SUMMARY

• Over 9 + Years of Experience Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, Windows Admin and VM Ware Administration
• Manage Identity Access management of Azure Subscriptions, Azure AD, Azure AD Application Proxy, Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Pass through Authentication.
• Having Experience Configuring and managing AzureAD Connect, AzureAD Connect health, Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
• Resolved Azure AD issues relating to Office 365, Active Directory to AzureAD and CAIDM to Active Directory.
• Resolving the Sync issue Microsoft Managed Services Service Provisioning Provider (MMSSPP).
• Provided guidance in the planning, gathering requirements, recommendations, and implementation of data migration to Office 365, and configuration best practices
• Having Experience on creating and updating the Various PowerShell Scripts for windows, Active Directory, AzureAD and o365.
• Developed a migration approach to move workloads from On - Premises AD to Windows Azure or develop new cloud-ready application solutions.
• Assisted Office 365 customers with configuration of on boarding tools and processes, Initial setup of Office 365 (Mail Flow, Office installations, basic tasks when starting with Office 365).
• Delivered more than 30 migrations from on premise Exchange platforms to Office 365.
• Migrated customer's 15,000 Exchange mailboxes to Microsoft Office 365.
• Designing, Configuring and maintaining Active Directory Services on Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016(Test, Development) Domain controller.
• Participated in creating the security policies in Active Directory, scheduling tasks using task scheduler, using PowerShell scripting.
• Install and Manage security reporting tools to monitor any Active Directory changes. Plan and manage all the migrations and upgrades related to Active Directory and Domain controllers.
• Expertise in Active Directory Setup and troubleshooting for any deleted objects and AD Recycle Bin.
• Planning, creating and managing AD group policy Templates and Policies Administration, Operating System Security Patches Upgrade Procedure for secure computing and network environment.
• Experienced in Deploying Web Apps and Creating Web-Jobs Sync on premises Active Directory users to office 365 with ADCONNECT and ADFS to make easy to user moving.
• Responsible for Servers Health Check and Performance Monitoring for all the Window servers.
• Experienced in configuring Cloud platform such as Virtual Networks Multi-site, Cross-site, VMs, Azure AD, Load Balancers, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, etc.
• Executing technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Windows Azure
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud watch. Migrated applications to the AWS cloud.
• Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection
• DHCP: Creating and Managing the Scopes, Providing the Backup, Creating the Scopes for WDS.
• IIS: Deploying the Web Applications and Testing, User Control and troubleshooting The User Issues.
• Proactive planning and managing server hardware, OS upgrades, software drivers, hardware firmware upgrades, Backup-recovery methods and disaster recovery procedures.
• Preparing and maintaining process, procedures and work instructions documents (PPWI) on various Technologies and server platforms.
• Created Packages using Installation Manager and deploy those packages different Citrix Servers
• Managed Virtualization Environment using VM Ware ESX, Virtual Center 4.x 5.x VI Client, Web Client.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Configured Resource Pool, Motion, Alerts, Alarms. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.
• Having Experience working on multiple teams of System Administrators working on various projects, managing multiple projects, both technical and non-technical.
• Team member for Different Project to Architect a VMware 5.1, 5.5 Environment for the Virtualization and Consolidation of Development, Production and Testing Environments
• Creating and managing Active Directory (AD) Organizational Units (OU), Group Policy Objects (GPO), and creating the users providing the Users Permissions, Configuring GPO'S.
• Having Experience on AWS Cloud Technologies. Having Experience Managing the Confidential Cloud Softlyaer.
• Creating and Managing Alarms for the Based on Vm Users, ESXi Server &Vcenter level.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Install & Configuration of Dell Dirac and HP iLO remote interfaces for remote server access

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Active Directory: GPO (GROUP POLICY OBJECT), Domain Controllers, Domains, OU Active Directory, Lync, Skype for Business, Yammer, Azure Active Directory, PowerShell, Microsoft Office products, Microsoft FastTrack

Operating System: Windows Server NT 4.0/2000, Windows XP/Vista/7,8,10, Wintel.

Windows servers: Microsoft Active Directory 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012R2,2016,2019 Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007,2010, Office 365. DHCP, DNS, WINS, Spring Frame Work, IIS 6.0/7.0, LDAP, Apache., System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM)

Database Servers: SQL Server 2005/2008/2008 R2 Standard/Enterprise.

