Azure IaaS Architect

Sravan Billa

Ph: +1-425-***-****

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Career Objective:

Position in a dynamic team that can utilize my technical strengths, customer obsession, experience, great sense of ownership, people skills and help to expand my knowledge in Integration and other Microsoft Technologies. Shape my-self as a techno marketing professional in an IT Organization.

Professional Summary:

I have 14+ years of IT experience as System Engineer and Program Manager with expertise in the areas of Build and Deployments, Azure, SQL, IIS Administration, ERP Implementation. Performed various roles in career and worked primarily on PowerShell, Azure Security/Administration/Migrations, CI/CD DevOps, MS SQL, IIS, Azure workbooks/Dashboards.

Extensive experience and Strong knowledge in following areas:

Hands on experience with Azure Automation, which enables to automate the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in Azure environment.

Currently leading a team of 5 people and experience in framing program outcome including status reports, decks, sprint planning, and cross-team collaboration.

Providing world-class customer service to Microsoft’s customers.

Hands on knowledge authoring JSON ARM Templates for creating, managing IaaS virtual machines, ILBs, Availability Sets, Storage Accounts etc.

Expert knowledge on IIS, App service, Azure Storage and troubleshooting IaaS VM, Network.

Strong skills in Utilizing PowerShell and MS Flow to efficiently accomplish projects and ensure consistency.

Knowledge in Azure Active Directory, Roles, and Policies

Preparing and presenting status reports to multiple stakeholders.

Strong skills in business requirement gathering, test plan creation and resource planning.

Hands-on knowledge on Azure IaaS, App service, Data Factory and excellent troubleshooting skills using various tools like Message analyzer, Fiddler etc.,

Experience in Production Support for Mission Critical applications with excellent investigation and troubleshooting skills and working at onsite-offshore model.

Experience in server capacity planning and setting up end-to-end environments for Production and Pre-Production and working on monthly, quarterly deployments and hotfixes on the same. Extensive experience in preparation of deployment plans, pre-checklists, and documentation.

Expertise in Managing SQL Always - on environment, High Availability cluster environment (up to 5 nodes) and troubleshooting the availability Groups and other issues, Azure SQL and SQL MI.

Extensively worked on manual and automated deployments using tools like Octopus, Release manager and troubleshooting deployment related issues.

Possesses good analytical, logical ability and systematic approach to problem analysis, solution design, strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.

Dedicated team player with excellent communication, documentation, organizational and people management skills.

Ability to quickly grasp modern technologies in a short period and apply that knowledge on Project improvement, in short quick learner and self-driven.

Understanding of networking protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP, Https etc.,

Professional Experience:

Senior Azure Cloud Engineer, Jan 2014 – Current, Client: Microsoft, Project: Partner Center

As an IaaS Architect, I designed and migrated On-premises infrastructure to Azure IaaS and ensured security standards like NIST.

Identify pane points using data analysis and thus enhance end user experience.

Experience on migration and recover tools like Azure Site recovery, Azure Migrate.

Configured monitoring and scanning tools like Azure security center, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Sentinel (SIEM) and Policies to implement and enforce security best practices to protect the systems, data, and infrastructure against unauthorized access, cyber threats, and vulnerabilities.

Developed Security playbooks, Monitord and investigate security incidents using Sentinel (SIEM).

Created and deployed various resources like VMs and their respective dependent resources; App Services, AZ Sql etc., using Terraform IAC.

Experience with Chaos Engineering using Azure Chaos studio to safely probe systems through controlled environment.

Worked on MS-Flow to integrate business process flow with Azure Data factory.

A deep understanding and expertise in Azure Monitor, including deploying agents, creating subscriptions, Log Analytics Workspace, managing resource groups, and developing custom dashboards and workbooks for monitoring and analyzing cloud infrastructure and applications using Kusto query language (KQL).

Extensively leveraged Log analytics workspace for monitoring, alerting and workbook creation using Kutso.

Performed deployment automation using GIT Azure DevOps.

Deployed and configured Azure virtual desktop (AVD) and remote desktop services.

Knowledge of Architect Tools - Service Tree, SNOW, Service 360, Credscan.

