ANIL KUMAR BEZAWADA

• Responsible for maintaining the Azure Infra consists of 30 plus subscriptions and 2500+ servers
• Working with various application and security teams on app modernization solutions for new age applications to run on OpenShift, Kubernetes etc
• Conducting architectural workshop sessions to optimize and modernize the environment for the customer needs
• Works on day to day activities to make sure all the systems are up and running fine, which includes backups, monitoring and security of the systems
• Working on automation opportunities using Azure Automation accounts, Logic Apps and Azure DevOps
• Building IaaC scripts to automate the service provisioning
• Working on new infra builds (Subscriptions, Networks (VNET, Routes, NSGs)
• Working with App teams to optimize the resources to improve the performance
• Working on cost optimization activities by utilizing resources like IBM turbonomics/Azure Cost Suggestions

Cloud Engineer - AWS/Azure

After an acquisition one of the leading Insurance client is looking to migrate applications/workloads from their previous company AWS account to Azure

• As a cloud migration engineer, assess the on-prem infra and applications to prepare a sustainable migration plan
• Coordinate with various team to gather the app level information and prepare To-be architectures for migration
• Prepare landing zones and infrastructure on the target platform
• Work with App teams to re-install and configure the application and databases.
• Prepare consolidate migration plan for each environment and work on safe migration cutover after the UAT sign-off.

Azure Cloud Architect/Engineer

A well known re-insurance company based out of USA, which is looking forward to build an enterprise Azure Data lake and Data Science environment using Azure Gen2 Datalake Storage Accounts, Azure Datafactory & Azure Databricks. As a Cloud Solution Architect to understand their landscape, design & implement the Azure Platform, work with compliance and security teams to establish the industry level security standards align to the enterprise company's environmental requirement.

• Provision and configure Azure Databricks & Data factory
• Maintenance of Azure environment (FinOps)
• Private Link integration with the Data Science environment resources
• Provisioning of any Azure (PaaS, IaaS & SaaS) resource and configuration
• Perform assessment and migrate the applications from on-prem to cloud using Azure Migrate
• Implemented Azure DevOps (integrating with Azure PowerShell & Terraform) on a self-hosted agent to provision compute and other resources.
• Worked with compliance security team to define the security standards implement them using Azure Policies & Azure Monitor

As a Cloud Solution Architect to understand their landscape, design & implement the Azure Platform, work with compliance and security teams to establish the industry level security standards align to the GenRe environmental requirement. Also design & Implement a server migration solution to migrate the primary data center to Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure Migrate services.

• Discovery and analysis of the existing customer landscape and preparing documentation and migration plan accordingly.
• Working with tools like Cloudscape (Risc Networks), Azure Migrate & RV Tools to understand the existing server landscape and application dependencies
• Analyze and document the details collected during the discovery and analysis phase
• Understand the existing cloud infrastructure and extend it to other environments
• Implemented Azure Blueprints to provision the VNETs, VNET Peering & other service layers
• Implemented Azure DevOps (integrating with Azure PowerShell & Terraform) on a self-hosted agent to provision compute and other resources
• Worked with compliance security team to define the security standards implement them using Azure Policies & Azure Monitor
• Performed multiple POC's on server and data migration using industry leading technologies
• Configured Azure Site Recovery & Azure Migrate to perform the server migration from On-Prem to Azure
• Configured and Implemented NetApp CloudSync to migrate the data (user shares/NFS/CIFS) to Cloud
• Provisioned resources like VM's, Load Balancers, SQL & HANA databases on Azure
• Worked on migration plans, project status reports and overall project plan using Microsoft Project Plan tool
• Migrated more than 700 servers in phase manner in Dev, QA & Prod phases in an individual cutover window.

As a Technical Lead:

