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Varun - Azure Cloud Engineer

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Location: Fort Erie , Ontario, Canada

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VARUN Azure Cloud Engineer [email protected]; (847) 610-9714 Over 8+ years of IT experience as an Azure Cloud Engineer having strong knowledge in solving complex problems with creative solutions, supporting development and operation environments. Major Skillset in Data Science tools includes Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Kubernetes, Machine Learning, ADLS, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Azure Synapse, Azure Functions, Azure Apps, Access Management, CICD Automation, Team Management. SKILLS Azure cloud Team management Project management Agile software development Cloud migration Azure databricks Azure data factory Continuous integration and continuous delivery (ci/cd) Terraform Azure kubernetes service (aks) Networking Azure data lake Azure active directory Azure app services Azure administration Azure machine learning Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate EXPERIENCE Client: CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION, Toronto, Canada Mar 2023 Present Role: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer Responsibilities: Experience in successfully leading several transformation projects, working in complex, fast paced environments with team distributed across multiple delivery locations. Experience in desiging modern infrastructure solutions, specializing in containerization, Kubernetes, SRE, and CI/CD implementations. Proficient in crafting resilient architectures for multi-cloud deployments across Azure & AWS alongside experience in server virtualization, cloud computing, and software-defined data center technologies. Designed and automated infrastructure through various scripting languages and optimizing cloud capacity through platforms like On-prem & Cloud. Skilled in conducting product demonstrations, server configuration, requirements analysis, and collaborating effectively with vendors. Manage the overall Cloud migration program scope and maintain its continuous alignment with strategic business objectives; and resolve con icts to enhance effectiveness in reaching business results or strategic goals. Define projects/programs; assign engineers to initiate and manage all aspects of migration program like CI/CD, cloud architectural principles, different methods of migration and cloud technologies. Review Cost Analysis of Azure Resources being utilized across the tenant and come up with strategies for more cost effectiveness using Scale up/down of resources. Leveraged Microsoft Defender for Cloud for threat detection and response activities. Implement monitoring and alerts for the Azure Cloud Applications using Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, and Azure Alerts. Worked closely with line of business developers as a lead Cloud Consultant to collaborate on the design and deployment of proof-of-concept and pilot business use cases and develop patterns. Proven ability to integrate Azure backup solutions with on- premises infrastructure, hybrid cloud environments, and diverse Azure services. Implemented and configured Microsoft Defender for Cloud to enhance cloud security across various environments. Ensure effective and engaged program team by providing ongoing guidance and mentorship, to ensure attainment of full program objectives. Build credibility and relationships, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization. Lead and facilitate periodic status and risk discussions with program stakeholders; evaluate and discuss program results and lessons learned throughout the program lifecycle. Cloud Migration Managing and guiding the applications migrate to new Public cloud under Optimization, Modernization and Self-Migrate strategies. Facilitate extensive analysis of cloud technology requirements and help with estimations and technical assumptions for the entire migration effort. Follow AGILE methodology for self-migrating applications. Customer Servicing & Stakeholder Management Handle client requests like business queries, Audit requests and surveys. Manage estimates and perform detailed forecasting of revenue and man month for all projects and maintenance activities. Client: CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION, Toronto, Canada Apr 2020 Feb 2023 Role: Azure Cloud Engineer Responsibilities: Designed, deployed, and managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, improving container management e ciency and ensuring uptime for critical applications. Worked On DNS configurations and records for a large-scale, multi-domain environment, ensuring optimal network performance and reliability through routine audits, updates, and troubleshooting. Developed and managed infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, ARM templates, and Azure DSC Used PowerShell DSC to automate configuration management, ensuring that computing environments were replicated consistently and declaratively across multiple regions. Implemented and maintained monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Datadog, and New Relic and monitored the performance of cloud services and infrastructure to ensure they met the required service level agreements and performance metrics. Designed Azure RBAC and configured MS Exchange, and maintained directory services within the O ce365 suite, including ADFS, to ensure secure