Cloud Engineer Hands-On

Narayana Murthy Guddala

945-***-****/**********@*****.***

PROFILE SUMMARY

Over 20+ years’ experience with Microsoft Technologies, Infrastructure, Server, Virtualization, Cloud, IT Communication, Service Delivery and Operations

10+ Years of hands-on experience as Azure Architect in Design, Implement, and operating cloud solutions at Enterprise level.

Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies and hands-on experience in the migration of physical servers to virtual

and cloud, deep technical experience in infrastructure design including private and public cloud, networking, virtualization,

identity, security, and storage.

A results-driven Azure Infrastructure Architect with extensive experience designing and implementing secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures using Microsoft Azure. Adept in cloud-native services, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices. Proven expertise in integrating GitHub workflows for CI/CD and managing secure application delivery with Azure Application Gateway, including WAF policies, URL-based routing, and SSL termination. Skilled in guiding cross-functional teams and aligning cloud architecture with enterprise goals.

Extensive experience in design & deployment of Cisco UCS blade Servers, Hitachi Storage VMware vSphere/ VSAN, CCTV - Bosch & Milestone, and Airport IT Systems

Proficient in configuring and administrating Windows servers, Lotus Domino, Exchange Mail Server, Layer-3 Switches (3Com, Cisco, Nortel, Avaya & Intel), Source Code Systems, Help Desk Systems, and Bug Tracking Systems

Experience in deploying Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and IT Service Management (ITSM) Framework IT business services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Azure IaaS/PaaS (VMs, VNET, NSGs, Load Balancers, Key Vault, etc.)

Azure Application Gateway (WAF, SSL offloading, routing rules)

GitHub Actions & GitHub Enterprise for CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform)

Azure DevOps & GitHub integration

Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Security Center

Identity and Access Management (Azure AD, RBAC)

Network Security, Private Endpoints, and Service Endpoints

Azure DevOps, Cloud Storage, Security, and Retention

Streaming Datasets & AutoLoader (Delta Live Tables)

Azure Cost Management, Budgeting, and Monitoring

Security Assessments, Vulnerability Scanning, and Threat Modeling

Solution Architecture, Software Planning, and Implementation

CORE COMPETENCIES

IT Security, Risk and Compliance

Data Center Operations, Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Networking & System Administration

IT Infrastructure & IT Project Management

IT Operations and Governance

EDUCATION

M.Tech (Software Engineering) from Vinayaka Mission’s University, Salem in Dec’05

MBA (IT) from S.V.B.P University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut in Jun’04

M.Com. from Nagarjuna University in 1997

Cyber Law & IPR Certification from Hyderabad Central University in 2012

P.G.D.C.A from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 2003

CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate & Azure for SAP Workloads.

ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management

AWS Certified Solution Architect

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer & Administrator

Project Management Professional

WORK EXPERIENCE

Health Plan of San Mateo (HPSM)/Mphasis Dec -2024 - Current

Infrastrcture Architect – Azure/Cloud

Responsible for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet functional and non-functional (e.g. performance, security, and operational considerations) requirements in support of a given initiative in the Azure landscape. Plays a role in establishing architectural vision and direction, architects solutions provide advice and guidance, monitors emerging technologies, and assists in software and service procurements. Works collaboratively with the business to understand the business/product roadmap to develop architectural vision and direction.

Lead the architecture, deployment, and administration of Active Directory (AD) environments across AWS and VMware platforms.

Contributes to the technology strategy by identifying, assessing, and recommending external trends in technology and methodologies, assists with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximize the reuse of technology. Exercises solution design leadership on initiatives, driving alignment to target architecture and design standards

Facilitates architecture reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.

Creates solution options and solution architecture, adhering to architectural standards and the technology roadmap, and minimizing technical debt designs solutions that involve complex, multi-system integration, possibly across BUs or domains

Ensures non-functional requirements are satisfied.

