Santhosh Kumar
Bengaluru
Summary
To secure a challenging position as an Senior Cloud Engineer, leveraging my strong technical skills and experience in managing and optimizing Azure cloud infrastructure. I aim to contribute to the success of the organization by effectively implementing and maintaining Azure services, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Cloud Engineer
Athene Technologies India LLP
04.2019 - Current
- Experience with Migration of On-Prem VM's to Azure
- Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud for multiple clients and customers
- Implemented network security equipment, including firewalls, two-factor authentication, and antivirus software.
- Working as Cloud Administrator on Microsoft Azure, configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups
- VNETs, Subnets
- Creating NSG's and configuring the inbound and outbound rules
- Analyzing the VM performance issues and changing the VM size as per the requirement
- Monitoring the health status of the Azure VM's
- Managing day to day activity of the cloud environment, supporting development teams with their requirements
- Managing the ticketing system to resolve issues on the cloud environment
- Working with Azure backups solutions
- Working with load balancers and availability set for Azure VM's
- Experienced with deployments, Maintenance and troubleshooting applications on Azure infrastructure
- Worked on Version control tools Azure GIT, GitHub, Repositories on Azure DevOps
- Propose architectures considering cost/spend in Azure and develop recommendations to rightsized data infrastructure
- Worked on industry standard ticketing tool like JIRA
- Managing & Deploy Active Directory Group Policy at Enterprise level
- Configuration & Maintenance of Active Directory Roles (FSMO) & AD Services
- Basic troubleshooting of Web Services through Azure App Serivces
- Creation & Maintenance of HyperV env & Test env
- Deployment & Administration of VM's through HyperV & Azure Console
- Configuration & Maintenance of Manage Engine patch manager update activity
- Monitoring the update patches & hot fixes on Windows based Server
- Design, support and maintain Windows Server 2016 & 2019, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Group Policies, including auditing and problems diagnosis
- Working Experience with Microsoft Azure Administrator like configuring availability sets, virtual machine scale set with load balancers, Virtual networks, network security group (NSG)
- Administrating AD users, groups and devices, and participate in migration between on-premises and Microsoft Entra ID through AD connect
- Experience with Microsoft 365 and office 365, including Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Exchange Online
- Administrator and Working experience with Data Encryption software Vormetric
- Manage and maintain company-wide Bitdefender anti-virus/malware system
- Maintain Team foundation server, Archive Server,IIS webserver, RDP License server
- Provision, manage and monitor storage accounts
- Deployment of Virtual Machines using Azure portal
- Maintained flexible schedule and responded to after-hours and weekend emergencies
- Create and manage accounts in Active Directory; adding, modifying, and coordinating migration of user accounts, and set up clients to Outlook/Exchange server
- Expert knowledge of IP networking (DNS, DHCP, VPN, VLAN)
- License management for O365
- Migration of user mailboxes to Office365 from on-premises and assigning license to users
- Administration of FSMO roles
- Responsible for backup and restore policies definition and implementation against servers, databases, critical data, and file servers
- Migrated the on-premises workloads to Azure cloud based on the requirement
- Design and deploy Azure Backup and other Confidential backup solutions for Azure
- Strong design and live migration experience from on-premises to Azure IaaS & PaaS
- Responsible for systems and application performance monitoring
- To ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of production systems
- Built new environments for development and testing on Azure pooled environment
- Implemented FSLogix to Dec environment
- Management and support of an Active Directory site, replication schedules, site links and boundaries, used ADUC to create and manage computer, user and group accounts in an Active Directory environment
- Management and Support of Sites and Replication between them
- Domain functional level raise from 2012 to 2016
- Have worked on the migration process of FRS to DFSR.
Systems Engineer
Shiva-Athene Technologies PVT LTD
06.2014 - 03.2019
- Installation and configuration of Active directory, DNS, DHCP, Group policies
- Installation and configuration and troubleshooting of network devices like Router, Firewall, Modems, Switches, Hubs, Cables and Printers
- SQL database backup and restore
- SQL database user level access permission
- Implementation and migration of Windows server 2008R2 to 2012
- Hands on experience on N-able monitoring tool
- Experience on Manage engine Patch manager
- License management for O365
- Confidential Active Directory 2008 and 2012 R2
- Administration of FSMO roles
- Recommendation of suitable infra components, e.g
- LAN/WAN devices, PCs, Laptops, Software
- Responsible for end-user computing devices troubleshooting for their network, hardware, and software issues
- Management and Support of ADS, DHCP, DNS, TS, Remote Desktop mgmt, Disk Quotas, and DFS
- Management and support of Up time of the IT infrastructure including Servers and Network
- Troubleshoot and resolve Anti-Virus issues
- Set up workstations and laptops for new employees, configuration of Outlook, network connectivity, installation of soft wares
- Management and Support of ADS, DHCP and DNS
- Management and Support of Sites and Replication between them
- Configuring group policies for all types of users to access resources on the servers or across the network
- Performance monitoring and implementation of RAID's on servers for fault tolerance and redundancy
- Installing and configuring (Adding workstations to Domain, outlook, IE and installation of Development soft wares, giving suitable privileges to users on workstations) of workstations according to user requirements
- Password policies and Account lockout policies
- Trouble shooting user problems related to Network, hardware and software.
Education
Skills
- Data center to Cloud migration
- Azure Backup and DR
- NSG/ASG/Firewall/Gateways
- Scaling of Virtual Machines
- Azure Access Management
- Azure virtual networking and TCP/IP networking
- Azure Administration
- Microsoft Intune
- Office 365 Administration
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Windows Administration
- Azure Virtual Networks
- Azure key Vaults
- Windows Application Firewall
- Azure Site Recovery
Certification
- AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
- ITIL(R) 4 Foundation Certification
- AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 (MCP)
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above statements are true to the best of my knowledge & belief.
Timeline
Senior Cloud Engineer
Athene Technologies India LLP
04.2019 - Current
Systems Engineer
Shiva-Athene Technologies PVT LTD
06.2014 - 03.2019
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