SUMMARY

• Highly driven, skilled in the use of both Mac and PC operating systems; Knowledgeable in Microsoft applications: Windows & Office O365
• Extensive networking experience providing solutions that increase the bottom line and productivity by streamlining and/or consolidating network resources from the WAN to LAN.
• Highly proficient with technology deployments, installations, remote support relating to network, operating systems and applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Azure Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IIS web server on Microsoft Windows 2012/2012R2 /2016 server accordingly.
• User and computer management and control by designing and implementing new Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) and Network Infrastructure
• Optimization of existing Active Directory (AD) and Network Infrastructure to accommodate larger user - base after a merger/acquisition process.
• Implemented single sign ON Authentication method with Office 365 and configured DirSync for Active Directory Synchronization.
• Implemented Enterprise-grade highly available, messaging solution using Microsoft Office 365 to scale small and medium business.
• Designed, configured and deployed Office 365 cloud solutions to mitigate incessant downtime and loss of revenue due to inability to send email correspondences when expected.
• Transitioned messaging services from Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. 2013 to Microsoft Office 365 as well as implementation of Azure AD Sync for users to enjoy rich logon access.
• Successfully migrated about 300 user mailboxes from Exchange 2013 to Office 365 by creating a hybrid deployment for the business.
• Perform hands-on activities involved in creating cloud infrastructure components.
• Used PowerShell Scripting and automation to move workloads and improve operations and support
• Configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Managed IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.
• Associated routes with Virtual networks via the route table per relationship constraints.
• Monitor Azure Infrastructure through System Center Operation Manager (SCOM).
• Manage and Create Storage Account and Affinity Group in Azure Portal.
• Capture an image of a Virtual Machine. Attaching a Disk to a Virtual Machine. Manage and create Virtual Network and End Points in Azure Portal.
• Drive end to end deployment of various Components on the Azure Platform
• Developed PowerShell scripts and ARM templates to automate the provisioning and deployment process
• Configured VM networking with reserved IPs, Health Monitors, Firewall rules, VM scale sets and availability sets in the Azure Cloud.
• Deployed VNETs and Site-Site VPN using PowerShell and deployed VMs into various Subnets and enabled communication between Subnets.
• Troubleshoot networking, desktops, server, software, and security issues.
• Replicated VMware VMs to Azure with Site Recovery.
• Experience on Power Shell scripts to automate the Azure cloud system creation including end-to-end infrastructure, VMs, storage, firewall rules.
• Identifying, escalating, diagnosing and mitigating service impacting events on Microsoft Azure Core components as per defined SLAs and Diagnose incidents using the Microsoft Azure Engineering System.
• Responsible for provisioning of Azure services on the cloud to build scalable production systems load balancers
• Used Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to deploy, update, or delete all the resources for your solution in a single, coordinated operation.
• Deploying, managing and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on Azure
• Administered user accounts, modification and deletion according to the environment in Active Directory.
• Working experience in setting up cluster environment for load balancing and high availability of Windows servers.
• Well-versed with installation, configuration & administration of Microsoft Windows 2008R2/2012R2 Servers.
• Good working experience on PowerShell scripting And MS Web Deploy for creating Websites.
• Actively participated in 24X7 on call production support.

Confidential

Active Directory/Messaging Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with Forests and Domains; Restructuring a Forest and Renaming Domains
• Maintains the Group Policy infrastructure based on the policies and guidelines provided
• Work with Group Policies
• Assist with implementing solutions for hardware and software. Implement common preventive maintenance practices for hardware and software
• Work with a highly secure environment using RSAT tools
• Assist in management and support of internal and external DNS systems. Assist in management and support of internal DHCP architecture and scoping
• Work with Global Catalog Servers and Schema
• Subject matter expert (SME) for
• Microsoft Unified Messaging environments 45 messaging servers (Exchange 2007 and 2010 environments)
• An Active Directory environment in a multiple domain forest, Multiple Sites and Thousands of Users.
• For External and Internal DNS for all domains (10 Active Directory forests and multiple external Domains).
• Create and administer Email address policies, Retention policies and ActiveSync policies in the O365 tenant.
• Provisioning users to the O365 tenant.
• Using Azure PowerShell to automate admin task in the O365 /Microsoft cloud
• Administering ADFS and DirSync for SSO (Single sign on)
• Created automated process for user creation/ modification/deletion using PowerShell and VB.net.
• Responsible for managing Google Postini spam/virus filtering
• Responsible for adding and troubleshooting Group Policy’s in both development and production forests.
• On-Call rotation member to ensure 365x24x7 uptime of Exchange 2010 and 2013 Infrastructure
• Re-designed and implemented Active Directory environments for easy acquisitions and divestitures
• Prepared existing Active Directory environment for the upgrade to Active Directory 2008 R2

Confidential

Active Directory engineer

Responsibilities:

• Modify and create support scripts for mailbox support
• Enable Mailbox on AD Objects, Troubleshoot AD Security Groups
• Responsible to configure and design network infrastructure in Azure cloud like implementing virtual private network, site to site and point to site VPN.
• Assisted in PCI compliance audits for Active Directory.
• Assigning Correct licenses to users based on LOB (Line of business)
• Create Resource and Equipment mailboxes in exchange 2007 and 2010
• Worked on application migrations from IIS6.0 to IIS 7.0 by creating migration plans and implementing then towards successful migration involving zero downtime.
• Responsible for implementing and architect Azure cloud and network infrastructure.
• Responsible to configure alert notification to monitor CPU matrices, VM server health and events logs.
• Configure Azure AD and set registered custom domains
• Upload and deploy Azure VM using custom images.
• Implement network security in Azure environment through Endpoints, ACL and rules in windows azure portal.