Involved in every aspect of the lifecycle (from requirements to deployment assisting in design and triage of defects)

Drives alignment between architecture and business needs.

Migrating workloads/applications/servers by following Azure Landing Zones. Experienced with Migration tools.

Participates in application rationalization and the development of application architecture roadmaps

Identifies applications and platforms impacted by the solution, the need for new platforms, and drives platform selection

Contributes to a backlog of the development team

Facilitates large groups of diverse stakeholders to consensus on target solution.

Designing, implementing, and integrating information systems to achieve business goals while also working within existing and/or legacy systems.

Deliver IT Solutions by analyzing the business needs and designing solutions within a specific time & budget.

Analyse existing systems to ensure security and efficacy.

Maintain and upgrade software, hardware, and networks as needed.

Recommend improvements or alternative technologies to better meet business needs.

Design, review, and integrate new systems, performance modelling, capacity analysis, and capacity planning.

Design scalable and secure landing zones using Azure Well-Architected Framework.

Deploy and manage VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, and connectivity (VPN, ExpressRoute).

Define high availability and disaster recovery strategies for workloads.

Implement GitHub Actions pipelines for automated deployments (IaC, containerized apps).

Integrate GitHub with Azure services for secure CI/CD across dev, test, and prod environments.

Set up GitHub branch policies, secrets, workflows, and runners for enterprise DevOps needs.

Configure Azure Application Gateway for backend pool routing and URL path-based rules.

Enable Web Application Firewall (WAF) and configure custom rules for threat protection.

Set up SSL termination and end-to-end SSL for secure app delivery.

Integrate App Gateway with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or App Services as backend targets.

Implement Azure Policy, RBAC, and Blueprints for governance.

Use Azure Monitor and Log Analytics for performance and health tracking.

Ensure compliance with security best practices (Key Vault integration, network hardening).

VISA June 2022 - June 2024

Infrastrcture Architect

Contributes to the technology strategy by identifying, assessing, and recommending external trends in technology and methodologies, assists with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximize the reuse of technology. Exercises solution design leadership on initiatives, driving alignment to target architecture and design standards

Facilitates architecture reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.

Designed and implemented Delta Lake architecture, utilizing Medallion architecture to manage raw, silver, and gold layers.

Developed end-to-end batch and real-time data ingestion pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Databricks.

Led data lineage and data discovery initiatives using Data Catalog to track data sources and destinations.

Designed data quality strategies, defining Critical Data Elements (CDE) and implementing data governance frameworks.

Implemented Change Data Capture (CDC), incremental load strategies, hash keys, and merge designs for efficient data processing.

Developed data security strategies including PII/NPI protection, RBAC, and compliance with security best practices.

Created Azure Data Factory pipelines, integrating with Azure DevOps for continuous deployment.

Designed solutions where data flows through Azure Blob Storage to Snowflake for analytics and Power BI consumption.

Conducted extensive data analysis and modeling, defining cloud storage, retention, and security requirements.

Implemented streaming dataset ingestion with AutoLoader and Delta Live Tables for real-time processing.

Provided Azure cost management guidance, including resource tagging, budgeting, and monitoring.

Performed Azure security assessments, vulnerability scanning, and threat modeling to enhance cloud security.

Collaborated with clients and executives to define project parameters, scope, and resource allocation.

Planned software architecture, including defining blueprints, setting deadlines, and implementing testing procedures.

Creates solution options and solution architecture, adhering to architectural standards and the technology roadmap, and minimizing technical debt designs solutions that involve complex, multi-system integration, possibly across BUs or domains

Ensures non-functional requirements are satisfied.

Involved in every aspect of the lifecycle (from requirements to deployment assisting in design and triage of defects)

Drives alignment between architecture and business needs.

Migrating workloads/applications/servers by following Azure Landing Zones. Experienced with Migration tools.

Participates in application rationalization and the development of application architecture roadmaps

Identifies applications and platforms impacted by the solution, the need for new platforms, and drives platform selection

Contributes to a backlog of the development team

Facilitates large groups of diverse stakeholders to consensus on target solution.

