SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of IT experience as DevOps /Azure in Azure Cloud Infrastructure management and Implementation.
• Expertise in System and Server administration of Windows and Linux Environments.
• Experience in installing, upgrading, patching, configuring and administrating Linux OS with proper release management.
• Experience in Windows Azure Services like PaaS, IaaS and worked on storages like Blob (Page and Block), SQL Azure. Well experienced in deployment & configuration management and Virtualization.
• Experience in Performance Monitoring, Security, Trouble shooting, Backup, Disaster recovery, Maintenance and Support of Linux systems.
• Expertise in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Office365).
• Hands on technology experience of designing and developing software applications with Microsoft .NET using C#, Classic ASP
• Experience in managing Microsoft Windows server infrastructure and data - center operations by effectively planning, installing, configuring and optimize the IT infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance.
• Expertise in setting up servers from scratch on clustered environment and load balancing.
• Planning and implementing Disaster Recovery solutions, capacity planning, data archiving, backup/recovery strategies, Performance Analysis and optimization.
• Experience on installing and configuring SSL certificates in web servers.
• Expertise in setting up cluster environment for load balancing and high availability of Windows servers.
• Advised and implemented Office 365 & SharePoint Online Admin Center configuration change management in security, compliance, retention policies, strategies, and best practices.
• Experience in working with Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 Active Directory and Administration.
• Experience in Azure Marketplace where to search, deploy and purchase wide range of applications and services.
• Experience in automating day-to-day activities by using Windows Power Shell.
• Experience in deploying Microsoft Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
• Worked in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, and Auto-Scaling.
• Experience in managing Azure Storage Accounts.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently as a team member as well as individually with a desire to learn new skills and technology.
• Experience in Migration & deployment of Applications with upgrade version of Application & Hardware, MS build, batch script, IIS and Jenkins Administrator.
• Deployed Dockers Engines in Virtualized Platforms for containerization of multiple apps.
• Collaborated with the Networking Team, Stakeholders and Microsoft Representatives to develop a desired outcome.
• Experience in Cisco Cloud Center to more securely deploy and manage applications in multiple data center, private cloud, and public cloud environments.
• Excellent problem solver possessing positive outlook with a blend of technical and managerial skills aimed to deliver the task before deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure (IaaS & PaaS)

Operating Systems: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2 Servers, Windows Server 2000/2003, Windows10/ 8/7/Vista/XP, Linux, & Mac OS.

Directory Services: Active Directory (2008/2012) Administration.

Databases: MySQL, SQL server.

Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, UDP, SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, and RIP, ISCSI, Fiber Channel NIS, NFS, .NET, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN.

Clustering Technologies: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2 Clustering & High Availability

Virtualization: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware.

Languages: C, C++, SQL, PowerShell, HTML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Saint Louis, MO

Azure Data Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on data management disciplines including data integration, modeling and other areas directly relevant to business intelligence/business analytics development.
• Working on Microsoft Azure toolsets including Azure Data Factory Pipelines, Azure Data bricks, Azure Data Lake Storage.
• Working on query languages such as SQL, code languages such as Python or C# and scripting languages such as PowerShell, M-Query (Power Query), or Windows batch commands.
• Creating data visualizations using Power BI.
• Working on Agile, DevOps principles.
• Working on internal and external aggregated pipelines to make them available to end users.
• Working on Azure (IAAS), Should be involved in the planning, design, and deployment of Cloud solutions.
• Installed, configured, administered, monitored Azure, IAAS and PAAS, Azure AD.
• Design Network Security Groups (NSG) and subnets.
• Develop and maintains the Resource groups and instances
• Azure VMs, Networking (VNet’s, Load Balancers, App Gateway, Traffic Manager, etc.)
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure Resource Management templates, Virtual Networks, Storage, Virtual Machines, and Azure Active Directory.

