Manish Kumar
Kolkata
Summary
A multi-skilled technology architect with comprehensive Infrastructure as a Service hands-on experience of designing, and implementing Azure infrastructure for end to end solutions. A positive and results-driven character with proven ability to lead project teams to successfully deliver agreed upon solutions of high quality, often in complex and challenging customer environments. Having 10+ years of rich consulting, strategic and advisory experience in Public, Hybrid Cloud services.
In current role with TCS, I am working as a Solution Architect Azure and part of discussion and implementation of new services in Public Cloud, On-premises infrastructure services.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
11
11
Certifications
Work History
Azure Cloud Solution Architect
Tata Consultancy Services
Kolkata
04.2020 - Current
- Experience in cloud application architecture and design- Strong understanding of cloud architecture patterns and solution design principles - Translate business requirements into viable technical architectures and designs - Project Management, Risk Register, SOW, HLD, LLD
- Architecting Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) Implementation
- Azure Compute Services design, configuration, and optimization: Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Architecting, designing, and securing elastic storage in Azure: Blob, queue, File, Disk, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
- Securing Azure Resources and implementing Security in Azure: Security Center, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Multi-factor Authentication
- Enabling DevOps Practices with various DevOps tools - ARM templates, Azure PowerShell, Ansible and Terraform.
- Disaster recovery and business continuity planning and implementation
- Evaluate new age technology tools, recommend and adopt tools based on project
- Conduct architectural evaluation, design and analysis of enterprise wide systems.
- Develop, enhance and maintain established service design procedure and process to assure apt and robust service design.
- Leads coordination of architecture solutions to meet senior level
expectations at both client and/or partners. - Build and deliver proof of concepts (POC) required to meet the customer business requirements
- Azure Cloud financial and cost management (FinOps)
- Active involvement with BAU Run Operations teams for troubleshooting any issues faced across Compute, Storage, Network, Virtualization and Cloud services
- Have good understanding in implementation of advanced security, authentication and single sign on across cloud and on premise.
- Ability to participate in cloud application resource planning/estimation; Performance tuning of cloud-based applications for best performance
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts.
Cloud Governance Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2019 - 04.2020
- Established compliance, security, and cost optimization of Azure cloud infrastructure
- Performed Cloud Assessments , Azure cost calculations , Cloud Optimization
- Worked closely with Security team and Cloud Business Analyst on day to day basis.
- Implemented Azure policies for regional restriction, Tags enforcement, Premium disk usage in lower environments, etc.
- Review solution architecture, identify, close security loopholes
- Standardize offerings to achieve cost optimizations and efficiencies.
- Implement security monitoring dashboards for applications
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Self-motivated, with strong sense of personal responsibility.
Azure Cloud Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2018 - 10.2019
- Handle Windows server environment including server deployment, migrations, upgrades, patch management, application support, virus remediation, business continuity, operational and disaster recovery.
- Deployment, maintenance and supporting VNet, VPN, Azure Automation, NSG, Availability-Set, Azure SQL Database backup and restore, Azure SQL DTU Calculator, Azure Storage , load balancer, traffic manager, file sharing
- Azure DR configuration planning and setup using ASR
- Worked on Azure Disk, Azure Resource Monitoring, Azure Automation and Azure Backup & Restoration
- Coordinating with product development team for any bug fixes, customization and application updates
- Monitoring activity and providing weekly reports of application usage to distributor’s concern personnel.
- Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness through development of innovative solutions.
Cloud Automation Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2016 - 07.2018
- Handling automation requirements for multiple small IaaS deployments
- Responsible for creating ARM templates for Azure Resource deployment of Virtual machines, scale sets and dependent Azure resources.
- Created PowerShell scripts for custom requirements by the client
- Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
- Created multiple generic scripts for reporting and day-to-day admin tasks
Cloud Support Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2015 - 11.2016
- Worked as Hyper-V 2012 and Azure Administrator for one of the Big 4 Auditing Client
- My role involved to work as L2 Administrator where I have to provide hyper-V and Azure support
- We had a hybrid environment where VMs are hosted as On- Premise (Hyper-V) and data gets replicated to Azure that is the DR using the Azure Site Recovery technology.
- Managed HA windows clusters along with Sql Always On configuration.
- Support activity involved creating new VHDX templates , creating new VMs in HA clusters ,Manage Azure VMs , Configuration of SCDPM / VM backups, using SCVMM for infrastructure management
- Patching using SCCM, take trace logs using wireshark to investigate Network usage and last but not least Configure Solarwinds to monitor VMs , Memory utilization , generate customized reports.
- Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
NetApp Storage Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2011 - 02.2014
- 2 years 3 months) - NetApp Data ONTAP - NetApp Filer Administration - Scale out NAS and SAN Architecture - Clustered ONTAP - NFS - Setup, configuration and implementation - CIFS - Setup, configuration and implementation - Cluster and Virtualization - Storage Efficiency implementations - Server, Filer, OS, Networking, cluster, protocol level troubleshooting
Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Mechanical Engineering
Biju Pattnaik University of Technology(BPUT)
Bhubaneswar 01.2007 - 01.2011
Skills
Azure Cloud architecture
undefinedCertification
MCSA: Cloud Platform - Certified 2017
Timeline
Azure Cloud Solution Architect
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2020 - Current
Cloud Governance Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2019 - 04.2020
Azure Cloud Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2018 - 10.2019
Cloud Automation Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2016 - 07.2018
Cloud Support Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2015 - 11.2016
NetApp Storage Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2011 - 02.2014
Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Mechanical Engineering
Biju Pattnaik University of Technology(BPUT)
01.2007 - 01.2011
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