SUMMARY

• IT professional with 6+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure management and Implementation.
• Expertise in System and Server administration of Windows Environments.
• Experience in managing Microsoft Windows server infrastructure and data - center operations by effectively planning, installing, configuring and optimize the IT infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance
• Experience in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling.
• Experience in managing Microsoft Windows server infrastructure and data-center operations by effectively planning, installing, configuring and optimize the IT infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance.
• Expertise in setting up servers from scratch on clustered environment and load balancing.
• Planning and implementing Disaster Recovery solutions, capacity planning, data archiving, backup/recovery strategies, Performance Analysis and optimization.
• Expertise in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, AzureStorage, Azure AD Licenses, Office365).
• Experience in managing Azure Storage Accounts.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Experience on installing and configuring SSL certificates in web servers.
• Working knowledge on Azure Fabric, Micro services, IoT & Docker containers in Azure.
• Expertise in setting up cluster environment for load balancing and high availability of Windows servers.
• Experience in Creating ARM templates for Azure Platform.
• Ability to create scripts using Azure PowerShell during for automation and build process.
• Good working experience in Azure Logic apps, Service Bus, Document DB and SQL Database.
• Experience in working with Windows Server R2 Active Directory and Administration.
• Experience in automating day-to-day activities by using Windows PowerShell.
• Worked on Azure App Insights, Alerts and Log Analytics for Monitoring as part of OMS.
• Good Understanding on protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, TCP/IP, FTP, SMTP, Telnet, HTTP, ARP, ICA.
• Excellent ability to describe systems, design flow charts, & budgets for costing and reporting.
• Migration of existing application workloads to a Cloud platform that scale across multiple data centers.
• PCI-DSS compliance expert with multiple deploys on azure Linux and windows operating systems.
• Strong persuasive leadership qualities and ability to coordinate resources and initiatives quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure (IaaS& PaaS)
• Operating Systems: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2 Servers, Windows Server, Windows 10/ 8/7/Vista/XP, Linux, & Mac OS.
• Directory Services: Active Directory Administration.
• Databases: MySQL, SQL server.
• Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, UDP, SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, and RIP, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN, LANRDBMS MySQL, SQL Server.
• Clustering Technologies: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2 Clustering & High Availability
• Virtualization: Microsoft Hyper - V, Citrix, VDI, VMware.
• Languages: C, C++, C#, SQL, PowerShell.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Azure Engineer

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Azure IaaS, Provisioning VM's, Virtual Hard disks, Virtual Networks, Reserved VIP, Deploying Web Apps and Creating Web - Jobs
• Sync on premises Active Directory users to office 365 with ADCONNECT and ADFS to make easy to user moving
• Developed a migration approach to move workloads from On-Premises to Windows Azure or develop new cloud-ready application solutions.
• Responsible for Servers Health Check and performance monitoring for all the Window servers.
• Experienced in configuring Cloud platform such as Virtual Networks Multi-site, Cross-site, VMs, Azure AD, Load Balancers, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, etc.
• Executing technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Windows Azure
• 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.
• Capable of deploying infrastructure from PowerShell.
• Design roles and groups using Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Created VPN Point to site and maintaining azure virtual network.
• Created and manage the storage accounts and attached the disks when required.
• Creating Hosted Services and Storage Services as per Client Request
• Solving issues related to RDP of Azure infrastructure
• Solving issues related to start/stop VM from the management portal
• Solving issues related to Virtual disk management, Storage Account & Import/Export Service.

Environment: Windows Azure OS, Windows Server 2012R2, Nano OS, VMWare, SCCM, Power-shell ISE.

Azure Engineer

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the client needs and design the implementation to the product.
• Planning and design the solution to implement, using Azure Files Share.
• Create the Virtual Machine cluster and load balance for VM's using PowerShell in SQL & Windows Environment.
• Worked on creating Custom Azure Templates for quick deployments and advanced PowerShell scripting.
• Configuring the IIS service to deploy the web applications on balanced environment.
• Create and configuring a balanced environment for FTP server. I did use PowerShell for this activity.
• Design the data model and creation the schema on SQL Azure.
• Development web service using Windows Communication Foundation and to receive and process XML files and deploy on Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure.
• Design and implement asynchronous processes for delivery XML files (invoices) to Tax Authority. These processes were connected using Azure Queues to communicates each other.
• Collaborate to development of main Web Application to provides invoicing emission servicesResponsible of web application deployments over cloud services (web and worker roles) on Azure, using VS and PowerShell.
• Working with team to learn and apply the development best practices

Environment: s: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows server 2012/R2/2013, SQL server, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows PowerShell.

Azure Engineer

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Solutions Consultant responsible for architecture decisions and tasks for ongoing migration efforts.
• Design, install, administer, and optimize hybrid cloud components to ensure business continuity (i.e. Azure AD, ADFS, SSO & VPN Gateways.).
• Identifying opportunities to improve infrastructure that effectively and efficiently utilizes the Microsoft Azure Windows server 2008/2012/R2, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows PowerShell, Cloud infrastructure.
• Architect, develop, plan and migrate servers, relational databases (SQL) and websites to Microsoft azure cloud.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Script, debug and automate PowerShell scripts to reduce manual administration tasks and cloud deployments.
• Configure, Implement, Secure and support Virtual Network and best security practices for single and multi - regional data centers.
• Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models

Environment: s: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows server 2012/R2/2013, SQL server, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Azure Storage.