PROFESSIONAL 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#, ClassicASP
• 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 implementedOffice 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 PowerShell.
• 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 CloudCenter 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 PROFICIENCIES:

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, Confidential .

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, Buffalo, NY

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 Storageetc.)
• 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

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Azure Cloud Engineer/Devops

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the client needs and design the implementation to the product.
• Create the Virtual Machine cluster and load balance for VM's using PowerShell
• Configuring the IIS service to deploy the web applications on balanced environment.
• Create and configuring a balanced environment for FTP server and used PowerShell for this activity.
• Worked on Stream Analytics and managed in event-processing engine to set up real-time analytic computations on streaming data.
• Configure the same for IDS/IPS and to establish VPN connections.
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Worked on enabling the users to automatically get signed-on to ServiceNow (Single Sign-On) with their Azure AD accounts.
• Deploy, maintain and automate Azure and other services using PowerShell and Azure CLI.
• Working experience with TFS/VSTS, Jenkins, Git, Jira, Ansible, Docker,Ansible.
• Identity & Access Management: Azure Active Directory, Azure Identity, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Experience in applications, virtual machine images, VM extensions, APIs under Azure Marketplace.
• Involved in the design and development of web application in C#.NET, ASP. Net, User Controls and deployment in the cloud environment.
• 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.
• Worked on Azure Cosmos DB that how to replicate the data across any number of Azure regions and scale your throughput independent from the storage, while benefitting from comprehensive SLAs.
• Experience in Custom Process design of Transformation via Azure Data Factory & Automation Pipelines.
• Design and implement asynchronous processes for delivery of XML files. These processes were connected using Azure Queues to communicate each other.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Worked in Event Hub partition receiver consumer approach and deployment automation via Terraform/PowerShell/ARM.
• Experience in CI / CD using Jenkins for application process and in production support.
• Experience in automate processes using runbooks or automate configuration management using Desired State Configuration.
• Azure Networking team supporting Enterprise level customers, handling escalations and Quality checks of case ticket handled by Engineers.
• Leading the team for inducing Microsoft Azure Chat support for end users supporting most of the issues that are supported andon delivering the product to testing from development.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Azure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Build, Test and Deploy applications for hardware and software configuration on servers.
• Handle deployment workflow including provisioning, load balancing, and health monitoring.
• Design Network Security Groups (NSG) and subnets.
• Develop and maintains the Resource groups and instances
• Azure VMs, Networking (VNets, 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.
• Azure Service Fabric, Containers, Azure Resource Manager, ARM automation, Azure Key Vault, Encryption and Security.
• Created a managed Image of VHD in order to be able to easily deploy VMs from golden image.
• Adhered to ITIL Configuration Management policies and procedures
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure Resource Management templates, Virtual Networks, Storage, Virtual Machines, and Azure Active Directory.
• Attend ongoing client meetings to introduce and answer Azure PAAS and IAAS questions as they arise, covering important application migration considerations and options.
• Experience in stream-processing logic to gather data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
• Involved in developing required classes and interfaces using C# .NET.
• Installed, configured, administered, monitored Azure, IAAS and PAAS, Azure AD.
• Drive end to end deployment of various Components on the Azure Platform.
• Modification of Certs, Password and Storage Accounts on the cloud platform setting up and administer service accounts.
• Frequent use and application of technical standard, principles, theories and concept of cloud components.
• Develop, test, and deploy new Teradata SQL code to load and transform data as per your requirements.
• Provide solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Create and modify PowerShell and XML files.
• Responsible for developing all the front-end screens and the back-end database queries for retrieving data and NET Framework.
• Deployment of SQL components in Microsoft PowerShell scripts.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

.Net Developer

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Upgraded SharePoint to 2007 and 2010; installed on premise SP 2013, pilot of O365.
• Maintained standard password compliance on SharePoint farm.
• Deployed the applications to Cloud.
• Created clusters on IIS web servers using Network load balancing and managed net scale clusters including configuring clusters in Akamai global traffic management.
• Performed Power Shell scripting for Active Directory and Exchange.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provided on call support for production and other environments.
• Documentation of installation guides during platform upgrades and application migrations.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in Administration and support of Windows servers to include Active Directory, Group Policy, MS IIS, SCCM, WSUS, Direct Access, LAN/WAN, DNS, DHCP, VPN, MDM, NAV, Hyper-V, Office 365 and Exchange 2010.
• Prompt the deployment of several IT projects over seeing consultants and junior administrators in the migration of Windows 64 bit servers and XP client to Window 7 along with applications.
• Expertise in Deployment of System Center Configuration Manager with full understanding of downloading and deploying MS patches using WSUS within SCCM. Ability to create deployments/Collections/Packages points within an SCCM environment. Resolved deployment issues by checking SCCM logs.
• Worked as an escalation point for major incident and problem resolution. Responsible for determining root cause analysis. Managing any roadblocks involving internal and external support groups, vendors, suppliers, and customers.
• Ensured resolutions were entered in the Knowledge Database. Proactive in problem assessment by focusing on trends in the incident management reports.
• Following ITIL best practices achieved and maintain good SLA rating on break fix in the region my team supported with team building exercises and process improvements such as Asset Management (Software licenses, Hardware inventory) Re-negotiated SLA and OLA to meet changing business service needs.
• Installing, tuning, troubleshooting and patching of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
• NFS management - take care of user accounts/groups, setting up of NFS environment.
• Transferring files from one system to other using FTP and SFTP.
• Hands on experience working on Red Hat Cluster.
• Monitor system performance parameters using iostat, vmstat, and fine-tuning.
• Systems administration, maintenance, and monitoring various day-to-day operations
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of web servers, application servers, and database servers on Linux Servers.
• Provided 24/7 on call support on Linux Production Servers. Responsible for maintaining security on Red Hat Linux.