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Ashish Kumar

Ashish Kumar

Cloud Solution Architect
Bangalore

Summary

Certified Cloud Solutions Architect - Professional
with a demonstrated history of working in the IT
industry with 17+ years of experience. Current interest
predominantly lies in Cloud Architecture, Either
be Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. Experience in
architecture and designing cloud, cloud assessment workshops, POC's and
development/migration. Designed more than
100+ Solution & Artifacts across various areas and
in client forums and most of them today runs in
various Production Systems. Hands on Architect
with experience POC's created and submitted to
various customers. Enterprise Application
Migration to cloud Legacy Modernization to
cloud Develop Data Solutions on cloud Cost
optimization and Digitization. Consulting on any
cloud related problems and solutions with good
value propositions. Delivery Expertise on 100+
client projects and have experience managing
technical teams of over 30+. Expertise and used
Agile Methodology, Scrum Practices. Working with
the ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana) stack to
analyze log. Experience in DevOps tool-> Ansible,
GIT, Terraform

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Solution Architect

SAP
Bangalore
02.2017 - Current
  • Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing.
  • Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
  • Identified and remediated single points of failure and security risks.
  • Developed specifications, drawings and engineering artifacts and reports.
  • Developed solutions for DevOps automation
    to ease deployment process and
    implemented CI/CD pipelines, increasing
    operational productivity by 40%.
  • Leveraged scripting to automate system
    tasks for improved efficiency and scalability
    Installed and configured application toolsets
    such as Jenkins, Ansible and Kubernetes, to
    automate infrastructure management tasks.
  • Ensured secure cloud environment through.
    setting up multi-factor authentication,encryption and logging.
  • Implemented infrastructure-as-code (IAC)
    process using Terraform to streamline build
    and manage cloud infrastructures.
  • Performed security audit, vulnerability
    scanning, patch management and
    monitored system performance for 25000+
    servers.
  • Developed alerting and notification process
    to reduce manual intervention and increase
    availability and reliability of systems.
  • Improved software release processes and
    reduced application downtime by 33%.
  • Provisioned and maintained Azure, GCP,
    and in-house Cloud expertly utilizing
    Terraform.
  • Managed cloud infrastructure by
    implementing best practices and ensuring
    high availability.
  • Automated build, test, and deployment
    pipelines, streamlining deployment
    processes through use of CI/CD tools.
  • Conducted thorough analysis of cloud
    performance metrics, optimizing system
    efficiency by identifying areas for
    improvement.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally to design
    and implement scalable, reliable, and
    secure cloud-based solutions.
  • Mentored and provided technical guidance
    to junior team members, enhancing their
    knowledge and skills in DevOps practices.
  • Remediated cloud security issues, ensuring
    safety and security of all cloud-based
    systems.
  • Managing Platform Infra team (18+) to
    provide Infra build and support.
  • Migration for Datacenters from One platform
    to public Cloud (GCP/Azure and converge
    Cloud).
  • New Infrastructure Build in Azure/Google
    Cloud Datacenters.
  • Azure Automation with PowerShell Azure
  • Provide POCs about multi-AZ/region
    application deployment for HA and DR
    Cost optimization of Azure/GCP
    subscription.
  • Automation of snapshot for DC recovery
    Implementation of Active Directory patching
    tool (Tanium).
  • Securing active directory as per Industry
    standard.
  • Managing Group policy using AGPM
    Migration of Active directory (FMSO/NTP
    /CAM/DNS/AGPM).
  • Migration of VMware Infrastructure from 6.0
    to 6.7U2.
  • Implementation of terraform code as part for
    SAAS.
  • Active directory upgrade from 2008 to 2016.
  • BladeLogic implementation across the
    Complete datacenter.
  • Automated script for VMware migration
    Global security remediation across the
    datacenters on Windows servers.
  • Automated script for Azure security
    remediation
    I.e., RG Lock Logging, Azure blob configures.
  • VMware Migration/RDM Migration from one
    Vcenter to another Vcenter using
    automation.
  • Globalscape SFTP Upgrade.
  • WSUS automated script from build till
    deployment using PowerShell.
  • Automated process for 3rd party approved
    s/w on Active directory (Mcafee/EMC)

Senior Engineer

EMC
Bangalore
04.2016 - 01.2017
  • Requirement gathering with customer and
    sharing high-level design.
  • Implementation of Infra as per customer
    requirement.
  • Configuration of resource pool in Vcloud
    director.
  • Implementation of Vblock infra.
  • Patching of complete infrastructure using
    batch patch utility and established Secure
    environment.
  • Supporting infrastructure and
    troubleshooting on vSphere environment.

