Francis R. Bandi

+1-705-***-****

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/francis-bandi-b710144/

CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS:

AWS, AZURE, CCNA and MCSE-certified infrastructure, Cloud and Security integrator with professional skills in analyzing designs, transition, and migration of Active Directory and M365, Windows, Linux, and MS SQL databases OS experience in a Tier 4 data center environment. Working experience in PowerShell, Terraform, and Shell Scripting. Technical writing skills to guide and train enterprise architects, designers, infrastructure deployment, and operational support teams.

TECHNICAL TRAINING:

Jan 2019 HPE Synergy Administration – (2 days onsite)

June 2019 AWS Associate Architect Training I (3 days onsite)

June 2019 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (one day onsite)

Nov 2012 VMware vCloud: Deploy and Manage the VMware Cloud [V1.5]

May 2011 VMware vSphere: Manage for Performance [V4.x]

Jan 2010 Ontario Management Development program- Georgian College

Apr 2009 Human Dynamics Course - BMO Institute for Learning

Nov 2009 Managing Hitachi Storage Systems with Device Manager Software

July 2008 RH133 Red Hat Linux Administration

Sept 2007 HP C-Class BladeSystem Administration

Aug 2007 VMware Infrastructure Deploy, Secure and Analyze course.

Aug 2006 Certificate Course in Project Management – BMO Institute for Learning

Feb 2005 Virtual Infrastructure: Design, Deploy, Diagnose

Feb 2005 HP: Enterprise Systems Management using HP SIM

Jan 2005 HP: Deploying HP ProLiant servers - using Rapid Deployment Pack I and II

VENDOR CERTIFICATIONS:

ISC2 CC – Certified in Cyber Security Dec 2023

Amazon AWS Solution Architect Associate (recertified) Nov 2022

AWS Security Specialization April 2022

Microsoft AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals – MCID17565110 July 2019

MCSE - CPID 409198 Nov 2000

MCP - CPID 409198 Sept 1997

VMWare VCP 5 Cloud ID - 18036 Nov 2015

VCP 4 Certified - 18036 Dec 2009

CISCO CCNA CSC010693092 Oct 2003

ITIL Certificate No: 64859, issued by ITSMF May 2006

EDUCATION:

MNIT- PG Certification in Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking 2021-2022

Micro Masters in Cloud Computing Maryland University Global Campus 2020-2021

Georgian College, Barrie Ontario Management Diploma Program (OMDP) 2009-2010

The Chang School, Ryerson University CXCC 104 - CISSP May 2006

Institute of Engineers, India Senior Technician Member Since July 1985

State Board of Technical Education and Training, India Diploma in Civil Engineering 1980 -1983

EXPERIENCE:

eCapital Inc – Canada Since Sept 2020-current

Senior System Engineer / Cloud Infrastructure Security Engineer/ Lead Sept 2020- Present

Involved and gained experience designing, migrating, and transitioning on-premises systems to AWS Cloud and SAAS-based Microsoft 365. I gained expert knowledge of AZURE PAM, AWS IAM, KMS, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS Technology, and Log Monitoring. I gained professional user and server provisioning knowledge using Active Directory and VMware 6.7. and Microsoft 365 Suite of applications by supporting them.

Developed an effective build automation, continuous integration and test environment that reduced integration issues and improved code quality.

I have supported Veaam Backup, Pure Storage Systems, Sophos Endpoint Security, and ManageEngine.

I have acquired professional knowledge of data center monitoring with SolarWinds and an expert understanding of ManageEngine for OS Image creation and patch management.

By participating in weekly secure posture meetings, I gained professional knowledge in vulnerability assessment using Nessus Professional and knowledge of Kali Linux Tools for PEN Testing.

Experience installing and administering MQ client V6.x on various platforms, including Solaris, Linux, AIX, and Windows.

I fully acquired expert knowledge in Linux Shell, Terraform, and CloudFormation by assisting development and DevOps teams. I gained knowledge and experience in risk analysis/incident management tasks and acquired technical writing skills by publishing performance policy and network diagrams.

The following is my involvement in Projects.

I deployed an environment for developers by connecting on-premises systems to AWS VPC.

Designed an internal VPC for data-only access with S2S and Transit gateway.

I deployed SQL2000 VMs in AWS Cloud and provided access to internal developers.

I enabled Network ACL, Security Groups, and CloudTrail logging.

Enabled automatic Backup and notification with AWS Event bus.

Mastered AWS Technologies like VPC, ELB, Gateways, NAC and SG

I was a project team member in the design and development of AWS VPCs for Production, QA, Development, Shared, and Testing.

Designed Landing Page with 5 VPCs

I deployed various workloads using automation tools like Cloud Formation, Terraform

Enable Security logging and Monitoring Processes using AWS System Manager

I enabled automatic backup and notification with AWS CloudWatch and Event Bridge.

Mastered Technologies like SSO, MFA and SASE

Managed AWS Control Tower

Worked with 3rd Party to establish AWS SSO and AWS Organizations for Development, Security Teams, Production

Established and enabled AWS Service Control Policies

Involved in setting up a dashboard on costs and Optimizing using Cost Explorer.

Mastered Technologies like SSO, Security Groups, and Policy Management and Automation

Deployed Azure Workloads for Storage Accounts, SQL2000, and QuickBooks Applications (VM Based deployment)

Rebuilt a QuickBooks Application Azure (IAAS deployment)

Established periodic upload process of Azure data into SQL Logs

Established PowerBI Analysis and Visualization for executives.

Implemented an automatic Backup and notifications in Azure.

Implemented Azure Monitoring for IAAS workload logs and established metrics and alerts.

Migrated and established Azure AD

With 3rd Party, Consolidated on Promise AD infrastructure.

