Niketa Sinha

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Summary:

Cloud Engineer having 9+ years of hands-on experience supporting, automating,

and optimizing mission critical deployments in Azure/Aws cloud leveraging configuration management. Also possess a strong background in cloud computing, administrating, virtualization, networking, and testing with experience serving large clients.

Provided engineering/architecture advice for IT groups in the domain of Enterprise Cloud IT –Private and Public, participated in design sessions, suggest integration options, liaise between our integrated platforms and IT applications owners.

Provided Azure and Aws technical expertise including strategic design and architectural mentorship, assessments, POCs, etc. in support of the overall sales lifecycle or consulting engagement process.

Architected and designed cloud migration solutions on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Solution Design, Consulting Data management and Integration.

Experienced in provisioning AWS Infrastructure using AWS Services like VPC, EC2, Autoscaling, AMI, ELB, RDS, S3, EFS, EBS and CloudFormation Templates etc.

Provisioning Azure Infrastructure using services like VNets, Subnets, VMs, NICs, Disk, Blob Storage, Restore and Backups, Active Directory, Management groups, Security, Subscription and Resource Groups using Git codes and Jenkins pipelines.

Delivered complex Infrastructure and Application solutions by collaborating with various groups across global teams in multiple locations.

Provide and guided technical team knowledge in routing, User and access management policy, secure credential management, virtualization, service-oriented architecture.

Provide end to end support for production deployments and new releases to the production infrastructure.

Involved in Cost Management Strategy - Worked with engineering, service, and business teams to create management roadmaps.

Articulated the possibilities of Cloud data platform with an emphasis on architecting cloud and hybrid infrastructure design, deployment strategies, identity management, Operational, Incident, change and problem management.

Identifying the prospective issues in the azure migration and suggest feasible solutions to clients.

Valuate application, infrastructure and cloud decisions in the context of both high-level strategy and tactical solutions.

Actively participated in cloud foundation architecture design and the implementation.

Demonstrate an exceptional expertise of business continuity / disaster recovery concepts and best practices / lessons learned, knowledge transfer, & mentoring.

Implement and design storage/Backup infrastructure for Enterprise customers.

Have worked on design and integration Azure Active directory and Aws IAM.

Provide various software architectures and integration Strategy for integrations and day and day out operations.

Configured and deployed systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (Aws CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Nagios, Splunk, Datadog, etc.

Worked and helped Application Development teams to understand their application architecture and ensure the Platform is supporting these requirements.

Architected and design AWS services – VPC / EC2 /S3 / EFS / EBS /ELB/ IAM / Auto Scaling /CloudWatch /CloudTrail / Trusted Advisor / Route 53 / RDS /SNS / SQS /LAMBDA / CloudFormation/ security and cost management.

Experience in reviewing and managing technical security roadmaps related to cloud security and IAM within a cloud security context.

Developed PowerShell scripts and ARM Templates to automate the provisioning, deployment and decommissioning process.

Technical Skills & Certifications

Microsoft Certified (H839-7860): Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

Microsoft Certified (H890-8858): Azure Solutions Architect Expert (Az-303 & Az-304)

ITIL V4 (GR671252002NS)

CSM Certified (001191629)

Professional Experience

Client: Bestbuy, MN Nov 2022 – Present

Sr Cloud Azure Architect

Responsibilities:

Architecting Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) Implementation

Worked in Azure Compute Services design, configuration, and optimization: Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Logic App Service and cloud services.

Deep experience in Architecting, designing, and securing elastic storage in Azure: Blob, queue, File, Disk, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery (ASR).

Involved in Implementing landing zone and Governance.

Architecting, design, and implementation of Azure Networking Services: Virtual Network, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, Azure DNS, Traffic Manager, Express Route.

Azure Monitoring and Management solutions: Azure Analytics, Application Insights, Automation, Backup, Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Azure Operation Management Suite (OMS) and Aws Trusted Advisor.

Able to configure Azure AD, MFA, SSO, Identity protection, Policies, Groups and Roles.