and e cient access management for users. Designed and configured cloud network components to ensure secure and e cient network operations. This included setting up networking features such as Azure Virtual Network. Led migration projects from on-premises to Azure, cutting operational costs by 25% and providing 24/7 support to minimize downtime. Conducted security audits, implemented disaster recovery solutions, and managed Azure services, contributing to business continuity and compliance. Managed and optimized Azure resources to ensure cost- effectiveness and scalability, including monitoring usage, implementing cost-saving measures, and leveraging scalability strategies such as auto-scaling Led knowledge transfer sessions, troubleshooting, and process improvements, resulting in significant business gains, and ticket reduction in monthly ServiceNow issues. Spearheaded cross-functional collaborations for requirement gathering and documentation, enhancing project lifecycle communication and alignment Developed and maintained reports in Microsoft Excel, tracking daily, weekly, and monthly performance metrics to ensure transparency and informed decision-making Designed and implemented compute clusters and pools based on Data Scientists requirements and created cluster permissions for restricting access. Experiencing in setting-up jobs alerts Databricks pipelines. Experienced in working with Azure Data factory for creating the pipelines, datasets, and triggers. Experience in working with Azure Key-vaults for storing the secrets like Service Principal secrets and user credentials. Experience in setting-up virtual networks, NSG s, peering and designing the allocation of subnets on project requirements. Experience in managing Azure AD users, groups and RBAC. Experience in working in file format conversion like Avro, orc, delimiter, parquet using Azure Data Factory. Experience in using Application insights for monitoring the logs for App services, Functions Apps. Experience in setting up alerts using Azure monitor, Action groups for key-vault secrets. Experienced in working to migrate large number of Datasets from on-prem to Azure by using Hadoop tools like Cloudera Replication Manager. Client: CAPE BRETON CREDIT UNION, Canada Feb 2018 Apr 2020 Role: Cloud Engineer Responsibilities: Participated in the release cycle of the product which involves environments like Development QA UAT and Production. Experience in building Azure data-factory pipelines from Hadoop to Azure data-lake gen 2 containers. Performed Continuous Integrated delivery (CI and CD process) using Jenkins and Deploy. Created Pipeline as code in git which is integrated to Jenkins to develop full CI/CD. Implemented the Chef Software setup and configuration on VM's from the scratch and deployed the run-list into chef-server and bootstrap the chef clients remotely. Built and managed a highly available monitoring infrastructure to monitor different application servers and its components using Nagios with Chef Automation. Involved in deploying and operating Azure, specifically Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, IAM, Azure Active Directory, Service Principles, Managed Identities. Developed Templates for Azure infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build staging and production environments. Built and Developed scripts using Maven and ANT as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments. Involved in writing shell/bash scripts to automate the administrative tasks using Cron jobs and managing them in the repository using GIT. Used the version control system GIT to access the repositories and used in coordinating with CI tools. Automated build and deployment using Jenkins to reduce human error and speed up production processes. Develop custom dashboards to monitor user tra c load, response times and transaction on the websites using Splunk. Worked on Docker container snapshots, attaching to a running container, removing images, managing director structures, and managing containers. Documented all build and release process related items. Level one support for all the build and deploy issues encounter during the build process Client: SYMPHONY SOFTWARE PVT. LTD, India Jan 2016 Dec 2017 Role: Build/Release Engineer Responsibilities: Worked portal for triggering builds and releasing them to stakeholders by understanding the pain points of Developers and QA engineers. Worked in designing and deploying Aws solutions using EC2 instances, EBS, S3, RDS, Elastic Load Balancer and Auto scaling groups. Wrote ANT and MAVEN Scripts to automate the Build Process. Used GIT as source code repositories, Maintained and Administered GITHUB Source Code Tool. Integrated Continuous Integration system with GIT version control repository and continually build as the check- ins come from the developer. Have done various POCs to explain and demonstrate the possibility of implementing CI/CD in various projects. Use Jenkins to do daily and ad-hoc build and deploy. Set up new Jenkins job for new builds and deployment. Worked on various scripting language like Bash, Shell, Ruby, Perl and Python. Developed and maintained in-house Code review system before migrating to the lightweight code review system available in Stash. Designed and implemented the backup strategy for all the critical systems such as build machines, bug tracking tools, central repositories etc. Keywords: cprogramm continuous integration continuous deployment quality analyst sthree active directory information technology microsoft