Cloud Architect
Zaintech
Total years of experience :10 years, 7 Months
Working as a Cloud Solution Architect in Cloud infrastructure, database, Storage, Network, Security and integrating it into IaaS, PaaS, SaaS solutions across small, medium, and large sized enterprise environment.
Working as Cloud Solution Presales, across Bids, projects, proposals (RFI & RFP) on Cloud and Datacenter (DC) Migration/Consolidation/Disaster Recovery (DR).
Responsible for the overall Solution Design, Presales, understanding and mapping the business requirements to systems/technical requirements.
Working closely with Business Units, Product and Program Management to design and build public, private and hybrid cloud solutions.
Designing Cloud and Datacentre reference architectures following cloud infrastructure & security standards and various regulatory compliance requirements.
Strong experience in Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Migration Methodologies, and Governance.
Expertise in Azure, AWS, and OCI public cloud IaaS services and Cloud Security solutions across various Enterprise Architectures (EA).
Architect, design, and develop Cloud solutions in Azure, AWS, and OCI encompassing multiple specializations, platforms, and technologies.
Design cloud architectures in a DEV/Test/PROD environment, utilizing Virtual Networks, VPN, Express Route, Direct Connect, Network Security Groups (NSG), WAF and Load Balancers.
Design custom IAM, Azure AD policies, Roles, user management, SSO and SAML integration for IAM within Azure, AWS, and OCI.
Expertise on Designing VMware SDDC solution (vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T), VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Private Cloud, vRealize Suite, vCloud Director (vCD), VMware Workspace, Horizon VDI, VMware Cloud Services like VMware Aria, VMware Cloud on AWS, AVS, OCVS.
Good working knowledge in Cloud Native Solutions, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure AKS, ACS, AWS ECS, EKS, Openshift, and VMware Tanzu.
Accomplished in managing teams right from requirements through design, implementation, deployment, and delivery.
• Working in Oracle Consulting team as Cloud Architect for solutions on Oracle IaaS, PaaS, OCI Container Engine (OKE), Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS), along with OCI Cloud Migration, across Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud (OCI).
• Experience on designing solutions & proposals related to Cloud build and consolidation, setting up new services and applications in Oracle Cloud (OCI).
• Work closely with Business units, product and program management to design and build services within Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud.
• Working on HLD, LLD designs along with Pre-sales proposals as per RFI, RFP and RFQ.
• Lead Digital transformation and migration projects to migrate servers and applications from on-prem to OCI, OCVS and Hybrid Cloud setup using Oracle Cloud Migration, VMware HCX, etc.
• Expertise in Container Platforms like Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu along with IaC tools like Terraform and Automation.
• Working on VMware SDDC, VCF for BCDR solution using vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, vRealize suite, along with VMware Cloud and OCVS.
• Work closely with Business units, product management, and program management to design and build Infrastructure & Security services across Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud (Azure, AWS).
• Worked on HLD & LLD designs along with RFI, RFP and RFQ’s as Pre-sales and Solution Architect.
• Experience with Azure, AWS IaaS and Security Services across various Enterprise Architecture.
• Worked on Azure AD, Security Center, Azure Sentinal, Key Vault, Azure Firewall, NSG, DDoS, etc.
• Good exposure in Azure and AWS IAAS services like Azure AD, IAM, VNET, VPC, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, Load Balancer, WAF, Blob storage, Databases, Cloud Migration Services, etc.
• Expertise in Container Platforms like Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu along with IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Lead Datacenter transformations projects to migrate client/server and 3 tier applications to Cloud environments in Azure and AWS.
• Design and Architect complex solution across on-prem and Cloud including IaaS, Security, Scaling, High Availability, Disaster Recovery across Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud (Azure, AWS).
• Worked as Cloud Product Manager on launch of Cloud billing solution in BT Cloud Management System by integrating VMware CloudHealth with BT Cloud Solution offering.
• Worked on HLD & LLD designs along with RFI, RFP and RFQ’s as Pre-sales and Solution Architect.
• Worked on BT Private Cloud solution on DellEMC VxRail & VCF using Veeam Backup solution.
• Strong experience around Azure and AWS Cloud IaaS & Security services across Cloud ecosystem.
• Worked on VMware SDDC, VCF for BCDR solution using vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, SRM, Horizon VDI, vRealize suite (vRA, vROPS, etc), HCX, CloudHealth, including VMware Cloud on AWS, and Azure.
• Expertise in Container Platforms like Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu along with IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Worked on Datacenter & Cloud Migration, Lift and Shift, P2V, V2V in Hyper-V and vSphere using VMware Converter, PlateSpin, Double-Take, VMware HCX.
• Worked on Windows and Linux servers, SQL clustering and PostgreSQL database.
• Responsible for implementation and support across on-premise Datacenter, VMware, and Cloud platform by maintaining system security, performance, and data integrity.
• Worked on maintaining security patches, antivirus updates, backups, monitoring, routine server maintenance, Firmware upgrades and compliance related activities.
• Data Centre Consolidation & Migration P2V, V2V on Hyper-V and vSphere environment using PlateSpin and VMware Converter.
• Worked on design and implementation of VMware solution on vSphere, vCenter, SRM, vROPS, vSphere Replication, Storage and Backup Solution.
• Worked across SQL Server 2012 Clustering on Windows Server 2012 on two node cluster.
• Worked to coordinate with vendors like (VMware/Microsoft/HPE/Dell/Cisco) for compliance Quarterly/BI-Annually/Annually Hardware & Software Maintenance activities.
• Worked as SME for escalations related to VMware SDDC platform, Enterprise Applications and Datacenter solutions for multiple projects.
• Worked as Technical Support Engineer in VMware under payroll of Magna Infotech Bangalore.
• Design and implement VMware SDDC solution for high availability and disaster recovery on vSphere 5.x 6.x, vCenter, SRM, vROPS, vSphere Replication, Storage based Replication, Backup solution.
• Experience with VMware ESXi deployments on Cisco UCS servers, HPE Proliant servers, Dell PowerEdge servers, on vSphere 5.x, 6.x environments.
• Datacenter migration P2V and V2V using VMware Converter and other Enterprise Solutions.
• Coordinate with vendors (Microsoft/HPE/Dell/Cisco) on existing issues and helping clients with troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting of ESXi & vCenter servers using PowerCLI and SSH.
• Report Complex issues/ bugs to Engineering team to replicate the issues and get hotfixes.
• Worked as single point of contact for Clients, OEM vendors, and development teams for VMware SDDC solution including vSphere, SRM, Replication and Backup.
• Enterprise Support to HP’s client, using IT Operation services and support levels L1 and L2, including full Incident, Problem and Vender Management.
• Enterprise user support - monitoring and troubleshooting system performance, server & network and resolve issues related to networking, servers, applications, and infrastructure.
• Support VMware vSphere and Citrix VDI environment using Backup solution.
• Worked on user account creation through IBM Tivoli Manager, Windows AD and Exchange.
• Worked on LAN, Operating System (OS) and other Network related issues.
• Worked on technical issues related to VPN (IpSec & SSL), IP network infrastructure.
• Provided support on systems including Software, Servers (Windows/Linux), Asset Management, System Security and Compliance.