SUMMARY

• An IT Professional with over 10+ years of IT experience
• In the field of MS Azure Cloud Administration 4+ Years.
• In the field of VMware vSphere, VDI View, SRM and Microsoft Server OS 7+ Years.
• Experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing development and support
• Moderate and contribute to the support forums (specific to Azure Networking, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Active Directory, Azure Storage) for Microsoft Developers Network including Partners and MVPs.
• Experience in working with Azure infrastructure management (Azure Storage, Azure AD and Office365).
• Experience in using Cloud Infrastructure management and Implementation (ARM and ASM).
• Working experience on various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Azure Websites, Caching, SQL Azure, NoSQL, Storage, Network services, Azure Active Directory, API Management, Scheduling, Auto Scaling, and Power Shell Automation
• Extensive working experience with different SDLC methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall with an ability to be creative and to take self - initiatives to execute/manage multiple projects in parallel during time critical situations.
• Hands on experience in Azure Cloud, Routing & Switching, Service Delivery and Assurance, Process Management and with strong foundation of technical & Management Skills
• Experience in various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Azure Websites, Caching, SQL Azure, NoSQL, Storage, Network services, Azure Active Directory, API Management, Scheduling, Auto Scaling, PowerShell Automation.
• Good Knowledge in Azure compute services, Azure Web apps, Azure Data & Storage, Azure Media & Content delivery, Azure Networking, Azure Hybrid Integration and Azure Identity & Access Management
• In the field of VMware vSphere, VDI View, SRM and Microsoft Server OS 7+ Years.
• Experience in installing, configuring and managing infrastructure using VMware technologies viz. ESX/ESXi 4.0/4.15.0/5.1 , vSphere 5.0/6.0, vCenter, VMware View 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.5 and VMware vCenter Converter etc.
• Experience in configuring DRS, HA, vMotion, storage vMotion, virtual networking, cloning, deploying VM's from templates and automating VMware environment.
• Strong knowledge and experience on VMware ESXi 5.X, 4.X, and VMware vSphere5 features SMP, Storage DRS, profile driven storage, auto deploy and vSwitch design.
• Proficiency in usingV Sphere, vCloud Suite /vRealize suite - vRealize Operations Manager (vRops), Log Insight, vRealize Orchestration(vRO), and vRealize Automation (vRA/ vCAC), VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN)
• Administration and Architect of public and private cloud platforms.
• End to End Implementation of VMware vCloudsuite based Private Cloud on VBlock Platform.
• Experience in Cisco UCS /HP C7000 blades administration and troubleshooting, Writing PowerShell Scripts.
• Experience with VMware SRM 5.0/4.5, View … and vShield 5.0 setup in the production environment.
• Worked with different Storage Vendors EMC, Netapp, Hitachi and worked on configuring SAN using Multipath and Power path and experience in DAS, NAS, SAN technologies.
• Experience with Active Directory Administration, Disaster Recovery Planning, Remote Access, Office Products, Routers, Switches and Backup devices.
• Experience on AD, DHCP, DNS, IIS, Exchange, Windows clustering and ODBC connections.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server in Windows based server environment.
• Experience with Active Directory Administration, Disaster Recovery Planning, Remote Access, Office Products, Routers, Switches and Backup devices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Platforms: Windows Azure, Windows Server, Microsoft Azure (IAAS, PAAS), VMware Cloud (vCloud)

System Administration: Windows server 2008R2, 2012R2, windows server 2000/2003/SP1/2008, WINDOWS XP/vista/7/10

VMware Products: VMware Work Station, Vmware converter, VMware vSphere, Esxi server, DRS, vCloud Manager, HA, FT, Vmware update manager, VMware virtual desktop infrastructure VDI, VMware view, SRM, Vcloud Directory, vBlock Administration

Networking Skills: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NFS, NIS, LDAP, SMTP, Load Balancing, High-Availability, F5 BIG-IP

Virtualization Tools: Microsoft APP-V, VMware ThinApp, Citrix Xenapp

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office 2003/2007, Outlook 2003/2007, Star Office, VMware Workstation 5.0 and 6.0.

Deployment Tools: SCCM 2008, SCCM 2012 and Marimba 6.1 to 11

Citrix Skills: Citrix XenApp 6.0, 6.5, Xen Desktop 3 & 5 XA/XD 7.x, Citrix Provisioning Server 7.9, Citrix Web Interface 5.4 / Storefront 3.6/ Edge sight 5.4, Symantec VIP Manager

Switching: DNS, DHCP, SAN Storage, TCP/IP

Process: Change Management (RFC), Release Management, Incident Management, Service Improvement Plan, Service Transformation Plan, KPI Measurement, CSI initiatives for the Tower