Confidential

Azure Analyst/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands on Experience in MS AZURE (Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Data Bricks)
• Experienced in designing and implementing Service Oriented Architecture underlined with Ingress and Egress using Azure Data Lake Store & Azure Data Factory by adding blobs to lakes for analytic results and so pull data from Azure Data Lake to the Blobs.
• CI-CD pipeline has been used to deploy the code to Production.
• ETL: Employ tools like Azure SQL Server, Azure Data Factory and Data Bricks to create end-to-end data pipelines for collecting, cleansing and processing client data.
• Deploy and manage Azure Data bricks instance for Data science team for analysis on promotions and new products.
• Actively participated in all the Agile meetings, Scrum meetings and involved in all the Retrospective meetings.
• Experience in developing pipelines in Azure Data Factory using SQL Azure.
• Migrating current data center environment to Azure Cloud using tools like Azure Site Recovery (ASR).
• Implementing changes to firewalls and VNet’s to comply with customer Security policies (i.e. Network Security Groups, etc.)
• Enhancing customer’s capabilities around logging (centralizing log files and potentially using OMS or App Insights to look for problems and take action).
• Working in base lining, capacity planning, Data Center Infrastructure & Network Designing, Windows Server Migrations.
• Configured the following security controls for Azure Security Center: ensure that standard pricing tier is selected, ensure that 'Automatic provisioning of monitoring agent' is set to 'On, ensure that 'System updates' is set to 'On', and ensure that 'Security Configurations' is set to 'On'
• Microsoft Azure IaaS Services, Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), DNS, SSL, PowerShell scripting. Migrate critical data, processes, and workflows to Azure cloud-based infrastructure and ensure solution technology meets business requirements.
• Created DSC configuration for servers that are not a member of any Active Directory and cannot be configured Via Group Policy.

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Sr. Azure Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement Microsoft Azure IaaS solutions:
• Managing, maintaining, monitoring and securing (including data security) of all servers including installations, upgrades, patches and documentation.
• Working with Microsoft Azure, Azure Resource Management templates, Virtual Networks, Storage, Virtual Machines, and Azure Active Directory.
• Handle deployment workflow including provisioning, load balancing, health monitoring and maintain the Resource groups.
• Work across the enterprise to coordinate with the various stakeholders. This is an experienced individual contributor position that will work with cross-functional team members for day-to-day activities.
• Supporting lift and shift migration of workloads to Azure cloud on several azure products, Operations Management Suite, Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup, etc. Supporting buildout of Azure infrastructure as needed for project.
• Experience in Creating, design, and deploy logic apps to automate business processes by using templates, and APIs.
• Providing support, assistance and guidance with post-migration related issues, Available as an Azure advisor and escalation point for Azure related issues during project.
• Designing and Implement Azure storage solutions and Deploy Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) into secure VNet’s and subnets.
• Working on ASC, tagging standards and policies that needs to assign according to the project requirements.
• Use to build logic apps that run on a schedule and integrate data across Azure services, Microsoft services
• Design and Implementation of Firewall appliances (Barracuda WAF/NG) in Azure
• Migrating current data center environment to Azure Cloud using tools like Azure Site Recovery (ASR).
• Implementing changes to firewalls and VNet’s to comply with customer Security policies (i.e. Network Security Groups, etc.)
• Enhancing customer’s capabilities around logging (centralizing log files and potentially using OMS or App Insights to look for problems and take action).
• Working in base lining, capacity planning, Data Center Infrastructure & Network Designing, Windows Server Migrations.
• Worked on different App Services on a fully managed set of virtual machines in either a dedicated or shared mode, based on our App Service Plan (Web App, API App, Logic App, Mobile App)
• Configured the following security controls for Azure Security Center: ensure that standard pricing tier is selected, ensure that 'Automatic provisioning of monitoring agent' is set to 'On, ensure that 'System updates' is set to 'On', and ensure that 'Security Configurations' is set to 'On'
• Microsoft Azure IaaS Services, Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), DNS, SSL, PowerShell scripting. Migrate critical data, processes, and workflows to Azure cloud-based infrastructure and ensure solution technology meets business requirements.
• Created DSC configuration for servers that are not a member of any Active Directory and cannot be configured Via Group Policy.
• Expertise in using Cloud based managed services for data warehousing in Microsoft Azure (Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory, Azure Table Storage etc.)
• Migrated On-premise SQL server to Azure Cosmos DB.
• Modifying software as needed to eliminate errors, simplify interfaces, enhance performance, improve overall reliability, or adapt to new requirements. Perform updates, repairs, and enhancements of existing system functionalities to increase operational efficiency or adapt to new requirements.
• Experience in Integration and easy access from Azure Blob Storage to Snowflake