SUMMARY

• Dedicated Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of 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, AzureCloud 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.
• AWS certified Solutions Architect skilled in developing DevOps solutions and architecting the platform to achieve stable and fault tolerant architectures.
• Experience in using IAM to create and manage AWS users and groups, to allow permissions or deny their access to AWSresources
• Highly skilled in various automation tools, continuous integration workflows, managing binary repositories and containerizing application deployments and test environments.
• Experienced working with configuration management tool chef by developing chef cookbooks to configure, deploy and manage web applications, config files, databases, mount points and packages of existing infrastructure.
• Experience in creating Docker containers leveraging existing Linux Containers and AMI's in addition to creating Docker containers from scratch.
• Proficient in networking, Windows administration, and managing server infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance.
• Experienced with WordPress development, WordPress migration to cloud services .
• Experienced Application Security Researcher, thereby possess hands-on experience on wide range of services, application workflows, CVE’s and OWASP vulnerabilities. Hence, efficient in troubleshooting and developing custom scripts to find and patch vulnerabilities.
• Exceptional communication skills, business insights to comprehend and convey technical issues. Proven ability to collaborate, lead and work incessantly towards organizations growth.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud platform: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services

CI/CD, DevOps Tools: Git,Jenkins,Chef,Docker, Nagios

Languages/Scripts: C, C#, C++, SQL, XML, YAML, Ruby, Python, PowerShell, PowerShell DSC

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

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server.

Operating Systems / Web servers: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2 Servers, Windows Server 2000/2003 Windows 10/ 8/7/Vista/XP, Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, Apache, Nginx, IIS

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

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

Virtualization: Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, VDI, VMware

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Cloud Solutions Engineer (Azure)

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 MicrosoftAzure(Public) Cloud to provide IaaS support to client. Create Virtual Machines through Power Shell Script andAzurePortal.
• Manage and Create Storage Account and Affinity Group inAzurePortal.
• Capture an image of a Virtual Machine.Attaching a Disk to a Virtual Machine. Manage and create Virtual Network and End Points inAzurePortal.
• Deploying VM's, Storage, Network and Availability groups/sets through PowerShell Script.
• Creating Storage Pool and Stripping of Disk forAzureVirtual Machines. Backup, Configure and RestoreAzureVirtual Machine usingAzureBackup.
• Configure Window Failover Cluster by creating Quorum for File sharing inAzureCloud.
• Convert existing Virtual Machine from Standard to Premium Storage Account. Patching and Validating of Virtual Machine inAzure.
• 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.
• Performed a review of the technology team and worked with leadership to define a growth plan to meet product development demands.
• Providing updates business partners in a timely manner and documented technical and programming specifications.
• Experienced in storage of all the data at one place with no constraints (ADLS) and orchestration of workflow where data is in cloud.
• Usage of Log analytics service to monitor cloud and on-premises environments.
• Worked on CI/CD pipeline for Azure cloud services.
• Virtualized the servers using Docker for the test environments and dev-environments needs and configuring automation using Docker containers.
• Used Team foundation server for maintaining source and documentation control.
• 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
• Used firewall appliance where requirements call for layer 7 security models.
• Involved in deployment and post production support for the application.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Azure Cloud Engineer

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.
• Used PowerShell DSC to configure Vms, physical hosts.
• Used PowerShell DSC within Azure Automation runbooks to configure machines.
• Tested and deployed DSC configurations to all servers.
• Developed automation solution using PowerShell scripting for day to day operational tasks
• Modification of Certs, Password and Storage Accounts on the cloud platform Setting up and administer service accounts
• Worked on Configuration of Internal load balancer, load balanced sets and Azure Traffic manager.
• Migrated SQL Server 2008 database to Windows Azure SQL Database and updating the Connection Strings based on this

Confidential, Ann Arbor MI

Azure Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created Network Security groups (NSG) for the Virtual Machines and added inbound outbound points.
• Created Availability sets and Vm scale sets using load balancers for the infrastructure using PowerShell Scripts.
• Created storage accounts, containers and had working knowledge on Blobs, Queues, Tables and File using storage explorer.
• Created file share and provided Shared access signatures(SAS).
• Configured inter-site connections like Point to site, site to site and V-net to V-net.
• Created Content Delivery networks (CDN) as per the requirements during the infrastructure configuration.
• Experience in using custom script extensions and used for installing IIS on the severs.
• Migrating the on-premises data center to cloud using Site recovery.
• Provided continuous support for the Iaas and Paas services.
• Extensively worked on PowerShell Scripts for creating and managing the infrastructure.
• Regular backups are configured for the Virtual machines using backup agent to backup vaults.
• Automated the procedures for creating the required configuration of Machine using Desired state configuration (DSC).
• Troubleshooted the issues related to RDP for the servers in cloud by enabling the port.
• Configured app services for deploying the applications.
• Deployed applications to the cloud using Github and FTP and configured continuous delivery for the app services.
• Configured and deployed application insights for the applications and collected the log analysis data for analyzing the functioning for app service.
• Configured storage analytics for all storage services like Blobs, queues, files and tables and collected logs for easy analysis storage services.
• Created alerts basis of metrics & events for the app services
• Integrated Windows active directory to Azure using azure ad connect.