Backup Solutions: VMware VCB, Symantec NetBackup 6, HPDP, Arcserve

Hardware: HP ProLiant Servers, HP Rackmount Servers, Dell PowerEdge Servers T series, Network Interface Card, Multi Serial Port Adapter, Printers, CD/DVD Drives, iSCSI/SATA Hard drives and Floppy drive, Routers, Switches, Hubs, SDSL/ADSL Modems, Audio/Video cards.

Programming Skills: C, C++, Powershell, VB script, Batch scripting, PowerCLI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - NY

Sr. Active Directory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing Microsoft Identity Management products (Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services, and Azure, AD Connect, Office 365)serving as an enterprise-wide directory containing 400k Objects.
• Experience troubleshooting skills in a Windows 2016 environment - Event log analysis, installation and administration of Windows Server 2016, including user setup and defining roles, performance tuning, backup and restore, security monitoring, registry for the Application Specific Servers.
• Migrated customer's mailboxes from Exchange 2013 to Microsoft Office 365.
• Managing Identity Access management of Azure Subscriptions, Azure AD, Azure AD Application Proxy, Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Pass Through Authentication
• Created PowerShell Commands, saved as PS1 file and added to Exchange Server Task Scheduler for daily/weekly repeats.
• Created POC environment to test migration of Exchange 2013 to Office 365 migration.
• Applied patches, service packs, and security updates to servers.
• Created, modified and managed access for groups of users and servers.
• Created tenant account in Office 365 for the business unit.
• Administer Active Directory on Windows 2012R2 Server, created/modified user account, security groups, and distribution list.
• Perform Active Directory Services administration and management to include clean-up of drives to increase available space and routine maintenance of pushing updates and patches.
• Pushed AD PowerShell commands to manage to various task.
• Creating and managing application integrations for identify and access management.
• Having Experience of Creating conditional Access policiesMultifactor authentication (MFA), Resetting MFA and Resolving the MFA issues.
• Familiarity in the following areas:single sign-on, enterprise directoryarchitecture and design, directory schema, namespace, replication topology, resource provisioning, role-based access Control, user lifecycle
• Successfully established and tested Azure AD Tenant for production. Provided technical direction to allow Active Directory on-Prem group to populate users
• Experience in Syncing the Objects Users, Groups, Workstation from active directory to azure active directory.
• Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS),SAML, web Single Sign-on (SSO), OAuth and related authentication technologies.
• Assist in the scripting of AD user and contact object updates using PowerShell to facilitate synchronization to Azure AD.
• Having experience with Various Powershell module (Azure ad, Active Directory and exchange online)
• Having Experience of troubleshooting of user account provisioning between legacy Client directories and CSC active directory and LDAP directories
• Experience Configuring and managing AzureAD Connect,AzureAD Connecthealth, Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
• Provided/presented migration statistics, issues/resolution, anddeliverables to leadership, detailing user, group, and physical device success percentages, tracking milestones for what had been migrated or was still in need of migration
• Provide end to end support for the migration of all the Directory objects, from the source (Multiple Domains), to the target Single Domain.
• Monitoring the Licenses for Azure Ad issues, resolving the Licenses Issue for Azure AD Users. Assigning the licenses Group based.
• Familiarity in the following areas: single sign-on, enterprise directory architecture and design, directory schema, namespace, replication topology,resource provisioning, role-based access Control, user lifecycle.
• Resolved Azure AD issues relating to Office 365(MMSSPP), Active Directory to AzureAD identity and user permissions.
• Knowledge on testing the application Various methods and Deploy the application in to cloud.
• Configured and resolved Azure AD Connect sync issues, Various types of Data issues and Atrribute issues.
• Ensuing the RCA for the problems are found so that the same incident doesn’t repeat.
• Making sure that no tickets or tasks gets escalated and they follow the affective process of change/problem/Incident management.
• Taking client calls for resetting the passwords and account lockout issues.
• Having Experience of Creating and Managing the users and groups in Azure AD.
• Having experience of Working with Ldaptools Softera and Oracle Ad admin.
• Assisted Desktop Engineers with formatting laptops, pushing Windows 10 image on laptops and running script to restore user’s files from previous Windows 7 desktop to new Windows 10 laptop.
• Edit required group policies by managing Computer Configuration in Group Policy Management Editor and deployed Windows 10 updates with WSUS tool.
• Monitoring ITIL environments such as change/ incident Management, Create and monitor RFC up to closure, Reviews all implemented changes to ensure that they have met their objectives; refers back any that have been backed out.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Active Directory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage & support a large client base Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012 and 2016 in a multi domain/forest Active Directory of more than 3500 windows server on 24x7x365 basis in an enterprise infrastructure.
• Primary responsibility for the Active Directory Administration to provide strategic and tactical direction for the Active Directory Services, Identity and Access Management, Roles Based Access Control and Segregation of Duties
• Worked on Active Directory (AD) Domain Consolidation. Service delivery of the Azure Active Directory and the Identity Management team within Microsoft cloud platform (O365 Identity, Azure etc.) Designed and implemented a new ROLE BASED admin mode l with deployment of Quest Roles.
• Configure Tunneling for transmitting over IPv4 network. Creating Organizational Units (OU's) and setting up Group Policy Objects (GPO), and Group Policy Containers (GPC).
• Managed and configured Microsoft’s Office 365 Azure Active directory.
• Assigned and revoked licenses to user accounts for services within Office 365.
• Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling & labelling maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring. Deploy and Configure DNS, DHCP Servers.
• Created Forests and Domains and raised functional levels. Created trust relationships.
• Managed, created, deleted Local groups, Global groups, and Universal groups. Verified and resolved Group Policy problems; Imported and exported GPO settings.
