G Raju Sanjeev

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Summary of Skills and Experience

 Overall, 8 Years of experience in IT-industry in various roles as Azure DevOps Engineer, Azure Administration &
Support Engineer.
 5+ years of experience as Azure DevOps Engineer and Azure Administrator.
 Experienced in Planning, Designing, Implementing, and Supporting Azure Infrastructure. Azure Infrastructure like
Resource Groups, Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Load Balancer, Availability Sets, Availability Zone, Recovery
Services Vault, Application Gateway, etc.
 Hands on Experience in configuring and managing Compute, Storage, Networking, Application Gateway, Load
Balancer, Traffic Manager, Azure Front Door, Key Vault, Azure App Services & Azure SQL DB.
 Designed a DR solution for on premises and Azure VMs using Azure Site Recovery.
 Experience in Infrastructure Provisioning from code using Azure PowerShell,ARM Templates & Terraform.
 Planned and Developed roadmaps & deliverables to fasten the migration of existing solutions on-premises
systems/applications to Azure cloud using Azure Migrate.
 Configuration of Site to Site VPN, Point to Site VPN and VNET Peering.
 Have experience in migration tools like ASR, and Azure Migrate.
 Experienced in dealing with Azure AD, Active Directory, DNS
 Experienced in implementation of Azure DevOps Organization and implementation of Azure DevOps projects with
Agile as the process methodology.
 Experienced in implementation of DevOps practices with Azure DevOps in any kind of projects such as Development,
Infrastructure and Automation.
 Experienced in dealing with various Azure DevOps Services like Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts, and Test Plans.
 Defining the build and release pipelines for Infrastructure, application, and database deployments with pipeline
implementation in multi stages as per the requirement. Experienced in customizing and enabling the Agent Pools.
 Having good knowledge on ITIL process,Change Management, Incident management.

Technical Skills
 Source Code Repository: Git, GitHub, Azure Repos
 Scripting: PowerShell, Azure CLI
 CI/CD Tools: Azure DevOps, Terraform
 Cloud Services: Microsoft Azure, Azure Active Directory, Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, App Service, Recovery
Services Vault, Load Balancer, Network Service Group, Front door, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager,Storage
Account,Private Endpoints, Service Endpoints,Private DNS Zones
 Cloud Migration: Azure Migrate, ASR
 Monitoring Tools: Azure Monitoring Services, Application Insights, Log Analytics Workspace
 Databases: Microsoft SQL Server
 Web Servers: Internet Information Services
 Virtualization: Hyper V
 Operating System: Windows
 Ticketing Tools: JIRA, Service Now

Professional Certifications
 AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator
 AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

EDUCATION
 MTECH (P&E Systems) National Institue of Technology(NITK) , Suratkal, 2013.
 Electrical and Electronics Engineering , Gayatri Vidya Parashith JNTU Kakinada, Viskhapatnam , 2010.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Global Data Plc (Oct 2017 – Dec 2022)
Role: Azure Devops Engineer & Azure Administrator

