SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience as a “system administration” working on Azure platforms covering intensive exposure to Design, architecture in application configurations, building, automating, managing overall infrastructure and deploying the servers and moving servers from on - premises to cloud.
• 3+ years’ experience on Azure platform with experience of designing and architecture on Azure
• Hand-On experience on migrating the on-premises server to Cloud.
• Analyzing on-premise cost and Azure cost and arriving Confidential TCO/ROI calculations and business case for cloud.
• Strong proficiency in all the services offered by Microsoft Azure including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
• Extensive experience working on various Azure services including vnet, Virtual machines, App services, Databases, Load Balancers, availability sets, Load balancer, Traffic Manager, storage accounts, Active Directory, IAM, Network Security groups etc.
• Expertise on Azure worker roles, Scheduler, API Management, Active Directory, Role based access and AD groups
• Expertise on various Microsoft Azure AD SaaS integration/SSO CASBs Identity federation AWS Services including computing, RDS, Monitoring, security, DNS management etc.
• Configured the VPN, point-to-point, Site-to-site connections with knowledge on configuring Express Route.
• Install, migrate the Active directory from on premise to Azure cloud. Configured and used single-sign Federated authentication on using Azure AD
• Implementing the SonicWall Firewalls and Vnets to comply with the security policies and standards using Security Groups etc.
• Implementing detailed monitoring of various resources within different environments within Azure.
• Worked on Azure SQL & Cosmos DB
• Expert skills on using version controlling tools including TFS, GIT and SVN
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS, SaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Worked on scripting using Linux shell scripting and using Bamboo
• Experience working on automating the Infrastructure on Azure Data factory using Azure ARM Templates, Terraform .
• Configured ACLs, VLSM, NAT, Subnetting, Syslog Server, DHCP Server, DHCP relay on Cisco routers
• Experience working on Windows IIS server, tomcat, Tomcat, Nginx etc
• Experience on Virtualization technologies like VMware and XenServer
• Worked on various Cloud Monitoring and security tools including Azure security Center, Azure web Apps, Web APIs, AWS Guard-Duty, Dome9 etc.
• Worked on Log-analytics tools including Splunk and ELK(Elastic search, Logstash and Kibana)
• Strong knowledge of Network, IP routing and configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker and Maven
• Actively worked on Docker and deploying and maintaining Micro services in Dev & QA environment.
• Ability in execution of XML, Ant Scripts, Ruby, Web Sockets, Shell Scripts, Perl Scripts, Power Shell scripts and JAVA Scripts.
• Experience in Deploying JBoss, Apache Tomcat web server, IIS Server, Oracle web logic, and IBM WebSphere.
• Extensive experience with Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo)
• Server Consolidation and Migration of Applications on Oracle and Java Applications.
• Hands on experience with installations and configuration of SQL, MYSQL.
• Expertise in implementation and maintenance of DHCP, NFS, NIS, DNS and Apache SMTP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Azure Administrator

Confidential, San Diego - CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on two different projects deployed on Highly-available Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure.
• Manage source code, software builds, software versioning, & defect tracking on software maintenance tasks/projects.
• Worked on Hybrid cloud environments with various resources in Azure and AWS.
• Collect the server information from various servers for migrating the VM’s to Azure.
• Worked on Architecting, monitoring and securing the cloud resources within Azure and AWS
• Provided Hands-on Technical sessions to the project-team members to start using Azure.
• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNETs), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, and security policies and routing.
• Configured IPsec Tunnel between Azure VNet and AWS VPC.
• Manage the health of the entire server environment such as Dev, Prod, Non-prod and Test.
• Worked on Microsoft Azure ARM and AWS Cloudformation templates, Worked on POC for deploying the Azure using MSBI technologies & Terraform
• Worked on Lambda services for automating some of the business tasks using Python.
• Worked on configuring and managing the Elastic Beanstalk applications for Micro Services.
• Responsible for the Security on AWS Access including creating IAM Users, Policies and roles.
• Created various AWS policies including the policies for Cross-Account access on AWS
• Configured the Infrastructure for High Availability and configured DR Environment.
• Used JIRA as a Change Management/ Work Management/ Agile Tool.
• Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
• Created alarms and trigger points in Cloud Watch based on thresholds and monitored logs via metric filters.
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and DB templates.

