SUMMARY:

• Dedicated Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of experience in Windows Administration, Cloud Infrastructure management and Implementation, looking to leverage my broad range of Cloud skills and experience to utilize systems administration and engineering to produce automated, reliable, and scalable AWS, Azure Cloud and Public Cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in migrating applications from customer on - premises datacenter to the cloud platforms.
• Experience in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling.
• Expertise in migrating the existing v1 (Classic) Azure infrastructure into v2 (ARM) , scripting and templating the whole end to end process as much as possible so that it is customizable for each area being migrated.
• Experience in managing Microsoft Windows server infrastructure and data-centre operations by effectively planning, installing, configuring and optimize the IT infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance.
• Expertise in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses) .
• Configure high available and DR capable - SQL and Application windows failover clusters in Azure.
• Experience in configuring Azure web apps, Azure App services, Azure Application insights, Azure Application gateway, Azure DNS, Azure Traffic manager, App services, Analyzing Azure Networks with Azure Network Watcher, Implementing Azure Site Recovery, Azure stack, Azure Backup and Azure Automation.
• Experience in architecting Azure IaaS, Azure Hybrid Identity, Azure Governance, Azure web jobs, Azure search.
• Architecting Azure cloud connectivity, Azure Iaas, Global Solutions, Azure virtual machines, Networking.
• Extensive scripting knowledge to redesign, configure, automate, troubleshoot and improve the performance of applications and servers.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure

  backups.

• Experienced in authoring and building Azure Logic apps, Logic App integration, Publishing and monitoring Logic Apps and Logic App diagnostics.
• Experience in working with Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 Active Directory and Administration
• Work experience in Azure App & Cloud Services, PaaS, Azure Blob Storage, Web API, VM creation, ARM Templates, PowerShell scripts, IaaS, Lift & Shift, storage, network and database.
• Experience in automating day-to-day activities by using Windows PowerShell and Azure CLI 2.0.
• Experience in network administration, deploying and troubleshooting of DNS, LDAP, NIS, NFS and DHCP etc.
• AWS certified Solutions Architect skilled in developing DevOps solutions and architecting the platform to achieve stable and fault tolerant architectures.
• Experience in using IAM to create and manage AWS users and groups, to allow permissions or deny their access to AWS resources
• Highly skilled in various automation tools, continuous integration workflows, managing binary repositories and containerizing application deployments and test environments.
• Experienced working with configuration management tool chef by developing chef cookbooks to configure, deploy and manage web applications, config files, databases, mount points and packages of existing infrastructure.
• Experience in creating Docker containers leveraging existing Linux Containers and AMI's in addition to creating Docker containers from scratch.
• Proficient in networking, Windows administration, and managing server infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance.
• Experienced with WordPress development, WordPress migration to cloud services .
• Experienced Application Security Researcher, thereby possess hands-on experience on wide range of services, application workflows, CVE’s and OWASP vulnerabilities. Hence, efficient in troubleshooting and developing custom scripts to find and patch vulnerabilities.
• Exceptional communication skills, business insights to comprehend and convey technical issues. Proven ability to collaborate, lead and work incessantly towards organizations growth.
• Experience in Handling Cloud environments like AWS. Configuration management using Amazon Cloud Formation, Continuous integration with Jenkins . AWS management (EC2, EBS, RDS, ROUTE53).
• Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances, virtual private cloud (VPCs) , and security groups.
• Worked on Amazon Web Services Applications (AWS) like EC2, S3, ELB, EBS, Code deploy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud platform: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services.

CI/CD, DevOps Tools: Git, Jenkins, Chef, Docker, Nagios

Languages/Scripts: C, C#, C++, SQL, XML, YAML, Ruby, Python, PowerShell, PowerShell DSC

Directory Services: Active Directory (2008/2012) Administration.

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server.

Operating Systems / Web servers: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2 Servers, Windows Server 2000/2003 Windows 10/ 8/7/Vista/XP, Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, Apache, Nginx, IIS

Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, UDP, SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, and RIP, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN, LAN

Clustering Technologies: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2 Clustering & High Availability

Virtualization: Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, VDI, VMware

