Sheba Kurian
Newcastle,UK
Summary
Experienced Azure Infrastructure and DevOps Lead with 10 years of expertise in designing, implementing, and supporting scalable cloud solutions. Skilled in automating infrastructure and streamlining DevOps processes across diverse enterprise environments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Consultant
Clients: AQA, Shell, Kerry, ERM, Subsea7, DCC
Newcastle, UK
08.2022 - 03.2025
- Designed and implemented Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) repositories for multiple clients using Terraform, PowerShell, Bicep, Azure DevOps, and Git, tailored to meet specific customer requirements.
- Developed automation tool that orchestrates multiple pipelines to efficiently deliver client objectives, leveraging Azure resources and PowerApps.
- Worked as a technical lead for Azure Infrastructure automation projects, including Landing Zone implementation.
- Mentored junior team members, providing technical guidance and career development support.
- Built automation scripts using Terraform and managed source control through Git repositories.
- Executed risk assessments for identifying potential project challenges.
Technical Lead
Client: AQA Education
Pune, India
03.2020 - 07.2022
- AQA: Exam board - UK
- Technical Lead for the Infrastructure and DevOps team(UK/India) which focuses on automating the AQA Education process which compiles specifications and holds examinations in various subjects at GCSE and A Level in the United Kingdom.
- Integral Lead, contributor, and facilitator for all the major lives and disaster recovery tests and major and critical incidents in Production
- Designed and configured Infrastructure using multi-tier yaml pipelines in Azure DevOps and utilized terraform, powershell, for Implementation
- Handling Azure Resources such as Logic Apps, Function Apps, Service Fabric Explorer, Virtual Machine, Scale Sets, Traffic Manager, APIMs, Application Service Environment, Redis Cache, Azure Active Directory operations, Service Bus, Application Insights, Log Analytics etc
- And third-party tools such as SharePoint Online, SecureWorks, Sophos Cloud Security, Qualys, SendGrid
Senior Developer
Client: Accenture Internal Portal
Pune, India
01.2018 - 03.2020
- Developed PowerShell and Linux scripts to automate the deployment of various SAP solutions on Windows and Linux servers, integrated with Microsoft Azure, based on client-specific requirements.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements, create implementation plans, and delegate tasks to the team, ensuring alignment with the defined objectives and successful delivery.
Developer
Client: Microsoft Corporation
Hyderabad, India
08.2014 - 01.2018
- ·Handled various applications in this duration out of which most of them were extremely critical applications for Microsoft Enterprise Commerce Volume Licensing.
- ·Worked and owned the Environment setup, deployments, build verification tests for non-production and production releases for over five applications that support that comprises the key components of Microsoft Volume Licensing.
- ·The initial setup was done in Azure On-premises systems which I have later migrated to Azure Cloud as per requirements. Have experience handling azure resources such as Apps Services, Web Jobs, App registrations, Application Insights, Service Bus, Redis Cache, Traffic Manager Profiles, Azure Active Directory and SQL server.
- ·Worked IAAS services such as Windows services, Distributed File System setup, Setting up Task Schedulers, Registry Editor Handling, Global Traffic Manager, etc.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Karunya University
IndiaSkills
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform and PowerShell
- Azure PAAS/IAAS services
- Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning and Automation
- Managing Cloud Environments (Development to Production)
- Azure DevOps – CI/CD Pipelines and Automation
- Configuration Management
- Git
- Bicep
Certification
- AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator
- AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps
- AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Timeline
Senior Consultant
Clients: AQA, Shell, Kerry, ERM, Subsea7, DCC
08.2022 - 03.2025
Technical Lead
Client: AQA Education
03.2020 - 07.2022
Senior Developer
Client: Accenture Internal Portal
01.2018 - 03.2020
Developer
Client: Microsoft Corporation
08.2014 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Karunya University
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