Nasir .A

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Azure Platform and Security Engineer @ Cognizance Solutions
United States
Nasir .A's Location
Fairfax, Virginia, United States, United States
About Nasir .A

A results-driven Cloud/DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in designing, implementing, and managing Azure Cloud Infrastructure for large-scale projects. I specialize in infrastructure provisioning, application hosting, load balancing, databases, data storage, data warehousing, and data engineering/ETL solutions, focusing strongly on application modernization and security solutions, including Azure Networking and Identity and Access Management (IAM).I am proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management using Terraform, Azure ARM templates, and PowerShell. With expertise in CI/CD methodologies and Azure DevOps, I streamline workflows and automate deployments to boost operational efficiency. My strong grasp of the FedRAMP process ensures secure and compliant cloud architectures, optimized for performance and scalability.Passionate about leveraging cloud technologies to drive business success, I thrive on solving complex challenges and optimizing cloud resources for maximum impact. Let’s connect to explore how we can innovate and achieve great results together!

Nasir .A's Current Company Details
Cognizance Solutions

Cognizance Solutions

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Azure Platform and Security Engineer
United States
Nasir .A Work Experience Details
  • Cognizance Solutions
    Azure Platform And Security Engineer
    Cognizance Solutions
    United States
  • Kbr, Inc.
    Senior Cloud Engineer
    Kbr, Inc. Nov 2021 - Present
    Houston, Texas, Us
    ● Collaborated with Data Engineers and Application Developers in creating CICD pipeline for deployments of data engineering workloads across different environments using data bricks cli/API and recently data bricks asset bundles● Collaborating with data engineers, database administrators, data analysts, and data scientists to facilitate data integration and analysis tasks as well as identifying and proactively resolving issues around their workflows.● Developed Azure ARM templates for gathering metrics, and configure alert rules for Azure Monitor in a bid to monitor performance of Vault clusters as well as other Azure Resources.● Configuring Azure Monitor to collect, analyze, and act on telemetry from Azure resources. Setting up metrics, logs, and alerts to ensure the health and performance of applications and services.● Proactively monitoring and optimizing resource utilization cost by ensuring data bricks cluster right sizing, use of job clusters and setting cluster policies for data bricks workflows, use of Azure Function/App Service Consumption plans, SQL Elastic Pools, auto shutdown (after business-hours) and restart of VMs (before business hours) in non-production environments.● Implemented Azure Pipelines for CI/CD, creating YAML-based pipeline definitions to manage build and release processes for applications deployed on Azure.● Created PowerShell scripts for automating tasks on Windows environments, such as system configurations, software installations, and Active Directory management.● Leveraging a variety of DevOps tools and practices to Migrate CI/CD pipelines from Azure DevOps to Gitlab, restructured existing Gitlab CICD, and wrote CICD pipelines for Terraform, Ansible, and Application code deployments.●Used ITIL best practices to manage the incident lifecycle, from identification and logging to resolution and closure.● Developed and maintained ServiceNow reports and dashboards to provide visibility into incident and problem management metrics.
  • Cognizance It Solutions
    Cloud/Devops Engineer
    Cognizance It Solutions Jun 2018 - Oct 2021
    ● Collaborate with a cross-functional team of application developers, operation engineers, and architects to understand complex project requirements and translate them into automated solutions.● Coordinate all build and release activities, ensure release processes are well documented, and source control repositories including branching and tagging.● Developed reusable terraform modules and created continuous integration/deployment pipelines for Terraform infrastructure automation using Azure DevOps for provisioning resources in Azure and AWS cloud for different environments.● Built and maintained continuous integration/deployment pipelines for automated application code build and deployment application codes.● Introduced and Integrated SonarQube with Azure Pipelines which led to drastic reduction of bugs, security vulnerabilities and code smells, thereby increasing code quality.● Introduced and integrated Azure Load Testing for automated load tests to ensure infrastructure and applications remain performing and resilient to changes.● Managing different Azure Policies including RBAC policies for different subscriptions and management billing conditions.● Configured monitoring and alerts and go on scheduled on-call to monitor application health, availability, and performance, whilst also responding to incidents, resolving incidents, documenting and automating actions towards resolving incidents using tools such as PagerDuty and Confluence.● Debugged and troubleshoot performance issues with Azure VMs, Azure App Services, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure SQL Databases, Azure Data Factory, Azure Self-Host Agents, Azure DevOps build and release pipelines.● Monitor, diagnose, and provide metrics and repair network health of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) such as Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Application Gateway, and Load balancers with Azure Network Watcher.● Designing and implementing automated cloud logging and monitoring solutions.
  • Sesal
    Cloud Engineer
    Sesal Nov 2016 - May 2018
    ● Designed and developed Terraform Infrastructure repository and CICD pipelines to support multi-environment deployments for green field project● Responsible for the full development life cycle, including design, coding, testing, and deployment. ● Provision Azure Cloud Infrastructure for Prod, Dev, and QA environments.● Developed automated CI/CD pipeline scripts in Python to integrate with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and other CI/CD tools.● Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Ansible and Terraform, writing Python scripts to handle complex logic and workflows.● Installed, configured, and maintained various Linux distributions including RHEL 4/5/6, and Ubuntu ensuring optimal system performance.● Deploying VMs, Storage, Network, and Affinity groups through PowerShell and terraform script. ● Define cloud network architecture using Azure virtual networks, VPN, and express route to establish connectivity between on-premises and in-cloud. ● Monitor, diagnose, and provide metrics and repair network health of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) such as Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Application Gateway, and Load balancers with Azure Network Watcher. ● Creating storage pool and stripping of disk for Azure virtual machines. ● Capturing images, configuring backups, and restoring Azure virtual machine for disaster recovery.● Conducted disaster recovery testing and developed recovery strategies for cloud-based solutions.● Implement a monitoring/alert system that tracks the health of resources to decrease downtime. ● Convert existing Virtual machines from standard to premium storage accounts, patching and validating virtual machines in Azure. ● Troubleshoot and identify performance, connectivity, and other issues for the applications hosted in the Azure platform. ● Leverage Azure cloud monitoring and analytics tooling for containerized applications.

Nasir .A Education Details

  • Lagos State University
    Lagos State University
    Computer Science

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