SUMMARY

• Professional experience of 7 years in Microsoft Azure, implementing, designing the infrastructure, Management, Establishing & Managing Mission - Critical IT Services Setup, Technical Architecture, IT Operations.
• Having excellent experience in Microsoft Azure, services like Virtual machine’s, Networking, Blob Storage, Load balancer, Backup & amp; recovery, Azure Monitor, ASR.
• Experience in creating DB Project solution for Reporting Database and configuring CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps and supporting Microsoft Azure systems including SQL Server hosted Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS) and Azure SQL Database (DBaas).
• Experience in Azure Cloud Services (PaaS & IaaS), Storage, Web Apps, Active Directory, Azure, Logic Apps, Data Factory, Service Bus, Traffic Manager, Azure Monitoring, Key Vault, and SQL Azure, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, ExpressRoute, Load Balancing, Application Gateways.
• Familiarity with AWS platforms such as EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, RDS, Route53, Workspaces, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.
• Worked extensively on Securing the containerized apps with Azure Key Vault, VNets, Network Security Groups, Application Gateway, SQL database and blob storage.
• Experience in Designing, configuring, and managing public and private cloud infrastructures utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) like Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Front, Elastic File System, RDS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, IAM, EMR and Elastic Search.
• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for the Azure platform.
• Having experience in configuring the Vnet Perring and Vnet Global Vnet peering.
• Hands on Experience in creating the Internal load balancer and external load balancer.
• Experience with virtualization and containerization using Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service and EKS.
• Skilled with Bash/Shell, PowerShell, python, JSON, YAML.
• Experience in migrating applications to Azure App services.
• Used Azure CLI, ARM Templates and Terraform to automate deployment pipeline.
• Experience in Deploying Applications and Virtual Machines through Azure VSTS and creating CI-CD pipeline for the same.
• Experience using Ansible, role base access control, access to Ansible for deployments and worked with Ansible Playbooks to automate various deployment tasks and working knowledge on Ansible Roles, Ansible inventory files.
• Creating Azure DevOps dashboards in Azure DevOps portal and managing end to end status for different applications and infrastructure.
• Experience in continuous integration technologies Bamboo and Jenkins. Designed and created multiple deployment strategies using Continuous Integration and Continuous Development Pipelines and configuration management tools with remote execution to ensure zero downtime and shortened deployment cycles via automated deployments.
• Designing and implementing cloud solutions which are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable and cost optimized.
• Utilized JIRA to keep track of all the ongoing tasks and maintain bug resolutions.
• Possess exceptional communication and relationship management skills coupled with analytical and mathematical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Azure (IAAS): VMs, ASG, VPN, Azure AD, ASR, Networking, Load balancer, Storage, Network Security group, Azure SQL, Auto Scaling, Recovery services, Backup, Azure automation.

Active directory: Azure Active Directory, IAM, SSO, MFA

Backup &Recovery: Azure Backup, AWS Backup.

Load Balancer: Internal /external load balancer, Application Gateway

Operating Systems: Linux- RHEL, Ubuntu, Centos, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and WINDOWS NT/2000/2003/ XP/VISTA.

Azure Devops: Azure Boards, Azure repos, Azure pipelines (CI-CD)

Monitoring: Azure monitor, Netcool, ELK and Cloud Watch, Jira

Migration: Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

IAC: Terraform

Version control: TFS, GIT, GitHub Languages, Azure Repos

Databases: SQL Server, MySQL

Network Services/Programming Languages: Bash/Shell, python, C#, power shell, YAML, T-SQL, Json, HTML, CSS

Container tools: Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure Kubernetes Services

Automation Tools: Jenkins, bamboo

Configuration Tools: Ansible, chef and puppet

Tools: & utilities: SVN, TFS, GIT, VSTS, Microsoft Office, Azure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Azure DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with in a team to design and develop Microsoft Azure API Management solutions using a variety of technologies across a broad set of industries.
• Used Azure Terraform to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and production environments.
• Managed design, install, administer, and optimize Hybrid cloud components to ensure business continuity (AzureAD, ADFS, SSO & VPN Gateways).
• Designed, configured, and deployedAzureAutomation Scripts for a multitude of applications utilizing theAzurestack (Including Compute, Web Mobile, Blobs, ADF, Resource Groups, HDInsight Clusters,AzureSQL, Cloud Services, and ARM), Services and Utilities focusing on Automation.
• Provide best practices around provisioning production and non-production environments on Azure to optimize the usage.
• Worked on configuring & monitoring different attributes and handling scale up and scale down scenarios for the application in Azure.
• Configuring the resources like virtual machines, virtual networks, NSG, Load balancer, blob storage, backs ups.
• Created and implemented Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates from a deployment, deployed the template using the portal, Azure PowerShell, CLI, and using Azure quick start templates.
• Assisted in design and Implemented Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service layer hosted on Windows Azure. This layer is the middle tier between SQL Azure and SharePoint online external content.
• Worked syncing On-premises Windows Server Active Directory to Azure AD (AAD) using Azure AD connect.
• Configuring the Site-to-Site Vpn, and Point-to-Site VPN connections
• Configuring the availability sets, load balancers, SSL certificates, network security groups
• Integrating the Azure activity logs to Splunk using Event Hub.
• Configuring the service principal, key-vault and enabling the backup for the vm’s
• Creating the Azure Dashboard, alerts for monitoring, Azure security center, creating policies.
• Deploying Application and Virtual Machines through Azure VSTS and creating CI-CD pipeline for the same.
• Creating Azure DevOps dashboards in Azure DevOps portal and managing end to end status for different application and infrastructure. Designing and implementing cloud solutions which are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable and cost optimized.
• Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Industry standard tools and services.
• Writing application deployment automation using industry standard deployment and configuration tools.
• Used Terraform and Ansible to create multiple VPCs, servers and subnets which will be leveraged by multiple applications.
• Increased team productivity and automated repetitive tasks by using Bash files, PowerShell, VBScript and WMI.
• Infrastructure management automation: Azure DevOps, Ansible, PowerShell DSC and ARM Template for non-production environment.
• Building the Docker containers from Docker images at runtime.
• Extensively involved in building solutions to migrate Credit cards, Mortgage, and all the product’s related information.

