SUMMARY:

Industry Leader with over 17+ years of experience in Information Technology Infrastructure. Plan, Design, Migrate, Physical Datacenters / In Infrastructures to Public Cloud AWS and AZURE and Private On Premise Cloud. Actualized solution as Pre Sales Architect, handled the delivery teams, Interface with customer and Perform the DataCenter Consolidation. Highly Innovative and Technology focused with an attitude to lead innovation with focus on high quality and best innovation. Highly focused on learning modern IT trends and technologies and help customers with gained experienced and expertise. Candid, Placid, Stubborn and Respectful, Result Oriented, High acumen in Leading big project with confidence.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud: Azure IAAS, Azure PAAS, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, Azure Database Migration, Azure App Services, Web Services, Azure Managed Instance, Azure SQL database, Azure Functions and full Azure Stack.

Data: Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Managed SQL, Azure SQL Datawarehouse, Cosmos DB, Oracle to SQL MySQL, Postgres

Security: Azure Security Center, Immutable Storage, Encryption, HSM, TDS, Security data Cloud. O365 Security.

Virtualization: VMware vSphere 6.7, 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 5.1, 4.1, 4.0, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper - V.

Automation & Cloud Computing: VMware vRealize Automation (vRA 7), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO 7), VMware vCloud Director 5.5, 5.1 & 1.5, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, UCS Director Foundation, Cisco Prime Service Catalogue, Cisco Process Orchestrator, Puppet Enterprise. Nagios. CloudWatch, Cloud Formation

Backup: Crashplan Endpoint, Zerto Replication Appliances (VRA), Comm Vault, EnterpriseVault, Netapp Disk Backup

Storage: EMC’s VMAX, VNX, NetApp 2020, HP 3PAR, NetApp 3250, 8020, 2554, Dell Equalogic, IBM v7000 DS4800, DS65300, v3700, HP 3PAR

Disaster Recovery Planning: VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.x, 5.8, 5.5, 5.1, EMC SRDF, DRaaS.

Networking: VMware NSX Managed Switches, CISCO API, Frame Relay Switches, VLAN, IVR, Routing Policies (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP), PVLAN, Sub-Netting, setting up Firewall, NAT, Configuring Nexus Switches

Desktop Virtualization: VMware Horizon 7.x, 6.x, Citrix Windows 10. Amazon Workspace.

Operating System: Windows (All), RedHat Linux (all), SUSE, Ubuntu, CentOS.

Automation Tools: ARM Templates, Terraform, Cloud Formation, Azure Cli and PowerShell, Python, Pearl, Ruby, JASON, Rest API’s, Shell Scripts, JavaScript, Perl, Power Shell, Command Line Interface, Git, Ansible, Docker, Chef, Puppet.

Hardware: HP, Dell, Cisco UCS, EMC, Vblock, FlexPod VBLOCK, FlexPod, HPE. iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols, Fiber Channel cabling, switching, and zoning McData Fabric Switches

DevOps: Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube, Ansible, Gradle, Maven, Selanium, Nagios, Java, node.js, REST, JSON

Workload Management tools: Plate Spin Migrate, Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2003, 2008 to Windows 2012 as well as RedHat Linux servers to Public Cloud, Application Migration from DC to Collocated Datacenter.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ/MN

Azure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Working in as Senior Azure Architect. Responsible for Security, Manage Subscription, RBAC management, Kubernetes based DevOps Agile environment, Cloud Native PAAS environment.
• Review existing architecture and identify technical gap, propose changes to customer, identify and validate the problem statements and create actionable recommendation for enhancements.
• Responsible for assessment, plan and migration of workloads from multiple existing datacenters to Azure IAAS, PAAS.
• Design ARM templates for various application types. Use Terraform for deployment of IAC infrastructure as code in Azure with Server-less (Functions, Containers, Service Fabric) reducing the IAAS requirement.
• Setup the Terraform for the account and took initiative to implement automation of various components automation using DevOps.
• Migrate and manage the SQL on prem to Azure SQL PAAS. Manage and monitor the Azure deployments using Azure Cloud native services Azure Monitor.
• Setup automation with Automation account with cloud monitoring ARM templates for continues optimization of cloud resources.
• Manage the Azure Hub and Spoke subscription for various tenants (internal). Manage the cloud resources, Network Security Groups, Firewalls, Subnets, App Services, API gateways, VNETs, ExpressRoute, VPN, Gateways, Peering.
• Support leadership with resource planning activities by providing technical insight into upcoming and ongoing project deliverables.
• Collaborate with production support efforts to resolve near-term domain-specific architectural issues and to remove architectural design debt.
• Facilitate agile methodologies supporting domain-specific needs as needed, including developing and/or driving the creation of methodologies that will support the migration, refactoring or replacement of existing systems with strategic domain solutions .
• Responsible for developing the cloud framework and providing technical leadership in cloud service implementation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms.
• Responsible for ensuring that critical applications and Database are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery.

