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Abdul Sidique
Cloud Solutions Architect & Operations Manager
Flat No 105 Tower N-2 Supertertech Ecovillage-1 Greater Noida West Gautambudhnagar UP
Summary
Dynamic IT Infrastructure and Cloud Solution Architect with 18 years of experience in driving enterprise architecture, cloud transformation, pre-sales consulting, and IT infrastructure modernization. Expertise in Azure Cloud, hybrid datacenter migration, disaster recovery, and enterprise governance facilitates the delivery of scalable solutions that align technology with business objectives. Recognized for strategic thinking and effective stakeholder collaboration, consistently translating complex business requirements into high-value service solutions. Proficient in designing comprehensive IT strategies that include technology roadmaps and modernization initiatives tailored to meet diverse client needs.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
11
11
Certifications
4
4
Languages
Work History
Technology Manager Cloud and Virtualization
Dish Tv India Limited
03.2022 - Current
- Microsoft Azure Cloud Solution designing authority on larger or more complex solutions, demonstrating an understanding of the internal and customers' business and commercial issues. They identify, design and deliver larger or more complex architectures, strategies and specific solutions. Responsible for the design and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs. Changes to service, process, organization, operating model and other aspects may be required in addition to technology components, and solutions must demonstrate how agreed requirements (such as automation of business processes) are met, any requirements which are not fully met or, and any options or considerations which require a business decision. To the provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to, solution components to ensure that they take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.
- Responsible for defining the acceptance criteria of a product feature, Collaborate with key business stakeholders to determine priority for backend engineering teams
- Recent experience within Architecture, Design and implementation and Migration of complex, highly available and highly scalable solutions
- Drives technical solution for large features/technically complex features independently.
- Experiencing with migrating datacenters workloads towards Azure.
- Cloud Computing, IAAS, SAAS, PAAS.
- Server/Datacenter virtualization
- Storage
- Information Security
- Network
- Enterprise wide architectural governance, architecture decisions, exceptions, standards etc
- Developing complex business cases.
- The e-commerce architecture supports high availability, performance, and scalability to meet business demands, especially during peak working periods.
- Implement best practices for security and data privacy, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations (e.g., ISO 27001, )
- Implemented Azure well architect framework.
- Azure Cost management.
- Microsoft Azure recommendations security framework implement.
- Ensure All Cloud Resources (Iaas,PAAS, SAAS) are optimally utilized and archived if not in used. Every qtr. decommissioned for Cloud resources.
Cloud Infrastructure solution architect
Acxiom Consulting Pvt, Ltd.
07.2017 - 03.2022
- Architected hybrid cloud solutions (Azure, O365, and D365 F&O SAP-Hana on Azure cloud, AWS.
- Delivered pre-sales proposals, RFP responses, and client demos for enterprise clients.
- Designed DRaaS solutions leveraging public/hybrid cloud models.
- Led migration projects from on-premises to cloud environments.
- Provided Microsoft licensing consulting and Dynamics AX/D365 infrastructure planning.
Cloud Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Team Computers Pvt, Ltd.
01.2015 - 07.2017
- Evangelized Office 365 and Azure solutions to corporate clients
- Directed a team of 15 engineers delivering managed services and cloud implementations.
- Anchored client RFPs ensuring superior technical and business alignment.
- Implemented Azure Cloud Iaas, Paas, SaaS, IBM SoftLayer and AWS cloud solutions for enterprise.
- Communicate the Business Benefits of the Solutions to Corporate Customers.
System Administrator L3
Team Computers Pvt, Ltd.
07.2011 - 01.2015
- Delivered L3 support for all Windows Server–related incidents, ensuring high availability and stability across domestic enterprise environment.
System & Network Administrator L1
Alfa overseas Pvt. Ltd, or TasksEveryday
02.2008 - 04.2011
IT-Sr. Desktop Engineer
MicroLink infonet Pvt, Ltd.
10.2007 - 01.2008
Desktop Support Engineer
Vertax Solution Pvt, Ltd.
07.2006 - 09.2007
Education
B.Sc. - CS
chaudhary charan singh university
07.2006
Intermediate - Science
CISCE Board of secondary education
07.2003
SSC - undefined
Sayad Adam Ahemed High School
Bishanpur, Jagatshinghpur, Odisha07.2000
Skills
Azure Cloud architecture
Certification
PGDCA from Micro-teach Systems Cuttack Odisha.
Accomplishments
- Designed and executed a complex migration of current organization projects on-premise servers to Azure (IaaS & PaaS), reducing infrastructure footprint and cutting annual CapEx
- Architected a high-availability Disaster Recovery (DR) solution using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and Geo-Redundancy, improving Recovery Time Objective (RTO) from 24 hours to 15 minutes.
- Backup solutions to implemented larger server and other services as well.
- Led the implementation VM,s SQL, DNS, Azure AD, Azure security Defender. Azure WAF, Monitoring tools.
- Implemented a "Zero Trust" security framework using Azure Sentinel and Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), resulting in a reduction in security vulnerabilities during external audits.
- Engineered a serverless architecture using Azure Functions and Logic Apps to automate backend workflows.
Affiliations
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft Cloud Partner Program Azure
Microsoft 365 Administrator
Microsoft D365 Finance & Operation Enterprise
ITIL 4 Managing Professional
PGDCA from Micro-teach Systems Cuttack Odisha.
Hardware & Networking CompTIA A Course A+ N+ Server+ at Sn’ Anglo's Computers Training institute Branch Jogeshwari( West) Mumbai
MCSE Microsoft certificate system engineer Windows 2003 Server.
MCITP Microsoft Certified IT Professional.
CCNA preferred Administrator
RHEL RedHat.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Cloud Computing Services.
IBM SoftLayer cloud solutions designing.
Additional Information
Azure Well-Architected Framework
Cloud Platforms,"Azure (Core), AWS (Familiarity), Hybrid Cloud (Azure Stack HCI)"
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC),"Terraform, Azure Bicep, ARM Templates"
Automation/Scripting,"PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash"
CI/CD & DevOps,"Azure DevOps (Boards, Pipelines)
OS & Virtualization,"Windows Server, RHEL/Ubuntu, Hyper-V, VMware ESXi"
Monitoring & Logging,"Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics (KQL), Splunk"
Networking,"Azure VNet, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, DNS Management"
Containers,"Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker, Helm"
Declaration
I, Abdul Sidique, hereby declare that the information contained herein is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Career Highlights
Extensive experience in implementation, Public and private Cloud & On-Premises, Hybrid infrastructure as well as Office 365 migration, DC & DR solution and administration and networking in various environments.
Computer Proficiency
- Word 2016
- Excel 2016
- Power Point 2016
- Outlook
- Visio
- Power Point
Interests
Timeline
Technology Manager Cloud and Virtualization
Dish Tv India Limited
03.2022 - Current
Cloud Infrastructure solution architect
Acxiom Consulting Pvt, Ltd.
07.2017 - 03.2022
Cloud Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Team Computers Pvt, Ltd.
01.2015 - 07.2017
System Administrator L3
Team Computers Pvt, Ltd.
07.2011 - 01.2015
System & Network Administrator L1
Alfa overseas Pvt. Ltd, or TasksEveryday
02.2008 - 04.2011
IT-Sr. Desktop Engineer
MicroLink infonet Pvt, Ltd.
10.2007 - 01.2008
Desktop Support Engineer
Vertax Solution Pvt, Ltd.
07.2006 - 09.2007
Intermediate - Science
CISCE Board of secondary education
SSC - undefined
Sayad Adam Ahemed High School
B.Sc. - CS
chaudhary charan singh university