SUMMARY

• CCNA, MCP Certified professional with over 15 years of experience.
• Worked as Azure Architect for J B Hunt. Handled projects for companies like Alliance One International, SafetyChain, Confidential & Confidential with good hands - on experience on Microsoft Azure also have a well-rounded knowledge of Microsoft solutions on the cloud (Azure PAAS/IAAS), as well as on-premises development (Hybrid Cloud).
• Forte is leading teams to deliver successful solutions on time and budget or using methodologies that meet the customer/project needs.
• Vinay has experience with application performance monitoring (APM) which he has use to ensure the application under development will be responsive and meet the required scalability.
• Vinay has hands on experience on DevOps implementing continuous builds, integration, testing, and deployment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Azure Active Directory
• Azure PAAS
• Micro Services
• Application Performance
• DevOps
• Automated Builds
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous deployment
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Kanban
• Agile, Scrum Master

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Azure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Azure Architect / Release Manager, joined project to help stabilize a project.
• Azure Architect role was to interface between account strategic Architect and development team.
• This involved interpreting high-level architecture to tasks executable by the development team.
• Interface with PMO to ensure tasks are represented in VSTS with estimates and progress tracking.
• Work with QA team Devops to ensure test plans are ready for iteration completion.
• As Release manager ensure code is migrated thru branches in GIT to be built and deployed into associated Azure Environments.
• Monitored and reviewed development progress to help resolve technical issues and ensure the result still meet the overall Architectural objectives.
• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Create and review architecture and solution design artifacts.
• Provide insight and direction on roles and responsibilities required for operations
• Identify, communicate and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions throughout full lifecycle.
• Responsible for configuring alerts in Azure App insights for monitoring and troubleshooting Azure resources
• Experience in architecting and developing complex Microsoft Azure, Active Directory and other Microsoft Platforms
• Azure API management, security, Cloud-to-Cloud integration
• Good experience in F5 Load Balancing platforms, integration/configuration/administration and possess a sold Network background including understanding of switch, network routing and firewall concepts.

Technologies: Asp.net, GitHub, Azure Active Directory, Azure Storage, Microservice’s, Azure Web App, Azure KeyVault, Powershell, App Insights

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented new Microsoft Azure infrastructure with subnets for production subscription and development, Q/A and staging subscription.
• Created as well as administrate geo-graphical High Availability Active Directory Domain Services for Azure IaaS.
• Designed, setup and administration of Active Directory Federation Service 3.0(ADFS) and Web Application Proxy (WAP) for Single Sign On with claims based, third party trusts.
• Created as well as administrate AAD Sync servers for Azure AD leveraging the new SSO pass-through/password sync for single sign on
• Implemented Azure Automation for Azure server infrastructure.
• Implemented conditional access with Azure MFA for privileged accounts.
• Provide Level 3 support including: performance monitoring, troubleshooting, resolving incidents across production and lower Azure IaaS and PaaS environments.
• Build and verify the New Virtual Machines in the VMwarevironment and in Hyper-V by using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT).
• Testing Intune for Mobile device management.
• Performing Systems Operation Support, including Microsoft Windows Server Administration, general troubleshooting, and troubleshooting of complex engineering issues for hardware, software and network components
• Provides Advanced Administrative support to Production, Test, and Development support teams

Confidential

Senior Network Web Apps Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Designed VNets and subscriptions to confirm to Azure Network Limits.
• Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the VNets to the Internet using Azure External Load Balancer.
• Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups.
• Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI/CD Pipeline process and integrated the tool with ANT and Maven to schedule the builds and automated the deployment on the application servers using the “code deploy” plugin for Jenkins.
• Experience in working with configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet & Ansible.
• Experienced with deployments, Maintenance and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure.
• Engage with development and quality assistance teams to integrate software development and delivery from inception to full operation, ensuring robust released software and systems
• Build, manage, and support development & test environments, including issue troubleshooting.
• Design & Implementation of monitoring solution for an Azure cloud infrastructure environment.
• Provide application support for the SCOM and OMS platform and create and maintain monitoring and notification rules.
• Review and update OMS and SCOM console security, apply patches, create console roles and reviews, and create and install custom management packs as needed.
• Extensive experience in Windows Azure (IaaS) migrating like creating Azure VMs, storage accounts, VHDs, storage pools, migrating on premise servers to Azure and creating availability sets in Azure.
• Experience on installing and configuring SSL certificates in web servers and enabled secured (https) transactions.
• Experience in analyzing the IIS logs to collect information about server events, server performance, and user activity.
• 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 2003/2008R2/2012 Servers.
• Experience in Database Security includes creating Logins and Roles for users to access the database. Managed security logins and worked with Windows authentication, SQL server authentication and mixed modes.
• Good working experience on Azure ARM templates, Operations Management Suit, PowerShell scripting And MS Web Deploy for creating Websites.
• Involved in developing Shell scripts to orchestrate execution of all other scripts
• Experience developing solutions using automation tools such as Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, GIT, Maven, ANT & Docker
• Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software-based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).
• Extensive experience in SQL server upgrades from SQL 2008R2 to SQL 2012 and SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2014 in standalone and side by side.
• Working experience with SCCM Deployments & SCOM monitoring.
• Configure and deploy Microsoft Windows using WSUS, SCCM for patch management throughout the datacenter on the servers running Windows Operating System.
• Plan, design, and configure routing and switching environment using routers 1700, 2600, 2800 and catalyst 2950 switches and firewalls.
• Dividing the network into different broadcast domains using Vlans, and configuring intra-Vnet connectivity, VNet-to-VNet connection & Azure ExpressRoute using Cisco ASA firewall.
• Configuring site to site VPN between branch office, and Remote Access VPN between Microsoft Azure and Cisco ASA firewall.
• Configuring ASA firewall with CSC SSM module for content filtering.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Remote administration of servers for any problem across RSI offices related to Microsoft Windows OS
• Independently troubleshoot complex issues with systems using analytical skills to identify and resolve the root cause.
• Monitoring Altris deployment for client servers & user machines.
• Design, configure and maintain SharePoint farms and related infrastructure.
• Implementing and Managing SharePoint Servers.
• Implement and Improve (maintain) large to medium scale SharePoint farms.
• Google Apps Administration
• Configuring MX records for Different domain names.

Confidential

R & D Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing & configuring Linux, Windows Servers 2003/2008, VB.Net, SQL Server 2005 & wireless routers.
• Installation & implementation of computer and telecommunication hardware.
• Implementing CMOS video camera to capture images.
• Integrating GPS module for the purpose of providing Position, Velocity and Time data.
• Presenting single chip voice recording and playback Functioning and connecting each and every component to OMAP processor board.
• Analyze user’s requirements, and design and develop system architecture and specifications.
• Transmitting the data in to central database server through internet using Wi-Fi transceiver.
• Setup of Confidential hardware user navigation and system status.
• Backing up and restoring SQL server databases