Jan 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Performed 360-degree cloud security assessment, advisory and implementation for over 22 customers such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIST, CIS using Microsoft Defender suite (Defender for Cloud, Defender for Endpoint).
• Facilitated over 15 customers with SASE, CASB, Zero trust solutions, DLP, Azure Sentinel (SIEM Solution) to secure their environment.
• Facilitated 35+ Govt. and private sector clients from Healthcare, Banking, Telecom, F&B, Petrochemical etc. domains.
• Architected, and developed 5 SaaS based go to market products, Baseline assessment as Service, Vulnerability Management as Service, Active Directory as Service, for cloud security 12 months, this awarded revenue increase of 47%.
• Worked on products development part to submit Business requirement documents, created product journey documents, validated product wireframes, log and access management.
• Designed solutions to support MeitY certified privet Government Community Cloud (GCC) on Redhat- OpenStack.
• Introduced a secure and scalable SaaS based Desktop as a Service (DaaS) to support VDI based Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model.
• Developed 4 internal practices for customer management, regular interaction, proactive suggestions on security hardening & cost optimization, faster issue resolution; achieved 98% customer satisfaction and 45% customer retention.
• Revamped Govt. and Private Sector RFP win rate to 68% from 23%.
• Increased customer retention and RFP win rate turned into big revenue growth of 37% QoQ in the last 6 months.
• Mentoring a team of 18 technical associates and providing consulting, solutioning, RFP responses and delivery services.
• Designing Govt Community Cloud on Redhat Open Stack and Azure Stack HCI.

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos · Remote

Jul 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

• Improved host security services patching, anti-virus, and vulnerability management using Microsoft Defender and Qualys.
• Configured over 60 Azure Firewalls along with Azure Front Door, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Network Security Groups (NSG), Role Based Access Controls (RBAC), DDoS protection.
• Configured Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), Single Sign-on (SSO), Conditional Access, Identity protection to secure over 75,000 Azure AD identities.
• Utilized Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to align Business Outcomes and optimized cloud estate by utilizing Well Architected Framework.
• Implemented application security through SAST, DAST, IAST and SCA tools to prevent OWASP 10 attacks.
• Integrated security best practices for CI/CD pipeline, SDLC and DevOps processes.
• Integrated security best practices for Microservices and container-based architecture including Azure Kubernetes Services.
• Worked with clients to understand and document business requirements and defined specifications for security testing to analyze and identify the vulnerabilities.
• Created technical assessments which details the vulnerabilities, steps to reproduce, and recommendations for remediation.

Dec 2019 – Jul 2020 · 7 mos · Greater Noida · Hybrid

• Implemented pre-migration assessment and cloud migration of On-premises VMWARE, Hyper-V VM and Physical servers, databases, applications, and SAP servers for over 40 clients.
• Conceptualized practice for Cost Optimization and Cloud Security offerings and performed for over 20 customers to achieve up to 30% annual saving.
• Migrated over 60 on-premises databases to Azure PaaS SQL, SQL MI and Windows Active directory to Azure Active directory.
• Calculated and provided CapEx and OpEx reports to migrate or deploy infrastructure in Azure.
• Led over 15 projects end to end from Pre-sales engagement (RFP response, SOW creation) to billing generation (POE signing).
• Completed 6 Microsoft audits for CSP and MSP accreditations renewals and achieved Gold partner accreditations.
• Setup M365 and O365 with security best practices such as Advance threat protection, Microsoft Purivew, and data classification through E3 and E5 based licenses.

Dec 2017 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Noida · Hybrid

• Established a practice to use assessment and cloud migration tools such as Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery planner, Cloud-Amize and Microsoft Assessment Planning tool.
• Originated creation of HLD, LLD, design documents, project runbooks and project plans.
• Prepared solutions to set up scalable, secure, and stable IaaS and PaaS services along with capacity and performance planning.
• Automated landing zone creation through Infrastructure as a Code (IaC), Powershell and ARM.
• Deployed Traffic Manager, App Gateway, App Service Environments, App Service Plans, Service bus and Redis cache for over 35 customers to host their business applications.
• Defined efforts estimate, Azure cost estimate, resource allocation and project timeline for over 30 projects for cloud migration, security risk assessments and remediation.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Working as Microsoft Azure and VMWare L3
• Site to cloud migration.
• Azure AD management (PAAS)
• Azure Backup.
• Azure Storage management (PAAS)
• Azure VM provisioning
• Azure SQL and DB management (PAAS)
• On premises network extension to Azure network
• Azure point to site connection
• Azure site to site connection
• Setting firewall rules through NSG
• Setting availability groups

Jul 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP and other administrative tools on windows server. I work on VMWare also. Creating virtual machines, managing cluster, DRS, SRM and ESX patching are my key field of work.

Feb 2012 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• Worked as a Windows and VMWare administrator for one of the US Big 4. Handled environment of around 18K servers. Involved in complete Life cycle management of servers and troubleshooting.