PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Self - Motivated Architect / Lead / Consultant/ Developer with 13+ years of experience in Azure Cloud Technology, Infrastructure, development, analysis and implementation using Confidential Technologies for enterprise applications.
• Azure experience - Good hands on expertise in IAAS, PAAS & Big Data Technologies.
• Worked in Confidential Azure Support teams to support Confidential Hi-priority end customers. Worked for more than 8 years with Confidential .
• Expert level knowledge and experience in implementing Data Governance, Security and Cost Optimization in Cloud platform.
• Enterprise-level experience - Working with large teams and involved in architecture of highly scalable, secure, distributed applications, aligned with company standards, process, methodologies, and best practices.
• Process and Implementation - Extensive experience implementing ITIL process, deep hands-on experience of migration, monitoring, cost analysis and implementation in Azure.
• Ensured the responsible for overall technical quality, migration, deployment standards and architecture of the application.
• Worked in domains like Pharma, Digital, Telecom, Media and Manufacturing.

SKILL:

Domain Knowledge: Confidential Azure (IAAS, PAAS, Data), Active Directory, Office 365

DATA: Data factory, DataLake, Databricks, Event Hub, SQL DB etc.

Networking: VLAN, VPN, LAN, WAN, Express route, Site to Site VPN, Gateway

Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, SCOM, SCCM etc.

Migration Experience: User Migration, Servers Migration, Exchange Migration

Security: Azure Security center, Pacbot etc.

Cost Optimization: Tagging, Azure Advisory, Estimation, Cost Analysis & alerts

Automation: Azure DevOps, CI\CD, ARM templates, Terraform,JSON, PowerShell, VSC etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Redmond

Technology: Azure

Lead Solution Architect

Tools: Azure, Log-Analytics, Data Bricks, Data Factory, IAAS, PAAS, Key-vault, Data lake Gen1, Gen2, SQL DB & DWH, Automation Account, Azure DevOps,, CI/CD, ARM templates etc.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Solution Architect for the Pharma group Azure operations.
• Design and implement cost-effective high-end solutions in azure for better availability, and scalability.
• Design the Datalake platform to deal more than 2 PB of data for analytics purpose.
• Design and implement effective billing and charge back process in cloud platform.
• Design the Security roadmap to make sure all services are meeting the enterprise guidelines and standards.
• Design and implement IAM & RBAC policies across multiple subscriptions.
• Define the strategy and metrics for effective monitoring.
• Fine tuning the services as part of cost optimization
• On boarding new clients and services to the azure platform.

Confidential, Redmond

Technology: Azure

Azure Architect

Tools: Azure, Log-Analytics, Data Bricks, Data Factory, IAAS, PAAS, Key-vault, Data lake Gen2, Automation Account, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, ARM templates etc.

Responsibilities:

• Develop expert knowledge for Client business and problem/solution domain.
• Planned and implemented Azure Analytics platform for the Data scientists.
• Planned, estimated and created analytics environment for more than 60 Teams for hackathon event.
• Create and develop security baselines and guidelines for the platform maturity.
• Partnering the with Confidential and Databricks solution architects to create the road map and decrease the Azure spend.
• Designing the solutions based on the use case and requirement.
• Identify the MVP’s and prepare plan, design & implementation.
• Worked on cost optimization best practices and saved $1 million.
• Design and Developed Security polices for AAD, RBAC, IAM, SSO, NSG rules, Threat protection, SCIM, VNET ingestion, ACL’s for Data protection, Vulnerability management, Patching, Threat detection etc.
• Collaborate with application architects and DevOps to modernize infrastructure as a service (IaaS) applications to Platform as a Service (PaaS).
• Experience in designing and deploying the Microservices.
• Orchestration of new images deployment through Dockerization.
• Creating the network rules in pods for communication.
• Updating the pods with new images.
• Planning of application migration from On-premises to Azure cloud.
• Design the security guideline for ADLS GEN2 .
• Proficient with container systems like Docker and container orchestration like EC2 Container Service, Kubernetes.
• Managed Docker orchestration and Docker containerization using Kubernetes.
• Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers.
• Create proof-of-concepts to demonstrate viability of solutions under consideration.
• Experienced with building, integrating and configuring IAAS, PAAS, Azure SQL, Confidential SQL Server, Data Bricks, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Load balancer, Application Gateway etc.
• Ability to balance strategic and tactical skills.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Technology: Azure