Designing, implementing, and integrating information systems to achieve business goals while also working within existing and/or legacy systems.

Deliver IT Solutions by analyzing the business needs and designing solutions within a specific time & budget.

Analyse existing systems to ensure security and efficacy.

Maintain and upgrade software, hardware, and networks as needed.

Recommend improvements or alternative technologies to better meet business needs.

Design, review, and integrate new systems, performance modelling, capacity analysis, and capacity planning.

GMRGROUP – India & Philippines Dec 2011 – Feb 2022

Sr Lead IT / Infrastructure Sulution Architect

Lead a team of 27 members and spearheaded end-to-end IT Systems & Deliverables: planning & supervising technology changes and rendering technical leadership in terms of Application, Projects, Infrastructure, and Security.

Designed & deployment IT systems, maintaining all IT processes according to operation policies through standardization of methods.

Designed, Deployed and Managed Enterprise Active Directory Infrastructure.

Responsible for Managing the Helpdesk Management system by providing efficient services to achieve SLA metrics.

Provided technical expertise for multiple Active Directory, O365, Azure programs, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and projects.

Responsible for migration of On-Premises Servers to VM Ware Platform and Azure Cloud

Successfully migrated On-Premises Exchange Servers to Office 365 (Azure Hybrid Cloud)

Worked with Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira

Hands-on Experienced with Infrastructure Configuration Solutions, such as Azure Automation, Orchestrator, SCCM Desired State Configuration, and Azure Desired State Configuration tools.

Used AWS Route 53 for configuring the High-Availability and Disaster recovery to make the environment up and running in case of any unexpected disaster.

Responsible to check and provide hardware/ software/ solutions which meets baseline compliance and implementation standards; managing IT Operations, Network Security and Cloud Operations at the airport; managing & maintaining virtualization infrastructure.

Formulating service strategy to ensure uninterrupted and secured IT Services to Airport Operations / Business Entities and align Systems, Services, and operations with industry best practices.

Implemented Cyber Security standards for all equipment’s and applications during the project stage to overcome operational issues.

Responsible for Implementing new technologies for continuous upgrade of Airport IT systems, access control, surveillance, and security to secure IT platforms for continuous revenue generation.

Responsible to run analysis, investigation & diagnosis of root cause of problems, updating metrics for service performance and ensuring internal customer satisfaction on a regular basis.

Established IT and ITES Infrastructure for executing daily business functions on the requisite IT platform at registered / site office including LAN / WAN / Computers / VC Facility and providing online support for smooth operations

Established and tracking Data Centre infrastructure including Sizing, Configuration, Bandwidth Estimation, Network Management, and Load Balancing, recommending IT infrastructure requirements and upgrading to ensure acceptable levels of Security, Disaster Management and Data Recovery plans

Configured & Managed Switches, Blade Centres, Rack Server’s, NAS Storage Box and Apple DASH Box with RAID Levels implementations.

Mars Telecom Sysetms Pvt Ltd, Hyd, India

Manager IT April 2005 – Dec 2011

Client: Westell Technologies Inc, Arora IL IT Service Delivery & Operations - Lead Dec 2008 – Dec 2011

Responsible for Configuration & Administration of Windows 2003/2008, Linux, Exchange Domino, Proxy Servers, Terminal Servers, Web Servers, DNS, DHCP, Proxy, Telnet, Antivirus, Gateway & Management Servers, RDM Servers.

Responsible for Configuration & Administration of Windows 2003/2008, Linux, Exchange & Lotus Domino Mail Servers, Proxy Servers, Terminal Servers, Web Servers, DNS, DHCP, Proxy, Telnet, Antivirus, Gateway & Management Servers, RDM Servers.

Perform Virus Scans Update AV definitions and take necessary proactive measures to ensure virus free environment.

Perform Adds, Moves and Relocation of computer, network storage, and system software and application software elements as per the project/production requirement.

