SUMMARY

• Experience Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, Windows Admin and VM Ware Administration
• Having Experience Configuring and managing Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Connect health, Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
• Having Experience Resolving Azure AD issues relating to Office 365, Active Directory to Azure AD and CAIDM to Active Directory
• Manage Identity Access management of Azure Subscriptions, Azure AD, Azure AD Application Proxy, Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Pass through Authentication.
• Provided guidance in the planning, gathering requirements, recommendations, and implementation of data migration to Office 365, and configuration best practices
• Having Experience on creating and updating the Various PowerShell Scripts for windows, Active Directory, Azure AD and o365.
• Developed a migration approach to move workloads from On - Premises AD to Windows Azure or develop new cloud-ready application solutions.
• Designing, Configuring and maintaining Active Directory Services on Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 (Test, Development) Domain controller.
• Planning, creating and managing AD group policy Templates and Policies Administration, Operating System security Patches Upgrade Procedure for secure computing and network environment.
• Experienced in configuring Cloud platform such as Virtual Networks Multi-site, Cross-site, VMs, Azure AD, Load Balancers, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, etc.
• Experienced in Deploying Web Apps and Creating Web-Jobs Sync on premises Active Directory users to office 365 with ADCONNECT and ADFS to make easy to user moving.
• Responsible for Servers Health Check and Performance Monitoring for all the Window servers.
• Proactive planning and managing server hardware, OS upgrades, software drivers, hardware firmware upgrades, Backup-recovery methods and disaster recovery procedures.
• Preparing and maintaining process, procedures and work instructions documents (PPWI) on various Technologies and server platforms.
• Managed Virtualization Environment using VM Ware ESX, Virtual Center 4.x 5.x VI Client, Web Client.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Configured Resource Pool, Motion, Alerts, Alarms. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.
• Having Experience working on multiple teams of System Administrators working on various projects, managing multiple projects, both technical and non-technical.
• Team member for Different Project to Architect a VMware 5.1, 5.5 Environment for the Virtualization and Consolidation of Development, Production and Testing Environments
• Creating and managing Active Directory (AD) Organizational Units (OU), Group Policy Objects (GPO), and creating the users providing the Users Permissions, Configuring GPO'S.
• Having Experience on AWS Cloud Technologies. Having Experience Managing the Confidential Cloud Softlyaer.
• Install & Configuration of Dell Dirac and HP iLO remote interfaces for remote server access
• Experience in building and configuring new hardware.
• Expert in configuring various flavors of Linux OS and Applications.
• Experience in working on different platform of network switches.
• Experience in working with Nagios & Puppet.
• Experience in Administering Xen, KVM, VMware & AIX.
• Experience in configuring VSA and VSAN Storage in VMware environment.
• Experience in managing complex VMware environments, VMware hosts, clusters, VCenter, VSAN etc.
• Have an in depth understanding of VMware VSAN, VSA storage Understanding VSAN on disk format version Requirements and considerations for the deployment of VMware VSAN.
• Experience with Informix & DB2 Database.
• Built using Jenkins and tested various Java REST web services using Postman.
• Experience in Virtualization, storage and networking.
• Experience problem analysis, resolution, and follow-up to ensure stability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0, vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0, ESX 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware WorkstationActive Directory Skills: Active Directory Design, Active Directory Replication, Active Directory Maintenance and Troubleshooting, Azure Active Directory, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Design and Structuring, Group Policy, Troubleshooting, DNS Server Management Zone, Design DNS Server Troubleshooting, DHCP Server Design and Maintenance, PKI and Certificate Server Design and Maintenance, IP Address Management, Access Control, Design PowerShell Scripting, ITIL Foundations and MOF Guidelines

Windows Administration: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R/2016 - installation and configuration, installation and configuration of Active Directory creating users and groups, setting user access controls, domains creation and setup.

Networking: OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack for virtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners.

