NILESH SINGH

FLORIDA
8081711917
[email protected]

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: -

 Over 8 years of extensive and diverse experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing, SQL
Server BI, and .Net technologies.
 Hands - on experience in Azure Cloud Services (PaaS & IaaS), Storage, Web Apps, Active
Directory, Application Insights, Logic Apps, Data Factory, Service Bus, Traffic Manager,
Azure Monitoring, OMS, Key Vault, Visual Studio Online (VSO), Cognitive Services
(LUIS) and SQL Azure.
 Designed and developed Cloud Service projects and deployed to Web Apps, PaaS, and IaaS.
 Good experience in developing Bot Apps using Bot Framework.
 Migrated the application to HTTPS based authentication using SSL encryption.
 Hands-on experience in .NET Framework 4.6/4.5/4.0/3.5, C#, ADO.NET, Entity Framework,
LINQ, ASP.NET, AJAX, WCF, MVC, Web API, AngularJS, Bootstrap, jQuery, JavaScript,
HTML5, CSS3.
 Good in Object Oriented Programming (OOPS).
 Extensively used Telerik Controls, Graph API, and Open XML SDK.
 Proficient in using .NET Threading, Delegates, Events, Generics, Collections, Exception
Handing, Transactions, Reflection, and Serialization.
 Good knowledge in Data Structures & Design Patterns.
 Experience in creating and configuring Azure Virtual Machines, Vnet peering, Vnets,
Subnets, DNS servers, storage Accounts and key vault for storing sensitive information.
 Build Monitoring Dashboards for production ENV and create Alerts for 4.x, 5.x, cpu,
memory and other metrics.
 Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker
Containers.
 Highly motivated and committed DevOps Engineer experienced in Automating, configuring,
and deploying instances on AWS cloud environment and Build Customized AMI’s
 Maintain Git repositories for DevOps Environment and Responsible for Build and
Deployments using GitHub, git lab, Stash and Bamboo.
 Extensive experience in following AGILE software development methodologies and use of
standard software development tool suites. (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, GitHub Enterprise, etc.)
 Configuring Jenkins /GITLAB with JIRA and with SonarQube for code quality etc
 Designing cloud computing infrastructure; training people on clustering, virtualization, back-
up, deployment etc.
 Strong people and project management skills, including the ability to lead multiple
simultaneous projects. High energy and self-motivated professional with the ability to make
things happen, work under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines.
 As Certified Ethical Hacker have an experience in Vulnerability assessment and remediation,
apply best practices for System and Network Hardening.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
 Operating Systems: Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows
XP/2003
 Web Technologies: ASP.NET 4.5/ 4.0/ 1.0/ 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5/ VB.NET, C# 1.1/2.0/3.0/4.0,
HTML4.0/HTML 5.0,ASP.NET SignalR,MVC Razor Engine, DHTML,
XHTML,XML,XSLT,VBScript, Java script, jQuery, MVC 3/4.0,3.5,2.0, ADO .Net, WCF,
Web Services, MSMQ, ResTFServices,SOAP, MultiThreading,LINQ, Entity Framework,
ORM,Lambda Expression, Web API, Automatic Testing using NUnit,Dependency Injection
using Unity,IOCFramework,Windows Services,WPF,Silverlight,REST Services,IOT,
diagnostic tool, VB 6.0,Classic ASP3.0, ASP Classic
 Databases/RDBMS: SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2000/ SQL Server 2005/ SQL Server
2008/ SQL Server 2008 R2/SQL SERVER 2012, MS Access, T-SQL, Oracle Database
 Tools: & Utilities Visual Studio: 2005/ 2008/2010/2012, VS 2010, SQL Server Integration
Services (SSIS)
 Domain Knowledge: Capital Markets, Equities, ETFs, Futures, Options, Banking/Finance
Service, eCommerce Custom Web Portal Applications, Health Insurance,
Insurance/Reinsurance, HealthCare, Retail, Transport, Public Safety, Telecommunications,
State Government
 Reporting tools: Seagate Crystal reports 9 and above, SQL Server Reporting Services
(SSRS)
 Version Tools: Visual Source Safe, Collab net, MS TFS (2015, VS 2008, 2010), Subversion
(SVN), Git, VSO (Visual Studio Online), Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
 Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, VSO (Visual Studio Online)
 Cloud Technology: Confidential Azure, SQL Azure, BLOB Storage, Document DB, App
Services, Key Vault
 Design Patterns: Singleton, Factory, Repository, Dependency injection

