SUMMARY

• Having around 9 years of experience in the IT sector in Azure Infra Administration, build engineering and release management process, building and deploying applications by adopting DevOps practices such asContinuous Development, Continuous Integration (CI), andContinuous Deployment (CD) in runtime with various tools likeGit, VSTS, Jenkins, Ansible and managing cloud services withAzure.
• Automation of Infrastructure using Ansible and Ansible tower for the Infrastructure deployment in Azure.
• Maintenance of Infrastructure using Run book in Azure for scheduled patching.
• Build and Deploy the CI\CD pipelines for the code deployment using Azure DevOps.
• Experience in the creation of different VPNs like Policy - based and Route-based for Site-site and Express route connections.
• Create Monitoring Alerts using Azure Monitor and configure the alerts to send an email and text message when the threshold reaches the limit.
• Profusely worked on Version control toolsGIT track changes made by different people in source code involving concepts likeBranching, Merging, and Tags.
• Work closely with a team of architects, engineers, and developers to create functional design specifications, azure reference architectures, and assist with other project deliverables as needed.
• Design state-of-the-art technical solutions on Azure that address customer’s requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.
• ConfiguredTealeafPCACapture server, HBRs, Canisters, Portal, SQL, RTV, BBR.
• Promote adherence to corporate infrastructure processes, procedures, and standards; Change Management, Disaster Recovery /Business Continuity Plan, (DR/BCP), and Security / Government regulatory compliance.
• Architecting design for high availability of the servers and services in the Cloud.
• Involved in Windows Patching Activity for all DEV, TEST, and PROD Environment servers using SCCM tool and manual patching.
• Performing data restoration from earlier backups via Legato Networker User. Restoration will be performed as per client request whenever some critical data is lost or when data loss occurs due to drive failure/system crash.
• Plays an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Execution of service provisioning to meet Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and report against infrastructure Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Provider: Microsoft Azure

Automation Language: ARM template, Ansible, Powershell

Source Control: GIT,GitHub,Azure Repos

CI\CD Tools: Azure DevOps, Jenkins

Azure Networking: VPN(site-to-site), Vnet Peering

Monitoring Tools: Splunk

Operating System: Windows Server 2003,2008,2008 R2,2012,2016

Virtualization: ESXI 5.1, 5.5 VCENTRE 5.1, 5.5

Backup Tools: EMC Legato Networker (7.6 & above)

File Transfer Applications: SSH Tectia Client, Connect Direct

Remote Tools: RDP,SSH,VNC,ILO

Ticketing Tools: Service Now,Resolve IT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving, TX

Senior Azure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in build engineering and release management process, building and deploying applications by adopting DevOps practices (CI&CD) with various tools like GitHub, VSTS, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Terraform.
• Experience interacting with REST APIs, YAML, JSON, and Git.
• Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, specifically disaster recovery, monitoring, and access management
• Working knowledge of collaboration tooling used for software development such as Azure DevOps Boards (or Jira), MS Teams (or Skype), ServiceNow.
• Operations task, using cloud-native tools, like Log Analytics, Azure Monitor and Azure Security Center or another monitoring tooling.
• Experience with DevOps technologies such as Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Maven, GitHub, including Docker, and basics of Kubernetes
• Experience with networking and network/system security, including firewalls, VPN, routing, switching, load balancers, monitoring, security, and DNS.
• Experience with open-source tools like Linux, Git, Ansible, and configuration knowledge in Apache and Nginx.
• Execution of service provisioning to meet Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and report against infrastructure Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
• Analyze code and communicate detailed reviews to development teams to ensure a marked improvement in applications and the timely completion of projects.
• Promote adherence to corporate infrastructure processes, procedures, and standards; Change Management, Disaster Recovery /Business Continuity Plan, (DR/BCP), and Security / Government regulatory compliance.
• Experience in writing scripts, deployment frameworks, tracers, monitors, self-healing/auto-remediation tools, and automate the processes
• Knowledge and understanding of REST, JSON, and other API based systems
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation.
• Experience in large-scale engagements leading the functional and technical design, installation, and configuration functions for the full stack of infrastructure elements.
• Knowledge of modern technology service architectural hosting, security, and risk management concerns such as IAM, access control, monitoring, IaaS/PaaS.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation,configuration management,developer workflows, and practices.
• Proficient in troubleshooting using Splunk.
• Migrated the on-premises workloads to the Azure cloud-based on the requirement.
• Strong design and live migration experience from on-premises to Azure IaaS & PaaS
• Working knowledge on COTS and LAMP stack.
• Automated continuous integrated builds, deployments across multiple environments (Dev, QA, Staging, Production) each with different layers (Web, API, DB) using Azure DevOps.
• Resolved merge conflicts and created branching strategies for the Code repositories in GitHub and Azure Repos.
• Experience with Azure Network components (Virtual Network, Network Security Group, User Defined Route, Gateway, Load Balancer)
• Experienced in working on DevOps/Agile operations process.
• Experienced in computing cloud cost models, network topology, platform services, and storage options.
• Worked on version control Tool Git to track changes made by developers involving concepts like branching, Merging.
• Created Playbooks to check the system's Resiliency and failure.
• Knowledge in KQL Queries to investigate the logs from Log Analytics.
• Experience on collaboration tools like Slack, Confluence, OneDrive, Jira for working on sprint stories.
• Experienced in using Source tree for code merging strategy along with Atom and VSTS for code editor.

