkins job with related plug - ins for Testing, Artifactory, and Continuous Deployment to accomplish the complete CI / CD.
• RPM package management, installing, upgrading and removing.
• Setup/Managing VPC, Subnets make connection between different zones.
• Setup/Managing Databases on Amazon RDS. Monitoring servers through Amazon Cloud Watch, SNS.
• Creating and Managing AMIs/Snapshots and Volumes upgrade/Downgrade AWS Resources CPU, Memory, EBS. Server's, Domain's and Database's migration on Amazon Web Services.
• Configuring topics for email and SMS in AWS simple notification services.
• Setting up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 buckets and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket.
• Created alarms in Cloud watch service for monitoring the server performance.
• Good knowledge with cloud formation like Terraform.
• Installation of package in Linux system using yum, rpm packages.
• Experience in creating containers with Docker. Experience in build in Docker Image such as Docker File
• Having Experience in creating Custom Docker images using Docker file. And Knowledge over Docker Networking.
• Good knowledge on Docker hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration.
• Expertise in building Azure native enterprise applications and migrating applications from on-premises to Azure environments
• Database/Application health and performance monitoring experience using services such as OMS and application insight
• Designed and migrated on premise workload & Networks to Azure Cloud.
• Expertise in managing Azure AD Infra for customer & thereby implementing IAM solution in Azure.
• Detailed understanding of Azure database offerings Relational, NoSQL, Datawarehouse
• Deep familiarity with Azure Security Services Azure Active Directory, RBAC, Key Vault, ADFS s
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Azure Security Engineer Associate
• Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional
• Active member of Atlanta .Net User group and Python Programmers

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Technologies: AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure & Google

Environment: Linux/Windows

Container Technology: Docker

Configuration Management: Ansible

Application Server: Tomcat

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting

Virtualization: VMWARE WORKSTATION, VMWARE ESX Server, Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 & 2016

Mailing Solution: Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016

AWS: EC2, VPC, ELB, ASG, S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, Route53, EKS, ECS, Fargate, ECR, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, MQ, ElastiCache, WAF, Glacier, CloudFront, API Gateway, Media Services

Azure: App Service, Functions, VMs, VMSS, VNet, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Front Door, Traffic Manager, AKS, ACI, ACR, Blob/Queue Storage, ServiceBus, KeyVault, APIM, ADF, CDN, ASE

DevOps: Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Terraform, Docker, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ArgoCD, Istio, GitOps, Azure Pipeline, AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, IaC, CloudFormation, ARM

Architecture: Microservices, Event-driven, Serverless, Cloud-native, SOA, Multi-tiered, Modular Monolithic, Multi-Tenant SaaS, Clean/Onion Architecture, DDD, CQRS, Pub/Sub, SOLID, OAuth

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Senior Migration SME

Responsibilities:

• Created a migration plan for moving on-premises data to the cloud, including identifying security and compliance risks
• Designed an Azure Active Directory integration with on-premises directories using AAD Connect and DirSync
• Developed a DevOps process that included continuous deployment of new features in production environments
• Implemented monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and Azure Automation DPM
• Conducted capacity planning by analyzing current usage trends and forecasting future demand
• Worked on Chatbots implementation in Azure.
• Cloud Migration, System Management, Operations, Design, Testing, Incident Management, Configuration Management, Release Management and worked on Change Management, Problems, RCA etc as a part of Incident Lifecycle.
• DMARC, DKIM and SPF implementation.
• Managing Azure AD Infra for customer & thereby implementing IAM solution in Azure.
• Building approx. 45 Azure native enterprise applications and migrating applications from on-premises to Azure environments
• Collaborate with delivery teams with migrating complex, multi-tier applications, or building new capabilities using Cloud and DevOps technologies.
• Develop solution architecture based on event-driven, microservices, serverless and cloud-native architectures, and implementation plans.

