EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Experienced TOGAF Certified, Cloud and DevOps Architect. With over 16 years’ experience in Architecting, Designing and Implementing AWS, Azure, DevOps, Cloud Security in Financial Services industry (including investment banking, capital markets, hedge funds), Insurance and Government.
• Working closely with C - Level Management to strategies and prioritize future projects and initiatives within regulatory and environmental constraints.
• Plan and drive Cloud Migration: TCO including projections and budgets, application assessment, security concerns and resolution, network concerns and resolution, review Checklists with apps owners, Ops, Dev, Test, DB teams, identify appropriate migration paths.
• Support the continued rapid growth of the organization by establishing and leading systems integration, procurement, vendor analysis/selection and gap analysis efforts within our global IT organization.
• Engineered and delivered Cloud Management Platforms that ensure flexible, cost effective, consistent delivery of cloud solutions to the enterprise and provide robust technical and financial management reporting across all hosting platforms.
• Extensive experience in building AWS and Azure Cloud assessment & transformation frameworks, Datacenter migrations, Cloud-first application design, development and deployment implemented using scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant and distributed architecture.
• Architected and Implemented CI/CD pipeline On-Prem, AWS, Azure using Jenkins, Bitbucket/Git, Terraform, Chef, Ansible.
• Working in collaboration with InfoSec for implementation of Secure Cloud Solutions. Designing Strategy and Implementing Custom Cloud Roles, Policies and Service Control.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AWS: EC2, ELB, S3, VPC, Route53, RDS, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM, ECS, Data Pipeline, AWS Dynamo DB, AWS Redshift, DataLake, EMR, Cloud Automation with Cloud Formation and Terraform. AWS CLI, PowerShell. AWS Opswork, Access Management, Security and Monitoring. Serverless and Microservices Architecture

DevOps: Opswork, Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Beanstalk, Jenkins, Chocolatey, Chef Automation.

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, ECR, EKS, ACS, ACR

Big Data Ecosystem: EMR, HDInsight, Kinesis, Data Firehose

Azure technologies: ARM template, VNet’s - S2S, P2S, VM, Security Groups, Fabric cluster, Azure cloud services, Azure App Service, Notification Hub, Event Hub, IOT hub, Functions, Web Jobs, Event hubs, Azure Active Directory, Visual studio team service, Scheduler, Service Bus, Azure Active Directory, Azure SQL Database, Redis Cache, Azure cloud storage including queues, tables, blobs, files, disks, Azure Search, Azure HDFS, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, HDInsight’s.

SharePoint: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0, InfoPath Forms, Business Connectivity Services/Business Data Catalog (BDC), Excel Services

Project Server: Microsoft Project Server 2007,2010, 2013, 2016, Project online, Resource Management, Portfolio, BI Dashboards, SQL Cube, Reports

Programing: Python, .Net, JSON, Rest, SQL, Linux Scripting, PowerShell

KEY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead implementation of AWS, Azure hybrid cloud infrastructure and migration of Data Science applications.
• Analyzed requirements, conceptualized solution, and created solution architecture and design artifacts assessing performance, scalability and extensibility based on business needs.
• Implemented Azure architecture, network topology involving vNets, multiple VMs, multiple compute/memory heavy servers, Data Lake , Data Bricks design/storage datasets in multiple regions.
• Implemented and Architected along with AWS Architects for setting AWS Organizations, Multiple Core Accounts and LOB . Wrote CFT’s for implementing Networking, Logging, Security, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda, AWS Config in all accounts and interconnecting. Deployed Core code as Stack sets in Master Accounts.
• Supported Core Networking / Operations team in Architecting and Implementing Fortinet as a Secure Networking layer. Transit VPC implementation to connect multiple VPC’s. VPN Connectivity with Perimeter network.
• Implemented Custom IAM Roles with SAML 2.0 Federation via ADFS with AD, IAM Service Linked roles, Policies based on Organizational needs. Integration with CyberArk for Break glass production roles. Integration of Infoblox with Route 53 for Secure DNS.
• Architected and Developed AMI Pipeline using AWS using CIS Hardened Images. Deployment of Images in AWS and Azure. Used Code Pipeline, Code Deploy, Code build, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Packer for same.
• Solutioning DevOps Pipeline for IAC deployment using Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Terraform.
• Accomplished responsibilities of code propagation, team management, builds, team building, vendor relationship management, business analysis, code reviews, facilitated daily scrum meetings worked diligently with business, change/release management, setting client expectations, build vs buy, POCs, RFPs.