Confidential, NJ

Azure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the framework and providing technical leadership in cloud computing, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms. Responsible for ensuring that critical applications and Database are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery.
• IaaS - architectural design, infrastructure build, configuration, migration and implementation to include: Powershell; Containers, Virtual Networks/Machines; ARM Templates; ASG (Application Security Groups); NSG (network security groups); role-based access controls; Azure Active Directory; and Azure Automation.
• PaaS - architectural design, infrastructure build, app deployments, (CD, CI, Azure Apps (auto-scaling), WebJobs, App Services, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Web Apps and Azure CDN).
• SaaS - SharePoint, Exchange, AD, ODFB, Teams, Forms, Flow, PowerApps architectural design, migrations and administration.
• Design and implement Azure Microservices based Application Architecture using Kubernetes AKS. Use docker images to deploy application in cloud using App Services and Web Services. Implement batch jobs by using Azure Batch Services, Create containerized solutions, Create Azure App Service Web Apps, Create Azure App Service mobile apps
• Create Azure Web App Services, Azure functions, Develop solutions using Cosmos DB storage, blob storage.
• Implement authentication, access control, secure data solutions, Develop code to support scalability of apps and services. Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions. Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging
• Use Azure Monitor services to monitor and notification the applications and environment in Azure. Also create Policies to configure Infrastructure and application monitoring.
• Assess, Plan and Delivery of applications and databases from on-premises to Azure Cloud. Use Azure shell, Powershell and Python to create the Azure Resources for creating complete Azure stack. Use Azure Resource Manager Templates for application deployments. Also use Terraform for configure the application and Azure Stack.
• Create and Configure load balancer, WAF and ALB, TLB. Use Database Migration Services, Azure Migrate Services, Azure Functions also.
• Interacting with Stake- Holders/C- Level executives for Budgeting/Resource Planning/Project Management
• Migrate Services and Drive Migration from Oracle Database to Azure Managed Instance on Azure. Conduct the workshops for customer.
• Create Virtual Networks (VNets), Port Groups, Subnets, Network Security Groups, P2S VPN, S2S VPN, VNET Peering, subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP CIDR addresses, DNS and Firewall with Network Security Groups.
• Plan for the application migration including traditional Windows and Linux based applications setup the Migration Planning Workshop with Application using Web & App service plan. Separate Deployment slot Jenkins with CI/CD pipeline using Kubernetes.
• New tenant deployments/configurations and migrations (Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, Create, validate and review solutions and effort estimate for datacenter migration to Azure Cloud environment.
• Conduct Proof of Concept for Latest Azure cloud-based services. Documentation of Azure Processes and run books.

Confidential, MI

Azure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Use ARM - Azure Resource Management Template/ Automation, Build and verify the New Virtual Machines in Azure.
• Tested Intune for Mobile device management. Provisioning the Windows and Linux server environments and Deployment of Web\Worker roles through DevOps Catalog Tool or Ansible.
• Identification of On Prem Applications into Cloud Native, Cloud Tolerant, Re-platform, Re Code, and COTS categories. Plan the migration to Azure, IaaS and PaaS platform including Windows/ RHEL Linux, Microservices, Dockers Container Serverless computing with AKS platforms. Use Azure Active Directory DC with hybrid cloud deployment scenarios leveraging the existing domain GPOs & DNS.
• Use Azure Log Analytic Services with Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Factory, Traffic Manager, Load Balancing, Application Gateway.
• Architect, develop, plan and migrate servers, relational databases (SQL) and websites to Azure cloud.
• Articulate cloud solution, performs deployment and testing. Configure and manage Azure IaaS service includes Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Express Route, VPN, Traffic Manager etc.
• Design the Storage and compute infrastructure for their other small local sites using NetApp’s Storage FAS2200 and Cisco UCS B200 M4 and C220 M4 servers with VMware vSphere 6.0 u2.
• Provide Data Center Designs (HLD and LLD) and engaged in Data Center Infra migration activities.
• Design multiple automation workflows/used cases for customer’s application deployment in the Infrastructure based on Linux RHEL and Windows using Database platforms (MS SQL, MySQL Apache, MyPhp etc.).
• Migrate from DC to Azure Cloud.
• Integrate and actualize DevOps/SysOps solution using Azure DevOps with GitHub Jenkin using CI/CD pipeline to push code on Kubernetes Containers leveraging with docker images AKS.
• Design and drive the Enterprise wide Architecture solution for customer’s existing End of Life Hardware at local DC. Plan for the application migration including Windows and Linux based workloads and setup the Migration Planning Workshop with Application and other stakeholders,
• Responsible for Datacenter Migration of Applications & infrastructure from existing DC to Azure. Envisage customer in remodeling of existing applications to Cloud Native and Cloud Tolerant and standard compute type deployments. Migration of Applications to Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry with cloud native deployments scenarios.
• Design Disaster Recovery using VMware’s Site Recovery Manager ensuring high availability at component level and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere 6.0 and SAN-backed applications.
• Provide Azure deployment support, resource design, automation and configuration. Application Insight alert query design/authoring, Azure multi-regional active/active design.

