SUMMARY

• Having 8+ years of experience in using MS Azure PaaS services such as Azure DB, WebApp, Service bus, Functions, Logic Apps, AKS, Service fabric & many others.
• Provide technical oversight and guidance during client’s engagement execution.
• Provide Azure technical expertise including strategic design and mentorship, assessments, POCs.
• Support of the overall sales lifecycle or consulting engagement process.
• Experience automating day - to-day activities by using Windows PowerShell and Azure CLI 2.0.
• Exposure to Team leading, Verification and validation of deliverables, quality check before delivery, Analysis for new development or enhancements related to build.
• Cloud Administrator, Azure, DevOps, Cloud, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Docker, AWS, Amazon, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Linux, o365, Office 365
• Implemented and maintained CI environments (Jenkins/Hudson) in performing deployments to (AWS, Cloud Foundry), Packaging, Build optimization, production rollouts, staging, defect tracking (JIRA), and root cause analysis, Smoke testing, Operation support and service delivery over web/app servers like JBoss, Tomcat and WebLogic.
• Work on an agile team developing REST APIs to support an agent internal operations tool.
• Professional experience in Software Configuration Management (Release and Build Engineering / Configuration) on both Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
• Expertise in using build tools like MAVEN and ANT for building of deployable artifacts such as war & Ear from source code.
• Experience in Private Cloud and Hybrid cloud configurations, patterns, and practices in Windows AZURE and SQL AZURE and in AZURE web and database deployments.
• Integrated web services including SOAP as well as REST using Mule ESB
• Application migration, Blue Print creation, Solution Structure, Code Quality, Dev-Ops.
• Transitioning new technical projects and ensuring smooth go-live for azure operations.
• Good exposure in deploy PaaS services on cloud infrastructure using ARM templates & PowerShell.
• Participate in internal and customer meetings assisting with the ongoing evolution of technology offerings.
• Experience deploying Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) using Terraform and Git Version Control.
• Hands on experience in setting up the CI-CD pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, ANT, JFrog, Chef/ Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes/ OpenShift.
• Developing Docker images to support Development and Testing Teams, and created CI/CD pipeline.
• Development level experience in Microsoft Azure, ASP.NET, ASP, and C #.NET, Web Services, WCF, ASP.NET Web API, ADO.NET, JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS, Bootstrap, PowerShell, CSS, HTML, UML and XML.
• Good knowledge of ARM template format (Parameters, Variables, Functions, and Resources).
• Expertise in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (PaaS & IaaS), Application Insights, Document DB, Internet of Things (IoT), Azure Monitoring, Key Vault, Visual Studio Online (VSO) and SQL Azure.
• Provide technical guidance on building solutions using Azure PaaS and other services.
• Assist customers in simplifying the architecture by automation using JSON templates and PowerShell.
• Worked in collaboration with other Microsoft subject matter experts to provide the document recommendations for their applications.
• Assisted with migration to Office 365 architecture.
• Be a critical part of our core team that is defining and launching exciting “Next Generation” services.
• 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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Azure Machine Learning, Power BI
• SQL Azure, Azure Storage
• Azure Stack, AKS, ARM, NSG, ASR, Azure DevOps project, IoT Hub, On-Premises migration to Azure, ALM, Service Bus, Event Hub, CDN, Storage, Backup-Restore, Release management Web App, Web jobs, Web Role, Worker Role, Cloud Service, Traffic manager, OMS, API Management, Data lake, Data factory, Virtual Network, VSTS, Azure Automation, and Many others.
• Shell Scripts, PowerShell, Ant,.Net & C#
• MS SQL Azure, MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle
• Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 10, Linux
• Telecom, Banking, Financial services and Insurance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SR Azure DevOps Engineer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Driving consulting studies to transform the customer IT and application landscape.
• Creating and delivering new technical architectures based on Microsoft Azure.
• Meeting new customers, analyze the impacts and benefits of transforming customer legacy IT towards the Cloud; run technical assessments for their needs and propose cost-effective solutions.
• Driving application transformation and help customers adopt cloud native architectures and DevOps methodologies.
• Implemented automation with Vagrant, Chef on AWS for application testing, deployment & development.
• Involved in unit testing. Used HTML, CSS and JavaScript along with Angular.JS to describe webpages.
• Experience with Build Management Tools Ant and Maven for writing build.xml and Pom.xml.
• Build AWS environment and developed infrastructure and maintaining Chef Cookbooks for production rollout.
• Deployed applications on AWS by using Elastic Beanstalk. Integrated delivery (CI and CD) using Jenkins and puppet.
• Experienced with AWS data backup (snapshot, AMI creation) techniques, along with data-at-rest security within AWS.
• Production support of Apache, PHP, My SQL, Tomcat including installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting.
