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Naveen Vasireddy

Microsoft Azure Consultant Phone:425-***-****

Windows, Citrix, VMware Administrator ***************@*******.***

PROFESSSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified Architect with 6 years of IT experience. Proven leader who has been selected to lead complex cloud / virtualization projects cater to customer business needs as a cloud / virtualization architect. Has designed, built, maintained, and upgraded scalable Enterprise Infrastructure in Cloud and Virtualization stack to drive customer service improvements.

Certified Azure Cloud Solutions Architect and ITIL Certified with strong Expertise in planning, designing, installing, configuring and administrating public and private cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Proficient in dealing with Windows Azure – Compute, Networking, Storage, Security, Identity, Developer Services, Monitoring and Management.

Expertise Active Directory, Cloud management, Multi factor Authentication, Hybrid connections, Windows Server management, Citrix Applications, Automation tests. PowerShell

Expertise in Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling.

Interfacing with partners and clients in sales and helping them in understanding the key benefits of Cloud Migration’s for their Workloads.

Advanced in the areas of hands-on client relationship building, gathering customer requirements and formulation of functional solutions.

Experience in and migrating managing on premise applications to Azure.

Experience in Provisioning, Configuring and Publishing Web and Worker Roles in Azure PAAS.

Proficient in using all AWS offerings including EC2, Block Storage (EBS), Load-balancers (ELB), Auto scaling groups, Cloud Formation Templates, EMR.

Expertise in architecting secure VPN solutions in Azure with the help of Network ACLs, security groups, public and private network configurations.

Hands on experience in managing Puppet modules responsible for deploying Open stack and other cloud tools.

Managed Compliance and Security across Windows Azure services by performing internal audits in complaint with Fed Ramp, SOC, ISO,HIPAA.

Handled more than 1 million VM's in Public Cloud Azure Infrastructure in Deployments and Configuration Upgrades across Azure platforms and sub components with new builds and releases.

Assisting the cloud security team in Reverse engineering for fraud prevention, DDos attacks and doing complete Root Cause Analysis and documentation.

Designed monitoring solutions for Service Bus, Access Control (Active Directory), and Cache using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

Performed architecture assessments and created presentations to Engineering teams to improve service maturity in terms of security, telemetry/monitoring and redundancy.

Developed PowerShell Script's for improving automation and reducing Manual workarounds

Expertise in setting up servers from bare metal on clustered environment and load balancing.

Managing and troubleshooting issues in Citrix XenApp Infrastructure.

Experience in publishing application (Hosted and Streamed applications) as per the user requirement and application resource usage in Citrix XenApp environment.

Creating VM’s as per the requirements along with cloning and making templates for further use in VMware ESXi environment.

Experience in managing VMware infrastructure via V Center.

Planning and implementing Disaster Recovery solutions, capacity planning, data archiving, backup/recovery strategies, Performance Analysis and optimization of VMware ESXi and windows server 2008/2008 R2.

Experience in communicating with Hardware Vendor and getting the hardware that is sent for vendor attention back to production and setting up the degraded or dead clusters active in Windows Azure.

Experience in programming and configuring Power Distribution units (PDUs) and Digi’s in windows Azure.

TECHNICAL SKILL SET

Cloud Environment

Microsoft Azure (IaaS & PaaS). Amazon AWS

Operating Systems

Windows 7 & 8, XP, 2000, 2003, 2008/R2 & 2012/R2,2016 VMWare 4.x and 5.x.

Directory Services

Active Directory (2003/2008/2012) Administration, Azure Active Directory

CITRIX Systems

CITRIX XENAPP 6.

Scripting Tools

Microsoft Windows PowerShell, Azure CLI, ARM

Routers/Switches & Network Monitor Tools

Cisco Routers & Switches, Cisco and Checkpoint Firewalls and Wireshark.

Protocols

Ethernet, OSPF, EIGRP, TCP/IP, FTP, SMTP, Telnet, HTTP, ARP, ICA.

System Hardware

HP/Compaq - ProLiant, C700, Blades, DELL, IBM and Cisco UCS Blades.

Monitoring and Management

HP System Insight Management, SCOM, Service Now and Microsoft Visual Studio, Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Operations Management suite.

HYPERVISORS

Microsoft HYPER-V and VMware ESXi 4.x and 5.x.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Bravo Award for “EXCELLENCE IN CUSTOMER SERVICE DELIVERY” IBM India.

Bravo Award for “Maintaining Compliance scores throughout the year” IBM India

Perseverance Badge for being passionate about finishing tasks on time and helping in Delivery.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Attunix, Bellevue, WA May 2016 – Till Date

Title: Enterprise Cloud Solutions Engineer.