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Azure Sr. Technical Lead
Confidential, Redmond, WA
Responsibilities:
 Responsible for implementing, design and architect system and application infrastructure as
per business requirement. Install and configured customize application in virtual
environment.
 Install, configure and manage Dell servers in the organization and co-ordinate with multiple
vendors to perform administrative task.
 Prepare architecture and implementation of the applications in the Azure cloud and On-
premises environments.
 Responsible to configure and integrate cloud-based PaaS application like Office-365 and
Dropbox for SSO functionality using ADFS and Microsoft Azure AD.
 Install and configure Virtual machines, storage account, virtual network, Azure load balancer
in the Azure cloud.
 Install, configure and manage SCCM and SCOM 2012. Install SCCM client on workstations
and servers. Configure rules and management packs for applications and servers.
 Deploy, Manage and scheduled windows security patches and updates every month on the
servers. Deploy patches on the pilot application servers in test environment and co-ordinate
with business POC for testing and then deploy in production environment.
 Create PowerShell script and automation tool for to manage day to day recurring activity on
the windows servers and workstation, Application, SQL Database.
 Deploy .msi packages using SCCM 2012 to workstations.
 Configure and design Virtual network infrastructure and network connectivity with on-
premises and azure services using Azure resource manager, Virtual private network (Peering,
VNet to VNet configuration), UDR, Express route, site to site (S2S), point to site (P2S) VPN.
 Implement and provide solution for virtual network security through Network security group
(NSG), roll based access control (RBAC), Network virtual appliances (NVA), user defined
networking, firewall.
 Configure Azure Active Directory and set registered custom domains to sync with on-
premises environment Using AD connect to create hybrid cloud infrastructure.
 Installation and configuration of server roles like Active directory, Confidential, Hyper-V on
Windows 2012 R2 and windows 2016 Datacenter.
 Configure and ADFS for SSO for SaaS and customize application with Azure AD.
 Configure high availability, Traffic manager and load balancers in Azure.
 Implementing and managing active directory on windows server 2012 R2 and 2016
Datacenter.
 Creating snapshot, clone, import-export VM, managing gold images of windows 2012, 2012
R2 and windows 2016 in Hyper-V.

SENIOR DEVOPS AZURE ENGINEER

Confidential
Responsibilities:

 Worked in highly collaborative operations team to stream line the process of implementing
security Confidential Azure cloud environment and introduced best practices for remediation
 Analyzed the landmark of 150 subscriptions for various business cases to apply organization
specific security guidelines
 Gathered the requirements from the clients about the existing applications to apply the
security measures
 Understand the latest features like (Azure DevOps, OMS, NSG Rules, etc..,) introduced by
Microsoft Azure and utilized it for existing business applications
 Creating, validating and reviewing solutions and effort estimate of converting existing
workloads from classic to ARM based Azure Cloud Environment
 Developed automation system using PowerShell scripts and JSON templates to remediate the
Azure services
 Worked on GIT to maintain source code in Git and GitHub repositories
 Worked in building, deploying and integrating Java-based web applications in a UNIX,
including exposure to J2EE/.NET infrastructure (especially BEA Web Logic, Tomcat and
WebSphere).
 Over saw the quality of Automated Build plans to help the Delivery process to NON-PROD
and PROD Environments
 Worked on implementing backup methodologies by Power Shell Scripts for Azure Services
like Azure SQL Database, Key Vault, Storage blobs, App Services etc.
 Created Azure services using ARM templates (JSON) and ensured no changes in the present
infrastructure while doing incremental deployment.
 Configured the XL Deploy and XL Release for all the applications from scratch, once the
build package is available, then promoted with simple enable options to deploy in the
targeted servers.
 Acted as build and release engineer, deployed the services by VSTS (Azure DevOps)
pipeline. Created and Maintained pipelines to manage the IAC for all the applications
 Assigned RBAC policies Confidential group level and user level as per the LTA created for
the services implemented new (Automation account, scheduler, notification hub, IOT Hubs,
Batch and other services)
 Designed and implemented Azure Virtual Networks with the network security groups and
deployed those using the Azure Quick Start templates

Azure Consultant
Confidential, San Diego, CA
Responsibilities:

 Utilized ARM template while building SQL Server with High-Availability for an application
backend Infrastructure and Virtual machine Scale sets for front end along with Multiple
Servers Such as reporting, Scripting and Scheduling Servers.
 Create Polices enforcing user to create SQL and Windows Server using AHUB only
 Create Customer Script extension to install minion on 100's of VM's while pairing with
desired Salt Master Parallelly.
 Implement azure Native Backup at VM, SQL Server and Files/Folder level.
 Configure and Restore Azure Virtual Machine using Azure Backup.
 Involved in Azure Paas architecture design.
 Implemented Azure Paas with azure functions, web jobs, Azure active directory and azure
app service model.
 Handled events with Azure IOT hubs, event hubs, stream analytics, service bus queues and
topics.
 Practiced CI/CD with Azure devops integrated with GIT.
 Developed restful microservices using Microsoft WEB API framework.
 Good experience in using API testing tools like Fiddler and postman.
 Good experience in writing queries in azure Application insights, Xpert and Kusto.
 Practiced Agile (SCRUM).
 Help customer to Create (Express Route Circuit/Configure
Provider/Authorization/Connection, Virtual Network Gateway, Automation Accounts, Azure
Data Factory/Integration Runtime cluster, Chef Servers, Palo Alto Network Firewall
egress/ingress stack, Key Vaults, Log Analytics, UDR, Azure Firewall, Windows Virtual
Desktop Host Pool/Session Hosts, Resource Groups, Service Principle SPN, Azure Policy,
Custom RBAC role, Azure Security Center, Virtual Machine, Storage)
 Help Manage customer’s Azure Virtual Data Center using Hub & Spoke Model with VDC
 Manage Customer Azure Environment both IaaS & PaaS
 Create Windows Virtual Desktop Host pools for different Environment in multiple Region
process using VDC/Arm Template/DevOps-pipeline and Build Custom OS Image for All
Host pools thru Azure Portal.
 Created Azure ExpressRoute Circuit and configured with Provider Equinix/Oracle Fast
Connect, created authorization for connection with Virtual Network Gateway using
VDC/Arm Template/DevOps-pipeline
 Created Palo Alto Network Virtual Appliance Egress/Ingress stack instances using
VDC/Arm Template/DevOps-pipeline
 Created Azure Firewall with its configuration/rules using VDC/Arm Template/DevOps-
pipeline
 Created Data Factory with selfhosted Integration Runtime connected to virtual machines
using VDC/Arm Template/DevOps-pipeline
 Created Chef Servers with Backend/frontend/Automator instances using VDC/Arm
Template/DevOps-pipeline
 Created Virtual Network/subnets/IP Cidr with and NSG with custom rules using VDC/Arm
Template/DevOps-pipeline
 Created Automation Accounts with Different Runbook using PowerShell script, add SPN as
connections & MSI identity to run Runbooks using VDC/Arm Template/DevOps-pipeline
 Created Resource Groups that contains (Tags, Key Vault, Automation Acct, RBAC
assignment) using PowerShell/Arm Template/DevOps-pipeline
 Created Domain Controller virtual machine with OMS Extensions that connects to Log
Analytics using VDC/Arm Template/DevOps-pipeline

Azure SQL/ Azure Data Factory/SSIS Developer/ Data Analyst

Confidential, Saint Paul, MN
Responsibilities:
 Analyzed business processes and different systems to develop strategy to integrate source
data into customer data management model
 Performed in-depth data analysis of different source systems to identify & define end-user
hierarchies for different divisions like Nalco Water, Food & Beverage and Energy etc.
 Owned the design and development of different sources such as Workday, CRM, EDW etc.
to integrate to CDM 2.0
 Developed SQL queries to be used in SSIS packages to ingest data from Raw layer to Pre-
stage layer for core objects such as Accounts, Sites & Users
 Designed the Pre-stg queries to build Graph Nodes and Graph edges to establish the
relationship between core objects and relationship tables
 Developed source queries to perform delta detection during the data ingestion process
 Developed validation stored procedures based on validation rules to allow only valid records
to be ingested into CDM
 Integrated data from different sources such as Azure Blob Storage, Azure SQL Database,
Azure data lake, SQL server DB, flat files, MS-Excel etc. in CDM
 Designed and developed ETL packages in SSIS and pipelines in Azure Data Factory to
transform source data as per transformation logic and ingest that into CDM platform based
on defined architectures of CDM model
 Worked extensively on Azure data factory including data transformations, Integration
Runtimes, Azure Key Vaults, Triggers and migrating data factory pipelines to higher
environments using ARM Templates
 Engaged with subject matter experts to define and maintain reference data to be consumed
during the data ingestion process
 Gathered and analyzed business requirements by engaging with Confidential ’s stakeholders
 Worked closely with Data Architect and SMEs to extensively analyze different source
systems to identify & understand gaps
 Wrote advanced SQL queries for in depth analysis of source systems’ data
 Worked extensively on analysis of different sources such as ACORN, MAS, WMRA,
CCDB, Corp DB Etc. and designed source queries for integration to Sherlock Data
Warehouse
 Collaborated with data stewards analyze and integrate Snapshot source system to data
warehouse and developed source query to include images from this source for different
dashboards and reports
 Gathered and documented all business logic in functional specifications document to be used
as reference by all development & QA teams i.e. Database, Dashboard, Reports, Portal
 Created and maintained consolidated Dashboard/Report to source matrix and data dictionary
by working closely with the ETL team and Data architects