• Involved in managing and deployment of the applications in the Cloud Hub and also tested SOAP web services using Soap UI and done with in peer and lead level design/code reviews.
• Monitored and maintained Database performance and identified/recommended areas that can be improved.
• Worked with ANT, maven and JIRA.
• Developed and implemented agile Software Release Management strategies for various applications in an agile environment.
• Integrated Ant and Maven with Jenkins to run to automate the build process as a part of continuous delivery.
• Automated deployment modules of IIS web applications, bindings and configuration settings using a combination of PowerShell scripts and Puppet.
• Worked on Jenkins to implement Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat /Web Logic Application Server.
• Designed, configured and deployed Microsoft Azure for a multitude of applications utilizing the Azure (Including Compute, Web & Mobile, Blobs, ADF, Resource Groups, HD Insight Clusters, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, and ARM), focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Worked on agile DevOps team using Linux, Docker, Jenkins, cloud IaaS and Java EE, Tomcat, Nginx, Glassfish and WebSphere, GitLab, CI-CD automation processes
• Worked on Terraform for automating VPCs, ELBs, security groups, SQS queues, S3 buckets, and continuing to replace the rest of our infrastructure. Using Terraform as a tool, Managed different infrastructure resources Cloud, VMware, Bare Metal Servers, and Docker containers.
• Created cookbooks for tomcat and WebLogic to provision the Linux servers.
• Performed implementation of Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Configured Linux systems by installing the Operating Systems in various systems by using Kickstart process, automated daily cron jobs and have good command in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, and Shell.
• Performed automation smoke testing after deployment using Perl and Bash.
• Designed, Planed and created Azure virtual machines, Implement and manage virtual networking within Azure and connect to on-premises environments and Set-up a continuous build process in Visual Studio Team Services to automatically build on new check-in of code then deploy that new build to the Azure Web application.
• Deploying VM's, Storage, Network and Affinity Group through PowerShell Script and Terraform.
• Administered with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift and Mesos container technologies. Administration experience with Jenkins and Bamboo for doing CI/CD.
• Configured Jenkins to build CI/CD pipeline for NodeJS and Java based Applications which includes auto triggering builds, compiling the code, perform unit testing, going the code quality gates, creating Docker container and deploying into container orchestration platform OpenShift.
• Worked on Server less services (Azure Functions) created and configured HTTP Triggers in the Azure Functions with Application insights for monitoring and performing load testing on the Applications using the VSTS.
• Preparing's SOPs and managing proven central repository.
• Using Ruby, PowerShell and Python scripting, ARM templates developed automation and deployment utilities.
• Developed unit and functional tests in Python and Ruby and also developed and maintained Shell scripts for build and release tasks.
• Installed and configured GIT to implement branching strategy which is suitable for agile development also provided continuous support and maintenance of software builds.
• Deploying a Linux Kubernetes Clusters with ACS from the Azure CLI.
• Experience in migrations to azure, IMAP migrations, Hybrid Migrations.
• Troubleshooting Office 365 mobile devices apps.
• Performed Docker architecture documentation and implementation.
• Used Docker storage, networking, cloud, logging, compose and continuous integration.
• Experience leading migrations of large enterprise, on premise MS Exchange & LYNC/ Skype for Business environments to Microsoft 365
• Orchestrate and completely automate build & deployment process using PowerShell, Release Management Online
• Creating, validating and reviewing solutions and effort estimate of converting existing workloads from classic to ARM based Azure Cloud Environment
• Configured BGP routes to enable ExpressRoute connections between on premise data centres and Azure cloud.
• Expertise in Developing, Configuration, Deployment, Troubleshooting and Management of Enterprise Applications for Ping federate, Ping Access, Azure AD and CA e-trust Directory server.
• Implemented more than 150+ applications for Multifactor authentication using Azure AD and writing conditional policies.
• Created User Interface Design using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery, JSON, REST and AngularJS, Bootstrap.
• Configure Window Failover Cluster by creating Quorum for File sharing in Azure Cloud.
• Design, architect and propose new architectures for customer applications and services.
• Investigating the newest technologies offered by Microsoft Azure and pilot them towards the inclusion or exclusion from the products and services portfolio.
• Delivering detailed technical designs for automation using Azure DevOps (Infrastructure as Code / Configuration as Code)
• Analyze, generate and deliver solutions for cases of legacy application modernization requests.
• Safeguard, preserve and develop company-wide security and compliance policies.
• Handling 2 team member’s teams and providing product support.
• Writing and executing performance test on our Azure product with JMeter tool and analyzed the test result for product improvement.

Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implement, manage, backup, and monitor storage solutions in accordance with the HA and DR requirements of the enterprise Hosting environment, Create and manage Azure AD tenants, and configure application integration with Azure AD.