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Miami, FL

Sr. Azure Cloud Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing/Deploying the Windows Azure based applications.
• Infrastructure Migrations: Drive Operational efforts to migrate all legacy services to a fully Virtualized Infrastructure.
• Designed client server telemetry adopting latest monitoring techniques.
• Build of new environments for development and test in Azure.
• Experience in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, Site-to- Site VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling.
• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), Peering, subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Established connection from Azure to On-premise datacenter using Azure Express Route and Site-to-Site for Single and Multi-Subscription.
• Developed a migration approach to move workloads from On-Premises AD to Windows Azure or develop new cloud-ready application solutions.
• Having Experience of Creating and Managing the users and groups in Azure AD.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Implemented HA deployment models with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager.
• Implemented operational efficiencies using scripting tools (Python and PowerShell).
• Designed database HA solutions using SQL 2014 AOAG, Mirroring and Replication to build the high availability solutions.
• Supporting for Enterprise customers on Microsoft Azure (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS).
• Protecting on Premise& Cloud Workloads using Azure Backup.
• Responsible for support Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure IaaS VM Backup & Hyper-V virtual machines.
• Managing/Deploying the Windows Azure based applications.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Implemented operational efficiencies using scripting tools (Python and PowerShell).
• Azure Cloud Infrastructure design and implementation utilizing ARM templates Created users and groups using IAM and assigned individual policies to each group. Creating Azure Backup vault and protecting required VMs to take the VM level backups.
• Developed a migration approach to move workloads from On-Premises to Windows Azure and develop new cloud-ready application solutions.
• Good exposure to Azure AAD and Azure App Proxy.
• Excellent work exposure to Azure AD PIM to work on users and their roles and privileges.
• Script, debug and automate PowerShell scripts to reduce manual administration tasks and cloud deployments.
• Configure Implement, Secure and support Virtual Network and best security practices for single and multi-regional data centers.
• Architect, develop and migrate servers, relational databases (SQL) &websites to Microsoft azure cloud.
• Deployed Azure Iaas virtual machines (VMs)& Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets subnets.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Provided high availability for Iaas VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication with the help of endpoints.

Confidential, Newark, DE

Azure Cloud Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design, Plan and create Azure virtual machines, Implement and manage virtual networking within Azure and connect to on-premises environments.
• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNet), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
• 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.
• Setup and configured continuous delivery within Azure using a combination of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
• Experience on Power Shell scripts to automate the Azure cloud system creation including end-to-end infrastructure, VMs, storage, firewall rules.
• Configure Jenkins server in Azure and leverage it along with Git to setup continuous integration & delivery of web application. Configured to Pull source code from a GitHub repository and configured Jenkins to build and deploy the code to Staging slot, before it is pushed to production manually.
• Setup Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) to meet security requirements as software based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections) .
• Configured, managed, and monitored Azure resources with Azure Automation to optimize availability and reliability.
• Experienced working on DotNet Core CLI, installing and configuring ASP.NET applications.
• Configuring ASP.NET settings and ASP.NET website on IIS.
• Troubleshooting ASP.NET applications by monitoring logs, web requests, application dependencies, performance counters, log aggregation.
• Created Azure Automation Assets, Graphical runbooks, PowerShell runbooks that will automate specific tasks.
• Deployed Windows and Linux based Docker containers with popular container orchestrators like Kubernetes and DCOS provisioned by the Azure Container Service and integration of container registries, specifically Docker Hub and the Azure Container Registry into DevOps workflows.
• Monitoring web apps, performance monitoring, dependency tracking by leveraging application insights.
• Configured availability tests and alerts for application insights.
• Configured Source Control for Azure Automation Account, Created PowerShell Runbooks which was checked in for source control, version history, management, and security.
• Configured and deployed the Operations Management Suite (OMS) for monitoring and change tracking.
• Worked on integrating virtual machines into OMS by deploying OMS agent.
• Provision Azure Security and operations management portal configured vms for the applications(full stack, .Net ) and configured the diagnostics storage account to load data into the Log Analytics platform. Additionally, solution packs (SQL Health check, change tracking, Update management, Service map, were installed and configured to gather data and provide dashboards for applications deployed in Azure IaaS.
• Worked on OMS features: Log analytics, Azure automation DSC and security.
• Configured DSC configurations to deploy Web Servers to Azure VMs.
• Experience in Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management and Asset Management.
• Designed Vnet’s and implemented security based on the requirements.
• Configured Express Route connections between on-premise data centers and Azure cloud.
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Designed User Defined Routes with custom route tables for specific cases to force tunneling to the Internet via on-premise network and control use of virtual appliances in the customer’s Azure environment.
• Utilized NSGs for layer 4 Access Control List (ACLs) for incoming and outgoing packets.
• Experience on Power Shell scripts to automate the Azure cloud system creation including end-to-end infrastructure, VMs, storage, firewall rules.
• Used firewall appliance where requirements call for layer 7 security models.
• Leveraged VNET system routes and underlying route table that holds Local VNet Rules, On-premise Rules, Internet Rules and IP Forwarding as design basis.

