Ayesha Jawed

• Led FinOps initiatives for Azure environments, optimizing annual spend, and achieving significant cost savings through reserved instances and right-sizing.
• Implemented resource tagging strategy to improve cost allocation and chargeback across business units.
• Configured Azure Budgets, Cost Alerts, and Azure Advisor recommendations for proactive cost governance.
• Led Azure FinOps initiatives that saved millions of dollars in cloud spend through strategic purchasing of Azure Reservations, workload analysis, rightsizing recommendations, and ongoing cost governance.
• Created chargeback and showback reports by mapping Azure resource costs to business units, applications, and projects, enabling accurate cost allocation and informed budgeting decisions.
• Optimized Azure cloud costs by implementing Azure Cost Management, resulting in reduced monthly cloud spend.
• Deployed Azure infrastructure using Terraform by leveraging predefined Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules from GitHub repositories through Azure DevOps (ADO) Pipelines.
• Executed infrastructure deployments for Azure resources including Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, Virtual Networks (VNets), Network Security Groups (NSGs), and Resource Groups using Terraform and Azure DevOps.
• Validated and executed Terraform workflows using terraform init, terraform plan, and terraform apply as part of Azure infrastructure deployments.
• Collaborated with cloud and DevOps teams to support automated provisioning of Azure infrastructure while adhering to organizational governance standards.

• Managed enterprise Windows Server environments including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, ADFS, clustering, and terminal server administration.

• Supported IT infrastructure operations, incident management, service requests, and monitoring activities to enhance operational reporting processes.

• Performed server monitoring, patch management, and health checks to maintain system uptime and ensure service reliability.

• Worked with automation and configuration management activities to support operational consistency and infrastructure governance.

• Coordinated with cross-functional teams for escalation management, infrastructure troubleshooting, and operational support delivery.

• Supported operational documentation, monitoring reports, governance processes, and compliance activities.

• Contributed to service improvement initiatives aimed at automating processes and enhancing infrastructure stability and operational efficiency.

• Assisted with PowerShell-based administrative activities and infrastructure operational support tasks.