• Work with the Application teams and perform the initial discovery of the application and document all the important details of the On Premise and To Be infrastructure pertaining to it, in the passport document
• Design and developed high available and multi region disaster recovery solutions and internet facing DMZ Cloud environments.
• Was part of a team that migrated one of the complex Business critical/tightly integrated applications in Energy and Trading utilities domain to AWS Cloud in a single cut-over.
• Built Cloud service models for Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service (Amazon Web Services) using Docker, ECS and Kubernetes.
• Propose new system design and design patterns for modern applications which will utilize Cloud services like Object Storage, Edge networks, API services, Spot instances, Data streams.
• Develop service & monitoring bots that will scan the Cloud infrastructure and report the hardware outages and provide self-service capabilities in Cloud environment.
• Build platforms for high traffic applications by leveraging scaling of resources with cloud native service (AWS Auto-scaling).
• Develop multi service monitoring dashboards and exceptionally reliable messaging and communication services.
• Provide recommendations for emerging technologies related to Cloud technologies.
• Develop, automate, and implement operations best practices for virtualization environments
• Securing the Cloud environment and developing solutions for On-Premise to Cloud communication.
• Plan and created private networks and subnets in corporate environments.
  Building EC2 compute instances, RDS, NAT Gateways, VPC and network configurations.
• Develop re-usable Cloud formation templates for provisioning multiple resources
  Automate DR fail-over process to dynamically create compute resources.
• Implement 'Infrastructure as a Code' by creating re-usable scripts, playbooks using Orchestration tools like Ansible and Packer.
• Automate volume snapshot creation and replication process to multiple environments.
• Automation Infrastructure provisioning and application deployment using DevOps principles.
• Implement DR fail-over and fallback process in AWS Cloud environment by using AMI, Cloud-formation templates, and Elastic network interfaces.
• Adopt a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy between primary on-premise data center and Public Cloud as secondary region.

As a Scrum Master/PM:

• Preparation of project plan and review or ensure review of project receivables
  Perform proactive risk management
• Establish the project environment and provide technical induction to all team members covering a brief profile of the customer
• Ensure that the resources are managed effectively and efficiently
  Facilitate various Scrum events such as: Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives
• Facilitate daily Scrum activities such as: Stand-Ups, updates to Burn-Down spreadsheets and charts, Backlog reviews, as well as impromptu meetings as needed by Application owners or the migration team.
• Remove impediments reported by the team, which could require cross-team collaboration and or escalation, possibly up to executive management.
• Establish, coordinate, and maintain relationships with third parties and/or vendors
  Facilitate a good and respectful Scrum environment, condition and empower the team to be self-managed
• Ensure acceptance of deliverables from customer
• Manage expectations of project team members and customer
• Submit project metrics to Quality Management Group
• Participate in Audit Review meetings
• Plan and review for Product Quality activities.

• Design and build Cloud service models for Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service (Amazon Web Services and Azure Cloud).
• Built Cloud service models for Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service (Amazon Web Services) using Docker, ECS and Kubernetes.
• Migration of infrastructure, data, and applications out of legacy data centers into cloud and hybrid environments (public and private).
• Understanding of Customer infrastructure and application environment and designing the process for migrating applications to Cloud environment.
• Re-factoring/Re-platforming legacy applications as per client requirements and assisting in configuring, testing, deploying the applications.
• Automating Cloud Infrastructure and application deployment which will eventually reduce the time and effort in provisioning and utilizing of infrastructure or resources needed by application.
• Provide recommendations for emerging technologies related to Cloud technologies.
• Analyze systems and identify problems, evaluate, design solutions, and document.
  Develop, automate, and implement operations best practices for virtualization environments.
• Implementing DevOps frameworks using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, and Chef or Ansible into existing Application release model.
• Identifying all the manual repetitive process and automating the flow which reduces the wait time.
• Securing the Cloud environment and designing a solution for un-secured communication.
• Re-architecting existing high traffic applications using Cloud first approach by implementing micro services & serverless frameworks in Cloud using Lambda/Azure Functions.
• Design and implement multi-tiered applications at a Global scale by adapting Cloud capabilities.
• Propose new system design and design patterns for modern applications which will utilize Cloud services like Object Storage, Edge networks, API services, Spot instances, Data streams and Bot services that in turn reduce infrastructure maintenance & support costs
• Maintenance and performance tuning of the Cloud Compute instances/servers to meet Non-Functional requirements of the applications.
• Designing and Implementing Disaster Recovery and High availability scenarios based on application RTO and RPO.
• Plan, design and create private networks and subnets in corporate environments.
  Developing and communicating “Root Cause Analysis” and corrective action for assigned production failures.
• Responsible for managing existing operations and implementing new operations processes within organization.
• Interact with the customer regarding systems engineering technical considerations, and regarding associated problems, issues or conflicts and potential outages.
• Corresponding with other internal Shared Services departments (Networking, Midrange, service desk) to assign action items through the existing process.
• Prepare, review, revise and maintain technical documentation to include system configuration, architectural, software and systems engineering, system operations, testing and user documentation.
• Effective use of project management tools like Rally or Jira to Assign, Monitor and track the Service Requests, New projects stories and tasks.
• Review existing system design documentation and write technical documentation, specifications, and proposals for Cloud environment.
• Attending the daily/weekly conference calls set by the project or service delivery manager for tracking or reporting the status of a given project or production problem.
• Aid in solving problems at network level as external communications (application layer) and performance issues (transport layer).