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SRIKANTH B

SRIKANTH B

Cloud Architect (Azure)
Kochi

Summary

Highly skilled Azure Architect with 4 years of strong hands-on experience in planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable on Azure and 11 years of IT industry experiences. Experience in performing assessment to understand the cloud suitability of existing applications and migrated multiple complex applications to Azure. Strong experience in and Azure infrastructure, Cloud High availability, Cloud Disaster management, Cloud Networking and Cloud Security. Experienced in migration of SAP application to Azure IaaS based on client requirements. Experience in assessing client workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Assistant Manager

KPMG India
Bengaluru
12.2021 - Current
  • Experienced in handling workloads in Azure US Sovereign cloud domain
  • Advanced understanding of Azure services in commercial and Government cloud.
  • Solid understanding of DevOps process and tooling like Azure DevOps
  • Provide SaaS/PaaS/IaaS solution on multi cloud platform Azure
  • Define artifacts like RFC, Arch Proposals, low level design
  • Work closely with PM on engagements to gather business inputs
  • Fill gap between technical aspects for business transformation
  • Work closely with Devops & operations on technical front
  • Certify components to create a environment based on cloud life cycle
  • Continuously improving and drafting templates of architecture artifacts
  • Responsible for mitigating feedback provided by security team and senior architects
  • Authored and written skills in detailing HLD/LLD, asset inventory, diagrams, and presentation materials
  • Proven ability to provide technical answers on Cloud best practices, solutions and operational models
  • Building and maintaining strong working relationships with Devops and operational team

Assistant Consultant

TATA Consultancy Services
Kochi
09.2019 - 12.2021

Cloud Foundation Build for Australian Resources Company

Role: Technical Team Lead (Infra)

  • Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
  • Collaborated with teams to define, strategize and implement marketing and web strategies.
  • Scheduled meetings for all relevant stakeholders whether in-person or via team or webex.
  • Kept detailed notes of all correspondence with clients and updated details in company's computer system.
  • Served as point of contact for clients regarding follow-up, meeting scheduling and responses to questions.
  • Improved performance, hiring practices and management systems to facilitate success of client's organization.
  • Design and Implement technical Azure solutions
  • Lead client discussions, define issues and deliver workable solutions
  • Understanding of RTO and RPO and mechanics for managing them for IaaS and PaaS solutions in Azure
  • Experienced in architecting and deploying core Azure solutions across the Azure stack (networking, security, identity, DR, storage, subscription models, strategy & governance) for major enterprise projects
  • Knowledge of infrastructure solutions from on-premises to cloud, specifically in relation to
  • Microsoft
  • Working across both waterfall and agile cloud migrations and cloud transformational projects
  • Experienced in implementing Hub-Spoke network topologies, Virtual Network (vNET) peering,
  • Network Security Groups (NSG), Public IP addresses (PIP), Site-to-Site VPN and Azure load- balancers
  • Experienced deploying and configuring Log Analytics workspaces
  • Experienced implementing Azure Backup and configuring backup policies
  • Highly knowledgeable in implementing Azure Key Vault and collecting secrets during deployment using ARM templates
  • Well versed deploying Virtual Machines using specific Azure Disk requirements including, managed disk types, data redundancy and access tiers
  • Understanding of Highly Available Virtual Machine deployments using Availability Zones

