SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of IT experience as Azure Cloud Infrastructure management and Implementation.
• Expertise in System and Server administration of Windows and Linux Environments.
• Experience in installing, upgrading, patching, configuring and administratingLinuxOS with proper release management.
• Experience in WindowsAzureServices like PaaS, IaaS and worked onstorages like Blob (Page and Block), SQLAzure. Well experienced in deployment & configuration management and Virtualization.
• Experience in Performance Monitoring, Security, Trouble shooting, Backup, Disaster recovery, Maintenance and Support ofLinuxsystems.
• Expertise in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Office365).
• 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 setting up servers from scratch on clustered environment and load balancing.
• Planning and implementing Disaster Recovery solutions, capacity planning, data archiving, backup/recovery strategies, Performance Analysis and optimization.
• Experience on installing and configuring SSL s in web servers.
• Expertise in setting up cluster environment for load balancing and high availability of Windows servers.
• Experience in working with Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 Active Directory and Administration.
• Experience in Azure Marketplace where to search, deploy and purchase wide range of applications and services.
• Experience in automating day-to-day activities by using Windows Power Shell.
• Experience in deploying Microsoft Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
• Worked in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, and Auto-Scaling.
• Experience in managing Azure Storage Accounts.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently as a team member as well as individually with a desire to learn new skills and technology.
• Collaborated with the Networking Team, Stakeholders and Microsoft Representatives to develop a desired outcome.
• Experience in Cisco Cloud Center to more securely deploy and manage applications in multiple data center, private cloud, and public cloud environments.
• Excellent problem solver possessing positive outlook with a blend of technical and managerial skills aimed to deliver the task before deadlines.
• Working experienceAzureDatawarehouse, BLOB storage and Integration between on-perm andAzurecloud.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure (IaaS & PaaS)

Operating Systems: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2 Servers, Windows Server 2000/2003, Windows10/ 8/7/Vista/XP, Linux, & Mac OS.

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

Databases: MySQL, SQL server.

Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, UDP, SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, and RIP, ISCSI, Fiber Channel NIS, NFS, .NET, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN.

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

Virtualization: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware.

Languages: C, C++, SQL, PowerShell, Python, HTML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Azure Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience in Azure cloud worked on Azure web application, App services, Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob storage, Azure Functions, Virtual machines, Fabric controller, Azure AD, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus, and notification hub. Proficient in using Azure service fabric to package, deploy, manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers.
• Proficient as Cloud Administrator, involved in configuration for the Traffic Manager, Data factory, Event hub, function apps, V-net integration, HCM, Application gateway, App Insights, Active Directory, Azure Key Vault, Encryption and Security on Azure using ARM templates and PowerShell script.
• Experienced with operations of cloud services PaaS/SaaS/IaaS in designing and automate the infrastructures and deploying in Azure cloud platform.
• Experienced in migrating on-premises, .Net apps, DevOps platform to Azure CI/CD processes by utilizing ARM templates, Azure CLI, App services to build Repos, Pipelines, Web Apps, and monitoring applications using Application Insights.
• Hands-on experience in using JIRA as a bug tracking system. Configured various workflows, customizations, and plug-ins for JIRA bug/issue tracker and integration of Jenkins with Jira/ GitHub to track change requests, bug fixes manage tickets for corresponding Sprints.
• Working on Agile, DevOps principles.
• Working on internal and external aggregated pipelines to make them available to end users.
• Working on Azure (IAAS), Should be involved in the planning, design, and deployment of Cloud solutions.
• Installed, configured, administered, monitored Azure, IAAS and PAAS, Azure AD.
• Design Network Security Groups (NSG) and subnets.
• Develop and maintains the Resource groups and instances
• Azure VMs, Networking (VNet’s, Load Balancers, App Gateway, Traffic Manager, etc.)
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet withAzureInternal Load Balancer.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure Resource Management templates, Virtual Networks, Storage, Virtual Machines, and Azure Active Directory.
• Actively participated in all the Agile meetings, Scrum meetings and involved in all the Retrospective meetings.
• Experience in developing pipelines inAzureData Factoryusing SQLAzure.
• Migrating current data center environment toAzure Cloudusing tools likeAzureSite Recovery (ASR).
• Implementing changes to firewalls and VNet’s to comply with customer Security policies (i.e. Network Security Groups, etc.)
• Enhancing customer’s capabilities around logging (centralizing log files and potentially using OMS or App Insights to look for problems and take action).
• Working in base lining, capacity planning, Data Center Infrastructure & Network Designing, Windows ServerMigrations.
• Configured the followingsecuritycontrols forAzureSecurityCenter: ensure that standard pricing tier is selected, ensure that 'Automatic provisioning of monitoring agent' is set to 'On, ensure that 'System updates' is set to 'On', and ensure that 'SecurityConfigurations' is set to 'On'
• Microsoft Azure IaaS Services, Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), DNS, SSL, PowerShell scripting. Migrate critical data, processes, and workflows to Azure cloud-based infrastructure and ensure solution technology meets business requirements.
• Optimized SQL Server forASP.NETinternal enterprise application. SetupWindows Workflowto work with insurance application processing inASP.NET.
• Experienced in developing web-based applications using Python.
• Experience in handling various backend data sources likeMS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , MS AccessandXML, XAML Data source

