Badal Bhagat
Summary
To seek a highly challenging position in the area of IT that will bring out the best in me and also provide an excellent learning ground with perfect opportunities for professional as well as personal growth.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Tech Lead
Tech Mahindra
11.2021 - Current
- Designing and implementing Azure Solutions across a range of cloud models like SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and integrated on-premises, on-demand workloads with the Azure public cloud
- Worked on multiple Azure kubernaties Upgrades
- Create AzureDevOps pipeline to deployed private AKS using terrform
- Worked on Microservices for Continuous Delivery environment using Azure, Docker
- Involved in setting up a Microservice architecture for application development and implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models
- Extensively worked on Building and Installing servers, creating multiple resources on Azure Portal and provisioned them using Terraform templates
- Developed and designed Azure DevOps pipeline to manage the resources across multiple subscription in Azure
- Worked with Version Control, Build & Release Management and deployments of the Solutions to the DEV, QA & PROD Environments
- Deployed Kubernetes Clusters on cloud
- WroteYAML files to create many services like pods, deployments, auto scaling, load balancers, labels, health checks etc
- Developed GIT hooks for the local repository, code commit and remote repository, code push functionality and on GitHub
- Developed, maintained and provided the team with Various Azure DevOps-related tools like deployment tools, staged virtual environments, and provisioning scripts
- Used Shared Image Gallery to store the created images and built Azure pipelines in Azure DevOps to implement all these services in Azure
- Structured cluster AutoScaler for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by using Terraform and worked with scheduling, deploying, and managing pods and replicas in AKS
- Working knowledge in deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps on Kubernetes container environment, and for the runtime environment of CI/CD system to build, test and Deployment we have utilized Kubernetes and Docker
- Designed and automated AZURE Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Terraform was used along with Packer to create custom machine images, include the software dependencies once the infrastructure was provisioned
- Worked with Azure Monitoring tools such as Azure Log Analytics, Azure Network Watcher, and Azure Service Health to diagnose and minimize service degradation
- Experience in using the monitoring tools like Azure monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, Alert manager to setup the desired alerts to avoid disruption
- Configurations and Software Vulnerabilities Fixes with patch update
- Assessment of Azure Cloud environment for Infrastructure and Performance Review
- SSL Certificate Managmenet and installation on AKS and VMs using Azure Key Vault
- PowerShell Scripting to Automate the several processes
- Website monitoring and providing RCA for any incident related to Website.
Senior System Administrator
Perficient India Pvt Ltd
03.2016 - 11.2021
- Azure IaaS, PaaS Solutions
- Azure Log Analytics [OMS] and Application Insight Setup and Management
- Microsoft Azure Backups Management
- Automation Runbook setup in azure
- Azure Resource Monitoring and Alert Managment
- Azure Services like VM, VNet, Storage, App service, Function app, SQL, MySQL, Active Directory, Monitor
- Azure Application Gateway WAF, Load balancer, Frontdoor, Traffic manager
- Azure Security Centre, Azure Patch Management
- Azure VPN Setup
- Azure Site recovery, DR solution
- Assessment of Azure hosting environment for Infrastructure and Performance Review
- Migration from On Premises/Cloud to Azure
- Azure ARM Template for deploying IAAS, PAAS Resources
- Configuration and releasing of Windows server 2012,2016 and 2019
- Server Patching
- Windows Hosting Support till Go-Live
- New Relic and Site 24x7 Monitoring Setup and managment
- DR server Configuration and management
- SSL Certificate purchasing and installation on server, Coordination with SSL Provider
- Cloud Flare Setup & Configuration for DDoS and Caching mechanism
- Zoho Site24x7 And New Relic Monitoring System Management
- PowerShell Scripting to Automate the several processes
- MSSQL Server Installation and Configuration, MSSQL Mirroring and MSSQL Log Shipping Configuration
- WSUS 6.2.9200 Deployment and Administration
- Coordination with Rackspace Hosting partner over day to day issues
- Team management and assignments to Junior’s
- Team Handling, training and guidance to Junior’s wherever required, Blog writing
- PCI for the internal and Production websites, and website Pen testing
- Working with developers, US clients to understand their requirements, coordinate and achieve the project milestones
- Website Health Check Monitoring [L4 (port check ) and L7 (HTTP check)]
- IIS, MSSQL and FTP Server installation and configuration
- Support for .net based websites (eCommerce project) hosted
- Website monitoring and providing RCA for any incident related to Website
- Reviewing various types of logs and analyze any outage on websites/servers
- Knowledge of Load Balancer F5 iRule Configuration, Health Check Methods (Round Robin, Least connection, TCP, Error Code base)
- Following and giving supports to websites as per SLA standards
- Coordination with Rackspace Hosting partner over day to day issues
- Team management and assignments to Junior’s
- Team Handling, training and guidance to Junior’s wherever required, Blog writing
- Working with developers, US clients to understand their requirements, coordinate and achieve the project milestones
- Preparing and managing technical documentation, Presentations, Tracking sheets and Training.