Skills Used: Azure IAAS, Azure PAAS, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, Azure Database Migration, Azure App Services, Web Services, Azure Managed Instance, Azure SQL database, Azure Functions, Azure RM templates. Turbonomics, VMware vSphere 5.5, 6.x, VMware Site Recovery Manager, CISCO UCS, VBLOCK, FlexPod, HP3PAR Storage, SAN/NAS Storage, NetApp FAS2200, EMC SAN, Amazon Web Services (AWS, VMware vRealize Automation (vRA 7), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO 7), vRealize suite of products Puppet Enterprise, Ansible, Chef, Pearl Script, JavaScript, Enterprise JIRA, Jenkins, Ansible, MS Visio, RedHat Linux 7.2, Windows 2012.

Confidential, Raritan NJ

Vmware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Engaged as a Solution Architect. Actualize Migration, Automation, Orchestration, Disaster Recovery for customer’s business critical applications. Design and Plan the Business Critical Application migration from local DC to Azure with Hybrid Cloud environment.
• Involved in Infrastructure Assessment, Planning and Delivery of migration from on-premises to Azure Cloud. Use Azure Migrate and various other tools to migrate on Microsoft Azure Cloud based Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environments.
• Interact with Stake- Holders/C- Level executives for Budgeting/Resource Planning/Project Management and report to directors of the project.
• Responsible for setting up Fully-Automated and self-driven, self-provision business continuity and disaster recovery using VMware SRM for their business critical application.
• Responsible for Automating the bulk provisioning of applications on Azure using Azure RM templates.
• Design and Deploy N- Tier app with Azure Web App, with App and DB Tier VM. Deploy On demand Load balancer and dedicated Web Tier. Manage the Vmware SDDC platform with vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, LogInsight, Operation Manager, vSphere 6.5, ESX6.5, NSX, HP Operation Manager.
• Lead automation efforts using vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator for self-service self-provisioned Application workload provisioning on SDDC and Public Cloud. Design disaster recovery solution for Business Critical applications (SAP).
• Design the Storage and compute infrastructure for their other small local sites using NetApp’s Storage FAS2200 and Cisco UCS B200 M4 and C220 M4 servers with VMware vSphere 6.0 u2.
• Provide Data Center Designs (HLD and LLD) and engaged in Data Center Infra migration activities to Azure cloud.
• Participation Proof of Concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business strategy.
• Leverage Azure cloud and provision Azure Services like Azure SQL Database, Azure Web Services, Azure Site Recovery.
• Responsible for planning application migration based on Windows and Linux type workloads from existing DC to the Azure Cloud leveraging Azure IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS.

Skills Used: Azure IAAS, Azure PAAS, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, Azure Database Migration, Azure App Services, Web Services, Azure Managed Instance, Azure SQL database, Azure Functions, Turbonomics. VMware vSphere 5.5, 6.x, VMware Site Recovery Manager, CISCO UCS, VBLOCK, FlexPod, HP3PAR Storage, SAN/NAS Storage, NetApp FAS2200, EMC SAN, Amazon Web Services (AWS, VMware vRealize Automation (vRA 7), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO 7), vRealize suite of products Puppet Enterprise, Ansible, Chef, Pearl Script, JavaScript, Enterprise JIRA, Jenkins, Ansible, MS Visio, RedHat Linux 7.2, Windows 2012.

