SUMMARY

• 8 years of experience in Cloud Computing, Cloud computing, DevOps Implementation, Build & Release engineering.
• Experienced in automating software build, deployment and server configuration management using tools such as Json, & Git.
• Expertise in the fields of Software development, Cloud Computing including a comprehensive knowledge in the analysis, design, development and testing of the Software development life cycle using the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1/2.0/3.5/4.0/4.5 including ASP.NET 2.0/3.5, C#, ADO.NET, Web Services, Object Oriented Design and Windows Applications.
• Knowledge & Experience of modern agile development methodologies
• Exposure to DevOps practices and automation of software testing, delivery and infrastructure changes
• Expertise in the fields of Software development, Cloud Computing including a comprehensive knowledge in the analysis, design, development and testing of the Software development life cycle.
• Experience in Windows Azure Services like PaaS, IaaS and worked on Azure PaaS storages like Blob (Page and Block), Sql Azure. Well experienced in deployment & configuration management and Virtualization.
• Experience in Automating, Configuring and Deploying Instances on Azure environments and in Data centers.
• Knowledge over automation components, processes and implementation to support Agile development, DevOps, and Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD).
• Expertise in migrating the existing v1 (Classic) Azure infrastructure into v2 (ARM), scripting and templating the whole end to end process as much as possible so that it is customizable for each area being migrated.
• Developed strategies for cloud migration, implemented best practices and helped to develop backup and recovery strategies for applications and database on virtualization platform.
• Azure infrastructure management (Azure AD, Licenses, Office365, DR on cloud using Azure Recovery Vault, Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage).
• Work experience in Cloud Services, PaaS, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Blob Storage, VM creation, ARM Templates, PowerShell scripts, IaaS, Lift & Shift, storage, network and database.
• Ability to write & debug Shell Scripts using ksh & bash. Hands - on experience in solving day-to-day operational issues.
• Interacted with Architect & implemented Cloud / Azure based systems as a part of POC in the pitching process.
• Migrating existing v1 (Classic) Azure infrastructure into v2 (ARM), scripting and templating the whole end to end process as much as possible so that it is customizable for each area being migrated.
• A qualified Network and Security Engineer, excellent knowledge of Client/Server architecture, OSI layers, TCP/IP networks and good understanding of Network Topology (LAN/WAN/Subnets/VPN/Firewalls).
• Responsible for technical design using requirement specifications and use cases/stories by collaborating with the product management and business on product requirements. Providing SaaS hosting and integration expertise across, Cloud vendors and Client platforms.
• Worked with IIS (Internet Information Services) and Windows Server 2008 during application deployment.
• Expertise in RDBMS including MS SQL Server 2012/2008/2005/2000 , MS Access with thorough knowledge in writing SQL queries, Stored Procedures, Views, Functions, Packages, Triggers, Testing exception handlers, Cursors & tables and objects types

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Platforms: Azure (API Management Services, Data Factories, App Services, Data Lake Store, SQL Databases & Virtual Machines) Amazon Web Services.

.Net Framework: Net Framework 4.5, 4.0, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Technologies: ASP.Net, Asp.Net MVC, HTML, HTML5, AJAX, CSS, Win Forms,JQUERY, Web Forms

Distributed Technologies: Web Services, WCF

Operating Systems: Windows, Windows Server (All), Windows NT/2003/XP/2000, SUSE, Ubuntu, OEL, CentOS, MacOS

Network Protocols: SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, UDP, and RIP, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN, LAN

RDBMS: MySQL, SQL Server

Languages: C/C++, Java, HTML, Shell Scripting, Python, XML, HTML, LINQ Batch Script, Windows PowerShell Script.

Microsoft Azure: Cloud Services (PaaS & IaaS),, PowerShell, Azure SQL Database (PaaS),, Azure Storages (Blob, Tables, Queues),, Azure Site Recovery/ Azure backup, Azure Data Factory

