TECHNICAL SKILLS

• ServiceNow, Amazon, Microsoft (Azure & Office365), Salesforce.com, Workday, VMWare
• AWS CLI, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Services (S3), Route 53, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Elastic IPs, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), RDS and Cloud Watch, Docker, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell.
• Cloud: PaaS, IaaS, SaaS
• WordPress, Python, PHP, HTLM (Silverlight, Adobe Flex/Air) Azure
• Knowledge of Agile, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• HIPAA, COBIT, NIST, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOX, OWASP
• SAML, 0Auth 2.0, OpenID etc
• Azure Microservices, Automation and orchestration with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins etc.
• IaC using ARM template, PowerShell and Terraform

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Azure Cloud Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architect and Design Azure Infrastructure
• Perform scripted infrastructure deployments using PowerShell
• Integrate 3 rd part enterprise application with Azure Active Directory (SSO)
• Deploying and configuring Azure Firewalls and Network Security Groups
• Deploy Automations Accounts
• Configure Azure Log Analytics, OMS workspaces and Automatic agent deployment
• Enable and configure Azure Change Tracking
• Perform pre - migration planning and assessment on on-premise workload
• Perform on-premise infrastructure migration to Azure cloud
• Perform post-migration configurations and clean-up and troubleshooting
• Configured Azure load balancer (Internal and External) and Azure Traffic Manager
• Configuring and troubleshoot all networking connectivity issues in Azure
• Configure and perform Azure VM backups and restore operations
• Configure monitoring for Azure virtual machines
• Configure and deploy Azure Information Protection (AIP)
• Perform complete end-to-end Intune MDM deployment
• Azure DSC after deployment configurations

Cloud Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implementing Azure Networking including Point-to-Site VPN connections
• Help in Pre-server migration, migration and post-migration activities from on-premise to Azure
• Perform Migrations from on-premise data center to Azure
• Deploy and manage
• Provide support for Microsoft Azure Cloud platform
• Manage and maintain Azure Cloud environment
• Work with developers on applications design and integration with Azure cloud
• Troubleshoot and resolve all on-premise and Azure active directory synchronization issues (Azure AD Connect)
• Assisted in Azure cloud automation projects
• Assisted in projects involving Continuous integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Planned, Configured and managed Azure backups
• Configuring Azure Application proxies and associated conditional access
• Deployed Azure Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) using ARM template, PowerShell and Terraform
• Configured Azure load balancer (Internal and External) and Azure Traffic Manager
• Experience with Docker to containerize applications and common orchestration platforms
• Configuring virtual machine networking in Azure
• Scaling Azure Virtual Machines, High availability and Resiliency
• Designing and Implementing Azure VM Storage
• Configure monitoring for Azure virtual machines
• Configured and managed Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• Integrating Azure AD with Existing On-Premise Directories
• Configuring Access and Federation
• Experience administering and configuring Linux-based systems, including shell scripting
• Manage and support Identity and Access Management on Azure Platform
• Integrating Third-party App with Azure Active Directory and configuring Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Manage, maintain and provide access and permissions to users, applications and other network resources in the Azure environment
• Manage and maintain the Microsoft Multi-Factor authentication (MFA) server
• Integrate 3 rd part MFA solutions with Azure AD (DUO).
• Troubleshoot and resolved ADFS and SSO related issues with Microsoft Azure cloud
• Implement and integrate Active Directory Auditing software with Corporate domain to perform activity logging, auditing and reporting to senior management and InfoSec team.
• Implement active directory complete backup and recovery solutions
• Develop detailed Cloud-based systems implementation and integration technical documentations
• Collaborate with offshore teams and third-party solutions providers to implement various Azure infrastructure solutions
• Supported Microsoft Office 365 and Azure environment
• Supported Microsoft MDM solution - Intune
• Created standard Azure Cloud SOPs