Confidential, PHOENIX AZ

Azure DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented client solutions using CI/CD practices using DevOps Tools.
• Implemented container-based deployments using Docker, Docker images and Kubernetes.
• Used Azure DevOps to drive all micro services builds out to Docker registry and deploy to Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.
• Responsible for taking requirements from development team sprint planning and work on automating things based on requirement.
• Responsible for Build and Release tasks for windows and Linux stack
• Set up new applications and environments from scratch and get the app rolled out in production from lower environments and provide server maintenance after that as well.
• Infrastructure management automation: Azure DevOps, Ansible, PowerShell DSC
• Automating Linux server configuration using Ansible Jinja2 Templates.
• Work with product team to resolve trouble tickets and troubleshooting services in a hosted environment
• Implemented DB project across all Databases to avoid deploying individual scripts and created CI/CD process for all DB’s.
• Identifying, gathering, analyzing, and automating responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts
• Implemented JMeter load test in Azure DevOps using Azure Kubernetes Service on different environments.
• Created Zabbix alerts for all applications and services to get notifications based on server utilization, space, and status.
• Worked on moving applications from on-premises to Azure servers (IaaS) and service fabric.
• Worked closely with developers to implement Azure App insights and Azure Key vaults.
• Worked on hosting an application in Dockers and Azure Kubernetes Service as POC.
• Helped developers to understand DevOps concepts and did few knowledge transfers to own their applications for CI/CD process.
• Worked on Fabric, Shell, and python scripts to setup RabbitMQ and Redis.
• Developed internal DevOps website using Angular 5/6, .net Core, MVC, SQL.

Confidential

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Application Migration for Amer region from Netezza to Azure cloud base infrastructure.
• Worked closely with developments teams to identify to prepare checklist for migration also worked closely with batch design team to migrate the batch jobs also involved updating the documents for RegSCI based applications.
• Responsible for Creating Builds, Staging and deploying Software Content across multiple environments (DEV, QA, Demo, Test, Staging, UAT and Production).
• Designed and managedBuildandReleasecycle activities in Agile Methodologies. Developed build and deployment processes for Pre-production environments.
• Managed Sonatype Nexus an enterprise-level package management server.
• Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat application server. Installed and Configured the Nexus repository manager for sharing the artifacts within the company.
• Set up Jenkins server and build jobs to provide Continuous Automated builds based on polling the Git source control system during the day and periodic scheduled builds overnight to support development needs using Jenkins and Git.
• Experience migrating existing SSIS packages to pipelines in Azure Data Factory.
• Created Pipelines in Azure Data Factory to refresh azure Reporting Data warehouse.
• Created dB Project solution for Reporting database and configured CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps.
• Developed Complex SQL Queries using sub queries, functions, joins, views, triggers etc.
• Optimized the performance of queries with modification in TSQL queries, removed unnecessary columns, eliminated redundant and inconsistent data, normalized tables and created clustered/non-clustered indexes wherever necessary.
• Created Zabbix alerts for all applications and services to get notifications based on server utilization, space, and status.
• Worked on moving applications from on-premises to Azure servers (IaaS) and PaaS.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings to touch base with whole team and update the work on a regular basis.
• Provided architectural leadership that supports insightful decision making, drive efficiencies in the development process, and maximizes the quality of technical deliverables.
• Involved in Regression Testing, Backend testing, Functionality and Security testing.

Confidential

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume manager.
• Configured and administered firewall rules, using SNORT, and NMAP to effectively monitor system files, port security, and network traffic activity from firewall.
• Performed UNIX System Administration Fine tuning, Kernel debugging, process scheduling, disk and file system I/O, kernel internals, and TCP/IP communications
• Experienced User, Group creation, monitoring and maintaining log for system status/health using Linux commands and Nagios system monitor.
• Configured, maintained, and administered Linux systems that host build and release engineering apps by constantly monitoring system load and memory consumption.
• Experienced in setting up SSH, SCP, SFTP connectivity between Linux hosts. Experienced in DNS, NIS, NFS, CIFS, FTP, NIS, Samba Server, LDAP, remote access, security management, and system troubleshooting skills.
• Mounting & un-mounting the netapp storage LUNs to the Red Hat Linux servers and troubleshooting the issues encountered.