SUMMARY

• 8 years of experience of IT experience in MS SQL Server/Windows Server/IIS Server administration with Installing, Configuring, Troubleshooting and maintaining IIS 7.0/7.5/8.0, SQL Server 2012/2008/2005 Databases
• Around 3 year’s experience working on Microsoft Azure IAAS, PAAS, Azure SQL, Azure Automation, and Azure Resource Manager
• Installed and configured Multiple Websites and various web applications (.net framework version 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0) and web services, WCF services in IIS 6.0/7.0/8.0)
• Experience using PowerShell for automation.
• Provided tier 3 production support and coordinated with development teams to troubleshoot application issues
• Worked on migration of on premise servers to Microsoft Azure. Experience creating VM’s, Cloud Services and SQL databases in Windows Azure, deploying application and managing Storage using Azure Storage Explorer.
• Experience working with Azure Storage (Azure Files, Blob Storage, Tables and Queues)
• Used PowerShell and C# for Automation
• Managed up to 400 servers in different environments, fixed server issues, and upgraded server OS, applied patches.
• Worked on Tier 3 support tickets for application issues and provided support to fix server, network and application issues in dev, test and production environments.
• Experienced in maintaining data center environments like building machines, racking, Imaging, security patching and support (IBM/HP/Cisco rack mount and blades)
• Created Virtual Machines in Azure by authoring ARM templates and managed azure resources using PowerShell.
• Worked in a DevOps model and supported development teams in day to day tasks, making sure environments are available when required, automating deployments and providing infrastructure related input in daily meetings
• Automating all aspects of infrastructure, application and configuration management using Chef, Azure.
• Managed resource groups and created Storage accounts, Virtual Networks, Subnets in Azure using ARM templates
• Experience in using and configuring deployment tool Octopus for deploying web applications
• Experienced with using network tools like tracert, port query, and telnet to identify and troubleshoot network issues in a distributed application environment.
• Experience in working with SQL Server 2000/ 2005/2008 like writing queries, stored procedures, working with disaster recovery scenarios of SQL using clustering, mirroring, log shipping etc.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills that allow me to communicate with stakeholders in Application Development, Network and Storage teams.
• Participate in 24 x 7 on call support as part of a scheduled rotation with other team members.
• Provided on call support for production and other environments

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Azure Engineer

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

• Installed IIS 7.5/8.0/ SQL Server 2008/2012 on servers and deployed applications, setting up Bindings, installing certificates and troubleshooting application issues deployed on Windows Servers
• Troubleshoot Network, IIS web server, Web Application and Backend Issues
• Provided tier 3 production support and coordinated with development teams to troubleshoot application issues.
• Experience troubleshooting .Net, C# based applications.
• Understanding of C# and .Net to the point where I can read the code, gather data to root cause issues and work with developers to implement changes.
• Managed resource groups and created Storage accounts, Virtual Networks, Subnets in Azure using ARM templates
• Managed security logins and worked with Windows authentication, SQL server authentication and mixed modes.
• Worked on implementing Azure environments in Enterprise environments including application dependencies, client presentation mechanisms, network connectivity and overall virtualization strategies
• Performed backup using backup compression and Data compression in SQL Server 2008 on clustered environment and SQL Server 2008 security Audit.
• Worked on Performance tuning and tweaked SQL queries by adding indexes for better performance.
• Configured data partitioning/table partitioning on large sized tables to improve performance.
• Managed Security using SQL Logins, Roles and Security Modes for various users.
• Created and maintained SQL agent for scheduling jobs.
• Created Alerts and Operators in SQL Servers to alert when any Failure occurred in the Database server.
• Working on POC to automate azure logs to local storage using SSIS packages
• Involved in Analysis and Design Documentation, User requirements and maintained good documentation.
• Worked on reducing the over disk space used by reducing the size of the transaction logs
• Troubleshooting application, database and network related issues

Azure DevOps Engineer

Confidential, Tampa Bay, FL

Responsibilities:

• Working on Connect Audit Manager (CAM) application and supporting application deployments on IIS and SQL Servers
• Worked on automated and manual application deployments accordingly to the deployment guides and performed smoke test.
• Automated deployments in Visual Studio Team Services and automated the builds once the code is checked in by developers to configure CI/CD
• Maintained GIT workflows for version control (Source Code Management)
• Migrated servers running on Windows Server 2003/2008 to Windows Server 2012/2012R2.
• Migration of IIS applications from IIS 6 to IIS 7.5/8.0
• .NET application support
• Expert in IIS and .NET application administrator
• Manage custom .NET applications hosted on IIS 7.5/8.0
• Installed IIS 7.5/8.0/ SQL Server 2008/2012 on servers and deployed applications, setting up Bindings, installing certificates and troubleshooting application issues deployed on Windows Servers
• Design build and test new IIS server environments
• Installed and configured Multiple Websites and various web applications
• Provided tier 3 production support and coordinated with development teams to troubleshoot application issues
• Deployed .net applications, UI, WCF Services and Databases (SQL Server 2012) on pre - production environment and provided support to development teams to troubleshoot issues working in a DevOps model.
• Worked in DevOps team and was responsible for building infrastructure and successful Application Build deployments for UAT and Production environments (Windows 2012/2008, IIS 7/8, SQL Server 2012, Azure)
• Worked on Microsoft Azure for creating Infrastructure and SQL Databases and migrated applications to Azure
• Configured multiple apps/ deployment scripts to check the health status of the servers using Microsoft System Center Orchestrator and automate deployments using PowerShell
• Worked extensively on virtualization platform using tools like Hyper V, VMware
• Installed and configured SQL server 2012 with data base replication and Mirroring
• Troubleshooting application, database and network related issues

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Installed IIS 7.5/8.0/ SQL Server 2008/2012 on servers and deployed applications, setting up Bindings, installing certificates and troubleshooting application issues deployed on Windows Servers
• Troubleshoot Network, IIS web server, Web Application and Backend Issues
• Setup & configure new Internal and External web sites on IIS
• Provided tier 3 production support and coordinated with development teams to troubleshoot application issues
• Deployed .net applications, UI, WCF Services and Databases (SQL Server 2012) on pre-production environment and provided support to development teams to troubleshoot issues working in a Devops model.
• Worked on Microsoft Azure for creating Infrastructure and SQL Databases and migrated applications to Azure
• Configured multiple apps/ deployment scripts to check the health status of the servers using Microsoft System Center Orchestrator and automate deployments using PowerShell
• Building virtual machines using Hyper-V, configuring and troubleshooting issues
• Installed and configured SQL server 2012 with data base replication and Mirroring
• Worked with installation and configuration of system center tools like SCVMM (system center virtual machine manager) and monitoring tools like MOM, SCOM (system center operations manager)
• Troubleshooting application, database and network related issues
• Worked on both software (NLB) and hardware (F5-BigIP) load balancer and configuration according to environment requirements

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Seattle WA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation and configuration of Windows Server 2012/2008R2 and SQL server 2012/2008
• Worked on migration of 2003/2008 Windows servers to Windows Server 2012
• Installed and configured Multiple Websites and various web applications (.net framework version 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0) and web services, WCF services in IIS 6.0/7.0/8.0
• Used deployment tools and PowerShell scripts to deploy multiple websites and performed troubleshooting to deliver working environment
• Setup SQL AO manually to prepare environments, restored databases and performed post-restore activities
• Migrating databases from SQL Server 2008 to SQL server 2012.
• Installed SQL Server 2012 in Windows Clustered environment (Active- Passive).
• Managed security logins and worked with Windows authentication, SQL server authentication and mixed modes.
• Performed backup using backup compression and Data compression in SQL Server 2008 on clustered environment and SQL Server 2008 security Audit.
• Worked on Performance tuning and tweaked SQL queries by adding indexes for better performance.
• Configured data partitioning/table partitioning on large sized tables to improve performance.
• Managed Security using SQL Logins, Roles and Security Modes for various users.
• Created and maintained SQL agent for scheduling jobs.
• Created Alerts and Operators in SQL Servers to alert when any Failure occurred in the Database server.
• Involved in Analysis and Design Documentation, User requirements and maintained good documentation.
• Worked on reducing the over disk space used by reducing the size of the transaction logs