Azure Architect

Tools: VSTS, GIT, CI\CD, AZURE, PowerShell, JSON, ARM

Responsibilities:

• Establishes and leads technology strategy and technology roadmaps that enable the business.
• Create new ARM templates for the build and release pipeline.
• Create a plan for converting the classic resources to ARM.
• Partners with Product Owners to align the roadmap with the technical design and strategy.
• Implemented Security features like RBAC & IAM polices, NSG rules, VNET ingestions.
• Helping the Scrum Master in sprint planning and documenting the process.
• Recommends and drives innovative solutions, which anticipates the future direction of the business, its drivers and technology strategy
• Reviews and ensures major architectural designs are consistent, maintainable, flexible and cost-effective solutions.
• Leads retrospectives and defining opportunities for experiments and POC s.
• Review the existing Logical Technical Architecture and Security Configuration base line and compare with the Confidential best practices and do the GAP analysis.
• Collecting the inventory details that need to harden and remediate.
• Migrating the servers using Azure Migrate.
• Segregating the Azure services as part of sprint planning and preparing the hardening checklist for each Azure service.
• Test and deploy multiple PAAS services through CI/CD pipeline.
• Create new ARM templates and artifacts to update the existing PAAS services as per the security standards.
• Make sure all deployed Azure services are meeting the organization security standards.
• Mentoring the team members in the daily activities.
• Create and develop automation scripts to meet the project goals.
• Deploying the Azure services through VSTS.
• Configuring the Azure Load balancers and traffic Manager.
• Deploying the OMS and defining the Metrics and Alerts.
• Creating the Vnets, Subnets and Network Security Groups.
• Configuring the Vnet-Vnet Peering.
• Monitoring the Servers and defining the alerts.

Confidential, Redmond

Technology: Azure

Azure Escalation Engineer

Tools: ASC, CMAT, MSSOLVE, ACIS, TFS, MSDN, MPN, LogMeIn, Kusto, Radius

Responsibilities:

• Escalation engineer for Azure Capacity and Billing issues for T100 Confidential customers
• Collaborate closely with Azure Engineering/PM to ensure the availability and performance of Live Site and the satisfaction of our customers.
• Suggesting customers is deploying the Azure best practices, by implementing Azure load balancers, availability sets and VM scaling options.
• Assisting support engineers on Azure IAAS, Storage, Active directory related issues for the T100 Confidential customers.
• Reviews and ensures major architectural designs are consistent, maintainable, flexible and cost-effective solutions.
• Leads retrospectives and defining opportunities for experiments and POC s.
• Handling Azure migration related scenarios regarding implementation of ASR and through Azure self-serve through portal based on the customer’s infrastructure.
• Suggesting customer regarding Confidential azure security best practices on Encryption at Rest & Transit, NAT, RBAC, NSG and Azure security center.
• Helping customers in implementing SSO and Azure B2C.
• Participate in on call coverage rotation - Provide leadership to all customer facing teams during incidents.
• Migrating the servers using Azure Site recovery.
• Suggesting and creating N-tier architecture for the customer in Azure.
• Improve Customer experience by analyzing signals from various sources, driving RCA's and Service improvements involving bug fixes.
• Drive continuous improvement in the Azure platform incorporating feedback from internal/external customer.
• Identify and drive requirements for increased customer self-supportability.
• Responsible for scheduling Confidence call between product groups, Field, TAM and Principle program managers for the Azure High Pri customer concerns.