Confidential, Las Vegas (Nevada) and NJ

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Drive and Design the enterprise wide architecture for customer’s existing end of life hardware at local DC.
• Migrate applications to Azure cloud using Azure Web Services. Use Azure Site recovery for proving Geo level DR for customer’s various small sites.
• Create Site-to-Site VPN for their various remote sites in US. Design application with enterprise wide connectivity using the Azure SQL services.
• Provision resources on Azure IAAS, SAAS and PAAS platform
• Provide expertise support working with different teams.
• Architect design and implement FlexPod based compute infrastructure.
• Design disaster recovery using VMware Site Recovery Manager ensuring the High Availability at component level and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere 6.0 and SAN based replication.
• Design the Storage and Compote infrastructure for customer’s other small sites based on NetApp FAS 2200 and Cisco UCS B200 and C220 class servers with VMware vSphere 6.x
• Produce the Datacenter High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD) and engaged in DC Infra-Migration Activities.
• Participate in Proof of Concept to assist in defining the technology direction and enabling the business strategy.
• Design and develop Automation scenario, create blueprints using vRealize Automation 7 and create workflows in vRealize Orchestrator using JavaScript and Powershell. Automate the entire provisioning of workloads. Setup of orchestration at infrastructure level.
• Actualize, Design and Plan the Workload on AWS and Azure cloud in Hybrid Cloud Deployment for customer.
• Design, develop and deploy the virtual desktop solution using VMware Horizon 7.

Skills Used: Azure IAAS, Azure PAAS, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, Azure Database Migration, Azure App Services, Web Services vNet, VPN, VMware vSphere 6.5, 5.x, VMware Site Recovery Manager 6, CISCO UCS, VBLOCK, FlexPod, HP3PAR Storage, SAN/NAS Storage, VMware Horizon 7, HP-Open Manager, HP Blade servers. EMC SAN, Amazon Web Services (AWS, VMware vRealize Automation (vRA 7), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO 7), LogInsight. vRealize suite of products Puppet Enterprise, Ansible, Chef, Pearl Script, JavaScript, Enterprise JIRA, Jenkins, Ansible, MS Visio, RedHat Linux 7.2, Windows 2012, Cloud Security.

Confidential

Cloud- Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a PreSales Solution Architect (Senior Manager - Network and Cloud).
• Provided solution governance, Design methodologies and strategic advice on IT Infrastructure and Cloud based solutions and design (Private On Premise, Hybrid and Public Cloud Azure, AWS)
• Whiteboarding with Customer Leading the Sales Team and Understand the Business Requirement and customer problem areas.
• Designed and implemented various Cloud Hosting Models IAAS, Collocation, Managed Hosting. Cloud Security, Content Management.
• Designed and Articulated Virtual Infrastructure run SRM based Disaster Recovery solution.
• Migrate applications and hosted customer’s existing datacenter to Azure cloud. Use Azure database Services to provide always on capability across various regions in India.
• Leverage existing tools and infrastructure to provide the DRAAS on Azure platform.
• Automate the provisioning of Infrastructure by implementing custom Workflows and using VMware VRO/VRA with Puppet,
• Produce HLD for the proposed solution. Create Solution Summary and solution deployments run book. Perform the Solution Validation. Create the Final Bill of Material (BOM).
• Design the migration and Disaster Recovery based solution and platform upgrade for customer’s existing SAP infrastructure to the high performance computing platform.
• Design the DR for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure based offering for TCL’s customer based on VMware Horizon 7’s cloud pod Architecture across APAC, EMEA and North American Region.

Skills Used: Azure IAAS, Azure PAAS, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, Azure Database Migration, Azure App Services, Web Services, Horizon 7 Cloud Pod, VMware vSphere 5.5, 6.x, Cloud Director, MS Visio, Customer Workshop and White Boarding, Datacenter Collocation, Datacenter Hosting, Content Delivery, Cloud Hosting, Disaster Recovery, SAP Hana, Cloud Security, Datacenter Migration. Windows 2012, Red Hat Linux 7.2, Network and Cloud platform (AWS and AZURE).

