An

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Profile
Promote optimal performance, reliability, and security across core business systems

 Results-driven professional offering a progressive, 7 Years career in information technology.

 Expertly manage technical support operations, diligently troubleshooting issues to identify root causes
and prevent recurrence.
 Process improvement champion with a history of implementing new procedures and technologies to
strengthen security posture, enhance operational efficiency, automation tasks and control costs.
 Develop exceptional relationship with management, co-workers and end users.

Experience

Previous Employer: RM Education Solutions India Pvt Ltd

Role: Senior Project Lead

 Develops and performs ongoing maintenance for architecture and design of the cloud environment,
keeping design in line with the overall business IT standards and working with other stakeholders to
keep cloud architecture aligned with service tiers, internal SLAs, and business goals. Working as a part
of the Azure Infrastructure team, which also works as a Centre of Excellence group (COE) for the
Technical operations in RM
 Designs and maintains the cloud infrastructure components, including network design, virtual machine
resource allocation, storage, and security.
 Monitor performance and security of the system to guarantee uptime and avoid threats. Alert the
management team of capacity problems or security holes before they have the chance to hurt service
delivery.
 Cloudflare and Checkpoint firewall configuration and maintenance.
 Nginx and Squid configuration and maintenance.
 Virtual network, Virtual network gateway, NSG, ASG configuration and maintenance in azure
 Analysis and creation of azure infrastructure as per the customer requirement by considering all the
security policy
 Third party vendor management
 Windows and Linux Servers administration
 SQL Administration –backup, restore, basic commands, Creation of database, availability group
configuration, SSIS package configuration
 Managing the technical activity between customer and internal stakeholders
 Analysis and implementation of security audit requirements by customers
 Configuration and maintenance of Azure security centre and Tenable Nessus tool
 Configuration and maintenance of Azure monitoring, Log analytics and app insights, Uptrends,
Opsgenie etc.
 Implementation and maintenance of azure load balancer ,Application gateway, Traffic manager
 Coordinate the Activity between internal QA and Customer during UAT and production activities
 Testing and analysing the BCP plan as per customer audit requirement.
 Work with Project team and provide necessary inputs for successful delivery
 Closely work with Product team for New Innovations, POC’s, CI/CD, etc
  Work with external security vendors and internal stakeholders for VA/PT
 Involve in initiatives for reducing operational costs and automation of tasks
 Work with Project Team actively for implementing CI/CD pipelines for both infrastructure build and
application deployments. Active participation in implementing infrastructure as a code using the skills in
ARM templates and PowerShell.
 Work with project team on the migration of products from on premises environment to Azure
environment by automating all the activities using Azure DevOps tool.
 Implementing new Azure features such as Image builder, Application gateway, codeless Application
insight, Azure log analytics, IAC etc. as part of migration activities
 Managing FM services for customers as per the requirements
 Creation of required pipelines for both infrastructure and application deployment using Azure DevOps
tool.
 On site support for the customers as per the requirement for business

On-site Assignments to UK:

       Project 1 [1 month]: Implementation of Escrow to Cambridge University.

       Project 2 [1 month]: Summer support to the e-marking application.

   

 On-site Assignments to Singapore:

Project 1 [2 months]: Installation and configuration of the product in Singapore Govtec gpc
environment.

Project 2 [18 months]: Supporting the UAT and LIVE activities of Singapore Examination and
Assessment board. Working Closely with customer for technical improvement, requirement analysis and
its implementation for scanning and e-marking solution. Providing FM services to the environment
hosted in Singapore Govtec Azure environment for SEAB. Proactive monitoring of the Azure
environment for SEAB. Analysis and implementation of security guidelines from SEAB in the Azure
environment. Managing Technical activity between SEAB, Internal stakeholders and third-party
vendors. Initiatives for automating FM services and CI/CD release pipelines for application
deployments. Analysis and its implementation of existing infrastructure and architecture for any change
required as part of new product adoption.

Skills

– Areas of Expertise –

Testing & Troubleshooting | System Administration | Azure IaaS/PaaS | Tenable Nessus | Azure

DevOps (CI/CD) |Microsoft SQL Server |Azure SQL| Cloudflare| Azure Kubernetes Service
(AKS) |Application Deployment and Support |PowerShell | Vendor Management.

Cloud: -Microsoft Azure

 Security: -Tenable Nessus, Azure Security Centre, Cloudflare

Database: -MS SQL Server, Azure SQL

Operating Systems: -Microsoft Windows, 2012/R2,2016 Server Enterprise & Datacentre

edition, Microsoft Windows XP/vista/7/8/10, Linux

Log Management, Monitoring & Analytics: -Azure log analytics, Azure Monitoring,
Grafana, Power BI, Uptrends, Application Insight

Tools & Other: -Octopus, Kubernetes, Nginx, Squid, WSUS, Cloudflare, PowerShell, ARM
Template, Azure DevOps, AKS, YAML

Education

Degree Institute Board / University Year % marks

Cer B.E
Nehru Institute of Technology Anna University 2014 65%
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Ach H.S.C MET EMHSS Kerala State Board 2010 76% ieve
me S.S.L.C MET EMHSS Kerala State Board 2008 86% nts
 Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
 Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
 Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
 Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
 Academic IELTS score 7.5

Personal Data
Pothiyil Thottyparambil house, Manalumpuram, Palakkad,
Permanent address
Kerala
Date of Birth & 03-24-1992, Male
Sex
Languages Known Malayalam, English, Tamil, Hindi
Marital status Married
Declaration

I hereby declare that above written particulars are true & correct to the best of my knowledge & belief.

Palakkad Muhammed Aneesh