Akhtar S.

Akhtar S.

Cloud Solution Architect

Elmwood , United States

Experience: 10 Years

Akhtar

Elmwood , United States

Cloud Solution Architect

134400 USD / Year

  • Immediate: Available

10 Years

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About Me

·   Certification - Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions‎ (70-535).

·   Designed and configure large-scale cloud-based migration solution, migrating applications to Azure, IaaS (includew windows and Linux VMs) and PaaS with secur...

·   Served as a solution architect and technical lead in numerous cloud micro-services, multi-tier, web, and mobile applications for both small and enterprise clients.

·   Develop strategies to improve TCO and the effectiveness of cloud systems/services and development.

·   Design automated deployments leveraging Azure Resource Manager Templates(IaC), DevOps and Git repository for Automation and usage of Continuous Integration (CI/CD).

·   Integration of Key Vault and Security Center for advanced security management and protect across hybrid cloud workloads.

·   Migration of existing Infrastructure and configures and Manage Azure Site Recovery Deploy.

·   Understanding of API Management with Security, Integration in Azure Cloud.

·   Extensive experience in Windows 2008/2012/2016 servers at single or multi-domain platforms.

·   Experience in Architecting with Active Directory and configuration in support of a large environment.

·   Experience in Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server,  NAT.

·   Systems administration, monitoring, and management with Active Directory Implementation, Group Policy, support of backup etc.

·   Knowledge of iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.

·   Publishing and supporting applications, policy change, and load balance.

·   Configuring Backup and recovery of AZURE resources.

·   Application development, test and support on mainframe platform.

   

·   Tools: DevOps, Jason Template, Firewall,Storage manager, Visual Studio.

Scripting: Power CLI, Azure CLI, Jason Template, batch scripting, PowerShell, COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, C#

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Description

Responsibilities:

  • Develop an architectural plan for transforming the cloud platforms and solutions over time to simplify the architecture.
  • Design and discussion with the application team for HA/DR and cost Impact.
  • Add functionality and proofs-of-concept to drive architectural standards into the cloud product.
  • Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation using VSTS and Git Repository.
  • Implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and automated deployments leveraging Azure Resource Manager Templates and DevOps.
  • Experience in secure deigned and deployment of Azure IaaS/PaaS service include IP restrictions, Azure Application Gateway, Conditional access, ASG/NSG etc.
  • Configuring Azure Active Directory Access for SaaS apps and MFA.
  • Create and Manage Azure Access Control Roles and Permissions to perform selected operations and control access for the Azure services.
  • Actively involved in configuration and provisioning of virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups, Azure SQL Database, Azure Search, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus, Traffic Manager, Load Balancing, and Application Gateways etc.
  • Evolution for the automation and configuration management tools eg. Jenkins, Puppet, Chef.
  • Worked with the application team to resolved Issue with Azure Service and their Application
  • Guide the development team, how the Azure services are performing and how it's being used.
  • Interacted with Microsoft Premier Service's team to resolve production issues.
  • Understand the Agile methodology and have worked on a SDLC.

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Description

Responsibilities:

  • Develop an architectural plan for transforming the cloud platforms and solutions over time to simplify the architecture.
  • Design and discussion with the application team for HA/DR and cost Impact.
  • Add functionality and proofs-of-concept to drive architectural standards into the cloud product.
  • Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation using VSTS and Git Repository.
  • Implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and automated deployments leveraging Azure Resource Manager Templates and DevOps.
  • Experience in secure deigned and deployment of Azure IaaS/PaaS service include IP restrictions, Azure Application Gateway, Conditional access, ASG/NSG etc.
  • Configuring Azure Active Directory Access for SaaS apps and MFA.
  • Create and Manage Azure Access Control Roles and Permissions to perform selected operations and control access for the Azure services.
  • Actively involved in configuration and provisioning of virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups, Azure SQL Database, Azure Search, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus, Traffic Manager, Load Balancing, and Application Gateways etc.
  • Evolution for the automation and configuration management tools eg. Jenkins, Puppet, Chef.
  • Worked with the application team to resolved Issue with Azure Service and their Application
  • Guide the development team, how theAzure services are performing and how it's being used.
  • Interacted with Microsoft Premier Service's team to resolve production issues.

Understand the Agile methodology and have worked on a SDLC

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Description

Being in the client facing role I have been performing below activities;

  • Design, Develop, Test, Deploy and monitor the new changes to the application using DEVOPS/SDLC practices.
  • Modifying the existing functions/application to improve the performance or correct any defects.
  • Worked business technical analyst for the ERP.
  • Documented functions of the legacy ERP to be followed by the application users.
  • Worked closely with application end users to address their technical as well as functional issue while working on the legacy application or to fix any data inconstancy on the interfacing application. To integrate system with other application I was integration lead for the tier-1 legacy ERP.
  • Work closely with stake holders to establish problem specifications and system designs. In system migration provided the solutions for the data migration as well as explained exiting functionality of the current ERP to the new ERP system implementation.
  • Managing application development work by coordinating with the offshore team and addressing any functional/technical concerns from the team.
  • Creating new schedule or modifying existing schedule using CA7 scheduler
  • Perform platform system upgrades testing.

Skills: COBOL, CICS and JCL, INTERTEST, OLQ, DMLO, FM, CA-LIB, CA7, FTP, CA11, MVS, Z/OS, IDMS, VSAM and DB2, SQL, DBMS, MQ Series, CICS web services EDI X12 docs

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Responsibilities:

As an offshore developer have worked on different project activities.

  • Built, tested and deployed scalable, highly available and modular application programs.
  • Modified existing application programs to correct errors and improve performance.
  • Performed regression and system-level testing to verify software quality and function before it was released.
  • Maintained existing applications and designed and delivered new applications.
  • Debugged and modified software components
  • Developed code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
  • Monitoring nightly batch and taking required action in case of failure.
  • Skills: COBOL, CICS and JCL, INTERTEST, OLQ, DMLO, FM, CA-LIB, CA7, MVS, Z/OS, IDMS, VSAM, DB2, SQL, VB, C++

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