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Azure Solution Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement Microsoft Azure IaaS solutions:
• Managing, maintaining, monitoring and securing (including data security) of all servers including installations, upgrades, patches and documentation.
• Working with Microsoft Azure, Azure Resource Management templates, Virtual Networks, Storage, Virtual Machines, and Azure Active Directory.
• Handle deployment workflow including provisioning, load balancing, health monitoring and maintain the Resource groups.
• Work across the enterprise to coordinate with the various stakeholders. This is an experienced individual contributor position that will work with cross-functional team members for day-to-day activities.
• Supporting lift and shift migration of workloads to Azure cloud on several azure products, Operations Management Suite, Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup, etc. Supporting buildout of Azure infrastructure as needed for project.
• Providing support, assistance and guidance with post-migration related issues, Available as an Azure advisor and escalation point for Azure related issues during project.
• Designing and Implement Azure storage solutions and DeployAzureIaaS virtual machines (VMs) into secure VNet’s and subnets.
• Working on ASC, tagging standards and policies that needs to assign according to the project requirements.
• Design and Implementation of Firewall appliances (Barracuda WAF/NG) in Azure
• Modifying software as needed to eliminate errors, simplify interfaces, enhance performance, improve overall reliability, or adapt to new requirements. Perform updates, repairs, and enhancements of existing system functionalities to increase operational efficiency or adapt to new requirements.
• Experience in Event Hubs to process and store events, data, or telemetry produced by distributed software and devices.
• Experience in automate processes using runbooks or automate configuration management using Desired State Configuration.
• Hands-On Experience in building Continuous delivery environments using Jenkins, Git/GitHub/Docker.
• Hands on Experience in MSAZURE(AzureDataFactory,AzureDataLake,DataBricks)
• Experienced in designing and implementing Service Oriented Architecture underlined with Ingress and Egress usingAzureData Lake Store &AzureData Factory by adding blobs to lakes for analytic results and so pull data fromAzureData Lake to the Blobs.
• CI-CD pipeline has been used to deploy the code to Production.
• ETL: Employ tools likeAzureSQL Server,AzureDataFactoryand Data Bricks to create end-to-enddatapipelines for collecting, cleansing and processing clientdata.
• Deploy and manage AzureDatabricks instance forDatascience team for analysis on promotions and new products.
• Actively participated in all the Agile meetings, Scrum meetings and involved in all the Retrospective meetings.
• Experience in developing pipelines inAzureData Factoryusing SQLAzure.
• Migrating current data center environment toAzure Cloudusing tools likeAzureSite Recovery (ASR).
• Implementing changes to firewalls and VNet’s to comply with customer Security policies (i.e. Network Security Groups, etc.)
• Enhancing customer’s capabilities around logging (centralizing log files and potentially using OMS or App Insights to look for problems and take action).
• Working in base lining, capacity planning, Data Center Infrastructure & Network Designing, Windows ServerMigrations.
• Configured the followingsecuritycontrols forAzureSecurityCenter: ensure that standard pricing tier is selected, ensure that 'Automatic provisioning of monitoring agent' is set to 'On, ensure that 'System updates' is set to 'On', and ensure that 'SecurityConfigurations' is set to 'On'
• Microsoft Azure IaaS Services, Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), DNS, SSL, PowerShell scripting. Migrate critical data, processes, and workflows to Azure cloud-based infrastructure and ensure solution technology meets business requirements.
• Created DSCconfigurationfor servers that are not a member of any Active Directory and cannot be configured Via Group Policy.