Created an Azure AD environment.

Established trust between Premises and Azure Ads

I established the Azure AD Connect tool for Sync and established its management.

Integrated Azure AD with AWS and AWS SSO

Mastered Microsoft Technologies and acted as a 3rd-level expert on in-house project teams.

Established Data Dog for AWS Kubernetes (EKS) services environment.

Established agents for EKS Nodes and used AWS SSM for deployment.

Established Alerts and performance monitoring.

Helped in-house developers with agile project methods.

I am coordinated upgrading classic load balancer into Application load Balancer for EKS workloads.

Migrated CLB into ALB with help from the AWS support team.

Enabled external access via ALB by deploying Controllers.

Involved in configuring Listeners, Targets and Rules

Gained working knowledge in YAML

Projects and POC Involvement

Established Storage Gateway

Established integration with on-premises devices to AWS Cloud-based storage.

Establish a File Gateway.

Demonstrated Data Transfers and Compression rate.

Established Monitoring and logging.

Gained design in storage technologies and documentation.

Established Azure Cognitive Services

Established Speech Models and Language models for internal Data Scientists

Used Test Data from Azure

Demonstrated how to bring Data from other sources into Models using Data Bridge, Data Synapse and Data Lake services.

Designed an Azure using an existing subscription.

POC of Anthos

Quick costing of Workloads like Admin Nodes, Control Nodes, Data Nodes

Attended a Service Mesh demo.

Understanding the Multi-cloud Management application (application running on Kubernetes or Microservices)

Bank of Montreal (BMO) Group, Canada (18+) Nov 2001 – Sept 2020

Infrastructure Solution Consultant II (9+ Barrie Data Center) June 2011 – Sept 2020

Learned collaboration skills with a team to deploy the first hybrid cloud solution on AWS Cloud and gained expert knowledge in AWS security and Solution Architecture. Extensively involved in advising managers, QA testing and implementation teams. Developed infrastructure design documents, Risk and security system documents, and cloud infrastructure test scenarios.

Acquired knowledge in SSL and TLS-based security and secure IAM access methods.

Actively involved with Azure and AWS pilot projects and engaged in container implementation for a custom notification application of the finance team.

Provided support for various development and integration testing efforts for numerous applications.

I participated in an AWS cloud project involving cloud risk with data synapse and GRID computing.

Gained infrastructure solution design and consulting experience and successfully culminated projects involving innovative technologies like ICINGA for endpoint monitoring, ELK Stack for log and application monitoring, KIBANA Dashboarding, and MS SQL Always ON.

Created documentation and developed exceptional technical writing skills.

Established Data Synapse for the RISK Management team.

I created firewall rules and established Azure AD

Created Windows Based AWS workloads for Data Synapse

Created a link between the on-premises Hadoops system.

Mastered Microsoft Technologies and provided implementation support.

Involved in migrating VMWare workloads (3rd Party co-location) into AWS Cloud

Created AWS workloads for both Windows 2012 and SQL 2000.

Worked with Network Team to establish connectivity between on Premise and AWS with AWS Direct Connect

Mastered VMWare Technologies.

Involvement in various projects

Involved in Server Consolidation and migration Projects involving P-Class, C-Class Blades, Backups, Log Dashboards

Worked with support and technical Team to establish various training and operational projects.

Developed Skills in Project Management and Cloud First initiatives.

Infrastructure Support Specialist (BMO-SCC/BCC Data Center, 6+ years) April 2005 – June 2011

I have established and supported the VMware virtual environment. I evangelized VM first as a solution, built the business team's confidence by implementing a system with VMware DRS and HA, and established VM Backup and recovery solutions using vRanger.

As implementation lead, I participated in storage virtualization with Hitachi’s tiered Storage and gained knowledge and undertaking of various storage tiers. I have collaborated and migrated workloads from the IBM old storage and DMX3000 array to the new Hitachi USPV Array.

In addition, I have provided level-3 support to virtual infrastructure support teams and consulting services to solution designers. Deeply involved in server consolidation initiatives as a part of VM's first initiative team member and migrated 400+ physical servers using P2V tools. I have Implemented HP P-class and C-Class Blade and acquired professional skills with RDP/ PXE deployment, HP Systems insight, and Virtual Connect.

I have gained knowledge of Windows OS, Linux AD, DNS, DHCP, VPN, VLAN, and ITIL and documented many tasks using technical writing skills.

Sr. Systems Administrator (5+ years) Nov 2001 – April 2005

By providing level II support for online banking applications and gaining knowledge of network segregation with workloads at DMZ and separate firewalls for backend APP and DB Work Loads,

I gained professional knowledge by supporting Microsoft SQL enterprise servers on ProLiant ML570 with external SAN storage. I identified performance issues with Middleware like Tuxedo 7.0 and coordinated with vendor BEA to resolve them and provide a stable online banking experience.

I was involved in migrating an OLB environment to Canadian data centers. Installed, configured, and managed bank servers with Windows clustering, applied Microsoft baseline security scripts and participated in yearly security audits.

Zamil Steel Buildings Ltd, Dammam, Saudi Arabia (7+ years) Feb 1994 - April 2001

Network Administrator / Trainer/ Systems Programmer

I gained my supervisor skills by managing a team of support engineers and providing network systems administration of WAN-connected data centers. I have managed MS Exchange 5.5-based email systems for global offices using MTA and leased telecommunication lines. I participated in network pilots, vendor negotiations, and systems procurements and deployment tasks. Attended Layer3 and ATM network training and guided executives on network and security systems for internet and email operations. I have trained 120+ engineers on Computer Software as part of the Engineering department computerization/digitization initiative.

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