Confidential, Redmond

Technology: Azure

Lead IAAS Consultant

Tools: ASC, CMAT, MSSOLVE, ACIS, TFS, MSDN, MPN, LogMeIn, Kusto, Radius

Responsibilities:

• Leading IAAS platform technical team, related to the Case management, onboarding new engineers, L3 support and technical guidance.
• Providing proof of concepts to the Customers as well as within the company.
• Helping customers in deploying the Confidential Azure best practices.
• Worked on VM related issues such as creation, migration, performance, monitoring, resizing, RDP, Disk and connectivity issues.
• Worked on Complex Azure migrations by migrating the resources between different tenants, Subscriptions and accounts.
• Worked on Azure storage related issues such as creation, deletion, copying (Azcopy and Storage Explorer), recovering the deleted container and accounts.
• Worked on Azure Disk related issues such as Expanding, adding new disks, creating large disks up to 4TB and IOPS issues.
• Helping customers in configuring Azure VM availability sets and Load balancers.
• Worked on creating and deploying VM through PowerShell &GitHub Jason templates.
• Explaining Customers about the Confidential Azure Offers and billing.
• Helping customers in managing and maintaining the Azure Storage accounts.
• Configuration and support of ARM Resources like VM, Storage, NSG, VNET and extensions.
• Guiding customers in configuring the Azure metrics and monitoring.
• Knowledge on Azure Active Directory, AD connect and syncing users from On-premises to cloud.
• Handling customer issues related to Subscription Migration, conversion, activation.
• Refunding the amount for customers as per Confidential Policy guidelines.
• Verifying the Customer entitlement and activating Benefits on the subscriptions.
• Collaboration with other Azure customer service teams regarding the customer cases.
• Create and develop automation scripts to meet the project goals.

Confidential, Redmond

Technology: Azure

Team Lead

Tools: Nessus scanner, Windows servers

Responsibilities:

• As a lead, Onboard the new Azure services every month that planned for scanning.
• Define the scanning plan based on the volume and resource strength.
• Make sure all scanners are updated with the latest signature before scanning
• Categories the scanning tasks as per FedRamp & SOC/ISO/PCI s.
• Generating the inventory for the Azure services through Scan Cue tool.
• Using SCAN CUE tool generate IP’s based on the service, cluster and Operating system.
• Creation of Firewall rules in the servers.
• Initiating the SCANS through SCAN CUE Tool and make sure scans are passed by cross checking SMB/credentials passed.
• Reconciliation of reports to check all roles are covered in the service as per defined standard.

Confidential

Technology: Active Directory, Windows server 2008

SPOC

Tools: Dynamic Orchestration, Hyper-V

Responsibilities:

• Planning the New OS & role deployments across the Confidential private cloud datacenters in china.
• Imaging the Physical servers as per the Confidential standard guidelines.
• Recruiting and Mentoring employees.
• Coordinate with Datacenters Team to configure the Servers as per the Inventory.
• Patching servers monthly as per the process.
• Running the latest RTO and deployments.
• Documenting the best process and work flow that we are implementing.
• Handling the Incidents related to Servers and Confidential services.

Confidential

Technology: Active Directory, Windows server 2008

Shift Lead

Tools: SCVMM, Hyper-V, MSCS, NLB

Responsibilities:

• Shift lead for 15 plus team members in assigning daily tasks and shift handovers.
• Handling the critical change management tasks across the Confidential datacenters.
• Assisting and mentoring the team members in handling the cases.
• Delivered Virtual & physical Servers by installing OS, Service packs, SQL, IIS, and server renaming by using Hyper-V and SCVMM.
• Delivered BLADE Servers by installing OS, Service packs SQL, IIS, and EMC SAN by using HP- ILO.
• Migrated Virtual servers to clustered Hosts to make the VM High available by using SCVMM.
• MSCS cluster configuration as per the standard process.
• Decommissioning Virtual, Physical and Blade servers as per the standard process defined.
• Provision of New Virtual Servers as per customer’s requirement.