Architecting Reliable Cloud Migration solutions to clients for a smooth Digital Transformation to Cloud.

Understanding the requirements and provide Cloud Architectural Solutions, Project Level Planning in Estimating Solutions, Resources, Risk and Quality Assessment.

Picking up a right migration approach to lift and shift the workloads to Azure on several azure products like Azure STORSIMPLE, Operations Management suite, Azure Site recovery and Backup etc., and helping them in building the Infrastructure in Azure.

Directing clients and Partners in picking the right Infrastructure for directing their workloads in cloud per their Tier’s level.

Designing and Implementing VM deployments leveraging availability sets, fault domains, and update domains in Azure; select appropriate VM SKUs for ensuring high and regional availability.

Authoring ARM templates and deploying ARM templates via the portal, PowerShell, and CLI

Automating configuration management by using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and VM Agent (custom script extensions)

Implementing CI/CD using Azure Container Service.

Configure multiple ARM VMs in an availability set for redundancy, configuring each application tier into separate availability sets, combine the Load Balancer with availability sets, Scale ARM VMs, deploy ARM VM Scale Sets (VMSS), configure ARM VMSS auto-scale

Designing Azure Web Apps for scalability and performance by deploying to multiple regions for high availability in different App Service plans.

Configuring backup and restore with minimal RTO's and RPO's to ensure least downtime during a disaster recovery.

Retrieving diagnostics data, view streaming logs, configure endpoint monitoring, configure alerts, configure diagnostics, use remote debugging, monitor Web App resources

Configuring auto-scale using built-in and custom schedules, configure by metric, change the size of an instance, configure Traffic Manager, configure Application gateway.

Designing and Implementing Storage solutions for data including Table Storage, SQL Database, Document DB, Blob Storage

Picking appropriate storage option for performance, identify storage options for cloud services and hybrid scenarios.

Configure retention policies and logging levels, analyze logs, manage shared access signatures

Design high-performance computing (HPC) and other compute-intensive applications using Azure Services

Implement Azure Batch for compute-intensive tasks, use Azure Web Jobs to implement background tasks, use Azure Functions to implement event-driven actions, leverage Azure Scheduler to run processes at preset/recurring timeslots.

Design and Implement role-based access control (RBAC) strategy

Identify, assess, and mitigate security risks by using Azure Security Center, Operations Management Suite, Azure Monitor and other services.

Helping existing Azure Customers to Optimize their Infrastructure using Azure Advisor.

Understanding Customers on prem Infrastructure using Health check for azure capability by performing Bit titan assessments.

Implementing Integration of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) with existing directories Azure AD Connect and single sign-on.

Implementing WAF’s for application require high security.

Designing and Implementing Azure virtual networks, Azure VPN and ExpressRoute architecture.

Configuring Azure point-to-site (P2S) and site-to-site (S2S) VPN, leverage Azure VPN and ExpressRoute in a multi-site or hybrid network

Working with several third party SAAS providers to Help the customers in utilizing the full potential of the cloud like Zerto, Cloudendure, Cloudlanes etc.,

Documenting and sharing technical best practices / insights with engineering and the architect community.

Environment: Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack

Mindtree Limited, Redmond, WA. Nov 2012 – May 2016

Title: Senior Engineer.

Detailed Support to Customers of Microsoft Azure in Design, Develop, Debug, And Migration of on Premises Infrastructure into Public or Private Clouds.

Functional Management of the Azure Network in customer as well as production perspective.

Day to Day activities, Bug-Fixing, Regular Platform Deployments, Incident Management, Change Management.

Service Delivery Management and Adherence to Service Level Agreement’s.

Detailed Support to Customers of Microsoft Azure in Design, Develop, Debug, And Migration of On Premises Infrastructure into Public or Private clouds.

Assisting the cloud security team in Reverse engineering for fraud prevention.

Designing monitoring solutions for Service Bus, Access Control (Active Directory), and Cache using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

Deploying all upgrades and patches and fixing bugs by working with component teams.

Monitoring cluster and node health, and recovering as per the SLA.

Investigating and troubleshooting on blades.

Working with component team, when there are issues with high count of blades.

Monitoring protection of tenants and their clusters.

Inter-team knowledge sharing for the newly launched features and updates.

Investigating on Node/Blade which are failed during deployments due to H/w and OS related issues to any malfunctioning issues due to software bug issues.

Choosing the VM or Service as per the requirements.

Creating Virtual Networks as per the address spacing and joining VM’s/Cloud Services to the VNETs.

Importing, Modifying and exporting network configuration files.

Configuring Network Security groups and implement Access Control Lists.

