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Ammu S

Ammu S

Kochi

Summary

Experienced Azure Cloud Administrator with proven skills in Azure IaaS and PaaS. Adept in Windows Server Administration and cloud security best practices, driving successful cloud infrastructure management.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Azure Cloud Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2019 - Current
  • Experience in managing and administering Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure
  • Setting up and configuring virtual machines, networks, storage accounts and network security groups in Azure
  • Managing Azure Entra ID for user authentication and access control. Integrating applications to Entra ID using App registration.
  • Configured conditional access policy
  • Migrated Azure Web Apps present in App Service Environment to App Service Plan
  • Worked with SQL DB, backup, DR.
  • Performed VAPT Remediation
  • Automation and cost optimization initiatives
  • Deployed Kubernetes clusters and worked with troubleshooting issues.
  • Monitoring and maintaining the health and performance of Azure services and resources
  • Worked on service upgrades, retirements
  • Worked with remediating Microsoft Defender Security recommendations.

Senior Network Support Engineer

RM Education Solution
07.2017 - 02.2019
  • Managing school network by providing remote support to school staff and students.
  • Software deployment using RM CC4, configuring users for single sign on through RM Unify.
  • Website filtering using Smoothwall or RM Safety Net.
  • Troubleshooting backup issues in Backup exec, Sophos antivirus deployment.

Graduate Engineer Trainee

HCL Technologies
02.2014 - 06.2017
  • Managing Virtualization Environment using VMware Sphere 5.5/6, V Center Server
  • Creating and Managing Virtual Machines using standard templates and clones. Deploying an OVF template
  • Creating and Managing Clusters to provide HA and DRS for the Virtual Machines
  • Performing Standard Host / Data store migration, Physical to Virtual migration, migration of servers.
  • Monitoring of Virtual Machine's & ESX servers CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization
  • Installing Patches and vulnerability remediation of windows servers through Big Fix Agent.
  • Managing Virtual Machines using Hyper-v.
  • Managing TMG Proxy configuring web access policy, URL category overriding, creating access rule, policy editing tasks, troubleshooting website connectivity
  • Perform website deployment, using push field and deployment wizard to push application data from Stage to Prod servers.
  • Managing IIS 7 App pool recycle, edit bindings, update certificates, creating new virtual directories.
  • Maintained existing programs/scripts and extended Windows system functionality like reducing size of winsxs folder, vmware tools installation without reboot, service monitoring before and after reboot.
  • Preparing KB articles for technical reference.
  • Participated on a 24/7 on-call helping clients using Windows server in a VM environment

Education

BTech - ECE

MET's School of Engineering

Skills

  • Azure IaaS
  • Azure PaaS
  • Azure Entra ID
  • Terraform
  • Windows Server Administration
  • VMWare
  • Powershell
  • Business Continuity Management
  • Azure Security

Certifications

  • Microsoft AZ-104, Azure Administrator Associate

Timeline

Azure Cloud Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2019 - Current

Senior Network Support Engineer

RM Education Solution
07.2017 - 02.2019

Graduate Engineer Trainee

HCL Technologies
02.2014 - 06.2017

BTech - ECE

MET's School of Engineering
Ammu S