Provided L3 support in Troubleshoot and resolve Application software / Operating system / Hardware and Network related issues.

Involved in Configuration and Administration of Source Code System, Helpdesk System and Bug tracking system.

Continues checking of mails for user related problems and respond them with proper solutions, suggestions, and train them in a user related issue.

Configured and managed Switches, Blade, Rack Server’s, NAS Storage Box and Apple DASH Box with RAID Levels implementations and installed and configured Network Load Balancer, Teaming, Link Aggregations, Multi Link Trunking (MLT), VLANs, Stacking of Multiple Networking Switches and other Network Configurations.

Technologies used: Windows Servers, Lotus Domino & Exchange mail servers, Backup tools, PABX, Access Control System, SQL Server

Client: 3Com Corporation, Marlborough, Massachusetts

IT Service Delivery & Operations - Lead Apr 2005 to Dec 2008

Design & Deployed 3Com IDC Data Centre & Infrastructure

Installed and Configured Lotus Domino Mail Server and Windows Domain Controller

Responsible in providing L2/L3 IT Services to 3COM IDC Development & Test department users. End-to-End IT Service Delivery Ownership - Design, Development and Validation of In Infrastructure.

Configured Source Code Bug Tracking systems and IP PABX systems

Implemented and Managed Network & Security (LAN / Wireless LAN / WAN / Load Balancers/ Firewall, VPN, IDS/IPS, Content Filtering)

Managed Vendor Relations and Procurements

Four Soft Limited, Hyderabad Jan 2004 – Mar 2005

Sr. Systems & Network Administrator

Hands on experience in Administrating f windows 95/98/XP/NT/2000/Vista, SMS, MS Exchange Server, Linux, Solaris, and Windows 2003 server with LAN / WAN Networks.

Involved in Setting up Intranet and Internet connectivity with clients using proxies or using modems, web ramps and ISDN adapters and configured IIS 4.0/5.0 with SQL Servers 7u.0 and oracle 8i databases, cloud fusion server & site server 3.9 commerce edition.

Responsible for managing source code systems (Rational Clear Case, Microsoft Visual Source Safe/SVN and CVS)

Good knowledge and hands on experience in Help Desk systems and Bug tracking Systems (Altiris/Jira/ Rational clear Quest and other third-party applications)

Configuring & Administrating of Layer-3 Switches like 3Com, Cisco, Nortel, Avaya & Intel etc.

Configuration IBM Directory Management Server, NXN Alien brain Management Server, MS Project, and Star Office etc.

IBS (The ICFAI Business School), Hyderabad Nov 2001 – Jan 2004

Sr. Systems Administrator

Responsible for maintaining organisation Systems and Network with 99.99% Availability.

Maintained user’s login accounts, mail, and Database Servers (MSSQL Server & ORALCE 8i).

Involved in taking Backups with HP DAT drives and restoring, if necessary.

Maintained CISCO 2500 serious, Squid proxy and internet connections.

Software Associates, Hyderabad Dec 1999 – Nov 2001

System Administrator

Responsible for Setting up windows domain user accounts, configuring email/outlook and Installing system-wide software’s for all users.

Responsible for providing Internet access using a Proxy Server and Configuration and Administration of MSSQL Server 7.0, and MS Visual SourceSafe.

Installed & Configured Sun Solaris 2.8 Intel Platform with Apache, Samba, DHCP, DNS, RAS

HAS Division of Sparsh Communications Ltd., Hyderabad Jul 1998 – Dec 1999

Network / Systems Administrator

Installed & configured RAS users to dial into the web servers and fine-tune the RAS and IIS registry parameters.

Implemented and Administered web & database servers. Installed and configured Eicon Cards.

Brilliant Systems May 1997 – Jul 1998

Customer Support Hardware & Networking Engineer

Experienced in Assembling PC’s, installing various software’s, configuring of printers/scanner, and supporting Clients to Solve their Hardware /Software Problems.

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