Configuring Endpoints on the VMs and cloud services as per the requirements of Workloads and Applications.

Configuring Cross-Premises connectivity (Point-to-Site/Site-to-Site/VNET-to-VNET) VPNs.

Configuring Express Route to connect to Azure network.

Configuring Network gateways for VPNs.

Managing Certificates for the VPN and pushing VPN client to the client systems.

Configuring custom domains.

Configuring Auto Scaling, Availability sets, Load Balancing, Health Probes, Logging Alerts.

Creating, registering and attaching VHDs and Data disks on to the VM.

Capturing VM current state and making custom Images.

Uploading generalized VHD to azure storage account and spinning up VMs from the uploaded Images.

Installing VMs agents and Extensions and custom scripts on Virtual machines.

Publishing Websites and web jobs on Azure using Visual Studio and FTP.

Configure deployment slots, publish websites and web roles on to different deployment slots and swap between the production and staging slots.

Configuring triggered, scheduled and continuous job types on Web roles.

Configuring Application settings, Connection Strings and IIS settings on Azure Web apps.

Configuring Web jobs with custom scripts required to perform backend operations.

SSL certificates and IIS binding.

Setting Web roles and Worker Roles properties by modifying. cscfg and. csdef files from visual studio.

Publishing. cspkg file on to a web role from Visual studio.

Configuring cloud service role size and service role operating system from portal and PowerShell.

Implementing Network Traffic rules on worker roles to provide security.

Configuring multiple websites on a single web role, run startup tasks and implementing access restrictions on a web role.

Configure Traffic Manager.

Updating/modifying replication options on storage account to provide redundancy.

Configuring permission levels to users on storage account, containers and blobs.

Managing storage account Keys.

Copying data from one account to other account on Azure.

Configuring CDNs.

Azure Storage access management, providing shared access signatures.

Improving PowerShell Script's for improving automation and reducing Manual workarounds.

Environment: Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows PowerShell, Nessus.

IBM India Limited, Bangalore, India. Nov 2010 – Nov 2012

Title: System Administrator.

Administrating more than 5000 servers which include Production, Development, Test, Application Vmware Servers which run with Widows 2000/2003/2008 Operating Systems on HP, IBM, UNYSIS & DELL

Planning and Managing Compliance of servers in the Environment.

Managing Active Directory environment in ADS, Group Policies, user, profiles, groups and Troubleshooting group policies and replication issues

Implementing set of permissions and security as per the customer needs, & preventing the files and folders from unauthorized access.

Providing support on Terminal servers in connectivity issues and profile issues.

Remote User Support and Server Support.

Troubleshooting Server issues like Memory Error, CPU Usage, Service Failure, Paging Error, Server restart, Disk Space, Error log, Backup error, Basic clustering etc.

Maintaining virtual server environment in VMware.

Planning and implementing the Server Build with Server operating system and configuring the server with current level patches, security hardening, Application Installation, Backup setup.

Building the Server through ILO for HP servers and RSA for IBM servers

Managing Backup server and Symantec Antivirus and maintaining virus definitions and patches up to date.

Applying the patches to servers using Shavlik, TPM (Tivoli Provisioning Manager) and ensuring servers for current level patches.

Handling Change Management Activities (HP Service Desk & HP Service Manager) like creating, approving and co-coordinating and performing the changes

Handling level2 escalation calls in the team as the member of offshore team.

Training and supporting team mates in current projects and new projects, motivating them in exploring new technologies.

Monitored and worked on “Tivoli provisional manager “and” HP Server Automation “for patch deployments.

Written scripts for automation and deployment of software on server environment.

Prepared a document for usage of tools HP service desk, HP service manager, Tivoli provisional manger, Shavlik for this project.

Managing Citrix Servers both Virtual and Physical.

Upgrading Presentation Server 4.0 to Citrix XenApp 6 on 7 Farms

Provided a fix for Citrix IMA Service Hung issues and reduced Citrix Servers down time

Working with the Latency issues on Servers and Applications on the Farms

Working on the Problem Management for persistent issues

Removing the Data Store Inconsistencies

Centralized Antivirus Virus Management which also includes managing the Groups. Working with the Latency issues on Servers and Applications on the Farms

Provided a fix for Corrupt User Profiles on Citrix Servers which helped in drastically reducing unnecessary tickets/work orders to our team.

Environment: MS server 2000,2003,2008 & R2, Citrix XenApp 6 and VMware ESXi 4.x/5.x.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science Engineering) – JNTU-Hyderabad, India.

Certifications:

MCSA: Cloud Platform - Certified 2017

Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-534)

Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (70-533)

ITIL V3 Foundation

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