Maintaining Azure Resources and implement Security in Azure: Security Center, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication and Aws CloudWatch, CloudTrail.

Design and implement an end-to-end technical architecture and develop functional architecture design to contribute to product vision.

DevOps tools: AWS CloudFormation Template, JSON, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Git, Jenkins.

Analyzing the security state of all the resources in Azure/AWS.

Configure and implement and fix issues generated in Azure Security Center and Aws Trusted Advisor.

Creating and managing Azure Blob Storage and Aws S3 Buckets and Bucket Policies.

Experience leading a Team of group of people and assign tasks to each of them.

Proficiency in transitioning of projects to Managed Services teams or customer support teams.

Proficiency in deploying VMs and managing resourcing in Azure/AWS Cloud Services.

Perform day-to-day management and troubleshooting of issues that arise within the Azure/AWS environment.

Able to be carried out Azure Monitoring and setting up of Alert, also reporting of issues across the infrastructure environment.

Designing and deployment of enterprise-scale Aws solutions and Spokes using Service catalog templates.

Lead technical discussions with senior customer executives that drive decisions and implementation approaches.

Review and manage technical requirements and business functional requirements to establish new cloud platforms.

Creating and maintaining the technical document pages in company platform.

Taking care of maintaining the Configuration Management Database for the newly deployed and decommissioned servers and maintaining the infrastructure details.

Client: KPMG Global Services Pvt Ltd, India Jun 2020 – Feb 2022

Cloud Consultant

Responsibilities:

Experience in managing Infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, IaaS, including storage, networking.

Discover how to deploy Azure virtual machines using the Azure Portal, Windows PowerShell, and the Azure Command-Line Interface, perform configuration management.

Maintaining Azure Virtual Network (VNETs), Subnets and Network security Groups.

Worked on issues on windows and Cluster azure VMs.

Virtual machine deployment and post provisioning with DB installation.

Manages deployments through visual studio Code, Git Repositories and Jenkins.

Remote login to Virtual Machines to troubleshoot, monitor, installed applications and agents.

Managed the ticketing system through Service now to resolve issues in the cloud environment.

Experience on analyzing resource utilization and consumption of the resources in Azure using Azure Metrics.

Have managed role-based access control (RBAC) in Azure using Azure AD.

Maintained the Azure active directory for all the Users, Resource Groups and deployments.

Experience in driving the calls with MS Support with regards to issues with IAAS.

Experience in taking care of the restore for Snapshot, VMs and file recovery in AWS/Azure.

Configured Backup in different levels. (VM Level Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and yearly) and based on the client request.

Experience in maintaining and updating CMDB data records and infrastructure updates.

Managed AWS accounts, Provisioning end to end setup for Accounts and Spokes

Worked on Decommissioning the Environments and accounts in Aws/Azure.

Experience with EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFormation’s, Service Catalog etc.

Have worked on creating and generating PowerBi reports on cost optimization and management.

Weekly generation of powerBi reports and sharing with the infrastructural teams for a effective and beneficial reserving virtual machines.

Client: Oottru Technologies, India Jun 2018 - May 2020

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

Hands on experience on daily deployments on pre-prod and non-prod Environments

Worked on AWS cost optimization, security and management APIs.

Experience in RDS creation, DB backups, Db user creation, Db backup and restore, updating DB version with prod.

Hands on experience on AWS services; VPC creation, Security rule configuration, private cloud, public cloud, Nat Gateway, Internet Gateway, Route tables, Subnets, vpc peering.

Experience in creating EC2, autoscaling, Load balancers, AMI, Ebs volume.

Worked closely with individual product architects to define, develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable, highly available on the AWS platform.

Worked on shutting down and bringing up the servers and Database on daily basis.

Worked on system manager, session managers to login to Linux/ubuntu boxes to debug the issues or to update files, create parameter in parameter store.

Worked in services like Trusted advisor and cost optimization for cost optimization and security of the accounts.

Worked on amazon workspace to login into the servers and debug the error logs.