• Adjusted the application to have it working on Azure properly.
• Set-up a continuous build process in Visual Studio Team Services to automatically build on new check-in of code then deploy that new build to the Azure Web application. set-up, and install Hosted Exchange and Office 365 Suite
• Hands on automation of code build, deployments and sanity/smoke testing using Bash and PowerShell scripting.
• Used ANT and MAVEN as build tools on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
• Implemented multi-tier application provisioning in AWS cloud, integrating it with Chef/Puppet. Designed and Implement Data Model for UDW Transition from Oracle & SQL Server to Google Cloud Big Query.
• Designed and developed standalone data migration applications to retrieve and populate data from Azure Table BLOB storage to on premise SQL Server instances and Used Python API for uploading all the agent logs into Azure blob storage, Managed internal deployments of monitoring and alarm services.
• Enabling users to better manage agile software development, deployments and infrastructure with tools such as Jenkins and GitHub/BitBucket.
• I worked with Docker and Kubernetes on multiple cloud providers, from helping developers build and containerize their application (CI/CD) to deploying either on public or private cloud.
• UDeploy is designed to facilitate rapid feedback and continuous delivery in agile development while providing the audit trails, versioning and approvals needed in production.
• Implemented and maintained the branching, tagging & build/release strategies using SCM tool like GIT, and maintained build packages using Team Foundation Server (TFS) on Linux & Windows platform.
• Proficient in developing Web Services (SOAP, RESTful) in python using XML, JSON.
• Experienced in building, deploying and integrating Java-based web applications in a UNIX, including exposure to J2EE/.NET architecture (especially BEA Web Logic, Tomcat and WebSphere).
• Configured EC2 instances by writing Terraform templates, Chef Cookbooks, recipes and pushed them on to Chef Server.
• Installed, configured, administered Windows servers, Active Directory Services, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server & SQL Database Server.
• Used log aggregation tools like ELK configuration and administration for monitoring AWS EC2 instances.
• Involved in designing and implementing micro-services solutions utilizing container-based technologies including Docker and orchestration technologies including Swarm, Compose and Kubernetes.
• Created Ansible Playbooks and Puppet Manifests to, provision Apache Web servers Tomcat servers, Nginx, Apache Spark and other applications.
• Worked on backups, restores, troubleshooting SQL server connectivity failure issues from middle tier, troubleshooting SQL database locking, blocking issues
• Created Jenkins file templates for Java and NodeJS applications using Maven, NPM, Mocha, Istanbul, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, Docker and OpenShift.
• Cloud CLI Auto Scaling and Cloud Watch Monitoring creation and update. • Solid understanding of Linux OS, including security, compilation, and installation of third-party software and networking.
• Lead the effort to re-architect secrets and configuration management for all applications and infrastructure in the organization. Utilize industry-standard solutions including SOPS, KMS, IAM, and Helm to create fine-grained access control and automated deployments.
• Created Azure services using ARM templates (JSON) and ensured no changes in the present infrastructure while doing incremental deployment.
• Performed migrations and upgrades from hosted exchange, POP, and IMAP email to office 365
• Troubleshoot Office 365 Suite, Hosted Exchange and other mail clients
• Involved in Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Azure and setting up communication with the help of endpoints.
• Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process.
• Design and develop specialized automation tools, scripts, and processes for the administration and performance monitoring of Windows systems
• Experience on Configuring the Chef-Repo, Setup multiple Chef Work stations and Developing Cookbooks for automating deployments via Chef.
• Create automated DevOps solutions using a combination of ARM templates, configuration management utilities, Azure CLI, and the Cloud Shell.
• Designed, developed and implemented the PDA Device using MVC Pattern and Used .NET Master Pages, Validation controls, Content place holders, themes, CSS, JavaScript and Web Forms for UI designed Interactive User Interface development.
• Automated Data Structures validation of the configuration files using Python Scripting designed and developed log management framework using Python Language to collect log files
• Deliver web and application development, maintenance of Azure AD services like single sign on (SSO) and multifactor authentication (MFA) and also troubleshoot issues related to API web applications. Mainly focused on Azure MFA and Ping federate and Ping access
• Responsible to onboard/Integrate new applications to Azure AD and Ping Identity with SAML.
• Configured VMs availability sets using Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic.
• Involved in migration from on-premises to Azure Cloud and created customer images for VM’s.
• Migrated SQL Server 2012 to Azure SQL Server and Created LPARs for new servers.
• Selecting the appropriate Azure service based on compute, data, or security requirements and leveraging Azure SDKs to interact with Azure services from your application.
• Experience on Power Shell scripts to automate the Azure cloud system creation including end-to-end infrastructure, VMs, storage, firewall rules.