Web/App Servers: Confidential WebSphere 3.5/4.0/5.0, Weblogic, Confidential HTTP Server, Apache

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 G5/G6 Intel Xeon, HP ProLiant DL385 G6/G7 AMD Opteron, Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2950, R710, HP BL 460c G5/G6 blade servers, C7000 HP Chassis. NetApp V6000 Series.

Operating Systems: Windows servers 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, Windows client OS XP/Vista/Windows 7.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Lowell, AR

Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on multiple projects like Configuring third party application with Azure and On-prem ADFS SSO.
• Performed daily monitoring tasks to assure the proper health of multiple Active Directory environments supported multi-domain DNS environment
• Worked on Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), SAML, Web Single Sign-On (SSO), OAuth and related authentication technologies.
• Troubleshooting AD user account lockout issues.
• Identifying uncertain AD groups and cleaning up accordingly.
• Migrating AD user objects, computer objects, group objects from one domain to another.
• Experience in Power Shell Scripting for Creating, deleting & Managing Users and to automate AD health checks and Exchange daily tasks.
• Configured and resolved Azure AD Connect sync issues, Various types of Data issues and Attribute issues.
• Troubleshooting AD issues (DNS, Replication, Server related issues & User related issues).
• Setup/configured On-prem and Azure AD FS.
• Setting up AD Integration for Cisco Umbrella.
• Configured new Azure Domain Controllers.
• Migrate AD FS Prod Servers and Database from On-Prem to Azure.
• Worked on creating conditional Access policies Multifactor authentication (MFA), Resetting MFA and Resolving the MFA issues
• Created new conditional access policies.
• Configured Azure MFA conditional access policies.
• Involved in detailed setup for troubleshooting and implementation of support procedure.
• Provide day to day support for AD infrastructures.

