Rishi Kumar

Experienced cloud engineer specializing in Microsoft Azure with expertise in designing, configuring, and optimizing Azure compute services. Proficient in architecting secure and scalable storage solutions and implementing Azure security measures. Skilled in conducting seamless cross-cloud migrations and modernizing applications using cloud services. Proven track record in successfully migrating production workloads to Azure for SMEs. Adept at assessing cloud readiness, designing infrastructures, and facilitating smooth migrations. Certified as an Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Azure DevOps professional. Strong technical skills in Microsoft Azure, cloud migrations, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and AWS. Passionate about driving cloud transformations and delivering exceptional results.

• Azure Compute Services design, configuration, and optimization: Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
• Architecting solutions and strategies in accordance with customer requirements.
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to automate resource provisioning and achieve consistent environment configurations across multiple AWS accounts.
• Securing Azure Resources and implementing Security in Azure: Security Center, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory B2C, Multi-factor Authentication.
• Worked on Redis Cache- Conducted Redis Cache-Cross cloud migration with little downtime.
• Azure Modernization Solutions: App services, Kubernetes service, Container services.
• Worked on the application deployment on the Pass services like App services, Kubernetes, Container services.
• Architecting and designing Azure Database Solutions: Azure SQL DB, Azure MySQL, Redis Cache, Data Factory
• Implemented Highly available active passive DR strategy for multiple customers.
• Worked on Azure storage, migrating the AWS S3 bucket data to Azure Blob Storage using the ADF Pipelines

• Migrated various SME's Production workload to Azure, majorly Cloud-to-cloud (C2C) and On-Premises to Cloud
  migrations.
• Have Migrated 50+ Happy customers from various cloud Environments to Azure.
• Established CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps, resulting in a 30% reduction in integration and deployment times.
• Cloud Readiness: Assessing the existing environment and ensuring proper grasp over architecture by using
  various tools like Azure Migrate or manually assessment by running self-created Linux scripts.
• Infra Design: Mapping every service that are being used on the current environment and Architect the Infra that
  is to be migrated on Azure, involving creating architecture diagrams.
• Migration: This step involves convincing the end customer for a maintenance window based on the proposed
  migration plan and initiating the migration on the agreed downtime.
• Work with the Systems team to develop a scalable, highly available, and secure Cloud strategy.
• Regularly evaluate existing cloud infrastructure to identify risks or opportunities for improvement.
• Testing: Provide a Test environment for the Customer to do the necessary code changes and highlight the
  challenges to troubleshoot and work on the work around.
• Mentor and support help desk team on tickets that are above their technical expertise.
• Daily interactions with Clients, Client Collaboration.

• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect: AZ-305
• Azure DevOps: Az 400
• Microsoft Technology Associate: Networking Fundamentals: 98-366
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: AZ-900
• Microsoft Azure Administrator: AZ-104