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Ashish Kumar

Ashish Kumar

Senior IT Consultant
Bangalore

Summary

Certified Cloud Solutions Architect - Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the IT industry with 17+ years of experience. My interest predominantly lies in Cloud Architecture, may it be Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. Below are few of my experience highlights:- Experience in architecture and designing cloud, cloud assessment workshops, POC's and development/migration. Designed more than 100+ Solution & Artifacts across various areas and in client forums and most of them today runs in various Production Systems. Hands on Architect with experience POC's created and submitted to various customers. Enterprise Application Migration to cloud Legacy Modernization to cloud Develop Data Solutions on cloud Cost optimization and Digitization. Consulting on any cloud related problems and solutions with good value propositions. Delivery Expertise on 100+ client projects and have experience managing technical teams of over 30+. Expertise and used Agile Methodology, Scrum Practices. Working with the ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana) stack to analyze log. Experience in Devops tool-> Ansible, GIT, Terraform

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
9
9
Certifications

Work History

Senior IT consultant/Senior DevOps Engineer

SAP LABS, Azure Cloud
02.2017 - Current
  • Developed solutions for DevOps automation to ease deployment process and implemented CI/CD pipelines, increasing operational productivity by 40%
    Leveraged scripting to automate system tasks for improved efficiency and scalability
    Installed and configured application toolsets such as Jenkins, Ansible and Kubernetes, to automate infrastructure management tasks
    Ensured secure cloud environment through setting up multi-factor authentication, encryption and logging
    Implemented infrastructure-as-code (IAC) process using Terraform to streamline build and manage cloud infrastructures
    Performed security audit, vulnerability scanning, patch management and monitored system performance for 25000+ servers
    Developed alerting and notification process to reduce manual intervention and increase availability and reliability of systems
    Improved software release processes and reduced application downtime by 33%
    Provisioned and maintained Azure, GCP, and in-house Cloud expertly utilizing Terraform
    Managed cloud infrastructure by implementing best practices and ensuring high availability
    Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines, streamlining deployment processes through the use of CI/CD tools., | Bengaluru
    Conducted thorough analysis of cloud performance metrics, optimizing system efficiency by identifying areas for improvement
    Collaborated cross-functionally to design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-based solutions
    Mentored and provided technical guidance to junior team members, enhancing their knowledge and skills in DevOps practices
    Remediated cloud security issues, ensuring the safety and security of all cloud-based systems
    Managing Platform Infra team (18+) to provide Infra build and support
    Migration for the Datacenters from One platform to public Cloud (GCP/Azure and converge Cloud)
    New Infrastructure Build in Azure/Google Cloud Datacenters
    Azure Automation with PowerShell Azure Resource Manager Templates & Terraform
    Provide POCs about multi-AZ/region application deployment for HA and DR
    Cost optimization of the Azure/GCP subscription
    Automation of snapshot for DC recovery
    Implementation of Active Directory patching tool (Tanium)
    Securing active directory as per Industry standard
    Managing Group policy using AGPM
    Migration of Active directory (FMSO/NTP/CAM/DNS/AGPM)
    Migration of VMware Infrastructure from 6.0 to 6.7U2
    Implementation of terraform code as part for SAAS
    Active directory upgrade from 2008 to 2016
    BladeLogic implementation across the Complete datacenter
    Automated script for VMware migration
    Global security remediation across the datacenters on Windows servers
    Automated script for Azure security remediation
    I.e., RG Lock Logging, Azure blob configures
    VMware Migration/RDM Migration from one Vcenter to another Vcenter using automation
    Globalscape SFTP Upgrade
    WSUS automated script from build till deployment using PowerShell
    Automated process for 3rd party approved s/w on Active directory (Mcafee/EMC)

Senior System Administrator

EMC Corporation
Bangalore
04.2016 - 01.2017
  • Requirement gathering with customer and sharing the high-level design
    Implementation of the Infra as per customer requirement
    Configuration of resource pool in Vcloud director
    Implementation of Vblock infra
    Patching of complete infrastructure using batchpatch utility
    Supporting the infrastructure and troubleshooting on vSphere environment.

