Azure Cloud Engineer Resume
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SUMMARY
- Around 7 years of Information Technology experience in system design, development, analysis and implementation using Microsoft Technologies.
- Expertise in Managing Azure services and subscriptions using Azure portals
- Expertise in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services ( PaaS & IaaS ), Application Insights, Azure Monitoring, Key Vault and Visual Studio Online (VSO).
- Good knowledge in cloud - based FTP and other forms of file sharing.
- Good understanding of Azure Web App hosting plans and experience of Implementing, deploying, and configuring Azure Websites.
- Good understanding of storage concepts. Experience in designing, implementing Azure Storage.
- Experience on migration.
- Experience on migrating on premises servers into Azure.
- Experience in creating and deploying virtual networks and virtual machines using templates.
- Hands-on experience in managing configuration, Windows Azure Migration, Deployments, maintenance, software application & hardware devices with a focus on systems and Windows Azure environments.
- Experience in Migrating from SQL server 2000 to 2005 and 2005 to 2008 and 2008 to 2012 by using In-Place upgrade process as well as side-by-side upgrade process and documented complete Upgrade Process.
- Created resource groups using resource manager, which allow seeing cost/billing and monitoring.
- Performed migration of Microsoft SQL server to Azure SQL database and created the geo replications in different regions.
- Displayed quality skills in planning & designing servers for backup & recovery in Azure, restoring application/Vms etc. in case of crash/ emergencies & maintaining high availability with configuration.
- Resourceful in delivering System/Applications maintenance support and responding to outages during off-hour software deployments within established Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Extensive involvement in designing Azure Resource Manager Template and in designing custom build steps using PowerShell.
- Experience in handling various backend data sources like MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , MS Access and XML, XAML Data source.
- Expertise in RDBMS including MS SQL Server, MS Access with thorough knowledge in writing SQL queries, Stored Procedures, Views, Functions, Packages, Triggers, Testing exception handlers, Cursors & tables and objects types.
- Experience in migrating web-based database applications from physical servers and VMs to Azure would be an advantage.
- Hands on experience in installation, configuring and troubleshooting DNS and DHCP servers.
- Troubleshot Azure services synchronization with on premise AD and resynchronized using the Azure tools. Windows 7, Office 365 and Windows 10 deployment, troubleshooting, installation, ghosting and back- Confidential .
- Setup and configured SCCM Operating System Deployment (OSD) for Windows XP, 7 and Windows 10.
- Windows 10 Deployment on user’s computer by using SCCM 2016.
- Expertise in Active Directory Setup and troubleshooting for any deleted objects, AD Recycle Bin, and Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
- Experience in PowerShell scripting for automation of repeatable work.
- Knowledge of storage concepts such as ISCSI SAN, NAS, NFS.
- Knowledge of Networking concepts i.e. TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs and routing Administrating, creating, and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation
- Installed and configured IIS including administering SSL certificates like renewing and deploying SSL Certificates
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Azure Expertise: IaaS, PaaS, VM Migrations, Traffic Manager, Azure AD, SQL Azure, Active Directory, Power Shell, Service Bus, Blob storages and Azure Cloud Services
Application/Web Server: Tomcat 5.0/6.0, IIS
Scripting Language: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and PowerShell
Database: SQL Server 2008/2014, MS Access
Version Control: TFS, Visual Studio Online
IDE: Visual Studio
Operating Systems: Windows 10, Windows Server 2019/2012/2012 R2/2008/2008 R2/2003, Windows 8/7/XP
File Servers: DFS, FTP, Windows SharePoint Services
Web Servers: Internet Information Services 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0
Networking: DNS, DHCP, NLB & Failover clusters
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, NJ
Azure Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Implement the OMS tool to monitor the azure infrastructure.
- Managing the Vendors.
- Helping customer to migrate the SQL DBs in azure.
- On-Premises to azure migration.
- Architecting, Designing and implementation of azure services based on the projects.
- Providing the azure Training for internal Employing and team.
- Analysing the customer subscription cost and helping to save the cost.
- Create Cloud migration plan and strategic road map with effort estimates.
- Analysing on premise cost and Azure cost as per customer requirements.
- Helping customer to provide the training on new azure services and features.
- Helping Customers for application monitoring and providing the internal training.
- Understand business requirements, system analysis of Customer Environments.
- Design and implement Azure CLOUD based solutions.
- Communication with client-side technical team on architecture point of view and signoff.
- Migration Project's reviews and guide team on technical and functional perspective.
- Windows Azure Environment setups and implementation.
- Support system testing\Integration testing and UAT before deploying to production Environment.
- Managing & Monitoring Daily events for Azure Technical Service.
- Experience in designing cloud, Web, and middleware solutions, supporting them with solution approach, cloud assessment workshops, POCs and development/migration Plans.
- Create and maintain project related documentation (Statement of Work Document, Proof of concept document, technical design document etc.)
- Manage resources and develop staff, assist in defining team objectives, provide subject matter expertise and conduct performance reviews
- Developing, implementation and documentation of operating policies, methods, processes, measures, and tools.