Confidential - Rocky Hill, CT

Senior Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led the design and implementation of Azure solutions for customers, including designing infrastructure in Azure and implementing applications using multiple technologies such as .NET Core, Java, Python, Node.js, Angular JS/JavaScript, Xamarin mobile apps etc.
• Provided technical leadership to team members on best practices related to cloud architecture and application development.
• Developed detailed project plans with timelines and milestones that align with customer business objectives.
• Managed third-party vendors (e.g., network engineers) when applicable to ensure successful delivery of projects within budget and timeline requirements.
• Participated in sales opportunities by providing technical expertise during proposal discussions and presentations to customers or prospects regarding Microsoft Cloud offerings.
• Responsible for migrating approx. 65K users to Skype For Business Online from SFB Server 2015.
• Completed Migration of 50K users from SFB Online to MS Teams Online
• Envisioning complex Auto-Attendants & Call Queues and thereby designing IVR Solution for Client
• Responsible in creating complex Dial Plan Normalization rules and creation of Session Broader Controller approx. 81 sites worldwide.
• Working as Application Lead for MS Teams Enterprise Voice and aliasing with Client for all sorts of Technical Discussion related to MS Teams EV Migration.
• Responsible in migration Private Cloud consist of 320 Hypervisors to Azure Cloud with Lift & Shift and Azure Migration Tool.
• Building Azure native enterprise applications and migrating applications from on-premises to Azure environments.
• Designed and migrated on premise workload & Networks to Azure Cloud.

Confidential - Washington, D.C

Lead Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Automated the cloud deployments using Ansible and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.Configuring Jenkins job with related plug-ins for Testing, Artifactory, and Continuous Deployment to accomplish the complete CI / CD
• RPM package management, installing, upgrading and removing.
• Setup/Managing Databases on Amazon RDS. Monitoring servers through Amazon Cloud Watch, SNS.
• Designing solutions for Cloud Security through Qualys and thereby creating runbooks with Ansible to push the patches.
• Creating containers with Docker & building Docker Image such as Docker File
• Designing & managing Azure AD Infra for customer & thereby implementing IAM solution in Azure.
• Working with Azure Security Services Azure Active Directory, RBAC, Key Vault, ADFS

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Lead Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented a cloud strategy for the company that included identifying workloads that could be migrated to the cloud, designing the architecture, and selecting the appropriate cloud provider.
• Worked with developers to create a continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline using tools such as Jenkins and AWS CodeDeploy.
• Designed and implemented security controls to protect data in the cloud in accordance with industry standards and company policy.
• Designing architecture for End Customers aligning with Microsoft Partners.
• Envisioning & Sizing Microsoft Products for End Customers aligning with the Partners.
• Designing, Sizing, Envisioning Microsoft Cloud Products to End Customers via Presales & Architecture Design

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Lead Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Being trusted advisor for customer application needs and provide required solutions.
• Help customer to do Proof of Concept and Proto-typing to determine right cloud migration.
• Re-engineered existing legacy application system and migrate them to modern solutions.
• Design and review application infrastructure build.
• Raise clarifications with customer to eliminate any ambiguity on the scope of work assigned from the Client; track to closure any open clarifications with customer.
• Work with Customer’s Executives, Product Managers and Development Manager to understand and clarify functional and technical requirements and provide periodic feedback about the project, business needs.
• Follow-up with customer POC to raise concerns regarding changes in timelines.
• Work with architect to understand the architecture of the application; break up the modules considering technical aspects.
• Design and implement Highly Available and Disaster Recovery Solution for Customer.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work and lead a team of Developers in offshore/onshore model.
• Work with Team in planning and requirement gathering and support documentation where applicable.
• Work with Team to raise queries and get query resolution on areas which are unclear, ambiguous with help of Technical Leads.
• Work with Team to the estimation (effort, size etc.) is done at task level in the area of work concerned, measure and report the actual effort against the estimated effort.
• Create the high-level and detailed design document with the support of architects for the assigned scope.
• Understand the interdependencies of the various components in work packages being developed.
• Develop comprehensive unit testing cases and unit test plans; conduct comprehensive unit testing; create unit test logs.
• Work with Team to generate ideas to provide value-add and share the same with the Technical Team.
• Participate in innovation sessions; implement process improvements to reduce manual intervention.
• Assist in transition of knowledge and to support organization with any defects raised post production as required.
• Work with Team to plan and implement application changes through change management process.
• Provide input to the Technical Lead to create the project plan from a technical perspective.
• Join production severality call and provide application expert knowledge to triage and provide resolution to the issue. Engage Technical Team where-ever necessary.
• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions for new joiners in the project team.