Associate Ops Manager

Cognizant Technologies
Bangalore
12.2013 - 03.2016

Signing of the virtual infrastructure and implementing the same.
Implementation and support of the virtual infrastructure and cloud architecture.
Support for Active directory migration.
Implementation of PowerShell script in production environment.
Implementation of New Infrastructure in Business requirement.
Handling L2/L3 escalation related to VMware/windows issues.
Migration of the virtual infrastructure from older to newer version.
Implementation of virtual infra using ESXi 5.1 and ESXi 5.5.
Team handling for critical issues and proceed with resolution

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
Bangalore
06.2010 - 12.2013

Performing the live migration of File and print server, domain controller, infra servers and Application servers
Responsibility to provide the new server in the production environment
Migration of the Existing virtual infrastructure to the new virtual infrastructure
New Build of Server with OS as windows server 2008 R2
Migration of the Infrastructure servers to the new technology
Analyzing the infrastructure and providing the better solution
Virtualizing the existing infrastructure
Active directory migration to the new hardware with all the roles

Software Engineer

CGI Information, Private Limited, SAP Labs, Wipro Technologies
Bangalore
09.2007 - 06.2010
  • Creating instances in amazon cloud and supporting l1 support
    Migration of the existing datacenter to the new infrastructure
    Installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting of esxi 5.1
    Lived migration of file server, ad server and esx new built of servers having os as windows server 2003, windows server 2008
    Creating and managing virtual machines and templates creating clusters for high availability (ha) and distributive resource scheduling (drs) migrate physical servers to virtual server used vmware converter (p2v converter) migrating of virtual machines used v motioned performing snapshots, cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations creating templates from vm’s, deploy vm’s from templates and allocate resources monitoring of virtual machine’s & esx servers (cpu, memory, disk and network utilization) for security
    Converting p2v and v2v used vmware standalone converter
    Creating duplicate virtual machine’s used cloning technology (hot & cold)
    Creation of virtual switches, ports and port groups and setting up layer 2 security policies for virtual networks
    Troubleshooting issues relating to vmotion such as compatibility issues with helped of event log
    Setting up users and groups for access to the virtual center
    Moving vm’s from one lun to another lun used storage v-motion
    Providing remote infrastructure support to the clients outside India
    Supporting more than 1000 windows servers
    Coordinating with onsite team for hardware issues
    Supporting windows servers nt/2000/2003 in virtual platform

Education

B.E - Electronics and communication

LNCT, Gyan bharti Public School, Central Board of Secondary Education

Skills

Strong leadership and communication skills and working experience with customers, end usersundefined

Certification

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303)

Additional Information

  • Awards and Achievements , Quarterly cloud ops award for implementing the security measures across SF landscape including AD/DNS. SAP SF award for implementing the automation of the Daily health checks and decommission activity. Nominated for Hasso plato award for implementing the VMware migration using automation script. Received annual award from Wipro technologies.

Timeline

Senior IT consultant/Senior DevOps Engineer

SAP LABS, Azure Cloud
02.2017 - Current

Senior System Administrator

EMC Corporation
04.2016 - 01.2017

Associate Ops Manager

Cognizant Technologies
12.2013 - 03.2016

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
06.2010 - 12.2013

Software Engineer

CGI Information, Private Limited, SAP Labs, Wipro Technologies
09.2007 - 06.2010

B.E - Electronics and communication

LNCT, Gyan bharti Public School, Central Board of Secondary Education
Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303)
Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
Microsoft Azure certified- Azure Administrator(AZ-103)
VMware Certified professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP550)
VMware Certified Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV)
VMware Certified Associate – Cloud (VCA-Cloud)
Microsoft certified professional in Windows 2003 server Environment (MCP 70-290).
Microsoft certified professional in Windows 2003 server Environment (MCP 70-291).
Microsoft certified professional in Windows XP (MCP 70-270).
Ashish KumarSenior IT Consultant