SUMMARY

• Dedicated Cloud Engineer with 6+ years of experience in Windows Administration, Cloud Infrastructure management and Implementation, looking to leverage my broad range of Cloud skills and experience to utilize systems administration and engineering to produce automated, reliable, and scalable AWS, AzureCloud and Public Cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in migrating applications from customer on - premises datacenter to the cloud platforms.
• Experience in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling.
• 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.
• Experience in managing Microsoft Windows server infrastructure and data-center operations by effectively planning, installing, configuring and optimize the IT infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance.
• Expertise in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses).
• Configure high available and DR capable - SQL and Application windows failover clusters in Azure.
• Extensive scripting knowledge to redesign, configure, automate, troubleshoot and improve the performance of applications and servers.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Experience in working with Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 Active Directory and Administration
• Work experience in Azure App & Cloud Services, PaaS, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Power BI, Azure Blob Storage, Web API, VM creation, ARM Templates, PowerShell scripts, IaaS, Lift & Shift, storage, network and database.
• Experience in automating day-to-day activities by using Windows PowerShell
• Experience in network administration, deploying and troubleshooting of DNS, LDAP, NIS, NFS and DHCP etc.
• AWS certified Solutions Architect skilled in developing DevOps solutions and architecting the platform to achieve stable and fault tolerant architectures.
• Experience in using IAM to create and manage AWS users and groups, to allow permissions or deny their access to AWSresources
• Highly skilled in various automation tools, continuous integration workflows, managing binary repositories and containerizing application deployments and test environments.
• Proficient in networking, Windows administration, and managing server infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance.
• Exceptional communication skills, business insights to comprehend and convey technical issues. Proven ability to collaborate, lead and work incessantly towards organizations growth.
• Experience in Handling Cloud environments like AWS. Configuration management using Amazon Cloud Formation, Continuous integration with Jenkins. AWS management (EC2, EBS, RDS, ROUTE53).
• Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances, virtual private cloud (VPCs), and security groups.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud platform: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Digital Ocean

Languages/Scripts: C, C#, C++, SQL, PowerShell, PowerShell DSC

Directory Services: Active Directory (2008/2012) Administration.

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server.

Operating Systems: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2 Servers, Windows Server 2000/2003 Windows 10/ 8/7/Vista/XPNetworking TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, UDP, SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, and RIP, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN, LAN

Clustering Technologies: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2 Clustering & High Availability

Virtualization: Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, VDI, VMware

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Cloud Administrator

Confidential, Newark, DE

Responsibilities:

• Design, Plan and create Azure virtual machines, Implement and manage virtual networking within Azure and connect to on-premises environments.
• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNet), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
• 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.
• Experience on Power Shell scripts to automate the Azure cloud system creation including end-to-end infrastructure, VMs, storage, firewall rules.
• Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).
• Experience in Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management and Asset Management.
• Designed Vnet’s and implemented security based on the requirements.
• Configured ExpressRoute connections between on-premise data centers and Azure cloud.
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Designed User Defined Routes with custom route tables for specific cases to force tunneling to the Internet via on-premise network and control use of virtual appliances in the customer’s Azure environment.
• Utilized NSGs for layer 4 Access Control List (ACLs) for incoming and outgoing packets.
• Experience on Power Shell scripts to automate the Azure cloud system creation including end-to-end infrastructure, VMs, storage, firewall rules.
• Used firewall appliance where requirements call for layer 7 security models.
• Leveraged VNET system routes and underlying route table that holds Local VNet Rules, On-premise Rules, Internet Rules and IP Forwarding as design basis.
• Managed IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.
• Coordinated with developers, Business Analyst, and Managers to make sure that code is deployed in the Production environment.

Environment: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows server 2012/R2/2016, SQL server, Windows PowerShell

Azure Engineer

Confidential, Modesto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Designed, deployed, maintained and lead the implementation of Cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure and underlying technologies
• Migrating Services from On-premise to Azure Cloud Environments. Collaborate with development and QA teams to maintain high-quality deployment
• Deployed the initial Azure components like Networks, Gateway, Storage and Affinity groups.
• Conducted capacity planning and architecture of Storage Accounts.
• Configured Azure Traffic Manager to build routing for user traffic Infrastructure Migrations: Drive Operational efforts to migrate all legacy services to a fully Virtualized Infrastructure.
• 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.
• Handle deployment workflow including provisioning, load balancing, and health monitoring.
• Implemented HA deployment models with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager
• Configured Azure Active Directory and managed users and groups
• Infrastructure Migrations: Drive Operational efforts to Migrate all CPS services to a fully Virtualized Infrastructure, reduced the infrastructure cost.
• Cloud Migrations: Perform Service migrations like lift and push on On-Perm and Azure servers reducing server and maintenance cost
• Developed automation solution using PowerShell scripting for day to day operational tasks
• Modification of Certs, Password and Storage Accounts on the cloud platform Setting up and administer service accounts
• Worked on Configuration of Internal load balancer, load balanced sets and Azure Traffic manager.
• Migrated SQL Server 2008 database to Windows Azure SQL Database and updating the Connection Strings based on this

Environment: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows server 2012/R2/2013, SQL server, Windows PowerShell, JSON.

