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Glendale Heights, Il, Us

Remote

- Led architecture and deployment of Office 365 and Azure Cloud Solutions, focusing on IaaS, PaaS, security, and automation. Emphasized Microsoft 365 Security, Microsoft Purview Information Protection, and Microsoft Defender to bolster data governance and security.- Developed streamlined Microsoft Power Platform applications to enhance efficiency, incorporating robust security measures such as encryption, Hardware Security Modules (HSM), cloud Key Management Services (KMS), and Data Loss Prevention (DLP).- Led the end-to-end implementation of Microsoft Purview across a diverse data landscape, configuring and troubleshooting Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to enhance data security.- Integrated Microsoft Purview into the data governance strategy, streamlining Records Management, Information Barriers, and DLP Alerts.- Delivered specialized expertise in configuring Azure infrastructure, networking, and security settings, which notably enhanced the operational framework and efficiency of the AON platform.- Managed server and app migrations to Azure Cloud, employing strategies from Refactoring to Rebuilding, fortified with strong security and data protection mechanisms to ensure data integrity.- Configured Azure Networking & Security, led Azure DLP deployment, and contributed to the deployment of Azure Arc, promoting integrated cloud-native governance with a focus on security compliance and data protection.- Integrated Power Platform with Azure DevOps to enhance data management and security in PowerApps deployments, including secure Identity and Access Management with Azure AD B2C, B2B, and Salesforce.- Leveraged Office 365 ATP and Azure Identity Protection, setting up Azure Information Protection (AIP) and RMS for secure data handling, aligning with data governance frameworks to ensure compliance and integrity.My expertise in Microsoft cloud services equips me to optimize your cloud infrastructure securely, fostering innovation and growth.

Remote

- Architected and Managed migrations of servers and applications from on-premises data centers to Azure Cloud (Refactoring/Rehosting/Rebuilding).- Architected and Delivered Migration Solutions using the Azure Data Analytics platform including Azure Databricks, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake, Azure Delta Lake, Azure Search.- Designed and Setup Azure hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) cluster solution for virtualized workloads from scratch.-Designed and executed Power Platform applications utilizing Canvas and Model-Driven Apps, seamlessly integrating key data sources such as Dataverse, SharePoint, and SQL to enhance operational efficiency and automate business processes.- Designed Subnets, Route tables, Internet gateways, Virtual Gateways, Customer Gateways, VPN Connections, and VPC Peering between VPC's.- Administered Office 365 environments with PowerShell, managing sites, users, and groups, while driving the adoption of applications like Delve and Teams to amplify SharePoint functionality and elevate organizational productivity and collaboration.- Secured Azure Resources and implemented Security in Azure - Security Center, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory B2C, Multi-factor Authentication.- Setup and Configure Azure Active Directory B2C and B2B management.- Configured and Managed Security Alerts, Threat protection for Azure Key Vault and Azure App Service, Web Apps and APIs Security using Azure Security Center (ASC).- Configured MCAS (Cloud App Security) and integrated with Azure AD Identity Protection - User Risk policies, MFA registration policies Alert in MCAS etc.- Setup and Configured Azure MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) with Conditional Access policies.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Deployed Azure instances for a hybrid-based authorization and encryption system. - Designed and Configured Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM), External LDAP, Single Sign On, SSL, HTTP Load Balancing, NSG's (Network Security Groups), Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and VPN configurations. - Designed and Architecture the Deployment and Migration plan into Azure, Server 2012R2 VM's, Hyper-V hosts, IIS, Security, OMS Monitoring and Backups.- Configured and set up VSTS to implemented into Azure - Monitor and Maintain the health of the overall VSTS on Azure platform.- Managed TFS/VSTS user accounts and permissions in Azure AD.- Used VSTS, Octopus Deploy to automate the deployment process as well as to transform the configurations according to environments.- Migrated of Control-M agents and implemented Service Definition monitoring.- Designed and Setup the Hybrid Cloud integration of Microsoft Azure, Hyper-V, and VMWare.- Set up and Configured CI/CD pipeline to deploy a multi-container application on Azure Container Service with Docker Swarm using Azure DevOps Services.- Created Swarm cluster in Azure Container Service, Azure container registry.- Configured Azure App Insights for user activity & exception logging, Azure Monitoring service (Activity Logs, Metrics, Diagnostics Data) for audit. - Responsible for creating SQL datasets for Power BI and Ad-hoc Reports. - Integrated Azure Security Center alerts with Azure log integration, Enabled Azure Diagnostic logging in Log Analytics- Designed and Configured Authenticating Azure Service Management API with Azure AD User Credentials - Authenticating using Azure Active Directory, Invoking the Service Management API

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Launched Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications. - Created snapshots and amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances. - Performed application server builds in EC2 environment and monitoring them using cloud watch. - Participated in proving out Docker Swarm mode for our production site- DevOps - improving and redesigning build systems for Java Web Apps, AngularJS, with integration of Auto-scaling Solutions with vagrant, Ansible and Jenkins- Used Puppet to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points, and Packages.- Expertise in configuration management tools like Puppet. - Created a custom puppet module structure to use same structure across all puppet modules- Build scripts using ANT and MAVEN build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments. - Used Puppet to automate Configuration management & Applications.- Created and updated Puppet manifests and modules, files, and packages stored in the GIT repository- Implemented Devops process in on-line Technical platform with automated deployment process in Cloud Infrastructure.

San Jose, California, United States

- Managed build results in Jenkins and deployed using workflows. - Worked on building data center with AWS. Installed SVN, GIT, Jenkins images on AWS. Used GIT for version control and Jenkins for integration and deployment of applications. - Wrote test case scenarios and unit tested the code developed in Talend and Informatica- Deployed puppet for configuration management to existing infrastructure. - Implemented puppet modules for server housekeeping. - Actively involved in architecting the puppet infrastructure to manage servers in different environments. - Utilized Configuration Management Tool Chef & created Chef Cookbooks using recipes to automate system operations.

San Jose, California, United States

- Provide systems administration support for UNIX systems including server and workstation upgrades, backup and disaster recovery monitoring, user account setup and security administration. - Monitor and troubleshoot applications with performance related issues.- Manage file systems, add disks and create partitions on virtual Linux servers. - Monitor the servers and Linux scripts regularly and perform troubleshooting steps - Tested and installed the latest software on server for end-users. - Deployed latest patches for Linux and Application servers and performed RedHat Linux Kernel Tuning. - Use bash and some Perl scripting for automated processes in managing disk space, deleting old logs, and scripts for cron jobs. - Set up cron jobs for automated processes.