• Execute with programming languages PowerShell scripting to pull data and force sync with Azure AD.
• Created playbooks for deployments and bug fixes with Ansible
• Expertise with configuration management automation tool Ansible.
• Automated the deployments using Jenkins and its respective dependency plugins.
• Configured Jenkins daily periodic backups for Jenkins config and plugins files.
• Experienced in building Jenkins pipelines for troubleshooting the environment issues in operations side.
• Managed Maven project dependencies by creating parent-child relationships between projects.

Azure DevOps Engineer

Confidential - San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Working for DevOps Platform team responsible for specialization areas related to Chef for Cloud Automation.
• Well versed with many different concepts of Chef like Roles, Environments, Data Bags, Knife, and Chef Server Admin/Organizations.
• Developed the win forms using VB.NET Server controls and Performed validation on the client side using JavaScript and Validation Controls.
• Experienced with Kubernetes architecture, setup, images, jobs, labels and selectors, namespace, node, service, pod, replication controller and Kubernetes deployments.
• Design, install, administer, and optimize hybrid cloud components to ensure business continuity (i.e. Azure AD, ADFS, SSO & VPN Gateways.).
• Improved the performance of SQL scripts by using ORM methodology.
• In the process of Rail implementation, worked on creating Sites, Pool and Applications upon IIS 10 of windows 2016 servers.
• Have integrated web services including SOAP as well as REST using Mule ESB and Worked with QA team to validate test cases whether test cases meeting business Requirements or not.
• Configured and managed Apache Web Server on Linux for web-based applications using REST/SOAP, Apache and WebLogic.
• Worked on agile DevOps team using Linux, Docker, Jenkins, cloud IaaS and Java EE, Tomcat, Nginx, Glassfish and WebSphere, GitLab, CI-CD automation processes
• Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Chef, Maven in Linux environment
• Design and implementation of solutions in Azure and Office 365
• Migration of data from on-perm to Office 365 and SharePoint (PowerShell, Share Gate, SharePoint Migration Tool)
• Developed Python code to extract information from XML files using DOM Modules.
• Design and implementation of highly optimized distributive cloud-based multilingual, multi-market, cross-platform, cross-browser, web-based, and mobile device management solutions that scale vertically and horizontally across multitude of Azure/AWS/GCP/Apple/CDN platforms and driven by DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Used RTC for version control and agile project management.
• Experienced with Docker installation to implementation in the organization, Docker Hub, Images, Containers.
• Managed all aspects of source code management (SVN/CVS/ClearCase/VM and Perforce), builds(Ant/Maven),change(Remedy/PVCSTracker),trackingtool(Clearquest/JIRA)
• Planning implementing VCenter upgrades and database components
• Used Python, to supplement automation provided by Ansible and Terraform for tasks such as encrypting EBS volumes backing AMIs and scheduling Lambda functions for routine AWS tasks.
• Performed automation smoke testing after deployment using PowerShell and Batch scripting.
• Build and maintain SharePoint website including web parts and the maintenance of screen, folder, file layout and presentation and also Maintain system documentation and developed SOPs and Checklist
• Wrote ANT and MAVEN Scripts to automate the build process.
• Deployed and Maintained windows phone applications on azure cloud technologies. Converted .Net application to Confidential Azure Cloud Service Project as part of cloud deployment.
• Consulting on best practices and review of existing solutions in SharePoint and Office 365
• Azure PaaS Solutions like Azure Web Apps, Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure and Azure Storage. Configured and deployed the Operations Management Suite (OMS) for monitoring and change tracking.
• Experience in configuring Azure web apps, Azure App services, Azure Application insights, Azure Application gateway, Azure DNS, Azure Traffic manager, Azure Network Watcher, Implementing Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup and Azure Automation.
• Deploying the Virtual Machines with the Microsoft Monitoring Agent / Operational Management Suite (OMS) Extension using the PowerShell Scripts.
• Monitored OMS Log Analytics in Azure Security Center for Trouble shooting the Compute, Storage, and Networking & Applications.
• Administered Jenkins, Proposed and implemented branching strategy suitable for agile/scrum development in a Fast-Paced Engineering Environment.
• Worked on integrating virtual machines into OMS by deploying OMS agent. Created Automated Scripts for Azure Monitor to get the alerts for Activity logs.
• Experience in Windows Azure Services like PaaS, IaaS and worked on storages like Blob (Page and Block), SQL Azure. Well experienced in deployment & configuration management and Virtualization.
• Troubleshoot Issues Related to Web Apps, APIs, VMs, Azure AD and all the Azure related Services
• Deployed and hosted Web Applications in Azure, created Application insights for monitoring the Application.