Manage Users and Group, roles and user permissions in AWS using IAM.

Worked closely with key stakeholders to capture, analyze, and derive DevOps requirements.

Experience with the Azure Cloud Administration, assigning multiples network interface card (NIC) to a VM in azure, multiple data disc and using PowerShell scripting for decommissioning.

Able to translate complex business processes and strategy into technical solutions through requirements definition and design.

Able to resolve any issues triggered from the Azure monitoring alert configuration.

Experience with the use of ticketing systems such as JIRA & Service Now.

Experience configuring an Azure Active Directory and networking in my field.

Able to perform system updates, Monitoring, Log Analytics, Application insights, app services & Event Tracing, Group Policy, RDP Session Troubleshooting.

Able to provide architectural advice, planning guidance, quality assurance, and guidance to the project team on project approach and solution.

Able to work independently and in a team with colleagues across the globe.

Provide technical leadership and is responsible for the delivery of the technical architectural design, strategies and plans that will be delivered on an ongoing basis.

Handling the Incident, Problem and Change management in Service now tool.

Handling the issues and problems generated via Emails.

Provided on call support over weekends for production deployments or patch activities.

Client: IBM India Private Limited, India Oct 2014 - May 2018

Service Delivery Specialist

Responsibilities:

Hands on experience on daily deployments on pre-prod and non-prod Environments.

Implementing and maintaining system applications in AWS cloud in Windows and Linux environment.

Launching Virtual Private cloud (VPC), Create VPC and Public / Private Subnet network setup. VPC Gateway, Route table, security group’s setup for network connectivity.

Setup and maintain VPC peering with multiple AWS accounts.

Create snapshots and manage EBS volumes.

Handle Instance Lifecycle Terminate and Reboot.

Maintaining EC2 services like launching instances, attaching/increasing volumes, configuring security group, monitoring EC2 instance metrics like CPU Utilization.

Monitor EC2 using Cloud Watch alarms, Cloud Watch metrics & SNS. launching RDS database instances, Reserved DB instances and high Availability deployment using Multi- AZs for RDS. internet gateway within the VPC.

Worked on making applications more scalable and highly available in AWS using ELB and Auto Scaling.

Used security groups, network ACL’s, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a

Secure zone for organization in AWS public cloud.

Projects: Philips, Economical Insurance Group (EIG) Projects.

Worked on AWS cost optimization, security and management APIs.

Experience in RDS creation, DB backups, Db user creation, Db backup and restore, updating DB version with prod.

Hands on experience on AWS services; VPC creation, Security rule configuration, private cloud, public cloud, Nat Gateway, Internet Gateway, Route tables, Subnets, vpc peering.

Client: Hewlett Packard Global Soft, India July 2013 - Oct 2014

Technical Solution Engineer

Responsibilities:

Deliver technical support for HP consumer/commercial notebooks and Desktops to field engineers/customers over telephone and via email.

Monitoring the performance of onprem servers and raising incidents as per the Netcool reports.

Help installing the operating system and taking backups.

Gather field engineer’s details and the troubleshooting steps performed by them suggest a higher level troubleshooting steps if required.

Provide remote solutions to problems. Assisting in troubleshooting user problems relating to Operating System issues, performing upgrades, installation of software and drivers and essential troubleshooting.

Deal with a wide range of products using a powerful information database.

Placing the replace requests of parts if discovered faulty.

Guiding and educating the consumers about the troubleshooting and use cases.

Monitor problem status to facilitate problem closure within SLA.

Escalate unresolved Tickets /Calls/Emails to the appropriate teams.

Installed Windows roles, features and deployed applications using Power Shell scripting.

Configured SQL Server 2016 and 2012 on to Azure windows VMs.

Install required applications on windows servers and monitoring active directory.

Installed and configured IIS web server on Microsoft Windows 2012/2012R2 /2016 server accordingly.

Resolving the incidents and change requests created and assigned in service now and emails.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, Vinayaka Missions University, India 2012.

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