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Dallas, Texas, United States

 Manage, maintains, supports troubleshoots and optimizes the Azure AD environment and suggests adjustments and new system designs for future needs. Configuration, integration and management of Azure AD Identities, Groups, App Registrations and SSO services. Proven ability to define and enforce identity lifecycle management processes, including provisioning, deprovisioning, and role-based access control (RBAC). Accept escalations and complete service requests within the established SLAs and provide best practice recommendations. Resolve level 2 and 3 problems and issues related to Azure AD. Development and upkeep of documentation relating to the clients Azure Active Directory environments. In-depth understanding of Azure AD Identities, Security Groups, Azure AD Roles. Experience with Azure App registrations, SAML SSO, Azure Active Directory Connect and Azure Portal Administration. Knowledge of Office 365 Management Suite and PowerShell.

Austin, Texas, United States

Worked with various in-house developed and vendor product IAM tools like Identity Management, Password Management, Data Delivery. Spearheaded the implementation of identity and access management solutions on Azure using Azure Active Directory and Active Directory, ensuring secure and seamless access for users. Automation and Scripting: Automate IAM tasks using PowerShell (for Azure AD) and Okta's API, enhancing efficiency and reducing manual efforts in identity management processes Supported Azure cloud environments, focusing on Azure Active Directory integration and identitymanagement. Collaborated with network administrators to ensure secure and efficient data transfer between Azure resources and on-premises Active Directory.  Designed and implemented identity solutions in Azure AD, SSO, MFA, and conditional access policies Collaborated with the development team to troubleshoot and resolve IAM-related issues on web applications. Secure application APIs using OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect protocols, leveraging Okta and Azure AD for robust access management. Participated in daily scrum meetings, and bi-weekly sprint planning meetings. I followed agile methodologies in project development.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

 Monitoring the identity and access management program's performance and conducting regular audits to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Experience with Security Centre Key Vault, Application Gateway and Network Security Groups. Experience with complex IT systems, including operating systems, networks, firewalls and load balancers. Secure and harden the network, server, data and end user infrastructure. Experience with Azure Active Directory, Azure Managed Service Identity. Design, implement and manage virtual networking within Azure and connect to on-premises environments, configure Express Route, Virtual Network, VPN Gateways, DNS and Load Balances. Create and Manage Azure AD tenants, manage users and groups and configure application integration with Azure AD. Strong experience with Azure Networking, Security and Storage, High availability and backup. Integrate on-premises Windows AD with Azure AD, configure multi factor authentication and federated single sign-on. Hands on experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0 Responsible for planning, design and implementation of Azure AD Identities and SSO services using Azure AD, AAD Connect, Azure AD privileged access, PIM, App registration and ensuring the environment is supported and resilient.

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

 Performed single and multiple instance installation and configuration. Performed system patches to prevent security breech Install, configure and managed Zabbix , Nagios core and Icinga 1 & 2 monitoring applications • Monitor hundreds of servers networks, applications and APC-UPS through Nagios 3 Created a Blue Green deployment redundant environment.  Develop Shell scripts to automate jobs in my environment and updated the document & processes Spin up and auto scale instances on EC2 and optimize it as per client satisfaction Automated and configured cookbooks via Chef.  Operate and maintain the server room including; managing the tape archive, running fiber cables, changing memory cards, hard drives and nodes etc.  Troubleshoot the OS, network, database, and all other system applications the OS hosts.  Installed and configure MySQL & PostgreSQL databases for the monitoring application (Icinga & Nagios) Ensured excellent communication between colleagues, customers and vendors.

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree