Kurshid Sheik

Proficient in using Microsoft Azure including Azure CLI, Azure Management, Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, and Azure Management PowerShell Cmdlets. Involved in Migrating SQL Server databases to SQL Azure Database using SQL Azure Migration Wizard and used Python API to upload agent logs into Azure Blob storage. Implemented Enterprise Integration Architecture using Azure Service Bus, Azure AppService, Azure Active Directory, Azure Storage, Azure Hybrid Connection Manager, Active Directory authentication for Azure SQL Server, and other offerings by Azure. Automated infrastructure provisioning for AWS core services such as Ec2, VPCs, Load Balancers, Internet Gateways, Security Groups, and platform services like Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Fargate, and Auto Scaling Group

Constructed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB, and Security groups. Efficiently implemented tagging standard for proper identification and ownership of AWS EC2 instances and other AWS Services like Cloud Front, RDS, S3, Route53, SNS, SQS, and Cloud Trail and Worked on Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Notification Service (SNS) and CloudWatch. Utilized Cloud Watch to monitor resources like EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB services, and EBS volumes to set alarms for notification or automated actions to monitor logs for a better understanding of the operations. Provisioned immutable Infrastructure through Terraform which includes multiple Virtual Machines, Databases, and Blob storage.

Expertise in integrating Terraform with Ansible, and Packer to create and Version the Azure Infrastructure, designing, automating, implementing, and sustaining Azure VM Images across the Azure Cloud environment. Experienced in Configuring the updates, changes, and integrating the servers with different environments and creating new machines using configuration management/provisioning tools like Chef, Ansible, and Puppet. Worked on Docker to containerize the Application and all its dependencies by writing Docker files, Docker-Compose files, Docker Container Snapshots, and managing Docker volumes. Expertise in App Containerization technology Docker, creating Docker Images, Containers, Docker Registry to store images, Cloud-based registry Docker Hub and Kubernetes Services such as ISTIO Service Mesh, Flux, and ISTIO. Implemented the concept of storage class and deployed Postgres database as a Stateful Set into Kubernetes Cluster. Development of automation of Kubernetes Clusters via Playbooks in Ansible. Approached Continuous Deployment as GitOps that leverages Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications, providing both revision and change control using Flux. Expertise in all areas of setting up CI for new branches, Build automation, Plugin management, Securing Jenkins, and setting up Master/Slave Configurations. Expertise in building Jenkins jobs to create Azure Infrastructure by pulling Terraform code from GitHub repositories, ability to work closely with teams, to ensure high quality, timely delivery of builds & releases. Expertise in using monitoring servers like Nagios, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, and CloudWatch for Resource & Network Monitoring and ELK, and EFK for Log Trace Monitoring.

Proficient with version control tools such as GIT, Subversion (SVN), and Bitbucket wherein experienced with Tagging, and Branching on platforms like Linux and Windows. Experience in different Issue Tracking Tools like Redmine, Jira, and ServiceNow. Designed, deployed, and coordinated with different teams to enhance the ELK platform and took ownership of new technologies. Experienced in the system builds, server builds, installation, upgrades, backup, performance monitoring, and reliability of various flavors of Linux like Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat Linux, Debian, Fedora and SUSE, UNIX (Solaris, IBM AIX) along with Windows. Exposed to all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and In-depth understanding of the principles. Good understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile and SAFE Methodologies.