 Performed activities related to management of Azure DevOps Organization such as ADO to AAD connection
establishment, Project Management, Extensions Management, Access Management.
 Experience in Azure DevOps Repository management and Access management of the same according to Project or
Client requirements.
 Created CI/CD pipelines to deploy resources in Azure by integrating Azure Repos, GitHub using Azure DevOps
 Worked on the Azure DevOps service connections, to integrate the ADO with the Azure cloud components.
  Responsible to implement Azure DevOps Practice in the projects and working with development team
 and managing the administration activities of DevOps Projects in Azure DevOps Organization.
 Preparing Azure Boards, implementing User Stories, Tasks, Bugs, Capacity Planning’s.
 Experienced in managing and maintaining Repo Services like Azure Repos and GIT Repo.
 Troubleshoot Build issues and coordinate with development team on resolving those build issues
 Configuration of IAAS & PAAS Cloud Services in Azure using Azure ARM Portal, PowerShell & ARM templates.
 Creation of Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Storage, Backups on Azure as per requirement, Azure Run book as per
requirement.
 Exposure in creating & maintaining the Azure DevOps pipelines and automating the deployment using Terraform and
ARM template, Developing PowerShell scripts for Azure deployment.
 Created Recovery Service Vaults to perform the backup of Azure Virtual Machines
 Created Service Endpoints for between Front end & backend servers to make the communication via Azure backbone
network
 Created a Private Endpoints for Key Vaults & Storage Accounts along with Private DNS Zones to make the connection
with private IP Address
 Defining Virtual Networks and defining Subnets based on various environments like Production and Non-Production.
 Working and building end to end solutions and plans like scaling up VMs, rebuilding the already built Virtual Machines
in Azure with the minimum of downtime for the Production Application.
 Reporting to the Manager for technical escalations, analyse top-issues and top call drivers for the week and provide
action plans to streamline processes.
 Handle escalated Support tickets till closure for Azure Cloud Platform.
 Created CI/CD pipelines to deploy resources in Azure by integrating Azure Repos, GitHub using Azure DevOps.
 Worked on the Azure DevOps service connections, to integrate the ADO with the Azure cloud components.
 Adding/Removing the users and groups in azure for a subscription or for multiple subscriptions/management groups.
 Implement or propose a Solution to migrate on premise infrastructure to Azure and migrating On-premises
VMs, Databases to Microsoft Azure Cloud using Azure Site Recovery & Azure Migrate.
 Server build activities like Provisioning of VM's with Windows OS
 Installation, Configuration, and modification of VM extensions. Upgrade RAM and CPU cores
 Create/Attach Availability Set & Availability Zone. Upgrade from Standard HDD to Premium SSD disks. Create and
attach additional Data Disk to VM's.
 Create, Configure and management of Storage Account. Change the existing storage account zone redundancy.
 Create, Configure and management of Virtual Network (VNET). Create and delete Subnets based on requirement.
Implementing VNET peering connection & Site-to-Site VPN. Apply NSGs & ASGs to subnets to control traffic flow as
per the client requirements. Configuration and management of Azure Load Balancers.
 Creating, Configuring and Managing Azure application Gateway, Azure Traffic Manager. Subscription Management via
Azure portal.
 Creation of Recovery Services Vault and configuring backup policies to trigger VM backups using azure recovery
services agent.
 Define guidelines to maintain cloud Infrastructure for the provisioning, configuration, and compliance of technical
environments. Configuration management, release and deployment management, support, and problem
management. Drive process and improve day-to-day operational efficiency
 Provide consulting to premier customers and internal projects running on Azure platform for high availability of
services, low operational costs.
 Possess excellent communication skills with demonstrated abilities in team management and customer relationship
management.
Persistance Market Research (Nov 2016-Oct 2017)
Role: Customer Support Engineer
 Supporting application deployments through SCCM Client; MS patch installations/ Adobe updates through Software
update servicesPerform remote troubleshooting.
 Carry out pilot tests prior to deployment of new applications/up-gradation of existing applications with support of
team and team management.
 Overseeing migrations, attending crisis calls to resolve high priority issues, backup management and working with the
team to ensure closure of incidents within pre-defined SLAs
 Responsible to install, set up, maintain network and application and also configure the peripherals, cabling and
equipments accordingly as per the Customer/User requirement.
 Documented all the existing system process ensure to maintain the log book daily.
CB Richard Ellis Pvt limited (Oct 2010- July 2011)
Role: Desktop Support Engineer
 Responsible for First-level Support for all Desktops & Software related Issues.
 Managing the User calls based on Tickets, assigning and escalating the tickets to Application Team and Helpdesk
Team.
 Techincal Support & information Helpdesk using Remote Administration for troubleshooting issues using Remote
connectivity or through calls.
 Providing support and skill to the team for the root cause analysis and resolving the issues as per given SLA.
 Involving in implementing new projects within the timelines; supporting migration of new business to the site by
providing IT support according to the business needs.