• Servers Health Check and performance monitoring for all the Wintel servers (1500 windows servers).
• Creating and maintaining User accounts, Profiles, Security, rights, disk space and process monitoring using Active Directory.
• Strong hands-on administration experience on Windows 2012 server - Forest, Domain trust, AD, DFS, DNS, WINS, DHCP, Group Policy, Distribution lists, Windows folder security, and IP filter.
• Expert level knowledge at Active Directory LDAP service, shell scripting, Certificate services (PKI), AD Site Topology - all under a multi-site multi-domain Windows 2012 environment.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in a Windows 2012 environment - Event log analysis, installation and administration of Windows Server 2012, including user setup and defining roles, performance tuning, backup and restore, security monitoring, registry and AD scripting
• Involved in fixing the interoperability among different applications and setting the rules on profiles in Application Isolation Environment (AIE).
• Involved in troubleshooting functionality errors of the applications in isolation environment.
• Performed daily monitoring tasks to assure the proper health of multiple Active Directory Environments Supported multi-domain DNS environments and configured DHCP scope for those environments
• Reviewed the Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory Design encompassing a single forest, multi domain environment.
• Analysed the design including branch based RODC's placement, aligned necessary DNS Domain and OU based group policies.
• Expertise in Active Directory Design and support (GPOs, AD Schema, OUs, LDAP, Sites, Replication, etc.)
• Creating, Testing and implementing GPO's in QA, Dev and Production Environment.
• Reviewed the necessary implementation\migration runbook and recommended optimizing the FSMO roles, configuring time services, configuring GC's, setting up Quest Recovery Manager, optimizing event logs.
• Used SCCD and Project Pair Tools for Incident Reports and Tickets, Change and Request Management in SCCD by meeting the SLA requirements.
• Utilized Sync for mobile device connectivity for users both on premise and in Office 365environment.
• Configured email client with office 365 email address, configured mobile phones with email clients, shared calendars and trouble shoot issues related to sharing, experience with Office 365 Pro Plus troubleshooting issues.
• Expertise in deployment and troubleshooting of windows 2008 and 2012 R2Domain Controllers in AD.
• Experience in Migrating Group and Exception Policies from one domain to other domain in AD forest. Planning, designing and implementing the various solutions on windows server platform technologies and its components like Active directory, DFS shares, RDS Service and high availability cluster environment.
• Managing, installing and troubleshooting Microsoft windows active directory, DNS, DHCP services on windows server 2003/2008 and 2012 platforms.
• Involved in designing and deploying multitude applications AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud formation.
• Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions. Configure IAM and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in VPC.
• Provide highly durable and available data by using S3 data store, versioning, lifecycle policies, and create AMIs for mission critical production servers for backup
• Planning, creating and managing AD group policy templates and policies administration, operating system security patches upgrade procedure for secure computing and network environment.
• Resolving hardware/Operating Systems and application software issues within SLA
• Installing, configuring and managing ESX servers, Virtual infrastructure and virtual center.
• Prepared storage reports for VMware infrastructure through rvtools Working patch activity monthly basis for windows and VMware infrastructure.
• Configured and managed vCenter, ESX Hosts, VM's alarms. Configured Host Profiles and verified Cluster and ESX Hosts Compliance.
• Installed and configured Update Manager. Imported patches and created the base lines for ESX Upgrading.
• Installing and Upgrading VMware Tools for Virtual machine. Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Schedule
• Experience with deployments, maintenance and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure. Working knowledge on Azure Cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
• Technical authoring, including infrastructure design and architecture (Server, DMZ, Virtualization, Storage, Network, Database, Security and Governance.
• Azure Storage development and design utilizing Blobs, Pages, Queues, Tables and VM's.
• Established connection from Azure to On-premise datacentre using Azure Express Route for Single and Multi-subscription connectivity.
• Utilized NSGs for layer 4 Access Control List (ACLs) for incoming and outgoing packets. Leveraged VNET system routes and underlying route table that holds Local VNets Rules, On-premise Rules, Internet Rules and IP Forwarding as design basis.
• Experienced on creating Azure VM, Cloud Services and Storages by using Azure Power-Shell Script.
• Convert multiple onsite Data Centers to Virtual Infrastructure using Microsoft Hyper-V reducing physical server footprint, while improving management, efficiency and performance.
• 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.
• Configure an ILB listener for Always on Availability Groups in Azure Creating and managing Azure Web-Apps and providing the access permission to Azure AD users
• Proactive planning and managing server hardware, OS upgrades, software drivers and hardware firmware upgrades.
• Defining, implementing Backup-recovery methods and disaster recovery procedures, tests and plans.
• Preparing and maintaining process, procedures and work instructions documents (PPWI) on various technologies and server platforms.
• Develop design and implement solutions for small to large environment as per client requirement.
• Install, configure, upgrade and manage VMware Vsphere VCenter ESXi hypervisor version 5.x/6.x technologies.
• Creating baseline and remediating Vsphere VCenter and ESXi patching/upgrades through VMware Update Manage.
• Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between virtual machines. Troubleshooting virtual machine issues.
• Moving physical machine to virtual machine using p2v converter.
• Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting. Troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs.
• Distributed power management, Fault tolerance, Data Recovery. Manage Users, Groups, Permissions and roles.
• Data Protection and maintenance of healthy network using different backup and recovery strategies and Automated System Recovery Disk and virtual machine.
• Having Experience on Resolving the Snapshot issues and Clone issues.
• Having Experience on Cloud Technology solutions

