SUMMARY

• Having 15 plus Years of IT experience that includes AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Security, Devops, Vmware, Citrix and Windows, Linux and Networking
• 5 years of Experience on Amazon Web Services 5 years of Experience on Cloud Security. 3 years of Experience on Microsoft Azure
• 3 years of Experience on Google Cloud Platform ( GCP) 3 years of Experience on Devops tools
• 3 years of Experience on Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS , GKE ( Google Kubernetes Engine)
• 8 years of Experience on Vmware Esxi and Esx ( Esx 3.0,4.0,5.0,Esxi 5.x and Esxi 6.0)
• 3 years of Experience on Citrix ( 4.0 and 6.0)
• Worked on Windows ( 2000,2003, 2008 and 2012,2016). Worked on Redhat Linux, Ubuntu and CentOS 5 years of Experience on 2003, 2008 Failover Cluster.
• 5 years of Experience on BigFix Patching tool.
• Extensively Worked on AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, Subnets, VPC peering, NAT Gateway, Security Groups, NACL, Route 53, Transit Gateway, Autoscaling, Lambda, Cloud Front, Load Balancer, Application Load Balancer, Cloudwatch, Cloud Trail, VPC flow logs, SNS, SES, SQS, S3, Glacier, EBS, EFS, S3 transfer acceleration, S3 versioning, KMS, AWS Single Sign on, Service Control Policies (SCP), AWS IAM policies, Bucket Policies, IAM roles, IAM users, Cross account access, AWS Config, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Guard Duty and AWS Security hub, AWS parameter store and AWS Secrets Manager, Lambda functions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on Terraform and AWS Cloud Formation to Automate deployment and Provisioning Infrastructure.
• Hands on Experience in Automating infrastructure Deployment on More than 100 AWS accounts, 30 GCP projects and 20 Azure subscriptions.
• Coordinating and Setting Policies and Framework based on HIPPA, PHI and NIST guidelines for Deploying Resources on all the clouds AWS,GCP and AZURE
• Hands on Experience working on different AWS service like EC2, S3, VPC, Subnets, VPC peering, NAT Gateway, Security Groups, NACL, Route 53, Transit Gateway
• Very good experience working on AWS services like Autoscaling, Lambda, Cloud Front, Load Balancer, Application Load Balancer.
• Hands on Experience working with AWS monitoring and Alerting services like Cloudwatch, Cloud Trail, VPC flow logs, SNS, SES, SQS
• Extensively worked on AWS storage services S3, Glacier, EBS, EFS, applying lifecycle policies on S3 objects, Automating EBS snapshots. S3 transfer acceleration, S3 versioning
• Hands on Experience working on AWS Encryption Services, Key Management Services (CMK and also Customer Provided keys), managing Authentication and Usage Policy
• Extensively worked on AWS Single Sign on with Active Directory Federation Service for Multiple AWS accounts.
• Hands on Experience Setting up and Managing AWS Organization Root account and its Service Control Policies (SCP) to manage child accounts.
• Extensively worked on Setting up AWS IAM policies, Bucket Policies, IAM roles, IAM users, Cross account access, STS, Managing Federated Access Policies and roles.
• Deploying and managing AWS Directory Services and its users for Authentication.
• Deploying Customized Images with AD integration for LDAP authentication on both Shared Services and all AWS accounts.
• Automate S3 encryption, TAG enforcing and EBS snapshots using Lambda functions.
• Deployed multi region AWS Redshift clusters, Dynamo DB and Mysql DB, Setting up snapshots, Security groups
• Worked on AWS security tools to Monitor and deter potential cyberattacks, AWS Config, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Guard Duty and AWS Security hub.
• Worked Extensively with AWS Certificate Manager.
• Automated Deployement of Splunk and Sensu on Client machines which is used for alerting and Monitoring.
• Worked on AWS parameter store and AWS Secrets Manager which is used for key/value store perfect for storing parameters, secrets, and configuration information
• Worked on migrating Applications from on - prem to AWS cloud using Cloud Endure.
• Extensively worked on Splunk integration with AWS, GCP and Azure

Confidential, Trenton, New Jersey

AWS Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on JSON to Automate building of AWS Objects and Security Principals for CLOUD FORMATON
• Extending AWS VPC to Segregate Production, Testing and Development
• Implementing AWS Security Groups and NACL (Access control list) for Additional Layer of Security.
• Planning and Implementing, Disaster Recovery and Fault for AWS services.
• Setting up AWS Cloudwatch and Custom Metrics for AWS services
• Consolidating AWS billing and Setting up alerts for Cost optimization.
• Troubleshooting AWS Autoscaling and EC2 instances related issues.
• Configuring AWS Elastic Load balancer and Pre-warming Elastic Load Balancer as required.
• Design/Develop/capture/document architectural best practices for building Servers in a Data Center and on AWS Cloud
• Installation of EC2 instances for Production, Testing and Development environment
• Configured ADC - Additional Domain Controller on AWS Cloud - extending our AD to AWS Cloud
• Setting up Database infrastructure ( RDS, REDSHIFT and DYNAMO DB)
• Setting up AWS RDS ( AZ-Failover and Read replicas )
• Implementing AWS CloudFront for the newly built websites
• Implementing AWS ROUTE53
• Implementing AWS IAM security best practices
• Automating AWS infrastructure using OPS work
• Used configuration management tools like CHEF for CI and CD
• Built and Modified CHEF recipes to automate using OPSwork
• Used Jenkins to manage Build and release
• Used SVN for keeping track of versioning
• Implementing AWS Cloud Formation
• Implementing best practices for S3 Storage
• Configured ADFS for Single sign for Active directory users on AWS.

