SUMMARY:

Experienced Cloud/Infra/Security Architect with in - depth knowledge across all of IaaS, PaaS & SaaS & IDMaaS & for a Hybrid environment in Azure, V-CloudAir and AWS cloud. Can architect either public or extending on-premises datacenter. Maintain Focus on achieving bottom line results with formulating and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of needs. Have a good record of delivering simultaneous large scale, mission critical projects on time and within budget.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ellicott city,MD

Disaster Recovery Architect

• Perform Live Disaster recovery of 10,000+ Window servers due to Ransomware attack.
• Restore volumes using Netapp snapshots/clone volume.
• Restore Virtual Machines from CommVault.
• Restore Physical Servers using 1-touch Recovery/BMR recovery.
• Restore the entire Citrix farm/servers.
• Restore the Exchange environment.
• Restore SCCM/vCM/HPE/BMC Remedy.

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Solutions Architect

• Present architecture diagrams for migrating or deploying new applications to Azure and Amazon Web Services.
• Work with vendors to conduct proof-of-concepts and update Business and IT Management.
• Prepare TCO estimates for Infrastructure or cloud technologies.
• Performed POC on GCP Google Cloud Platform.
• Design Splunk and IBM QRadar infrastructure.
• Evaluating Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
• Collaboration Experience in designing and migrating existing systems using HDInsight, Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, Pig, Hive and Sqoop.
• Designed and Implement Monitoring tools like SolarWinds, EdgeSight and Dynatrace.
• Design and implement new Infrastructure and Cloud Strategies and policies.
• Work with the team engineers (Cloud/Infra) to implement the proposed architecture and mentor them.
• Implement Security using SAML, SSO, WS-Federation, or OpenID Connect for On-boarding custom applications.
• Architect for Flatirons SaaS based solutions for the 787 and A350 manuals which uses new S1000D standards.
• Architect for designing SaaS /PaaS based solutions for Engine Manuals.
• Designed Data migration of databases and data warehouses of Oracle, IBM-DB2 and SQL Server from on premise to cloud.
• Experience using Informatica (Big Data Environment)
• Knowledge of SQL programming, PL/SQL and ETL (Informatica)
• Architect for RFID based solutions for Safety and Emergency equipment.
• Design Access gateway, GSLB, SSL Offload, HTTP compression, EdgeSight and Command Center on NetScaler.
• Perform GAP analysis in Citrix/NetScaler and provided a remediation plan.
• Designed the migration of XenApp 6.5 to 7.6
• End to End Solutions architect (Application & Infrastructure) for Digital Aircraft Technology Team
• Architect for the DevOps project (Infra Automation/Config Mgmt/Deployment Automation/log and performance Mgmt. and monitoring).
• Designing DevOps solutions using Docker, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, kubernetes, Pivotal cloud foundry.
• Designed and Set-up the OpenStack (Newton) for Digital Aircraft Technology team.
• SPOC for TROUX software modeling and Archer.
• Design new High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD) documents templates.
• Designing solutions using Google Glass and HoloLens for Aeronautical engineers
• Work with PMO to get the required resources to implement the project.
• Use Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

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Infrastructure Solutions Architect

• Present architecture diagrams for migrating or deploying new applications to Amazon AWS.
• Perform GAP analysis in VMware/Citrix/NetScaler/Active Directory/Windows Environment with remediation plan.
• Designed and implemented the Upgraded VMware 5.5 to 6.0.
• Designed and Implement Monitoring tools like SCOM, EdgeSight and Dynatrace.
• Work with vendors to conduct proof-of-concepts and update Business and IT Management.
• Design new Infrastructure and Cloud Strategies and policies.
• Re-designed the Windows Active directory infrastructure and hardened the Active Directory and Windows servers.
• Designed converged and hyper-converged technologies using VBlock and NUTANIX.
• Prepare TCO estimates for Infrastructure or cloud technologies.
• Work with the team engineers On-site and offshore to implement the proposed architecture and mentor them.
• Work with PMO to get the required resources to implement the project.
• Designed the capacity planning for enterprise applications servers
• Design Access gateway, GSLB, SSL Offload, HTTP compression, EdgeSight and Command Center on NetScaler.
• Implemented vRealize business 7.0 for charge back and show back analysis.
• Installed and configured VROPS 6.1 with Custom dashboards and reports.
• Integrated Citrix AppDNA and App-V for XenDesktop and XenApp with Citrix Logic monitor.
• Design Splunk and IBM QRadar infrastructure.
• Integrate Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources.
• Was a part of the POC for Zenoss IT monitoring tool.
• Use Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Develop and architect roadmap, set requirements and standards, and architect new Azure/MIM/Sailpoint-based IAM environment that enables the organization’s identity transformation and facilitates implementation of anew cloud-based application portal.