Confidential, Modesto, CA

Sr. Azure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, deployed, maintained and lead the implementation of Cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure and underlying technologies
• Migrating Services from On-premise to Azure Cloud Environments. Collaborate with development and QA teams to maintain high-quality deployment
• Deployed the initial Azure components like Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Storage and Affinity groups.
• Conducted capacity planning and architecture of Storage Accounts.
• Configured Azure Traffic Manager to build routing for user traffic Infrastructure Migrations: Drive Operational efforts to migrate all legacy services to a fully Virtualized Infrastructure.
• Prepared capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases.
• Installing the Applications Insights tool on the web services and configuring an Application Insight workspace in Azure. configured Application Insights to perform web tests and alerts.
• Handle deployment workflow including provisioning, load balancing, and health monitoring.
• Implemented HA deployment models with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager
• Configured Azure Active Directory and managed users and groups.
• Configure continuous integration from source control, setting up build definition within Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and configure continuous delivery to automate the deployment of ASP.NET MVC applications to Azure web apps
• Deployed DSC from Azure Automation to On-premises or cloud environments.
• Installing IIS and ASP.NET modules, configuring server and adding ASP.NET Applications via command line.
• Configured Azure Automation DSC configuration management to assign permissions through RBAC, assign nodes to proper automation accounts and DSC configurations, to get alerted on any changes made to nodes and their configuration.
• Deployed Azure Container Services running Kubernetes clusters, with Windows agents and Linux agents. created the clusters and deployed container based applications from Docker Hub using the Kubernetes CLI.
• Configured stream analytics, Event hubs and worked to manage IoT solutions with Azure.
• Used PowerShell DSC to configure Vms, physical hosts.
• Used PowerShell DSC within Azure Automation runbooks to configure machines.
• Tested and deployed DSC configurations to all servers.
• Developed automation solution using PowerShell scripting for day to day operational tasks
• Modification of Certs, Password and Storage Accounts on the cloud platform Setting up and administer service accounts
• Worked on Configuration of Internal load balancer, load balanced sets and Azure Traffic manager.
• Migrated SQL Server 2008 database to Windows Azure SQL Database and updating the Connection Strings based on this