Confidential

Virtualization and Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure ESX 4.x,5.x,6.x
• Patch the hosts using update manager and profile
• Install and configure Vcenter server and update the license
• Configure clusters and features like HA, DRS,
• Completed number of P2V migrations
• Performance and capacity planning for Vcenter environment
• Configuring of Standard and Dv Switches.
• Storage and Networking knowledge to support Vsphere environment
• Deploying virtual machine by using Templates and Expanding VM drives and resources, configuring data stores for Virtual machine disk usage.
• Resource management, increasing in RAM, CPU resources according to the project requirements.
• Monitoring VMware performance and Handling Virtual Infrastructure and VM related issues
• Managing VMWARE vSphere 4.1 & 5.X environments which comprises of 100 ESXi hosts and 1200 virtual machines (Windows Servers) with vCenter 5.1
• Hardening ESX and VM as per the Client specification.
• Configuring New Datastore and ESXi Storage Multipathing polices.Closing working with Storage team for new LUN Provision and RDM for VM’s.
• Using VMware Update Manager to manage ESXipatching, creating various patch baselines and regular scanning and remediating hosts.
• Configured vSphere Distributed Switches and various dvPortGroupssettings like Security, Traffic Shaping policies, Required network Load Balancing polices as per the Business requirements.
• Configured and HA and DRS.configured DRS Affinity and Anti Affinity rules.
• Resource management, MonitoringvMwarevSphereperformance with vCenter graphs,alarms,esxtop/restop and various utilities, good understanding on vcenter operation manager.
• Virtual machine management, VMCreation, templates, clonesas needed. Having good understanding host profiles, storage profiles.

Confidential

Lead Windows/Vmware,Citrix

Responsibilities:

• Streamlining process as per ITIL & preparing process related documents
• Part of a team which was involved in knowledge transition from Onsite to Offshore for smooth functioning of regular activities
• Managing scripts to Automate different admin & user level activities
• Working on Alerts and tickets generated by Remedy and to close issues with in Service level Agreement (SLA)
• Work on the Assigned work relating to the Project related activities.
• Installation, Administration and Troubleshooting of Windows2000 & 2003 Server
• Managing User Administration, and generating bulk user accounts as per requirement
• Managing Organizational Units, Group Policy Objects.
• Design and implementation of Windows2000 & 2003 Server and trust relationships domains and Active Directory.
• Installation of Internet Information Server and FTP.
• Configuration of DHCP, DNS and NAT.
• Installation and configuring of Print Servers for Network printing.
• Implementing Disk Quota Management and Distributed File System.
• Managing Disk Administration on Basic & Dynamic Disks with RAID Volumes.
• Configuring and Administrating Terminal Services.
• Troubleshooting FSMO Roles
• Troubleshooting login and access related issues
• Knowledge on windows Cluster, NLB, and command tools like NETDOM, REPLMON, REPADMIN, NTDSUTIL LDP etc.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting AD replication
• Planning backup strategies for File servers and Mission critical servers
• Backing up and restoring Windows 2000 & 2003 Active Directory Services.
• Managing Volume shadow Copy

Environment: Windows 2000,2003,Windows 2008,Vmware 4.0,Citrix 4.0

Confidential

Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Administration and Troubleshooting of Windows2000 & 2003 Server
• Managing User Administration, and generating bulk user accounts as per requirement
• Managing Organizational Units, Group Policy Objects.
• Supporting 2000 Professional and XP desktop systems, MS Office, email and browser installations plus troubleshooting and upgrading.
• Creating and Managing Users, Groups, OU and Group Policies.
• Configuring Shares and Managing Security.
• Managing Antivirus Server and Updating Security Patches.
• Managing Backups.
• Installing and Managing SUS Servers.
• Managing Servers across Brigade Network Remotely.
• Managing Multiple Exchange Servers across Brigade Network.
• Managing Exchange Server Tasks like creating mail boxes, distribution lists, monitoring exchange services, Recipients, exchange backup and troubleshooting.
• Configuration of DHCP, DNS and NAT.
• Good knowledge on windows 2000 trusts
• Troubleshooting FSMO Roles
• Installation and managing Citrix presentation server 4.0
• Publishing and troubleshooting Applications
• Resolving access and user administration related tasks on Citrix servers

Environment: Windows Server 2000/2003, Windows XP, Citrix 4.0