Confidential

Microsoft Azure Active directory Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of the whole environment containing multiple virtual and physical servers for automation of the OS upgrades and Application upgrades.
• Manage & support a large client base Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012 and 2016 in a multi domain/forest Active Directory of more than 3500 windows servers on 24x7x365 basis in an enterprise infrastructure.
• Primary responsibility for the Active Directory Administration to provide strategic and tactical direction for the Active Directory Services, Identity and Access Management, Roles Based Access Control and Segregation of Duties
• Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling & labeling maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring. Deploy and Configure DNS, DHCP Servers.
• Set of PowerShell scripts running as a scheduled task was designed to compare and remove user accounts from all the systems above.
• Created Forests and Domains and raised functional levels. Created trust relationships. Managed, created, deleted Local groups, Global groups, and Universal groups. Verified and resolved Group Policy problems; Imported and exported GPO settings.
• Servers Health Check and performance monitoring for all the Wintel servers (1500 windows servers).
• Creating and maintaining User accounts, Profiles, Security, rights, disk space and process monitoring using Active Directory.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in a Windows 2012 environment - Event log analysis, installation and administration of Windows Server 2012, including user setup and defining roles, performance tuning, backup and restore, security monitoring, registry and AD scripting
• Expertise in Active Directory Design and support (GPOs, AD Schema, OUs, LDAP, Sites, Replication, etc.)
• Creating, Testing and implementing GPO's in QA, Dev and Production Environment.
• Reviewed the necessary implementation\migration runbook and recommended optimizing the FSMO roles, configuring time services, configuring GC's, setting up Quest Recovery Manager, optimizing event logs.
• Used SCCD and Project Pair Tools for Incident Reports and Tickets, Change and Request Management in SCCD by meeting the SLA requirements.
• Expertise in deployment and troubleshooting of windows 2008 and 2012 R2Domain Controllers in AD.
• Managing, installing and troubleshooting Microsoft windows active directory, DNS, DHCP services on windows server 2003/2008 and 2012 platforms.
• Involved in designing and deploying multitude applications AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud formation.
• Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup
• Planning, creating and managing AD group policy templates and policies administration, operating system security patches upgrade procedure for secure computing and network environment.
• Resolving hardware/Operating Systems and application software issues within SLA
• Installing, configuring and managing ESX servers, Virtual infrastructure and virtual center.
• Installing and Upgrading VMware Tools for Virtual machine. Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Schedule
• Experience with deployments, maintenance and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure. Working knowledge on Azure cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
• Technical authoring, including infrastructure design and architecture (Server, DMZ, Virtualization, Storage, Network, Database, Security and Governance. Azure Storage development and design utilizing Blobs, Pages, Queues, Tables and VM's.
• Established connection from Azure to On-premise datacenter using Azure Express Route for Single and Multi-subscription connectivity.
• Utilized NSGs for layer 4 Access Control List (ACLs) for incoming and outgoing packets. Leveraged VNET system routes and underlying route table that holds Local VNet Rules, On-premise Rules, Internet Rules and IP Forwarding as design basis.
• Experienced on creating Azure VM, Cloud Services and Storages by using Azure Power-Shell Script. Convert multiple onsite Data Centers to Virtual Infrastructure using Microsoft Hyper-V reducing physical server footprint, while improving management, efficiency and performance.
• Azure Cloud Infrastructure design and implementation utilizing ARM templates Created users and groups using IAM and assigned individual policies to each group. Creating Azure Backup vault and protecting required VMs to take the VM level backups.
• Proactive planning and managing server hardware, OS upgrades, software drivers and hardware firmware upgrades.
• Install, configure, upgrade and manage VMware Vsphere VCenter, Esxi hypervisor version 5.x/6.x technologies. Creating baseline and remediating Vsphere VCenter and ESXi patching/upgrades through VMware Update Manage.
• Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between virtual machines. Troubleshooting virtual machine issues.
• Moving physical machine to virtual machine using p2v converter.
• Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting. Troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs.
• Distributed power management, Fault tolerance, Data Recovery. Manage users, Groups, Permissions and roles. Having Experience on Resolving the Snapshot issues and Clone issues.
• Having Experience on Cloud Technology solutions ( Confidential Softlayer)
• Environment: AWS:- EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM, Route 53VMware ESX and Vcenter Server 5.5, 5.1 5.0 Windows Server 2016(testing) 2003, HP and Confidential Hard Ware Confidential Cloud Environment (Softlayer), sql server
• Provided 24x7 support to the Confidential associates and helping them by understanding the issue and troubleshoot the issues regarding the production servers over the phone and via support tickets in Remedy tool.

Confidential

Active Directory Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing Microsoft Identity Management products (Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services, and Azure, AD Connect, Office 365) serving as an enterprise-wide directory containing 400k Objects.
• Managing Identity Access management of Azure Subscriptions, Azure AD, Azure AD Application Proxy, Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Pass Through Authentication creating and managing application integrations for identify and access management.
• Successfully established and tested Azure AD Tenant for production. Provided technical direction to allow Active Directory on-Prem group to populate users
• Experience in Syncing the Objects Users, Groups, Workstation from active directory to Azure active directory.
• Having Experience of troubleshooting of user account provisioning between legacy Client directories and CSC active directory and LDAP directories
• Experience Configuring and managing Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Connect health, Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
• Provided/presented migration statistics, issues/resolution, and deliverables to leadership, detailing user, group, and physical device success percentages, tracking milestones for what had been migrated or was still in need of migration
• Provide end to end support for the migration of all the Directory objects, from the source (Multiple Domains), to the target Single Domain.
• Monitoring the Licenses for Azure Ad issues, resolving the Licenses Issue for Azure AD Users. Assigning the licenses Group based.
• Implemented the PowerShell script for assigning the Azure AD Licenses based on the User Type, Monitoring the Licenses Status and provide the day to day status of Azure AD licenses.
• Resolved Azure AD issues relating to Office 365(MMSSPP), Active Directory to Azure AD identity and user permissions.
• Configured and resolved Azure AD Connect sync issues, various types of Data issues and Attribute issues.
• Having Experience of Creating and Managing the users and groups in Azure AD.
• Having experience of Working with Ldap tools Softera and Oracle Ad admin