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

AWS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built, managed and optimized the workflow of AWS code pipeline using S3, Code Commit, Jenkins, Code Build.
• Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create required stacks for web application, web servers and database.
• Monitored, validated the stack mappings and resource parameters for updating stack environments and troubleshooting.
• Deployed Azure Virtual Machine scale sets using Azure Resource Manager Templates. Author a template that deploys a VM ScaleSet and other workloads. Used PowerShell DSC Extensions to configure workloads and configured auto scale for virtual machine scale set so that the workload will automatically scale up and down based on CPU performance.
• Configured VMs availability sets using the Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic.
• Designed AWS Lambda functions in python to administer the provisioning, scaling and to automate redundant tasks such as changes to S3 buckets, updating DynamoDB, responding to API calls.
• Improved the overall stability, performance of the infrastructure by following best practices and Customizing services based on the requirements.
• Built, managed and optimized the workflow of AWS code pipeline using S3, Code Commit, Jenkins, Code Build.
• Configure virtual networks across Azure regions using site-to-site VPN, configure point-to-site connectivity for individual client machines to access resources in a virtual network securely and configure virtual network peering between two virtual networks in the same region and allow traffic to transit over the gateway.
• Created Azure Traffic Manager profile and used it to distribute traffic between Azure Web App endpoints deployed to different global locations. Configured the different ways in which Traffic Manager distributes traffic between endpoints, and how to configure endpoint health checks and test endpoint failover, for high-availability applications.
• Add data disks to an Azure Virtual Machine, configure the disks in the Windows Server host for additional capacity and performance and manage the underlying storage using Azure Storage Explorer.
• Configured Linux/Windows web farm using availability sets, load balancing, and virtual machine extensions to deploy web apps. Configured diagnostics and monitoring for the virtual machine as well as setup network security groups to lower any potential attack surface area.
• Deploying the Azure Resource Manager template via PowerShell by uploading supporting scripts such as PowerShell DSC scripts to an Azure Storage account and then reference those scripts from parameters in a template at deployment time and monitoring the deployment status from PowerShell and the Azure Management Portal.
• Managed a cluster of Centos, Ubuntu EC2 instances with the Opscode chef and implemented changes to increase uptime and service efficiency.
• Implemented Auto-scaling and created a process to auto-scale front-end infrastructure to adjust to handle traffic loads.
• Managed 300+ WordPress servers in Prod/Staging/QA/Dev environments with configuration management tool chef, to update the servers with new versions.
• Migrated WordPress servers from cPanel to AWS EC2 servers(Nginx), Bitnami WordPress EC2. Transferred domain name to AWS Route53 and took care to prevent search engine indexing and SEO issues.
• Configured the LAMP stack on EC2 for successful WordPress migration of data, databases.
• Migrated WordPress image files, libraries and assets to Amazon S3, configured bucket policies and permissions.
• Configured WordPress AWS, S3 and CloudFront plugins to sync WordPress EC2 Installation with S3.
• Configured CloudFront CDN to accelerate the new WordPress Installation.
• Configured ELB to load balance the WordPress Server Instances.
• Created automation for failover measures in case of a distributed outage in EC2 environments.
• Installed and configured Jenkins master and slave nodes . Automated CI/CD process using Jenkins, build-pipeline- plugin, GIT . Built CI/CD pipeline and managing the infrastructure as code using chef .
• Monitored the infrastructure environment, applications, services, using Nagios and Splunk.
• Involved in migrating team with the current Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used auto-scaling feature.
• Involved in designing and deploying applications utilizing almost the entire AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Involved in creating VPC and Security groups .
• Created S3 backups using versioning enable and moving objects to Amazon Glacier for archiving purpose.
• Created SNS notifications and assigned ARN to S3 for object loss notifications.
• Created Elastic load balancers (ELB) and used Route53 with failover and latency options for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Created automation for failover measures in case of a distributed outage in EC2 environments.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Sr. Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing Active Directory, Group policy, DHCP and DNS management.
• Manage production and pre-production technology systems in a datacenter environment.
• Coordinate with the Platform Engineering team to develop integrated work flows for our Server Administration team.
• Monitor productions systems respond to and troubleshoot incidents.
• Creating Power shell scripts to automate tasks.
• Assisted in Administration and support of Windows servers to include Active Directory, Group Policy, MS IIS, WSUS, Direct Access, LAN/WAN, DNS, DHCP, VPN, MDM, NAV, Hyper-V, Office 365 and Exchange 2010.
• Participate in On-call after-hours support schedule for server systems to be performed on a rotational basis.
• Prompt the deployment of several IT projects over seeing consultants and junior administrators in the migration of Windows 64 bit servers and XP client to Window 7 along with applications.
• Delivered second level remote hardware and software support services to clients to resolve product use and multi-product/platform problems, and questions relating to enterprise systems, networks and application software, as well as desktop applications that are beyond the scope of the client's first level help desk support function.
• WordPress Development, optimizing for search engine indexing and boosting SEO, Worked on custom plugins and community plugins for form development, UI Design, mobile page optimization, CDN and cache management.
• Expertise in Deployment of System Center Configuration Manager with a full understanding of downloading and deploying MS patches using WSUS within SCCM. Ability to create deployments/Collections/Packages points within an SCCM environment. Resolved deployment issues by checking SCCM logs
• Worked as an escalation point for major incident and problem resolution. Responsible for determining cause analysis. Managing any roadblocks involving internal and external support groups, vendors, suppliers, and customers.
• Ensured resolutions were entered in the Knowledge Database. Proactive in problem assessment by focusing on trends in the incident management reports.
• Following ITIL best practices achieved and maintain good SLA rating on break-fix in the region my team supported with team building exercises and process improvements such as Asset Management (Software licenses, Hardware inventory) Re-negotiated SLA and OLA to meet changing business service needs.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on release management, Incident management, Problem management and Change management per ITIL process.
• Perform 24x7 on-call duties on a rotation basis with the other system administrators
• Analyze Windows Systems, check processes and log files, and retrieve and review information contained within logs for troubleshooting
• Managed users and computers with Active Directory and Group Policy and Created Group Policies to automate onboarding and security processes
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities
• Monitor and troubleshoot backups, scheduled jobs, and to monitor systems and processes and take proactive action
• WordPress Installation and configuration, Built WordPress sites from scratch, custom Theme Development, Managing backend database, Search engine optimization and content development.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups
• Performed Administration duties for the following technologies: DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, Network Monitoring, Security, Backups, Software Updates, Print Services, Testing, IIS, Exchange, Fax Server, Analyzing Event Logs, Hardware maintenance