Confidential, NY

Sr. Cloud Architect - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Architecting and delivery of a scalable, cost effective and performant multi-cloud and elastic scaling environment for the enterprise in Azure & AWS. Define and build solution collateral around Infrastructure and Cloud Strategy.
• Define and execute a migration roadmap for all applications managed by Enterprise IT for Azure and AWS using Migration Services and Database Migration Services.
• Defined and engineered DevOps Pipeline for CI/CD using Jenkins, Chef, Chef Automate, Cookbooks, Test Kitchen, Inspec.
• Provided Cloud IAAS solutions that integrate with a common service management platform and deliver robust CI / CD Pipeline automation using Chef, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, ARM Template, DSC, Cloud Formation to support Cloud and Containerization Automation with CI Pipeline.
• Engineered Docker Registry and Docker Container Services on Cloud.
• Integrated Citrix Cloud with Azure Cloud for XenDesktop and XenApplication essential.
• Implemented AWS services (EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Cloud formation, Auto scaling)
• Implemented setting up security, identity access management (IAM) for AWS account and Monitoring AWS resources, set a notification alarm in case of trouble through Cloud Watch. Designing and Automated Deployment of AWS Solutions using AWS Compute, Networking and Storage via CFT and Terraform.
• Experienced in Docker and Amazon Cloud Architecture - Docker file, troubleshoot containers, run build and deploy automation (Docker (Swarm), Ansible, Jenkins)

Confidential, NY

Sr. Cloud Architect - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Solution Design (IaaS, PaaS, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud), Architect & Delivery at various levels. Deployed AWS instances for a hybrid-based authorization and encryption system.
• Configured the Migration Mechanism for VM to IAAS & Pass and Configured Load Balancer for PaaS Cloud Service. Configured AWS Key Management Services for storing encryption key. Configured CloudTrail and CloudWatch for Monitoring and Auditing. Setup and Configures the Security for AWS Infrastructures - Authentication, Authorization and Administration
• Created an automated PowerShell/BI solution to analyze and present their AWS billing information in a very user and business friendly way.
• Used Chef to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Database, Users, Mount Points, and Packages. Developed Chef Recipes to configure, deploy and maintain software components of the existing infrastructure.
• Manage deployment and connectivity of solutions on cloud platforms AWS, and open stack
• Engineering migration of Netezza DW / Amazon Redshift with enabling cloud BI capabilities.
• Migration of on prem-resources using AWS Methodology of Six R using different AwS Services.
• Manage on premise DC infrastructure comprising Compute, Storage and Networking solutions
• Multiple Subscriptions, Multiple Subnets. Deploying CloudFormation and Terraform for Autoscaling in AWS .
• Reviewed, analyzed, and created prototype C# code to verify functionality of the following Azure services as proof of concepts (POCs) for:
• Compute: Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Batch, RemoteApp
• Data & Storage: SQL Database, DocumentDB, Redis Cache, Storage (Blobs, Tables, Queues, Files and Disks)
• Networking: Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, Load Balancer, DNS, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway
• Identity & Access Management: Azure Active Directory, Azure Identity, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Multiple Azure cloud services, Azure web apps, API apps, Azure HDFS, Azure Data Factory, Data are stored in azure cloud storage including Azure SQL, Azure table, Azure blobs, Queues.
• The platform uses Azure Service Bus Queue to flatten the traffic peak and connect different backend applications. Redis Cache. To maintenance, the platform use scheduler. To notify user, it uses Azure notification hubs. To migrate data from old on premise to Azure, it uses Azure Data Factory.
• Installed and configured HDInsights with Hadoop ecosystem components like MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, HBase, ZooKeeper, fuse and Oozie for 10 node Hadoop cluster for a monthly data in-flow of approx. 2 TB
• Planned migration for SharePoint 2010/2013 and Project Server 2010 to Project Server 2013, including governance, system architecture, information architecture, and migration strategy. Implementation of SharePoint Online on Office 365 and migrated business sites.
• Hybrid Farm setup for Project Server 2016 and SharePoint 2016 with Demo migration. Architected and created entire farm on MS Azure with AD sync using MinRoles. Migrated Sites from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016 in Azure by creating VNET, VM, Storage and SQL Azure. Implementation of various services Enterprise Search, Managed Metadata, User Profiles, Mysites, LDAP Configuration.
• Implemented Business Intelligence Reports, SQL Reporting Tools, SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflows, and Custom Web parts, Portfolio Analysis Tools and Reports and Enterprise Reporting Dashboards.
• Project server, EPM system architect, responsible for designing and implementing a Project server / SharePoint based project management system.
• Performed requirements analysis by working with representatives of various stakeholder groups.
• Worked as Integration Architect for integration between different tools Service Now, HP ALM, PMF .

Confidential, NY

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided subject matter expertise and delivering projects working directly with clients and third party teams, by means of solution architecting like migration from Physical Servers to hybrid virtualized environments using VMware including a migration to AWS and reinstalling on AWS’s AMIs, using VPCs on windows. Outlined best practices and tools that prevent unauthorized access using AWS’s Trail. Responsible for the Architecture and Development for all Hybrid Cloud Implementation
• Launched Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications. Created snapshots and amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances. Performed application server builds in EC2 environment and monitoring them using cloud watch.
• Configured DNS failover using different policies (Weighted, round robin, latency) to failover traffic from one AZ/region to another
• Setup Amazon Web Services (AWS) services in CfnCluster, CloudFormation, Cloud Watch, EC2, EBS etc.
• Designed and Configured Azure infrastructure management & PaaS - Azure AD, Licenses, Office365, DR on cloud using Azure Recovery Vault, Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage.
• Accessed ARM (Azure Resource Manager) based SoC hardware design for software design and test.

Confidential, NJ

SharePoint Architect

Responsibilities:

• Description: Leading and managing project for Migration of 500 team sites, Intranet Portal and Document center from Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2013