Confidential, CA

Azure Administrator

Responsibilities:

• API Management, Security, Cloud-to-Cloud Integration (Public, Private)
• Windows Azure (Website, web-role and worker roles)
• Responsible for collaborating on and setting cloud vision; providing thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and cloud services architecture to meet operational objectives for cloud solutions
• Educate customers of all size on the value proposition of managed services on Azure, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Advanced knowledge of databases (SQL Server and MySQL) o Advanced knowledge of relevant web services, mail, backup, and application monitoring
• Migrating the on-precision servers to cloud (End to end migration planning)
• Working experience in Azure IaaS, PaaS, storage, network and database.
• Analyzing and identifying applications for cloud assessment and fitment, mapping workloads across IaaS, PaaS and private clouds. VMware:
• Experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere Permissions, HA settings, DRS settings, FT settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host
• Profiles, Licensing, Templates, ThinApp and Networking.
• Extensive experience with Windows Servers on single or multi domain platforms.
• Experience in updating / upgrading ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESXi VMOTION, SVMOTION, VM
• Lab Manager and Orchestrator.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration using VMware Standalone Converter or
• Plate Spin.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN.
• Experience with SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 server.
• Extensive experience with Windows Servers on single or multi domain platforms.
• Experience in updating / upgrading ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESXi VMOTION, SVMOTION, VM Lab Manager and Orchestrator.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration using VMware Standalone Converter or Plate Spin.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN.
• Experience with SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008, 2012 & 2016 server.
• Experience in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and System Center Operations Manager. (SCOM).
• Experienced in Configuring FC, SAN, VMFS, iSCSI SAN and NAS Storage with Different Vendors like EMC, NetApp.
• Experience in Designing and Implementing VMware Horizon View (VDI) for Linked clone technology using view composer.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining vCenter/ vRealize Operations Manager (VCOPS/VROPS).
• Knowledge about how to implement VMware vRealize Orchestration (VRO), VMware vRealize Automation (VRA) and creating workflows in VRO.

Confidential, FL

Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planning and implementation of new systems and upgrades to existing systems.
• Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Kick-start PXE-Boot or Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Build file systems for Test/Dev, QA & Production Environments appropriate to the build specs.
• Automated 300's of VMware VM deployment using VMware python SDK
• Automate OS installs on both bare metal and VMware using Python SDK
• Automated provisioning, auditing and reporting for multi-petabyte NAS and SAN storage globally using Python and shell scripts
• Administered and handled issues related to infrastructure servers such as DNS, NIS and Apache web server integration with Weblogic in a load balanced environment
• Created & modified the User Aging and controlling the access permissions of the Users such as “allow scp, deny ssh” access methods..
• Manage and deploy appropriate packages for the Red Hat Clients via Channel setup configured in the Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Configured and managed HA and DRS clusters
• Troubleshoot the potential issues faced by the Oracle and other Middle-Ware groups and provide sudo access to Special Users in the Test & QA domains & provide support while installing the application software.
• Ability to configure all the services including NFS, FTP, Web servers, samba server, RAID (software &hardware Configuration).
• Monitor the Server functionality, generate an accurate report of the statistics of all the built-servers and document the necessary patches, upgrades or packages installed.
• Involved in Shell, Perl Scripting for Automated System Management tasks like User account creation, file system size monitoring, monitor system resources.
• Created Disk groups, Volumes, Volume Groups, and RAIDs on local disks and SAN disks provisioned to the Servers.
• Involved in automating Data Backup and Restore functions using Tivoli Storage Manager.
• Monitored the performance of the system using ps, prstat, vmstat, mpstat, netstat, iostat and rpcinfo to check the CPU utilization, bottlenecks of I/O devices, Memory usage and Network traffic.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing the 50 VM in hyoer-v Technologies
• Desktop Management: pushed the patches via WSUS
• Backup and server monitoring using Negios Tool
• End to end support, desktop and local infrastructure maintenance
• Cloning the VM using Symantec tool
• Troubleshoot the server and desktop issue via remote tool logmein
• User management: AD, DHCP, DNS issue