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Team Lead (SPOC for IT Infrastructure)

• Designed the Infrastructure for 100% uptime of the company website using NetScaler and SharePoint.
• Present architecture diagrams for migrating or deploying new applications to Amazon AWS/Azure.
• Work with vendors to conduct proof-of-concepts and update Business and IT Management.
• Re-designed the Windows Active directory infrastructure and hardened the Active Directory and Windows servers.
• Design new Infrastructure Strategies and policies.
• Performed POC on GCP Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of SQL programming, PL/SQL and ETL (Informatica)
• Work with the team engineers On-site and Offshore to implement the proposed architecture and mentor them.
• Advisor for IT Security and IT Compliance.
• Implemented PaloAlto firewall
• Designed the Security Operations Center (SOC) with required tools, hired and trained the Engineers.
• Designed and Set-up the OpenStack infrastructure.
• Designed and Implemented Citrix XenApp 6.5 farm and Active directory disentangle from the holding Company.
• Designed Automation of patching and configurations push using SCCM 2012 and vCM.
• Designed and Implement Monitoring tools like SCOM, BMC Patrol, EdgeSight and Dynatrace.
• Designed and implemented the Upgraded VMware 4.X to 5.1 and to 5.5& 6.0 and Designed VCOPS 5.x and vROPS 6.0
• Designed the capacity planning for enterprise applications servers
• Designed and implemented the Hardening of the windows environment using GPO and vCM VMware Configuration Manager
• Designed and Implemented VMware solutions like VRealize Automation 6.0 (vRA) and vCM
• Designed and implemented Infra security solutions using Splunk, QRadar, Ironport, Bluecoat and Arcsight.
• Integrate Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources.
• Integrated Citrix AppDNA and App-V for XenDesktop and XenApp with Citrix Logic monitor.
• Designing Automation using vRA, Chef and Puppet
• Designed Identity Access Manager (IAM) and Privilege Access Management (PAM) using IBM and Sailpoint solutions
• Implement NetScaler and F5 BIG-IP for Load Balancing internet facing/Internal application and IBM DataPower.
• Design SSL Offload on NetScaler for internet facing application (Exchange, Webmail, Lync and Custom Business Apps).
• Implement Access gateway and Secure Gateway and EdgeSight on NetScaler.
• Design the patching strategy for Windows, CITRIX, Linux and ESX servers using SCCM and vCM.
• Design and implement ThinApp application packaging and Designed Profile Unity for Profile management.
• Design and Implement HPSIM and HPSUM.
• Evaluating the migrations of application to Public cloud on Azure and Amazon AWS
• Was a part of Designing and implementing IBM Identity Access Manager (IAM) and Privilege Access Management (PAM)
• Work with vendors to test and validate Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts and design, as well as integration with on-premises and cloud-based solutions and applications.
• Design the capacity planning for Citrix windows & VMware.
• Design vCloud suite using vRA (vCAC)/vROPS (vCOPS)/vCO with professional services.
• Implement Tibco-loglogic and logInsight for log management.
• Was a part of the designing the Second datacenter for Disaster Recovery (DR) using SRM and business continuity (BCP)
• Design SAN migration strategies (EMC, DELL, and HP 3Par).

Confidential, Bethlehem, PA

Lead Technology Consultant

• Implementing XenDesktop/XenServers and Designed the Active Directory consolidation project of 3 different forests.
• Designed and implemented load balancing/Firewall using Citrix NetScaler and Two Factor Authentication.
• Designed monitoring of apps using Enhanced Solarwinds Orion and NAGIOS monitoring project on all windows servers.
• Designed SAN migration on DELL and HP 3Par)
• Re-Designed the Windows Active directory infrastructure and hardened the Active Directory and Windows servers.

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Infrastructure Consultant

• Designed the RCA framework.
• Supporting and implementing Xen Desktop/Servers and Maintaining the Citrix farm. Configuring Citrix policies and printing.
• Designed the Escalation/Policing metrics based on ITIL.
• Designed the Windows Active directory infrastructure and hardened the Active Directory and Windows servers.
• Analyzed the performance of teams across the globe (Singapore, UK, India and US) using Business Objects.
• Implementation of VMware infrastructure and HP VCEM. Was a part of implementation of vBlock/UCS.
• Designed the automation of HP Hardware and VMware inventory using SharePoint.
• Escalation point of contact for performance related issues on Windows servers and applications
• Performed P2V and V2V of server migrations using VMware converter.
• Designed converged and hyper-converged technologies using VBlock and NUTANIX.
• Performed the print server migration from windows 2000 to 2003 and to 2008.
• Installed and maintained the C7000 series of HP Blade enclosures with Flex10 and Avocent infrastructure.

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Senior Technology Analyst (Team Lead)

• Project Lead and Technical Liaison for Windows, VMware and Citrix escalation Team.
• Designed the Windows Active directory infrastructure and hardened the Active Directory and Windows servers.
• Acts as primary interface between Business, corporate engineering and Application development teams.
• Involved in the Design of Capacity Planning of the entire physical and virtual servers.
• Designed the roll out for XenApp and XenDesktop for the TEST and UAT users in VMware.
• Configuring Citrix policies, Citrix printing and provisioning of users.
• Installation of Applications on Citrix servers using Marimba.
• Performance analysis on Linux, AIX and Solaris server.
• Migrated 3500 + Citrix users from Physical Citrix server to Virtual Citrix (NDS) servers.
• Experienced in configuration of EMC Clarion and Netapp Filers through VMware
• Designed the Runbook for the Installation of VMware servers and handed over the Server installation Group.
• Level 4 Escalation engineer and an SME on performance analysis and monitoring on windows based servers.
• Liaison for BCP and Crisis management.