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Toronto, On, Ca

● Architected foundational infrastructure capabilities of a hybrid, multi-cloud hosting environment● Defined and Designed infrastructure design patterns and standard offerings that will become part of the service catalog and the intake process● Active TDA - Technical Design Authority member representing Infrastructure Engineering team reviews and approves Enterprise and BU level Cloud Solution Architecture and Designs.● Designed and Developed infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms to enable DevOps practices to consume infrastructure.● Supported the definition and refinement of reusable cloud design patterns that enable rapid deployment.● Collaborated with stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements for a specific initiatives and facilitate trade-off discussions and resolution of conflicting requirements.● Guided, Supported and Oversaw the implementation of documented solution architectures in practice.● Understood and complied with OMERS security standards and policies. Ensured security requirements are part of infrastructure designs.● Provided support in the adoption of new technologies and industry best practices.● Jointly Developed and Maintained infrastructure standards, infrastructure management and operational processes.● Developed and Delivered strategic roadmaps for infrastructure products and systems.● Increased our cloud infrastructure maturity, and provided subject matter expertise as enterprise roadmaps are planned and executed.● Provided consultation in IT service management processes from an architecture perspective.● Participated in DR(disaster recovery) planning and design activities.

Toronto, On, Ca

● Led/Designed/Developed/Deployed Enterprise IaC Roadmaps initiatives using Terraform Cloud/GitHub Enterprise/Ansible Tower● Designed and developed IaC DevOps practices for Enterprise Infrastructure.● Active ART - Architecture Review Team member representing Infrastructure Engineering team reviews and approves Enterprise and BU level Cloud Solution Architecture and Designs.● Worked closely with technology providers and other stakeholders to build highly available shared Azure hub-spoke and GCP networking topology to inspect ingress traffic and to keep consistent security policy with on-premises network control and framework, while addressing the challenge to provide common services and to cover all company’s locations across the globe.● Developed automation blueprints and forms using infrastructure as code such as Terraform/Ansible on VRA and SNOW for Azure and GCP infrastructure, IaaS and PaaS deployments.● Setting up, building and SME for Azure and GCP enterprise infrastructure solutions and resources such as IAM, Policies, PaaS SQL, IaaS, GCE, GKE, Storage Bucket, Web/Fuction/Logic Apps, ADF, Synapse, ADLS, DBKS, AML, AKS, Private Endpoints etc.● Defined Azure Security Policies which acted as service endpoint firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed reaching one or more Azure PaaS and on-prem resounces.● Drove the initiative with Cyber security to deploy Azure Security Center, GCP Security Command Center and Azure Sentinel for Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance practices.● Created and led multiple operational training sessions for Enterprise Operation team on Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure and hands on sandbox labs.● Working on Cloud migration project for pension applications and databases moving from on-prem DCs to Azure.● Managed and controlled the costing and budgeting of the Azure cloud account of the organization. ● Setup cloud monitoring and alerting stack using Azure Monitor and SNOW incident management.

Toronto, On, Ca

● Active ART - Architecture Review Team member representing Infrastructure Engineering team reviews and approves Enterprise and BU level Cloud Solution Architecture and Designs.● Worked closely with technology providers and other stakeholders to build highly available shared Azure hub-spoke and GCP networking topology to inspect ingress traffic and to keep consistent security policy with on-premises network control and framework, while addressing the challenge to provide common services and to cover all company’s locations across the globe.● Developed automation blueprints and forms using infrastructure as code such as Terraform/Ansible on VRA and SNOW for Azure and GCP infrastructure, IaaS and PaaS deployments.● Setting up, building and SME for Azure and GCP enterprise infrastructure solutions and resources such as IAM, Policies, PaaS SQL, IaaS, GCE, GKE, Storage Bucket, Web/Fuction/Logic Apps, ADF, Synapse, ADLS, DBKS, AML, AKS, Private Endpoints etc.● Defined Azure Security Policies which acted as service endpoint firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed reaching one or more Azure PaaS and on-prem resounces.● Drove the initiative with Cyber security to deploy Azure Security Center, GCP Security Command Center and Azure Sentinel for Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance practices.● Created and led multiple operational training sessions for Enterprise Operation team on Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure and hands on sandbox labs.● Working on Cloud migration project for pension applications and databases moving from on-prem DCs to Azure.● Managed and controlled the costing and budgeting of the Azure cloud account of the organization. ● Setup cloud monitoring and alerting stack using Azure Monitor and SNOW incident management.● Assisting with the adoption of best cloud practices, as well as building, and maintaining a growing Azure ecosystem.

Toronto, On, Ca

● Collaborating with EA and Cyber to coordinate project deliverables to convey infrastructure requirements, plan, and schedule deployment of tasks, and resolve any issues that impact the deployment of the application delivery systems both on cloud and on prem.● Set up, built and SME for Azure and GCP enterprise infrastructure solutions, services and resources.● Delivered infrastructure as code templates on Azure using ARM, Azure Blue Print etc.● Developed Linux AD/Local ID expiry automation alert system with RH Satellite and Ansible.● Performed Linux OS administration and provided second and third level support to end customers.● Setup Disaster Recovery for Linux systems with VMWare. ● Performed installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of Linux servers and configured storage and networking. ● Setup and SME for Pension Application and SQL DB monitoring using on-prem AppDynamics on Linux systems.● Setup and SME for Linux AD Integration using Centrify Suite.

Advanced Diploma, Computer System Technology

Diploma, Hospitality Management - Restaurant And Catering

Bachelor'S Degree, Japanese Language And Literature