Confidential

Azure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed ARM templates to automate the provisioning and Deployment process.
• Experience with Azure cloud services (PaaS & IaaS).
• Used automation account, update management process to schedule, and Patch the servers.
• Created Ansible playbooks for automation of Infrastructure creation and used Ansible tower to schedule the automation.
• Monitored the network logs using Splunk.
• Experienced with blue/green deployment strategy.
• Experience in identifying and implementing security protocols to protect network resources, application data including SSL configurations and VPN tunnels.
• Strong understanding of Load balancers, traffic managers, Azure front door in the cloud environment.
• Setup monitoring for the resources using Azure monitor, App service logs, Application insights
• Deploy scalable applications and monitor their performance.
• Created automation pipeline in Jenkins.
• Experience in the creation and maintenance of Global applications including High availability.
• Created Dashboard for monitoring multiple resources in Azure.
• Work with third-party vendors to resolve infrastructure issues.
• Learn new technologies, architect, and implement new solutions to automate infrastructure.
• Define, document, and maintain a strategic DevOps architecture roadmap that includes business and technical considerations.
• Knowledge to use Postman for REST API calls.
• Configured and maintained Apache web server for hosting the web services.
• Strong experience in System administration, upgrading patches, Configuration, Backup, Disaster recovery, and performance monitoring using Azure monitor.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working the System Configuration and Delivery Automation Division (SCDAD) as a Sys Admin I was in charge of performingPCAaudits, exposed to Agile Scrum, assist with Jenkins Pipeline. Continuing to expand and learn more onDevOpsroles and procedures.
• Daily Operating System alert handling and response.
• RAID Configurations and Disk management utilities tools.
• Server Rebuild as per process control (Physical & Virtual server).
• Migrating Windows R2 file & share servers, handled 1000+ Server Migration and received best performer award from Delivery Manager.
• Involved in Windows Patching Activity for all DEV, TEST, and PROD Environment servers using SCCM tool and manual patching.
• Commission and Decommission Servers as per the agreed standard and updated in a central repository. (Physical server, Virtual server, P2V)
• Logging a case with HP for failed hardware (Physical Drive, Array Controller Battery, etc.)
• Installing and upgrading VMware tools for virtual machines.
• Increasing VM disk, VM memory size as per the user request.
• Scheduling Change Request for all Hardware and S/W changes on Servers and implementing on Scheduled date with full Approval of Change request
• Review error logs, resolve complex incidents & problems. And Provide Root Cause Analysis for the same to Clients \ Problem & Incident Management team
• Configuring Tape Libraries, creating Volume Pools, Groups, etc.,
• Scheduling backups as per Service Level Agreement & Client requirements.
• Managing Media in Library as per retention policy agreed with the customer.
• Deploying restore & recovery during media failures/data loss.
• Data replication on media by configuring the Cloning environment.
• Troubleshooting backup issues.
• Performing data restoration from earlier backups via Legato Networker User. Restoration will be performed as per client request whenever some critical data is lost or when data loss occurs due to drive failure/system crash.
• Printer configuration, Migration, and troubleshooting.
• Assisting Leads in Preparation of Monthly MIS, Disk Utilization Report, etc., and Provide documentation for all server changes, installation, upgrades and ensure accuracy
• Train junior engineers in Windows & other related concepts and help them with troubleshooting issues.
• Coordinating among internal & Global teams within the project for providing better support to clients.