Senior System Administrator
Vensoft India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2011 - 03.2016
- Server Monthly Patching
- Managing IIS 7.5/ IIS 8.0 Web servers and hosted web sites Of ASP.NET
- SQL Server 2008 Server Installation and Configuration
- Server Hardware Maintenance
- Hosting Support till Go-Live
- Infrastructure Audit
- Server Upgradation, Server Migration, Server Re-Kick and Server Release
- User Creation: FTP/RDP(SSH)/DB
- Site to Site and Client VPN setup
- SSL Renewals and DNS records updates
- SLA / App Support
- Site outage troubleshooting
- Environment Documentation
- Backup Setup
- Configuring Scheduled Jobs through Task scheduler
- SMTP Server setup
- Creating and configuring AD domain user’s accounts
- Manage users, groups, permissions and roles
- Windows Clustering with Network Load Balancing(NLB) and Failover Cluster
- Performing backups using VEEAM Backups
- Updates/patching and software installations
- Configuring RAID 0, 1 and 5.
IT Support Engg
ITIS Solution India Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 02.2011
- Installation and Configuring, Microsoft windows server 2000, 2003, 2008
- Microsoft Windows2000 and 2003 Active Directory Services
- (Installing, configuring, Administering & troubleshooting)
- Dcpromo and decommission of AD
- Creating and configuring domain user’s accounts
- Planning and implementing an active directory infrastructure
- Manage users, groups, permissions and roles
- Maintaining Domain and LAN Connectivity
- Creating new group policies as per the Customer request
- Creating Reservations for all DHCP client machines
- Implementing user, computer and group strategies
- Operating system, Software Installations and troubleshooting
- Managed systems configuration, problem troubleshooting, system security, applications and program management, and testing to ensure optimum system functionality
- Provided design, implementation, administration and support of Windows 2003 Active Directory
- Creating & Managing Users & Groups and their Profiles like Roaming & Mandatory
- Creating & managing Origination Units, Sites and Group policies
- Managed the Helpdesk & Desktop Support team which supported Windows 9.X, 2000, XP, Vista and MS-Office
- Installed, maintained and setup network printers
- Investigated new technologies, software, patches, and security packages, which will improve system performance and system administration procedures
- Configuring DNS, FTP and DHCP servers.
Education
Skills
- Azure Cloud
- Azure DevOps
- Kubernates
- Terraform
- Github
- Nginx
- IIS
- Linux/Windows server hardening
- Networking
- IT Infrastructure
- Personal Management
- RHEL 8
- AKS
- Powershell
- Monitoring
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Alert Management
- New Relic
- Azure site recovery
Certification
- AWS certified solution architect -Asscociate
- 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
- 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
- AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
- AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design
- MSCA Cloud Platform - Certified
Occupationalcontour
- Tech Lead, Tech Mahindra. is an multinational information technology services and consulting firm serving Global 2000 and enterprise customers across 90 countries., 11/2021, Present
- Senior System Administrator, Perficient, Inc. is a "digital transformation" consulting firm serving Global 2000 and enterprise customers throughout North America using digital experience, business optimization and industry solutions.Perficient has a presence across North America, Europe, India, and China, 03/2016, 11/2021
- Senior System Administrator, Vensoft Inc., incorporated and headquartered in the USA, is a global IT Consulting & Systems Integration firm that delivers high-quality IT services to leading clients around the world., 08/2011, 03/2016
- IT Support Engg, We aim to deliver value and innovation to our clients. Leveraging our strong technical expertise and domain knowledge, we effectively address the most demanding needs of our clients., 01/2010, 02/2011
Blog
https://blogs.perficient.com/2019/05/15/azure-site-recovery-for-on-premises-to-azure-disaster-recovery/
Technicalqualifications
Around 13+ years of total experience in Azure Cloud IaaS and PaaS, Azure DevOps, Kubernates, Terraform, Github nginx, IIS, Linux/Windows server hardening and networking environment with IT Infrastructure and Personal Management.
Disclaimer
I, hereby declare, that the information furnished above, is true to my knowledge in all respects.
Timeline
Tech Lead
Tech Mahindra
11.2021 - Current
Senior System Administrator
Perficient India Pvt Ltd
03.2016 - 11.2021
Senior System Administrator
Vensoft India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2011 - 03.2016
IT Support Engg
ITIS Solution India Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 02.2011
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