SUMMARY

• Expert in the design and delivery of cost - effective, high-performance information technology infrastructures and applications to address complex business problems by assessing current capabilities and designing future technology architectures to achieve strategic technology plans that align with the business’s strategic initiatives.
• Extensive qualifications in all facets of project life cycle, from the initial feasibility analysis and conceptual design through documentation, implementation, user training and enhancement. Strong server, storage and networking background with a proven ability to build and manage creative, highly energized, focused teams.
• Over 7+ years of Cloud experience out of 16 + years of IT infrastructure with Azure and AWS cloud infrastructure includes architecting, planning, implementing and supporting
• Strong experience in designing, planning, architecting and administrating self-healing, high available, resilient, fault tolerant and highly secured systems in the cloud with best practices, well architected framework & principle of least security
• Lead and contribute with presentations and discussions in customer workshops, providing solution and technical expertise
• Engage at Operator C-Level during Opportunity and Pre-Sales Phase to align offerings and proposals with their network evolution strategy of our customers
• Experienced in designing & managing multi-tier architectural applications running across multiple regions.Automating cloud infrastructure deployments using Terraform, Cloud Formation and Ansible.
• Provide Cloud / Azure thought leadership through regular publications and speaking engagements
• Provide AWS/Azure technical expertise including strategic design and architectural mentorship, assessments, POCs, etc., in support of the overall sales lifecycle or consulting engagement process
• Architect the automation of large-scale deployments with modern configuration and deployment management systems on AWS/Azure providing technical leadership and guidance to the IT teams for project level architecture and design work
• Hands on experience on implementing Cloud Solutions using various AWS Services including EC2, VPC, S3, Glacier, EFS, AWS Kinesis, Lambda, Directory Services, Cloud Formation, RDS, Data Pipeline, DynamoDB, Redshift etc.
• Hands on experience in implementing cloud solutions using various Azure services including VMs, VPN, vNet, ExpressRoute, Azure Services, ARM templates and etc
• Strong understanding of features and capabilities of the Amazon Cloud Platform (Security, Firewalls, VPC, EC2, Amazon S3, SQL Server, Load-Balancers)
• Hands-on experience on Architecting and securing the Infrastructure on AWS using IAM, KMS, Cognito, API Gateway, Cloud Trail, Cloud Watch, Config, Trusted Advisor, Security Groups, NACL etc.
• Have experience in creating Infrastructure CI/CD Pipelines, containers and automation tools like Python, Ansible etc.
• Server Consolidation,Infrastructure Assessment, Capacity Planning, Sizing of Server & Storage, POC of Server, Storage Architecture & Creating Reference Architecture using Data Center Virtualization products like Cloud, vSphere, ESX/ESXi, vCenter Server, vCloud Director, VShield Manager, SRM, Zerto etc.
• Handled End-to end design, proposal & execution of P2V and V2V migration Projects - Private and Public Clouds as the target platform

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Working as Enterprise Architect in Cloud strategic team to plan, design and Implement AWS/Azure Infrastructure to migrate 80+ applications as per AWS/Azure architected framework standards
• Audit and provide recommendations for alignment and integration of AWS/Azure solutions with existing architecture. Design solutions for optimized data throughput between on-premises datacenter and cloud environments.
• Design and implement AWS/Azure governance processes and policies for security & administration
• Create and maintain project related documentation (Statement of Work Document, Proof of concept document, technical design document etc.)
• Developing, implementation and documentation of operating policies, methods, processes, measures, and tools.
• Migration Project's reviews and guide team on technical and functional perspective.
• Engaging with different BU’s to understand their evolving business needs and align IT strategy on priorities
• Designed and Implemented (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) on AWS to move on premise Applications and Databases
• Provide expertise and leadership in Solutions Architecture (AWS) in the infrastructure and applications space.
• Maintaining EC2 services like launching instances, attaching volumes, configuring security group, monitoring EC2 instance metrics like CPU Utilization, disk read/write operation and network performance of the EC2 servers
• Launching Virtual Private cloud (VPC), creating subnet in the VPC, launching EC2 instance and RDS database instances, configuring and maintaining the route table, internet gateway within the VPC
• Migrating Amazon EC2 workload from EC2-Classic to EC2-VPC using AMI and CloudEndure.
• Maintaining the monitoring profiles for AWS Services - EC2 Parameters (CPU, Memory, Disk, Response time, etc.).
• Worked on Amazon IAM, EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, RDS, ELB, VPC, Route 53, Config, CloudWatch, Cloud trail, Redshift, Cloud Formation, AWS Cloud Front.
• Implementing EC2 backup strategies by creating EBS snapshots and attaching the volume to EC2 instance.
• Demonstrating the capability to handle Proof of Concept (POC) and Solution demonstrations on AWS.
• Experience in AWS instance Capacity Planning and Costing models.
• Exposure to deploy Architecture considerations including DNS, Load balancing and Elastic Scalability in AWS
• Design Microsoft Azure infrastructure and networking. Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
• Azure Global Foundation Services (GFS) data centres and Azure data center architecture, regional availability and high availability
• Design Azure virtual networks, networking services, DNS, DHCP and IP addressing configuration
• On-premises Active Directory, deploy Active Directory, define static IP reservations, understand ACLs, Network Security Groups and Design Azure Compute
• Design Azure virtual machines (VMs) and VM architecture for IaaS and PaaS; understand availability sets, fault domains and update domains in Azure
• Azure virtual private network (VPN) and ExpressRoute architecture and design
• Azure point-to-site (P2S) and site-to-site (S2S) VPN, understand the architectural differences between Azure VPN, ExpressRoute and Azure services
• Azure load balancing options, including Traffic Manager, Azure Media Services, CDN, Azure Active Directory, Azure Cache, Multi-Factor Authentication and Service Bus
• Lead the design, implementation, and expansion of the organizations enterprise computing and cloud solutions providing high performance and available enterprise and cloud computing services in the following
• Cloud management platforms - Design and implement a robust cloud management implementation including orchestration and catalog capabilities
• Multi-tier architectures: Load Balancers, Caching, Web Servers, Application Servers, Networking and Databases