Confidential

Active Directory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with various teams to schedule, organize, and complete IT installations into the New Building.
• Planning, designing and implementing the various solutions on windows server platform technologies and its components like Active directory, DFS shares, RDS Service and high availability cluster environment.
• Managing, installing and troubleshooting Microsoft windows active directory, DNS, DHCP services on windows server 2003/2008 and 2012 platforms.
• Successfully migrated Exchange systems from as well 2013 to Office 365.
• Troubleshot Exchange Server and Outlook connectivity issues after migrations checking user profiles and outlook configurations.
• Managed user accounts through the Exchange Admin Center and Office 365 admin portal.
• Successfully migrated 1200 user mailboxes from Exchange 2013 to Office 365 by hybrid deployment
• Install and configure Active Directory Domain Services for objects management (users, groups, network printers, network guests' nodes) and Active Directory Lightweight Active Directory Services for deployment of applications.
• Configure Tunneling for transmitting over IPv4 network. Creating Organizational Units (OU's) and setting up Group Policy Objects (GPO), and Group Policy Containers (GPC). .
• Having knowledge with DCPROMO process and configuring AD Site, OU structure, Site Link, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Global Catalog server, Directory Services, Subnet mask, DNS forwarders, Reverse Lookup.
• Involved in fixing the interoperability among different applications and setting the rules on profiles in Application Isolation Environment (AIE). Involved in troubleshooting functionality errors of the applications in isolation environment.
• Strong hands-on administration experience on Windows 2012 server - Forest, Domain trust, AD, DFS, DNS, WINS, DHCP, Group Policy, Distribution lists, Windows folder security, and IP filter.
• Expert level knowledge at Active Directory LDAP service, shell scripting, Certificate services (PKI), AD Site Topology - all under a multi-site multi-domain Windows 2012 environment.
• Expertise in Active Directory design and support (Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD) Schema, Organization Unit (OU), LDAP, Sites, Replication, etc.)
• Creating and Linking Group policies for Windows Server in AD domain. Experience in Performing the Domain functional level from windows server.
• Experience working closely with Security Service teams for least privilege configurations.
• Experience in creating and maintain group policy objects for Windows servers host access.
• Experience in analysing system issues to determine root cause, and work with concerned teams in testing and implementing fix to resolve issues.
• Coordinate with service providers, vendors and various teams throughout the organization to ensure timely resolution on Issues.
• Monitor performance of Windows Server environment and take appropriate proactive measures to prevent impacts.
• Design and develop specialized automation tools, scripts, and processes for the administration and performance monitoring of Windows systems
• Strong troubleshooting skills in a Windows 2012 environment - Event log analysis, installation and administration of Windows Server 2012, including user setup and defining roles, performance tuning, backup and restore, security monitoring, registry and AD scripting.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Windows XP/07/08/10 Professional Client OS.
• Configuring and managing DHCP, DNS and Active Directory. Created Active Directory Sites, OU containers and groups to assign permissions.
• Provided guidance on Microsoft Clustering, SQL scripting and Active Directory best practice design for customers with directory tree structures that are out-of-compliance.
• Experience on installing and implementing a VMware ESX Server, Vcenter 5.x Configuration VMware Virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS. Expertise on Cloning, Snap Shots.
• Operating system updates and security patches Through SCCM, Confidential TEM.
• Installing, Configuring, Administration of SCCM 2007. S/W Distribution Patch Management.
• Installing, Configuring, Administration SqlServer2012 Configuring the Databases and providing the Permissions for Database Users
• Managing & Administering Users through Group Policy (Password Settings/ Account Restrictions/ Software Deployment).
• Planning, creating and managing AD group policy templates and policies administration, operating system security patches upgrade procedure for secure computing and network environment.