Confidential - Norfolk, VA

Azure Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the client needs and design the implementation to the product.
• Create the Virtual Machine cluster and load balance for VM's using PowerShell
• Configuring the IIS service to deploy the web applications on balanced environment.
• Create and configuring a balanced environment for FTP server and used PowerShell for this activity.
• Used ASP.NETMVC framework to support the use of Dependency Injection to inject objects into a class, instead of relying on the class to create the object itself.
• Worked on Stream Analytics and managed in event-processing engine to set up real-time analytic computations on streaming data.
• Design and Implementation of Firewall appliances (Barracuda WAF/NG) in Azure
• Configure the same for IDS/IPS and to establish VPN connections.
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet withAzureInternal Load Balancer.
• Worked on enabling the users to automatically get signed-on to ServiceNow (Single Sign-On) with their Azure AD accounts.
• Working experience with TFS/VSTS, Jenkins, Git, Jira & Ansible.
• Web Services experience with Apache, Nginx, and RESTful APIs
• Identity & Access Management: Azure Active Directory, Azure Identity, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Experience in applications, virtual machine images, VM extensions, APIs under Azure Marketplace.
• Involved in the design and development of web application in C#.NET, ASP.Net, User Controls and deployment in the cloud environment.
• Worked on Azure Cosmos DB that how to replicate the data across any number of Azure regions and scale your throughput independent from the storage, while benefitting from comprehensive SLAs.
• Experience in Custom Process design of Transformation viaAzureData Factory & AutomationPipelines.
• Design and implement asynchronous processes for delivery of XML files. These processes were connected using Azure Queues to communicate each other.
• DeployedAzureIaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNet’s and subnets.
• Leading theteamfor inducing MicrosoftAzureChat support for end users supporting most of the issues that are supported and on delivering the product to testing from development.

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Azure Engineer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Build, Test and Deploy applications for hardware and software configuration on servers.
• Handle deployment workflow including provisioning, load balancing, and health monitoring.
• Design Network Security Groups (NSG) and subnets.
• Develop and maintains the Resource groups and instances
• Azure VMs, Networking (VNet’s, Load Balancers, App Gateway, Traffic Manager, etc.)
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet withAzureInternal Load Balancer.
• Azure Service Fabric, Containers, Azure Resource Manager, ARM automation, Azure Key Vault, Encryption and Security.
• Created a managed Image of VHD in order to be able to easily deploy VMs from golden image.
• Adhered to ITILConfigurationManagement policies and procedures
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure Resource Management templates, Virtual Networks, Storage, Virtual Machines, and Azure Active Directory.
• Attend ongoing client meetings to introduce and answer Azure PAAS and IAAS questions as they arise, covering important application migration considerations and options.
• Experience in stream-processing logic to gather data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
• Involved in developing required classes and interfaces using C# .NET.
• Designed large numbers ofWPFForms, Custom Controls and User Controls using XAML language for UI and Dynamic Web Parts for personalized content which allows Change, Edit, Move the content on pages as per users own choice.
• Installed, configured, administered, monitored Azure, IAAS and PAAS, Azure AD.
• Drive end to end deployment of various Components on theAzurePlatform.
• Modification of Certs, Password and Storage Accounts on the cloud platform setting up and administer service accounts.
• Frequent use and application of technical standard, principles, theories and concept of cloud components.
• Developed Web Forms for the modules using ASP.Net server controls, Validation Controls, and HTML, CSS.
• Develop, test, and deploy new Teradata SQL code to load and transform data as per your requirements.
• Provide solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Create and modify PowerShell and XML files.