SUMMARY

• Azure experience - Migrating On-premise workloads to Azure using ASR, setting up VPN connectivity. Assessment of on-premise Infrastructure for both IaaS and PaaS migrations and provide cost analysis with TCO/ROI to clients.
• Automation - Experience working with Azure Automation Runbooks, Desired State Configuration (DSC), PowerShell.
• Enterprise-level experience - Working with large teams and involved in architecture of highly scalable, secure, distributed applications, aligned with company standards, process, methodologies, and best practices.
• Process and Implementation - Extensive experience implementing software throughout the SDLC process, deep hands-on experience of networking, migration and implementation in Azure.
• Ensured the responsibility for overall technical quality, migration, deployment standards and architecture of the application.
• Have good exposure to various domains like Financial, Gaming and Manufacturing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IaaS, VM Migrations, VNet, Traffic Manager, Azure Cloud Services, SQL Azure, Active Directory, PowerShell, OMS, Security Center, storages.
• Network Security Groups, Network Virtual Appliance, VNETs, DMZ, ExpressRoute, Site-Site VPN.
• Power Shell, MS Visio, Azure AD Connect, VMware, IP Sub netting, Terraform, VSTS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Azure Cloud Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experience in create and manage Azure Resource groups, Azure Elastic Pools, Virtual Networks
• Experience in setting up different database - Oracle Flash Grid.
• Experience in designing, deploying, supporting, maintaining and, administration of Azure on a day to day basis.
• 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.
• Configuration new APIM (API Management Service) creating new instance and applying v-net configuration.
• Experience in creating Web App and Linux App instance, and adding V-net integration.
• Experience in creating App service plan, and Scale Up and Scale Out to different tire as per requirement.
• Performed client acceptance and prototyping using Azure Compute and SQL Azure instances.
• Built a solution using Azure managed services StorSimple and Blob storage to archive on-premises data to cloud.
• 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.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Very good hands on experience in PowerShell, Azure ARM and JSON templates.
• Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).
• Leveraged VNET system routes and underlying route table that holds Local VNet Rules, On-premise Rules, Internet Rules and IP Forwarding as design basis.
• 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.
• Associated routes with VNets via the route table per relationship constraints.
• Managed IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.

Confidential, Fort Mill, SC

Azure Cloud Consultant/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as IaaS engineer in building infrastructure on Azure for various applications of the client.
• Used Azure Migrate tool to assess the On-premises VMware virtual environment, including CPU, disk details and networks, etc.
• Experience setting up Azure Migrate and ASR servers using OVF templates in the On-premise vCenter host.
• Familiar using Dependency Visualization in Azure migrate for deep analysis and identify application dependencies.
• Worked with Client team to build flow diagram for existing Training environment.
• Did pilot migration of Dev/Test workloads via lift & shift to Azure using Azure Site Recovery.
• Configured VMs in availability sets using ARM templates to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic.
• Deployed VNETs and Site-Site VPN using PowerShell and deployed VMs into various Subnets and enabled communication between Subnets.
• Planning to configure COTS (Commercial off-the-shelf) products like TIBCO EMS & TIBCO BW and PingFederate Setup & configuration.
• Configured SQL Server Setup / Azure SQL, Oracle DB Setup and configuration.
• Worked with team for configuring F5 Virtual Edition Setup & Configuration.

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Azure Cloud Consultant/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IIS web server on Microsoft Windows 2012/2012R2 /2016 server accordingly.
• Perform hands-on activities involved in creating cloud infrastructure components.
• Worked extensively on configuring, installing and migrating VM Servers between different clusters.
• Performed design, deployment, configuration, and maintenance of scalable Cloud infrastructure with an intense focus on Quality and Security.
• Deployed NSGs, VMs in a resource group using PowerShell.
• Deployed new VMs for Development and Test Environment using PowerShell.
• Migrating virtual environments VMWare to Azure cloud using ASR.
• Scripting and automation to move workloads and improve operations and support
• Configured VMs in availability sets using ARM templates to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic.
• Deployed VNETs and Site-Site VPN using PowerShell and deployed VMs into various Subnets and enabled communication between Subnets.
• Perform troubleshooting and diagnosis to hardware/software network failures and provide resolutions.
• Configured Authentication methods in IIS 7.0/7.5/8.0/8.5 to control access to the applications.
• Troubleshoot and properly document network, server, workstation, software, and security issues.
• Replicated VMware VMs to Azure with Site Recovery.
• Configured SQL Server 2016 and 2012R2 on to Azure VMs.
• Deployed the applications on multiple IIS Servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Installing windows roles, features and deploying applications using PowerShell scripting.
• Good working experience with PowerShell 5.1, 3.0 on windows server 2008R2/2012R2/2016 environments.
• Created user accounts, modified and deleted according to the environment using user administration 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.
• Created user accounts, modified and deleted according to the environment using user administration in Active Directory.
• Actively participated in 24X7 on call production support.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Azure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, and security policy and routing.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the VNets to the Internet using Azure External Load Balancer.
• Built a solution using Azure managed services and Blob storage to archive on-premises data to cloud.
• Created users, roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Migrating applications from IIS 6.0 to 7.5 as well as IIS 6.0 to IIS 8.0.
• Deploying and managing applications in Datacenter, Virtual environment and Azure platform as well.
• Deployed application on multiple web servers and maintained Load balance, high availability and fail over functionality.
• Installed, administered, managed multiple Active Directory Domains, performed audits of AD objects and user permissions, developed OUs, managed group policies, managed active directory replications, managed FSMO roles, provided AD infrastructure, administration, installation, optimization, problem isolation and resolution.
• Develop Power Shell scripts to perform pre migration assessments of Active Directory and server states.
• Working in building new environments by creating VMs, deploying windows operating system then installing platform pre-requirements, deploying applications and configuring security.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in building new Azure Infrastructure.
• Created new Resource groups, Virtual Machines, in Azure Cloud.
• Implement and support new and existing customers on Microsoft Azure infrastructure and Microsoft IaaS
• Involved in application migrations from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0.
• Created clusters on IIS web servers using Network load balancing and also managed net scale clusters including configuring clusters in global traffic management.
• Performed Power Shell scripting for Active Directory and Exchange.
• Worked on SQL server 2005/2008, creating the databases, roles, security, writing queries, setting up SQL mirroring, running SQL jobs and troubleshooting connectivity and network related issues.
• Worked on backups, restores, troubleshooting SQL server connectivity failure issues from middle tier, troubleshooting SQL database locking, and blocking issues.
• Documentation of installation guides during platform upgrades and application migrations.
• Deployed several .NET applications on IIS 6.0/7.0 Web server in Windows 2003/2008/2012 server.
• Provided on call support for production and other environments.
• Involved in designing Platform architecture for internet and Intranet app projects and managing the application availability.
• Deployed and Maintained windows phone applications on azure cloud technologies.
• Converted .Net application to Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Project as part of cloud deployment.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on application migrations from IIS6.0 to IIS 7.0 by creating migration plans and implementing then towards successful migration involving zero downtime.
• Daily lab tasks like server imaging, OS installations, Configuring Disk arrays, RAID configurations and handling lab stuff like VLAN, network cables, KVM, security patching
• Building virtual machines using Hyper-V, configuring and trouble shooting them
• Worked on building cluster environment that provides live migration of VM's using windows server 2008 R2 and NetAPP (SAN Storage)
• Worked on F5 BigIP load balancer and its configurations like nodes, pools, virtual servers Installed and configured SQL server 2008 with data base replication and Mirroring
• Worked with installation and configuration of system center tools like SCVMM (system center virtual machine manager) and monitoring tools like MOM, SCOM (system center operations manager). including firewalls and other preventive techniques
• Provide technical support for internal computer problems and customer problems
• Configured and supported inter-office networks and file servers
• Configure LAN/WAN hardware of all types including desktops and printers
• Installed, configured, managed windows servers, domain controllers, DHCP servers, DNS servers, created user accounts, groups, group policies, deployed, upgraded software, managed applications, backup and restored data, checked event logs, assigned permissions, managed tasks for disks and volumes, files and folders management, managed servers remotely, Monitored server performance, security related events, managed network printers.
• Assisted in installing, configuring, managing all software and hardware upgrades
• Analyzed and recommended network configuration as needed.