Project: Cloud Foundation Build for Australian Government

Role : Cloud Technical Lead

  • Cloud Platform design build and Cloud Standards definition on Azure
  • Designed well architecture network design for platform build
  • HUB & Spoke Model)
  • Owned and led end-to-end Production Deployment activities
  • Designed and implemented High availability and Disaster management solution
  • Proactively contributed to Cloud governance, DR, Security and azure AD
  • Windows server management, hardening and managing IaaS active directory
  • Hands-on experience in Azure CLI and PowerShell
  • Implemented EXPRESSROUTE Setup configuration between on-premises and cloud network
  • Hands-on implementation in Resource Groups, Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, Vnets,
  • Subnets, load balancers, recovery service vaults and private endpoints
  • Hands-on implementation in Checkpoint Firewall configuration
  • Hands-on implementation in azure update management
  • Hands-on experience in Identity Access Management, Network Security, and Compliance
  • Creation of Storage Accounts with encryption
  • Key vault and azure disk encryptions
  • Hands on experience on DFS namespace and replication with azure file share
  • Established network connectivity
  • Proactively contributed post built VM activities based on application requirement
  • Interacted with clients for gathering information and hence providing solutions based on various business requirements

Project: Cloud Platform Build PoC for a telecommunication company in UK

  • Implemented SIOS clustering for SAP Application
  • Implemented High availability with pacemaker cluster - across two azure zones
  • Successfully demonstrated High availability for SAP application to customer and was part of acquiring project
  • Attended workshops/meetings sessions with customers to work towards a better cloud design and implementation
  • Patched Linux servers as per CIS standards Project: Cloud Platform Azure Patch management
  • Leaded four members team for linux OS patch management
  • Planned and created Linux patch management for Dev/Production IaaS VMs
  • Hardened Linux server as per CIS standards, Mitigated critical vulnerabilities
  • Project: Cloud Platform AWS) Setup for US Stock exchange company
  • Cloud Engineer
  • AWS cloud platform design and build
  • Implemented custom High availability solution for SAP critical applications
  • Scripted HANA databases backup using AWS S3 buckets
  • Prepared High-Level Design Documents, Low level design Documents and custom solutions documentations
  • Project delivery and post build operations handoff
  • Implemented Patch management/Hardening on Linux/Windows IaaS servers
  • Managing Incremental Backup using Lifecycle Manager/Lambda with Cloud Watch trigger
  • Served as point of contact for clients regarding follow-up, meeting scheduling and responses to questions
  • Scheduled meetings for all relevant stakeholders whether in-person.
  • Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions

Senior Systems Engineer

Amulya Infotech
Coimbatore
06.2011 - 06.2019
  • Responsible for administrating and troubleshooting critical servers’ issues on daily basis
  • Providing technical expertise and system architecture for Linux servers
  • Provide technical support to enable on-going management of Linux infrastructure
  • Debugging existing issues and known errors in systems and documenting same for future references
  • System administration, maintenance and monitoring various day to day operations
  • Providing Remote Support for various Data operations
  • Responsible for handling live technical phone calls with customers and clients
  • Tickets are handled through helpdesk for customers
  • Functioned as Linux Server administrator for various clients to provision new Linux infrastructure to host new services
  • Providing technical support help/troubleshoot users to resolve server, site issues in
  • Linux/Unix platforms
  • 24/7 support for Linux servers
  • Handling critical servers’ alerts
  • Creating templates as per business requirements
  • Performed root cause analysis to provide resolutions for production issues
  • Created manuals and taught training sessions to educate co-workers on new systems

Education

Bachelor’s Degree - Computer Science

Anna University Coimbatore
Coimbatore
07.2008 - 06.2011

Diploma - Electronics and Communication Engineering

SRPTC Coimbatore
Coimbatore
06.2003 - 05.2006

Skills

    Azure/AWS infra migrations, Architecturing Azure, Cloud networking & Security

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Certification

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (304 & 305)

Timeline

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

07-2024

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (304 & 305)

09-2023

Assistant Manager

KPMG India
12.2021 - Current

Assistant Consultant

TATA Consultancy Services
09.2019 - 12.2021

Senior Systems Engineer

Amulya Infotech
06.2011 - 06.2019

Bachelor’s Degree - Computer Science

Anna University Coimbatore
07.2008 - 06.2011

Diploma - Electronics and Communication Engineering

SRPTC Coimbatore
06.2003 - 05.2006
SRIKANTH BCloud Architect (Azure)