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Azure Administrator / Windows System Engineer

Solid MS Azure Admin who with over 7 years of windows and Azure Administration experience in healthcare, education, retail and finance industry now seeking challenging opportunities managing Azure as an Azure administrator.

CORE EXPERIENCES ARE IN THE AREA OF:

Azure Monitor Azure AD MFA / 2FA

Azure (Iaas, Paas, Saas) Azure DataLake Azure Data Factory Identity Management RBAC Azure Sentinel SIEM

Azure Networking and Firewall Azure Key Vault Windows AD Azure site recovery Azure Backup Management Groups Subscription Management Powershell, Azure CLI Device Identity SKILLS SUMMARY:

Responsible for managing and organizing Subscriptions using Azure Management Groups.

Responsible for managing and organizing Resources using Azure Resource Groups.

Responsible for using azure’s suite of network security tools to safeguard azure components including VNET, Gateways, Routes, Firewall, Security Groups, RBAC, DNS Zones, etc.

Responsible for automating resource deployment using Infrastructure as a code (Azure CLI, Cloud Shell and Powershell).

Responsible for designing and managing multi zone services and VMs within Azure.

Responsible for creating metrics and Alerts for various Azure resources.

Monitoring Azure resources using Azure monitor as well as Log Analytics.

Monitoring the health and security standing of subscriptions using Azure Advisor.

Setting up and Managing Azure Storage Accounts as well as Azure Load Balancers.

Using Azure Backup and Site recovery to assist with migration effort to Azure.

Experience working with backup and storage solutions (Commvault, Net Backup)

Management of multi-terabyte production clustered systems using ACTIVE-PASSIVE Clustering.

Responsible for setting up Scalable, Fault tolerance and Disaster ready Azure resources.

Responsible for creating and managing Azure Key Vault.

Responsible for patching windows servers.

Responsible for performing routine audits on all azure resources.

Expertise in using Network Watcher and VM Scale Sets. TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Azure Portal, Windows Server 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2, 2016 Server Database Administration, PowerShell, HP OpenView, HP ServiceDesk, Cherwell, Idera SQL DM, ESX, VCenter, Hyper-V, SQL Sentry, Replication, Enterprise Environments, Clustering, Services, ServiceNow, Jira. Operating systems: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2012R2/2016/2019/Xp/Vista/7/8/10; network protocols: DNS, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, SFTP.

KINGSLEY O IROKA Sr. Azure Administrator / Engineer ad1r2z@r.postjobfree.com

KINGSLEY O IROKA

Atlanta, GA

(770) 510 - 8575

www.linkedin.com/in/kingsley-iroka

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WORK EXPERIENCE:

The Tech-Edge Group

Sr. Azure Admin / Engineer

• Working closely with application, network, and security teams to ensure requirements are reflected appropriately in the Azure design.

• Manage cloud migration using Azure migrate, Backup and Recovery, Disaster recovery, Cloud Security

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.

• Providing Advisory on Security measures to resources, and Files sharing platform between users both on- prem and Cloud environment

• Cloud services, deployment planning, management, and troubleshooting issues

• Managed the deployment of virtual instances in Azure using ARM which includes managing IAM, virtual Network, and Network Security groups.

• Manage critical issues by setting customer expectations, devise and implement action plans and professionally communicate to all parties involved.

• Perform hands-on activities involved in creating cloud infrastructure components.

• Document cloud architecture design and analysis work, including project postmortem documentation and metric collection.

• Replicated VMware VMs to Azure with Site Recovery.

• Used PowerShell Scripting and automation to move workloads and improve operations and support.

• Documentation of Azure Processes for Company’s future use.

• Assist customers in simplifying the Architecture by Automation using JSON (ARM) Templates, Azure CLI and PowerShell.

• Azure Infrastructure - Full Stack.

• Azure Identity to include Azure Active Directory, Conditional Access, Multi Factor Authentication.

• Azure Information Protection to include DLP and RMS.

• Azure Site Recovery Services.

• Azure Networking - Azure VPN, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway.

• Modern Service Management - I have been responsible in my role showing customers how to setup Governance in their Azure Environment. This has included setting up RBAC for the customers employees, setting up Azure Policies to restrict VM Sizes and make sure that tags are being used when creating resources in Azure. I have helped setup Monitoring and setup Alerts for customers thru Azure Monitoring. Walked customers thru setting up Budgets and how to analyze costs thru Azure Cost Management. May 2022 - Present

KINGSLEY O IROKA Sr. Azure Administrator / Engineer 3

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Windows System Engineer

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Center, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks.

VMware converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines.

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Virtual Center Server and creating Virtual Machines

Implemented the migrations of ESX servers from 3.5 to 4.0 and from 4.0 to ESXi 4.1

Designed and implemented vSphere 5.0/5.1 Lab environment.

VMware cluster with HA and DRS.

Performed Hot Cloning, Cold Cloning, Classic vMotion and Storage vMotion.

Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's ESX servers CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization for Security Compliance.

Designing an Active Directory and Network Infrastructure, Forest and Domain Infrastructure.

Implementing Group Policy, Managing and Monitoring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP managing and monitoring Domain Name System DNS .

Installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2008 R2/Windows 2012 server core domains in an enterprise network environment.

Configuring Mail server for remote Access, recipient policy, Server Policy, Mailbox policy.

Administering Information store Management, Public folder Management, Exchange system Manager Management, Groups and Address List Management, administrative Group Management

Setting up permission, delegating permission, Routing Groups and Routing groups Connectors.

Provide support to application teams on IIS configuration, Ensure availability and capacity of key services such as file, print, DHCP and DNS.

Server hardware troubleshooting by using through RIB/ILO and HP SIM .

Hardware firmware upgrade for physical servers like HP, Dell and IBM.

Performance optimization, regular health checks on servers and Systematic Troubleshooting of problems.

Installing and Managing Active directory and FSMO Roles Transfer in Active Directory forest.

Troubleshooting replication issues in active directory. EDUCATION:

CERTIFICATION:

March 2016 – Feb 2022

KINGSLEY O IROKA Sr. Azure Administrator / Engineer Microsoft Azure Certified Administrator.

MCSE Server Infrastructure server 2022.

2008R2 and 2012.

Working as Windows server admin. Installing, configuring and troubleshooting on the Windows server 2008 Responsible for third-level support for all server related issues. Implemented security policy and virus Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management. Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures. Responsible to maintain all windows servers operating systems from Windows 2008 R2- 2012 . Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Assist in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server editions using enterprise Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites Windows 2003/2008 on VMware ESX Job includes installation and configuration of VMware ESXi 4.1, installation and configuration of VMware Prepared the strategy and implemented ESXi Migration. GA STATE UNIVERSITY, BS

IMO STATE UNIVERSITY

FEDREAL GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OHAFIA,F.G.C ENUGU NIGERIA

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