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston

Azure Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• The team lead on multiple projects which includes a team of 5 deploying a 3-tier architecture project, deployment of a production project which included a load balancer.
• Team lead of a network deployment team.
• Routinely maintain the load balance that evenly distribute traffic to make sure there were no stops due to network traffic.
• Extensive involvement in Designing Azure Resource Manager Template and in designing custom build steps using PowerShell.
• Designed and developed Cloud Service projects and deployed to Web Apps, PaaS, and IaaS.
• Manage different AZURE environment for provisioning of Linux servers and services executed by the providers.
• Good at manage hosting plans for Azure Infrastructure, implementing & deploying workloads on Azure virtual machines.
• Configured and implemented Azure Virtual Networks, subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure virtual networks and subnets.
• Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the virtual networks 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 virtual network with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to Network Interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software-based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).
• Leveraged virtual network system routes and underlying route table that holds Local virtual network Rules, on-premises Rules, Internet Rules, and IP Forwarding as design basis.
• Designed User Defined Routes with custom route tables for specific cases to force tunneling to the Internet via on-premises network and control use of virtual appliances in the customer's Azure environment.
• Managed IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.
• Monitor Application and Servers using the Azure Monitor.
• Experience in deploying infrastructure using terraform as an infrastructure as code tool.
• Experience with ansible as a configuration tool.
• Make the best use of git as a version control system, whereby making GitHub as my main repository.
• Experience with CI/CD Pipeline.

Environment: IBM Trirga, Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Windows server 2012/R2, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Azure Storage, Azure SQL, MySQL, SAML SSO, Azure AD, Pentaho, CentOS, Nagios, Graphite, Python, Jira and Saltstack.

Confidential, Maryland

Sr. Azure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Mapped workloads to the capabilities of Microsoft Azure for public, private and hybrid clouds. The roles and responsibilities include:
• Choosing the VM or Service as per the requirements and creating Virtual Networks as per the address spacing and joining VM’s/Cloud Services to the VNETs.
• Configuring Cross-Premises connectivity (Point-to-Site/Site-to-Site/VNET-to-VNET) VPNs.
• Configuring AutoScaling, Availability sets, Load Balancing, Health Probes, Logging Alerts.
• Creating, registering and attaching VHDs and Data disks on to the VM.
• Installing VMs agents and Extensions and custom scripts on Virtual machines.
• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, and security policies and routing.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Configuring Always on Availability groups for Sql Server on ARM VMs to maintain High Availability.
• Migrating the AWS EC2 instances workloads to Microsoft Azure, replicating the VMs, configuring and testing the Planned Failovers in Azure.
• Experienced with deployments, Maintenance and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Cloud infrastructure AZURE.
• Uploaded Vhd files into Azure Storage Account using AZ Copy.
• Experienced in Software Development Life-Cycle, Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management practices.
• Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the VNets to the Internet using Azure External Load Balancer
• Extensive experience in Windows AZURE(IaaS) migrating like creating AZURE VMs, storage accounts, VHDs, storage pools, migrating on premise servers to AZURE and creating availability sets in AZURE.
• Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software-based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).
• Utilized NSGs for layer 4 Access Control List (ACLs) for incoming and outgoing packets.
• Used firewall appliance where requirements call for layer 7 security models.

Environment: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows server 2012/R2, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Azure Storage.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Azure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted capacity planning and architecture of Storage Accounts.
• Monitoring all the clusters health that are in Windows Azure environment and initiate the recovery action for the degraded/dead clusters which fall under threshold limit.
• Investigate and troubleshoot the faulty nodes which are moved to Human-Investigate/Out-for-Repair state by the Fabric with respect to fault codes and fault reasons.
• Investigating the fabric logs to find unidentified issues and diagnose the root cause of the issue.
• Working on the faulty nodes that are out of production and recovering them to make the cluster healthy and available for the customers.
• Led automation of Azure deployments utilizing PowerShell.
• Architected automation of Azure Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups and access control rules.
• Led implementation of Office 365 and Azure Active Directory for single sign on, authentication, authorization and Azure Role-based Access Control (RBAC).
• Led migration of over 4,000 on premise Virtual Machines to Azure Virtual Machines for multiple global business units.
• Utilized ASR (Azure Site Recovery), PowerShell and MVMC (Microsoft Virtual Machine Convertor) for on premise to cloud migrations
• 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.
• Implemented a structured design process for creating a hybrid cloud architecture to include on premise resources, networks, security, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS architectures. Leading the architects to iterate through design steps and tasks to identify dependencies and resolving design conflicts where a design decision made in a later step may conflict with a design decision made in an earlier step, repeating the process until all considerations are incorporated into the final architectural design.

Environment: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows server 2012/R2, Office 365, MVMC, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Azure Storage.