Associate Ops Manager

Cognizant
Bangalore
12.2013 - 03.2016
  • Signing of virtual infrastructure and
    implementing same.
  • Implementation and support of virtual
    infrastructure and cloud architecture.
  • Support for Active directory migration.
  • Implementation of PowerShell script in
    production environment.
  • Implementation of New Infrastructure in
    Business requirement.
  • Handling L2/L3 escalation related to
    VMware/windows issues.
  • Migration of virtual infrastructure from
    older to newer version.
  • Implementation of virtual infra using ESXi 5.1
    and ESXi 5.5.
  • Team handling for critical issues and
    proceed with resolution.

Senior Software Engin

Wipro Technologies
Bangalore
06.2010 - 12.2013
  • Performed live migration of File and print
    server, domain controller, infra servers and
    Application servers.
  • Responsibility to provide new server in
    production environment.
  • Migration of Existing virtual infrastructure
    to new virtual infrastructure.
  • New Build of Server with OS as windows
    server 2008 R2.
  • Migration of Infrastructure servers to
    new technology.
  • Analyzing infrastructure and providing
    better solution.
  • Virtualizing existing infrastructure hardware with all roles.
  • Basic knowledge of Cisco UCS.

Software Engineer

CGI
Bangalore
09.2007 - 06.2010
  • Creating instances in amazon cloud and
    supporting l1 support.
  • Migration of existing datacenter to new
    infrastructure.
  • Installation, configuration, administration
    and troubleshooting of VMware Operating
    system
  • Lived migration of file server, ad server and
    VMware Operating system new built of
    servers having os as windows server 2003,
    windows server 2008
  • Creating and managing virtual machines
    and templates creating clusters for high
    availability (ha) and distributive resource
    scheduling Migrate physical servers to virtual
    server used VMware converter (p2v
    converter) migrating of virtual machines
    used v motioned performing snapshots,
    cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations
    creating templates from V, deploy virtual
    machines from templates and allocate
    resources monitoring of virtual machine's &
  • VMware Operating system servers (CPU,
    memory, disk and network utilization) for
    security
  • Converting p2v and v2v used VMware
    standalone converter.
  • Creating duplicate virtual machine's used
    cloning technology (hot & cold)
  • Creation of virtual switches, ports and port
    groups and setting up layer 2 security
    policies for virtual networks
  • Troubleshooting issues relating to VMware
    migration tool such as compatibility issues
    with helped of event log
  • Setting up users and groups for access to
    virtual center
  • Moving virtual machines from one storage to
    another.
  • Providing remote infrastructure support to
    clients outside India
  • Supporting more than 1000 windows servers
    Coordinating with onsite team for hardware
    issues
  • Supporting windows servers NT /2000/2003 in
    virtual platform

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

LNCT
Bhopal
05-2007

High School Diploma -

Gyan Bharti
BodhGaya
03-2000

Skills

  • P > Technical Analysis
  • P > Decision-Making
  • P > Dependable and Responsible
  • P > Cloud architecture
  • P > Cloud Security
  • P > Microsoft Active Directory

Certification

  • Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies

  • Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)

  • Microsoft Azure certified- Azure Administrator (AZ-103)

  • VMware Certified professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP550)

  • VMware Certified Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV)

  • VMware Certified Associate – Cloud (VCA-Cloud)

  • Microsoft certified professional in Windows 2003 server Environment (MCP 70-290)

Timeline

Cloud Solution Architect

SAP
02.2017 - Current

Senior Engineer

EMC
04.2016 - 01.2017

Associate Ops Manager

Cognizant
12.2013 - 03.2016

Senior Software Engin

Wipro Technologies
06.2010 - 12.2013

Software Engineer

CGI
09.2007 - 06.2010

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

LNCT

High School Diploma -

Gyan Bharti

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