Confidential

AWS and Azure Lead

Responsibilities:

• Create VPC, subnets, security settings, EC2, IAM, RDS and S3 buckets based upon the requirement by using AWS management console and cloud formation & Terraform stacks
• Responsible for setting up private networks and public networks using IGW, NAT in VPC and creating security groups to associate with the networks. Worked with network team to configure inbound & outbound traffic rules using NACL & security group settings
• Created multiple dashboards in CloudWatch & using custom scripts for monitoring the EC2 performance, CPU Utilization, Memory & disk usage etc.
• Configuring IAM accounts (with MFA) and IAM policies to meet security audit & compliance requirements
• Communicate with different IT teams to collect the existing on-premise application & server requirements. Map the collected data points with the AWS resources in order to plan for the POC
• Migrating servers from on-premises data centers to cloud by using AWS server migration service
• Migrating servers from on-premises data centers to cloud by using AWS database migration service and other conventional methods such as Import/export, backup and restore etc.
• Maintaining a common documentation library of standardized procedures and configurations.
• Creating and configuring Security groups, NACLs and route tables, IGWs to allow and restrict access to internet, services in other subnets and applications in the on premises network.
• Provisioning right size EC2 instances for different types of workloads by running EC2 right sizing tool in regular intervals.
• Creating and managing S3 buckets and their life cycle management rules and bucket policies
• Leveraging AWS cloud services such as ELB, auto-scaling and EC2 to build secure, highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems to handle expected and unexpected load bursts
• Creating Cloud Watch monitoring, alarms and notifications for EC2 CPU Utilization, Memory & disk usage etc.
• Identifying the unutilized infrastructure that can be terminated to reduce cost. Monitoring for utilization across CPU, memory, disk, and network for cost optimization.
• Routing AWS CLI tasks include Starting and stopping EC2, ELBs etc and copying the data between S3 buckets
• Creating Ansible Playbooks to automate the AWS services such as Launching EC2, Provisioning IAM, Configuring VPC, EBS,ELB etc.
• Hands-on experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI-CD) using various CI Tools like Ansible, Jenkins
• Implementing and utilizing best practices using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, principle of least privilege (security), and AWS Cloud Architecture Best Practices
• Creating and updating run books and maintaining a common repository for standardized procedures, configurations and architectural diagrams
• Led migration of Virtual Machines to Azure Virtual Machines for multiple global business units
• Prepared capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases
• Created recommendations on how to duplicate a subset of on-premise machines to the Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) offering which will be used for disaster recovery
• 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.
• Associated routes with VNets via the route table per relationship constraints.
• Managed IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.

Confidential

Lead AWS Architect

Responsibilities:

• As an Infrastructure AWS Engineer, report to Director of IT and lead a team of 3 cloud engineers
• Manage Level1, Level2 and Level3 support team include with ongoing technical issues
• Configured disaster recovery on AWS between two regions using by Autoscaling, replicating data across regions
• Designed and configured an entirely new AWS infrastructure included with QA and production (Oregon and North Virginia Locations, more than 200 servers included with Linux, Windows Server 2016, and MS SQL Server)
• Deployed and configured Amazon RDS, Aurora, Dynamo DB, Redshift and Kinesis database for developers and business
• Configured AWS services including VPC, EC2 instances, Route53, IAM roles, Security groups, Load Balancers, AWS Lifecycle Manager, Cloud Watch, AMI, Security Groups, Elastic IP’s, Autoscaling Groups, CloudFormation, CloudTrail
• Configured secure S3 bucket for internal and external users and clients
• Hands on experience with AWS CLI, Python and PowerShell scripting for configure automations
• Installed and configured EBS using by Python Script
• Built and configured Lambda Functions using by Python programming
• Installed and configured GITHUB enterprise server for Developer team (repository purpose)
• Installed and configured more than 100 Amazon Workspaces
• Configured and developed Classic Load balancer and network load balancer for infrastructures
• Implement Code commit, code Pipeline and Code Deploy tools for developer team
• Configured and developed Autoscaling for Firewalls and Productions servers and other important services
• Configured and designed AD environment on AWS include with all AD services, OUs and GPMC
• Manage and Maintain server 2016 server include with servers updated, Group Policy, DNS
• Installed, configured and maintained VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5 and vCenter
• Managed and Maintained LUN volumes for VMWARE environment
• Configured HA, FT, DR, vMotion
• Configured SOPHOS UTM 9 Load balancers environments for Internal and External Network traffic and security
• Configured SSL VPN for remote and in-house users to connect with AWS environment
• Configured IPSEC VPN between NJII to Hospitals, Laboratory and other Healthcare business
• Configured RED, Endpoint protections, Web Filters, NAT and other services on SOPHOS XG Firewall
• Configured SumoLogic network and server monitoring tools for total environment stability
• Designed and configured SOPHOS Endpoint Antivirus for all current users and servers
• Configured daily alert systems for each server in the AWS infrastructure using CloudWatch
• Implemented AWS SNS service for daily Notifications for all working services (SNAPSHOTS)
• Configured automatic Snapshots services for all running EC2(more than 200 EC2)
• Configured real time backups for each server using snapshots and CloudWatch services
• Manage and maintain each project documents with screenshots for training purpose and reference purpose
• Manage and maintained daily report tools from AWS
• Work with all third-party vendors for service and supports
• Work with different vendors for software and hardware purchasing
• Manage and maintained costing environment of AWS and other technologies
• Maintained and ensured HIPAA and HITRUST compliance of all infrastructure instances
• Manage and maintained AWS monthly cost reports include with all running and STOP services
• Implemented and configured Chef services (Automations Service) for QA Environment
• Automated operational processes using extensive Python, AWS Command Line and PowerShell Scripts
• Configured Cloud Trail for QA and Production Environment where we can monitor each kind of logs
• Organized weekly secure tracking meeting with Directors and other teams
• Managing and Maintaining remote datacenter for inhouse and client’s projects

Confidential

Lead Infrastructure Engineer & IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Principal strategist and visionary for processes within the IT infrastructure department.
• Implement systems and network transformation initiatives to modernize and transform the infrastructure focusing on security, scalability and performance, increasing operational efficiencies, and decreasing downtime and costs.
• Oversee and optimize business applications, product deployments, and critical business infrastructure including servers, networking, security, storage and VoIP.
• Collaborated with business and IT leaders and ensure the Service Level Agreements were met and pushed to exceed expectations for external customers.
• Provided pre-and post-sale support and assisted in bringing major EMR clients on board to utilize company data product solutions
• Collaborate with the client stakeholders, analyze their IT requirements and ensure the IT infrastructure is allocated to meet the current and future needs.
• Tasked with leading ELLKAY’s corporate office IT infrastructure migration to its new 80,000 square foot headquarters.
• Responsible for directing and managing AD, DHCP, DNS, DFS, Terminal Services, LAN, WAN, VPN, Hyper-V, VMWare, Cisco Meraki, SonicWALL and D-Link switches.
• Managed and maintained 3 co-location data centers, oversaw the activities of teams comprised of up to 200 employees and an IT operational budget of $3 million.
• Collaborated heavily with CIO, CTO, CFO, development leads, and project leads for successful and smooth operations of the IT infrastructure department.
• Installed and configured VMware 5.5 for production (include with AD, ADS and SQL)
• Managed and maintained with team more than 200 EMR servers
• Published web-based packages as requested by development teams
• Installed and configured Azure AD for 400 users
• Synchronized AD users in an Office365 environment using by Azure Directory Sync services
• Manage and maintained a complex Office365 environment
• Configured and installed Cisco Meraki switches for NJ locations (include with VLAN), MS250 and MS220
• Installed and configured AWS & VMware servers for a POC
• Restructured & consolidated data center operations by implementing innovative data storage processes, resulting in a 50% decrease in the operating cost.
• Configured and built over 150 custom servers meeting non-traditional workflow requirements.
• Implemented chipper storage for cold data and flash storage for active hot data resulting in performance efficiency and decreasing the costs of data storage.
• Spearheaded a technology project and migrated multiple data centers located across different regions to a privately hosted cloud services, meeting the aggressive timeline, quality and SLAs
• Managed and maintained the IT infrastructure in compliance with the industry standards and HIPAA and High Trust regulations.
• Implemented, managed, and maintained Microsoft Hyper-V clusters and achieved 99.99% uptime.
• Built two private data centers with 6 to 20 racks of computing power, 3 ISP providers, terminating at different locations and one wireless ISP and ensured 100% uptime.
• Achieved 100% business continuity through battery backup and gas generators even during natural disasters such as superstorm sandy.