Mohammad Rafi Ulla, Senior Cloud Consultant

Mohammad Rafi Ulla

Senior Cloud Consultant

Devoteam

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics And Communication Engineering
Experience
7 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :7 years, 9 Months

Senior Cloud Consultant at Devoteam
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since December 2021

 Handled Kubernetes implementation on VMWare and enabled AzureArc Data Services and done the migration of SQL databases from On-premises to AzureArc.\[Client : GIB \]
 Deployed Azure Virtual Desktop in a POC environment to show the features and abilities. \[Client: Ministry of Hajj and Umrah \]
 Implemented Storesimple migration to Azure File Share. \[Client: PetroRabigh\]
 Involved in implementation of Azurestack HCI and migration of customer Environmental Centres from On-premises to Azurestack HCI. \[Client: Ministry Of Environment Water and Agriculture \]
 Handled different operations in Openshift including
Create Projects and Applications
Deploying Applications From Source and Image
GUI and CLI tools to manage resource objects
Scale up/down application instances and configure healthchecks
Manage deployment configuration & build configuration templates
Troubleshoot pod and deployment errors and provide the necessary fixes
 Done Proof Of Concepts for various customers on Azurestack HCI, Azure Arc and AKS on Azurestack HCI technologies.

Senior Consultant at Avanade
  • Singapore - Singapore
  • August 2021 to October 2021

 Responsible for handling Azure Infra projects to different customers with the agreed Enterprise scale landing zone architecture
 Implement Proof of Concept (POC) on new Azure technologies and provide the consultation and recommendations to customers.
 Responsible for building the infrastructure with Hub and Spoke models , and to perform all the necessary security related integrations.
 Familiar with setting up of Application Gateway, APIM, Azure firewalls and NVA integrations with different scenarios.
 Created various custom policies to different management groups and subscriptions for securing the infrastructure.
 Configured various services like PIM, DDoS Protection, Security Center and Azure Sentinel in the current infrastructure.

Infrastructure Reliability Engineer at Manulife
  • Singapore - Singapore
  • October 2019 to July 2021

 Oversee the implementation and operations of Azure Cloud infrastructure across Asia
 Deliver POC implementation for different projects in Azure including AKS and other PaaS services.
 Responsible for providing RBAC to different resources in Azure and enable logging of various services via Log Analytics in Azure
 Promote adoption of Azure public Cloud internally and educate BU on the value proposition and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in Cloud.
 Azure virtual machines (Windows/Linux) deployment, management, and administration for all the resources across IaaS.
 Handled Disaster Recovery exercise in Azure for different projects via ASR and Cold DR.
 Responsible for the deployment of PaaS services like Azure SQL DB, Redis Cache, Application Gateway, APIM, KeyVault and Service Bus etc.. and setting up the firewall rules, private endpoints to make sure they are accessible in a secure manner.
 Good experience on implementing and configuring the Azure NSG, ILB and troubleshooting the connection issues for different environments in Azure
 Go through the risk assessment and ORR(Operational Readiness Review) for all the builds across Cloud infrastructure before Go Live, to make sure they are built and compliant as per Security standards.
 Handled Security Scan/Vulnerability Management as a part of Path to Green program across all the servers and services in Azure.

Senior Cloud Engineer at Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd
  • Singapore
  • August 2016 to October 2019

Designation/Role : Senior Cloud Engineer Singapore Key Deliverables:  Responsible for handling multiple customers SHIMANO, TMA, LTA, SABRE and JX NIPPON in Microsoft CSP and providing them Cloud solutions and day to day support on the Cloud infrastructure.  Handled Cloud Migration projects to Azure/AWS for diferent customers.  Familiar with the Cloud Infrastructure, design and implementation in Azure/AWS.  Responsible for creating new subscriptions and manage the existing subscriptions, assign roles or permissions to users in CSP/Azure portal.  Deployed and configured Ansible for configuration management to existing infrastructure.  Launch & manage Cloud instance along with Amazon Web Services, VPC, EC2, Route53, CloudFront, S3, Auto scaling, AWS Lambda, IAM And physical to cloud migration.  Responsible for designing and implementing solutions using Redhat OpenShift Container Platform / Kubernetes, Docker and Linux technologies.  Implemented diferent VPN setup including Point-to-Site and Site-to-Site VPN for diferent customers.  Configuring automated snapshot backup/schedule, backup policy and retention period by using scripts and Lambda in AWS/Azure.  Configure Log Analytics, Cloud watch, Alerts and Monitoring in Azure and AWS.  Involved in pre-sales with customers and providing them suggestions on cost optimization and the purchase of reserved instances for diferent terms.  Manage Billing for Azure(Cloudyn)/AWS customers and solve their queries on usage reports.  Familiar with providing Managed Services on cloud computing environment using AWS/Azure and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform  Involved in setting up the build project for LTA ( Land Transport Authority), SHIMANO and TMA.  Familiar with diferent operations in Openshift including
•Create Projects and Applications
•Deploying Applications From Source and Image
•CLI tools to manage resource objects
•Scale up/down application instances
•Manage deployment configuration & build configuration templates. Technologies and Tools Used: Openshift, AWS, Azure, Cloud Migration, Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics And Communication Engineering
  • at Osmania University
  • May 2008

I have scored nearly 80% in my graduation which is a distinction in Academic.

Specialties & Skills

Containers
Windows Azure
Cloud Computing
OPERATIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE
KUBERNETES
DOCKER (SOFTWARE)
OPENSHIFT

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Languages

English
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Training and Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Watching and Playing Cricket