• Created the User Accounts and Profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory. Administered the Group Policy to automatically upgrade and repair software installations.
• Performed daily monitoring tasks to assure the proper health of multiple Active Directory Environments Supported multi-domain DNS environments and configured DHCP scope for those environments.
• Migrated Newly built Windows 2012 Domain controllers and 2 major application servers for Insurance policy writing services for a New Active Directory Forest, engineered from the ground up (OUs, GPOS and trusts included) .
• Performed Windows Maintenance, dual booting, upgrading and updating windows servers /systems.
• Performed installation and configuration of printers, Antivirus update and virus protection.
• Resolving hardware/Operating Systems and application software issues within SLA.
• Defining, implementing Backup-recovery methods and disaster recovery procedures, tests and plans.
• Preparing and maintaining process, procedures and work instructions documents (PPWI) on various technologies and server platforms.
• Develop design and implement solutions for small to large environment as per client requirement.
• Install, configure, upgrade and manage VMware Vsphere VCenter ESXi hypervisor version 5.x/6.x technologies
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers C7000 and C3000
• Planning implementing VCenter upgrades and database components.
• Creating baseline and remediating Vsphere VCenter and ESXi patching/upgrades through VMware Update Manager
• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 5.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center. P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Plate Spin.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers and Dell Servers.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS)
• Install multiple Operating Systems in different VM's and configure VM tools on them to accelerate hardware functionality and also maintain and configure unattended VM's builds.
• Building new virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client. Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
• Creating Roles and permissions in VMware ESX Server 4.1/5.1 Migrated VMware ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 using VMware update Manager.
• Responsible for installing and configuring SQL Server 2008R2 on both Production, QA and development Server. Performed database upgrades from version
• Developed and implemented backup (Manual and Auto) and recovery process/strategies to ensure proper system continuity in in the case of a disaster.
• Monitored and maintained Database performance and identified/recommended areas that can be improved.
• As an Administrator involving and lead Incident problem management Change and Configuration management.
• Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling & labelling maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring
• Experience in managing IIS 7.5/8.5 Web servers and installing SSL certificates, creating websites and virtual directories

Confidential

Windows Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data centre on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Managed day-to-day hardware and application systems focused on providing support to local and remote staff.
• Windows Server administration and maintenance including Active Directory and Group Policy.
• Implemented the local configuration of a new server/communications room and installed application servers as well as configured and deployed desktop hardware and software into the new network environment.
• Planned, implemented and tested disaster recovery solutions with department managers from North American offices on an ongoing basis.
• Supported and maintained LAN/WAN and related equipment.
• Diagnosed and resolved all network related issues.
• Directed the move of 50 clients' data and applications from previous company ensuring data integrity & accessibility.
• Assisted with all related VMware issues including the regional Confidential servers refresh.
• Responsible for updating and patching all Confidential servers.
• Responsible for maintaining Virtual Center for the Test and Development environments.
• Administered and maintained the vSphere V5.0 infrastructure.
• Administered Confidential Server creation of reservation and under reservation options, configuring of router IP address.
• Involved in Monitoring and basic troubleshooting of storage devices.