Achieved expertise in application failover mechanism via Azure Load Balance, Application gateway, Front door (WAF and CDN), Traffic manager.

Expert knowledge in implementing Azure backup-as-a-service, Azure AD Privileged Identity management, Azure Data Share, Azure update management, Azure VM Scale Set, Azure SQL and Elastic pools, Sql managed instance (SQL MI), Key Vault, Azure Storage, Azure Disk Encryption, Azure Run Books for automation, Network Security Group, Application security group, Azure Site-to-site VPN, VNET Peering, Hub & Spoke VNET model setup, Azure Monitor, Azure resource graph, SQL virtual machines, Azure Policies and governance e.g., Resource locks, tags, RBAC, FedRamp, Cost analysis, Azure Cache for Redis, Runbook automation.

Worked extensively on Azure Application Compliance and Security by implementing dSCM JIT, Az PIM, TLS protocol, IaaS vulnerability management with tools like Qualys, Application, Network security, AZ Security pack configuration (Jarvis, Geneva Analytics), Endpoint protection, Encryption at rest and transit, Microsoft Message analyzer, WireShark for network troubleshooting.

Leveraged Azure UDR (user defined route) and Nat gateway.

Leveraged hybrid cloud benefits by onboarding on-premises servers to Azure Arc.

Experience in Databricks administration including Set up and configuration, manage workspace settings and features, Enable and configure access control for jobs, clusters and tables etc., setup SSO, troubleshoot performance issues in ADB.

Collaborated with the Engineering team and Business on Quality metrics and Bug fixes.

Automation using infrastructure as code (IAC) /ARM templates.

Designed telemetry using Application Insights to monitor/alarm infrastructure issues on production environment to proactively identify and fix the issues proactively.

Achieved endpoint protection by leveraging Azure Service endpoint and Private endpoint.

Upgraded Windows OS from 2016 to 2019.

Used Kusto, Azure Log analytics and Log Parser for querying and analyzing.

Utilized Azure Key Vault to automate the certificate renewal and rotation process.

Install, configure, administer and troubleshooting issues in SQL Servers with Always - on and Cluster environments and web servers and work on Incident management.

Prepared Threat model for all applications and presented it to the Security review team.

Configure App service, and setup/configure Azure Front Door service for App Services (PAAS offering).

Understanding of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Containers and Azure AD, AZ AD multi-factor authentication.

Program Manager, Client: Microsoft, Jan 2011 – Dec 2013

Collaborated with the stakeholders to drive the high impacting user issues for end-to-end resolutions thus improving Partner experience.

Gathered business requirements and prepared design document for implementation Microsoft Dynamics Axapta ERP.

Partnered with 3 vendor companies to assign tasks, reviewing their work, bug triages, resource planning and coordinating with client.

Negotiated and resolved Release issues between different internal organizations as well as managed Release of code from Engineering to Production.

Install and configure Windows operating systems.

Systems Analyst, Client: Microsoft, Feb 2008 – Dec 2010

Driving the Service Engineering requirements in the form of User Stories and getting them prioritized in the releases with engineering team.

Extensively worked on MS SQL log shipping, AlwaysOn, SQL DMVs, Extended events, SQL Joins.

Worked on Network, IIS troubleshooting, Windows and SQL Clustering.

Worked on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2014 at administrative level (Installation, index and table maintenance, backups etc.)

Best value adds to company and client:

Achieved customer satisfaction by successfully migrating various On-premise applications to Azure and in ensuring their security.

Saved $12 million USD per annum by performing cost analysis and moving all the compute resources (VMs and azure data brick instances) from Intel vCore to AMD.

Created monitors and alerts around server reboots, Azure Cost & Billing management, server health, kept the applications 100% compliant.

Worked towards 100% service uptime by applying disaster recovery and backup techniques.

Moved away from Azure traffic manager and implemented Azure Front Door services.

Education:

Bachelor of Computer Science, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management in Marketing and Finance.

Certifications:

AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies; AZ-700: Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions; Microsoft Certified Specialist: AZ-104 Certified Azure Administrator, Certified Technology Specialist: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications, Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012/2014

Contact:

Ph: +1-425-***-**** ad1i9s@r.postjobfree.com Seattle, WA

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