- Migration Project's reviews and guide team on technical and functional perspective.
- Windows Azure Environment setups and implementation.
- Support system testing\Integration testing and UAT before deploying to production Environment.
- Managing & Monitoring Daily events for Azure Technical Service.
- Coordinate all vendor management tasks inclusive of working with external vendors and internal employees.
- Ensuring enterprise-wide needs for due diligence, risk assessment and continuing vendor monitoring are being accomplished.
- Experience in designing cloud, Web, and middleware solutions, supporting them with solution approach, cloud assessment workshops, POCs and development/migration Plans.
- Create and maintain project related documentation (Statement of Work Document, Proof of concept document, technical design document etc.)
- Cloud Advisory and Consultancy.
- Analysing and identifying applications for cloud assessment and fitment, mapping the workloads across IaaS, PaaS, and private clouds.
- Engaging with customer base to understand their evolving business needs and align IT strategy on priorities
- Analysing on premise cost and Azure cost.
- Implemented Active Directory 2012 into the enterprise
- Configured Windows 2012 R2 Direct access to Windows 7 Domain resources
- Created Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries in System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) R2
- Active Directory Installation & Configuration, Group policy management, DHCP, DNS, NPS administration on Windows Server 2012/R2
- Configuration of Azure AAD Connect Synchronization Tool.
- Power Shell scripting and automation of routine tasks
- Deployment of software packages, Operating System, and windows patches through SCCM server.
- Troubleshooting experience on Windows Client OS like Windows7 and Windows8
- Integrated Opera application components with OAM for single sign-on
- Audit GPOs in PROD and DEV domains to point out inconsistency in GPO settings.
- Experienced in assessment, design, pilot, and upgrades/implementations of enterprise directory services technologies.
- Active Directory, LDAP, and Kerberos
Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1/5.1, ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/5.0, Citrix, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 , ADFS, CISCO blade servers, Remote Desktop Services,, Microsoft Visual Studio TFS, Azure portal.
Confidential - New Jercy City, NJ
Azure Cloud Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Involved in migration from on-premises to Azure Cloud.
- Performance Tuning for Applications using the Native Zip by the IIS
- Installed SQL Server 2012 Cluster and configured Always On availability group set up on Windows Server 2008R2 in Development and Production environments.
- Experience in designing and Implementing Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup
- Creating multiple Virtual Machines using PowerShell scripting for the testing purposes.
- Managed Azure services and subscriptions using Azure portals, managed Azure resources with Azure Resource Manager
- Installed, configured, administered, monitored Azure, IAAS and PAAS, Azure AD.
- Used Windows Azure portal to manage Virtual Network.
- Automate maintenance plan jobs in SQL Server agent and task scheduler: such as shrinking database, backup database, index rebuilding, creating filtered indexes, index reorganizing, cleaning up, and updating statistics.
- Created, managed, monitored VM using Windows Azure portal admin
- Hands on experience in implementing infrastructure on Azure cloud
- Deploying Azure resources using Power Shell and portal
- Created, managed, monitored Web site using Windows Azure portal admin
- Deploying local database into Azure SQL server database by using Data Factory Management.
- Installing and maintaining different server roles in the virtual machines created for the developers.
- Configured NSGs for two tier and three tier applications
- Experience in integrating on premises AD to Azure AD
- Configured VNETs and subnets as per the project requirement
- Configured Azure blob storage and Azure file servers based on the requirements.
- Implementation and troubleshooting EXPRESSROUTE connectivity for private, public and Microsoft peering.
- Implementation and troubleshooting Internal load balancer, Internet load balancer and Application gateway.
- Securing Infrastructure by implementing Network security groups and Virtual appliance.
- Have extremely good knowledge on Azure Site Recovery, Data backup and Replication.
- Migration of VM WARE resources, Hyper-V resources and physical machines from on premises to Azure.
- Worked on migrating on premises servers into Azure.
- Worked on Azure Active Directory.
- Good knowledge on performance monitoring, exposure to Operation Management Suite (OMS).
- Worked on point-to-site VPN configuration as well as site-to-site connectivity.
- Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates
- Documenting Application Installation, known issues which occur regularly.
- Configuration of certain IIS related settings are coded into the web config file as part of the Web configurator utility effort
- Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion- migrations between ESX Servers .
- Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center
- Handling refresh updates will pick up any changes made to an AD or Cloud object since the last cache refresh.
- Installation of Web components like IIS.
- Managing Webservers and Troubleshooting the .NET applications thru Advanced IIS tracing techniques.
- Experience with Microsoft Network Load Balancing and Microsoft Clustering technologies.
Environment: Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012, UCS, Active directory, vMotion, SV-Motion, vCenter, vSphere, Azure Portal.
Confidential
Windows Engineer\Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Installing and upgrading the ESX/ESXi hosts and vCenters
- Upgrade the servers from 2003 to 2008R2 and 2012.
- Designed and implemented DFS-R for MDT 2012 U2 deployment shares across the US and other countries.
- Building packages for latest Microsoft OS like Windows 10 on different versions.