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

MS Azure Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Dedicated MS Azure Cloud Engineer with experience in Windows Administration, Cloud Infrastructure management and Implementation, looking to leverage my broad range of Cloud skills and experience to utilize systems administration and engineering to produce automated, reliable, and scalable AWS, Azure Cloud and Public Cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in migrating applications from customer on-premises datacenter to the cloud platforms.
• Experience in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling.
• Expertise in migrating the existing v1 (Classic) Azure infrastructure into v2 (ARM), scripting and templating the whole end to end process as much as possible so that it is customizable for each area being migrated.
• Experience in managing Microsoft Windows server infrastructure and data-centre operations by effectively planning, installing, configuring and optimize the IT infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance.
• Expertise in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses).
• Configure high available and DR capable - SQL and Application windows failover clusters in Azure.
• Experience in configuring Azure web apps, Azure App services, Azure Application insights, Azure Application gateway, Azure DNS, Azure Traffic manager, App services, Analyzing Azure Networks with Azure Network Watcher, Implementing Azure Site Recovery, Azure stack, Azure Backup and Azure Automation.
• Experience in architecting Azure IaaS, Azure Hybrid Identity, Azure Governance, Azure web jobs, Azure search.
• Architecting Azure cloud connectivity, Azure Iaas, Global Solutions, Azure virtual machines, Networking.
• Extensive scripting knowledge to redesign, configure, automate, troubleshoot and improve the performance of applications and servers.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Experienced in authoring and building Azure Logic apps, Logic App integration, Publishing and monitoring Logic Apps and Logic App diagnostics.
• Experience in working with Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 Active Directory and Administration
• Work experience in Azure App & Cloud Services, PaaS, Azure Blob Storage, Web API, VM creation, ARM Templates, PowerShell scripts, IaaS, Lift & Shift, storage, network and database.
• Experience in automating day-to-day activities by using Windows PowerShell and Azure CLI 2.0.
• Experience in network administration, deploying and troubleshooting of DNS, LDAP, NIS, NFS and DHCP etc.

Environment: s: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows server 2012/R2/2013, SQL server, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Azure Storage, Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling, Power Shell.

Confidential

Azure Cloud Solution Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement Microsoft Azure Solutions and execution of proposed architectures which includes Active Directory, RDS, IIS, SQL AO etc.
• Preparing POCs on MS Azure in ASR, Backup and Automation using Azure Automation, Functions, Custom scripts and DSC
• Implementing end to end automation solutions for Microsoft Azure using PowerShell, Azure-CLI
• Working with ARM Templates to deploy complete architecture in Microsoft Azure
• Worked on Microsoft Azure (Public) Cloud to provide IaaS support to client. Create Virtual Machines through Power Shell Script and Azure Portal.
• Manage and Create Storage Account and Affinity Group in Azure Portal.
• Capture an image of a Virtual Machine. Attaching a Disk to a Virtual Machine. Manage and create Virtual Network and End Points in Azure Portal.
• Deploying VM's, Storage, Network and Availability groups/sets through PowerShell Script.
• Creating Storage Pool and Stripping of Disk for Azure Virtual Machines. Backup Configure and Restore Azure Virtual Machine using Azure Backup.
• Configure Window Failover Cluster by creating Quorum for File sharing in Azure Cloud.
• Convert existing Virtual Machine from Standard to Premium Storage Account. Patching and Validating of Virtual Machine in Azure.
• Experience in using Azure Vault keys to encrypt keys and small passwords.
• Experience in managing computer data centers through machine-readable definition files.
• Coordinating with Microsoft for increasing subscription limit like- Core limit and Cloud Services. Handling and Resolving Client's Issues remotely.
• Client Interaction over the Phone or Emails to provide instant response. Extensively created stored procedures, functions, Triggers, indexes and Views.
• Responsible for full development life cycle, including design, coding, testing and deployment.

Environment: s: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows server 2012/R2/2013, SQL server, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Azure Storage, Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling, Power Shell.

Confidential

MS Azure/ VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed, deployed, maintained and lead the implementation of Cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure and underlying technologies
• Migrating Services from On-premise to Azure Cloud Environments. Collaborate with development and QA teams to maintain high-quality deployment
• Deployed the initial Azure components like Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Storage and Affinity groups.
• Conducted capacity planning and architecture of Storage Accounts.
• Configured Azure Traffic Manager to build routing for user traffic Infrastructure Migrations: Drive Operational efforts to migrate all legacy services to a fully Virtualized Infrastructure.
• Prepared capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases.
• Installing the Applications Insights tool on the web services and configuring an Application Insight workspace in Azure. configured Application Insights to perform web tests and alerts.
• Handle deployment workflow including provisioning, load balancing, and health monitoring.
• Implemented HA deployment models with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager
• Configured Azure Active Directory and managed users and groups.
• Configure continuous integration from source control, setting up build definition within Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and configure continuous delivery to automate the deployment of ASP.NET MVC applications to Azure web apps
• Deployed DSC from Azure Automation to On-premises or cloud environments.
• Installing IIS and ASP.NET modules, configuring server and adding ASP.NET Applications via command line.
• Configured Azure Automation DSC configuration management to assign permissions through RBAC, assign nodes to proper automation accounts and DSC configurations, to get alerted on any changes made to nodes and their configuration.
• Configured stream analytics, Event hubs and worked to manage IoT solutions with Azure.
• Integrated Windows active directory to Azure using azure ad connect.

Environment: s: Microsoft Windows Azure, Windows server 2012/R2/2013, SQL server, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Azure Storage, Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling, Power Shell.