SUMMARY:

• 7+ Years of IT experience as system administrator/engineer, with 4+ years of experience in Azure IaaS.
• Extensive experience on deploying compute and storage in Azure cloud.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication Network Security Groups.
• Worked on Cloud Administration tasks such as creating Affinity Groups, Storage Accounts, Site - Site VPN, ExpressRoute, DNS servers.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud networking topologies and diagnostics.
• Experience with load balancers, high availability, disaster recovery, and Business Continuity.
• Extended working knowledge in cloud service, azure blob and table storages.
• Configured NSGs for two tier and three tier applications. Experience in integrating on premises servers to Azure.
• Configured VNets and subnets as per the project requirement.
• Configured private and public facing Azure load balancers etc.
• Build Data Sync job on Windows Azure to synchronize school’s data from SQL 2012, 2012R2, 2016 databases to SQL Azure.
• Design and Implement Database Schema import data and build stored procedures on SQL Azure.
• Extensive experience implementing software throughout the SDLC process, deep hands-on experience of networking, migration and implementation in Azure.
• Supported windows servers include DNS, WINS, Proxy, IIS, SMS, SQL, Exchange, RAS servers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2016/2012/2012 R 2/2008/2003/2000, Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, XP Clients, Windows Azure.

Applications: Exchange Server 2013/2003/2000, Windows 2012/2008/2003 DHCP Server, IIS 8.0, 7.0, 6.0 Web Server, 2012/2008/2003 DNS Server, Proxy Server (ISA/Firewall 2006), Windows Azure AD

MS Office Suite: 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, Office 365, Visual studio

Networking: Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, Load Balancer, DNS, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway

Azure Active Directory, Azure Identity, Multi: Factor Authentication (MFA)

Office and Developer Services: Visual Studio Online, Git, and Office 365

Databases: MS Access, SQL server administration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Azure Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IIS web server on Microsoft Windows 2012/2012R2 /2016 server accordingly.
• Perform hands-on activities involved in creating cloud infrastructure components.
• Worked extensively on configuring, installing and migrating VM Servers between different clusters.
• Performed design, deployment, configuration, and maintenance of scalable Cloud infrastructure; with an intense focus on Quality and Security.
• Deployed NSGs, VMs in a resource group using PowerShell.
• Deployed new VMs for Development and Test Environment using PowerShell.
• Migrating virtual environments VMWare to Azure cloud using ASR.
• Scripting and automation to move workloads and improve operations and support
• Configured VMs in availability sets using ARM templates to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic.
• Deployed VNETs and Site-Site VPN using PowerShell and deployed VMs into various Subnets and enabled communication between Subnets.
• Perform troubleshooting and diagnosis to hardware/software network failures and provide resolutions.
• Configured Authentication methods in IIS 7.0/7.5/8.0/8.5 to control access to the applications.
• Troubleshoot and properly document network, server, workstation, software, and security issues.
• Replicate VMware VMs to Azure with Site Recovery.
• Configured SQL Server 2016 and 2012R2 on to Azure VMs.
• Deployed the applications on multiple IIS application Servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Installing windows roles, features and deploying applications using PowerShell scripting.
• Good working experience with PowerShell 5.1, 3.0 on windows server 2008R2/2012R2/2016 environments.
• Created user accounts, modified and deleted according to the environment using user administration in Active Directory.
• Working experience in setting up cluster environment for load balancing and high availability of Windows servers.
• Well-versed with installation, configuration & administration of Microsoft Windows 2008R2/2012R2 Servers.
• Good working experience on PowerShell scripting And MS Web Deploy for creating Websites.
• Created user accounts, modified and deleted according to the environment using user administration in Active Directory.
• Actively participated in 24X7 on call production support.

Environment: IIS 7.5, IIS 6.0, Windows Server 2008R2/20012 R2/2016, Microsoft Azure IaaS. SQlServer2016/2014, Oracle, Tomcat Management.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Azure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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.
• Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the VNets to the Internet using Azure External Load Balancer.
• Built a solution using Azure managed services and Blob storage to archive on-premises data to cloud.
• Created users, roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Migrating applications from IIS 6.0 to 7.5 as well as II6.0 to IIS 8.0.
• Deploying and managing applications in Datacenter, Virtual environment and Azure platform as well.
• Deployed application on multiple web servers and maintained Load balance, high availability and fail over functionality.
• Installed, administered, managed multiple Active Directory Domains, performed audits of AD objects and user permissions, developed OUs, managed group policies, managed active directory replications, managed FSMO roles, provided AD infrastructure, administration, installation, optimization, problem isolation and resolution.
• Develop Power Shell scripts to automate locating and correcting accounts with provisioning issues.
• Develop Power Shell scripts to perform pre-migration assessments of Active Directory and server states.
• Working in building new environments by creating VMs, deploying windows operating system then installing platform pre-requirements, deploying applications and configuring security.

Environment: IIS 8.0, IIS 7.5, IIS 6.0, .Net 4.0, Windows Server 20012 R2, Microsoft Azure.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in building new Azure Infrastructure.
• Created new Resource groups, Virtual Machines, in Azure Cloud.
• Implement and support new and existing customers on Microsoft Azure infrastructure and Microsoft IaaS
• Involved in application migrations from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0.
• Created clusters on IIS web servers using Network load balancing and managed net scale clusters including configuring clusters in global traffic management.
• Performed Power Shell scripting for Active Directory and Exchange.
• Worked on SQL server 2005/2008, creating the databases, roles, security, writing queries, setting up SQL mirroring, running SQL jobs and troubleshooting connectivity and network related issues.
• Worked on backups, restores, troubleshooting SQL server connectivity failure issues from middle tier, troubleshooting SQL database locking, and blocking issues.
• Documentation of installation guides during platform upgrades and application migrations.
• Deployed several .NET applications on IIS 6.0/7.0 Web server in Windows 2003/2008/2012 server.
• Provided on call support for production and other environments.
• Involved in designing Platform architecture for internet and Intranet app projects and managing the application availability.
• Deployed and Maintained windows phone applications on azure cloud technologies.
• Converted .Net application to Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Project as part of cloud deployment.

SoCtronics, Hyderabad, India

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on application migrations from IIS6.0 to IIS 7.0 by creating migration plans and implementing then towards successful migration involving zero downtime.
• Daily lab tasks like server imaging, OS installations, Configuring Disk arrays, RAID configurations and handling lab stuff like VLAN, network cables, KVM, security patching
• Building virtual machines using Hyper-V, configuring and trouble shooting them
• Worked on building cluster environment that provides live migration of VM's using windows server 2008 R2 and NetAPP (SAN Storage)
• Worked on F5 BigIP load balancer and its configurations like nodes, pools, virtual servers Installed and configured SQL server 2008 with data base replication and Mirroring
• Worked with installation and configuration of system center tools like SCVMM (system center virtual machine manager) and monitoring tools like MOM, SCOM (system center operations manager). including firewalls and other preventive techniques
• Provide technical support for internal computer problems and customer problems
• Configured and supported inter-office networks and file servers
• Configure LAN/WAN hardware of all types including desktops and printers
• Installed, configured, managed windows servers, domain controllers, DHCP servers, DNS servers, created user accounts, groups, group policies, deployed, upgraded software, managed applications, backup and restored data, checked event logs, assigned permissions, managed tasks for disks and volumes, files and folders management, managed servers remotely, Monitored server performance, security related events, managed network printers.
• Assisted in installing, configuring, managing all software and hardware upgrades
• Analyzed and recommended network configuration as needed.