AWS Administrator

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Responsibilities:

• Built, managed and optimized the workflow of AWS code pipeline using S3, Code Commit, Jenkins, Code Build.
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create required stacks for web application, web servers, database.
• Monitored, Validated the stack mappings and resource parameters for updating stack environments and troubleshooting.
• Designed AWS Lambda functions in python to administer the provisioning, scaling and to automate redundant tasks such as changes to S3 buckets, updating DynamoDB, responding to API calls.
• Improved the overall stability, performance of the infrastructure by following best practices and Customizing services based on the requirements.
• Built, managed and optimized the workflow of AWS code pipeline using S3, Code Commit, Jenkins, Code Build.
• Managed a cluster of Centos, Ubuntu EC2 instances with the Opscode chef and implemented changes to increase uptime and service efficiency.
• Implemented Auto-scaling and created a process to auto-scale front end infrastructure to adjust to handle traffic loads.
• Created automation for failover measures in case of distributed outage in EC2 environments.
• Monitored the infrastructure environment, applications, services, using Nagios and Splunk.
• Involved in migrating team with the current Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used auto scaling feature.
• Involved in designing and deploying applications utilizing almost the entire AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Involved in creating VPC and Security groups.
• Created S3 backups using versioning enable and moved objects to Amazon Glacier for archiving purpose.
• Created SNS notifications and assigned ARN to S3 for object loss notifications.
• Created Elastic load balancers (ELB) and used Route53 with failover and latency options for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Designed effective SCM process, Configured binary repositories and their integration with other services and tools.
• Optimized current infrastructure and implemented changes to increase uptime and service efficiency.
• Implemented Auto-scaling and created a process to auto-scale front end infrastructure to adjust to traffic increases.
• Created automation for failover measures in case of distributed outage in EC2 environments.
• Monitored the infrastructure environment, applications, services, using Nagios and Splunk.
• Designed effective SCM process, Configured binary repositories and their integration with other services and tools.

Environment: AWS, EC2, VPC, IAM, Auto Scale, Cloud Watch, Route 53, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, ELB, EBS, R53, Cloud formation, Chef, Maven, Git, Jenkins 2.x, Docker EE, Python, Shell scripting, Ruby, Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, MySQL.

Sr. Windows Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing Active Directory, Group policy, DHCP and DNS management.
• Manage production and pre-production technology systems in a datacenter environment.
• Coordinate with the Platform Engineering team to develop integrated work flows for our Server Administration team.
• Monitor productions systems, respond to and troubleshoot incidents.
• Creating Power shell scripts to automate tasks.
• Assisted in Administration and support of Windows servers to include Active Directory, Group Policy, MS IIS, WSUS, Direct Access, LAN/WAN, DNS, DHCP, VPN, MDM, NAV, Hyper-V, Office 365 and Exchange 2010
• Participate in On-call after-hours support schedule for server systems to be performed on a rotational basis.
• Prompt the deployment of several IT projects over seeing consultants and junior administrators in the migration of Windows 64 bit servers and XP client to Window 7 along with applications.
• Delivered second level remote hardware and software support services to clients to resolve product use and multi-product/platform problems, and/or questions relating to enterprise systems, networks and application software, as well as desktop applications that are beyond the scope of the client's first level help desk support function.
• Expertise in Deployment of System Center Configuration Manager with full understanding of downloading and deploying MS patches using WSUS within SCCM. Ability to create deployments/Collections/Packages points within an SCCM environment. Resolved deployment issues by checking SCCM logs
• Worked as an escalation point for major incident and problem resolution. Responsible for determining root cause analysis. Managing any roadblocks involving internal and external support groups, vendors, suppliers, and customers.
• Ensured resolutions were entered in the Knowledge Database. Proactive in problem assessment by focusing on trends in the incident management reports.
• Following ITIL best practices achieved and maintain good SLA rating on break fix in the region my team supported with team building exercises and process improvements such as Asset Management (Software licenses, Hardware inventory) Re-negotiated SLA and OLA to meet changing business service needs.

Environment: Windows server 2003/2008 R2, 2012, VMware ESXi 4.x/5. x., Active directory, Microsoft IIS,VMware vSphere 4.1 & 5.1, DNS, IIS, DHCP, IIS, Citrix

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working on release management, Incident management, Problem management and Change management per ITIL process.
• Perform 24x7 on call duties on a rotation basis with the other system administrators
• Analyze Windows Systems, check processes and log files, and retrieve and review information contained within logs for troubleshooting
• Managed users and computers with Active Directory and Group Policy and Created Group Policies to automate onboarding and security processes
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities
• Monitor and troubleshoot backups, scheduled jobs, and to monitor systemsand processes and take proactive action
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systemsand key processes, reviewingsystemand application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups
• Performed Administration duties for the following technologies: DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, Network Monitoring, Security, Backups, Software Updates, Print Services, Testing, IIS, Exchange, Fax Server, Analyzing Event Logs, Hardware maintenance

Environment: Asp.Net, C#, HTML, JavaScript, Windows Server 2008/2012/R2, Visual Studio 2012, IIS, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).