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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Managed 50 AKS Clusters across Dev, Test, UAT, and PROD environments, handling deployments, troubleshooting, load balancing, and auto-scaling.- Configured auto certificate renewal, cluster and node upgrades, and maintenance schedules for AKS.- Developed YAML files for HPA and Node Autoscaler; managed affinity rules, daemon/replica sets, persistent.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Developed and executed remediation plans to address compliance violations on Linux and Windows systems, ensuring alignment with security benchmarks and regulatory requirements while collaborating with system.
• Analyzed system security reports to identify and prioritize compliance risks, leading to the resolution of vulnerabilities across enterprise environments and enhancing the organization's security posture through.
• Managed complex Active Directory environments, implementing best practices for organizational unit design, group policy management, and role-based access control to enhance security and administrative efficiency.
• Led security implementations for Windows systems, including advanced threat protection, endpoint security, and policy enforcement, minimizing security incidents and safeguarding critical infrastructure.
• Spearheaded integration of Active Directory with cloud-based identity providers, enhancing user authentication and authorization across multiple platforms and improving access management.
• Deployment and support of Multi-Factor Authentication into multiple applications.

Roselle, Illinois, United States

• SCCM Engineer responsible for Maintaining, Managing, Creating new deployments for Server and Workstation Patching, Vulnerability management across multiple Windows OS images, like Windows 7,8,10 Server 2008, 2012.
• Building of Deployment packages, software collection groups, device collection groups, auto deployments, Client Device settings
• Responsible for health of distribution points, connectivity between different SCCM servers, storage locations for packages that needed to go off. Creating proper folder structures for individual software, making it.
• Third party Software Upgrade packages in SCCM for new deployments and upgrade of existing software updates, following proper clauses and making sure upgrade do not replace existing software
• SCCM agent management and troubleshooting of inactive clients. SCCM Site upgrade from 1904 to 2004. Managing region boundaries for Deployments
• Custom Client Device settings for 4-hour notification, 60 mins toast notification and 15 mins before the system restarts, other client settings for Dev, Test, Prod like Client Policy, Computer Settings, Delivery.