SUMMARY:

• To pursue contract roles as an Azure Architect/DevOps.
• 15+ years’ experience in Microsoft Technologies, Strong business focus, with technical knowledge and experience to bridge the gap between the client needs and ICT advancements and passionate to make a difference in any endeavor.
• Successfully accomplished more than 100 large scale IT projects across a number of industries.
• Architecting Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) Implementation,
• Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) design, configuration, implementation and management
• Azure Compute Services design, configuration and optimization: Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, App Service (Web App, Mobile App, Logic App, API App), App Service Environment (ASE), Azure Functions, Batch, Service Fabric and cloud services
• Architecting, design and implementation of Azure Networking Services: Virtual Network, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, Azure DNS, Traffic Manager, Express Route.
• Architecting, designing and securing elastic storage in Azure: Blob, queue, File, Disk, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
• Architecting and designing solutions based on Microsoft Azure: App Service, Web App, Mobile App, Logic App, API App, Azure Search, API Management, Notification hubs
• Architecting and designing Azure Database Solutions: Azure SQL DB, Azure MySQL, SQL Datawarehouse, Cosmos DB, RedisCache, Data Factory
• Securing Azure Resources and implementing Security in Azure: Security Center, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory B2C, Multi factor Authentication
• Azure container services, professional in Docker, Kubernetes
• Azure Monitoring and Management solutions: Azure Analytics, Application Insights, Automation, Backup, Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Automation and Control
• Operation Management Suite (OMS) Log Analytics
• Configuring Azure AD, Configuring ADConnect, MFA, SSO, Identity protection, consolidation of Ads, ADFS
• VSTS, DSC, chef, Puppet
• Create DevOps pipeline dev/test/QA/ production in Azure DevOps and Jenkins
• Implement Infrastructure as a code
• Enabling DevOps Practices with various DevOps tools
• Using Various DevOps tools: ARM templates, JSON, Powershell, Azure CLI, Chef, Ansible, terraform
• Building CI / CD pipelines based on various DevOps tools
• Containerizing applications via Docker / Kubernetes
• Analysis of the security state of all the resources in Azure
• Controlling cloud security with policy - driven monitoring of security configurations
• Finding threats with behavioral analysis based on our global intelligence and expertise
• Respond to incidents quickly with insights into attacks and suggestions for remediation
• Configuring and implementing Azure Security Center
• Disaster recovery and business continuity planning and implementation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Azure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architecting the Azure migration project
• Create the automation framework based on Terraform and linux bash script
• Implement configuration management based on the Chef Server, Chef Automate and InSpec and cookbooks
• Deployed azure resources for various business units, both production and non production environments
• Using Azure DevOps to create build and release pipelines

Confidential

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create the automation framework based on Azure Arm Template, Azure CLI and Python
• Various Azure PaaS Services
• Azure Infrastructure Services
• Azure IaaS implementation
• Based on the least privilege security concept
• Implementing Kubernetes and AKS in Azure

Confidential

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create the automation framework based on Azure Arm Template, Azure CLI and linux bash commands
• Network deployment automation
• Centralized logging automation
• RBAC/Policy deployment automation
• DNS deployment automation
• Linux image creation automation
• Deployed azure resources for four business units, both production and non production environments

Confidential

Cloud Security Architect

Responsibilities:

• Create a secure DevOps pipeline between the dev machines, VSTS and Azure Resources
• Create Powershell Scripts to automate Azure resource implementation
• Management of Azure resources with Azure CLI
• Security assessment of the current Azure Implementation
• Securing resources in Azure
• Configuring and implementing Security Center and connect it to different resources in Azure
• Network setup / Network Security Group (NSG) development / layer 7 firewall with WAF Application Gateway

Confidential

Azure Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementing DevOps process for Continuous Delivery (CD) / Continuous Integration (CI)
• Implementing Infrastructure as a Code in the DevOps process including creating ARM templates, JSON resource templates, Azure CLI and Powershell scripts
• Creating App Service resources in the Azure / App Service Environment creation and management
• Site to site VPN connection between Cisco ASA on premise and Azure VPN Gateway / Design and configuration of the ExpressRoute
• Network setup / Network Security Group (NSG) development / layer 7 firewall with WAF Application Gateway
• Configuring Azure AD, Policy based access, Azure Identity protection service, Multi factor Authentication (MFA)
• Service Fabric analysis and design for the workload to be migrated to the Azure Service Fabric infrastructure
• Migration of the legacy SQL Server on premise to the Azure SQL DB
• Generating and developing ARM templates for all the resources in the Azure / Infrastructure as a Code
• Designing and configuring Application Insights for Azure App Services
• Analysis, design and implementing Microsoft Operation Management Suite (OMS) in Azure

Confidential

Azure Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Create a complete DevOps pipeline from Dev / test / QA / Production
• Management of VSTS projects, using Chef
• Application architecture for Payment Processor system - PCI / PIP compliant
• Architect, analyze and design Payment processor in Azure based on Azure App Service and Azure Service Fabric offering
• Implement API Management layer / Swagger API framework
• Custom Authentication / Authorization based on OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 protocol
• Architect, Analyze and develop subscription management system based on Microsoft Azure App Service / Azure SQL Database / Azure Cosmos DB

Confidential

Cloud Migration Expert

Responsibilities:

• Configuring Azure elastic storage to be used for the migration
• Creating POC environment to have a better understanding of the migration project
• Migrating SharePoint workload form on premise SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint online
• Creating hybrid user profile service between on premise multi domain implementation of the product and O365 user profile service
• Developing Powershell scripts to be used during the migration
• User migration from the old domain to the new domain in SharePoint on premise

Confidential

Azure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created CI/CD pipeline based on VSTS
• Architecting the Azure implementation of the Confidential Portal
• Planning / designing the Azure virtual network, VPN gateway, site-to-site VPN connection
• Identity federation based on AD Connect from on prem Active Directory to Azure AD
• Implementing SharePoint workload in the Azure
• Design business process automation