Cloud Architect Consultant

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge on creating IaaS cloud solutions in Azure Platform
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication with the help of Endpoints and VM. Possesses strong ability to fully design, configure, and troubleshoot multi-layer networks in various environments.
• Worked on Cloud Administration tasks such as creating Affinity Group, Storage Accounts, Cloud Services, VPN, DNS server and VPN connectivity.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud networking topologies and diagnostics
• Experience with load balancing, high availability, disaster recovery, and storage architectures
• Extended working knowledge in cloud service, IaaS, worker role, queue, and azureblob and table storages. Configured NSGs for two-tier and three-tier applications. Experience in integrating on premises servers to Azure.
• Troubleshoot and resolve all issues related to user’ mobile device MFA and VPN access for users working remotely.
• Configured Vnets and subnets as per the project requirement. Configure Azure blob storage and Azure file servers. Configured private and public facing Azure load balancers etc.
• Design and Implement Database Schema, import data and build stored procedures on SQL Azure.
• Extensive experience implementing software throughout the SDLC process, deep hands-on experience of networking, migration and implementation in AZURE. Configuring windows firewall for databases engine access, network administration load balancing, IDS/IPS, IPSEC and VPN.
• Worked on Microsoft Hyper-V environment
• Support various hybrid cloud projects including Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Installing windows roles, features and deploying applications using Power Shell scripting.
• Working experience in setting up cluster environment for load balancing and high availability of Windows servers.
• 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. This analysis included the specifics to synchronize on premise data with SQL Server and SharePoint instances hosted in VMs.
• Performed client acceptance and prototyping using Azure Compute and SQL Azure instances.
• Configured SQL Server 2016 and 2012R2 on to Azure VMs
• Knowledge on Replicate VMware VMs to Azure with Site Recovery.
• Worked with team for Migrating virtual environments VMware to Azure Cloud Scripting and automation to move workloads and improve operations and support.
• Installed and configured IIS web server on Microsoft Windows 2012/2012R2 /2016 server accordingly.
• Perform hands-on activities involved in creating cloud infrastructure components.
• Performed design, deployment, configuration, and maintenance of scalable Cloud infrastructure; with an intense focus on Quality and Security.
• Configured VMs availability sets using Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic
• Worked extensively on configuring, installing and migrating VM Servers between different clusters.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Communicated and implemented established physical, data and computer security policies and procedures
• Assisted in the establishment and documentation of new security policies and practices
• Provided primarily remote (some onsite) support services to existing accounts by analyzing work orders; investigating complaint service tickets; conducting tests; resolving problems.
• Works with on-boarding of new employee
• Worked closely with the entire security team globally to create, modify and tunes the SIEM rules to adjust the specifications of alerts, events and incidents management
• Administrate Microsoft Office 365 and Azure environment
• Managed distribution groups and users’ permission in Microsoft Exchange Administration center, FieldPoint and other company owned applications
• Assigned and maintained user and application access Microsoft SQL 2012/2014 databases
• Creating and Deploying and troubleshoot Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
• Install, configure and maintain System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012 R2
• Managed and maintained inter-forest transitive and non-transitive trust and performed Active Directory domain migrations
• Responsible for conducting regular security scans and vulnerability scans to test computer hardware, software, and networked devices and develop summary reports from scans and provide to system owners. Conduct follow-ups to ensure that identified issues have been fully remediated.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain a multi-domain Active directory environment
• Work with developers on applications design and integration with active directory
• Develop access control matrix for users, groups and applications to resources at the global root level domain.
• Implement and manage active directory domain disaster recovery solutions
• In charge of provisioning admin accounts for system administrators and Service accounts for applications and assigning appropriate access based on concept of least privilege.
• Troubleshoot and resolve all active directory permissions and access issues.
• Installed, configured and implement network security on wireless access point (WAP) for customers and small businesses
• Installed Windows security update/patches on customer’s PCs
• Performed antivirus installation and configuration on customer’s PCs
• Performed virus removal and remediation on malicious code (virus, malware, Trojan etc) virus infected PCs
• Performed data backup and restore for customers