- Installed and configured MDT 2012 U2 with BUILD and DEPLOY deployment shares for Windows 10.
- Setup a local instance of Hyper-V to create the Windows 10 GOLD image.
- Created a task sequence in MDT 2013 U2 to capture the gold image within the Hyper-V VM.
- Captured the Windows 10 Enterprise GOLD image from the VM inside the local Hyper-V instance using the MDT U2 capture task sequence.
- Helping team for solving SCCM agent and SCEP installation issues.
- Planning for windows 10 migration by testing images for dell desktop workstation-laptops and thin clients for V
- Develop, document and implement Engineering and Operational strategy for the Storage infrastructure.
- Maintained security upgrades for installed software.
- Responsible for managing users Microsoft Outlook and Active Directory Accounts.
- Installed and configured networks, router, TCP/IP, and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN
- Providing Comprehensive documentation for system builds.
- Power Shell scripting and automation of routine tasks
- Deploy and manage VMware horizon view on CISCO UCS for deployment and failover clustered Hyper-V environments
- Reviewed Active Directory and exchange structure and made recommendations for changes to follow Microsoft best practices
- Managing Webservers and Troubleshooting the .NET applications thru Advanced IIS tracing techniques.
- Configuration of certain IIS related settings are coded into the web config file as part of the Web configurator utility effort.
- Performance Tuning for Applications using the Native Zip by the IIS
- Monitoring the Domino mail servers across the country for mail routing, Database quotas and access, web-mail access, Cluster replication, database replication, server tasks, server health etc.
- Register, rename, recertify, and delete users, move users to new certifier, move users mail files to Different server, modify person docs, database access issues, out of office agents, modify location Docs, creating mail-in databases, distribution lists, ACL only, Mail only, and Multi- Purpose Notes Groups etc.
- Determining causes of delivery failures through message tracking, tracert, and examination of server Log file and configuration etc.
- Managed Group Polices, Security groups, and file shares for Trinity enterprise
- Used Operating System Deployment (OSD) module of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to create automated server builds for both physical and in VMware ESX 5.5 environments
- Served as Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Subject Matter Expert
- Implemented Active Directory 2012 into the enterprise
- Configured Windows 2012 R2 Direct access to Windows 7 Domain resources
- Configured VMware Templets to be deployed into the enterprise environment
- Created Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries in System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) R2
- Experience writing both Power Shell and PowerCLI scripts to automate Virtual Machine builds and DNS entry configurations.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with the ability to interact effectively with employees at all levels within the organization
- Efficient with PowerShell scripting.
- Deploying SCCM 2007 solution for Update Management and OS Deployment for Windows Server 2008.
- Attending CAB meetings and weekly and Monthly team meeting for reviewing SCCM activities.
- Accepted responsibility as Knowledge Base Manager of the team.
- Extended the Active Directory schema for Configuration Manager 2012.
- Deploying Windows 7, Windows 10 on user computers.
- Installing different types of roles and services as required in the environment like SCCM, SCOM, GPO etc.
- Register, rename, recertify, and delete users, move users to new certifier, move users mail files to Different server, modify person docs, database access issues, out of office agents, modify location Docs, creating mail-in databases, distribution lists, ACL only, Mail only, and Multi- Purpose Notes Groups etc.
- Experience in configuring multiple LDAP instances and defined LDAP Schemas.
- Defined and maintained Sun and Active Directory (LDAP) security models redundancy and availability.
- Configured Windows 2012 R2 Direct access to Windows 7 Domain resources
- Configured VMware Templets to be deployed into the enterprise environment
- Created Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) R2
- Configured clusters to provide fail over, load balancing and deployed applications on clusters.
- Providing problem resolution/troubleshooting for SCOM components.
- Implementing changes/enhancements to SCOM components and creating custom Management
- Creating the Backup’s and restoring the data for servers on scheduled basis.
- Experience in decommissioned and rebuild the servers in Data Centres.
- Experience with Data Centres on small and large scale.
- Track the issues and document the development process for program references.
- Communicate with Subject Matter Experts/Users to resolve and clarify any issues that are raised during the development cycle. Supporting Disaster Recovery Planning and Activation. IIS Management.
- Scripting and automating tasks using VBScript and PowerShell.
- Designing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting of SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2012.
- Performing regular health checks and diagnostics of site servers, system, and database.
- Monitoring event logs, System performance, inboxes, disk space availability, File clean up.
- Responsible for maintenance of enterprise SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2012 r2. This includes
- Deployment and performance guides for Virtual Networking
- Managing and monitoring the ESXi hosts and clusters in vCenter.
- Design and deploy ESXi and VCenter Servers.
- Creating and Managing Data Stores (Fibre Channel, NFS), HA/DRS, SDRS/vStandard Switch/vDS, PortGroups, NIC-Teaming, Port channel in ESXi hosts
- Performing vMotion, Cloning, Snapshot, FT, Update Manger, Host Profile, Manage OS Templates and Multipathing
Environment: Windows Server 2008/2008 R2, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, UCS, Active directory, vMotion, SV-Motion, vCenter, vSphere, Azure Portal.