Confidential

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Engaged in as Architect and build Data Center design, perform consolidation, collocation and migration to an On Premise Cloud (OPC).
• Design and Articulate high performance Compute platform on Vblock 720 and 340 for Local sites in the US and 2 other geos Singapore and Germany.
• Articulated and deployed VMware vSphere 6 Compute farm for Production, DMZ and Non-Prod environment.
• Produce High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD). Perform the Technical Design Validation.
• Migrate the Windows and Linux workloads from existing DC to the newly provision DC using VMware Converter, Platespin Migrate, Doubletake, SRDF, Quark.
• Design the highly resilient compute farm on VBLOCK using VMware vSphere 6 and EMC VNX5000 series of storage with Fabric Interconnect and Cisco Network 9k & 5k Switches.
• Plan and Migrate workloads to Azure public cloud for Enterprise applications. Use Azure InMage, Azure Migrate and Database services to perform the Migration of workloads. Use Azure IAAS and PAAS for customer’s environment to provision the workloads.
• Create ARM templates for provisioning of application stack on Azure.
• Migrate the historical data to Azure with Azure Export/Import.
• Automate the bulk provisioning of workloads using VMware vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize & using Java Script and Perl & Python for configuration of workloads.
• Design the Multi site On premise Cloud based on VCE vBlock (720 and 340 series) Converged Infrastructure including Cisco B200, B220, M400 and C series of servers and Cisco’s UCS Manager to provision the servers.
• Responsible for designing the sites with VCE vBlock, VMware vSphere and Cisco UCS profiles for blades. maintaining multiple vCenter servers, configuring centralized logging, installing power path VE, configuring storage replication between both sites and enabling DR automation using VMware SRM.
• Responsible for Maintenance of blades, firmware, updates, upgrades.

Skill Used: Azure IAAS, Azure PAAS, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, Azure Database Migration, Azure App Services, Web Services, VMware vSphere 5.5, Cisco USC Manager, Cisco Blade and Chassis Servers, EMC SAN, Avamar Backup Appliances, Platespin Migrate - Workload Migration, VCAC - 5.2 for Datacenter Automation, VCE VBLOCK, DoubleTake, SRDF, MS-Visio, Windows 2012, RedHat Linux 7.x, Powershell, Unisphere, Firmware, Cisco 5K and 9K Network Switches, On premise private cloud based on VMware vSphere. SAN Replicator.

Confidential

SME

Responsibilities:

• Engaged in as Subject Matter Expert - VMware and perform datacenter consolidation.
• Migrate applications and perform datacenter migration to Azure and public cloud.
• Actualize solution based on Windows Azure cloud. Provision windows and Linux VMs for applications hosting on Windows Azure Cloud.
• Performed hands-on implementation, troubleshooting, and remediation on complex client projects requiring high-touch or strategic vision.
• Designed, Actualized and implemented the VMWare vSphere farm including the View Desktops for IBM Customer based in the UK.
• Worked on Cloud implementations, Desktop as a Service, IAAS, Converged Infrastructure, storage and DRAAS.
• Performed Workload migrations - physical to virtual P2V, virtual to physical, virtual to virtual as well as physical to image and image to virtual using native tools and third party such as the Platespin Migrate and VMware Converter suite.
• Engaged and build the migration plan for Windows and Linux workloads from existing DC to the new DC using VMware Converter, Platespin Migrate, Doubletake, SRDF, Quark. Design the highly resilient compute farm on VBLOCK using VMware vSphere 6 and EMC VNX5000 series of storage.
• Automate the provisioning of workloads using VMware vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation for building the custom and pre-defined workflows using Java Script and Perl & Python for configuration of workloads.

Skill Used: Azure Websites, Azure VMs for Windows and Linux, Python SDK, locally redundant storage LRS, VMware vSphere 5.x, MS-Visio, Windows 2008, 2003, RHEL 6.3, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI View 4.x, Datacenter Migration, Desktop and Service, Printer as a service, Platespin Migrate, SRDF, EMC VNX, HP and IBM xSeries of server Hardware, IBM Storage, Converged Infrastructure FlexPod

Confidential

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Engaged and build the migration plan for Windows and Linux workloads from existing DC to the new DC using VMware Converter, Platespin Migrate, Doubletake, SRDF, Quark. Design the highly resilient compute farm on VBLOCK using VMware vSphere 6 and EMC VNX5000 series of storage.
• Experienced with the design, architecture and implementation of Virtual Infrastructure environments on VMware - Virtual Center, ESXI.
• Hands on experience with iSCSI, NFS and Fibre Channel protocols on NetApp storage. Experience with Citrix Presentation Farm and plan and upgrade Citrix Farm.
• Supported SQL, Active Directory and Microsoft Windows OS and RedHat Linux Virtualized platform.
• Perform proof of concepts for customers for the Windows Azure cloud platform.
• Deploy applications on Windows Azure cloud and document the outcome.
• Upgrade VMware vCenter and provided consultative architecture, systems management, and troubleshooting support for EMEA region Customers running VMware-virtualized infrastructure.
• Setup and perform disaster recovery based on VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.x.

Skill Used: Windows Azure Cloud. VMware vSphere 3.x & 4.x, VMware Site Recovery Manager1.x. MS-Visio, Windows 2003, RHEL 5.2, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI View 4.x, vSphere Upgrade, Datacenter Migration, HP and IBM xSeries of server Hardware, IBM Storage.